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2:15 PM on Saturday, April 4

Garrett Mitchell hit a two-run double and a three-run homer to help the Brewers beat the Royals 5-2 to open their split doubleheader

2:15 PM on Saturday, April 4

Munetaka Murakami hit a two-run homer and Colson Montgomery followed with a solo shot in Chicago’s three-run sixth inning as the White Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 for their second straight victory

2:07 PM on Saturday, April 4

Cheryl Miller and other women’s basketball trailblazers, including Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman and former UCLA standout Ann Meyers Drysdale, spoke about the state of college sports at “The AP Top 25 Fan Poll Experience."

2:07 PM on Saturday, April 4

Kerry Carpenter, Zach McKinstry and Matt Vierling hit two-run homers and drove in three runs apiece, and the Detroit Tigers powered their way to an 11-6, rain-shortened victory over the St. Louis Cardinals

1:57 PM on Saturday, April 4

Timaya Lewis-Eutsey scored 14 of her 27 points in the first quarter and Marshall beat Illinois State 66-41 to claim the Thundering Herd’s first WNIT championship

1:13 PM on Saturday, April 4

Ryan Hartman scored twice to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday

1:01 PM on Saturday, April 4

Avalanche defenseman Brent Burns became the second player in NHL history to appear in 1,000 consecutive games when Colorado faced against Central Division rival Dallas on Saturday

12:55 PM on Saturday, April 4

Xzayvier Brown scored 21 points to lead Oklahoma to an 82-69 victory over Baylor in the semifinals of the College Basketball Crown

12:41 PM on Saturday, April 4

Josh Sargent had the go-ahead score after notching his first assist in a three-goal second-half run and Toronto FC rallied to beat the Colorado Rapids 3-2 in a match that saw three red cards issued

12:22 PM on Saturday, April 4

Failing to score until there were 32 seconds left, the Detroit Red Wings lost an important game in their pursuit of a playoff spot, 4-1 at the New York Rangers

11:37 AM on Saturday, April 4

Fiorentina goalkeeper David De Gea has starred in a 1-0 win against Hellas Verona and helped his team move away from the Serie A relegation zone

10:54 AM on Saturday, April 4

The Milwaukee Brewers apparently have a quirky new mascot, a tortoise named Bobby Jr_ During a pregame interview Friday, manager Pat Murphy pulled out the tortoise as a joke instead of his usual “pocket pancakes.”

9:53 AM on Saturday, April 4

Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Chamique Holdsclaw and the 1996 U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team will be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later this year

9:06 AM on Saturday, April 4

Lennart Karl has scored in the ninth minute of added time to complete a dramatic comeback 3-2 win for Bayern Munich over Freiburg in the Bundesliga

9:01 AM on Saturday, April 4

Medium-pacer Tushar Deshpande has held his nerve bowling the last over to give Rajasthan Royals a thrilling six-run win against Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League

11:03 PM on Friday, April 3

Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma’s coaching rivalry reached a dramatic peak Friday night

9:47 PM on Friday, April 3

Cooper Flagg scored 51 points to become the first teenager to reach the 50-point mark in an NBA game

9:25 PM on Friday, April 3

Haley McCutcheon scored two late goals and the Orlando Pride handed visiting Angel City its first loss of the season with a 2-1 victory on Friday night

6:28 PM on Friday, April 3

UConn’s Geno Auriemma was not a happy man

5:21 PM on Friday, April 3

Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Chamique Holdsclaw and the 1996 U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team will be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later this year