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8:06 PM on Saturday, March 21

Defenseman Nikita Zadorov broke a tie at 9:42 of the third period and the Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 on Saturday night in an Eastern Conference wild-card showdown

8:05 PM on Saturday, March 21

Mitchell Mesenbrink and Levi Haines each won their second individual championship to help Penn State win its fifth consecutive team title at the NCAA men’s wrestling championships

7:58 PM on Saturday, March 21

Marcel Hartel had the lone goal of the second half, and St. Louis City spoiled New England’s first trip to Energizer Park with a come-from-behind 3-1 victory over the Revolution

7:51 PM on Saturday, March 21

Kevin Durant scored 27 points to move past Michael Jordan for fifth place on the NBA’s career scoring list and Amen Thompson had a tip-in at the buzzer to lift the Houston Rockets to a 123-122 win over the Miami Heat

7:41 PM on Saturday, March 21

Dyson Daniels scored a season-high 28 points and CJ McCollumn had 23 points as the Atlanta Hawks bounced back after having their 11-game win streak snapped with a 126-110 win over the Golden State Warriors

7:39 PM on Saturday, March 21

Keldon Johnson and Dylan Harper each scored 24 points and the San Antonio Spurs never trailed in a 134-119 victory over the Indiana Pacers

7:27 PM on Saturday, March 21

LeBron James set the NBA record by playing in his 1,612th regular-season game and Luke Kennard made a 3-pointer off a pass from James with 0.6 seconds left to send the Los Angeles Lakers to a 105-104 comeback victory over the Orlando Magic

7:25 PM on Saturday, March 21

Cole Caufield scored three goals to push his season total to 43 and added two assists to help the Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Islanders 7-3 on Saturday night

7:16 PM on Saturday, March 21

The Ottawa Senators had a dominant game against their provincial rivals beating the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 on Saturday night

7:10 PM on Saturday, March 21

Duke has starting big man Patrick Ngongba II back just in time for the No. 1 overall seed’s run to the Sweet 16 of March Madness

7:02 PM on Saturday, March 21

Pius Suter and Pavel Buchnevich scored in a 1:19 span in the second period and the St. Louis Blues beat the NHL-worst Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Saturday to end a two-game losing streak

6:57 PM on Saturday, March 21

LaMelo Ball scored 29 points and finished 7 of 14 from 3-point range to help lift the Charlotte Hornets to their third straight victory, 124-101 over the struggling Memphis Grizzlies

6:54 PM on Saturday, March 21

Archie Goodwin subbed on in the 75th minute and scored two goals — the first two in his MLS career — and Charlotte FC beat the New York Red Bulls 6-1

6:51 PM on Saturday, March 21

Donovan Mitchell scored 27 points and James Harden, held scoreless in the first half, added 20 second-half points to power the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 111-106 comeback victory over the New Orleans Pelicans

6:29 PM on Saturday, March 21

Texas has become the first team in five years to go from the NCAA Tournament’s First Four to the Sweet 16

6:25 PM on Saturday, March 21

Hyo Joo Kim played the first six holes in 6 under before stalling Saturday at tree-lined Sharon Heights, leaving her with a five-stroke lead over Nelly Korda with a round left in the Fortinet Founders Cup

5:58 PM on Saturday, March 21

Mikayla Blakes scored 23 of her 30 points by halftime as the second-seeded Vanderbilt Commodores routed No. 15 seed High Point 102-61 to open the women’s NCAA Tournament

5:50 PM on Saturday, March 21

Emanuel Sharp scored 18 points, Chris Cenac Jr. had 17 points and nine rebounds, and Houston rolled past Texas A&M 88-57 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to reach the Sweet 16 for the seventh consecutive year

5:07 PM on Saturday, March 21

All-American Mikayla Blakes needed only part of the first half Saturday night of the NCAA Tournament to become the best single-season scorer in Vanderbilt women’s history

12:42 PM on Saturday, March 21

LeBron James might be running out of records to chase