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LeBron James powered into the lane, looking to take another step toward an NBA title. Instead, he took too many steps. James was whistled for travelling , ending a possession that could have given the Los Angeles Lakers a fourth-quarter lead.

A curling season struggling to gain traction due to the pandemic was dealt a blow Monday as a high-profile team pulled out of a prominent upcoming bonspiel citing an "increase in COVID-19 cases.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jimmy Butler is not ready to go home. A triple-double later, he joined NBA Finals lore — and the short-handed Miami Heat might have made this title matchup a series after all.

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Canadian Raphael Lessard won the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Trucks Series' Chevy Silverado 250 at Talladega Superspeedway Saturday afternoon.

Raphael Lessard's phone has not cooled off since he won his first career NASCAR race Saturday afternoon. "I've never had that many interviews after a race, that many calls. I feel like my phone is going to blow up." Lessard said in an interview.

MANCHESTER, England — English football's biggest teams have never experienced a day like it. Liverpool and Manchester United were both comprehensively humiliated by defeats Sunday that rank among the heaviest in their history.

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PARIS — Martina Trevisan has been doing video chats from her hotel room with her mental coach every day along the way to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, a run the 159th-ranked qualifier acknowledges is “a little” shocking, just not as much to her

The men's playoff round at a curling bonspiel was cancelled Sunday after a player received a notification from the COVID Alert app. The app notifies a person when they have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.

LONDON — Canada's Brent Lakatos has dominated wheelchair racing's sprint distances for the better part of a decade. On Sunday, the 40-year-old from Dorval, Que., pulled away from the field in a sprint finish down The Mall at St.