A 22-year-old's two-goal game ties the series and ends an eight-year home playoff drought
Cutter Gauthier scored twice, including the go-ahead goal with 4:52 left in the third period, to lift the Anaheim Ducks to a 6-4 win over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 2 on Wednesday at Rogers Place. The series is tied 1-1. Game 3 on Friday at Honda Center will be the first Anaheim home playoff game since 2018.
OKC's first-round perfection reaches 10-0, but Jalen Williams' injury clouds Game 3
Oklahoma City blitzed Phoenix 120-107 in Game 2 on April 22, pushing the Thunder to 2-0 in the series and an unblemished 10-0 all-time in first-round playoff basketball. The win came with a cost: Jalen Williams, OKC's second star alongside Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, left with an injury, and his status for Game 3 is uncertain. Phoenix, the eighth seed, now hosts a must-win on Saturday night or faces the brink of eliminaton.
Augsburg carries two thousand years of layered history into a quiet Bundesliga Saturday
April settles gently on Augsburg. The light here is different from Munich, forty minutes south down the autobahn — softer, slower, arriving in long slants across the sandstone facades of the Maximilianstrasse. The city was founded by the Romans, who called it Augusta Vindelicum, and it has the particular composure of a place that has survived long enough to stop trying to prove itself. When FC Augsburg host Eintracht Frankfurt at the WWK Arena on Saturday afternoon, the fixture occupies perhaps an hour of local attention. The city itself occupies centuries.
With Madrid and Barcelona gone, a semi-final between two cities decides the new axis of European football.
Somewhere between the Boulevard du Parc and the Bois de Boulogne, where the Parc des Princes sits inside its concrete bowl like a civic relic from another republic, Paris Saint-Germain have become something the city's administrators always wanted but never quite believed possible: a European institution built on ideas rather than names. The first leg of Tuesday's Champions League semi-final against Bayern München is, in its plainest form, a football match. In every other sense, it is a referendum on what the game's wealthiest clubs are actually for, and on whether the collectivist model Luis Enrique has imposed since July 2023 can survive its most serious examination yet.
San Francisco wins Games 1 and 2 to set up a sweep bid against the defending champions
San Francisco held the defending World Series champions to a combined seven hits across 18 innings and enter Thursday's series finale one win away from sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Oracle Park. The Giants took Game 1 on April 21 by a score of 3-1, then shut LA out completely in Game 2, 3-0, behind a Landen Roupp start and a three-RBI night from catcher Patrick Bailey. A team that sat at 6-12 not long ago has won four of five and is making real noise in the NL West.
Arthur Rinderknech arrives in Madrid carrying a Shanghai wound only blood could inflict.
Few athletes carry a biography as neatly doubled as Arthur Rinderknech's. The Frenchman, born in Gassin on the Riviera and shaped by four years inside the American college system at Texas A&M, arrives at the Caja Mágica ranked twenty-sixth in the world, a career high, and yet the number that seems to define him most at present is 204, the ranking at which his cousin Valentin Vacherot entered the Shanghai Masters last October as an alternate. Vacherot beat him in the final, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, becoming the first Monégasque player to win an ATP title and writing himself into tennis history at his cousin's expence. Madrid, the first major hard-clay stage since Shanghai, is where Rinderknech returns to the foreground.
Delta Center, still being rebuilt, hosts the Mammoth's inaugural home postseason game against the very franchise they were told to emulate.
Delta Center sits on the corner of South Temple and 300 West in Salt Lake City's downtown grid, a building whose concrete and steel are presently mid-argument with themselves — scaffolding where suites will eventually be, new dehumidifiers humming beneath ice that is still finding its identity. On Friday night, inside this arena in active transformation, the Utah Mammoth will host a Stanley Cup Playoff game for the first time in franchise history, with every fan in attendance receiving a rally towel that doubles, in its modest way, as a civic document. The opponent is the Vegas Golden Knights, the expansion club that wrote the blueprint the whole league handed to Utah, and the series is level at one game apiece after Logan Cooley's late third-period goal settled Game 2 in the Mammoth's favour.
PSG's 3-0 dismissal of Nantes deepens a fault line older than Qatari ownership.
Paris absorbed Nantes on a Wednesday evening in the sixteenth arrondissement, and the 3-0 scoreline at the Parc des Princes said rather less about football than it did about the settled, almost geological weight of French civic power. The visiting supporters who had made the two-hour journey north from the banks of the Loire arrived carrying the usual freight of yellow flags and provincial conviction, a procession familiar enough to any student of this fixture's long and unequal history. FC Nantes are, by any accomodating measure, one of France's most significant football institutions, eight-time champions whose fluid, collective passing philosophy shaped the game domestically through the 1970s and 1980s. That philosophy, the jeu à la nantaise, is still invoked in Nantes with the reverence one reserves for civic founders. What the evening confirmed, once again, is that reverence travels poorly to the capital.
As demolition preparations begin, Milan's derby against Juventus falls inside San Siro's final competitive seasons
S an Siro rises out of the San Siro and Selinunte districts the way it always has, a concrete amphitheatre wedged between residential blocks and racetrack, its spiral towers visible from the Lombardy ring road long before the turnstiles come into view. On the evening of April 26th, the ground hosts Milan against Juventus, a fixture that has carried the weight of history since long before either club considered demolishing the building that stages it. This season the derby d'Italia arrives inside a different kind of countdown, one measured not in points but in months remaining before the bulldozers that have already claimed the stadium's old ticket office reach the rest of the structure. The sale that will end San Siro's century as a shared civic possession is complete, the Olympic ceremony that gave it a final global stage has come and gone, and the fixtures still to be played here now carry the unmistakable charge of things being witnessed for the last time.
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