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Visit BetMGM.com for Terms Conditions. US promotional offers not available in DC, Nevada, New York or Ontario. All times Eastern MLB American League East Division Pct GB Baltimore 23 11 .676 N.Y. Yankees 23 13 .639 1 Boston 19 16 .543 Tampa Bay 18 18 .500 6 Toronto 16 19 .457 Central Division Pct GB Cleveland 23 12 .657 Minnesota 20 14 .588 Kansas City 21 15 .583 Detroit 18 17 .514 5 Chicago 8 27 .229 15 West Division Pct GB Texas 20 16 .556 Seattle 19 16 .543 Oakland 17 19 .472 3 Houston 12 22 .353 7 L.A. Angels 12 23 .343 National League East Division Pct GB Philadelphia 25 11 .694 Atlanta 20 12 .625 3 Washington 17 17 .500 7 N.Y.
Mets 17 18 .486 Miami 10 27 .270 Central Division Pct GB Milwaukee 20 14 .588 Chicago 21 15 .583 Pittsburgh 17 19 .472 4 Cincinnati 16 18 .471 4 St. Louis 15 20 .429 West Division Pct GB L.A. Dodgers 24 13 .649 San Diego 19 19 .500 Arizona 15 20 .429 8 San Francisco 15 21 .417 Colorado 8 26 .235 Scores Philadelphia 6, San Francisco 1 Cleveland 2, Detroit 1 Pittsburgh 4, L.A. Angels 1 Tampa Bay 8, Chicago 2 Kansas City 3, Milwaukee 2 San Diego 6, Chicago 3 Minnesota 3, Seattle 1 N.Y. Mets 4, St.
Louis 3 Texas 4, Oakland 2 L.A. Dodgers 6, Miami 3 Games Texas (TBD) at Oakland (Stripling 1-5) Detroit (Flaherty 0-1) at Cleveland (Allen 3-2) Arizona (Gallen 3-2) at Cincinnati (Ashcraft 3-1) L.A. Angels (Sandoval 1-5) at Pittsburgh (Priester 0-2) Toronto (Berrios 4-2) at Philadelphia (Sanchez 1-3) Baltimore (Burnes 3-1) at Washington (Williams 3-0) Chicago (Soroka 0-3) at Tampa Bay (Eflin 1-4) Houston (Verlander 1-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Gil 2-1) Boston (Crawford 2-1) at Atlanta (Lopez 2-1) San Diego (Vasquez 0-1) at Chicago (Imanaga 5-0) Milwaukee (Rea 3-0) at Kansas City (Lugo 5-1) Seattle (Hanco*ck 3-3) at Minnesota (Ober 3-1) N.Y. Mets (Butto 0-2) at St.
Louis (Mikolas 2-4) San Francisco (Harrison 2-1) at Colorado (Hudson 0-5) Miami (Cabrera 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Yamamoto 3-1) Games L.A. Angels (Soriano 1-4) at Pittsburgh (Perez 1-2), 12:35 p.m. Toronto (Bassitt 2-5) at Philadelphia (Nola 4-1), 1:05 p.m. Detroit (Olson 0-4) at Cleveland (Bibee 2-1), 1:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Houser 0-3) at St. Louis (Gray 3-1), 1:15 p.m. Milwaukee (Ross 1-3) at Kansas City (Singer 2-1), 2:10 p.m. San Diego (Cease 4-2) at Chicago (Wesneski 2-0), 2:20 p.m.
Miami (Weathers 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Stone 2-1), 3:10 p.m. Texas (Lorenzen 2-1) at Oakland (Sears 2-2), 3:37 p.m. Arizona (Montgomery 1-2) at Cincinnati (Greene 1-2), 6:40 p.m. Baltimore (Bradish 0-0) at Washington (Parker 2-1), 6:45 p.m.
Chicago (Flexen 1-3) at Tampa Bay (Civale 2-2), 6:50 p.m. Houston (Arrighetti 0-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Rodon 2-2), 7:05 p.m. Texas (TBD) at Oakland (TBD), 7:07 p.m. Boston (Winckowski 1-1) at Atlanta (Sale 4-1), 7:20 p.m.
Seattle (Kirby 3-2) at Minnesota (Paddack 2-1), 7:40 p.m. San Francisco (Hicks 2-1) at Colorado (Lambert 2-1), 8:40 p.m. NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x- if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 Boston Celtics 4, No. 8 Miami Heat 1 No.
2 New York Knicks 4, No. 7 Philadelphia 76ers 2 No. 6 Indiana Pacers 4, No. 3 Milwaukee Bucks 2 No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers 4, No.
5 Orlando Magic 3 WESTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 Oklahoma City Thunder 4, No. 8 New Orleans Pelicans 0 No. 2 Denver Nuggets 4, No. 7 LA Lakers 1 No.
3 Minnesota Timberwolves 4, No. 6 Phoenix Suns 0 No. 5 Dallas Mavericks 4, No. 4 LA Clippers 2 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x- if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 Boston Celtics vs.
No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers May 7: Cavaliers at Celtics, 7 p.m. May 9: Cavaliers at. Celtics, 7 p.m. May 11: Celtics at Cavaliers, 8:30 p.m.
May 13: Celtics at Cavaliers, 7 p.m. x-May 15: Cavaliers at Celtics, TBD x-May 17: Celtics at Cavaliers, TBD x-May 19: Cavaliers at Celtics, TBD No. 2 New York Knicks 1, No. 6 Indiana Pacers 0 May 6: Knicks 121, Pacers 117 May 8: Pacers at Knicks, 8 p.m. May 10: Knicks at Pacers, 7 p.m.
May 12: Knicks at Pacers, 3:30 p.m. x-May 14: Pacers at Knicks, TBD x-May 17: Knicks at Pacers, TBD x-May 19: Pacers at Knicks, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs. No. 5 Dallas Mavericks May 7: Mavericks at Thunder, 9:30 p.m.
May 9: Mavericks at Thunder, 9:30 p.m. May 11: Thunder at Mavericks, 3:30 p.m. May 13: Thunder at Mavericks, 9:30 p.m. x-May 15: Mavericks at Thunder, TBD x-May 18: Thunder at Mavericks, 8:30 p.m. x-May 20: Mavericks at Thunder, 8:30 p.m.
No. 3 Minnesota Timberwolves 2, No. 2 Denver Nuggets 0 May 4: Timberwolves 106, Nuggets 99 May 6: Timberwolves 106, Nuggets 80 May 10: Nuggets at Timberwolves, 9:30 p.m. May 12: Nuggets at Timberwolves, 8 p.m. x-May 14: Timberwolves at Nuggets, TBD x-May 16: Nuggets at Timberwolves, 8:30 p.m.
x-May 19: Timberwolves at Nuggets, TBD NHL Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x- if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Florida Panthers 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 1 Boston Bruins 4, Toronto Maple Leafs 3 New York Rangers 4, Washington Capitals 0 Carolina Hurricanes 4, New York Islanders 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas Stars 4, Vegas Golden Knights 3 Colorado Avalanche 4, Winnipeg Jets 1 Vancouver Canucks 4, Nashville Predators 2 Edmonton Oilers 4, Los Angeles Kings 1 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Boston Bruins 1, Florida Panthers 0 May 6: Bruins 5, Panthers 1 May 8: Bruins at Panthers, 7:30 p.m. May 10: Panthers at Bruins, 7 p.m. May 12: Panthers at Bruins, 6:30 p.m. x-May 14: Bruins at Panthers, TBD x-May 17: Panthers at Bruins, TBD x-May 19: Bruins at Panthers, TBD New York Rangers 1, Carolina Hurricanes 0 May 5: Rangers 4, Hurricanes 3 May 7: Hurricanes at Rangers, 7 p.m. May 9: Rangers at Hurricanes, 7 p.m.
May11: Rangers at Hurricanes, 7 p.m. x-May 13: Hurricanes at Rangers, TBD x-May 16: Rangers at Hurricanes, TBD x-May 18: Hurricanes at Rangers, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche May 7: Avalanche at Stars, 9:30 p.m. May 9: Avalanche at Stars, 9:30 p.m. May 11: Stars at Avalanche, 10 p.m.
May 13: Stars at Avalanche, TBD x-May 15: Avalanche at Stars, TBD x-May 17: Stars at Avalanche, TBD x-May 19: Avalanche at Stars, TBD Edmonton Oilers vs. Vancouver Canucks May 8: Oilers at Canucks, 10 p.m. May 10: Oilers at Canucks, 10 p.m. May 12: Canucks at Oilers, 9:30 p.m. May 14: Canucks at Oilers, TBD x-May 16: Oilers at Canucks, TBD x-May 18: Canucks at Oilers, TBD x-May 20: Oilers at Canucks, TBD MLS Eastern Conference Pts GF GA Inter Miami CF 7 2 3 24 32 18 Cincinnati 6 2 3 21 13 9 Toronto FC 6 4 1 19 14 14 NY Red Bulls 4 2 5 17 16 16 Columbus 3 1 6 15 12 9 Charlotte FC 4 5 2 14 12 13 NY City FC 4 5 2 14 11 12 Philadelphia 3 2 5 14 19 16 D.C.
United 3 3 5 14 16 17 Atlanta 3 4 3 12 14 11 CF Montreal 3 4 3 12 14 20 Nashville 2 3 5 11 14 19 Chicago 2 5 4 10 11 19 Orlando City 2 5 3 9 11 18 New England 2 7 1 7 7 18 Western Conference Pts GF GA Real Salt Lake 6 2 3 21 18 9 D.C. United 6 2 2 20 17 11 LA Galaxy 5 2 4 19 21 17 Vancouver 5 2 3 18 18 10 Colorado 5 3 3 18 18 15 Austin FC 4 3 4 16 14 13 Los Angeles FC 4 4 3 15 19 19 Houston 4 4 2 14 9 10 Saint Louis 2 1 7 13 15 14 Sporting KC 2 4 5 11 18 19 Seattle 2 5 4 10 13 13 Portland 2 5 4 10 20 23 FC Dallas 2 6 2 8 10 15 San Jose 2 8 1 7 17 26 Saturday, May 4 D.C. United 2, Philadelphia 2 Inter Miami CF 6, NY Red Bulls 2 Orlando City 0, Cincinnati 1 Charlotte FC 2, Portland 0 Toronto FC 3, FC Dallas 1 Atlanta 1, D.C. United 2 San Jose 3, Los Angeles FC 1 Houston 0, Saint Louis 0 Nashville 4, CF Montreal 1 Chicago 0, New England 1 Real Salt Lake 1, Sporting KC 0 Vancouver 0, Austin FC 0 Sunday, May 5 NY City FC 0, Colorado 2 Seattle 0, LA Galaxy 0 GOLF PGA Tour Statistics Through May 6 Season Points 1, Scottie Scheffler, 3,915. 2, Wyndham Clark, 1,892.
3, Xander Schauffele, 1,539. 4, Sahith Theegala, 1,518. 5, Ludvig Aberg, 1,510. 6, Hideki Matsuyama, 1,325. 7, Chris Kirk, 1,198.
8, Matthieu Pavon, 1,139. 9, Byeong Hun An, 1,067. 10, Patrick Cantlay, 1,062. Scoring Average 1, Scottie Scheffler, 68.74. 2, Billy Horschel, 69.86.
3, Xander Schauffele, 69.97. 4, Alex Noren, 70.10. 5, Wyndham Clark, 70.24. 6, Ludvig Aberg, 70.25. 7, Sahith Theegala, 70.30.
8, Akshay Bhatia, 70.30. 9, Keith Mitchell, 70.40. 10, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 70.46. Driving Distance 1, Cameron Champ, 316.40. 2, Chris Gotterup, 315.20.
3, Rory McIlroy, 314.20. 4, Kevin Dougherty, 314.10. 5, Alejandro Tosti, 312.30. 6, Wyndham Clark, 312.20. 7, Byeong Hun An, 311.40.
8, Carl Yuan, 311.10. 9, Jhonattan Vegas, 309.80. 10 (tie), Wilson Furr and Vincent Norrman, 309.60. Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Shane Lowry, 81.55%. 2, Sepp Straka, 79.74%.
3, Si Woo Kim, 79.18%. 4, Tommy Fleetwood, 79.10%. 5, Collin Morikawa, 78.53%. 6, Lucas Glover, 76.12%. 7, Olesen, 74.47%.
8, J.T. Poston, 74.46%. 9, Scottie Scheffler, 74.42%. 10, Zach Harris Johnson, 74.23%. Greens in Regulation Percentage 1, Scottie Scheffler, 74.76%.
2, Alex Noren, 72.76%. 3, Corey Conners, 72.09%. 4, Kevin Yu, 71.40%. 5, Tony Finau, 71.32%. 6, Victor Perez, 71.30%.
7, Keith Mitchell, 71.27%. 8, Billy Horschel, 70.74%. 9, Vincent Norrman, 70.63%. 10 (tie), Patrick Rodgers and Wyndham Clark, 70.61%. Total Driving 1, Rory McIlroy, 41.
2, Ryan Palmer, 60. 3, Carl Yuan, 64. 4, Rafael Campos, 69. 5 (tie), Patton Kizzire and 71. 6, Austin Eckroat, 67.
7, Hayden Springer, 72. 8, Taiga Semikawa, 82. 9, Harrison Endycott, 83. Total Putts Per Round 1, Raul Pereda, 27.11%. 2, Denny McCarthy, 27.44%.
3 (tie), Aaron Baddeley and Taylor Montgomery, 27.47%. 5, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, 27.51%. 6, S.H Kim, 27.63%. 7, Maverick McNealy, 27.74%. 8, Brian Harman, 27.79%.
9, Jason Day, 27.84%. 10, Mackenzie Hughes, 27.86%. All-Around Ranking 1, Wyndham Clark, 147. 2, Xander Schauffele, 228. 3, Ludvig Aberg, 246.
4, Scottie Scheffler, 290. 5, Sam Burns, 315. 6, Matt Fitzpatrick, 347. 7, Byeong Hun An, 359. 8, Akshay Bhatia, 360.
9 (tie), Sahith Theegala and Tony Finau, 367. AUTO RACING NASCAR Cup Series Schedule May 12 Goodyear 400, Darlington, SC May 26 Coca-Cola 600, Concord, NC June 2 Enjoy Illinois 300, Madison June 9 Toyota Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. June 16 Iowa Corn 350, Powered by Ethanol, Newton June 23 Race at New Hampshire, New Hampshire June 30 Ally 400, Nashville July 7 Grant Park 165, Chicago July 14 NASCAR Cup Series Race at Pocono, Pocono July 21 Brickyard 400, Speedway, Ind. Aug. 11 Cook Out 400, Richmond, Va.
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29 Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 6 YellaWood 500, Talladega, Ala. Oct. 13 Bank of America ROVAL 400, Concord, NC Oct.
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Nov. 10 NASCAR Cup Series Championship, Avondale, Ariz. TRANSACTIONS Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS Paul Sewald Removed From 15-Day IL Strained left oblique. Paul Sewald Recalled From Minors Rehab. ATLANTA BRAVES Tyler Matzek Placed on 15-Day IL Left elbow inflammation.
Ray Kerr Called Up from Minors. CINCINNATI REDS Ian Gibaut Transferred to 60-Day IL Strained right forearm. CF Bubba Thompson Sent to Minors. DH Nick Martini Sent to Minors. Conner Capel Purchased From Minors.
Frankie Montas Removed From 15-Day IL Right forearm contusion. TJ Friedl Removed From 10-Day IL Fractured right wrist. TJ Friedl Recalled From Minors Rehab. DETROIT TIGERS Ryan Vilade Purchased From Minors. CF Parker Meadows Sent to Minors.
NEW YORK YANKEES Oswald Peraza Sent to Minors for Rehabilitation. LF Taylor Trammell Outrighted to Minors. OAKLAND ATHLETICS Tyler Ferguson Purchased From Minors. Dany Jimenez Sent to Minors. Lazaro Armenteros Designated for Assignment.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS CF Victor Robles Removed From 10-Day IL Left hamstring strain. CF Victor Robles Recalled From Minors Rehab. RF Alex Call Sent to Minors. Matt Barnes Designated for Assignment. Robert Garcia Removed From 15-Day IL Influenza.
Robert Garcia Recalled From Minors Rehab. FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS WR Tyler Boyd free agent to Tennessee Titans One-year contract (through 2024). DETROIT LIONS C.J. Moore signed One-year contract (through 2024). MINNESOTA VIKINGS WR Daylen Baldwin cut.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS Andrus Peat free agent to Las Vegas Raiders. TENNESSEE TITANS DT Shakel Brown cut. WR Tyler Boyd free agent One-year contract (through 2024). WASHINGTON COMMANDERS DE Joshua Pryor cut. Mandell cut.
LB Brandon Bouyer-Randle cut. HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW JERSEY DEVILS LW Max Willman Contract extended One-year, two-way contract extension. RW Nathan Legare Contract extended One-year, two-way contract extension. NEW YORK ISLANDERS Marcus Hogberg Signed as Free Agent Two-year contract. SCOREBOARD ODDS SPONSORED BY BETMGM.COM CLARIONLEDGER.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024 3B For Jack Nicklaus, the moment came in 2000 at Valhalla, the site of next PGA Championship.
Nicklaus, then 60, was playing in what would be his PGA Champion- ship. He missed the cut at 4-over, not able to recover from an opening-round 77. And when he walked the course it hit him. you need to pass the Nicklaus said he was thinking. compete in this And it was the man who he had just competed against who made Nicklaus realize it was time to move on from com- petitive golf.
Nicklaus played those two rounds with Tiger Woods. Tiger opened with a 66-67 on the way to a an 18-under 270 and his third con- secutive major championship of the season. Nicklaus, 84, spoke of that moment last week at the Legends Luncheon in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by the Memori- al Tournament, which is scheduled for June 6-9 at Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Nicklaus, who designed is the founder and host of the Memorial. knew that I was getting to where I compete (and) it was brought to me very abruptly, in 2000 at Valhalla when I played with he said.
had realized that before, but that was boom! Right in the face. Thirty- six holes of playing with him and seeing how well he played, how he just dom- inated what was going on, I did that ear- lier. But I do it Nicklaus knew who would be carry- ing that as it turned out, for about the next quarter century, which is why that metaphorical was to Tiger. That 2000 PGA Championship was major. He would add 10 more, pulling him to within three of record.
And although Tiger, 48, through chasing majors he will return to the site of that 2000 PGA Championship next week in Louisville, Kentucky it will be an international story even if he just contends in a major going forward. Nicklaus never has denied ex- traordinary skill, several times saying his record of 18 majors would have fallen if injuries had not impacted ca- reer. He once again praised game, his swing and ability to hit shots that still very few human beings can replicate. But the physical toll of multiple injuries, surgeries, and the 2021 car crash outside of Los Angeles in which Tiger nearly lost his right leg that Nick- laus cites as the reason it would be very for Tiger now to compete con- sistently on the biggest stage. Something Tiger has been saying for the last two years.
has the ability to still play, but obviously play as well as he did, and I think a lot of his is physical ail- Nicklaus said. I watched him hit balls, and he hits the ball pretty well. just trying to keep his body to- gether. know if he can walk 72 holes. He can be competitive for at least two rounds, because what he did at Augusta.
If he can be competitive in the third, then certainly he can be com- petitive in the This Masters was a microcosm of post-accident career. He set the tournament record with his 24th consecutive cut with a two-day score of 145, 1-over par. But by the weekend his body started breaking down. Woods posted his worst score ever at Augusta in the third round, 10-over 82. In majors since the accident, which resulted in his leg being held to- gether by plates, rods and screws, Tiger has been forced to withdraw after the second or third round twice, and missed the cut once.
stunning victory in the 2019 Masters is his lone major championship in the last 16 years. During that span, he has missed 23 of 67 majors. The 1986 Masters was the last of 18 major championships. He was 46. He continued to compete in all four majors for the next 11 years, sixth- place in the 1990 and 1998 Mas- ters the closest come to winning.
The last time Nicklaus played a round of golf where he holed out every putt was the 2005 British Open at St. An- drews. That was the last of his record 164 majors. He rarely plays, but did re- veal he got in three rounds at Augusta following this tournament. passes on and you get old and do the things you used to Nick- laus said.
just think golf is an amazing sport, and we have the ability to play and compete as long as we do. And lightning in a bottle occasionally, like I did in Nicklaus recalls passing to Woods Tom Columnist Palm Beach Post USA TODAY NETWORK Jack Nicklaus, right, and Tiger Woods shared a laugh on the 18th green as they wound up their round of play during the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky. JAMES H. COURIER JOURNAL.
