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• Woods, 16, shoots 3-over 75 at Wellington Golf Club
• Teenager impoves on last year’s first effort (81)

Charlie Woods failed to get out of local qualifying for the US Open, the second straight year the son of Tiger Woods missed out.

The 16-year-old Woods was among a record 10,202 entries for the US Open. He improved from last year’s score in 18-hole local qualifying, posting a 3-over 75 at Wellington Golf Club on Thursday. That left him seven shots short of being among those who advanced to the 36-hole final stage. A year ago, he shot 81 in the local US Open qualifier.

• Mallory had been absent from Chicago Stars of NWSL
• Her first child with Chicago Cubs shortstop

Chicago sports power couple Mallory and Dansby Swanson are expecting their first child.

Mallory Swanson is a forward for the Chicago Stars of the National Women’s Soccer League and the US women’s national team; her husband is the All-Star shortstop for the Cubs.

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• Knicks beat Celtics 91-90 in Game 2 for 2-0 series lead
• Bridges seals another 20-point comeback with steal

For the second straight game, the New York Knicks found themselves in a hole the Boston Celtics have rarely let teams out of this season.

The Knicks again found a way – almost the same way, in fact – to pull off the improbable. And now they are two wins away from knocking the defending champions out of the playoffs.

• Team in Salt Lake City settles on Mammoth nickname
• Name unveiled after year of fan input and voting

The NHL team in Salt Lake City is now known as the Utah Mammoth.

Owners Ryan and Ashley Smith unveiled the franchise’s permanent name Wednesday after more than a year of fan input and voting.

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• Golden State beat Minnesota 99-88 in Game 1
• Curry leaves game with left hamstring injury
• Haliburton winner lifts Pacers to 2-0 series lead

Buddy Hield and Draymond Green delivered from three-point range with Stephen Curry suddenly sidelined by a hamstring strain, and Jimmy Butler gave the Warriors a vintage all-around performance in an inspired 99-88 victory over the stumbling Timberwolves that opened the second-round series on Tuesday night.

“It was beautiful to see,” Green said. “Everybody who came into the game gave us something.”

• Golden State beat Houston 103-89 in Game 7
• Curry scores 14 of 22 points in fourth quarter

With a chance to close out their first-round playoff series against the Golden State Warriors, the Houston Rockets instead delivered a playoff flop to end their season Sunday night.

The Rockets won consecutive games to claw back from a 3-1 deficit and force a Game 7 but played their worst game of the series to be sent packing with a 103-89 loss.

• Japanese superstar remains unbeaten after TKO 8 win
• Inoue bolsters claim as world’s best pound for pound

Naoya Inoue remained undefeated after retaining the undisputed junior featherweight title with an eighth-round technical knockout of Ramon Cardenas on Sunday night in front of a packed house inside T-Mobile Arena and a nationally televised audience on ESPN.

Inoue (30-0, 27 KOs), who was knocked down in the second round, played the aggressor much of the fight by using precision and power to carve his way through Cardenas (26-2), frequently sending the announced 8,474 gathering into a frenzy.

• Álvarez outpoints Scull to re-unify 168lb championship
• Mexican announces he will fight Crawford in September

Moments after Canelo Álvarez fended off William Scull to become the undisputed super middleweight champion again, he was facing off against Terence Crawford in the same ring in Riyadh to promote a showdown in September.

Álvarez became an undisputed champion in the division for the second time when the judges scored his ho-hum bout early Sunday Saudi local time against Scull 115-113, 116-112, 119-109. The 34-year-old Mexican boxer improved to 63-2-2, with 39 knockouts, and is unbeaten in 10 fights in the super middleweight category.

• Nuggets destroy Clippers 120-101 in Game 7 laugher
• Denver advance to face top-seeded Oklahoma City

Nikola Jokić got plenty of help from his teammates and the Denver Nuggets weren’t about to let up when they built a big lead and raced past the Los Angeles Clippers in a 120-101 Game 7 laugher Saturday night.

The No 4 seed Nuggets, who led by as many as 35 points, advanced to take on the No 1 seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, who swept Memphis in the first round and have had a week off. The teams split their season series 2-2, with both teams winning one on the road.

• Sovereignty outduels favorite down stretch in Louisville
• Baeza was third while Final Gambit came in fourth

Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, in a thrilling fight to the finish line on Saturday to capture the first leg of US thoroughbred racing’s famed Triple Crown.

The bay colt thrived in the wet and sloppy conditions at Churchill Downs to finish the one-and-a-quarter-mile race in two minutes and 2.31 seconds, beating the heavy favorite Journalism down the final stretch.