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American sprint star Sha’Carri Richardson surged through the field Monday to win the Stawell Gift, an annual race contested on handicap over 120 meters on grass in a small Australian town near Melbourne. Source link

It’s mission accomplished for UCLA. Gabriela Jaquez, Lauren Betts and the rest of the UCLA seniors secured the first NCAA women’s basketball national championship in school history — a goal that was set after losing in the first Final Four last season. Source link

Longtime Hockey Night in Canada and CBC Sports sports broadcaster Scott Oake will be hanging up his headset and retiring at the end of this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs. Source link

The Montreal Canadiens are playoff-bound again. Montreal clinched its spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs Sunday afternoon after the Detroit Red Wings fell 5-4 to the Minnesota Wild, making the Canadiens the first Canadian NHL team to secure a post-season berth. Source link

Curling is set to enter the great unknown. Debuting Monday, Rock League is just a little different from your typical tournament, from mixed 10-player teams to new rules to a bar that will be positioned in between the sheets on the ice. Source link

Patrick Roy was fired as coach of the New York Islanders on Sunday, another late-season change in the NHL that comes with the team in the middle of a spring tailspin that has put its playoff chances in jeopardy. Source link

The Toronto Blue Jays have optioned relief pitcher Brendon Little to triple-A Buffalo among a number of moves made. Source link

Michigan overpowered Arizona early and humbled the ‘Cats all night long, turning the Final Four meeting billed as the Game of the Year into a 91-73 Wolverines highlight reel Saturday night in Indianapolis. Source link

The PWHL has another professional women’s hockey attendance record in the U.S., with the game between the New York Sirens and Seattle Torrent at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night drawing a crowd of 18,006. Source link

A motion from Coun. Pete Fry and Coun. Lucy Maloney last week said that the existing draft human rights plan doesn’t have clear metrics or targets to ensure no unhoused people are displaced due to the three-week-long soccer tournament. Source link