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Calvin Pickard shines as Oilers beat Hurricanes to snap 5-game skid

NHL: Edmonton Oilers at Carolina HurricanesMar 1, 2025; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Edmonton Oilers goaltender Calvin Pickard (30) makes a save against the Carolina Hurricanes during the second period at Lenovo Center. Mandatory Credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images

Calvin Pickard helped Edmonton end its five-game losing streak Saturday by making a season-high 35 saves for a 2-1 Oilers victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, N.C.

Adam Henrique, Corey Perry and Evan Bouchard scored for the Oilers. Leon Draisaitl saw his seven-game goal-scoring streak end, but his two assists extended his points streak to 11 games. Connor McDavid, Brett Kulak and Mattias Janmark also had assists.

Sebastian Aho scored a power-play goal for Carolina. Mikko Rantanen and Shayne Gostisbehere both assisted, with the helper being Gostisbehere’s 400th career point. Frederik Andersen stopped 28 shots for the Hurricanes, who lost for the third time in their last four games.

After giving up 26 goals during their five-game losing streak, the Oilers posted one of their best defensive games of the season. Saturday’s win marked the first time since a 1-0 victory over Los Angeles on Jan. 13 that Edmonton allowed one goal or less, a span of 17 games.

Carolina went on the power play at 16:29 in the opening period when Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was called for hooking. However, Janmark corralled a loose puck in Edmonton’s defensive end and skated across the rink. He shot on goal, and the puck careened off Andersen. Henrique was there for the putback with 14:52 left in the period.

The Hurricanes had momentum in the second period, missing out on a tying goal when Jordan Martinook’s shot hit the post with 7:57 left. Still, the Oilers managed to double their lead four-and-a-half minutes later as Draisaitl threaded a backhand pass between Andersen and Jalen Chatfield to Perry for an easy tip-in.

Aho cut the deficit in half on Carolina’s fourth power play of the night. His 22nd of the year came on a cross-ice give-and-go with Rantanen, whose returning pass found Aho as he crashed the net behind Pickard with 15:34 left in the game.

Aho had a chance to tie, getting a short-handed breakaway opportunity in the final minute, but Pickard stood tall.

Bouchard ended the scoring with an empty-netter just before the buzzer.

Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse missed his second straight game due to an undisclosed injury.

–Field Level Media

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Cadillac Championship final round moved up due to forecast

PGA: Cadillac Championship - Second RoundMay 1, 2026; Miami, Florida, USA; Cameron Young plays his tee shot on the eighth hole during the second round of the Cadillac Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Romance-Imagn Images

The final round of the Cadillac Championship was moved up to a 7:30 a.m. ET start with groups teeing off from the Nos. 1 and 10 holes due to Sunday’s forecast in Miami calling for heavy thunderstorms and rain.

Formula 1’s Miami Grand Prix also moved up the start of its race from 4 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Cameron Young holds a six-shot lead entering the final round at Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster Course following a 2-under-par 70 on Saturday that put him at 15 under for the tournament. The fifth elevated event of the season features a $20 million purse.

Young will tee off in the final group at 9:42 a.m. along with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and South Korea’s Si Wo Kim, who are tied for second along with Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan at 9 under.

“I think I tend to play well at difficult golf courses, difficult setups, difficult conditions,” Young said after completing a third round that featured significantly more wind than the first 36 holes. “This is all of those things. I think it plays into my hands a little bit.”

Young will be looking for his second victory of the season and the third of his career on the PGA Tour during Sunday’s final round.

“I’m sure it will not be as easy as I want it to be,” Young said. “Sounds like the weather is not going to be great. It will be a fight from the beginning and just looking to execute the way that I did for the most part today.”

Scheffler shot 69 to move to second place by the time he finished the third round.

“The tournament’s in (Young’s) hands right now,” Scheffler said. “I can go out and have a really good round, and if he has another really good round he’s going to be a tough guy to catch.”

–Field Level Media

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Martin Ojeda (3 goals), Orlando rally to snap Miami's unbeaten streak

MLS: Orlando City at Inter Miami CFMay 2, 2026; Miami, Florida, USA; Orlando City SC midfielder Martín Ojeda (10) scores a goal as Inter Miami CF defender Maximiliano Falcón (37) follows on the play during the first half at Miami Freedom Park. Mandatory Credit: Jim Rassol-Imagn Images

Martin Ojeda scored his second career MLS hat trick, Tyrese Spicer pounced for a winner in second-half stoppage time and visiting Orlando City rallied from three goals down to a historic 4-3 victory over Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami on Saturday night.

Orlando (3-7-1, 10 points) became only the third team in MLS history to win a regular season match after going three goals behind, the first since the LA Galaxy in 2018. The unlikely comeback extended Miami’s wait for a first win in its recently opened Nu Stadium to at least a fifth match, after drawing the first three and losing to its Florida Derby rivals.

Messi had a goal and two assists for Miami (5-2-4, 19 points), which saw its 12-match unbeaten run in all competitions snapped. Telasco Segovia also scored and had two assists, Ian Fray scored the early goal and Luis Suarez also had two assists for the Herons.

But Ojeda outdueled his more famous Argentine countryman, leveling his third goal in the 79th minute from the penalty spot after referee Guido Gonzalez ruled Maximiliano Falcon had pushed down Iago Teodoro during an Orlando corner-kick sequence.

Ojeda hesitated to get Dayne St. Clair to lunge to the right, then finished to the left for a stunning equalizer that came 46 minutes after Messi had given Miami a three-goal lead.

Then in second-half stoppage time, Ojeda was present in a dummy capacity as Braian Ojeda played a throughball from deep in his own half for Spicer.

The halftime substitute finished hard and low through the legs of St. Clair to complete one of the most unlikely victories in MLS history.

Martin Ojeda’s first goal came in the 39th minute. Justin Ellis provided the final pass, but it was mostly Ojeda creating the shot himself, spinning to elude a defender and then unleashing a ferocious left-footed strike that beat Clair to the bottom-left corner.

The second came in the 68th after Adrian Marin’s impressive slaloming run up the left. The result was similar, this time Ojeda hitting the inside of the right post with a perfectly placed shot that left St. Clair rooted to the ground.

Miami harassed Orlando throughout the opening hour and quickly built a three-goal lead.

In the fourth minute, after the Herons failed to put away one dangerous chance, Messi recycled the ball on the left and laid it off for Segovia, whose cross picked out Fray’s head at the 6-yard box.

A Messi give-and-go with Suarez set up a tap-in for Sevogia in the 25th minute. And then Messi found the bottom-left corner from the edge of the penalty area in the 33rd.

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Dillon Dingler, Keider Montero guide Tigers past Rangers

MLB: Texas Rangers at Detroit TigersMay 2, 2026; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Detroit Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler (13) celebrates at home plate with teammates Riley Greene (31) and Colt Keith (33) after hitting a three-run home run against the Texas Rangers in the first inning at Comerica Park. Mandatory Credit: Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images

Dillon Dingler had a three-run home run and a double to spark the Detroit Tigers to a 5-1 home win against the Texas Rangers on Saturday.

Keider Montero (2-2) gave up one run on five hits, walked two and struck out two in 6 2/3 innings as Detroit evened the three-game series.

Gleyber Torres had two hits and an RBI for the Tigers before leaving with left side tightness. Riley Greene went 2-for-4 with a run and Wenceel Perez was 2-for-3 with a run and a walk.

Jake Burger hit a solo home run while Josh Smith and Josh Jung each had two hits for Texas.

Moments after Rangers right fielder Ezequiel Duran fielded Greene’s single and threw out Torres at the plate in the first, Dingler launched a homer that traveled 443 feet to left.

An inning later, Detroit took a 5-0 lead with a pair of two-out singles. Perez singled, stole second and scored on Kevin McGonigle’s grounder up the middle. McGonigle swiped second and came around to score on Torres’ bloop single to shallow right.

Montero gave up two walks in the third, but kept Texas off the board. In the fourth, Burger’s solo shot was the Rangers’ first hit and cut the Detroit lead to 5-1.

Duran and Smith posted back-to-back singles to lead off the fifth, but Montero induced a double play and a popout to escape the jam.

With one out in the eighth, the Rangers threatened with runners on second and third. Reliever Drew Anderson got Joc Pederson to ground out and struck out Burger. Anderson gave up two hits and struck out three in 2 1/3 innings of relief.

Rangers starter Kumar Rocker (1-3) gave up five runs on six hits in two innings.

Torres exited the game in the third with what was reported as left-side tightness.

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