(UPI) — Mike Smith made a pair of first-period goals stand up by stopping 34 shots Wednesday, lifting the Phoenix Coyotes to a 2-1 victory over San Jose. A win by Detroit earlier in the evening officially ended the Coyotes' playoff hopes, but they still managed a triumph over a team that had a lot [...]

Adam Scott drained a 12-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday, defeating Angel Cabrera to become the first Australian to win the Masters. Scott's putt to capture the 77th edition of one of golf's premier events was set up when Cabrera's earlier try for an 18-foot birdie on the 10th hole at Augusta [...]

Socialist Nicolas Maduro, hand-picked successor of the late leader Hugo Chavez, has won a narrow victory in Venezuela's presidential poll. Mr Maduro won 50.7% of the vote against 49.1% for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. Mr Capriles has demanded a recount, saying Mr Maduro was now “even more loaded with illegitimacy”. He said there were more [...]

Jered Weaver looked extremely sharp in his final tuneup before Monday’s season-opening start in Cincinnati, allowing two singles in seven shutout innings, striking out three and walking one in the Angels’ 7-1 exhibition loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks Tuesday night at Salt River Fields. “I always try to treat the last spring game like a [...]

(UPI) — The second hat trick in the career of Curtis Glencross Friday sent Calgary rolling to a 6-3 victory over Nashville. All of the Glencross goals came in the third period after the Flames had built a 3-1 lead through the opening two stanzas. He scored 1:14 into the final period, added a goal [...]

(UPI) — Two quick goals in the final seconds of regulation Tuesday gave the Los Angeles Kings a 3-1 victory on the road over the Edmonton Oilers. Jeff Carter stunned the crowd at Rexall Place by tipping a hard shot by Trevor Lewis into the net with 49.4 seconds to play, breaking a 1-1 tie [...]

The Chevrolet version of the new Holden Commodore has won its debut NASCAR race in the lead-up to the Daytona 500 next weekend. Chevrolet drivers Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart were on track to score a one-two-finish after dominating the last 20 laps of a 75-lap, 300km race – until Stewart slipped to fourth place [...]

Don't snicker when Michael Jordan says he's trying to get back down to his playing weight. Whether he comes back to the NBA or not, Jordan still can beat you in one-on-one … unless you're better than the No. 2 pick in the draft. Charlotte Bobcats rookie Michael Kidd-Gilchrist said Friday in Houston that 49-year-old [...]

(UPI) — Jordan Schroeder scored his first two NHL goals and Cory Schneider made 33 saves Saturday, powering the Vancouver Canucks over Calgary 5-1. Schroeder, a Minnesota native taken by the Canucks in the first round of the 2009 NHL draft, put in a go-ahead goal midway through the second period and also scored the [...]

Celgene Corp.’s therapy for a deadly blood cancer that will sicken more than 22,000 people in the U.S. this year won U.S. regulatory approval. Pomalyst, or pomalidomide, was approved for multiple- myeloma patients who have tried and failed on at least two other drugs, including Celgene’s Revlimid and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s Velcade, according to a [...]