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Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
Kobe Bryant hit a baseline jump shot with 4.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up a six-game road trip by holding on to beat the Raptors 94-92 on Sunday, their eighth victory in nine meetings with Toronto
Arc's five up, five down: After No. 11 Michigan State's 58-48 upset of No. 3 Ohio State, you'd be a fool to discount the Spartans' national title chances now.
Miami coach Al Golden says the worst is behind him, but his headaches figure to continue now that former booster Nevin Shapiro, now in jail, says his involvement with the Hurricanes program will result in stiff penalties.
Eleven shots separated Phil and Tiger Sunday at Pebble Beach as Lefty secured his 40th Tour win. Jason Sobel had hole-by-hole reports.
The United States completed a 5-0 rout of Switzerland in the Davis Cup on Sunday, with 19-year-old Ryan Harrison and John Isner winning closing singles matches.
Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Sunday in the Andorran Pyrenees. Overall leader Lindsey Vonn was more than a second behind and finished eighth.
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DEL MAR, Calif. - Misty Ocean, the stakes-winning 3-year-old turf filly had her own triple crown of sorts this spring. On the same weekends as the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes, Misty Ocean won turf races in California.
The final win of the sequence, the Grade 2 Honeymoon Handicap at Hollywood Park, came hours after Da' Tara won the Belmont Stakes on June 7.
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer considered starting Misty Ocean in the Grade 1 American Oaks at Hollywood on July 5, but passed it up in favor of Saturday's $150,000 San Clemente Handicap at Del Mar. If Misty Ocean runs as well as expected, there will be further opportunities in Grade1 races later this year.
Misty Ocean will be favored to win her fourth straight race in the Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap, which has drawn a field of 10 3-year-old fillies. The race is run over a mile, the same distance as Misty Ocean's first win on turf, which came in an optional claimer at Bay Meadows on May 2, the day before Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby.
Misty Ocean has drawn the outside post in the San Clemente, and will be prominent early, according to Dan Ward, Hollendorfer's assistant.
"We don't have much choice," Ward said. "She's the kind that just takes off."
In the Honeymoon over 1 1/8 miles on turf, Misty Ocean led by two lengths on the far turn and was headed in the stretch, but won by three-quarters of a length. "She won with something left last time," Ward said.
The San Clemente has drawn six stakes-winning fillies, four of whom won graded stakes. Misty Ocean could be in an early tussle for the lead with Storm Mesa and Tasha's Miracle, who are making their first starts on turf.
Storm Mesa has won her last four starts, including stakes at Lone Star Park and Prairie Meadows. Tasha's Miracle won the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes here last August and was third, beaten a head, in the Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks last month.
Trainer John Sadler was encouraged when Tasha's Miracle worked "head and head" with the graded stakes winner Black Mamba earlier this month. "She went well on turf the other day," he said.
Bel Air Sizzle is a threat from off the pace. She was second in the Honeymoon, but ninth in the American Oaks.
"She got outclassed," trainer Barry Abrams said.
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