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Sports Report: Cavs Advance To Conf. Finals

Cleveland Cavaliers Stadium

NBA:

In the NBA playoffs, Cleveland beat Atlanta 100-99 to sweep the series and move on to the Eastern Conference Finals and it was Oklahoma City over San Antonio 111-97 to tie the series at 2 games apiece.

NHL:

In the NHL playoffs, Tampa Bay ousted the Islanders 4-0 sending Tampa Bay to the Easter Conference Finals.

Guy Boucher has been hired as the 12th head coach in Ottawa Senators history. The 44-year-old Boucher spent parts of the past three seasons as head coach of SC Bern in Switzerland. His previous NHL head coaching stint was with the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2010-13, going 97-79-20 with a berth in the 2011 Eastern Conference finals.

MLB:

In baseball, in the American League, Boston topped the Yankees 5-1, Tampa Bay beat the Angels 3-1, Houston defeated Seattle 5-1, the White Sox beat Minnesota 3-1, Baltimore blasted Oakland 11-3, Texas beat Detroit 8-3, and it was Cleveland over Kansas City 5-4.

Meanwhile David Ortiz homered twice, passing Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski for second place on Boston's career list.

In the National League, the Mets edged San Diego 4-3, Colorado blanked San Francisco 2-0, the Cubs bested Washington 4-3 in 13 innings, Pittsburgh doubled up St. Louis 10-5, Arizona defeated Atlanta 5-3 in 11 innings, Milwaukee edged Cincinnati 5-4, and it as Philadelphia over Miami 6-5.

In interleague play, the Dodgers doubled up Toronto 4-2.

FIFA:

Michel Platini will resign as UEFA president after failing to overturn his ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which cut his sanction from six to four years. A spokesman for Platini's Paris-based lawyers says Platini will now resign. CAS effectively removed Platini from world soccer by ensuring his ban runs beyond his current UEFA mandate, which expires in March 2019.

The court says the ban "corresponds to the duration of a presidential term." In deciding the ban, the court says its judges cited "the absence of any repentance and the impact that this matter has had on FIFA's reputation." CAS says Platini was guilty of conflict of interest for taking a $2 million payment from FIFA approved by Sepp Blatter in 2011.

NCAA:

No. 8 Syracuse will go up against UAlbany in the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament on Sunday, May 15th.

MLS:

David Villa scored his seventh goal in 10 games, Khiry Shelton added another and New York City FC beat D.C. United 2-0 Sunday night. Villa is tied with Portland's Fanendo Adi and San Jose's Chris Wondolowski for the MLS scoring lead.

PGA:

James Hahn won the PGA's Wells Fargo Championship in a one-hole playoff with Roberto Castro. Hahn bogeyed the 18th in regulation for a 2-under 70 that left him minus-9 for the tournament. He had missed the cut in his previous eight tournaments before earning his second PGA victory.

LPGA:

Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn has her first LPGA Tour title, closing with a 1-under 71 at the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic. Jutanugarn finished 14-under-par and one stroke in front of Stacy Lewis, Morgan Pressel and Amy Yang. Lewis had her 10th runner-up finish in 49 events.

NASCAR:

At the season-opening Daytona 500, Joe Gibbs Racing proved it was unquestionably the fastest, from Denny Hamlin taking the checkered flag to its quartet of cars leading more than three-quarters of the race. It turned out to be a harbinger of things to come. After watching Kyle Busch drive away from Kevin Harvick to win Saturday night's Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway, Gibbs drivers have won six times in the first 11 races.

America’s Cup:

Emirates Team New Zealand rallied from last place after getting hooked on a starting buoy to claim the winner-take-all final race Sunday in the America's Cup World Series. The Kiwis maintained their overall lead in the series of warmup regattas leading to the 2017 America's Cup in Bermuda.

Team New Zealand was dead in the water at the start of Race 3 after the starting buoy's anchor line snagged the rudder, forcing crewman Blair Tuke to jump into the water to free the boat. The Kiwis rallied on the last leg after the leading teams were slowed by a wind hole and the current. This was the first America's Cup-related racing in New York in 96 years.

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