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By AFP LOS ANGELES: The Miami Heat rallied to beat the Boston Celtics 106-98 and clinch an NBA playoff berth on Wednesday as the post-season picture began to get clearer. Dallas Mavericks also secured a playoff spot…

SONIPAT: Top-ranked Indian archer Atanu Das missed the cut for the upcoming Asian Games as he finished outside top-eight in the final selection trial at the Sports Authority of India Centre on Saturday. Veteran Services archer Tarundeep…

As N.F.L. teams prepare for the newly added 17th regular-season game this weekend, some are safely in the playoffs, some are out and some are really, really out. Some are jockeying for postseason seeding. And most intriguingly, a handful of…

The bar for qualifying for the MLS playoffs isn’t a high one: finish in the top seven in the 13-team Western Conference and you’re in.More teams make that than miss it.On Sunday the Galaxy and LAFC wound up in the minority, with the Galaxy…

A host of top Indian track and field athletes, including the likes of star sprinters Dutee Chand and Hima Das, will make one last attempt to book their Olympic berths in the National Inter-State Championships beginning here on…

Los Angeles Lakers raised its 2020 NBA championship banner on Wednesday before scraping to a 124-122 victory over the hapless Houston Rockets to keep alive its hopes of direct entry to the 2021 playoffs.Atlanta Hawks clinched its first…