NBA playoff race roundup: Sixers win 15th straight

IMAGE: USA's Serena Williams in action during her first round match against Kazakhstan's Zarina Diyas at the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, on Thursday. Photograph: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Serena Williams made her post-childbirth comeback a winning one with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Zarina Diyas in the first round at the BNP Paribas Open in California on Thursday. In her first singles match in nearly 14 months, since winning the 2017 ...

Keeping it short and so sweet at the 90th Annual Academy Awards. Host Jimmy Kimmel may have made sure the speeches remained short this year -- the shortest speech would win a Kawasaki jet ski! -- but they were still worth listening to. Here's a look at some of the best speeches of the night. Oh, and Mark Bridges won the jet ski for his 36-second acceptance speech after winning Best Costume Design for Phantom Thread.   Frances McDormand (Lead Actress, Three Billboards Outside ...

Former world No.3 Milos Raonic got his 2018 off to a roaring start with a 6-1, 7-5 rout of Taro Daniel in the first round of the Delray Beach Open on Tuesday. Raonic is ranked 32nd in the world which is vastly different from last year when he came into Delray ...