Mizzou wrestling sensation, and recent Olympic qualifier, J’Den Cox, will be appearing Thursday night with Jim Heuer and Brendan Wiese on the Big Sports Show. Cox rolled through the World Games Qualifying Tournament over the weekend, capturing a first place finish in the 86-kilogram weight class. It secures Cox a spot in the upcoming 2016…
CHICAGO (AP) – Game 7 of the Blackhawks-Blues series drew the largest TV audience for a first-round NHL playoff game on NBCSN. St. Louis’ 3-2 win Monday to eliminate the defending Stanley Cup champions averaged 1.35 million viewers. The telecast on CSN Chicago earned a 19.1 rating, a record for the regional sports network. That…
PHOENIX (AP) – Carlos Martinez gave up three hits in eight scoreless innings, Brandon Moss and Stephen Piscotty homered and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-2 on Tuesday night. Martinez (4-0) won for the fourth time in four starts. The 24-year-old right-hander held the Diamondbacks without a hit until David Peralta’s one-out…
PHOENIX (AP) – Jean Segura had four hits, including a go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth inning, to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 12-7 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night. Segura’s homer came during a nine-run inning that made ace Zack Greinke a winner despite allowing seven runs. The Cardinals…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Troy Brouwer tapped in his own rebound to snap a third-period tie and the St. Louis Blues advanced to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in four seasons, eliminating the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in Game 7 of their Western Conference quarterfinals series Monday…
Saint Louis FC played its first game in another new series Saturday night when it defeated Sacramento Republic FC 0-1 at Bonney Field in Sacramento, California. Mike Ambersley scored the lone goal of the night after a Sacramento corner kick was cleared and Irvin Herrera pushed the ball over midfield and found an open Ambersley…
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Jedd Gyorko homered, tripled and singled, and rookie Aledmys Diaz had a homer among his three hits as the St. Louis Cardinals rallied to beat the San Diego Padres 8-5 Sunday to take two of three. Gyorko, traded from San Diego to St. Louis in December, had two chances to complete…
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Rookie Aledmys Diaz had his first five-hit game, Jedd Gyorko and Jeremy Hazelbaker hit three-run homers and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 11-2 on Saturday night. Diaz had a two-run double in the ninth, while Gyorko homered off his old team and Hazelbaker snapped an 0-for-17 slump.…
CHICAGO (AP) – Artem Anisimov, Trevor van Riemsdyk and Dale Weise scored during Chicago’s dominant second period, and the Blackhawks beat the St. Louis Blues 6-3 on Saturday night to send their first-round playoff series to Game 7. Andrew Shaw added a third-period goal in his return from a one-game suspension for using a gay…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Wil Myers is turning out to be just the spark plug the San Diego Padres need him to be. Myers had a solo homer among his three hits and drove in three runs, and Andrew Cashner threw six strong innings to lead the San Diego Padres to a 4-1 victory against…