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Cavs use third-quarter surge to best Raptors in Game 7

Jarrett Allen scored 14 of his career playoff-high-tying 22 points in the third quarter and grabbed 19 rebounds, powering the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 114-102 win over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Sunday night in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.

Fourth-seeded Cleveland, which trailed by double digits in the first and second quarters, will play the top-seeded Detroit Pistons in the East semifinals, beginning Tuesday in Detroit. The home team won every game in the Cavaliers-Pistons series.

Donovan Mitchell also had 22 points and James Harden posted 18 points and six rebounds for the Cavaliers, who built a 94-72 lead early in the fourth. Allen had 10 rebounds -- five offensive -- in the third when Cleveland outscored the Raptors 38-19.

"Emotions were high and the crowd was into it," Allen said, before laughing, "Dr. J-A. I just had to let 'em know. I was just playing hard, trying to get us ahead."

Mitchell agreed about Allen's impact on both the game and the crowd.

"The crowd brought the same energy as Jarrett Allen," Mitchell said. "That dude took over. He was doing everything, getting steals, rebounds, scoring points."

Scottie Barnes collected 24 points, nine rebounds and six assists for fifth-seeded Toronto. RJ Barrett had 23 points on 9-of-25 field-goal attempts and Jamal Shead added 14 points and seven assists.

"For the stage of his career, (Barnes) gave it all," Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic said. "I don't want to sound like a broken record, but this is not the best version of Scottie we're going to see. He's going to be even better next season."

Despite his coach's praise, Barnes found plenty to blame for his team's loss.

"They worked harder than us in this game," he said. "They had 20 offensive rebounds. They had four guys crashing every play, even 5-10, 5-11 guys crashing the glass."

Cleveland is 5-0 all-time at home in Game 7 and has beaten the Raptors all 11 times in the playoffs in its arena. The Cavaliers also have won all four of their postseason series against Toronto.

Evan Mobley, who had 13 points, scored the first basket of the second half to give Cleveland its initial lead at 51-49. It turned into a 20-2 run spanning the second and third quarters when Mitchell made a hoop with 9:28 remaining in the third to make it 58-49.

"Jarrett (Allen) really took us over the top with that third-quarter performance," Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said. "That's the best I've ever seen him. He was just absolutely incredible tonight."

Cleveland used an 11-2 run to close the opening half, tying the score for the first time at 49-all on a Jaylon Tyson 3-pointer. Shead and Barnes led all players at the half with 14 points apiece, while Harden had 10 points and Sam Merrill added eight off the bench.

"It felt like we had them," Barrett said. "That's what's going to hurt. We definitely could have won this game and won this series."

The Cavaliers committed 13 turnovers in the first half, which Toronto turned into 14 points. Cleveland had six miscues in the first quarter and seven in the second.

Barnes netted the first five points of the evening after Allen missed a dunk on Cleveland's opening possession. Shead made a runner to give the Raptors a 22-12 advantage, but Merrill had five points in the final three minutes to cut it to 26-24.

Shead scored seven points in the period and Barnes had five points and four assists, helping Toronto shoot 55% (11 of 20) from the floor.

The Raptors were without two starters, small forward Brandon Ingram (right heel soreness) and point guard Immanuel Quickley (right hamstring strain).

"We gave it all, everything we had today," Rajakovic said. "Our guys were awesome. We made it hard on (the Cavaliers)."

--Field Level Media

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Cavs use third-quarter surge to best Raptors in Game 7

Jarrett Allen scored 14 of his career playoff-high-tying 22 points in the third quarter and grabbed 19 rebounds, powering the Cleveland...

Cantore has two goals in the Spirits' 402 victory over the Orlando Pride

Sofia Cantore scored two goals, Trinity Rodman added a goal and two assists, and the Washington Spirit won their fourth straight with a 4-2 victory over the Orlando Pride on Saturday.

In other National Women's Soccer League matches, the Utah Royals beat Angel City FC 1-0 on the road and the Kansas City Current edged the host North Carolina Courage 2-1.

After a 90-minute weather delay, Washington wasted no time. Rodman picked out Cantore who struck from outside the box in the second minute for a 1-0 lead.

In the seventh, Rodman passed to Cantore, who dribbled past Anna Moorhouse and slotted it home to double the lead.

The two goals (5:27) were the fastest ever in the league’s history with Cantore eclipsing the previous record set by Uchenna Kanu in 2024 by 13 seconds.

Golden boot leader Barbra Banda drew a foul in the box on defender Esme Morgan, but Spirit goalkeeper Sandy MacIver denied the penalty kick from Ally Lemos. On the ensuing corner kick, Banda scored for her sixth goal of the season to narrow the margin.

Banda completed a first-half brace with the equalizer and seventh goal in the 39th to tie it.

Paraguay international Claudia Martínez earned her first NWSL start and tallied her second goal of the season in the 55th minute, giving the Spirit (4-1-3) back the lead.

Rodman scored the game’s final goal in the 70th minute, marking her third consecutive game with a score.

Despite Banda’s second consecutive game with two goals, the Pride (2-3-2) have dropped both results.

Royals win fourth straight

Captain Paige Cronin delivered a pinpoint cross onto Cloé Lacasse’s head for the game’s only goal in the 32nd minute, giving Utah (4-2-1) a fourth straight win.

In first half stoppage time, Maiara Niehues received a direct red card for violent conduct towards Lacasse. It was the first in club history for Angel City FC, who would also play down a player the entirety of the second half.

Royals Goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn started her first match of the 2026 season and earned the clean sheet with four saves.

After starting the season with three consecutive wins, Angel City FC (3-3-0) have now lost three straight.

Current hold on for road win

Croix Bethune and Michelle Cooper scored first-half goals for the Current (3-4-0), who hung on for the win on the road.

Bethune opened up the scoring with a volleyed goal in the eighth minute. In the 23rd, Cooper dribbled past goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan and finished from a tight angle to make it 2-0.

Manaka Matsukubo trimmed the lead to 2-1 in the 85th for North Carolina (2-2-3) with a goal off a rebound.

Courage defender Felicitas Rauch was handed a straight red card in second half stoppage time for violent conduct on Haley Hopkins.

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NYT ‘Connections’ Hints, Clues and Answers Sunday, May 3, 2026

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Iran soccer officials to meet FIFA in Zurich and plan for World Cup games in US

GENEVA (AP) — Iranian soccer officials are set to meet soon with FIFA in Zurich about theirWorld Cupgames in the United States in June.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino addresses the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Iran is marked absent as FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafstrom, fourth from front left, conducts roll call during the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

FILE - Iran players pose for a team photo prior a friendly soccer match between Iran and Costa Rica, in Antalya, southern Turkey, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Riza Ozel, File)

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, second from right, speaks during the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Iran’s top soccer official Mehdi Taj said on Friday “we have many issues to discuss” on his return home fromCanada where he failedto attendFIFA’s annual congressheld on Thursday in Vancouver.

FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafström has invited an Iranian delegation to its headquarters by a May 20 deadline, a person familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing sensitivity of the issue.

That target date in Zurich is three weeks beforethe Iran squadis due in the U.S., staying at a training base in Tucson, Arizona, to prepare for three group games in Inglewood, California and Seattle.

“Our position is that we will soon have a meeting with FIFA,” Taj told Iranian media on Friday.

Iran's difficult road to World Cup

Iran is an Asian soccer power but its ability and willingness to come to the World Cup has been questioned since the U.S. and Israel launched military attacks on Feb. 28. The tournament is being co-hosted by Canada and Mexico,

On Thursday, FIFA President Gianni Infantino opened his keynote speech to global soccer leaders — with only Iran missing of the 211 member federations — insisting again thatIran will come and playas scheduled in the U.S.

At the White House later Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed his support for Iran’s team, adding: “If Gianni said it, I’m OK.”

Trump and Infantino have closely alliedover the World Cup preparations which has challenges, beyond Iran with fans from several African countries, overgranting entry visasand security concerns.

Canada arrival issue

Taj and two more Iran officials had issues this week on landing in Toronto en route to Vancouver where they were expected at the FIFA annual meeting.

Taj, who is also a vice president of Asia’s soccer body, detailed on Friday the problems with Canadian authorities though he said he was not deported.

“In Canada they asked us, ‘Are you members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?’ We told them, ‘In Iran, 90 million of us are IRGC,’” Taj was reported as saying in Iranian media.

After being detained for two hours at Toronto airport, the Iran soccer delegation which had arrived from Istanbul was told it could continue the journey.

“There was some discussion and he said, ‘It’s up to you,’ and then we decided as a group to go back” to Istanbul, Taj said. “They did not officially deport us, there is nothing labeled as deportation in our file, but in practice it was like that.”

Taj had a valid visa to enter Canada after he wasdenied one by the U.S.to attend the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5. At that event, Infantino presented Trump with thefirst FIFA Peace Prize.

Iran's World Cup games

Iran has World Cup group games against New Zealand, Belgium and Egypt, respectively, from June 15-26. The first two games are at the NFL stadium of the Los Angeles Rams and the third is at the Seattle Seahawks’ stadium.

If Iran advances as runner-up in its group, the team could face the United States in the round of 32 at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium on July 3.

The Iranian soccer league shut down after the war started and is not due to resume before the World Cup. The squad played two warmup games in March at a training camp in Antalya, Turkey, where it could return this month to prepare for the World Cup that opens on June 11.

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Meryl Streep says working moms aren't 'selfish' – 'We're human beings'

Spoiler alert! We're discussing major details about the ending of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” (in theaters now). Stop reading if you haven’t seen the movie yet and don’t want to know what happens.

You can thankMeryl Streepfor the most emotional moment of "The Devil Wears Prada 2."

In the long-awaited sequel, fashion's high priestess Miranda Priestly (Streep) successfully saves Runway magazine: She finds an affluent new buyer, Sasha Barnes (Lucy Liu), for the flailing publication after an attempted coup by her former assistant, Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt).

The film ends with Miranda and features editor Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) in the back of a car, mulling over the uncertain future of journalism at large. Mid-conversation, Miranda reveals that she knows Andy has been writing a tell-all book about her time at Runway. Andy declares that she no longer wants to, but Miranda insists that she move forward with her exposé, ruefully lamenting the moments she missed of her twin daughters growing up.

"You should write it, and you should keep all the juicy bits in," Miranda tells Andy. "How impatient I am; how demanding and imperious and how much of my children's lives I've missed. Just put it all in there, because people should know there's a cost. But boy, I love working. I really do, don't you? I just love it."

It's a scene that carried weight for Streep, 76, a three-time Oscar winner who shares three daughters and a son with Don Gummer (they split in 2017). The Hollywood icon ad-libbed that piece of dialogue herself.

“That line wasn't in there,” Streep tells USA TODAY, seated with Hathaway on a recent afternoon. “That was something that I threw in because I just do love working. I do love working as an actor. And I thought, for women, it's the way that Miranda shares that insight: It's a little sneaky, like, ‘Don't you sneak a cigarette every once in a while?’ Because it's still frowned upon that you're going to try to do the selfish thing that is rewarding to yourself and [also] want to have a family. I mean, people do. I did. I did want to have both.

“We're human beings,” Streep adds. “We should be able to do that and model for our children – our boys and girls – that it’s great to be creative, and to be out in the world and doing our very level best, you know?”

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As Miranda Priestly, Meryl Streep is fiercely committed to her job in "The Devil Wears Prada 2."

Hathaway, 43, has two young sons with her husband, Adam Shulman. The Oscar-winning actress has been working steadily for more than 25 years, with breakthrough roles in 2001's "The Princess Diaries" and 2006's original "The Devil Wears Prada."

“It's really amazing to be able to care for yourself economically,” Hathaway says. “I have been working since I was a teenager and I've been in charge of my own finances for that same amount of time, which means that I've signed every single check in my life as an adult. I've paid my rent. I put myself through college. All of those things, I took on that financial responsibility.”

As a result, “my life feels very much like my own,” Hathaway says. “I don't have to ask anyone for things. And I have no problems working to earn that freedom. I like it.” For many women, “that option has only been available for a few decades, which is crazy. So I don't really want to waste this opportunity.”

Anne Hathaway is determined to make something of her position at Runway in "The Devil Wears Prada 2."

The month-long "Devil Wears Prada 2” promotional tour took both A-listers across the globe, with stops in Mexico City, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo.

In each city, girls would come up to them “and say, ‘This meant so much to me,’ ” Streep recalls. “I thought of it as a sort of frothy, fun movie, but it had some other kind of pull for young people, and that's very heartening. That means that it's [resonated] in a lot of different cultures. And a lot of different cultures are in different places, in regard to how they feel about women working.”

Amid the release of "The Devil Wears Prada 2," see the stars' looks from 20 years ago and now, beginning here with Anne Hathaway.

Hathaway opted for a stunning red dress in both 2006 and 2026, where she opted for a custom Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière strapless tea-length gown. She filmed the role of Andy Sachs in her early 20s.