Champions League scores: Son's goal gives Spurs lead over Manchester City; Liverpool blanks Porto - CBS Sports

The Champions League quarterfinals got underway Tuesday with a pair of first legs. Tottenham used a goal from Son Heung-min to beat Manchester City in London, while Liverpool blanked Porto 2-0 to put one foot into the semifinals. At Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Spurs looked like the stronger team on the night but lost superstar striker Harry Kane to injury in the second half. The team battled back though, with Son finishing past Ederson with class in the 78th minute. City's Sergio Aguero also had a penalty kick saved by Hugo Lloris.

Liverpool did not have trouble with Porto as Roberto Firmino scored and set up Naby Keita for another. The Reds had just three shots on goal but were efficient enough that gives them a little breathing room ahead of next week's trip to Porto. Just one goal in the second leg for the Reds would force Porto to score four. Click the score below for our recaps:

Tottenham 1-0 Manchester City

Liverpool 2-0 Porto

Wednesday's slate

Juventus, with Cristiano Ronaldo in the starting lineup, will face Ajax on Wednesday. Manchester United will host Lionel Messi and Barcelona at Old Trafford in the other quarterfinal first leg. Both are set for 3 p.m. ET. 

All Champions League quarterfinal matches are streaming on fuboTV (Try for free).

Relive out live updates. If you are unable to view the live updates below, please click here.

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2019 Masters tee times, Rounds 1 & 2 - PGA TOUR

ROUND 1 TEE TIMES (ALL TIMES ET)

8:15 A.M. - Gary Player (Honorary Starter), Jack Nicklaus (Honorary Starter)           

8:30 A.M. - Andrew Landry, Adam Long, Corey Conners (Canada)

8:41 A.M. - Ian Woosnam (Wales), Keith Mitchell, Kevin Tway

8:52 A.M. - Mike Weir (Canada), Shane Lowry (Ireland), *Kevin O'Connell

9:03 A.M. - Angel Cabrera (Argentina), Aaron Wise, Justin Harding (South Africa)

9:14 A.M. - Danny Willett (England), Brandt Snedeker, *Takumi Kanaya (Japan)

9:25 A.M. - Fred Couples, Si Woo Kim (Korea), J. B. Holmes

9:36 A.M. - Branden Grace (South Africa), Emiliano Grillo (Argentina), Lucas Bjerregaard (Denmark)

9:47 A.M. - Charl Schwartzel (South Africa), Charles Howell III, Eddie Pepperell (England)

9:58 A.M. - Sergio Garcia (Spain), Tony Finau, Henrik Stenson (Sweden)

10:09 A.M. - Adam Scott (Australia), Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), Kyle Stanley

10:31 A.M. - Patrick Reed, Webb Simpson, *Viktor Hovland (Norway)

10:42 A.M. - Charley Hoffman, Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa), Marc Leishman (Australia)

10:53 A.M. - Tommy Fleetwood (England), Xander Schauffele, Gary Woodland

11:04 A.M. - Tiger Woods, Haotong Li (China), Jon Rahm (Spain)

11:15 A.M. - Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), Rickie Fowler, Cameron Smith (Australia)

11:26 A.M. - Sandy Lyle (Scotland), Michael Kim, Patton Kizzire

11:37 A.M. - Trevor Immelman (South Africa), Martin Kaymer (Germany), *Devon Bling

11:48 A.M. - Larry Mize, Jimmy Walker, Stewart Cink

11:59 A.M. - Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain), Kevin Na, Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark)

12:10 P.M. - Bernhard Langer (Germany), Matt Wallace (England), *Alvaro Ortiz (Mexico)

12:32 P.M. - Alex Noren (Sweden), Keegan Bradley, Matthew Fitzpatrick (England)

12:43 P.M. - Vijay Singh (Fiji), Billy Horschel, *Jovan Rebula (South Africa)

12:54 P.M. - Kevin Kisner, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Thailand), Shugo Imahira (Japan)

1:05 P.M. - Zach Johnson, Ian Poulter (England), Matt Kuchar

1:16 P.M. - Francesco Molinari (Italy), Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spain), Tyrrell Hatton (England)

1:27 P.M. - Bubba Watson, Patrick Cantlay, Satoshi Kodaira (Japan)

1:38 P.M. - Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau. Jason Day (Australia)

1:49 P.M. - Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose (England), Justin Thomas

2:00 P.M. - Jordan Spieth, Paul Casey (England), Brooks Koepka

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Cronin leaves Cincinnati to take UCLA job - ESPN

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One hundred days since UCLA fired Steve Alford, the Bruins finally have their new head coach.

Mick Cronin, who led the Cincinnati Bearcats to nine consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, has agreed to a six-year, $24 million contract with UCLA, it was announced Tuesday.

"Mick Cronin is a fierce competitor, and I'm excited to welcome him to Westwood," UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero said in a statement. "Mick has built a fantastic program at Cincinnati, backed by integrity and discipline, and he has instilled an undeniable toughness in his student-athletes. I am confident he will build this program the right way and lead UCLA basketball back to national prominence."

We're thrilled to announce that Mick Cronin will become our program's next head coach.

Welcome to Los Angeles, Coach Cronin! 🏀🌴☀️

NEWS: https://t.co/wBvFYog3ep pic.twitter.com/fM065dqda0

— UCLA Basketball (@UCLAMBB) April 9, 2019

Cronin heads to Westwood after 13 years at Cincinnati. He has won at least 20 games in each of the past nine seasons and has an 89-18 record over the past three seasons with the Bearcats.

The Cincinnati native is one of six coaches to lead his team to the NCAA tournament in each of the past nine seasons, along with Mark Few, Tom Izzo, Mike Krzyzewski, Bill Self and Roy Williams. Only once did Cronin advance past the first weekend of the tournament (2012).

Before joining Cincinnati, Cronin spent three seasons at Murray State, where he led the Racers to two NCAA tournaments.

"I am incredibly humbled and honored to become the head coach at UCLA," Cronin said. "I'm especially grateful to Chancellor [Gene] Block and to Dan Guerrero for this opportunity to join the Bruin Family. UCLA is a very special place with a strong tradition of excellence. To be able to join such a world-class institution is truly a privilege, and I can't wait to get started in Westwood."

Cronin has a reputation as a tough, hard-nosed coach and will look to rebuild the Bruins after a 17-16 campaign and drawn-out, public coaching search.

UCLA pursued Kentucky's John Calipari, but he wound up signing a lifetime contract with the Wildcats. The Bruins then turned their focus toward TCU's Jamie Dixon, but the two sides couldn't work out a buyout with the Horned Frogs. This past weekend, UCLA offered $5 million per year to Tennessee's Rick Barnes, but he opted to remain with the Volunteers.

Cronin replaces Alford, who was fired on New Year's Eve after five-plus seasons at UCLA. He led UCLA to three Sweet 16 appearances in his four NCAA tournament berths.

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University of Cincinnati's Mick Cronin to be next head coach at UCLA, UCLA reports - WCPO

CINCINNATI -- University of Cincinnati men's basketball head coach Mick Cronin has agreed to become the UCLA coach.

Cronin, a 1997 UC graduate and 1990 La Salle High School graduate, agreed to a six-year contract worth $24 million, according to the UCLA release. He will be introduced on Wednesday morning.

UC did not have an immediate comment after UCLA made the announcement.

Cronin led the Bearcats from 2006-2019 which included an active streak of nine consecutive NCAA Tournament trips.

Cronin has become one of just six coaches in the nation to have led his program to the NCAA Tournament the last nine seasons. Joining him in that group are Mark Few (Gonzaga), Tom Izzo (Michigan State), Mike Krzyzewski (Duke), Bill Self (Kansas) and Roy Williams (North Carolina).

"I am incredibly humbled and honored to become the head coach at UCLA," Cronin said in a statement. "I'm especially grateful to Chancellor Block and to Dan Guerrero for this opportunity to join the Bruin Family. UCLA is a very special place with a strong tradition of excellence. To be able to join such a world-class institution is truly a privilege, and I can't wait to get started in Westwood."

Cronin has compiled a 365-171 record in 16 seasons as a collegiate head coach. He most recently served as head coach at his alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, for the previous 13 seasons (2006-19). He helped lead the Bearcats' program on a remarkable turnaround, guiding Cincinnati to the NCAA Tournament each of the past nine seasons.

In 2018, Cronin was named Sporting News National Coach of the Year and was also a semifinalist for the 2018 Naismith Trophy National Coach of the Year award. He secured American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year acclaim in 2014 in addition to being named the NABC's District 25 Coach of the Year. He currently leads the country for most NCAA Division I victories (365) among active coaches under the age of 50.

A native of Cincinnati, Cronin helped bring about a rebirth of the Bearcats' program, built upon toughness, tenacious defense and a continued, all-out effort. Cronin's teams at Cincinnati rank as one of just two in the nation (along with Virginia) to be listed among the nation's top 25 in scoring defense each of the past seven seasons.

Cronin, a former La Salle basketball standout, was inducted into the high school's hall of fame this past winter.

As a Lancer, he was voted all-city in 1990. He led the city in assists and second in the city in 3-point shooting percentage.

Cronin graduated in 1997 from the University of Cincinnati with his bachelor's degree in history. He started his coaching career as an assistant varsity coach and head junior varsity coach at Woodward High School while he was completing his undergraduate work. Prior to becoming the head coach at Murray State in 2003, Cronin served as a video coordinator and assistant coach at Cincinnati and as the associate head coach at Louisville.

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Tiger to play alongside Li, Rahm at Masters - ESPN

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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tiger Woods will begin his 22nd Masters on Thursday at 11:04 a.m. ET and will play alongside China's Haotong Li and Spain's Jon Rahm for the first two rounds at Augusta National.

Their second-round tee time on Friday is at 1:49 p.m.

Defending champion Patrick Reed is grouped with 2012 U.S. Open winner Webb Simpson and reigning U.S. Amateur champion Viktor Hovland. They begin play at 10:31 a.m.

Other notable groups are Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler and Cameron Smith at 11:15 a.m.; Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and Jason Day at 1:38 p.m.; three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson, Justin Rose and Justin Thomas at 1:49 p.m. and Jordan Spieth, Paul Casey and Brooks Koepka at 2 p.m.

Honorary starters Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player will kick off the Masters at 8:15 a.m.

The first tee time is at 8:30 a.m. with Andrew Landry, Adam Long and Corey Conners, who won the Valero Texas Open on Sunday to become the last player in the 87-man field.

There will be a 36-hole cut to the low 50 and ties and any player within 10 strokes of the lead.

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Masters 2019: Tuesday's weather brings yet another day of play suspension - WRDW-TV

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

AUGUSTA, GA (WRDW/WAGT) -- Masters patrons didn't get much golf in Tuesday morning on account of the weather.

The Augusta National Golf Club moved to suspend practice play around 10 a.m.

The public gates have been closed as well.

Tuesday marks the second day in a row that play was suspended due to weather.

The course may still reopen.

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2019-04-09 14:09:07Z
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Virginia’s Historic Defeat Was Fundamental to Its Title - The New York Times

MINNEAPOLIS — Braxton Key was in Pittsburgh readying for Alabama’s second-round game against Villanova on the evening of last March 16, when he got an “upset alert” on his phone. Virginia was trailing the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

“I was like, There’s no way. They’re playing a 16 seed,” Key recalled Monday night. “I turned the game on, and, sure enough, they did.”

Virginia — for the seven of you who still don’t know — lost, 74-54, in the first round of last year’s N.C.A.A. tournament, becoming the first top seed to lose to a bottom seed in 33 years of the full-size men’s bracket.

Key texted his condolences to Virginia’s Kyle Guy, a friend from summer basketball in years past, immediately after. “He didn’t text me back for a couple days,” Key said. “I could understand.”

Alabama lost to Villanova the following day, and Villanova won the national championship. Key, a cousin of the former Virginia great Ralph Sampson, transferred to Virginia and got an N.C.A.A. waiver letting him play this season.

And on Monday night, with essential contributions from Key, Virginia won its first national championship, defeating Texas Tech in overtime, 85-77, just one year after that devastating, infamous defeat.

“I just thought with our work ethic, our drive, and whatever was fueling us from last year, about losing to U.M.B.C., I just thought we had a good chance to win it all,” Key said on the court amid the confetti.

Virginia’s trajectory from last year to this year has to count among the most dramatic in sports. Its players and coach, Tony Bennett, had to have known that anything short of a national championship this season would have been at once credited to last year’s devastating defeat.

This was particularly true after the team got a No. 1 seed, the program’s fourth in six seasons. In all six games of this tournament, the Cavaliers were the team with the better seed. There was no game they were not supposed to win, even as observers doubted them every time. It was like walking a tightrope made of eggshells stretched over very thin ice.

“Not after last year,” the associate head coach Jason Williford said. “No one could have thought that we’d do this.”

“I don’t know how we won,” he added. “Not this, but the two prior to this.”

Indeed. Virginia did not make it easy on its frayed nerves with a series of closer-than-close contests in this tournament. It trailed this year’s No. 16 seed, Gardner-Webb, at halftime. It defeated Oregon, a No. 12 seed, by 4 points. Its regional final, against Purdue, was salvaged thanks to the freshman Kihei Clark’s pass across half the court to Mamadi Diakite, who forced overtime with a quick shot. Saturday’s national semifinal victory over Auburn came courtesy of Guy’s being fouled on a 3-pointer with a second left and hitting all three free throws to put his team up by one.

That left Monday night’s final, in which Texas Tech outscored Virginia by 10 in the last 10 minutes, and the Cavaliers were kept alive only by De’Andre Hunter’s 3-pointer with 14 seconds left.

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Key’s plus-minus was +18, by far the highest in the game.CreditN.C.A.A. Photos

Effectively Virginia’s sixth man, Key was an important but not focal player this season.

But Monday night, he played 28 minutes — far higher than his season average of 19.8 minutes, even accounting for the five-minute overtime period.

He quietly led his team in rebounds, with 10. He half-blocked the Texas Tech star Jarrett Culver’s layup midway through the second half, and then fully blocked Culver’s shot at the end of regulation, preventing what could have been a buzzer-beater to doom the Cavaliers. He no-look assisted on a Guy score late in the second half, and assisted on a Hunter 3-pointer in overtime.

Key’s plus-minus — the statistic that states the score of the game during the minutes a player played — was +18, by far the highest.

His role was, if not precisely part of the master plan, then at least a foreseeable eventuality, according to a Virginia coach. In many ways, it all came back to U.M.B.C.

Last off-season, Virginia’s coaches saw in Key not only a talented, high-character player with ties to the program. They saw a 6-foot-8 jigsaw puzzle piece that fit perfectly into the team that was taking shape after the departures of the seniors Isaiah Wilkins and Devon Hall.

“He provided skills that we needed,” the assistant coach Brad Soderberg said. “We had just graduated Isaiah Wilkins. We needed a guy who could rebound, we needed a guy who could handle the ball, who had size.”

In fact, Soderberg said, there was one game in particular from Virginia’s previous season that pointed to its shortcoming when it came to going small: the game in which five players, none taller than 6-5, shot 12 from 24 from deep to beat Virginia by 20 in college basketball’s most historic loss.

“U.M.B.C.,” Soderberg said. “They played five guys smaller than us and hammered us.”

On Monday, with Texas Tech’s starting center, Tariq Owens, not playing at 100 percent because of a sprained ankle, the Red Raiders elected to go small, playing lineups with less size — but more speed and mobility — than their country-best defense typically deployed. (It is part of why the game was not the low-scoring, unexciting slugfest that some had feared.)

Texas Tech’s tactical choice prompted Virginia to go small as well, according to Soderberg. And that meant many minutes for Key.

Virginia’s 2018 humiliation and its 2019 triumph seem destined to live on in tandem, a yin and a yang contextualizing and balancing the other.

Perhaps the wedge that separates the two events is a player like Hunter, who was the Atlantic Coast Conference sixth man of the year last season and led all players Monday night with a career-high 27 points but who did not play in the U.M.B.C. game because of a wrist injury. Or a player like Clark, a freshman. Or Key, who arrived last summer with substantial experience yet a clean slate on a team still reeling from the previous March.

“I wish it wouldn’t have happened in some ways,” Bennett said of the U.M.B.C. loss. “Now I say, well, it bought us a ticket here. So be it.”

Key had a less ambivalent take. Referring to the documentary series about extraordinary sports happenings, he said, “We should definitely have a ‘30 for 30.’”

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