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Manchester City's quadruple dream has been extinguished by Chelsea after losing 1-0 in the semifinals of the FA Cup. Chelsea will be back at Wembley next month for the final thanks to Hakim Ziyech's goal. Pep Guardiola will return even sooner next Sunday with City for the League Cup final but with doubts over whether Kevin De Bruyne will be fit to face Tottenham. The influential Belgian playmaker hobbled off with an apparent ankle injury against Chelsea just as Premier League leader City is entering a crunch period of the season with a Champions League semifinal against Paris Saint-Germain.

Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 4-0 to win the Copa del Rey final. It's Ronald Koeman's first title as coach of the club. Messi’s two goals came after Antoine Griezmann finally beat Bilbao goalkeeper Unai Simón with the opener on the hour-mark. Frenkie de Jong headed in a second goal in the 63rd before Messi dealt a double blow to put the result beyond any doubt by the 72nd. It is Barcelona’s first title since winning the Spanish league in 2019. Former Barcelona defender Koeman returned to coach the club last summer after Barcelona finished last season without a title for the first time since 2008. Barcelona has won the Spanish cup a record 31 times.

Stewart Cink maintained his five-stroke lead and set another scoring mark at the RBC Heritage with a 2-under 69, moving closer to a third victory at Harbour Town Golf Links. The 47-year-old Cink cooled off from his pace from the first two rounds, when he shot a pair of 63s to break the event's halfway scoring mark that was shared by Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson. Cink did enough in the third round to end at 18-under 195 and break the 54-hole mark of 197 held by Justin Leonard in 2002. 

New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom struck out nine straight batters against Colorado, falling one shy of matching the major league record set 51 years earlier by Mets great Tom Seaver. DeGrom became just the ninth pitcher to strike out as many as nine in a row. Detroit reliever Tyler Alexander was the previous pitcher to strike out nine in a row, accomplishing the feat last Aug. 2 against Cincinnati. Seaver set the record against San Diego on April 22, 1970, striking out his final 10 batters in a 19-strikeout performance.

The man accused of going on a shooting rampage at a Southern California business, killing four people, should not have been allowed to buy or own guns because of a California law that prohibits people from purchasing weapons for 10 years after being convicted of a crime. The Sacramento Bee reports that Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez was convicted of battery in 2015, which should have kept him from possessing or buying weapons at stores conducting background checks. Investigators are still working on tracing the handgun and ammunition he used in the March 31 shooting at Unified Homes, a mobile home brokerage company in Orange.

Tristan Jarry stopped 27 shots and the Pittsburgh Penguins jumped into second place in the East Division standings with a 3-2 win over Buffalo, eliminating the Sabres from playoff contention. Bryan Rust and Evan Rodrigues scored second-period goals in helping the Penguins improve to 10-2-2 in their past 14. Jared McCann also scored for Pittsburgh, which earned its 59th point to move one ahead of the idle New York Islanders and remain three behind the Washington Capitals. The New York Rangers’ win in over New Jersey earlier in the day combined with Buffalo’s loss made the Sabres the NHL’s first team eliminated from playoff contention.

Yan Gomes homered and added an RBI single to help the Washington Nationals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-2 for their first back-to-back wins this season. Gomes also became the first major league catcher to throw out Arizona’s Tim Locastro on a steal attempt. That ended the center fielder’s MLB-record streak of 29 successful swipes to begin a career. Locastro then left the game with a dislocated finger. Erick Fedde tied his career high with nine strikeouts and got the win. Luke Weaver took the loss. Kole Calhoun and Eduardo Escobar homered for Arizona, which has lost four of its last five games.

As the nightly protests over Daunte Wright’s death intensify outside a police station in a Minneapolis suburb, some in the crowd are trying to prevent protests from escalating into violence. The Minnesota Freedom Fighters, a group of Black men, are at the scene to protest but are also determined to keep things peaceful. The group was formed as an armed patrol during unrest last year following the death of George Floyd. As Minneapolis sits on edge, the Freedom Fighters are trying to protect the neighborhoods where demonstrations occur, while still calling for justice.

Alex Ovechkin scored twice to move within one goal of Marcel Dionne for fifth place on the NHL’s career goals list as the Washington Capitals downed the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3. Dmitry Orlov, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Conor Sheary and Anthony Mantha each added goals while John Carlson recorded four assists for Washington, which increased its lead in the East Division to four points over the New York Islanders. Ivan Provorov, James van Riemsdyk and rookie Wade Allison, who recorded his first NHL goal, scored for the Flyers. Ovechkin now has 730 regular-season goals in his 16-year career. Dionne finished with 731 during 18 seasons with the Red Wings, Kings and Rangers.

Pavel Buchnevich celebrated his birthday with his first career hat trick and the New York Rangers beat the New Jersey Devils 6-3 on Saturday for their third win over their Hudson River rivals in five days. Artemi Panarin had a goal and three assists and Ryan Strome had a goal and an assist in a three-goal first-period outburst as the Rangers improved to 12-4-3 in their last 19 games. The question after the quick start was whether rookie Igor Shesterkin would get his third consecutive shutout. The Russian’s shutout streak was stopped at 152 minutes, 37 seconds.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day says the quarterback competition featuring three candidates will carry over into fall camp. Second-year players C.J. Stroud and Jack Miller III, along with early-enrollee Kyle McCord all got plenty of action in Saturday’s annual spring game, with none gaining an obvious edge. None has thrown a pass in a college game. Day says he saw some good and bad and stressed that the learning process for the three will continue throughout the summer. The Buckeyes open the season Sept. 2 at Minnesota.

Attorneys and witnesses have frequently used the words “reasonable” or “unreasonable” during the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death. It’s no coincidence. The concept of reasonableness has been crucial at trials of officers ever since the landmark Graham v. Connor ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court 32 years ago. It said the reasonableness of a particular use of force must be judged “from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene." That meant jurors should not consider if they would have used that level of force. They must only look at it from the perspective of what reasonable officers would have done.

BEIJING (AP) — China hit back at the U.S.-Japan show of alliance during talks between President Joe Biden and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, calling it an "ironic attempt of stoking division.” China said Suga and Biden's news conference Friday,…

Players on five more NFL teams will be skipping in-person voluntary workouts because of the pandemic. They are from both Los Angeles franchises, the Falcons, the Dolphins and 49ers. They posted through their union that they are joining 11 other groups who previously said they would not be on hand for the sessions. This weekend players from the other 16 clubs are expected to announce plans. The offseason sessions begin Monday. On Wednesday the league sent a memo to all 32 teams saying that the first four weeks of the voluntary program will be virtual. The plan then is to transition to in-person work at team facilities. 

The Coast Guard says divers returned Saturday to the murky, roiling waters of the Gulf of Mexico in search of lost crew members aboard a capsized lift boat off Louisiana. Petty Officer John Michelli says the search team took a break overnight because of the weather, but got back out there Saturday morning. Late Friday, divers recovered two more unresponsive crew members. The Lafourche Parish Coroner's Office identified them as 53-year-old Anthony Hartford of New Orleans and 55-year-old James Wallingsford, of Gilbert, Louisiana.  Rescuers in the air and the sea have been searching for the 19 workers who were aboard the vessel, which is designed to support offshore oil rigs, when it overturned Tuesday. Nine remain missing.

Pro days took on added significance this year with the NFL canceling the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis and prohibiting teams from inviting prospects to their facilities. There were 103 college pro days across the country that replaced the centralized combine. That made it difficult to compare 40-yard dash times and other measurements. COVID-19 restrictions also limited the number of people who could attend pro days. So it was a lonely endeavor for some athletes who normally would have had teammates and even friends and family cheering them on as they showed off. their skills for NFL scouts. 

President Joe Biden this past week found himself in search of a foreign policy sweet spot: somewhere between pulling a screeching U-turn on four years of Trumpism and cautiously approaching the world as it is. In recent days, Biden has piled new sanctions on Russia, announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in less than five months and backed away from a campaign promise to sharply raise refugee admission caps. Along the way, Biden is finding that when it comes to the painstaking process of statecraft, the drag of pragmatism can slow the sprint toward big-picture aspirations.

U.S. water officials are projecting the man-made lakes that store water used throughout the American West will fall to historically low levels and trigger an official shortage declaration for the first time. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released projections this week forecasting that less Colorado River water will fill Lake Powell and Lake Mead, which would force cuts to Arizona and Nevada. By November 2022, the agency projects Lake Mead could drop to levels that could threaten the ability to generate electricity at Hoover Dam. The April projections don't have binding impact because federal officials use the forecast released each August to make decisions about how to allocate river water. 

Arkansas' law banning gender confirming treatments for transgender minors hasn't taken effect yet, but it's already causing pain and uncertainty for hundreds of youth who are currently receiving the care. Families are weighing their options over the first-in-the-nation law. Some may move out of state. It's offering a preview of what could happen if other states considering similar bans follow Arkansas' lead. The uncertainty is compounded by a succession of new restrictions on transgender youth that have been enacted or are still on the table in the state.

Democrats are escalating their charges that the Republican push for tighter state voting laws is designed to make it hard for people of color to vote. As the fight moves from the Deep South to the Southwest, that’s put increased focus on the impact the proposals would have on Latino and Native American voters. The Republican efforts come in reaction to Donald Trump’s false insistence that he was denied reelection because of voter fraud. The battle over voting rights has shifted from Georgia, where Democrats say a new voting law is discriminatory, to Texas and Arizona. Democrats accuse Republicans of having an anti-Latino bias in states with a history of restricting Hispanic voting. 

The Miami Heat are losing, and their highest-paid player isn’t happy. Jimmy Butler labeled the reigning Eastern Conference champions as “soft” after a loss in Minnesota on Friday night, Miami’s third straight defeat and one that dropped the Heat to 28-28 with 16 games left in the regular season. It was Miami’s 10th loss in its last 16 games. Says Butler: “It’s not frustrating because we do it so often. It’s almost like it’s expected.”

Hard-right House Republicans are discussing forming an America First Caucus. One document obtained by The Associated Press describes its goals as championing “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” It also warns that mass immigration is putting the “unique identity” of the U.S. at risk. The caucus document was first reported by Punchbowl News, a news outlet that covers Capitol Hill. The AP could not independently confirm the organization’s origins or current status, but Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said he was joining and indicated that Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was behind it.