PSG RALLIES LATE TO REACH CL SEMIS

Paris Saint-Germain staged a stoppage-time comeback to beat Atalanta 2-1 and reach the Champions League semifinals for the first time in 25 years on Wednesday.

Until Marquinho’s 90th-minute goal canceled out Mario Pašalić’s first-half opener for the Serie A side, PSG’s night had been blotted by Neymar’s succession of misses.

But the French champions didn’t even have to play extra time in this single-leg quarterfinal as Eric Choupo-Moting netted in the third minute of stoppage time.

It was a painful collapse for Atalanta, ending an improbable journey in its debut Champions League campaign — in a season when the team’s home city of Bergamo had been among the hardest hit regions of Europe from the coronavirus.

Patrice Bergeron scored the winner early in double overtime, and the Boston Bruins beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in Game 1 of their first-round series that was postponed 15 hours to a rare late-morning start.

The game scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday night started the next morning at 11 after the Columbus Blue Jackets-Tampa Bay Lightning series opener went five overtimes. Playing all Eastern Conference games at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena had this potential for games going long messing with the schedule.

Giannis Antetokounmpo has been suspended for Milwaukee’s final game of the regular season, handed a one-game penalty Wednesday for headbutting Washington’s Moe Wagner. It’s unknown if Antetokounmpo would have played in Thursday’s game against Memphis anyway, given that the Bucks have already secured the No. 1 overall seed in the NBA playoffs that start next week.

The Chicago Sky waived former Rider star Stella Johnson. Johnson was signed by the Sky on June 29 after initially being selected by the Phoenix Mercury in the third round (No. 29 overall) of the 2020 WNBA Draft. The 5-foot-8 guard appeared in four games this season.