Who’s ready for TV’s biggest night?

Hollywood’s primetime stars are on the red carpet for the 2024 Emmys.

Here’s what celebrities wore for the illustrious event:

Selena Gomez attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Quinta Brunson attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Richard Gadd attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Ramy Youssef attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Dakota Fanning attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
RuPaul attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Aja Naomi King attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Katie Aselton attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
(L-R) Skye P. Marshall and Kathy Bates attend the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Steve Martin attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Keltie Knight attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Dan Levy attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Ilona Maher attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Zuri Hall attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Aaron Moten attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Padma Lakshmi attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
(L-R) Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita attend the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Robin Roberts attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
(L-R) Bobby Berk and Emily Hampshire attend the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Jelly Roll attends the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

NEW YORK (AP) — Bridget Carleton scored 19 points and the Minnesota Lynx beat the New York Liberty 88-79 on Sunday to keep alive their chances at the top seed in the WNBA playoffs.

Napheesa Collier added 18 points and 13 rebounds for Minnesota (29-9), which needs to win its final two games and have New York (31-7) lose both to earn the top seed. The Lynx extended their lead over the Connecticut Sun for the No. 2 seed.

The Lynx came into Sunday with a one-game lead over the Sun, who played Las Vegas later in the day. Connecticut and Minnesota play on Tuesday for the final time in the regular season and the Sun already hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Breanna Stewart had a huge effort in the loss with 38 points and 18 rebounds. She had 17 of those points in the fourth quarter.

Minnesota got up early on New York before the Liberty rallied to within 52-39 at the half. The Lynx scored the first 11 points of the third quarter and were up 74-50 heading into the fourth before Stewart tried to rally the Liberty.

She had 13 points in the first 5:30 of the period to get New York within 80-72 and brought the sellout crowd to its feet.

Unfortunately New York could get no closer as Kayla McBride quieted the crowd hitting a deep 3-pointer to restore the double-digit advantage. The Liberty could only get within seven the rest of the way.

The Lynx shot 55% from the field in the first half. Even when New York seemed to have them stopped a couple of times, the Lynx turned broken plays into baskets when the ball bounced right into their hands.

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Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa may be back on the active roster, but the Twins have made it clear that the two stars are not fully healthy.

Even knowing that, the Twins opted to bring them back “the earliest we reasonably could,” manager Rocco Baldelli said, to get as much help from the two stars as they could down the stretch. So, it didn’t come as much of a surprise to see both out of the starting lineup on Sunday, a game the Twins won even without the two big bats.

“When they could help us and when they could actually play, we brought them back,” Baldelli said. “And now we just have to make it work.”

And making it work will mean playing without Buxton (hip) and Correa (heel) on occasion and assessing how they’re doing on a daily basis to determine their availability.

Leaving them on the bench on Sunday, Baldelli said, should mean they’re ready to play on Monday when the Twins begin a big series against the division-leading Cleveland Guardians.

“We start with a plan, but then there are going to be days where it’s going to be decided a little later, where we might have an idea, but we want to check on them and see what they’re doing,” Baldelli said. “Believe me, this isn’t like a 100 percent type conversation. If they’re 100 percent, they’d play.”

Inherited runner woes

When Simeon Woods Richardson left Saturday night’s game, he left with the bases packed. Very quickly, all three of those runners scored.

It’s been an ongoing issue for the Twins this season, who have let the highest percentage of inherited runners score among all major league teams. Heading into Sunday’s action, 45 percent of inherited runners had scored off Twins relievers. League average was 33 percent.

“It hurts our starters, who are coming out of games and every baserunner, it feels like, at times, is scoring that they leave out there,”  Baldelli said before reliever Ronny Henriquez worked out of an inherited bases-loaded jam Sunday. “That’s hard. It’s frustrating. It’s difficult to wrap your head around.”

But Baldelli doesn’t necessarily have any theories as to why it’s happening, especially because it hasn’t been an issue in recent years. A season ago, Twins relievers were at 28 percent. In 2022, it was 29 percent.

“Process-wise, the way that we handle these guys when they come in the games, the way that we prepare our relievers when we come into games, that hasn’t changed a ton, and that doesn’t feel like that should be something that should be that out of whack,” Baldelli said. “But it has been.”

Briefly

The Twins had a handful of players wear No. 21 on Sunday in honor of Roberto Clemente Day across Major League Baseball. Those players included the Twins’ Puerto Rican players, as well as those who had been a finalist for the Roberto Clemente Award, which is given to the player who best exemplifies Clemente’s values and character on and off the field. Starting pitcher Pablo López is the Twins’ nominee this year.

Twins manager Rocco Baldelli wouldn’t say that Sunday’s game was any more important than any other game.

This time of year, they all matter “an immense amount,” he said Sunday morning before the Twins beat the Cincinnati Reds 9-2 in the series finale at Target Field. But it sure felt like Sunday’s game was an extra important one for the Twins.

They were coming off two big losses to the Reds, a sub-.500 foe. The schedule only gets more challenging from here with a seven-game road trip beginning with four games in Cleveland against the division leaders starting Monday. And their lead in the American League Wild Card race would have been down to just 1 1/2 games if they had lost with Detroit winning earlier in the day.

So when the Twins’ offense finally broke through in the sixth inning, tying the score on Ryan Jeffers’ two-out double and taking the lead when Brooks Lee singled home a pair of runners, it gave the Twins a boost they so badly needed.

Lee helped put the game out of reach an inning later, delivering a bases-loaded triple to bring home three more runs in the most significant game of his young career. It was the first triple of Lee’s career and the first time he had driven in five runs in a game.

The triple came after Carlos Santana’s two-run homer — one of three hits for him on the day — had pushed the Twins’ lead to four at the time, giving the bullpen a comfortable cushion.

The Twins’ bullpen was unscored upon with three relievers — Ronny Henriquez, Cole Sands and Jorge Alcala — shutting down the Reds across the final 5 1/3 innings of the game.

It was a quick hook for Twins rookie pitcher David Festa, who topped 97 miles per hour in a third inning which featured three strikeouts but ran into trouble an inning later.

Festa gave up three hits to begin the inning — including a little dribbler that neither he nor catcher Ryan Jeffers fielded — and a sacrifice fly, producing the Reds’ only two runs of the game. Festa walked a pair of batters before turning the game over to Henriquez, who was able to escape the jam and hold the Reds right where they weret.