SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Miami Marlins needed a big inning, and they got it against struggling San Diego Padres rookie left-hander Nick Margevicius. Harold Ramirez's two-run double highlighted Miami's five-run fourth inning, Bryan Holaday hit a two-run ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Justin Verlander could hardly fathom his name being mentioned in the same breath as Cy Young. "Pretty cool, man," the Astros ace right-hander said. Verlander struck out eight over eight innings and moved into a share of the major ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — If the San Francisco Giants had more games like this, Bruce Bochy would have far more reason to smile during his final season as a big league manager. Backed by timely hitting and an error-free defense, San Francisco starter Shaun ...
The Brazilian football star, Neymar, has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Paris. According to a police report filed in São Paulo, the woman alleges that the attack took place in a hotel in the city where Neymar plays for Paris St-Germain (PSG).
Though the women's tennis is often associated with flat, baseline hitting, many different playing styles are thriving atop the game these days, as evidenced by the first match on Suzanne Lenglen Court (5 a.m. Eastern Time). The Czech left-hander Marketa ...
If we learned one thing about Patrick Mahomes during his first full season as a starting quarterback last year, it's that he has an absolute cannon for an arm. During the preseason, Mahomes showed off that cannon when he threw a 69-yard touchdown pass to ...
The Doral Academy Firebirds, just five outs away, could see it, feel it – practically taste their first state baseball championship. And then just like that, it all slipped away into the night Fort Myers air. Doral led Venice 2-0 with one out in the top of the sixth only to ...
ST. LOUIS — The Bruins reasserted themselves as the alpha males in the Stanley Cup Final. But first, they had to withstand an early push from a St. Louis Blues squad playing its first Cup Final game in front of its fanbase in 49 years. Feeding off the energy ...
A popular phrase in Korean is "Hallyu." It means "The Korean Wave," and it might be the most apt phrase to describe what's going on at Dodger Stadium this season. Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu is having a Cy Young start to the season, ...
HARRISON, N.J. — Daniel Royer, Michael Murillo and Omir Fernandez scored and the New York Red Bulls used a flurry of second-half goals to beat Real Salt Lake 4-0 on Saturday night. The Red Bulls (7-5-3) opened the scoring with the help of an own goal ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Cade Beloso and Zach Watson homered on Saturday night and LSU beat Southern Miss 8-4 to advance to the NCAA Tournament regional final. No. 3 seed Southern Miss (39-19) will play Arizona State in an elimination game on ...
BUFFALO — Nick Bobrov made an interesting word choice, but "mosaic" was perfectly descriptive. As Bobrov, the Rangers' director of European scouting, watched the large group of teenagers go through numerous physical tests at the NHL Scouting ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Damiris Dantas scored 20 points, Sylvia Fowles added 19 points and 12 rebounds and the new-look Minnesota Lynx beat the Dallas Wings 70-67 on Saturday night to improve to 3-0.
Savvy handicappers and avid thoroughbred racing fans know when prolific turf trainer Mark Casse sends a promising young horse into a graded stakes race, its chances of success are relatively high. Casse chose to send John Oxley's three-year-old Moon ...
When Jon Jones waited to hear the scores read for his UFC 165 title fight against Alexander Gustafsson, the defending champion looked like a man who had just been in the battle of his life. His mouth was severely swollen and a large piece of gauze was ...
OAKLAND, Calif. — Playing without George Springer, José Altuve and Aledmys Díaz leaves A.J. Hinch searching for an everyday leadoff hitter. The manager tried lefties Josh Reddick and Derek Fisher atop his order during this injury-plagued period, but ...
SAN JOSE - The Sharks made two additions at forward during this past season's trade deadline. One of which was acquiring Gustav Nyquist from the Detroit Red Wings. Now the Swedish forward will enter free agency for the first time in his career. Like the ...
BALTIMORE - After 2,014 at-bats in the minors, 357 in the majors and a never-ending argument over whether the Giants gave him a fair shot, Mac Williamson's divorce from the organization became official Saturday. The team announced that Williamson ...
The quirks of a schedule will keep Sporting Kansas City outside its home venue for a month. So as the calendar turned to June with the club in its worst mid-season standing in nearly a decade, a climb back up the table will require points on the road. It got one ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Good pitching, they always say, beats good hitting. Unfortunately for the University of Louisville baseball team, nothing in the sport is absolute. Reid Detmers and Shay Smiddy combined to hold Illinois State to three hits and while ...
Bristol: Australia will continue to shut out the noise after their pre-tournament fears became a reality when David Warner and Steve Smith were raucously jeered and, in Smith's case, subjected to chants of "cheat" during their opening World Cup clash against ...
NFC North quarterbacks are apparently locked in a battle to see who can chug a beer the fastest. All this stems from Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers reluctantly trying to down his beer at a Milwaukee Bucks playoff game. That led to a video ...
London - England may change a winning Cricket World Cup side by recalling fast bowler Mark Wood when they face Pakistan at Trent Bridge on Monday. The ground is renowned as a batsman's paradise, with England having twice set the world record for the ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Valentín Castellanos scored the tying goal with a 35-yard shot in the 76th minute and New York City FC held on for a 2-2 draw with the Columbus Crew on Saturday night. NYCFC (4-1-8) extended its unbeaten streak to an MLS-best nine ...
DENVER – We've been talking about the Toronto Blue Jays' pitching a lot lately. If you've been following along then you're well aware. Not good. But to be fair, they're not solely responsible for that dismal 7-21 May. The offence has been nearly as problematic ...
The pace has really picked up in Oil Country ever since Ken Holland was hired as the new General Manager. Those who loudly demanded wholesale change in the organization have largely gotten their wish. Managers, Coaches, Scouts and others have ...
WASHINGTON — Luciano Acosta scored a putback in the 67th minute and D.C. United finished with a 1-1 draw with the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night. Earthquakes goalkeeper Daniel Vega made some outstanding saves throughout the match, but ...
RICHMOND, Ky. (LEX 18) – Special Olympics athletes from all over the Bluegrass are at EKU this weekend for the 2019 summer games. Athletes ages 8 and older have been preparing to compete all year, and the younger kids even got a chance to join in on ...
Brotherly love was in full effect Friday at IG Field for a pair of Edmonton Eskimos. What was just another non-televised pre-season game in the Canadian Football League to many turned into a pretty memorable moment for Alex Taylor and Shai Ross.
There are some enticing Sunday AFL matches to cap off round 11, starting with St Kilda v Port Adelaide in Shanghai and the clash between Essendon and lowly Carlton at the MCG. Essendon's Dyson Heppell. Credit:AAP. In AFL news on Sunday, the failed ...
With the 2019 MLB Draft just around the corner, MLB Pipeline continues its coverage with a look at the best Draft prospect from each state. 2018 Draft. • Mocks: May 3 | May 9 | May 16 | May 23 | May 31; • Draft order | Bonus pools | Draft Central | Tracker; • Top ...
Could one of the Toronto Maple Leafs' veteran players be heading back to the Western Conference? Patrick Marleau, who spent the first 19 years of his NHL career with the San Jose Sharks, is said to be eyeing a return to a western team and has notified the ...
The Winnipeg Goldeyes lost 7-5 to the Sioux Falls Canaries at Sioux Falls Stadium on Saturday evening. Tied 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth, the Canaries scored six runs to take command of the game. Former Goldeye Jordan Ebert slugged a go-ahead, two-run ...
Australia's highly-rated bowling attack was patchy in their World Cup opener last night against a plucky Afghanistan line-up before their batsmen turned it on. The Australian bowlers had two periods where they were impressive and made inroads but also a ...
Aston Villa have released eight players before their return to the Premier League including defender Micah Richards and winger Albert Adomah. Former England international Richards, 30, had not played since October 2016. He joined Villa from Manchester ...
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