With less than a month left in the WNBA regular season, the Minnesota Lynx have a firm lock on the top seed in the playoffs. The rest of the postseason picture is still up in the air, with more than half the league jockeying for positioning. Minnesota has looked like the best team all season […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open overhauled its mixed doubles tournament in hopes of drawing the top singles players. The defending champions don’t intend to move out of the way so easily. Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori earned the first win in the tournament, beating the No. 2-seeded team of Taylor Fritz and Elena […]
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton will return to the New York Yankees’ lineup Tuesday night after missing three games with what the team described as general soreness, Florida manager Aaron Boone told radio station WFAN. Stanton will play right field in one of the two games against the Tampa Bay Rays, but Aaron Judge is […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner pulled out of the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament shortly before it began on Tuesday, a day after he quit in the first set of the Cincinnati Open final because he was feeling ill. The No. 1-ranked Sinner, the defending champion in singles at Flushing Meadows, was supposed to […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Daniel Jones chose the Indianapolis Colts because he wanted a chance to prove he could still be a starting NFL quarterback. The gamble paid off Tuesday when coach Shane Steichen announced that Jones would start the Sept. 7 season opener against Miami, beating out Anthony Richardson, who just two years ago was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner pulled out of the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament shortly before it began on Tuesday, a day after he quit in the first set of the Cincinnati Open final because he was feeling ill. The No. 1-ranked Sinner, the defending champion in singles at Flushing Meadows, was supposed to […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Trump National Doral is back on the PGA Tour schedule next year as a signature event that is sure to test how often the top golfers want to play during an extraordinary spring of five big tournaments in a six-week stretch. Doral long was considered the start of the Florida swing, a […]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Noah Lyles was “super excited” Tuesday about his progress toward defending his 100 and 200 meters titles at track and field’s world championships next month. The Paris Olympics 100-meter champion lost weeks of training to an unspecified injury in April and ran his first sub-10 seconds time this season on Saturday […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Larry Nance Jr. is going to shed some light on why so Florida many NBA players have become big fans of international soccer. The Cleveland Cavaliers forward has teamed up with the Men in Blazers Media Network to launch a digital show called “Switch the Play,” a weekly program that will feature those […]
The pressure is on several big-name NFL players as they enter a season that will go a long way toward determining their playing futures — and possibly that of their teams. New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields is getting another chance as a starter on his third team in five years, this time looking to […]