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Phillies rally for 8-6 win vs. Royals, reduce NL East-clinching magic number to just one
PHILADELPHIA — Just before Kyle Schwarber came up to the plate in the fifth inning on Saturday and launched a game-tying home run against the Royals, over in Queens, the Mets were collapsing against the Texas Rangers.
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Dieter Kurtenbach: The Bob Show -- DC Robert Saleh is here to save the 49ers' season
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The plan, like so many plans in life, was fanciful, intricate, and doomed.
The 49ers had it all mapped out. Their young defense, littered with baby faces, would undergo a baptism by fire. It would ...Read more
Mike Vorel: Playoff series vs. Aces may decide future for Storm core, Noelle Quinn
SEATTLE — There are six names and faces on the side of the Seattle Storm Center for Basketball Performance in Interbay, a not-so-subtle clue to the team’s current core. They are listed, one by one, on vertical banners ...Read more
Mets' bullpen implosion squanders Brandon Sproat's gem vs. Rangers as losing streak reaches 8
NEW YORK — The future may look bright for the Mets, but the present continues to get more and more bleak.
The Mets got six scoreless innings from standout rookie Brandon Sproat on Saturday in his second career start, ...Read more
Tigers cough up lead to Marlins in 11th, lose on walk-off homer
MIAMI — This one will leave a mark.
A double by Wenceel Perez in the top of the 11th broke the 3-3 tie. But the Tigers had the bases loaded and no outs and didn't push another run across.
And they paid for it. Troy ...Read more
Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. closes in on 30-30 in series-securing win over Red Sox
BOSTON — Of all the pitchers with at least 10 starts against the Yankees in the last 25 years, no one had a better ERA against the Bombers than Brayan Bello.
The Red Sox righty entered Saturday’s game with a 1.95 mark...Read more
Bubba Chandler's no-hit bid, Andrew McCutchen's 2-run single lead Pirates to streak-snapping win vs. Nationals
In the last seven games — and all season, really — the Pirates have been hurt by an inability to get runners in, come up with one big hit and capitalize on strong starting pitching.
On Saturday afternoon against the ...Read more
Orioles suffer 5-4 walk-off loss to Blue Jays as Yennier Cano blows save
TORONTO — The Baltimore Orioles needed four relievers to get nine outs.
The fourth couldn’t get the final two.
With a two-run lead, Yennier Cano entered with one runner on and one out in the ninth inning and allowed ...Read more
NFL DFS Week 2 optimal lineup
Last week was about not knowing what we didn’t know. This week is about not overreacting.
This week boils down to a simple choice.
Fade what happened in Week 1 or treat it like an opening salvo of what will eventually ...Read more
Valkyries lean on veteran experience ahead of first playoff game
MINNEAPOLIS — The Golden State Valkyries are new to the postseason stage, but their veterans are not.
As the expansion team prepares for its first ever playoff game against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday, it will be ...Read more
Falcons leave kicker Younghoe Koo at home, will go with Parker Romo
MINNEAPOLIS — Kicker Younghoe Koo will not travel with the team for the Falcons’ game against the Vikings at 8:20 p.m. Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium, the Falcons announced Saturday.
The team elevated kicker Parker Romo ...Read more
Adam Hill: Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford fight could be historical moment for boxing
LAS VEGAS — The massive impact that the megafight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford at Allegiant Stadium on Saturday night could have on boxing is unquestionable, but at least one person appeared to have heard ...Read more
BetMGM bettor wagers $2M on Canelo-Crawford megafight
LAS VEGAS — Terence Crawford has never lost a fight in his 17-year professional boxing career, and one bettor is wagering seven figures that he will stay undefeated in Saturday night’s megafight against Canelo Alvarez ...Read more
Rays rally to beat Cubs on late HRs by Junior Caminero, Nick Fortes
CHICAGO — Saturday was looking like another one of those kinds of days for the Tampa Bay Rays.
They rallied from an early three-run deficit only to see arguably their best reliever, Garrett Cleavinger, give up a two-out...Read more
Source: Patriots trading former 2nd-round pick Ja'Lynn Polk to Saints in pick-swap deal
The Patriots are trading wide receiver Ja’Lynn Polk and a 2028 seventh-round pick to the Saints for a 2027 sixth-rounder, a source confirmed to the Boston Herald’s Doug Kyed.
Polk was placed on season-ending injured ...Read more
No time for sentiment in Ben Johnson's return to Detroit as Bears and Lions look to avoid 0-2 start
CHICAGO — The phone rang in the days after Ben Johnson left the Detroit Lions to take the Chicago Bears head coaching job.
Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown documented it with his brother Equanimeous on their ...Read more
Vahe Gregorian: Why Chiefs-Eagles Super Bowl rematch is about something more for Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First, some perspective courtesy of the wisdom and wit of former Chiefs coach Marv Levy.
The coach who turned 100 last month perhaps is best known for guiding Buffalo to four straight Super Bowls and,...Read more
Jim Harbaugh can thank Al Davis and Raiders for starting him on his Chargers path
Jim Harbaugh didn’t know if he was coming or going.
Exhausted to the point of collapse and parked in the driveway of his Oakland Hills home, he briefly allowed himself to close his eyes — was it for a minute? An hour?...Read more
Kyle Schwarber's bet on himself paid off. And how he did it boosts his value -- even as a DH
Six months ago, before Kyle Schwarber went for his first lap around the bases this season, his agents had talks with the Phillies about a contract extension.
“Obviously,” Schwarber said in July, “they didn’t ...Read more
Can the Dodgers fix their ailing offense? It starts with better health -- and team at-bats
To Andrew Friedman, something like this was a virtual impossibility.
“If you had said that we would have a six-week stretch where our offense would rank 30th in baseball, I would have said there was a zero percent ...Read more
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