HOUSTON (AP) — Yuli Gurriel and Alex Bregman homered to back up a solid start by Gerrit Cole in his first meeting against his former team, and the Houston Astros got a 5-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.
Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford, a three-time Stanley Cup champion, was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame Tuesday in the builders’ category.
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Brooks Orpik called it a career Tuesday after 15 bruising NHL seasons in which he established himself as a big-hitting, shutdown defenseman and won the Stanley Cup twice.
The Wild Things had self-destructed in so many ways during their rocky start to the Frontier League season but the one collapse they had avoided was ninth-inning suicide.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The Milwaukee Bucks fell two games short of the NBA Finals.
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SONOMA, Calif. – Matt DiBenedetto drove his way into the NASCAR Cup Series with meager funding and no glossy racing pedigree. He has spent 4 ½ years circling tracks in the back of the pack, attempting to will his underperforming, underfunded cars to unlikely results.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alex Rodriguez had to make some adjustments when he switched from shortstop to third base after signing with the New York Yankees. He is having the same type of learning curve as a game analyst.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have invited 41 players to their annual prospect development camp, which will be held Wednesday through Friday at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry.
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Washington wins its sixth consecutive road game and sweeps the Windy City ThunderBolts.
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George Halas wanted an NFL team in Dallas, and in 1960, the influential founder of the Chicago Bears helped Clint Murchison get one.
CRESTWOOD, Ill. – Nick Wegmann and three relievers combined on a three-hit shutout and Cameron Baranek smacked a three-run homer as the surging Wild Things blanked the Windy City ThunderBolts 7-0 Saturday night.
Mike Tomlin‘s contract situation is one that leaves few people sitting on the fence. People think either Tomlin is doing a good job or he’s long past his expiration date and should have been fired.
Washington uses eight extra-base hits, including three triples, to win series opener.
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After a winding career, Chartiers Valley's Josh Lapiana has firmly entrenched himself in the Wild Things' bullpen.
Washington uses a big third inning to defeat visiting Evansville in a rain-shortened game Wednesday night.
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Matt Niskanen wasn’t totally shocked when the Washington Capitals traded him to Philadelphia last week.
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The Memphis Grizzlies traded away the final piece of the franchise’s best years on Wednesday, sending veteran point guard Mike Conley to the Utah Jazz for a trio of players, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
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Erik Karlsson had no wanderlust to test the free agent market before re-signing in San Jose.
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Washington's steady bullpen lets one slip to Evansville.
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INDIANAPOLIS – The NFL’s top medical experts are asking college football physicians and trainers to help make the game safer.
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PARIS – French police investigating whether corruption played a role in the stunning decision to award the 2022 World Cup to the desert nation of Qatar took former soccer superstar and top executive Michel Platini into custody Tuesday for questioning.
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IRVINE, Calif. – Dallas Eakins spent the past four years developing the Anaheim Ducks’ top prospects in San Diego and preparing himself for another NHL head coaching opportunity.
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MIAMI — Josh Bell padded his NL-leading RBI total and helped the Pittsburgh Pirates to a series-clinching victory.
Washington responds to longest losing streak of season with a three-game sweep over Joliet.
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Jonathan Toews says he just wants his contract to be worth what it says on paper.
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PARIS – Carli Lloyd is not accepting her new role. Not at all.
The next time we see the Steelers, they’ll be checking into Saint Vincent College for training camp. And, if the past couple of months shows anything, the next time we hear anything from the Steelers, it will be around the same time.
The Washington Wild Things scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning to rally past the Joliet Slammers 5-3 in a Frontier League game Saturday night.
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ST. LOUIS – It rained on the Blues’ parade, but nobody seemed to mind.
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MIAMI – Steven Brault scattered eight hits over six innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates stopping a seven-game slide by routing the Miami Marlins 11-0 on Friday night.
Mikael Mogues and Cameron Baranek each cracked a three-run home run as the Washington Wild Things routed the Joliet Slammers, 12-0, in a Frontier League game Friday night.
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NEWTON, Iowa – Ross Chastain seems like the busiest driver in NASCAR.
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OAKLAND, Calif. – NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is expected to open next week’s draft by announcing that Zion Williamson is the No. 1 overall selection headed to New Orleans. And four months after that, Silver will be in Toronto on opening night to help the Raptors hand out championship rings…
The Southern Illinois Miners scored eight runs in the second inning to put away the Washington Wild Things, 8-3, Thursday in a Frontier League game.
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ATLANTA – One year after he was left off Atlanta’s postseason rotation, Julio Teheran has re-emerged as a reliable leader on a young staff.
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ST. LOUIS – At age 100, Marge Kirchhoefer is among the oldest St. Louis Blues fans and now that they are Stanley Cup champions, she knows exactly how she will celebrate.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) – U.S. prosecutors said Thursday that one suspect in the shooting of former Red Sox superstar David Ortiz is believed to be wanted in Pennsylvania for attempted homicide, while the father of another suspect said that his son belongs to a notorious Domin…
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PARIS – The U.S. national team’s 13-0 rout of Thailand did more than expose vast differences between two teams, it highlighted the overall inequality in the Women’s World Cup field.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Three-time NBA All-Star Kemba Walker said he would consider taking less money than he is eligible to make to stay with the Charlotte Hornets if that means helping them build a winning team.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Some gambling and technology executives say 90% of sports betting in the United States will be done over mobile phones or the internet in the next five to 10 years.
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BOSTON (AP) — St. Louis goalie Jordan Binnington was waiting patiently, as NHL rookies learn to do, while the Stanley Cup was passed from teammate to teammate across the recently conquered ice of the new Boston Garden.
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PITTSBURGH – Josh Dobbs did all the right things last summer, or at least enough of them for the Pittsburgh Steelers to cut veteran backup quarterback Landry Jones at the end of the preseason and promote Dobbs to the spot behind Ben Roethlisberger.
Former Wild Things pitcher Chase Cunningham shines in start against former team.
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PITTSBURGH – Shaun Sarrett wants to set something straight about the origin of his “Sweet Feet” nickname. It has nothing to do with boxing, Golden Gloves or otherwise. No matter what the members of the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line seem to think.
Southern Illinois scored one run in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to rally for a 3-2 victory over the Washington Wild Things in a Frontier League game Tuesday night.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Beloved in his hometown, David Ortíz traveled the dangerous streets of Santo Domingo with little or no security, trusting in his fans to protect him.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a grand slam, Ozzie Albies added two homers and the Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh 13-7 on Monday night after Pirates starter Joe Musgrove was ejected in a first-inning fracas.
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – The stage is set for what should be the ideal U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, perhaps the most popular of all U.S. Open courses with its magnificent Pacific coastline and small greens, with its history of high drama and great champions.
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PARIS (AP) — This time, about a month out, even Rafael Nadal had his doubts about what his chances were going to be for yet another French Open title.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Doctors removed David Ortiz’s gallbladder and part of his intestine after the beloved former Boston Red Sox slugger known as Big Papi was ambushed by a gunman at a bar in his native Dominican Republic, a spokesman said Monday.
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A second-inning grand slam by the No. 9 hitter in Florence's lineup sends Washington to a 4-3 defeat.
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MILWAUKEE – Mike Moustakas launched a homer that won a new car for a fan, NL MVP Christian Yelich hit his major-league leading 24th home run on his bobblehead day and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Sunday for a three-game sweep.
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TORONTO – The word of the day Sunday that best summed up the NBA Finals was “yet.”
PARIS – For a few, fleeting moments Sunday, Rafael Nadal found his French Open supremacy seemingly threatened by Dominic Thiem, a younger, talented opponent challenging him in the final for the second consecutive year.
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MILWAUKEE – It wasn’t pretty, but Zach Davies did something Saturday that no other starting pitcher in Milwaukee Brewers history had done before.
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NEW YORK – Sir Winston provided a perfect finish to a crazy Triple Crown.
The Steelers made it through their 10 OTA practices without a major injury, incident or distraction.
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