Even though the Yankees have locked up home-field advantage through the American League playoffs, some disappointment was allowed to seep in late Sunday night when the Red Sox salvaged a split of a day-night doubleheader and beat them, 7-4, in 14 innings, on Jacoby Ellsbury’s three-run home run. As David Caldwell writes in his game story ...
The lockout has started doing real damage to the NBA’s calendar.Players won’t report at the usual time. The preseason won’t start as scheduled. And more cancellations could be necessary without a new labor deal soon. Out of time to keep everything intact, the NBA postponed training camps indefinitely and canceled 43 preseason games yesterday because it has ...
Elvis Andrus took a home run trot at Rangers Ballpark, cheering a ball that landed 1,400 miles away. Prince Fielder enjoyed a victory lap at Miller Park, hugging fans along the way. Kirk Gibson pumped his fist at Chase Field, celebrating while the crowd chanted his name.All over baseball, it was one big wrap party. The ...
Jacoby Ellsbury hit an inside-the-park homer in the seventh, and former A's player Conor Jackson, facing right, had a grand slam in the same inning to cap Boston's offensive outburst Monday night. The win gave the Red Sox a doubleheader split and stopped, at least for now, their slide in the AL wild-card race. The Red ...
Jeremy Hellickson threw 5 2/3 strong innings, and the Rays homered off three different Red Sox pitchers Thursday in the opener of a four-game set to move three games behind Boston in the American League wild-card race. The Angels lurk one game behind Tampa Bay for the wild-card, while the Red Sox, 3-11 this month, have ...
Spanish world number two Rafa Nadal will play France's Richard Gasquet in the opening singles rubber of their Davis Cup semi-final on Friday, it was decided at Thursday's draw. Nadal's participation in the best-of-five tie on clay in Cordoba had been in doubt after he lost a grueling U.S. Open final to number one Novak Djokovic ...
Mariano Rivera earned his 600th save, moving within one of Trevor Hoffman's major league record, by closing out the New York Yankees' 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.Rivera entered with a one-run lead in the ninth inning and allowed just a one-out single to Ichiro Suzuki. He was retired when catcher Russell ...
If prize money is the measuring stick, Novak Djokovic’s magnificent season is already the best in men’s tennis history — $10.6 million earned and more than two months of paydays still to come.But what if results are the measuring stick? John McEnroe said on CBS that Djokovic was having “the greatest year in the history of ...
Hopes for a new Broncos season quickly rinsed and cycled into alibis as their only hope. If the Broncos had not been so physically whipped up front, it would be easy to blame their 23-20 loss to the Oakland Raiders in the season opener Monday night on a slip of Kyle Orton's hand. The truth is, the ...
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