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ARLINGTON, Texas — Caitlin Clark’s first game as a pro went like her last games as a collegian. Disregard the age of the opponent, she’s the best player on the floor, in a packed arena.

On Friday night at the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon you’re talking real money. The late Sen. Everett Dirksen may not have said exactly that, but he repeatedly raised that concern about spending tax dollars.

For ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Having preached against The Process for these 11 years, it delivers me no small measure of delight when the Sixers inevitably falter every spring. Losing on purpose to game the system created a culture of ...Read more

Say this for Odell Beckham Jr.: He makes everything more interesting. He gives this Miami Dolphins offense added options.

He doesn’t have the electricity of his New York Giants youth. Nor does he come with the burdened ...Read more

After she was selected with the No. 14 pick in the 2024 WNBA draft, with dozens of cameras and microphones focused on her every word, an emotional Nika Muhl was brought back to hours and hours spent last summer at the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As much as it pained Kyle Snyder to see Tyler Glasnow traded from Tampa Bay to the Los Angeles Dodgers last December, the Rays pitching coach predicted the move would benefit the 6-foot-8 right-hander from ...Read more

DENVER — Anthony Edwards is the future, and the evolution was televised Saturday night.

The Nuggets lost for only the second time in their past 15 home playoff games, dropping the opener, 106-99, in the Western ...Read more

PHOENIX — Luis Arraez arrived at Chase Field about 90 minutes before he took his first swing in a game and got his first hit for the Padres.

He led off and was their designated hitter and went about being the ...Read more

HOUSTON — As he walked off the mound after the eighth inning and approached the visitors’ dugout, Mariners starter Logan Gilbert knew the answer before he even made the request.

“One more,” Gilbert asked Scott ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Bruins coach Jim Montgomery described goaltender Jeremy Swayman as a difference maker.

Savior would have been a more accurate description.

Swayman made 30 saves to lead the Bruins to a 2-1 overtime ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It was “Star Wars” night at Kauffman Stadium, as fans arrived dressed as their favorite characters of the movie franchise.

The Royals, who have operated at lightspeed with this season’s rebuild ...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Rookie Austin Shenton worked a 10-pitch, two-out, bases-loaded walk — the first of two in the bottom of the eighth inning — to break a logjam, and the Rays scraped together enough offense to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It was a strange night. Saturday’s Phillies-Giants game started over an hour late due to rain. Players had trouble fielding the ball and pitchers had trouble gripping it. The grounds crew came out to ...Read more

Last year's playoff between the Timberwolves and Nuggets ended with Anthony Edwards missing a shot and tossing a chair.

This year's series between the teams began with Edwards making every kind of shot and suggesting he'...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals stranded the bases loaded in the 10th inning after rain paused the game for 3 hours and 3 minutes in the middle of what ended up being the final at-bat of the game.

Heavy rain accompanied by ...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For the 150th renewal, you could not have asked for a more thrilling Kentucky Derby.

Trained by Lexingtonian Kenny McPeek, Mystik Dan edged hard-charging $2.3 million colt Sierra Leone and Japanese ...Read more

CINCINNATI — A little more than two weeks ago, John Means couldn’t even make it out of the first inning in Triple-A.

The veteran left-hander allowed five runs on five hits — two of which were homers — in a minor ...Read more

DENVER — Foul trouble is rarely a blessing in disguise.

It helped the Timberwolves steal a road game in the first chapter of what’s sure to be a bitterly competitive series.

NBA Sixth Man of the Year Naz Reid entered...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The margin was a nose but the smiles were a mile wide. In one of the closest finishes in almost 30 years, Mystik Dan won the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby.

The horse was generally overlooked by ...Read more