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ATLANTA — Steve Bartkowski’s reaction to how the Falcons used their first-round draft pick probably was a little bit like yours.

“Like most NFL fans and people who track it, kind of a head scratcher,” the Falcons ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jerry has finally found something that he can’t sell, spin or market. Unless you are related to him, no one is buying this latest move.

The standard optimism and curiosity from the NFL draft wasn�...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time in the Brett Veach general manager tenure, the Chiefs led their draft with back-to-back players who reside on the same side of the football as Patrick Mahomes.

The timing isn’t ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Every discussion about Steven Stamkos seems to revolve around the same inquiry:

How much can the Lightning afford to pay him?

It’s the obvious question. The team has salary cap problems, Stamkos gave ...Read more

Who’s next?

Well, the Mariners still have one more game left in this homestand and the chance to sweep the Atlanta Braves.

But with their 3-2 victory Tuesday night T-Mobile Park, they secured a series win over the ...Read more

As Yu Darvish rocked and fired through his warm-up pitches, a beat plenty familiar to Nick Martinez poured into Petco Park. Bakermat’s “Baiana” had been Martinez’s warm-up song of choice both years in San Diego. ...Read more

OAKLAND — JJ Bleday hit a pair of home runs and the Athletics bullpen did what it’s done all season Tuesday night in a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Bleday hit a solo home run in the fifth and two-run shot ...Read more

WINNIPEG — Mikko Rantanen found a stick he liked, and shot the Colorado Avalanche into the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The Winnipeg Jets played their best game of the series facing elimination, but the Avs...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Nick Castellanos had barely finished his swing when he took his right hand off the bat and pointed to right field.

Castellanos got it.

And he knew it.

Two outs from a second consecutive loss at Angel...Read more

Giants ace Logan Webb entered Fenway Park with an MLB-best streak of 19 scoreless innings. That stretch quickly ended Tuesday night, and another began: the Red Sox scored a single run in each of the first four innings to ...Read more

NEW YORK — As it turns out, the reports of the Sixers’ death were greatly exaggerated.

Surely, the reports were only premature — it’s got to end badly sooner or later — but they’re not dead yet.

Not as long ...Read more

NEW YORK — Three of the four runs the Mets scored Tuesday night were unearned, but earned or not, they still counted.

The Mets evened the series with the Chicago Cubs with a 4-2 win Tuesday night at Citi Field, with DJ ...Read more

DETROIT — The Tigers mustered one run in the first game Tuesday, spoiling a 14-strikeout performance by Jack Flaherty.

But in Game 2, the bats came alive.

Switch-hitting rookie Wenceel Perez hit home runs from each ...Read more

BOSTON — Here we go again.

With a golden chance to put the Auston Matthews-less Toronto Maple Leafs away for another season in Game 5 at TD Garden on Tuesday, the Bruins lost to the Leafs in overtime, 2-1.

Sound ...Read more

Leave it to the Rockies to ruin a couple of storybook stories.

In one of the worst meltdowns in recent memory, the Rockies blew a 5-0 lead in the ninth inning and lost, 7-6, to the Marlins in 10 innings Tuesday night at ...Read more

NEW YORK — Joel Embiid dove for the loose ball. Nick Nurse called timeout. And a crowd at Madison Square Garden that has spent so much of this first-round playoff series in a frenzy quietly began to file for the exits.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — On to the second round.

The Carolina Hurricanes ignited for two goals in eight seconds in the third period Tuesday in taking a 6-3 victory over the New York Islanders to clinch the first-round Eastern ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The Rays went down again, 8-2, on Tuesday, but not without a fight.

Jose Siri was in the center of the action for the Rays throughout the night, capped by the benches clearing in the eighth.

First, he hit a...Read more

CHICAGO — The Twins had two runners thrown out on the basepaths, committed a costly error and saw a reliever give up a game-tying homer in the eighth inning.

Despite the Twins making life more difficult for themselves ...Read more