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DETROIT — Kerby Joseph isn’t going anywhere.

The Detroit Lions on Wednesday agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $86 million with the All-Pro safety, a source confirmed to The Detroit News. The guaranteed ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers cannot have the home-run draft they need without nailing their first-round pick, scheduled to be No. 11 on Thursday.

The plan is to take a defensive lineman. An interior ...Read more

NEW YORK — This is Joe Schoen’s fourth NFL draft as Giants GM. And it could be his last if he doesn’t get it right.

Those are the stakes for a regime that failed so badly last season, they made the skies over ...Read more

Welcome to the first round of the NFL draft — and for once, everyone is invited.

Each NFL team still has its original first-round pick — no trades at the top so far — which means for the first time in the 32-team ...Read more

ATLANTA — A bruising road trip was five outs away from an uplifting finish for the Cardinals, but then finishes haven’t really been the Cardinals’ bailiwick this season.

Hounded all road trip by leaks in the bullpen...Read more

NEW YORK — Just when it looked like the Mets’ luck was about to run out, they did the unthinkable once again.

Down 3-2 in the bottom of the 10th inning after Edwin Diaz gave up an RBI single to Nick Castellanos in the...Read more

Batting average doesn’t carry the same weight it once did, but the Yankees have to be happy that two of their own lead the majors in that category.

That would be Aaron Judge and Paul Goldschmidt, who continued to rack ...Read more

DETROIT — You know when managers talk about efficient pitching performances?

This is what they’re talking about.

Reese Olson put on a master class in strike-zone domination Wednesday, helping the Detroit Tigers win ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There, there. All better.

The Lakers recovered from a knee scrape of a playoff opener Tuesday to leap up and kick the stunned Minnesota Timberwolves in the teeth.

Now, now. That wasn't so hard, was it?

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LOS ANGELES — Already planned for an early kickoff to Week 1 in Brazil, the Chargers will get an early start to their preseason too when they face the Detroit Lions in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, the NFL ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Churchill Downs on Wednesday announced that the Kentucky racetrack, soon to host the annual Kentucky Derby, is pausing a major expansion due to President Trump’s tariffs and overall economic ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — As the draft approaches Thursday, I do not understand the general indifference in Philadelphia surrounding the possibility of the Eagles trading Dallas Goedert. He is an elite tight end as both a receiver ...Read more

Part of my mock draft preamble explains it is an attempt at figuring out the best players available in this season’s draft class, and which teams they’d match up well with considering the draft order. The closer we get...Read more

NEW YORK — Karl-Anthony Towns went to the Western Conference finals last season. In fact, he elevated his level of play on the brink of elimination for the Minnesota Timberwolves, scoring 25 points on 13 shots in a win-...Read more

ATLANTA — And so we come to another juncture in the meandering journey of the Hawks franchise, unencumbered by a championship banner in the entirety of its 57-season Atlanta existence, with the same question at hand:

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Vikings have the 24th pick in the draft with which to supplement a strong roster.

What should they do?

I’m not going to throw out a bunch of names. When you pick that low in the first round, and don...Read more

MIAMI — By the numbers, this week marks the 90th NFL draft, the 60th for the Miami Dolphins and my 34th annual official Miami Herald mock draft. I did not invent the mock draft — gridiron historians credit late super-...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — At home games, Bailey Falter’s walkout song is ‘60s classic “California Dreamin’.”

In the Pirates’ first 2025 game in California, the SoCal starter got the sort of run support Pirates ...Read more