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MIAMI — Zeek Biggers’ calves are the size of tree trunks, and they’re needed to hold up his 6-foot-6, 320-pound frame, which based on my Lasik-assisted eyes might be a conservative weight listing.

Probably a weight ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The business of sports often is cloaked in secrecy. You can find out the salary of your favorite player, but how much money his team makes and how much money he makes off the field are the stuff of ...Read more

MIAMI — Pat Riley entered the room Friday afternoon in a blue sports jacket, salmon shirt and silver-fox hair that, as usual, provided stylish cover for the street fighter underneath.

“How many of you were born after...Read more

PITTSBURGH — A few times per month, sometimes without warning, Nate Mahon will look down at his phone and see Kaleb Johnson on the other end, the new Steelers running back eager to FaceTime with Mahon's three kids.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Just when the Angels’ hitters were starting show some signs of life, Tomoyuki Sugano showed up and shut them down.

After scoring 18 runs in the previous three games and providing some hope that their...Read more

DENVER — Nikola Jokic found his seat on the bench and bellowed at the rafters of his building, the one he has transformed into a temple that worships him.

The agony of his missed buzzer-beater opportunity was doubled by...Read more

PHOENIX — The roof was open. The air was hot. And in a stadium already known as a hitter’s paradise, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks teed off on each other in a Chase Field classic.

There were lead ...Read more

Jasson Domínguez made New York Yankees history.

In Friday night’s 10-2 win over the A’s in West Sacramento, Domínguez became the youngest player in franchise history to hit three home runs in a game, according to ...Read more

SEATTLE — There were fewer neighbors from north of the 49th parallel inside T-Mobile Park on Friday night.

They were still the ones left cheering the most at the end.

While it wasn’t a full-on takeover of the ...Read more

It took until the top of the 11th inning, but the Red Sox were finally able to scratch across the game’s first run.

Yet as has become so often the case recently, the bullpen couldn’t hold the lead.

Garrett Whitlock ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In his first look as a visitor in the ballpark he called home for the first six years of his big league career, Erick Fedde did what he never had as a Washington National.

And he did not stop there.

Fedde ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The plan was for the Rays to be opportunistic on offense this season.

Not sure if this was exactly what they had in mind, but no one was complaining in the Tampa Bay clubhouse.

The Rays went 0 for 11 with...Read more

CLEVELAND — Bryce Harper and Trea Turner stood there, 127 feet apart, helmets in their hands, on opposite ends of a double play.

It was the fifth inning Friday night, and Turner thought he would try to make something ...Read more

Jameson Taillon hadn’t given up a home run to a left-handed hitter all season until he came to Citi Field on Friday night and proceeded to give one up to the first hitter he faced.

The Mets hit four home runs in a 7-2 ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Chris Paddack watched Christian Koss line a single into center field with two outs in the sixth inning Friday, and he grabbed the bill of his cap.

In a way, it was a salute to himself. Paddack was perfect ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Baseball introduced interleague play in 1997, and it took until 2003 for the Twins to take on the San Francisco Giants. The series was played at the start of June in what was then named Pac Bell Park, the ...Read more

CHICAGO — While enjoying a pregame beverage at Cork & Kerry at the Park before Friday night’s White Sox game, Laronna Woolf checked out her favorite Pope Leo XIV memes on her phone.

Woolf, a Sox fan from St. John’s,...Read more

NEW YORK — The Villanova Wildcats are now proudly represented in Manhattan and Vatican City.

After Thursday’s Conclave in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, the world learned that the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, formerly...Read more