By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Rose, baseball's career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied, has died. He was 83. Stephanie Wheatley, a spokesperson for ...
By The Associated Press Nashville general manager Barry Trotz spent big this offseason and opened free agency looking to bolster the Predators' scoring depth and power play. He made all those moves after the Preds put together a franchise-record 18-game point streak in coach Andrew Brunette's ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The finger wag. The enormous smile. The unmistakable voice. Dikembe Mutombo played defense at a level and with a flair that few others in basketball history ever possessed, all among the many reasons why he's immortalized in the Hall of Fame. On the ...
By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani has put up some of the best regular-season numbers in baseball history over the past six months. Bobby Witt Jr. is a precocious 24-year-old who just won the American League batting title. They've both proven they are ...
By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants have hired former All-Star catcher Buster Posey as president of baseball operations and fired Farhan Zaidi. Team chairman Greg Johnson made the announcement Monday after the Giants finished 80-82 in ...
By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Tigers didn't act like a franchise poised to make a playoff run when the trade deadline arrived. Detroit dealt pitcher Jack Flaherty to the Los Angeles Dodgers, outfielder Mark Canha to San Francisco reliever Andrew Chafin and ...
By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Michael King made his postseason debut for the New York Yankees in the AL playoff bubble during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season at eerily empty Petco Park, where the only "fans" were a few thousand cardboard cutouts. He pitched two ...
By ANDREW WAGNER Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The New York Mets weren't supposed to get this far. Neither were the Milwaukee Brewers. Yet here they are squaring off in a best-of-three NL Wild Card Series beginning Tuesday in Milwaukee. These two teams should know each other well. ...
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — This was supposed to be the easy part of Cleveland's schedule — early, winnable games to get the Browns rolling. Everything has been hard for them. Their 20-16 loss Sunday to the Las Vegas Raiders, who were missing their two best ...
By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A matchup with the banged-up, struggling New England Patriots was just what the San Francisco 49ers needed following back-to-back losses on the road. That doesn't mean there wasn't plenty to clean up for the 49ers once the ...
By GENE CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press The rough times probably are not quite over for Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears' offense. But they're finally starting to see the combination of efficiency and explosiveness they anticipated after making numerous changes on the offensive side in ...
By The Associated Press The Boston Bruins' season could come down to how the negotiations with goalie Jeremy Swayman turn out. The restricted free agent is holding out for a new deal. He must sign by Dec. 1 or sit out the season. Joonas Korpisalo is the backup. The Bruins followed their ...
By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Four months after falling 11 games under .500, the New York Mets earned a playoff berth a day after the regular season was supposed to end. With a thrilling 8-7 win over the Atlanta Braves in the opener of a makeup doubleheader behind ...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins finished with 184 yards total offense in their 31-12 loss against the Tennessee Titans on Monday night. They scored a late touchdown that snapped a nine-quarter touchdown drought. The offensive misery continued as the Dolphins used their third ...
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin insists the Pittsburgh Steelers don't rely on a "rabbit's foot" to help them out when things get tight. "We come out of those circumstances because of what we do, not some mystical thing," Tomlin said last week. And what the ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the best defensive players in NBA history and a longtime global ambassador for the game, died Monday from brain cancer, the league announced. He was 58. His family revealed two years ago that ...
By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Doug Pederson insists he has no concerns about his job security. He should. Pederson is on the hook for Jacksonville's spiraling season, one that started with Jaguars owner Shad Khan telling players and coaches that this was ...
By The Associated Press Reaction to the death of Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, who died Monday from brain cancer. He was 58. ___ "I am deeply saddened to hear about Dikembe's passing. He was a defensive force on the court who changed the way the game of basketball is played. ...
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer UNLV's football program, which rarely finds itself in the national spotlight, found it twice in a week for reasons both bad and good. Last Tuesday, starting quarterback Matthew Sluka announced he would sit out the rest of the season because he ...
By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer The Major League Baseball playoffs are approaching and a Shohei Ohtani vs. Aaron Judge matchup in the World Series looms as an enticing October possibility. But first, the National League needs to get its waterlogged mess of a playoff race out of the ...