Year: 2022

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Matthew Stafford understands why the football world is still thinking about his throwing elbow. He followed up the Los Angeles Rams’ Super Bowl victory by not throwing in any offseason workouts, participating sparingly in training camp and sitting out all three preseason games. Stafford

By GEORGE HENRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Max Fried allowed no hits in five scoreless innings, Marcell Ozuna homered and the Atlanta Braves won their fifth straight in a rain-delayed game, 7-1 over the Miami Marlins. The defending World Series champion Braves have taken five in a row and 20 of 25 to

NEW YORK (AP) — No. 1 Iga Swiatek will try to make the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time when she plays unseeded Jule Niemeier. Niemeier did make the Wimbledon quarterfinals this year. Swiatek has yet to drop a set in the Open. Also scheduled to play Monday, No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal plays

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mets ace Max Scherzer said he was feeling fine Sunday, a day after he exited after a start after five innings because of fatigue on his left side. The three-time Cy Young Award winner remained on schedule to start Friday night for the NL East leaders at Miami. Scherzer

By DANA GAURUDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr.’s eighth-inning double brought in the go-ahead run and the Kansas City Royals edged the Detroit Tigers 3-2. MJ Melendez scored a run and drove in another while Michael A. Taylor had three hits and scored a run. Witt reached base three times. Winning pitcher

By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Albert Pujols hit his 695th career home run in the eighth inning and Miles Mikolas tossed eight scoreless innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0. Pujols is fifth on the all-time list behind Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees outfielder Andrew Benintendi has a broken bone in his right wrist that will need surgery, but manager Aaron Boone says he doesn’t know whether it is a season-ending injury. Boone revealed the diagnosis of a broken hook hamate bone after the AL East leaders beat Tampa Bay

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Scott McLaughlin finished a Team Penske route at Portland International Raceway by winning his third race of the season. Will Power, meanwhile, moved a step closer to a second IndyCar title with his second-place finish. Power heads into the season finale with a 20-point

By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Two individual errors from Roma players led to two goals and saw José Mourinho’s side slip to its first defeat in Serie A as it was surprisingly crushed 4-0 at Udinese. Roma defender Rick Karsdorp and goalkeeper Rui Patrício were at fault for the first two

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Carlos Correa homered for Minnesota and Dylan Bundy shut down Chicago once again, leading the Twins to a 5-1 victory over the White Sox. Correa hit a two-run drive to left-center off Lucas Giolito for his 16th homer. Bundy pitched five scoreless innings to improve to

HERNING, Denmark (AP) — Brianne Jenner scored twice in the second period and Canada defended its title with a 2-1 win over the United States in the women’s world hockey championship final. Ann-Renée Desbiens made 20 saves for Canada, which won gold in a third major international event in the span of a year. Abby

By JERRY BEACH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — César Hernández hit his first homer in more than a year, delivering the exclamation point on the Washington Nationals’ 7-1 win over the New York Mets. The last-place Nationals also beat the NL East leaders 7-1 on Saturday night, and took two of three in the

By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley didn’t want her players in line for possible verbal abuse at BYU and chose to call off the schools’ home-and-home series. Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson said she was subjected to racial slurs in a match at BYU. Staley said

TODD KARPOVICH Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Seth Brown hit a pair of solo homers, rookie Adrián Martínez threw six innings of three-hit ball and the Oakland Athletics stalled the Baltimore Orioles playoff surge with a 5-0 victory on Sunday. The Orioles, who snapped a four-game winning streak, fell 2 1/2 games behind Toronto in

DENTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has declared a mistrial in the child sex assault case against former All-Star and World Series MVP pitcher John Wetteland after the jury deadlocked. The Denton County jury told Judge Lee Ann Breading three times that it was split before she declared a mistrial Friday. Wetteland, who played

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — McLaren is supporting Colton Herta’s push to receive an exemption to compete in Formula One next season. It comes as Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko says a deal is in place to bring the American to the grid. Marko says any deal would be