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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers spent $325 million and won the bidding war last winter for Yoshinobu Yamamoto and will trust him in their biggest game of the season on Friday. Manager Dave Roberts wasn’t ready to…

The Detroit Tigers clubhouse was dead silent. The room felt empty, like all the air was left out of a balloon after the Cleveland Guardians beat the Tigers, 5-4, in Game 4 of the American…

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — When Courtney Williams signed as a free agent with Minnesota in February, the ninth-year guard knew she’d have to tweak her game, and focus on passing more than scoring.   After…

DETROIT — Back to Cleveland they go. For one more game. Winner takes all. The Cleveland Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers, 5-4, on Thursday night in Game 4 of the ALDS, tying the series and setting…

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — The WNBA is more popular and in demand than ever, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Thursday before Game 1 of the Finals between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx — and…

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders was glad to leave the Pac-12 Conference this year because he thought it would mean earlier start times against teams in his team’s new conference, the Big 12. “Who does…

BROOKLYN, New York — Shortly before the New York Liberty learned they’d be playing the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA Finals, Sabrina Ionescu said of the Liberty’s accomplishments — reaching back-to-back Finals — “I don’t…

Time and healing.  That’s the reality check when it comes to the status of Russell Wilson. The veteran quarterback was a full participant in a Pittsburgh Steelers practice for the first time in weeks on…

We will never know all the ways Rafael Nadal had to stretch and massage and manipulate his body, how much pain medication he had to take and how much torture he had to endure to…

The Golden State Valkyries, one of three new franchises in the WNBA, named Natalie Nakase as the team’s first head coach during a news conference Thursday. Nakase comes from the Las Vegas Aces, where she…