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The top players expected to be available in NHL free agency include an MVP candidate who might have the chance to go home and a veteran who flipped hi...

Some random thoughts from the past week: — Last Friday night, I was watching highlights on the MLB Network, waiting for the Dodgers-Cubs to start. The...

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia native Austin Hill claimed his second NASCAR Xfinity win of the season, leading an eight-car train across the line at Atla...

MONTREAL (AP) — Juraj Slafkovsky waited and wondered if the Montreal Canadiens would take him with the first pick in the NHL draft. When the moment ca...

Rather than tip his hand on who the Montreal Canadiens plan to select with the first pick in the NHL draft, general manager Kent Hughes joked they’ll ...

CLEVELAND — When the Yankees first got Clay Holmes from the Pirates, there was hardly a ripple of a reaction. The big right-hander had underwhelmed wi...

The first year of the athlete compensation era in college sports evolved into almost everything the NCAA didn’t want when it gave the green light last...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans had been told that their former quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massag...

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — Chase Elliott salvaged a crummy day for Hendrick Motorsports and interrupted a potential Toyota rout by winning the rain-drenche...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rob Gronkowski won’t be joining Tom Brady for a third season with the Buccaneers. The four-time All-Pro tight end announced his ret...

Some thoughts on two stories that broke Saturday. One was the retirement of Davidson basketball coach Bob McKillop. The other, curiously, was Bills Ha...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It was just one year ago that an aggravated Justin Marks sat at the podium at Nashville Superspeedway. Two days earlier, he’d c...

Greatest shooter ever. That’s what everyone has been calling Golden State’s Stephen Curry for years now, for obvious reasons. Nobody in the history of...

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said the Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland Athletics need to reach new ballpark deals soon and left open th...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Luke Gannon is playing in his first U.S. Open and had one of those moments that made him realize this was a stage unlike any o...

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Of all the surprising developments to ponder during this one-week break in a highly entertaining NASCAR Cup Series season, the e...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jocelyn Alo and Tiare Jennings put Oklahoma on the brink of a repeat national championship with their stellar play throughout the...

BOSTON (AP) — Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors have no problem playing on the road. The Celtics, meanwhile, haven’t been lights-out in Bost...

ST. ALBANS, England (AP) — The stars of the new Saudi-funded golf league tried to fend off concerns on Tuesday about human rights abuses and signing u...

OK, so it wasn’t the quality golf the PGA has spoiled us into expecting, but it was entertaining. Wednesday night’s “The Match” on TNT-TV paired a qua...