SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds will be getting a statue outside the San Francisco Giants' home stadium where he set baseball's career home run record, the team's CEO said Thursday. Giants President and Chief Executive Officer Larry Baer was asked during a radio interview about a statue for ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Cam Smith hit an RBI single in the eighth inning to give the Houston Astros a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday. The rookie's second hit of the game came off Orion Kerkering (5-3) and gave the Astros their fourth straight win. Brandon Marsh tied the game on a ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vinícius Júnior scored a goal and assisted on another in Real Madrid's 3-0 win over Salzburg on Thursday night that secured the Spanish powerhouse first place in the Club World Cup's Group H and a spot in the round of 16. Vinícius gave the 64,811 soaking wet fans at ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Daniel Svensson scored in the 36th minute to lead Borussia Dortmund over Ulsan 1-0 on Wednesday and into the second round of the Club World Cup. After a giveaway by Ulsan on a poor pass near its own goal, Jobe Bellingham centered to Svensson, who took a touch and beat ...
DENVER (AP) — Clayton Kershaw struck out five to inch closer to 3,000, Shohei Ohtani hit his 28th home run, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 3-1 on Thursday. Kershaw (4-0) struck out five in six innings for his fourth straight win and has 2,997 strikeouts over his ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kevin Gausman threw eight innings of two-hit ball, Alejandro Kirk and Nathan Lukes drove in two runs apiece and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-0 on Thursday to win the three-game series. Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. left the game in the third ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker for the first 10 weeks of the season on Thursday for violating its personal conduct policy. The suspension takes effect on Aug. 26, which is roster cutdown day, and Tucker is eligible for reinstatement on Nov. 11. ...
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield didn't get the chance to ride in the Pan-Mass Challenge, so former teammate Mike Timlin will do it for him. Timlin, who won two World Series titles alongside Wakefield, said he and his wife will ride in ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. is going to again play for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, and next year certainly will have a bigger role than last time. Witt announced Thursday that he is committed to playing for the United States and manager ...
By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria will enter the octagon for potentially the biggest fight of his career on Saturday, when he faces former lightweight titleholder Charles Oliveira for the vacant UFC lightweight ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Buccaneers signed general manager Jason Licht and coach Todd Bowles to multi-year contract extensions on Thursday. Bucs owner and co-chairman Joel Glazer said in the team's announcement the two have been critical to the team's recent success. "The winning culture they ...
By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer ng well following surgery last month. But asked about whether the team had put a potential timeline on Tatum's return, Stevens was definitive that there would be no rushing the star's rehabilitation. When Jayson Tatum ruptured his right Achilles tendon in ...
By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — One of the founders of Spire Motorsports has entered an agreement to purchase the NASCAR team owned by Rick Ware and is jumping back into the stock car series because he believes the current charters are grossly ...
LONDON (AP) — Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz are helping usher in a new era for tennis. With Wimbledon beginning Monday, the sport's most recent Grand Slam champions are Gauff, a 21-year-old American, and Alcaraz, a 22-year-old Spaniard, who are both at No. 2 in the rankings and are both ...
By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man in Dallas. The Mavericks took the Duke forward with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft Wednesday night, hoping they have found their next franchise superstar less than five months after trading one ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Liam Delap scored his first goal for Chelsea and Enzo Fernández has two assists in a 3-0 win over Esperance on Tuesday night that helped clinch a round-of-16 berth in the Club World Cup. Tosin Adarabioyo scored on a header from 7 yards from Enzo Fernández's free kick in ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — George Springer broke the game open with a grand slam in the eighth inning, Eric Lauer held Cleveland scoreless until the sixth and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Guardians 10-6 on Tuesday night. Springer's eighth career slam and 11th home run this season gave the Blue Jays ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Spencer Steer and pinch-hitter Gavin Lux had run-scoring singles in the 11th inning and Cincinnati rallied from a three-run deficit for a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night after Chase Burns made an impressive major league debut for the Reds. Aaron Judge ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Major league debuts are a milestone for any player. Chase Burns had one for the record books. The Cincinnati Reds rookie became the first starting pitcher in the expansion era to strike out the first five batters on Tuesday night against the New York Yankees. The 22-year ...
By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — There's going to be plenty of hard throwing Wednesday in the first pitching matchup between Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes and Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski. Just don't expect too much hard contact. Skenes, the 2024 NL rookie of the year, ...