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DETROIT — The Red Wings needed a victory to end a growing slump, and the Boston Bruins were happy to help.

The Wings rolled past the Bruins Tuesday, 5-4, at Little Caesars Arena, only the Wings' second victory in their ...Read more

DURHAM, N.C. — Boogie Fland brought No. 15 Florida back from a double-digit deficit at No. 4 Duke on Tuesday night.

With the game on the line, though, Duke found a defensive answer.

His team trailing by a point, Fland ...Read more

The Tampa Bay Lightning’s win streak eventually was going to come to an end, and Tuesday night on Long Island they lost their first game in more than two weeks.

They played a lot of solid two-way hockey over that seven-...Read more

BOSTON — The Pistons. The Cavaliers. And now, the Knicks.

The Celtics dispatched yet another Eastern Conference contender Tuesday night, defeating New York, 123-117, in front of a revved-up TD Garden crowd.

Jaylen ...Read more

EAST LANSING, Mich. — On a banner day for Michigan State, its men’s basketball team brought its A game.

On the same day the university announced a $1 billion fundraising goal and introduced new football coach Pat ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man accused of trespassing at the Leawood, Kan., home of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in September entered a diversion program Tuesday.

Justin Lee Fisher, who was charged with criminal ...Read more

It didn’t take long for Sonny Gray to reintroduce himself to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.

Speaking for the first time since he was traded to Boston last week, Gray came with fighting words about the Yankees, with whom ...Read more

SEATTLE — What a difference 11 months make.

On Dec. 22, 2024, Sam Darnold was the starting quarterback for a Super Bowl contender. Trailing the Seattle Seahawks 24-20 with 3:58 left, he faked a handoff, climbed a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Athletics opened an interactive space Tuesday that gives fans a glimpse into the future of what’s to come from the MLB team’s under-construction $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark.

The A’s ballpark ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers are signing cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. to their 53-man roster and waiving veteran cornerback Darius Slay, sources have told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

That wasn’t their only ...Read more

Each week I’ll list the best widely available free agents for fantasy football — I define “widely available” as being owned in around half of all ESPN or Yahoo leagues — and some guys who are probably better off ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — While the game didn’t provide a definitive answer to how competitive the 76ers will be, it did present some encouraging and not-so-encouraging signs.

Sunday’s 142-134 setback to the Atlanta Hawks at ...Read more

FOXBORO, Mass. — The next NFL MVP calls New England home.

His team lords over the AFC East.

And after being bloodied, beaten and downright lucky to slink out of Cincinnati with a win last week, the Patriots unleashed ...Read more

NEW YORK — Younghoe Koo says Monday’s flubbed field-goal attempt wasn’t a matter of him taking a misstep.

Rather, it was the result of the ball moving as Koo prepared to kick it, prompting him to stop suddenly, he ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The lack of hand-wringing about the Phillies bullpen this offseason isn’t too surprising. By the time everyone finishes worrying about the offense, their palms are raw. Nearly half of the starting lineup...Read more

PITTSBURGH — It has been admirable how the Pittsburgh Steelers have been able to milk two or three years out of this roster, but all they have done really is kick the can of an actual rebuild down the road.

That isn’t...Read more

SEATTLE — The cliché that players will use — and boy do they use it — is that every week is about going 1-0.

This week, though, the Seahawks essentially went 2-0.

One victory came via a 26-0 thrashing of the ...Read more

It’s said so often around football that it has become trite:

Games are won and lost in the trenches.

And while I’m not here to knock the big men, I have a different spin on things, at least when it comes to the ...Read more