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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The respect that Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel has already earned throughout the league was symbolized in one anecdote and one quarter Wednesday night.

Before the Hornets edged Atlanta, 110-107...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Pitt's 2025-26 season has not gone according to plan. At 9-16, the Panthers are staring at one of the worst records of Jeff Capel's tenure and there's no spinning that positively.

Eight years in, the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In late August 2014, Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer was sent to Triple-A Omaha for a rehab stint while recovering from a fractured bone in his right wrist.

But he had another assignment there.

To ...Read more

PALM BEACH, Fla. — In 2012, an attorney for Major League Baseball told a bankruptcy court judge that the league might soon find itself divided into "the Dodgers and the other 29 teams."

That time might be now, at least ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Just as no one expected the Texas Rangers to contend for much of anything in 2023, even fewer do in 2026.

Spring training has started in Surprise, Ariz., and the excitement and anticipation for the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — There is no Philadelphia sports figure without blemish.

The Phillies’ hitters failed again, and Zack Wheeler is hurt. The Eagles collapsed en masse after winning their second Super Bowl; even Saquon ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers have reached the part of the NBA season in which they get a week off because of the All-Star break that starts Friday. It’ll give the Lakers time to rest, and perhaps most ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In the 1950s, Sports Illustrated, then the crown jewel of sports journalism, hired Kurt Vonnegut to write a story about a racehorse that had leapt a fence.

Vonnegut would go on to become a famous author, ...Read more

Big crisis down at Camelback Ranch:

New Chicago White Sox player Luisangel Acuña is not a switch hitter, despite being advertised as one by general manager Chris Getz.

What this means for the rest of the 2026 season is ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Work is continuing rapidly on the Athletics’ $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark, with two of four main levels of the stadium now stretching around the project’s 9-acre footprint.

The deck of the ballpark’s ...Read more

PEBBLE BEACH, Fla. — Two fans in puffy vests, with “transfusion” cocktails in hand, walked upstream among the 10th hole’s gallery as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am opened Thursday.

“Ah, Scheffler. That’s why ...Read more

Kiké Hernández agreed to a one-year, $4.5 million deal with the Dodgers Thursday, with the popular utilityman taking to his Instagram account to announce his return.

"What else did you expect?!!! 3 in a row has a nice ...Read more

SEATTLE — But what's happiness? It's a moment before you need more happiness."

— Don Draper, "Mad Men"

An estimated crowd of close to a million people — a million — flooded the streets of Seattle to celebrate a ...Read more

SEATTLE — Considering all that’s been going on around here of late, the chatter about the NBA has understandably taken a few steps back from getting a ton of attention.

But this weekend provides another opportunity ...Read more

The Patriots opened up their defensive coordinator role, per a source, moving Terrell Williams to a high-ranking position on staff.

Williams, now cancer-free, entered the 2025 season as the Patriots’ defensive ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — John Shirreffs, the soft-spoken giant who trained Zenyatta, perhaps the best mare of all time, died in Southern California on Thursday. He was 80. No cause of death was announced.

Shirreffs was one of the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — This is a make-or-break season for the Phillies, so they aren’t taking any chances with any clubhouse cancers.

A fading talent who will be 34 in less than a month, malcontent right fielder Nick ...Read more

CLEARWATER, Fla. — After getting replaced for defense late in a close game, the worst defensive outfielder in baseball since 2022 based on defensive runs saved brought a beer into the dugout and lectured his manager.

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A Slovak fugitive on the run for 16 years was arrested at the Winter Olympics in Milan while hoping to watch the Slovakia men’s hockey team.

The suspect, identified only as a 44-year-old man, was detained Wednesday ...Read more