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NEW YORK — Maybe playing with fire isn’t the worst thing in the world. Maybe the Knicks are pyromaniacs, fire-bending, fire-breathing basketball animals who play their best basketball only after playing their worst. ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the first half of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the New York Knicks tried to take matters into their own hands.

The NBA had declined to retroactively assess Victor Wembanyama with a flagrant foul for his Game ...Read more

NEW YORK — The night started with a guarantee, got swallowed by 3-pointers, turned sour at the whistle and somehow ended with Madison Square Garden shaking beneath a celebration nobody saw coming.

Somehow, someway, the ...Read more

TORONTO — Max Scherzer motioned for a mound visit.

The Phillies had put two runners on against him, and the veteran Toronto Blue Jays pitcher had just run to cover first base on a fielder’s choice. He wanted a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The entire sequence was so smooth, so calculated, so precise that Olivia Miles looked like a pilot landing a plane in crosswinds.

She dribbled the ball through her legs, then behind her back, then swiped ...Read more

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift appeared at Madison Square Garden — where she’s expected to say “I do” next month — to watch the New York Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals Wednesday ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Aces are the latest professional basketball championship team to not receive an invitation to visit the White House.

A team spokesperson confirmed the Aces were not extended an invite from ...Read more

Byron Buxton is bothered by how much he’s struggled to hit with runners in scoring position this season, something he finds difficult to explain after he excelled in those same situations last year.

Maybe Minnesota ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals had been surging at the right time. After a slow start to the season, the Royals were finding ways to win.

However, the club ran into a roadblock Wednesday night.

The Royals ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — On a four-game losing skid and facing Shohei Ohtani, the Pirates needed a hero.

If predictions were being made, none would have expected Tyler Callihan.

Callihan blasted his first career homer, a no-doubt ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs on Wednesday agreed to terms with quarterback Patrick Mahomes on a revised contract that added two years to the superstar’s already lucrative long-term deal.

The revised ...Read more

BALTIMORE — There’s been an abundance of surprises with the Orioles this season, but perhaps the biggest has been the emergence of a reliable starting pitcher.

The team went 3-9 in Brandon Young’s starts in 2025, ...Read more

MIAMI — Two down. One to go.

The Miami Dolphins rewarded center Aaron Brewer, 28, with a three-year, $52.5 million extension, $37 million of which is guaranteed, a source confirmed to the Miami Herald.

This comes just ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles are bolstering their edge rusher corps by signing six-year veteran A.J. Epenesa on Wednesday.

Epenesa, 27, had spent his entire NFL career with the Buffalo Bills, the team that drafted him in ...Read more

CLEVELAND — The New York Yankees began experimenting with Jasson Domínguez in right field on Tuesday, sticking him there as he continued a rehab assignment with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Domínguez, working his ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants erased an eight-run deficit on Wednesday at Oracle Park and defeated the Washington Nationals, 11-10, as rookie Bryce Eldridge hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning.

San ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Rod Brind’Amour was 35 when he captained the Carolina Hurricanes to a Stanley Cup championship.

If anyone can identify with what Jordan Staal is doing now, at age 37, in the Stanley Cup Final against the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A scaled-down watch party outside Madison Square Garden for the Knicks and Spurs’ Finals Game 4 was abruptly canceled late Wednesday afternoon, after the Garden’s owner, James Dolan, bizarrely pulled the ...Read more