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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Adrian Beltre connected for a three-run homer and drove in four runs, and Cole Hamels allowed two runs in seven innings as the Texas Rangers won the opener of a four-game series against the Los Angeles ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- Chris Stratton is pitching like he wants to stick around in the San Francisco Giants rotation for a while.

Stratton followed up a masterful performance against the Washington Nationals last week by duct ...Read more

CLEVELAND -- Prior to Monday night's game against the Boston Red Sox, Indians manager Terry Francona was asked about the importance of the series, in part because the media and fans are already peering into October at ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- There are reasons the Los Angeles Dodgers are 53 games above .500 and reasons the Pirates are five games below. One of them circled the bases in the seventh inning Monday, and another in the 12th. The ...Read more

ATLANTA -- On an ugly night when they made four errors and did several things to give away a winnable game, the Mariners got the one key play needed Monday to close out a 6-5 win over the Atlanta Braves.

Up a run in the ...Read more

CLEVELAND -- Kneeling in a circle in front of the bench, more than a dozen Browns staged the largest national anthem protest seen in the NFL over the past two seasons before Monday night's home game against the New York ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- The Orioles won their fifth straight series opener, defeating the Oakland Athletics, 7-3, on the back of four home runs and the best starting pitching performance they've received during the past week.

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The Bears began practice Monday afternoon shortly after the peak solar eclipse in Lake Forest. Several players stood on the field wearing protective glasses to admire the crescent sun. And then they got to work.

Pernell ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- A crowd of Los Angeles Dodgers officials gathered outside the visitors' dugout at PNC Park on Monday afternoon. They wore protective glasses and wide grins, gazing skyward over the stands along the right-...Read more

Leave it to Javier Baez to turn a strikeout into a highlight.

The infielder temporarily teased Cubs fans Sunday by bashing a ball far foul, in the direction of the fire station on Waveland Avenue, before swinging at ...Read more

Kris Bryant spoiled us so much in his first two seasons that anything less than excellence no longer seems acceptable.

Bryant led the National League in wins above replacement last year (8.4), according to Fangraphs.com, ...Read more

FRISCO, Texas -- Emmitt Smith is the NFL's all-time leading rusher. He helped the Dallas Cowboys win three Super Bowls in the 1990s as part of the famed "Triplets" alongside quarterback Troy Aikman and receiver Michael ...Read more

When the Bears cut Jay Cutler after eight seasons, the organization (and much of the Chicago fan base) was ready to move on.

But Cutler revealed today that the feeling was a bit mutual.

Was the game still fun for him?

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Ravens head coach John Harbaugh canceled practice Monday to take his team on a tour of the Pentagon and a visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

"How fortunate and blessed are we to experience a day like this," Harbaugh ...Read more

Ameer Abdullah played 12 offensive snaps Saturday night against the New York Jets, had four carries for 16 uneventful yards and took a permanent seat on the bench late in the first quarter with the Detroit Lions ahead 3-0....Read more