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CHICAGO — Less than three weeks remain until the Chicago Bulls return to the Advocate Center to prepare for the upcoming season. They enter with more questions than answers after the departures of DeMar DeRozan and Alex ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — In four encounters against the Cincinnati Reds, Cardinals starter Sonny Gray had not come away as the game’s winning pitcher.

On Thursday at Busch Stadium, Gray spun six innings and made a bid at ...Read more

Joe Buck, the play-by-play voice of ESPN's "Monday Night Football," likes to play golf. So does his wife, Michelle Beisner-Buck, a reporter on the "MFN" pegame show who also enjoys dancing and is acrobatic.

So that made ...Read more

After initially claiming he was hacked, NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe confessed to mistakenly livestreaming the audio of a bedroom romp to his 3.2 million Instagram followers.

His admission came late Wednesday during ...Read more

The Los Angeles Times' NFL writer, Sam Farmer, examines the matchups this week. Lines according to FanDuel Sportsbook (O/U = over/under). Record last week: 11-5 (.688). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer had ...Read more

Happy Friday the 13th, paraskevidekatriaphobes. I got my bad luck out of the way early with a tough Week 1, especially against the spread. (The tie there was a push on Seahawks -6). I got a bit drunk on Upset Punch, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After the Chargers beat the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, Los Angeles coach Jim Harbaugh told his players that the biggest improvement during the season comes between Weeks 1 and 2.

It’s part of the ...Read more

The frustration from losing a bid at perfection and then not being able to finish the seventh inning was obvious from Bryan Woo as he handed the ball to manager Dan Wilson.

But as Woo started to stalk off the mound toward...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — On their way to a 13-2 romp Wednesday over the Milwaukee Brewers, the Giants ventured outside their comfort zone a couple times.

Not only did they jump out to an early lead against Brewers starter Colin ...Read more

Shohei Ohtani continued his march toward baseball’s first-ever 50-50 season, belting his career-best 47th home run, stealing his 48th base and driving in three runs, and Tommy Edman hit two homers for the second straight...Read more

DENVER — Bo Nix searches for the beauty behind the madness of his rookie debut.

The Broncos starting quarterback doesn’t dwell on the two interceptions or throwing for only 138 yards on 42 attempts in the loss to ...Read more

RENTON, Wash. — DK Metcalf's matchup Sunday with Denver cornerback Patrick Surtain garnered all kinds of online discussion.

There was plenty of analysis of who got the better of the matchup between Metcalf and Surtain, ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — It’s been just over three months since Dan Hurley thrilled UConn fans with the news that he’d be staying with the Huskies, and turning down a reported six-year, $70 million contract offer to coach ...Read more

BOSTON — The 2023-24 Celtics were so deep, so talented, so well-coached that they played more than a third of the season without their third-best player and never blinked.

Starting center Kristaps Porzingis sat out 25 ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Major League Baseball had already disciplined Tampa Bay Rays reliever Edwin Uceta for intentionally hitting Nick Castellanos with a pitch before Wednesday night’s game had even started. But that didn’t...Read more

MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins have heard it all.

Josh Allen is 11-2 against the you. The Buffalo Bills have beat you 13 of the last 15 games. You haven’t won the AFC East since 2008.

The narrative is pretty clear: the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Welcome back, Brooks Lee. Glad to see you again, Royce Lewis.

The Twins’ young infielders, both wrestling through maddeningly long hitless slumps, each provided a two-run double on Wednesday, leading the...Read more

BOSTON — As the Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles went into the bottom of the ninth locked in a 2-2 game, the stakes for Boston loomed clear on the Green Monster scoreboard.

The Detroit Tigers had already won 7-4 and the ...Read more