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The Oakland Athletics' quest for their first winning full month of the season continues Saturday afternoon when they pursue a second straight victory over the visiting Los Angeles Angels.Read more...

Aaron Judge recorded a milestone home run and capped a barrage against Justin Verlander as the visiting New York Yankees slugged their way to a 6-2 victory in Houston on Friday, snapping the Astros' five-game win streak.Read more...

Ashton Daniels threw for 249 yards and hit tight end Benjamin Yurosek nine times for 138 yards and a touchdown as Stanford opened its season with a 37-24 defeat of Hawaii on Friday in Honolulu.Read more...

Ronald Acuna Jr. had a home run among his two extra-base hits to bolster his MVP case as the visiting Atlanta Braves continued to establish their dominance in the National League with a 6-3 victory Friday against the Los Angeles Dodgers.Read more...

JP Sears won at home for the first time this season, Zack Gelof capped a five-run fourth inning with a two-run double and the Oakland Athletics opened a three-game home series with a 9-2 romp over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.Read more...

San Diego scored three runs on back-to-back homers by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Juan Soto before San Francisco starter Tristan Beck retired a hitter in the first inning Friday night, leading the Padres to a 7-3 victory over the visiting Giants.Read more...

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Christian Walker each hit a two-run homer to help the Arizona Diamondbacks notch a 4-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night at Phoenix.Read more...

Ernie Clement and Brandon Belt homered and had two hits each, Danny Jansen also went deep, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Colorado Rockies 13-9 in Denver on Friday night.Read more...

Jack Plummer threw three touchdown passes and Jawhar Jordan ran for 96 yards and a score Friday as visiting Louisville topped Georgia Tech 39-34 in Atlanta in the season opener for both ACC programs.Read more...

Jason Bean accounted for 317 yards of total offense and passed for two touchdowns and Devin Neal had rushing and receiving scores as Kansas opened the season with a 48-17 rout of Missouri State on Friday in Lawrence, Kan.Read more...

Liover Peguero reached base three times and scored twice as the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 in 10 innings Friday.Read more...

Jake Rogers had three hits, Riley Greene hit a two-run single and Eduardo Rodriguez allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings to lift the visiting Detroit Tigers to a 4-2 win against the Chicago White Sox on Friday.Read more...

Aaron Judge recorded a milestone home run and capped a barrage against Justin Verlander as the visiting New York Yankees slugged their way to a 6-2 win over the Houston Astros Friday.Read more...

Salvador Perez hit a pair of two-run home runs as the Kansas City Royals emphatically curbed a six-game skid, defeating the visiting Boston Red Sox 13-2 on Friday night.Read more...

The Milwaukee Brewers scored three runs on an eighth-inning error and held on for a 7-5 win against the visiting Philadelphia Phillies in the opener of a three-game series on Friday night.Read more...

Napheesa Collier scored nine of her 27 points in overtime, and had 17 rebounds as the Minnesota Lynx rallied for a 91-85 win that sent the Atlanta Dream to a ninth straight road loss on Friday night at Minneapolis.Read more...

Noah Kim passed for 279 yards and two touchdowns as Michigan State defeated Central Michigan 31-7 in the season opener for both teams on Friday night in East Lansing, Mich.Read more...

Jordan Luplow, Christian Vazquez and Jorge Polanco each homered and Joe Ryan tossed six strong innings as the Minnesota Twins opened a three-game series against the Texas Rangers with a 5-1 victory on Friday in Minneapolis.Read more...

Gabriel Arias had an RBI single and scored the go-ahead run on Bo Naylor's double in the seventh inning, lifting the host Cleveland Guardians to a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday.Read more...

Perrine Delacour shot a 5-under 67 Friday to hang onto a one-stroke lead at the Portland Classic after the second round in Portland, Ore.Read more...

Satou Sabally established career highs of 40 points and seven 3-pointers, and the Dallas Wings clinched a playoff spot with a 110-100 victory over the Indiana Fever on Friday night in Indianapolis.Read more...

Los Angeles FC sent defender Mamadou Fall on loan to La Liga giants FC Barcelona Friday.Read more...

The Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders will bring some long-awaited momentum into Saturday's match at Lumen Field.Read more...

Minnesota United and the San Jose Earthquakes head into Saturday night's game in San Jose tied in a tight Western Conference race just three points behind the fourth-place Houston Dynamo and five points behind second-place Los Angeles FC.Read more...

Dominick McKinley, a highly-rated defensive line prospect in the Class of 2024, announced Friday he will play his college football at Texas A&M.Read more...

The Las Vegas Aces are closing in on the No. 1 seed in the WNBA playoffs. They have three regular-season games left to get it done, beginning Saturday night against the visiting Seattle Storm.Read more...

The Los Angeles Galaxy strive to continue their hot stretch when they entertain the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night in Carson, Calif.Read more...

Real Salt Lake will try to snap a short losing streak when they host a Colorado Rapids side that has struggled all season on Saturday night in Sandy, Utah.Read more...

FC Dallas will hope their home prowess gets them back in the win column when they host road-challenged Atlanta United on Saturday in Frisco, Texas.Read more...

Hoping to build off a strong defensive performance, Nashville SC will try to end their winless drought when they host Charlotte FC on Saturday.Read more...

With major league rosters expanding from 26 players to 28 on Friday, the Los Angeles Dodgers called up veteran second baseman Kolten Wong and rookie right-hander Emmet Sheehan from Triple-A Oklahoma City.Read more...

Fresh off a 3-0 victory over San Jose Aug. 26, Sporting Kansas City once again are in a position to challenge for a playoff spot. A few more strong matches will put SKC back in a familiar position in the playoffs, but the next opportunity will be a stiff test.Read more...

The Los Angeles Angels added six players to their big-league roster on Friday, filling roster holes created when they waived six players earlier this week.Read more...

The New England Revolution and Austin FC will face off for the first time on Saturday night in Foxborough, Mass.Read more...

UFC will hold only its second ever event in Paris on Saturday night, with UFC Fight Night's five-fight main card at Accor Arena beginning at 3 p.m. ET and highlighted by France's Ciryl Gane taking on Serghei Spivac in a heavyweight fight.Read more...

World No. 1 Iga Swiatek moved into the fourth round of the U.S. Open, defeating her close friend Kaja Juvan of Slovenia 6-0, 6-1 on Friday in New York.Read more...

Cody Bellinger homered and drove in three runs to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 6-2 victory over the host Cincinnati Reds on Friday afternoon in the first game of a day-night doubleheader.Read more...

Fourteenth-seeded Tommy Paul punched his ticket to the fourth round at the U.S. Open for the first time with a 6-1, 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 win over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina on Friday in New York.Read more...

It's better to be proactive than reactive, right? Unless you consider what the Atlantic Coast Conference is already doing to be reactive, scraping up the leftovers from the Pac-12 Conference instead of having enough power in the college athletics landscape to attract more lucrative schools of their league. Adding Cal,...Read more...

Travis Kelce admits he doesn't fully understand defensive tackle Chris Jones' decision to engage in a holdout. Kelce just wants his teammate back with the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.Read more...

The Vancouver Whitecaps look to keep rolling on the road when they visit New York City FC on Saturday.Read more...

The 10-race playoff chase for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series championship begins with Sunday's Cookout Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.Read more...

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CF Montreal hope to be inhospitable hosts for the homecoming of former coach Wilfried Nancy, defender Rudy Camacho and the Columbus Crew on Saturday.Read more...

TJ Hockenson's new contract makes him the NFL's highest-paid tight end. The former Detroit Lion - who last year was traded to NFC North division rival Minnesota mid-season - will earn $17.125 million per year after receiving more targets, hauling in more receptions, and gaining more yards than only one other player at...Read more...

Both D.C. United and the Chicago Fire could boost their playoff chances when they meet on Saturday night in Washington, D.C.Read more...

FC Cincinnati still have plenty to play for after becoming the first MLS club to clinch a playoff spot.Read more...

Ryan Preece has been cleared to compete in the upcoming Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway just under a week after his crash at Daytona International Speedway.Read more...

There's a weird gray area for soccer stars after they turn 30. They're still good, maybe not great, yet are so established that they command larger sums of money than a younger player or two who is not yet a household name and could Moneyball their teams the same production. In past instances, those marquee names...Read more...