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The Los Angeles Dodgers scored a road doubleheader sweep on Thursday, riding a four-run fifth inning to top the Cleveland Guardians, 9-3.Read more...

Shohei Ohtani traveled with the Los Angeles Angels to New York for a weekend series with the Mets and will continue to be their designated hitter for the time being, the club confirmed Thursday.Read more...

The Arizona Cardinals acquired quarterback Josh Dobbs and a seventh-round pick in the 2024 draft from the Cleveland Browns on Thursday in exchange for a fifth-round pick, multiple reports said.Read more...

Michigan plans to rotate multiple assistants in the gameday head coaching role during Jim Harbaugh's three-game suspension to begin the 2023 season.Read more...

Collin Morikawa fired a career-best, 9-under-par 61 to forge a tie for the lead with Viktor Hovland and Keegan Bradley in the first round of the Tour Championship on Thursday in Atlanta.Read more...

The Milwaukee Brewers will try to match their longest winning streak of the season when they open a three-game series against the visiting San Diego Padres on Friday.Read more...

Stephen Strasburg's announced retirement due to thoracic outlet syndrome isn't so much a sad time as it is a prophecy fulfilled. Strasburg emerged from San Diego State and the minors as the most highly touted flamethrower in a generation.Read more...

The Los Angeles Angels' flickering dreams of mounting a playoff run with Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout in the lineup likely ended late Wednesday night.Read more...

Wilyer Abreu clubbed his first big-league home run and was one of eight Red Sox batters to record multiple hits as visiting Boston cruised to a 17-1 drubbing of the Houston Astros on Thursday afternoon.Read more...

The Cincinnati Reds placed first baseman/designated hitter Joey Votto on the 10-day injured list Thursday with left shoulder discomfort and recalled outfielder Nick Senzel from Triple-A Louisville.Read more...

Bryce Harper will try to continue his torrid hitting on Friday night when the Philadelphia Phillies host the St. Louis Cardinals in the opener of their three-game series.Read more...

This week's magic number for the NASCAR Cup Series is one.Read more...

Alex Call hit a go-ahead two-run homer off Tommy Kahnle with two outs in the seventh inning as the visiting Washington Nationals rallied for a 6-5 victory over the skidding New York Yankees on Thursday afternoon.Read more...

Josh Lowe hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning on Thursday, helping the host Tampa Bay Rays complete a series sweep of the Colorado Rockies with a 5-3 win in St. Petersburg, Fla.Read more...

Mookie Betts delivered his second career five-hit game and drove in a pair of runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 6-1 victory over the host Cleveland Guardians on Thursday in the resumption of a contest that was suspended in the third inning Wednesday because of rain.Read more...

Restricted free agent defenseman Evan Bouchard signed a two-year, $7.8 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.Read more...

Kirby Smart left January travel itineraries and references to the Southeastern Conference championship game out of his motivational material as Georgia pursues history in 2023.Read more...

The Minnesota Vikings on Thursday released wide receiver N'Keal Harry, a former first-round draft pick.Read more...

After making just eight starts over the previous three seasons, Nationals All-Star right-hander Stephen Strasburg will retire after 13 seasons, the Washington Post reported Thursday.Read more...

Update Aug. 24: According to multiple reports, Luis Rubiales plans to resign.

Adding insult to the cruelest injury the Los Angeles Angels could have imagined was the mere presence of the team they shared space with all day and night Wednesday.Read more...

TCU transfer Sam Jackson V was named as California's starting quarterback, coach Justin Wilcox announced Thursday.Read more...

The reactionary nature of the sports media has foisted Trey Lance on the trading block after the third overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft fell to the third spot on the San Francisco 49ers QB depth chart. Losing any quarterback competition to Sam Darnold is perilous for your career - especially if it's for the backup...Read more...

While half of America's electorate swoons over a reprobate ex-president, a man who was once nicknamed America's Mayor," and his loyalists' mugshots, America's Team has embraced the same recidivism in a desperate bid to halt the Cowboys' 30-year Super Bowl drought. Jerry Jones' response following Dallas Cowboys...Read more...

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Defending FedEx Cup champion Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland will attempt to play the Tour Championship despite injuring his lower back this week, Golf Channel reported Thursday afternoon.Read more...

The San Diego Loyal, a United Soccer League club owned in part by soccer legend Landon Donovan, will cease operations after the 2023 season, the league announced Thursday.Read more...

Trey Lance's immediate future with the San Francisco 49ers became one of the hottest topics in the NFL after coach Kyle Shanahan announced that Sam Darnold won the backup quarterback job behind Brock Purdy.Read more...

The Oakland Athletics stand to lose $40 million this season, making a move to Las Vegas crucial to the franchise becoming competitive on the field, owner John Fisher told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in a wide-ranging interview about the present and future of the A's.Read more...

The Los Angeles Lakers announced plans Thursday to unveil a statue of the late Kobe Bryant on Feb. 8, 2024.Read more...

Longtime NFL defensive coordinator Steve Sidwell died Wednesday evening at the age of 78.Read more...

The New York Mets will retire the numbers of 1980s superstars Daryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden next season.Read more...

Here's a bit of advice for everyone. If you did not play in a professional sports league, association, or alliance, you have no business challenging former pro athletes in anything that requires athleticism. Sounds simple, right? Wrong. Kevin Hart learned this lesson the hard way while hanging out with former New...Read more...

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The Washington Nationals placed outfielder Stone Garrett on the 10-day injured list Thursday due to a fractured left fibula.Read more...

Screaming and arguing are in. Context and nuance are out. And over at FS1, the decimal levels just got louder, while the conversations just got dumber.Read more...

The Arizona Cardinals are trading linebacker Isaiah Simmons to the New York Giants in exchange for a 2024 seventh-round draft pick, multiple outlets reported Thursday.Read more...

The top of the 2024 NFL Draft features flex-worthy talent at quarterback and offensive tackle, the type of star power that changes the fortunes of an NFL team upon arrival.Read more...

Vancouver Canucks star Elias Pettersson said extension talks are "on hold" as he prepares for the 2023-24 season.Read more...

Haas has retained drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen for the 2024 Formula 1 season.Read more...

Legendary wrestler Terry Funk died yesterday. He was 79. I am certainly nowhere near a talented enough writer to eulogize him properly. Nor have I been a fan long enough or deeply enough for long enough to try and encompass his whole career. The thing is, no one is, so it's not a personal failing. Funk is just that...Read more...

The New York Rangers announced a two-year extension Thursday with forward Alexis Lafreniere.Read more...

Kyle Shanahan has been watching Trey Lance practice for three years. He knows a great deal more about the young man than I ever will. If Shanahan is willing to write off the loss of first-round draft picks in 2022 and 2023, and be done with Lance on the San Francisco 49ers, he must certainly have a good reason that I...Read more...

Neil Young told us that it was better to burn out than to fade away. In the same fashion, some things are just meant to divebomb so hard into the dirt that they cause a smoldering crater that affects all life on the planet rather than just saunter out to the woods to die in peace. That quickly approaching projectile...Read more...

Most baseball players, and really most pro athletes, will tell you that they stopped being fans long ago. It is a job now, and any star on another team becomes an obstacle eventually. They'll tell you they respect other guys in the league, and that's probably true, but they don't see them as anything other than...Read more...

Ken Waldichuk might finally be turning a corner in his rookie season with the Oakland Athletics.Read more...

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios will look to continue his dominance of the Orioles when he starts against them Thursday night in the finale of a key three-game American League East series in Baltimore.Read more...

After getting a day off to recharge, the slumping Texas Rangers continue their nine-game road trip against the Minnesota Twins in the opener of a four-game series on Thursday night in Minneapolis.Read more...

After fouling a pitch directly off his left foot in the top of the 10th inning on Wednesday, Boston Red Sox center fielder Adam Duvall needed more than a couple of minutes to recover from the searing pain.Read more...

Despite being caught up in the middle of a tight playoff race, the Chicago Cubs are feeling loose heading into the opener of a four-game series against the host Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday.Read more...