CLEVELAND — The Chicago Cubs set up a winner-take-all Game Seven of the World Series by crushing the Cleveland Indians 9-3 Tuesday to level Major League Baseball's best-of-seven championship.
Facing elimination, reigning Cy Young Award winner Jake (...)
CHICAGO — The Cleveland Indians moved within one victory of winning the World Series with a 7-2 rout of the Chicago Cubs Saturday that gave them a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Fall Classic.
The Cubs, appearing in the World Series for the first time (...)
quarter slumber to lead the visiting Miami Heat to an 87-70 thumping of the New York Knicks Thursday and a commanding 3-0 lead in their best-of-seven playoff series.
Miami dealt the Knicks a record-setting 13th successive playoff defeat dating back (...)
The Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies, two teams starved of success, cast off years of failure with their World Series showdown starting on Wednesday.
The American League Rays and National League Phils, both deserving pennant winners over (...)
The Los Angeles Dodgers will send sinkerballer Derek Lowe to the mound to oppose Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels when the National League Championship Series gets underway in Philadelphia on Thursday.
Lowe was 15-11 with a 3.24 earned run average (...)
Eagles by JB Holmes and world number two Phil Mickelson put the US Ryder Cup team in good shape midway through afternoon fourballs after Europe whittled down the US lead in Saturday's foursomes.
Holmes and Boo Weekley led Lee Westwood and Soren (...)
Roger Federer stormed into his fifth successive US Open final on Saturday but his challenger will not be known for another 24 hours after heavy rain washed away the rest of the day's play at Flushing Meadows.
The four-time champion was in sublime (...)
four former champions - from Rod Laver to Roger Federer and Virginia Wade to Maria Sharapova - launched opening night at the US Open on Monday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the professional era.
In 1968, Arthur Ashe became the first (...)
Vijay Singh of Fiji won his fourth Barclays Classic title on Sunday after beating Spain's Sergio Garcia and American Kevin Sutherland in a playoff.
Singh birdied both playoff holes at Ridgewood Country Club on the way to snaring the title.
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Paul Casey shot an opening 66 at the Barclays Classic on Thursday and is rooting for fellow-Briton Ian Poulter to join him on the leaderboard at the opening event of the FedExCup playoff series.
Casey has given up hope of claiming an automatic (...)
Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton set an All-Star Game Home Run Derby record on Monday by belting 28 homers in the first round but the Minnesota Twins' Justin Morneau prevailed in the end to win the trophy.
Morneau claimed the title by hitting (...)
Stuart Appleby rolled in a 40-foot birdie putt at the last to seize the second round lead at the US Open on Friday, while Tiger Woods enjoyed a closing birdie binge to end the day a shot adrift at Torrey Pines.
Australian Appleby overcame (...)
Leading US Open contenders failed to take advantage of softer morning conditions in the second round on Friday to leave the door open for Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson at Torrey Pines.
American Justin Hicks, overnight co-leader after a (...)