“Old Town Road” is coming to the Stanley Cup Final. Lil Nas X will perform the top song in the world Monday in Boston as part of the pregame festivities before the series between the…

BOSTON (AP) — David Backes waited his entire career to play for the Stanley Cup, and now he’s going to have to do it against some of his best friends in hockey. The former St.…

BOSTON (AP) — It’s been more than three months since the last championship parade in Boston, and the city is getting antsy. Sure, the Red Sox won the World Series last October. And the New…

Here are the latest scores from today’s sports events: ——— INTERLEAGUE Final Kansas City 8 St. Louis 2 L-A Dodgers at Tampa Bay 7:10 p.m. Miami at Detroit 7:10 p.m. Kansas City at St. Louis…

Here are the scores from yesterday’s sports events: ——— INTERLEAGUE Final San Diego 6 Toronto 3 Final Detroit 9 N-Y Mets 8 Final Colorado 8 Baltimore 6 ——— AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A little lineup tweak is working out quite well for Dansby Swanson and the Atlanta Braves. Swanson homered twice and Freddie Freeman also connected, helping Mike Foltynewicz and Atlanta beat the…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Avisail Garcia and Kevin Kiermaier each hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning to power the Tampa Bay Rays past the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-1 on Wednesday night. Kiermaier…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Marcell Ozuna made Homer Bailey work. Then he made him pay. Ozuna and Matt Carpenter went deep as part of a four-homer barrage and the St. Louis Cardinals split a doubleheader…

Here are the latest scores from today’s sports events: ——— INTERLEAGUE Final Kansas City 8 St. Louis 2 L-A Dodgers at Tampa Bay 7:10 p.m. Miami at Detroit 7:10 p.m. Kansas City at St. Louis…

Here are the latest scores from today’s sports events: ——— INTERLEAGUE Miami 4 Detroit 2 (Bot 9th) L-A Dodgers 6 Tampa Bay 3 (Bot 7th) Kansas City at St. Louis 8:15 p.m., postponed ——— AMERICAN…

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Joey Bosa is hoping to return to form with the Los Angeles Chargers wearing a new, yet familiar, number. The defensive end has switched from No. 99 to 97. Bosa…

Overwatch League Commissioner Nate Nanzer is leaving the competitive video game circuit to oversee esports competition for Fortnite publisher Epic Games. Nanzer tweeted he will be moving on from Activision Blizzard, the company behind the…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the $1 billion NFL concussion settlement has terminated three of four lawyers serving as class counsel. The surprise order Friday afternoon comes just weeks after a hearing to…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clemson tight end Braden Galloway and offensive lineman Zach Giella will miss next season after an NCAA panel rejected the school’s appeal of their drug suspension. Clemson athletic spokesman Jeff Kallin…

CHICAGO (AP) — Pro football players may be more likely to die from degenerative brain diseases and heart problems than baseball players but the reasons are unclear, a new study suggests. The differences may seem…

TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays prospect Cavan Biggio, the son of Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, was brought up by Toronto on Friday and made his major league debut against San Diego. Biggio was in…

Here are the scores from yesterday’s sports events: ——— INTERLEAGUE Final San Diego 6 Toronto 3 Final Detroit 9 N-Y Mets 8 Final Colorado 8 Baltimore 6 ——— AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay…

A look at what’s happening around the majors today: WHAT A STRING Rays right-hander Charlie Morton hasn’t lost in his last 17 starts, going 7-0 with a 3.21 ERA in a span that started last…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — With six home runs in his last nine games, Mark Canha is trying to do his best impression of Oakland teammate Khris Davis. That’s going to be critical in the coming…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks took out a week of frustrations on San Francisco’s pitching staff. Ildemaro Vargas had five hits and a home run, Adam Jones added four hits and a homer,…

BOSTON (AP) — When the Boston Bruins take the ice against the St. Louis Blues, they will do it with a core group of veterans who know what it’s like to hoist the Stanley Cup…

BOSTON (AP) — Sports legends were in Boston to honor basketball great John Havlicek. Former Celtics and Bruins stars gathered at Trinity Church in Boston on Thursday for a memorial service. The Hall of Fame…

“Old Town Road” is coming to the Stanley Cup Final. Lil Nas X will perform the top song in the world Monday in Boston as part of the pregame festivities before the series between the…

ROME (AP) — It’s typically Canadian that Denis Shapovalov, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Bianca Andreescu are each children of immigrants. What’s not typical is that they have simultaneously broken into the world’s elite ranks of tennis…

Here are the scores from yesterday’s sports events: ——— INTERLEAGUE Final San Diego 6 Toronto 3 Final Detroit 9 N-Y Mets 8 Final Colorado 8 Baltimore 6 ——— AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay…

TORONTO (AP) — There’s no escaping the reality of what’s at stake when the Toronto Raptors host the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday night. The surging Raptors have…

Here are the latest scores from today’s sports events: ——— INTERLEAGUE San Diego 6 Toronto 3 (Bot 9th) Detroit 9 N-Y Mets 7 (Top 8th) Baltimore 5 Colorado 1 (Top 4th) ——— AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa…

This is what the Toronto Raptors had in mind all along. When they went all-in with the trade for Kawhi Leonard, they knew his time in the Great North was likely to be short. But…

Kansas forward Silvio De Sousa finally got some good news from the NCAA on Friday. His education and career had been in limbo after the organization ruled in February that De Sousa was ineligible this…