CLEVELAND — Hard to imagine a more successful walk than the one Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones took early Tuesday night at Progressive Field. By the time Jones arrived at the mound to talk to Max Scherzer, his pitcher had already given......

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From the blog Big League Stew: Running into that fence knocked some sense into Bryce Harper; he said doesn't want to do it again. There's only one problem: He still has to play the outfield. Harper found himself caught between making a catch......

Rangers coach John Tortorella put his team’s problem in a nutshell: not enough pressure on the Bruins in the offensive zone....

Here is what you need to know on this Wednesday, May 22, 64 days before Redskins start training camp....

Anthony Kuehn is the editor of the Detroit Lions blog Lions Gab . His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Detroit Free Press nor its writers. Get in touch with Anthony at [email protected] or on Twitter @lionsgab....

Wednesday, May 22 , 2013 edition of the Golden Nuggets, a daily compilation of 49ers links from around the web....

by Sam Amick, USA TODAY Sports SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs hadn’t played fair with these overmatched Memphis Grizzlies for most of the night, but this third quarter sequence was even meaner than normal. Tony Parker drove the......

by Sean Highkin, USA TODAY Sports The Memphis Grizzlies have been in a hole like this before, but this time, it’s going to be a lot harder to climb out. After falling 93-89 to the San Antonio Spurs in overtime on Tuesday, they trail 2-0......

Sometimes, as in what happened this past weekend in Cleveland, there isn’t much a coaching staff or front office can do. Players are the ones who play and when they lose games because of walkoff home runs, or dropped balls, or whatever,......

Ohio State shouldn't have many problems being perfect at home. It's the road trips that will show how good this team really is next season. The Buckeyes only leave Ohio five times, but face tough c......

From the blog Puck Daddy: The Los Angeles Kings have become a social media sensation for pushing the envelope on Twitter, separating from the pack of staid NHL feeds with their snarky wit. For Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals on Tuesday......

SAN JOSE- The San Jose Sharks held on late to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. With the Game 4 triumph, San Jose’s best-of-seven series with the defending champions is now tied at two games a piece. The win for......

The last thing you want to do as a baseball team is overreact to a bad stretch. But the Mariners have reached a point where a few moves are necessary not just as a knee-jerk way to shake things up in the middle of a slump, but as a realistic......

There isn’t even a word for this shot. Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol flipped the ball behind his back around his waist, and it went in. It’s the kind of shot that would win him every game of H.O.R.S.E. And he made it during......

Seth Wenig/Associated Press Relax everyone, Matt Harvey pitches at Citi Field today ... hopefully without the bloody nose. FIRST PITCH: Matt Harvey gives Mets fans their once-every-five-days reprieve from an otherwise miserable season when he......

Ryan Vogelsong visited AT&T Park for about 15 minutes after surgery Tuesday in which five pins were placed in his broken right hand. The timetable depends on when Vogelsong's cast is removed, but Bochy expects to be without the 35-year-old......

Pablo Sandoval felt like hell, and not because his teammates gave him the same kidney shots he administers when one of them ends a game with a hit. Sandoval was so sick, he took intravenous fluids before Tuesday night's big matchup between Matt......

BALTIMORE — Nate McLouth homered leading off the bottom of the 10th inning, Chris Dickerson hit two solo shots, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees, 3-2, Tuesday night to snap a six-game losing streak....

Mike Trout hit for his first career cycle as the Angels slammed the Mariners on Tuesday....

Major League Soccer Tuesday morning announced New York City FC, a partnership between EPL club Man City and MLB N.Y. Yankees, will begin play in '15 as the league's 20th team. The club will begin play in an interim venue since it has yet to......

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SAN JOSE -- Turns out the Sharks were not blowing smoke, and now their series with the Los Angeles Kings has become a simple best-of-three....

From the blog Puck Daddy: No. 1 Star: Daniel Paille, Boston Bruins The catalyst for the Bruins’ dominating fourth line in Game 3, Paille set up Johnny Boychuk for the tying goal and then scored the game-winner on a funky bounce to give Boston.....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sweating, sniffling and sneezing, Pablo Sandoval felt horrible until his final swing. Sandoval hit a towering two-run home run in the bottom of the 10th inning after Gregor Blanco's tying triple in the ninth, and the San......

12-0 and it was not that close....

If The Knicks were a blackjack hand, they’d be an 18. It’s a good hand, not a great hand. No matter what the dealer was showing, you’d get a chorus of groans if you decided to hit......

Knicks general manager Glen Grunwald said Jason Kidd gave him no indication he was retiring during their exit interview Monday.“We had a great meeting with Jason,’’ Grunwald said....

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