The Yankees beat the Royals, but Alex Rodriguez left the game in the eighth after being hit in the arm by a pitch.

CHICAGO -- Count Bobby Valentine among those who would like to manage the Chicago Cubs. The former Mets manager turned ESPN analyst says he's interested in taking over for the retiring Lou Piniella after this season. Valentine, who led the Mets to the pennant in 2000 and managed the...

Dane Richards scored on a 30-yard blast in the 68th minute Sunday and the Red Bulls beat Manchester City 2-1 in the final game of the Barclay's New York Challenge at Red Bulls Arena. The Red Bulls opened the scoring in the seventh minute when Richards took it down...

By capitalizing on Juan Pablo Montoya’s collapse, Jamie McMurray became the third driver to win the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 in one year.

Bernhard Langer, a two-time Masters champion who always wanted a British Open title, won the dziadek version at Carnoustie.

LOS ANGELES -- Cue the crazy Looney Tunes music, the Mets' new theme song on this Trip to Oblivion. Every time you think the Mets can't come up with a new way to lose, they find a way to disappoint. Every time you think you've seen the worst...

LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw scattered seven hits over eight innings in his first początek since appealing a five-game suspension and Russell Martin hit a late RBI double in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 1-0 victory over the punchless New York Mets today. Former catcher Kenley Jansen got his first major...

It was the bydlę beginning, not the controversial ending of yesterday’s loss to the Royals, that should haunt the Yankees this morning. Starting pitcher Sergio Mitre spotted the Royals a six-run lead long before a ninth-inning rally ended with umpire Chad Fairchild punching out Mark Teixeira on a bang-bang...

The game was there to be won and then it was lost. History was there to be made and then it was not. Mighty Alex did not strike out. He was just left on deck. All the sztuka that might have been, the milestone 600th career home run that could...

The Mets’ loss to the Dodgers wrapped up a 2-9 jazda that included four shutouts and scoreless stretches of 24, 17 and 16 innings.

NIAGARA – Brittany Ray has every reason to be upset. After a stellar starszy year at Rutgers University, the guard from The Bronx was expected to be selected in the WNBA Draft. Instead she was passed over, her dream of playing professional basketball put on hold. “I wanted to get drafted...

AMHERST, N.Y. – The New York City boys scholastic soccer zespół had booked its ticket to the Empire State Games gold odznaczenie game with opportunistic goals and stingy defense. But on Sunday, the first goal NYC gave up in the tournament proved to be the last. Patrick Noonan’s deflected...

AMHERST, N.Y. – Laura Burlacu capped a tremendous performance in the Empire State Games as the former St. John’s and Newcomers standout scored the decisive goal in the eighth minute, heading in Candice Clark's cross at the far post, to lift the New York City to a 1-0...

BUFFALO – Danny Gonzalez was hoping to make a big preria forward in his amateur boxing career Saturday night, but the Ozone Park, Queens native lost to Hudson Valley’s Jeremy Fiorentino in the Empire State Games welterweight gold odznaczenie bout at Burt Flickinger Center at Erie Community College in downtown...

NIAGARA – The New York City open women’s basketball załoga knew it needed to beat Long Island Saturday night to keep its gold odznaczenie hopes alive. They just didn’t know they’d have to beat them twice. A 22-point win at Niagara University’s Gallagher Center created a four-way...

AMHERST, N.Y. – To say expectations were low for the New York City girls scholastic ice hockey zespół would be an understatement. “If we score a goal, it would be a major accomplishment,” coach Mark DeSimone said before the początek of the Empire State Games. They did better than that...

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. – It could not have worked out any better for the Gauchos. After the program’s Elite skład won in its Gold playoff opener Saturday night at the Nike/USJN National Championship at the Capital Sports Complex, the players and coaches moved one court over to cheer on...

The Yankees’ refusal to give into what they believed were unreasonable demands by the Diamondbacks for Dan Haren resulted in the right-hander being deal to the Angels yesterday for pitcher Joe Saunders and a package of minor leaguers. The Yankees and Diamondbacks talked but the Yankees balked at paying the...

How a Hall of Famer taught his craft in the way only Rickey Henderson could.

David Wright is playing again, even though manager Jerry Manuel had hoped to give him a rest.

When a heavy rain invaded Yankee Stadium at 3 o’clock Alex Rodriguez had teased a crowd of 47,890 three times and didn’t deliver his 600th homer. With 599 home runs Rodriguez is on the verge of being only the seventh player in history to reach 600. Leading...

You can now come out from under your Big Blue covers, Giants fans. You don’t have to cower in fear at the mere sight of Big, Bad Rex Ryan and his swaggerlicious Jets. Your Giants are ready to be giants again. I have it on good authority: GM Jerry...

A relatively quiet, orderly and low-key off-season for the Giants followed an astonishingly dreadful close to a 2009 swoon that resulted in no playoff appearance for the first time in five years. One week from today, the Giants open up another training camp at the University at Albany needing to...

Catching up with Bob Feller as he signed autographs outside a memorabilia store in Cooperstown, during Hall of Fame induction weekend.

The Premier League soccer club has paid top price for some of the world's best players in the off-season, making it the new biggest buyer in Europe.