PHILADELPHIA (AP) 鈥� Francisco Alvarez homered twice, Brett Baty also went deep and the New York Mets defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 on Thursday night in the first major league game following the All-Star break. The start time was pushed up an hour and the teams played under a hazy ...
(AP) 鈥� The World Cup final between Argentina and Spain on Sunday will be refereed by Slavko Vin膷i膰 of Slovenia, two years after he was in charge of a Champions League final. FIFA announced the pick late Thursday. It's the second straight World Cup final where Argentina, now the defending ...
(AP) 鈥� Trey McBride was the bright spot last season for a dismal team in Arizona. He was the most productive tight end in the NFL, a near-unanimous All-Pro selection and made his second straight Pro Bowl. McBride's success has also landed him the top spot at tight end in a preseason survey by The Associated Press. He received five first-place votes from a panel of eight AP Pro Football Writers who ranked the top five players at the position, basing selections on current status entering the 2026 season. First-place votes were worth 10 points. Second- through fifth-place votes were ...
PARIS (AP) 鈥� Adieu Didier. Bonjour Zinedine? Coach Didier Deschamps takes charge of his last game for France on Saturday when Les Bleus face England at the World Cup in Miami. The winner gets third place, an anti-climactic award brought about by agonizing semifinal defeats. It is a disappointing end to Deschamps' reign when many observers touted his star-studded attack to win another World Cup. Zinedine Zidane is widely expected to be confirmed as France's new coach in the coming days by the French soccer federation. The Deschamps years France won the World Cup under Deschamps ...
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Conversations about WNBA officiating and Caitlin Clark have now expanded to include NBA commissioner Adam Silver. Silver said Thursday that Clark has become a "political football" amid debates about officiating and physical play in the WNBA, spurred by a recent play involving the star guard and Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas. "Ultimately, the issues around Caitlin Clark are not largely about officiating," Silver said, "and that particular incident is not about whether a foul should have been called at the time in the game or whether that was ultimately a ...
(AP) 鈥� On the grass courts of Wimbledon or racing through the Belgian forests, what matters is staying in control. Kimi Antonelli went fastest in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday after sharing a piece of advice he picked up recently from Roger Federer. After a run of car ...
