ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Mayor Rick Kriseman will not allow the Tampa Bay Rays to split their season between the Tampa Bay area and Montreal. Read more

NEW YORK — Count Sterling Shepard among the Giants’ players who weren’t expecting to catch another pass from Eli Manning in a game again. Manning will be starting Monday night against the Eagl… Read more
BOSTON — The biggest complaint about the Bruins’ eight-game win streak — proof positive that we can indeed complain about anything in our local sports landscape — is that most of the starts ha… Read more
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Angels have bound themselves to the city of Anaheim longer than they have bound themselves to Mike Trout. Read more
FOXBORO, Mass. — When all is said and tackled Sunday night, the victor of Patriots-Chiefs should owe its spoils to hallmarks of their past meetings. Read more
Brian Bannister is leaving the Boston Red Sox organization for a position with the San Francisco Giants. His new position is not yet clear. Read more
BOSTON — Miami came in with a homewrecking reputation. The Heat was the first road team to win in Milwaukee and Toronto this year — the latter on Tuesday night. Read more
MIAMI — The upstart Miami Dolphins have won three of five, including two against teams in the playoff conversation. Read more
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers have fired head coach Ron Rivera. Read more
BOSTON — It was a fairly low-key move late on Monday night, but in letting go of Marco Hernandez, the Red Sox are beginning to give us a hint of what the 2020 roster might look like. Read more
Like a million or so other kids growing up in New England, Rich Gedman dreamed of playing for the Red Sox. He never dreamed, though, of some day being in their Hall of Fame. Read more
FOXBORO, Mass. — Bad enough the Patriots lost their hold of the all-important top seed in the AFC playoff race with the loss to the Texans. Read more
BOSTON — The only way the Carolina Hurricanes could get the puck past Jaroslav Halak was through the side of the net. Read more
This week’s College Football Playoff rankings offered no surprises within the top four and set up intriguing matchups for this week’s conference championship games. Read more
BOSTON — Marcus Smart needed assistance leaving the floor Sunday in New York after reaggravating an oblique muscle injury, and is now likely to miss Wednesday’s game against Miami. Read more
Figure skating costumes are such ludicrous contrivances that Johnny Weir once likened his competitive get-up to “an icicle on coke.” It should not have to be stated that Holocaust concentratio… Read more
The International Skating Union said in a statement Monday that an outfit worn by a Russian figure skater, which included elements associated with the Holocaust, was nominated "by error" for a… Read more
BOSTON — Anyone who is old enough to remember the shocking 1971 upset of the Big, Bad Bruins by the Montreal Canadiens, anyone old enough to remember the 1979 too-many-men game, heck, anyone o… Read more
The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC no longer goes through Foxboro, Mass. Not at this point, at least. Read more
Because the repercussions of gun violence, both on community and individual levels, is a cause that is close to the heart of Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr, he recently hosted the moth… Read more
FOXBORO, Mass. — The Patriots can ill afford to lose another member of their offensive line, but it looks like they’ll be without center Ted Karras for at least some time. Read more
BOSTON — The Boston Celtics didn’t make it easy on themselves, but they escaped Madison Square Garden with a win over the New York Knicks. Here are 7 things we learned from the game. Read more
He hasn’t traded Mookie Betts or made any free agent signings yet, but new Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom is starting — little by little — to put his stamp on Boston’s roster. Read more
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Now comes the time for the pain, rejection and resentment that help make college football so bloody fetching. There's newfangled pain at Alabama, phony pain at Clemson and t… Read more
Terrelle Pryor and his girlfriend were charged after the former NFL player was stabbed in an incident that left Pryor hospitalized and Pittsburgh police describing the pair as “mutual combatants.” Read more
As Auburn’s Tigers celebrated their Iron Bowl win Saturday, Alabama’s players trudged off knowing that they had made history — and not the good kind. Read more
LAS VEGAS — Christian Stoinev was born and raised to entertain crowds: The fifth-generation circus performer grew up with the Big Apple Circus in New York City and began mastering his hand bal… Read more
Vontae Davis sat in a red chair along the wall of the library at Dunbar High in Washington, hands in his lap and eyes straight ahead. He listened to Tiresias McCall, Dunbar's dean of students,… Read more
Kyle Busch has been crowned champion for a second time and the NASCAR Cup season has been put to bed. Read more
It's no secret that Brandon Brooks has struggled with anxiety the last few years. He has sought treatment and addressed the issue publicly. It was on full display Sunday when the Philadelphia … Read more
More than any other sport, college football allows us to participate in a treasured human exercise — that of the premature argument, wherein we get to argue about things before it's really tim… Read more
The Boston Celtics don't need to face Kyrie Irving to be certain that they are over him. Read more
While the number of municipalities planning exchange programs with countries and regions participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics has steadily increased to 464, only 38 of thos… Read more
The Arena Football League, the indoor league known for its funky teams, high scoring games and chronic instability, folded Wednesday, less than a month after closing local business operations … Read more
Two weeks ago, Sam Darnold, quarterback of the 2-7 New York Jets, was discussing his team's playoff hopes. Read more
Eastern Connecticut cross country and track coach Kathy Manizza had her female runners read a book over the summer about nutrition and fitness programs tailored specifically for women athletes. Read more
The World Anti-Doping Agency executive committee will vote next month on a recommendation that could ban Russia from international competition for the next four years, a span that would includ… Read more
FOXBORO, Mass. — Waves of rain slanted inside Gillette Stadium, washing away any explosion from the Patriots’ first home game in a month. Read more
For the NFL's current superstar quarterbacks, this is the definitive torch-passing season. That's how we should expect history to judge it. Twenty years from now, we will look back and cite 20… Read more
Jake Burton Carpenter, a self-described punk who became the multimillionaire owner of Burton Snowboards, a company he founded in a Vermont barn in 1977 and that has been credited with transfor… Read more
Odori Park in central Sapporo has been designated as the location for the start and finish of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic marathons and race-walking, after the Olympic organizing committee reached … Read more
In the 11th week of the NFL season, there remains little clarity or consistency on pass interference calls and challenges, with a play in the Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game the latest instance. Read more
The loopy epic Monday night between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks wasn’t a playoff game — but it sure felt that way. With 10 weeks down and the stretch run here, more and more g… Read more
The NFL used its flex-scheduling powers for the first time Tuesday, moving the Week 12 game between the 8-2 Packers and 8-1 49ers into the prime-time NBC slot on Nov. 24. The Seahawks-Eagles g… Read more
Alex Smith is here and yet he is not. Read more
Before Joe Purzycki entertained thoughts of his quiet legacy, he was adamant about how it shouldn’t be portrayed. No white savior fantasies, please. No, no, no. The former Delaware State footb… Read more
One of the ugliest on-field incidents in NFL history Thursday night prompted one of its most stringent penalties Friday. Read more
Negotiators for the NFL and the NFL Players Association have made meaningful progress toward a new labor agreement, raising hopes that a deal could be struck by early next year that is increas… Read more
Ohio State junior defensive end Chase Young will miss one additional game as part of a suspension for improperly accepting a personal loan, the school announced Wednesday. Read more
Megan Rapinoe, star of the U.S. women's national soccer team and MVP of the 2019 Women's World Cup, singled out Colin Kaepernick in a speech Monday as she accepted an award for being one of Gl… Read more
Wizards' Isaiah Thomas: Celtics glory is the past, but 'I'm going to be an all-star again, for sure'
Isaiah Thomas was polite, though bored with the line of questioning. Read more
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick is scheduled to audition for NFL teams Saturday in Atlanta, a session that was arranged by the league as Kaepernick continues his attempt to return to football. Read more
The College Football Playoff selection committee committed a rare inaccuracy with its latest rankings unleashed Tuesday night. It placed a team at No. 4 when that spot clearly should have been… Read more
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