CC Sabathia’s knee pain just won’t go away. The big left-hander is likely in need of a trip to the injured list, manager Aaron Boone hinted after the Yankees beat the Orioles 7-5 on Wednesday night. Boone said Sabathia’s right knee, which had caused him to miss time at the beginning of the season, had been “barking,” leaving Sabathia’s status […]

AFTER a quiet start to the week, the racing bursts into life on Thursday. Sandown hosts its brilliant Brigadier Gerard card and the action at Goodwood is intriguing too. I've got three bets across the cards. We start off at Goodwood and I'm hoping for a bit of each-way value on GRACE AND DANGER (Goodwood, 4.20). She's only had the […]

They became Hall of Fame broadcast partners and best friends for 20 years — the big, gregarious goaltender from Ottawa who became an adopted son of Rangers fans and the professional announcer out of Stuyvesant High School and CCNY. And on the day when John Davidson came home to the Rangers as team president, a proud and emotional Sam Rosen […]

FRISCO, Texas – Dak Prescott knows he’ll likely have a new contract before the 2019 season opens. The Cowboys have tendered Prescott an offer for a long-term extension. His team of agents has returned a counteroffer. Still, the quarterback says, give him a few years before asking him for details. “It’s one (proposal) from each side,” Prescott said Wednesday from his locker […]

Dawn Bauman needed more than five hours and a spreadsheet to fix what FIFA screwed up.  When she, like so many other fans headed to the World Cup in France next month, discovered that tickets bought together weren’t, in fact, together, Bauman sat down to try to make sense of things for those in her group — all 19 of them.  […]

Veteran player Charleston Hughes plans on wreaking havoc on all the other CFL team’s offences like usual, but he’ll have a familiar face with him this season on the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Teammate Micah Johnson and Hughes used to play alongside each other on the Calgary Stampeders. Related ‘Life moves on’: Roughriders on the field for Day 1 of training camp […]

On Wednesday morning, the Edmonton Eskimos held their first set of two-a-day practices on The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium. During the second session, the intensity level ramped up as the players donned the pads for the first time in training camp, and for the first time since last fall. Defensive tackle Almondo Sewell said you could feel everything from […]

If the Giants and Jets are unwatchable yet again, the NFL may have just provided New York with a quick fix. At the Spring League Meeting on Wednesday, the league eliminated the so-called “singleheader rule,” meaning that every market will get three games broadcast on Sundays. Previously, if a local team was playing on one network, another couldn’t broadcast a […]

WASHINGTON — Notre Dame men’s basketball coach Mike Brey, who is president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ board of directors, on Wednesday challenged schools to be more be aggressive about firing coaches for cause when they violate NCAA or school rules. "Why don’t AD’s and presidents drop the hammer?” Brey said while appearing as a panelist before a […]

IAN WRIGHT appeared to accidentally leak a photograph of Arsenal's retro kits for next season – before quickly deleting it. The Gunners legend shared a snap of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette wearing the new strips to his Instagram page. The image fuelled speculation that Arsenal will wear vintage kits as part of their new Adidas deal next season. Lacazette […]