BOSTON Tuukka Rask is one of the Boston Bruins’ three most important players. Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron are the others. Rask’s new contract reflects his standing alongside the captain and alternate captain. On Wednesday, Rask agreed to an eight-year, $56 million bonanza. Rask’s $7 million annual cap hit is the largest on the team, […]

SEATTLE As a younger player, Harold Baines and Edgar Martinez were among the hitters David Ortiz looked up to as examples. So it’s not lost on Ortiz that he has now passed both to become baseball’s all-time leader in hits as a designated hitter. “Wonderful hitters and when I first came up watching those guys,” […]

DETROIT (AP) — Prince Fielder homered, Rick Porcello pitched six solid innings and the Detroit Tigers bounced back Wednesday night with an 8-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Detroit allowed 23 hits in an 11-4 loss to the White Sox on Tuesday, but it was the Tigers who did the slugging early on in […]

MANCHESTER — At the conclusion of the second round of the Maine Amateur Championship, Ricky Jones is still the man to beat. Jones had his worst stretch of holes in two days on the 12th, 13th and 14th holes at Augusta Country Club Wednesday as he made bogeys on all three. He also had six […]

MONT- SAINT- MICHEL, France (AP) — Going down a row of television cameras, answering one question after another, the wearer of the Tour de France’s yellow jersey never veered off message. Yes, said Chris Froome, he was delighted to have increased his race lead with a super-fast ride in the time trial. But, no, he […]

Imagine you left the country a few weeks ago for a mental cleanse. No television, no radio, no cellphone, no newspapers, no Internet. No contact with the outside world. You left the Celtics and Bruins and Red Sox and Patriots in the rearview mirror. And now you have returned. And you want to know what’s […]