KANSAS CITY, MO. Salvador Perez shouted at Hunter Strickland, who shouted right back. The Kansas City Royals streamed from their dugout, the San Francisco Giants from their own. And for a tense moment in the sixth inning Wednesday night, Kauffman Stadium was consumed by chaos. The one thing that was clear? The World Series suddenly […]

BOSTON Boston coach Brad Stevens wasn’t about to completely praise rookie Marcus Smart’s performance. Stevens didn’t miss something he did wrong directly in front of him. Smart, the team’s firstround selection and No. 6 overall, scored 16 points and Jared Sullinger had 15 with 17 rebounds to lead the Celtics to a 100-86 victory over […]

PORTLAND — Single game tickets for the Portland Sea Dogs 2015 season along with 2015 Eastern League All-Star Game tickets will go on sale Nov. 1 at 9 a.m. at the Hadlock Field ticket office. Phone and Internet orders will begin at noon. Dave Roberts, a member of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox […]

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the biggest issues on the agenda when the NBA’s owners arrived in New York for the board of governors meetings was thwarting the tanking strategy employed most brazenly by the Philadelphia 76ers. A proposal that would reduce the incentive for teams to lose games on purpose in an effort […]

The Denver Broncos fear no one in the AFC, nor should they given their recent record. There is one opponent that gets Peyton Manning and company a bit unsettled, though, and that’s who they take on tonight when the San Diego Chargers come visiting. San Diego has won four of its past five regular-season trips […]

NFL Team StaxBy The Associated PressWeek 7TOTAL YARDAGEAMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCEOFFENSE YardsRush PassIndianapolis 3170 863 2307Baltimore 2710 920 1790Pittsburgh 2707 900 1807San Diego 2520 625 1895New England 2418 723 1695Houston 2415 903 1512Denver 2364 571 1793Buffalo 2335 724 1611N.Y. Jets 2243 945 1298Tennessee 2242 773 1469Cleveland 2182 801 1381Miami 2159 818 1341Cincinnati 2120 669 1451Jacksonville 2076 […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. The “next man up” approach will be tested again after another injury to a key defender for the New England Patriots. Maybe this time they’ll do better. With top tackler Jerod Mayo missing his first game with a season-ending right knee injury, the New York Jets ran over and around New England last […]

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been told to testify in Ray Rice’s appeal of his indefinite suspension, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday night. Former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones, the neutral arbiter selected to hear the appeal, informed the parties of her decision Wednesday. The person spoke […]