LEWISTON For two weeks, the Bowdoin College softball team practiced inside Farley Field House, hoping to get back into action and praying the time off after 16 games in Florida didn’t squash the Polar Bears sharpness. For four innings in their New England Small College Athletic Conference opener against Bates College on Friday, the Polar […]

PHILADELPHIA Cole Hamels will still be wearing red pinstripes and pitching for the Philadelphia Phillies against Pablo Sandoval, Hanley Ramirez and the Boston Red Sox on opening day. Not the other way around. The ace lefty has been on the trade block for a while and the Red Sox are considered potential front-runners to land […]

INDIANAPOLIS Perhaps no two college basketball players singularly define their teams this season quite like Duke’s Jahlil Okafor and Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky. The freshman phenom against the savvy senior. The ACC player of the year against the AP player of the year. Just remember there will be eight other players on the court tonight when […]

TAMPA, Fla. All season it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Connecticut would play for another women’s national championship. It wasn’t as clear cut for Huskies nemesis Notre Dame. The nation’s winningest programs since 2009 are right back where they were a year ago, meeting in the NCAA title game on Tuesday night. UConn coach […]

CHICAGO Same ol’ Cubbies. Same old Cardinals, too. At least for one game. Adam Wainwright threw six sharp innings to outpitch Jon Lester, and St. Louis handed new Chicago manager Joe Maddon a 3-0 loss Sunday night in the major league opener. Jason Heyward had three hits in his St. Louis debut and Matt Holliday […]

NEW YORK Commissioner Rob Manfred intends to announce Monday that Washington’s Nationals Park will host the 2018 All-Star Game, a person familiar with Major League Baseball’s plans told The Associated Press. The person spoke Sunday to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the site of the game ahead […]

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Juan Agudelo and Lee Nguyen scored and New England beat Colorado 2-0 on Saturday to extend the Rapids’ winless streak to 18 matches. Colorado has not won since beating Chivas USA on June 25, 2014, matching the MLS record set by Real Salt Lake in 2005-06. The Rapids have not […]