BOSTON Rick Porcello had a simple answer to why he can’t think about his current success. He knows there are a lot more important things he’s helping the Boston Red Sox chase. Porcello became the majors’ first 18-game winner and the first Red Sox pitcher in 70 years to open a season 13-0 in Fenway […]

NEW YORK Yoenis Cespedes homered with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the New York Mets a 2-1 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday night. Jose Reyes dashed home to score the tying run in the eighth on a dangerous collision at the plate. Two innings later, Cespedes, who […]

SAN DIEGO Defensive end Joey Bosa ended his month-long holdout Monday when he signed a four-year contract with the San Diego Chargers. The team announced the signing five days after the two sides went public in their nasty spat over payment of Bosa’s $17 million signing bonus and whether the contract would have offset language. […]

BRUNSWICK The root of the word athlete comes from the Latin “thl-ta” and Greek “thl-t-s,” meaning to contend for a prize. The prize being sought is different for everyone. It may be as simple as playing with your children or grandchildren, to competing in the decathlon in the Olympics. Everyone is working toward a goal, […]

READING, Pa. The Reading Fightin Phils (85-49) scored seven runs in the second inning and grabbed the series opener from the Portland Sea Dogs (53-79), 7-1 on Monday night at FirstEnergy Stadium. Ricardo Pinto (6-6) worked seven scoreless frames on just three hits, one walk, and two strikeouts. Pinto improved to 2-0, 2.27 ERA in […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. Trevor Siemian couldn’t be rattled. Not by the knee injury that ended his college career at Northwestern and scared away everyone but the Denver Broncos, who made him the 250th overall pick in last year’s draft. Not by his six-month audition for the Broncos’ starting QB job that began with him as the […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. It’s no secret that Barkevious Mingo’s career never truly took off in Cleveland. He’s hoping an out of the blue opportunity with a perennial Super Bowl contender will be just the thing to restore some gloss to a career that had begun to dull after three uneven years. The linebacker is primed for […]