LAS VEGAS Brad Keselowski spent nearly a full year winless and watching while Team Penske teammate Joey Logano went to Victory Lane five times. Keselowski had to drive through wind, rain, sand and Logano himself to finally hit it big in Vegas again. Keselowski passed Kyle Busch with five laps to go Sunday and surged […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. Clay Buchholz was shaky in his spring debut for Boston, giving up three hits and three walks in 1 1/3 innings as the Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-7 Sunday. Buchholz allowed four runs, one of them earned. He is set to be Boston’s No. 2 starter behind the newcomer David […]

BRUNSWICK — The fourth-ranked Amherst College men’s lacrosse team built a five-goal first quarter lead and held off a late Bowdoin rally to take a 10-7 win on the opening day of the New England Small College Athletic Conference regular season Saturday. The visitors came out firing, scoring five goals in a 11-minute stretch, including […]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. Peyton Manning surveyed the landscape of his brilliant career and called one last audible. He’s retiring a champion. A month after Denver’s triumph in Super Bowl 50, Manning informed John Elway he is following his lead and riding off into that orange sunset just like the Broncos’ boss did 17 years ago after […]

LAS VEGAS Moments after Nate Diaz choked out Conor McGregor and punched a big hole in the UFC’s plans, Diaz took the microphone and triumphantly, profanely declared his victory was “no surprise!” Maybe not to Diaz. The rest of the sport is still reeling from a revolutionary Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. […]

DORAL, FLA. Adam Scott faced a daunting challenge, a six-shot deficit with 13 holes remaining on a course that was playing tougher than it had at any point this week. And after overcoming that, he needed to survive two brushes with big trouble on the final hole to finish the job. Scott won for the […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Christopher Newport University surged past Saint Joseph’s College (23-6), 65- 47, in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Tournament at Memorial Hall on the campus of Muhlenberg College on Friday evening. The unfamiliar foes stood at a 25-25 stalemate heading into halftime, but an uneven third quarter changed […]

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — The Bates College women’s tennis team capitalized on victories in four out of six singles matches to hold off Mount Holyoke College for a 6- 3 win on Saturday afternoon at the Kendall Fieldhouse Courts. The Bobcats are now 2-2 on the season, while the Lyons slipped to 8-5 overall. Former […]

WELLESLEY, Mass. — Junior Mary Lemay and first- year Lena Engbretson each recorded hattricks to lead Wellesley College women’s lacrosse to a 10-6 victory over the University of New England on Saturday at Wellesley’s Turf Field. The Blue improved to 1- 1 on the season, while UNE dropped to 2- 1 and visits Bowdoin College […]