PHILADELPHIA — Expected to go as the first pick in the amateur draft, Roch Cholowsky submitted a video to Major League Baseball with the correct pronunciation of his last name. For the record, the name is pronounced chil-OW'-skee. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred still botched the ...
LONDON — Linda Noskova placed fingers in both of her ears to drown out the noise from the Centre Court crowd. She draped one of Wimbledon's strawberry-red towels over her head. And eventually — after she had wasted five match points and a 5-2 lead and conceded the second set of a ...
The governing body for sailing is looking at how the sport's Olympic-class equipment is made, used and discarded, to eventually make changes that will reduce its environmental impact. Alexandra Rickham, director of sustainability at World Sailing, said this first-of-a-kind life cycle ...
LONDON — Alexander Zverev will play for another major trophy, this time in the Wimbledon final, a month after winning his first Grand Slam title at the French Open. Zverev ended the "Ferytale" run of British wild card Arthur Fery with an overpowering 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 victory in the ...
PHOENIX — Kelsey Mitchell hit a layup with 10.1 seconds left to finish with 29 points and the Indiana Fever held on for a 92-89 win over the Phoenix Mercury on Thursday night. The teams put two testy games in Indianapolis last month behind them, trading baskets instead of bumps and ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jake Bauers hit a three-run home run, Brice Turang added his 13th homer of the season, and the Milwaukee Brewers used a six-run third inning to rally past the St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 on Thursday night to claim four of five games in the series. Milwaukee won four games in a series at St. Louis for the second time in franchise history and the first time since 2008. The NL Central-leading Brewers are 59-34 with one series to go before the All-Star break. Turang opened the decisive third with an RBI single before Bauers hit his 17th homer of the season into the seats ...
