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Williams sisters to play doubles at Wimbledon
Serena and Venus Williams received a doubles wild-card invitation to compete at Wimbledon, the All England Club announced Tuesday.,The grass-court tournament begins on June 29.,The decision comes on the heels of Serena Williams recently returning to competition following a nearly four-year retiremen...
Banged-up Mariners expecting star Cal Raleigh's return for series against Orioles
It would appear Cal Raleigh is ready to return.,Seattle's record-breaking catcher hit five home runs in his first four rehabilitation games with Triple-A Tacoma (Wash.) and could be activated from the injured list Tuesday, when the Mariners open a three-game series with the visiting Baltimore Oriole...
MLB suspends Padres RHP Ron Marinaccio 3 games for intentional HBP
San Diego Padres right-hander Ron Marinaccio was suspended three games and fined an undisclosed amount on Monday for what Major League Baseball called intentionally hitting the Baltimore Orioles' Gunnar Henderson with a pitch.,Marinaccio filed an appeal on the suspension, which would have started wi...
PWHL Las Vegas hires Kim Weiss as first head coach
Kim Weiss was named head coach of the PWHL expansion club in Las Vegas on Monday.,Weiss most recently served as an assistant coach for the American Hockey League's Colorado Eagles, a Colorado Avalanche affiliate.,Promoted to that role January, she became just the second woman in AHL/NHL history to w...
Gina Kim, Yana Wilson each win first LPGA title at Dow team event
Gina Kim and Yana Wilson are the newest winners on the LPGA Tour after they combined for an 8-under-par 62 Sunday to win the Dow Championship, the tour's only team event, at Midland (Mich.) Country Club.,Kim eagled the par-4 fifth hole and Wilson sank three of the team's four birdies on the back nin...
Blue Jays 1B Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (lower back) sits for another game
Blue Jays star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. sat for the second straight day with lower back tightness in Toronto's Sunday home series finale vs. the New York Yankees.,Toronto manager John Schneider said Saturday that the issue emerged as Friday's 8-5 win played out. There was hope that rest w...
South Korean duo take 1-stroke lead after 3 rounds in Michigan team event
South Korea's Hye-Jin Choi and Hyo Joo Kim posted a steady 1-under-par 69 and vaulted past three duos to take a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the Dow Championship on Saturday at Midland (Mich.) Country Club.,The South Korean team sits at 10-under 200, one stroke ahead of Gina Kim and Yana Wi...
Orioles pile it on early, down Padres to kick off series
Samuel Basallo's two-run home run in the first inning gave the Baltimore Orioles the lead for good en route to beat the visiting San Diego Padres 7-3 to open a three-game series Friday night., ,Gunnar Henderson also homered among his three hits and starting pitcher Shane Baz (4-6) worked five inning...
George McNeill, Scott Hend share lead at Principal Charity Classic
George McNeill and Australia's Scott Hend are tied for the lead at the Principal Charity Classic following the first round Friday in Des Moines, Iowa.,McNeill and Hend each shot 7-under-par 65 at Wakonda Club and will take a one-shot lead over four players into the weekend. Vaughn Taylor, Tag Riding...
Utah athletics becomes first to close private equity deal
The University of Utah finalized a groundbreaking partnership with a private equity firm on Friday to help fund the school's 19 athletic programs.,The deal with New York-based Otro Capital creates a new company called Crimson Brand Partners, which will manage the athletic department's commercial ope...
World No. 9 Victoria Mboko (knee) to miss Wimbledon
World No. 9 Victoria Mboko withdrew from Wimbledon on Friday, two days after she sustained an MCL injury in her left knee during a match at the HSBC Championships in London.,The 19-year-old Canadian announced her decision over Instagram.,"Hi everyone. I wanted to provide a quick update given everyth...
Wimbledon increases purse by 20%, but still shy of players' demands
Players will be competing for a share of a record $86 million tournament purse at Wimbledon, which opens June 29 in London.,Tournament organizers announced the amount on Thursday. The increased total puts the Wimbledon prize money slightly ahead of the U.S. Open purse.,The new prize money is a 20% i...
Jackson Holliday's slam shoots Orioles past Mariners
Brandon Young threw seven shutout innings, Pete Alonso broke a scoreless tie with a sixth-inning home run and Jackson Holliday added a grand slam as the Baltimore Orioles halted a four-game losing streak by beating the visiting Seattle Mariners 7-2 on Wednesday night., ,Young (5-1) held the Mariners...
Netherlands to replace Jurrien Timber with Lutsharel Geertruida
An ongoing injury to Arsenal's Jurrien Timber was replaced on the Netherlands' World Cup roster by Sunderland's Lutsharel Geertruida.,A groin injury suffered in March forced Timber to miss several months of the domestic season. Although the defender played 55 minutes for Arsenal in the Champions Lea...
Jim Curtin named Austin FC's new coach for '27 season
Jim Curtin, a two-time MLS Coach of the Year, will take over as Austin FC's next manager at the conclusion of the 2026 season, the club announced Monday.,He's set to replace Nico Estevez, who was fired on May 18, midway through his second season leading the club. The team entered the World Cup break...
Matteo Berrettini avoids major injury, targets Wimbledon
Italy's Matteo Berrettini avoided serious injury in Paris and plans to arrive at Wimbledon "in the best shape possible.",The 30-year-old was forced to retire from last week's French Open quarterfinal match against countryman Matteo Arnaldi due to a hip injury. Berrettini had never reached that round...
Ranking The College Football Rivalries Most Likely To Flip In 2026
From The Game to the Iron Bowl, here's a ranking of the major college football rivalries most likely to have different outcomes in 2026....
Serena Williams wants to play singles, but 'not my journey right now'
Serena Williams will make her return to professional tennis this week in a comfortable environment.,The 23-time Grand Slam champion will compete alongside 19-year old Canadian Victoria Mboko in the doubles draw to kick off the WTA's grass campaign at the HSBC Championship at Queen's Club in west Lon...
Blue Jays score 6 unanswered to take series from Orioles
Yohendrick Pinango started a five-run sixth inning with a solo home run Sunday afternoon and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to defeat the visiting Baltimore Orioles 6-4.,Brandon Valenzuela added an eighth-inning homer as the hosts captured the rubber game of the weekend series.,Four of the sixth-inni...
Orioles' Shane Baz puts unblemished mark on line vs. Blue Jays
Baltimore Orioles right-hander Shane Baz is undefeated against the host Toronto Blue Jays and hopes to maintain that Sunday afternoon in the rubber match of a three-game series.,Baz (3-5, 4.29 ERA), who was traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to Baltimore in December, has posted a 4-0 mark with a 2.23 ER...