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MIAMI — Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers caught the worst kind of break at the worst time. Trying to catch up in the wild-card race, the Brewers lost the reigning National League most valuable player for the rest of the regular season after he fouled a ball off himself and went down with a […]

A makeshift United States men’s basketball team, lacking the N.B.A.’s biggest stars, was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the World Cup on Wednesday, 89-79, by France, in Dongguan, China. The United States had won five consecutive gold medals, at the World Cup and the Olympics. The last time it did not was at the 2006 […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks were not exactly crestfallen on Tuesday when the out-of-town scoreboard atop Citi Field showed the Los Angeles Dodgers with an early lead in Baltimore. The Dodgers needed one victory to clinch the National League West over the second-place Diamondbacks, and it came easily. “They can clinch, whatever, they deserve it, they won […]

DETROIT — Jordy Mercer capped a six-run comeback with a game-winning single off Chance Adams in the ninth inning, as the Detroit Tigers overcame another onslaught by the Yankees in a 12-11 victory on Tuesday night. Brett Gardner and Didi Gregorius each homered twice, and Gleyber Torres and Edwin Encarnación also went deep for the […]

Zack Wheeler pitched one-run ball over seven innings, Justin Wilson navigated four difficult outs for his first save since April and the Mets beat the Arizona Diamondbacks, 3-2, on Tuesday night. New York has taken the first two games in this key four-game set between National League wild-card contenders. Arizona opened the day two and […]

New England Patriots receiver Antonio Brown has been accused of raping his former trainer, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Southern District of Florida. The lawsuit says that Brown — in three separate incidents, two in June 2017 and another in May 2018 — sexually assaulted a woman named Britney Taylor, a […]

LONG BEACH, N.Y. — In the lulls between waves here on a recent weekday morning, dozens of nine-foot longboards floated like driftwood as the slate gray glass of the late-summer Atlantic dithered into cords. Yet as the waves pitched, a ballet began: With one foot flicked skyward, toes briefly arched in a pointe, Kelia Moniz […]

Playing for the Denver Broncos in a game against the Boston Patriots in 1960, Carmichael scored the new league’s first touchdown. Source link

Charlie Silvera caught for six World Series championship teams with the Yankees, but on most game days he was out of sight. He was a good hitter, he was capable enough behind the plate, and he had a strong arm. But he spent most of his time crouching in the bullpen to warm up relievers, […]

Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. BEIJING — The only coach who has won a championship in the N.B.A. and in the N.C.A.A. turns 79 later this week. But Larry Brown didn’t answer the phone to discuss looming birthday celebrations. Brown wanted to talk about Gregg […]