PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bo Bichette spurning the Phillies for the NL East rival New York Mets was akin to a gut punch for the NL East champions. A two-time All-Star shortstop with the Toronto Blue Jays, Bichette agreed last week with the Mets to a $126 million, three-year contract that left the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robbie Avila, Dion Brown and Trey Green each scored 14 points as No. 24 Saint Louis held off a frantic late rally by Duquesne to win 81-77 on Tuesday night. The Billikens (18-1, 6-0 Atlantic 10) extended their winning streak to 12 despite blowing most of a 17-point ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Devin Booker scored 27 points and Jalen Green added 12 points in his return to the lineup as the Phoenix Suns beat the Philadelphia 76ers 116-110 on Tuesday night in a matchup of teams playing the second game of a back to back. Grayson Allen and Jordan Goodwin scored 16 ...
BOSTON (AP) — Left-hander Ranger Suárez and the Boston Red Sox finalized their $130 million, five-year contract on Wednesday. Suárez gets a $3 million signing bonus, payable within 30 days of the deal's approval by Major League Baseball, and salaries of $7 million this year, $15 million in ...
SEATTLE (AP) — Brett Kulak broke a second-period tie with his first goal of the season, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Seattle Kraken 6-3 on Monday. Kulak, acquired from Edmonton in December as part of the trade for goalie Tristan Jarry, scored for the first time since last year's ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyrese Maxey had 29 points and eight steals hours after being named an All-Star starter for the first time and Joel Embiid had 30 points and nine rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 113-104 win over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night. Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 18 ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Travis Konecny scored twice for his first multigoal game this season and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Monday. Philadelphia stopped a six-game slide and ended Vegas' seven-game winning streak. The Flyers improved to 6-8-2 since opening the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Charlie Coyle scored the deciding goal in the shootout and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Saturday night. Kent Johnson also scored in the shootout for the Blue Jackets, who won their fourth straight game. It was the third consecutive win under ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored one of Pittsburgh's three power-play goals and the Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 on Thursday night. Crosby also had an assist to become the eighth player in NHL history with at least 19 50-point seasons. Crosby, who reached 50 for the sixth ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jaylon Tyson scored a career-high 39 points, Evan Mobley's dunk with 4.8 seconds left was the winner and the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers completed a two-game sweep of the 76ers in Philadelphia with a 117-115 victory on Friday night. Donovan Mitchell added 13 points, ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mika Zibanejad became the Rangers' all-time leader in power-play goals and his three-goal performance tied the team record for most career hat tricks in New York's 6-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday. The 32-year-old Swede scored with a man advantage at 5:38 ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored the deciding goal in the shootout and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 on Tuesday night for their 11th straight win. J.J. Moser scored in regulation and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 26 saves for the Lightning, who have not lost since ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Art Rooney II sensed Mike Tomlin might be ready for a change. Nineteen years doing any job is a long time, let alone in the white-hot spotlight that comes with coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers. So when Tomlin walked into Rooney's office on Tuesday and told his longtime boss ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Rasmus Dahlin scored a pair of power-play goals and the Buffalo Sabres won for the 14th time in their last 16 games, 5-2 over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night. Mattias Samuelsson, Jack Quinn and Ryan McLeod also scored goals, while Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 20 ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cavaliers guard Darius Garland has sustained another foot injury. A two-time All-Star, Garland hurt his right foot in Cleveland's 133-107 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night and was doubtful to play in the rematch on Friday. Garland was ruled out for the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sheldon Rankins is well-versed in the Houston Texans' nondescript playoff history. The veteran defensive tackle is hell-bent on writing a different ending this time. And he's hardly alone. The NFL's best defense is eager to prove it's a unit capable of winning a ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin, as always, got right to the point. "When you don't get it done, words are cheap," a subdued Tomlin said Monday night after the Pittsburgh Steelers were quickly ushered out of the playoffs again, this time in a 30-6 loss to Houston. "It's about what you do or ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin was an unknown when the Pittsburgh Steelers plucked him from obscurity in 2007 and handed the young and charismatic Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator one of the most stable jobs in sports. Over the next 19 seasons, Tomlin wrote his own chapter with one of ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored on each of his first two shots and assisted on Gage Goncalves' two goals to help the Tampa Bay Lightning win their ninth straight game, 7-2 over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night. The teams will meet against Monday night in ...
BOSTON (AP) — Joonas Korpisalo made 27 saves for his first shutout of the season and the eighth of his career, Viktor Arvidsson scored and the Boston Bruins beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 on Sunday. The Bruins won for the fifth time in six games despite going 0 for 6 on the power play a ...