PARIS — Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was already a tennis phenom at age 15. At 19, she's a Grand Slam champion. The eighth-ranked Andreeva ended the run of 114th-ranked Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska by 6-3, 6-2 in the French Open final on Saturday. Andreeva became the youngest ...
ATLANTA — Mauricio Dubón homered for the third straight game and the Atlanta Braves opened another home series with a victory, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-3, on Friday night. Dubón was 2 for 4 with three RBIs and two runs. It is the first time in his eight-year career he has homered ...
SAN ANTONIO — Go crazy, New York. Or, perhaps more accurately, crazier. The red-hot Knicks are going home, two wins away from an NBA championship that the capital of the world has been waiting to see for generations. Jalen Brunson hit a go-ahead free throw with 9.5 seconds left after a ...
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers are making a big investment in tight end Darnell Washington. The club signed the 6-foot-7, 264-pound Washington to a new five-year contract that will keep him in black and gold for the rest of the decade. Washington, who had a career-best 31 receptions ...
HOUSTON — Ryan O’Hearn homered and drove in three runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 win over the Houston Astros on Thursday night. O’Hearn hit an RBI single in the first inning and his two-run homer in the sixth made it 4-0. Pittsburgh’s Jared Jones (1-0) allowed four hits ...
HOUSTON — Cam Smith hit a tiebreaking two-run triple to cap Houston's six-run eighth inning, Isaac Paredes homered and the Astros overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-9 on Wednesday night. Yordan Alvarez had four hits and two RBIs for the Astros. Smith and Paredes ...
