PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Pop Watson III passed for 197 yards and three touchdowns as UMass ended a 16-game losing streak with a 37-21 win over Rutgers in the season-opener for both teams on Thursday night. It ended the longest current losing streak in the FBS. The Minutemen’s last win against ...
NEW YORK — Alex Eala and her fans are headed to the weekend at the U.S. Open, along with two-time champion Naomi Osaka and 2023 winner Coco Gauff. So is Madison Keys — just barely — but not No. 3 Felix Auger-Aliassime, who became the highest-seeded player knocked out of the tournament ...
CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs have shut down right-hander Ben Brown for the rest of the season so he can fully heal from a stress reaction in his neck that has sidelined him since mid-June. The 26-year-old Brown is 4-2 with a 1.85 ERA in 20 games this season, including his final eight as a ...
For all the changes happening in college football nowadays, one thing remains the same: Week 1 blowouts. There should be a bunch of them when the season hits full stride with Labor Day weekend games scheduled Thursday through Monday. The average predicted point spread is 26 points for the 18 ...
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was suspended for one year by the NBA, and the team was ordered to forfeit five first-round draft picks and pay a $30 million fine for violating salary cap circumvention rules in a case involving Kawhi Leonard. Also, president of ...
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta says the team is still waiting on the NFL’s investigation into receiver Rashod Bateman’s arrest earlier this offseason. “In these matters we just really kind of sit back and wait for the league and for the authorities ...
