Laurel Med completed a sweep in the best-of-3 George B. Kelley Federation quarterfinals with a 10-6 victory over Sheetz at Mansion Park on Thursday. Tanner Rossman and Grayson Johnson had three hits apiece to lead Laurel Med. Rossman tripled, while Johnson recorded a double. Ryan McConnell ...
Jaxon Smith-Njigba won the AP Offensive Player of the Year award and the Super Bowl last season before the Seattle Seahawks gave him the biggest contract for a wide receiver in NFL history. No surprise he was voted the NFL’s top wideout by The Associated Press in a preseason ...
NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils signed winger Anthony Mantha to a two-year, $9.5 million contract, the team announced Wednesday. He will count $4.75 million against the salary cap through 2027-28. The Quebec native is coming off a breakout season with Pittsburgh in which he set career highs with 33 goals, 31 assists and 64 points. Mantha, who turns 32, in September is nearly two years removed from tearing the ACL in his right knee and beginning a lengthy rehab process. Wimbledon ratings up LONDON — Helped by some mid-match drama, the Wimbledon final between Linda Noskova and ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Atlantic Coast Conference is revamping the tiebreaker format for its football championship game following a controversial finish last season that allowed a five-loss Duke team to get in over then-No. 10-ranked Miami — a situation that put the Hurricanes at risk of missing the expanded College Football Playoff. Miami, which had been the ACC’s most dominant team during the regular season, wound up being selected for the playoff and went on to reach the national title game, where it fell short to No. 1 Indiana, 27-21. Duke beat No. 20 Virginia in the ACC ...
PHILADELPHIA — Expanded playoffs make it harder to predict whether Tarik Skubal and other choice acquisitions will be dealt before the Aug, 3 trade deadline. Twenty-three of the 30 teams are within four games of a playoff position heading into the season’s second half, which opens Thursday with the back-in-contention Philadelphia Phillies hosting the woeful New York Mets. “You’ve got a lot of really good teams that were on the bubble that have gotten in and kind of made it,” Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper said. “Anybody that has an opportunity to get in, anything can ...
Down 3-1 after four innings, Mile Level Physical Therapy scored three runs each in the fifth and sixth innings to beat Sons & Daughters of Italy, 7-5, in Game 1 of a George B. Kelley Baseball Federation best-of-3 quarterfinal at Vets Field on Wednesday. Cody Clapper and Kade Robinson both went 3-for-3 to lead Mile Level in the comeback. Robinson and Troy McNichols both doubled for the winners. Cort Hetrick allowed two unearned runs in four innings of relief to get the win. Game 2 is this evening at 8 p.m. back at Mansion Park. MILE LEVEL PHYSICAL THERAPY (7): Loucks cf 412, Beltz 2b ...
