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With the Pittsburgh Pirates out of playoff contention, first baseman Rowdy Tellez was playing for an opportunity to receive a $200,000 bonus based on plate appearances. He entered Tuesday with 421 plate appearances, four away from earning that additional bonus. For Tellez, the chance was dashed. With five games left …

BOSTON — Missing out on the Finals MVP award and getting benched in the Olympics must have been challenging for Jayson Tatum to handle. Still, he said Tuesday morning, Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla loved to see the All-NBA forward gifted potential sources of motivation. “Joe was probably the happiest …

NEW YORK — Sabrina Ionescu’s final pass of the New York Liberty’s 91-82 Game 2 victory over the Atlanta Dream was to no one in particular. In fact, it was less of a chest pass, and more of a celebratory spike — an emphatic bounce of the basketball around midcourt …

Football shirts were once an item of clothing for a) players to wear at work, and b) fans to sport on the terraces in solidarity with the lads out on the pitch. Now, what must seem abruptly to the uninitiated, they have become the uniform for British music festivals and …

Shohei Ohtani did not build this place. It only feels that way. Dodger Stadium existed long before he was born and figures to remain a beacon tucked in the canyons of Chavez Ravine long after his career ends. But the ballpark has, in its 63rd year, been remade in his …

By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman The fifth annual NHL Player Tiers are here and we’ve upped the ante. This year we’ve cooked up a list of the top 150 players in the league separated into five groups: the MVP cornerstones, the franchise pillars, the All-Star candidates, the bona fide stars and …

CINCINNATI — Actions speak louder than words, right? Well, if you went to sleep after “Monday Night Football” with your ears ringing, blame Jayden Daniels. The Washington Commanders rookie quarterback uncorked a scintillating, sensational and spectacular road performance in his prime-time debut. Daniels outdueled his fellow LSU Heisman Trophy winner, …

By Tim Britton, Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. Well then, we’ve made it — through 25 weeks of power rankings, through ups …

The NFL has evolved to a point where a record 15 Black starting quarterbacks started Week 1 of the 2024 season. That’s a far cry from when Warren Moon chose to sign with the CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos after a standout college career at Washington because he felt he wouldn’t get a fair …

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The “M-V-P!” chants inside Highmark Stadium began with 3:25 still left in the first quarter. Though excitedly premature, Buffalo Bills fans weren’t wrong. They simply couldn’t know Josh Allen was merely beginning his onslaught Monday night. By halftime, he’d already had one of the greatest statistical …