It’s still too early to bank on replacement refs returning to NFL fields this season as negotiations with the referees union remain stuck in the mud.
- JOSH DUBOW Associated Press
The NFL is moving forward with plans to begin hiring and training replacement officials in the next several weeks because negotiations with the referees' union have been unsuccessful.
- MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
Woods' movements were slow and lethargic, he was sweating as he talked to deputies, and he told them he had taken prescription medication earlier in the morning.
- DAVID BRANDT Associated Press
Every moment of any major sporting event can be dissected these days, with officials staring at a TV screen to review calls as much as they're watching the game.
- MARK ANDERSON Associated Press
The Super Bowl will return to Las Vegas in 2029 for the second time after NFL owners voted Monday to award the nation's gambling and entertainment capital the big game.
- ROB MAADDI Associated Press
The NFL is moving forward with plans to begin hiring and training replacement officials because negotiations with the referees' union have been unsuccessful, sources say.
- Matt Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH — To stay or not to stay? That is the question polarizing NFL draft prospects in the winter when the dust settles after the college football season. In years past, this decision was simple — the blue-chippers could leave after three years and get a head start on their financial ea…
President Donald Trump is hosting a UFC fight on White House grounds to celebrate his 80th birthday and the nation’s 250th anniversary. Trump has long supported UFC.
Going into Thursday night's games, teams had a 60.7% success rate on challenges, going 17 of 28 through the first 10 games of the regular season.
New York's José Caballero thought for sure the pitch from Logan Webb had missed the strike zone, so he challenged — making major league history in the process.
RENTON, Wash. — As Jaxon Smith-Njigba sat at a table at the VMAC Wednesday flanked by Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald and general manager John Schneider, he several times looked in the direction of his father, Maada, sitting in the audience. Smith-Njigba, there to discuss a new contract that will make him the highest-paid player in team history, recalled that it was with his father ...
The NBA has finally decided to consider expanding past its current 30-team footprint.
DALLAS — Tom House was ahead of his time as the pitching coach of the Texas Rangers from 1985-92, which is to say people didn’t get it back then. Especially the footballs. I can still see his pitchers in right field during warmups throwing the prettiest spirals you ever saw. Joe Namath couldn’t have spun it any better. Problem was umpires insisted they use baseballs, which seemed like foreign ...
Tiger Woods showed signs of impairment Friday at the scene of a car crash in which he struck another vehicle and rolled his Land Rover, authorities said.
Major League Baseball’s new Automated Ball-Strike System changes how pitches get called, and some players gain while others lose. On Wednesday night, it makes its regular-season debut.
Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers travel to Toronto for a World Series rematch in April, and Philadelphia hosts the All-Star Game in July as the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary.
James could take outright possession of his next record Saturday night, when he's scheduled to play in his 1,612nd career regular-season game — breaking a tie with Robert Parish.
NEW YORK — Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising games in perhaps the last season before a labor shutdown.
In less than five months, athletes will play in the first women's professional baseball league in the United States in more than 70 years.
Let’s start with the part that will make positional-value purists reach for the emergency alarm: my top four prospects in the 2026 NFL draft all play non-premium positions. A running back. A linebacker. A safety. A guard. I’m not sorry, because sometimes the cleanest tape, the clearest impact and the safest projection do not come wrapped in quarterback logic or edge-rusher inflation. I’ve ...
CHICAGO — Billionaire investor Justin Ishbia is on the verge of buying an Amtrak rail yard southwest of downtown and just across the Chicago River from The 78, a new mixed-use development still eyed as a possible future home of the Chicago White Sox. Ishbia, the founder and managing partner of Chicago-based private equity firm Shore Capital Partners, forged an agreement last year with White ...
PHILADELPHIA — Kevin Willard, Villanova’s men’s basketball coach, described the NCAA Tournament on Tuesday as “the best tournament arguably in all of sports,” which is the sort of assertion that, especially at this time of year, passes through your mind without a second thought. Yes. Of course. This is March. This is the month during which college basketball goes from a niche sport to the ...
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Long gone are the days where impulse buying meant grabbing an unplanned candy bar or magazine in the checkout line. Now, social media makes it quick and easy for us to purchase just about anything with the click of a button, whether or not it’s in the budget. And for some Americans, it’s hurting them...
Black Friday is fast approaching, and shoppers are gearing up. The National Retail Federation expects more than 183 million people to shop over the weekend spanning Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday this year. But fraudsters are preparing for Black Friday too, looking for opportunities to steal your money or personal information. Before you dive into holiday...
Holiday shopping season is upon us, and the pressure is on, or at least it feels that way for some parents. A new NerdWallet survey, conducted by The Harris Poll, finds that 48% of parents with children under 18 feel pressure to spend more money on holiday gifts than they’re comfortable spending.According to NerdWallet’s annual...
The deal is expected to greatly increase player salaries with a good chance for million dollar players — a first for the league entering its 30th season that will start on time.
Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic for the first time, rebounding from a blown eighth-inning lead to beat the United States 3-2 Tuesday night on Eugenio Suárez’s tiebreaking double in the ninth.
Tarik Skubal could become a free agent for the first time after the World Series next fall, along with Freddy Peralta, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Randy Arozarena.
Travis Etienne won a national championship with Clemson following the 2018 college football season. He was named the ACC player of the year in 2018 and 2019. He was a consensus All-American in 2020, the same year he became the ACC's all-time leading rusher. He has rushed for more than 1,000 yards in three of his four NFL seasons, all of which have been spent with the Jacksonsville Jaguars. And ...
Toronto had a .265 team batting average last year and nearly became the first World Series champion since the 2018 Boston Red Sox to lead the major leagues in batting.
The Green Bay Packers finished the season with a 9-7-1 before being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs to the Chicago Bears.
NFL free agency spending has reshaped the early pecking order, with a few teams gaining real momentum and others taking hits.
Iran's sports and youth minister said that the country is in no position to take part in the World Cup after the U.S. killed its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.