Sports News

5:15 PM on Thursday, June 18

Chicago White Sox center fielder Everson Pereira was placed on the seven-day injured list with a concussion Thursday, one day after crashing into the left-center field fence at Yankee Stadium

5:12 PM on Thursday, June 18

Ryan Craig is the head coach of the Vegas Golden Knights

5:01 PM on Thursday, June 18

Former Iona basketball player Adam Njie Jr. is permanently ineligible for NCAA competition after acknowledging he said he would participate in a point-shaving scheme

4:57 PM on Thursday, June 18

Olympic 1,500-meter bronze medalist and world champion Jenny Simpson remains under medical care Thursday but shows “encouraging improvement” after collapsing while pacing a mile group at an event in Raleigh earlier this week

4:55 PM on Thursday, June 18

The West Indies has overcome Scotland by seven runs and stayed unbeaten at the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup after a madcap match in Leeds

4:51 PM on Thursday, June 18

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare is hanging up his skates after a hockey career that included reaching the NHL at age 29 and serving as France's captain in the Olympics just weeks before turning 41

4:47 PM on Thursday, June 18

Police say shots were fired in New York's Times Square, far from the NBA champion New York Knicks' victory parade elsewhere in Manhattan

4:42 PM on Thursday, June 18

The Minnesota Twins got off to another fast start and completed a three-game series sweep in Texas

4:37 PM on Thursday, June 18

The World Cup crowd in Atlanta erupted for both the Czech Republic and South Africa during Thursday’s 1-1 draw, but many of the 67,442 fans in attendance weren’t cheering for either team

4:36 PM on Thursday, June 18

A judge has dismissed a felony rape charge against former Brigham Young University standout wide receiver Parker Kingston

4:33 PM on Thursday, June 18

Travis Bazzana hit a go-ahead solo homer in the seventh inning, Parker Messick pitched six effective innings and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2

4:24 PM on Thursday, June 18

Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Adolis García is out for the rest of the season with a lat injury

4:16 PM on Thursday, June 18

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said the state will exercise its right of first refusal to match Churchill Downs Incorporated's $85 million offer for intellectual property of the Preakness Stakes and Black-Eyed Susan Stakes

4:08 PM on Thursday, June 18

Major League Baseball is changing the Home Run Derby format

3:47 PM on Thursday, June 18

As Miles Russell’s putt neared the hole on the ninth green, Padraig Harrington crouched down for a closer look at the way the ball broke

3:26 PM on Thursday, June 18

Brandon Valenzuela hits a go-ahead RBI double off Aroldis Chapman with two outs in the ninth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays completed a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 4-3 win

3:01 PM on Thursday, June 18

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2:05 PM on Thursday, June 18

Police say an Uber driver taking fans of Argentina’s soccer team to a World Cup match was among four people injured in a series of shootings in Kansas City, Missouri, that also left one man dead

1:28 PM on Thursday, June 18

Baseball owners proposed banning high school players from signing with major league teams, raising the age for international amateurs and slashing the money spent on signing bonuses in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement Thursday

1:09 PM on Thursday, June 18

Lionel Messi's family says the Argentina captain's father is undergoing medical treatment for an undisclosed illness