By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Eighth-ranked Penn State is making its first trip to West Virginia since 1992 on Saturday. The Nittany Lions beat the Mountaineers 38-15 in last year's opener in Happy Valley. Penn State quarterback Drew Allar threw for 325 yards and ...
By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer West Virginia and TCU are the only Big 12 teams that are opening the season against Power Four opponents. The Mountaineers are the only one taking on a ranked team, hosting eighth-ranked Penn State on Saturday. It's a rematch of last year's opener when Penn ...
By The Associated Press No. 8 Penn State opens the season at West Virginia on Saturday. The Nittany Lions are going after their third straight 10-win season. West Virginia lost last year's opener 38-15 at Penn State and hopes to be better prepared this time. Quarterback Garrett Greene might ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper hit a game-ending RBI single in the 10th inning off Houston closer Josh Hader, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Astros 3-2 in a matchup of division leaders on Monday night. Brandon Marsh homered for Philadelphia, which won its third straight. The ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dansby Swanson hit a grand slam to cap an eight-run sixth inning, and the Chicago Cubs had eight stolen bases – their most in a game in more than 100 years — on the way to an 18-8 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night. Swanson's slam came off Domingo ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aaron Nola tossed four-hit ball over seven shutout innings and Nick Castellanos hit a three-run homer to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to their fourth straight win, 5-0 over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night. The Phillies may have put their summer malaise behind them ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Seiya Suzuki and Dansby Swanson homered during Chicago's five-run fourth inning, and the Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-5 on Tuesday night to move over .500 for the first time since May 28. Suzuki hit a tying two-run drive for his 19th homer this season, connecting on a ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Salvador Perez hit a grand slam and drove in a career-high six runs as the Kansas City Royals completed a doubleheader sweep of Cleveland, beating the Guardians 9-4 on Monday night to pull within one game of first in the AL Central. The Royals won the opener 4-3 as Bobby ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer As Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark steps up discussions in the conference about adding UConn, the question isn't so much why invite the Huskies as why do it now. "There has never been a better time than right now to be part of the Big 12," ...
By MICHAEL PHILLIPS Associated Press LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Drake Maye completed 13 of 20 passes for 126 yards and a touchdown for New England in the Patriots' 20-10 loss to the Washington Commanders on Sunday night in the preseason finale. Maye, the rookie from North Carolina battling ...
By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rookie Jackson Merrill homered off Edwin Díaz with one out in the ninth to lift the San Diego Padres to a dramatic 3-2 win against the New York Mets and a split of a four-game series between teams in playoff contention. Merrill gestured ...
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 on Sunday to take the weekend series. After Shohei Ohtani was hit on the left forearm by a sinker from Richard Lovelady (3-5), ...
By AMANDA VOGT Associated Press SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Lathan Norton was sick and didn't play on Saturday at the Little League World Series. But on Sunday he scored the winning run in the championship. Lathan raced home from second base on an overthrow at first as Lake Mary, ...
By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit a go-ahead three-run homer over the Green Monster, and the charging Arizona Diamondbacks rallied past the Boston Red Sox 7-5 on Sunday for their sixth straight victory, completing a three-game sweep. Holding the NL's top ...
By ERIC HE Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Joey Estes allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings, and the Oakland Athletics scored four times in the fourth in a 4-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday to avoid a sweep. Estes (6-6) held the Brewers, who had scored 20 runs over the ...
By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saints rookie Spencer Rattler made a case for the backup quarterback job behind veteran Derek Carr. Receiver Samson Nacua made a stirring special teams play that improved his stock, but ended in a manner he'll long regret. Rattler ...
By MARC BOWMAN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kyle Schwarber had two hits and three RBIs and Garrett Stubbs had a career-best four hits to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to an 11-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. After Garrett Stubbs opened the third inning with a ...
GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) — Stewart Cink won The Ally Challenge on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-stroke victory over K.J. Choi. The 51-year-old Cink, the 2009 British Open champion, won in his 10th career start on the 50-and-over tour. He ...
By LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the first inning to become the fifth player with three 50-homer seasons and went deep again in the seventh as the New York Yankees routed the Colorado Rockies 10-3 on Sunday. Judge reached 50 in New ...
By MIKE COOK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Lars Nootbaar hit a two-run single with two out in the ninth inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals rallied past the Minnesota Twins for a 3-2 win on Sunday. Victor Scott II homered for St. Louis, which has won four of five overall. "I love ...