Massey leads off 7th with go-ahead HR, Cameron has 9 Ks as Royals beat Twins 2-1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Michael Massey led off the seventh inning with a go-ahead home run, Noah Cameron had nine strikeouts in eight innings of one-run ball and the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 2-1 on Wednesday night. Massey hit a 422-foot shot off reliever A.J. Minter (1-2) to right center. Massey went 2 for 3 and scored twice. The Royals have won nine of their last 10 games at Kauffman Stadium, the best home record in the MLB since July 5. Kyle Isbel hit a sacrifice fly — Kansas City's AL-leading 39th this season — in the sixth. Cameron (6-8), who struck ...
ESPN analyst Dick Vitale says blood tests are ‘very good’ after his fifth cancer diagnosis
NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime college basketball announcer Dick Vitale says he is making positive strides after announcing in April that he had been diagnosed with cancer for the fifth time. The 87-year-old Vitale said on social media Wednesday that recent blood tests came back "very good" and that the immunotherapy treatments that he has been receiving are "very effective in wiping out the cancer." Vitale was first diagnosed with cancer in 2021, when he revealed that he had melanoma. He also was diagnosed with lymphoma and, after being declared cancer-free, learned in 2023 that he had ...
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Larry Fitzgerald entering Hall of Fame as Cardinals icon after 17 years of pass-catching excellence
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Larry Fitzgerald came to the Arizona Cardinals as a 20-year-old intent on becoming an NFL superstar. First, he had to learn how to do some laundry. As Fitzgerald — one of the greatest and most productive receivers in league history — prepares to go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday in Canton, Ohio, his favorite memories of the only team he played for during a stellar 17-year career aren't always about the team's unlikely run to the Super Bowl during the 2008 season, the playoff wins or the individual highlights. Instead, he remembers folding ...
What to know as women’s flag football surges toward NCAA championship status ahead of 2028 LA Games
Get ready to see plenty more of the flag-pulling, fast-paced game of football that was all over television screens last month. Flag football is taking the stage in advance of its Olympic debut in 2028 at the LA Games. Big things are especially happening in the world of women's flag football. The sport sits at the goal line of gaining NCAA championship status, needing just a successful vote in January from the different levels — Divisions I, II and III — to push it across. Should that happen, a women's national title game could take place in the spring of 2028. The appetite to ...