Saturday, June 15, 2013
Baltimore — Chris Tillman took a two-hitter into the seventh inning, Chris Davis hit his major league-leading 22nd home run and the Baltimore Orioles blanked the Boston Red Sox 2-0 last night in a duel between the top two teams in the AL East. Manny Machado had three …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Canaan — After a four-year field hockey career at Providence College and another four as a U.S. Army officer in the Pacific Northwest, former Mascoma Valley Regional High multi-sport star Kati Lary Jopek returned to the area three …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Chicago — Long after the celebration was over, Marian Hossa finally made it home and managed to fall asleep around 3 a.m. The Chicago star woke up a few hours later, roused by a noisy neighbor. “I think my neighbor decided he was going to drill in the …
Friday, June 14, 2013
New York — After playing in the NBA for 19 years, Jason Kidd is nervous about being a rookie coach. Kidd was introduced yesterday as the new coach of the Brooklyn Nets, less than 24 hours after he was hired by the franchise he led to its greatest …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Foxborough, Mass. — Tom Brady celebrated his completion by throwing his hands into the air and shouting as if it were a game-winning catch. Whoa, calm down. It was only a pass to newcomer Danny Amendola at minicamp more than a month before training camp and with no …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Chicago — Andrew Ference didn’t need a history lesson. He was well aware the Boston Bruins were part of the longest Stanley Cup finals game. That was a triple-overtime marathon against Edmonton that went an extra 55:13 before the Oilers’ Petr Klima scored in Game 1 in 1990. …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Baltimore — Chris Davis singled home the tiebreaking run with two outs in the 13th inning last night, giving the Baltimore Orioles an exhausting 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the opener of a four-game series …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Ardmore, Pa. — Even for Phil Mickelson, his path to the top of the leaderboard yesterday in the U.S. Open was unconventional. He traveled about 2,400 miles in the air and 7,000 yards on the ground. He took …
Friday, June 14, 2013
Ardmore, Pa. — The first approach shot into the fifth green at the 2013 U.S. Open was nearly perfect. And then, like the treacherous slope that makes No. 5’s putting surface perhaps the most difficult at Merion Golf …
Friday, June 14, 2013
New York — The Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks will bring their thunder Down Under. Major League Baseball will open the 2014 regular season in Australia, with the Dodgers and Diamondbacks playing a two-game series at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The matchups March 22-23 mark baseball’s first …