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H.S. baseball/softball roundup: Old Lyme’s Bayor records her 700th career strikeout in win over Portland
Old Lyme — Emma Bayor struck out nine in three innings, including the 700th strikeout of her career, as the Old Lyme HIgh School softball team blanked Portland 14-0 Frida...
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Babson Park, Mass. — By the eighth inning of a tight NCAA Division III regional baseball game, Mitchell was long overdue for a game-changing hit.
The Mariners had strande...
Mohegan — DeWanna Bonner had 22 points and six of Connecticut's 14 steals, DiJonai Carrington added 21 points and the Sun used a big fourth quarter to beat the Washington...
Red Hook, N.Y. — Derrel Mitchell of New London pitched a complete game and John Bureau of East Lyme had a key two-run double as the UConn Avery Point baseball team defeat...
Schauffele stays out front at PGA Championship as Scheffler caps a wild day by staying in contention
Louisville, Ky. — Scottie Scheffler was in handcuffs before dawn in the back of a police car. His warmup routine began in a jail cell. And some six hours later, Scheffler...
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Siakam helps Pacers beat Knicks 116-103 in Game 6 to send Eastern Conference semifinals to the limit
Indianapolis — Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle challenged his team to play more physically and more tenaciously Friday night.
His desperate team responded with one of ...
St. Louis — Lars Nootbaar and Masyn Winn hit two-run homers, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Boston 10-6 on Friday night to drop the Red Sox below .500 for the first tim...
Boston — Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice considered it a good omen when the fire alarm went off at the team hotel on Friday afternoon, just as he was settling in for ...
New York — Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton homered, Nestor Cortes won for the first time in 5 1/2 weeks and the New York Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Frida...
New York — Neither Juan Soto nor the Yankees are ruling out in-season discussions about a contract extension for the superstar slugger.
Soto, whose first season with the ...
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Louisville, Ky. — What Tiger Woods really needs is to play more real rounds to get used to hitting important shots in big situations again.
Any chance of that happening t...
Baltimore — His father was a mudder. His mother was a mudder. Yes, this horse loves the slop.
No, Mystik Dan doesn’t need a sloppy track — or “Seinfeld” character Cosmo K...
Jersey City, N.J. — Rising star Attaya Thitikul birdied five of the final seven holes in a round of 7-under 65 to grab the halfway lead in the Mihuho Americas Open on Fri...
Rome — For about an hour, Alexander Zverev had no answer to the rocket-like forehands and perfectly placed drop shots that Alejandro Tabilo kept producing on Rome's red c...
Hartford — Olympic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas' comeback following an eight-year layoff will take another important step on Saturday at the U.S. Classic.
Douglas, w...
Raleigh, N.C. — Chris Kreider had just helped the New York Rangers finally finish off the Carolina Hurricanes with a huge third-period performance when he was asked what ...
Scottie Scheffler, the top-ranked golfer in the world, was handcuffed and detained by Louisville police Friday morning, for a traffic-related incident as he was attemptin...
Madison LaForte’s older brothers played lacrosse in college, Michael for Grove City College and later Babson and Mason at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, where their father...
Katonah, N.Y. — Baker Katko scored five goals, Tyler Gagliardi had three goals and an assist and The Williams School boys’ lacrosse team avenged two regular-season losse...
New London – Music blared from the speakers at Alumni Field on a recent warm spring day as the Mitchell College baseball team took batting practice.
The Mariners soaked i...
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It’s now back to business as usual for Connecticut Sun, Alyssa Thomas
Mohegan — The audience, the opponent, none of that mattered to Alyssa Thomas on opening night at Mohegan Sun Arena.
The Connecticut Sun’s Thomas was runner-up as the WNBA...
Schauffele gets another major scoring record and sets the pace at PGA Championship
Louisville, Ky. — Xander Schauffele is playing some of his best golf without a trophy to show for it. He at least put his name in the PGA Championship record book Thursda...
Breanna Stewart ruins Caitlin Clark's home debut by leading Liberty past Fever 102-66
Indianapolis — Breanna Stewart ruined Caitlin Clark's regular season home debut by scoring 31 points to lead the New York Liberty to a 102-66 win in front of a sellout cr...
Yankees get career-best 8 shutout innings from Clarke Schmidt in 5-0 win to sweep Twins
Minneapolis — Clarke Schmidt cruised to a career-long eight shutout innings after Anthony Volpe led off the game with a home run that sparked a three-run first inning, an...
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