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LOS ANGELES — We need bat flips.

The home run swing-off to end Tuesday's All-Star Game was great. Whether you embrace it as a revelation or dismiss it as a gimmick, baseball needs more of that kind of imagination on the...Read more

ATLANTA — A few hours before Tuesday’s All-Star Game at Truist Park, Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong was considering which bat to use.

He picked up a colorful model from his locker and showed it to the...Read more

MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins have Jonah Savaiinaea penciled in as one of the team’s starting guards from the day they drafted the University of Arizona standout in the second round. Whether he’s on the left or the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Don Kelly has managed the Pirates to a 27-32 record since he took over, and that is a significant improvement for the team. Derek Shelton was 12-26 to start the season, and that is one of the reasons that he...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — More than any other sport, baseball requires patience.

The game is played without a clock, and its calendar stretches from Valentine’s Day to Halloween. Historically, Major League Baseball invites fewer ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Think back. It’s difficult, sure. It’s especially difficult in light of that press release that the 76ers dropped Monday: that Paul George had knee surgery earlier in the day. That he would be ...Read more

ATLANTA — In a week where so much of the focus was on players who weren’t playing in the All-Star Game, and those who were selected who weren’t seen as deserving, it was the player who had been in more Midsummer ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Amarillo (Texas) Sod Poodles play in a stadium called “Hodgetown,” which features a berm beyond the right-field fence and a massive blue batter’s eye stretching skyward in center. The baseball Lazaro ...Read more

BOSTON — The Connecticut Sun and Indiana Fever put on a show for a sold-out crowd of more than 19,000 fans at TD Garden on Tuesday night, but the visiting team emerged with an 85-77 victory after seven lead changes and ...Read more

DENVER — Burnham Yard or Lone Tree? Frankly, my dear, Tom Jacobsen doesn’t give a dome.

“What makes football so unique is the fact that they will play in anything,” the Broncos lifer told me. Jacobsen, 54, has had...Read more

LAS VEGAS — NBA expansion is among the items expected to be discussed Tuesday when the league’s board of governors meets in Las Vegas during the Summer League.

After years of talks about the potential to expand from ...Read more

ATLANTA — Nobody beat The Miz at the All-Star Game.

Just don’t tell the Phillies.

Jacob Misiorowski was a central figure over the two days in Atlanta after being named last week to the National League roster as a ...Read more

ATLANTA — Making his seventh All-Star Game appearance Tuesday night at Truist Park, New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge suddenly felt ancient at age 33.

“My biggest takeaway is that I keep getting older,” Judge ...Read more

NEW YORK — Eli Manning still has a desk inside the Giants’ building, but he won’t be buying a stake in the team.

The franchise is looking to sell up 10% of a minority stake in the organization. Manning, 44, the two-...Read more

ATLANTA — I arrived to the concourse beyond the left-field stands Monday evening with a glove and a hope for what could be.

Ditching the press box for the outfield stands seemed to offer the most potential for fun in ...Read more

ATLANTA — More than nine months have passed since the Pohlad family announced its intention to explore a sale of the Minnesota Twins, but the delay in finding a buyer, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said ...Read more

ATLANTA — The hierarchy of stars was obvious even in the table arrangements.

At an All-Star Game media day event on Monday at the Roxy Coca-Cola Theater in Atlanta, the Dodgers' five All-Star representatives were in the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dan Serafini was a first-round draft pick from a prestigious private high school. He pitched professionally for 22 seasons and earned more than $14 million while with six Major League teams and two in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark’s previous visit to Barclays Center marked a rare low point in her young career.

Then a rookie, Clark managed only three points on 1-of-10 shooting in her Indiana Fever’s blowout loss to the...Read more