By RONALD BLUM NEW YORK (AP) — Seven-inning doubleheaders and runners on second base to start extra innings will return for a second straight season under an agreement for 2021 health protocols reached Monday between Major League Baseball and the players’ association. The deal did not include last year’s experimental rule to extend the designated…… read more »
By JAKE SEINER NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has slightly deadened its baseballs amid a years-long surge in home runs. MLB anticipates the changes will be subtle, and a memo to teams last week cited an independent lab that found the new balls will fly 1 to 2 feet shorter when hit over…… read more »
By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the year since the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant crashed into a hillside on a foggy morning, killing all nine aboard, there’s been plenty of finger-pointing over the cause of the tragedy. Bryant’s widow blamed the pilot. She and families of other victims also faulted…… read more »
Catch the action of all seven home games this fall, including UNC at MBS and UGA at Bobby Dodd THE FLATS – An exciting young roster headlined by freshman all-American Jahmyr Gibbs and three-time ACC Rookie of the Week Jeff Sims, six games in college football’s finest setting and one game in one of the…… read more »
By MARK LONG TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Seconds after linebacker Devin White intercepted a pass in the end zone, Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians started doling out hugs. Players, assistants, staffers, they all got in line. Arians unplugged his headset, slipped on a Super Bowl championship hat and braced for the traditional Gatorade shower. He…… read more »
By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady took one final snap, went down on his knee, popped up and hugged his Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammates. With that big, familiar smile. They were champions and Brady put together another vintage performance on football’s biggest stage — doing everything his unquestioned greatness has forced…… read more »
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — So much of it looked familiar — from the heartfelt rendering of the national anthem, to the silvery, star-studded halftime show, to Tom Brady standing there at the end with a mile-wide smile, awash in confetti. So much of it looked strange — from the masked-up coaches on the sideline, to…… read more »
By EDDIE PELLS Though others have eclipsed him in some sections of the record book, Peyton Manning’s stamp on the NFL is very much a thing of 2021 and beyond. Manning, the quarterback whose meticulous attention to detail helped turn the 21st-century gridiron into a chessboard on turf, was awarded his spot in the Pro…… read more »
By GEORGE HENRY ATLANTA (AP) — Trae Young had 28 points and 13 assists, Clint Capela finished with 23 points and 16 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks held off the Toronto Raptors 132-121 to snap a three-game losing streak Saturday night. Chris Boucher scored 29 points off the bench to lead the Raptors, who were…… read more »
By TIM DAHLBERG LAS VEGAS (AP) — Leon Spinks, who won Olympic gold and then shocked the boxing world by beating Muhammad Ali to win the heavyweight title in only his eighth pro fight, has died. He was 67. Spinks, who lived his later years in Las Vegas, died Friday night, according to a release…… read more »
