Jordan Montgomery shut down the Houston Astros and Leody Taveras homered as the Texas Rangers did just enough against Justin Verlander to get a 2-0 victory in the opener of the AL Championship Series Sunday night. Montgomery pitched five-hit ball over 6 1/3 scoreless…
Whatever the Toronto Blue Jays need Kevin Gausman to do over the next few days, he’ll do it. Austin Wells smashed a two-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the New York Yankees over…
Venus Williams will play in the upcoming Western & Southern Open after getting a wild card, the tournament revealed Monday. It is the second hardcourt event Williams will be playing this summer ahead of the US…
Three years after retiring from professional tennis, former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki announced she would be returning to the sport in a first-person essay for Vogue on Thursday. Wozniacki, 32, said she started hitting again after her second…
Jennifer Jones will skip a team at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts for the 17th time in her career after beating Abby Ackland 10-5 to win Manitoba’s women’s curling championship Sunday. Only Colleen Jones (21)…
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 32nd homer and the Toronto Blue Jays edged closer to the top seed for an American League wild card series with a 5-1 rain-shortened triumph over the Baltimore Orioles on…
Over about 24 hours on the weekend, the Toronto Blue Jays scored 44 runs — 22 combined across a Saturday doubleheader and another 22 in one game on Sunday, all versus the Baltimore Orioles. At…
Serena Williams’ disappointing return to tennis continued when she lost in consecutive sets to 68th-ranked Katerina Siniakova in the second round of the Emilia-Romagna Open on Tuesday. Top-seeded Williams, who accepted a wild-card invitation for the Parma…
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from next week’s event in Parma, Italy, with what the WTA Tour describes as “continuing illness.” Mississauga, Ont. native was booked to return for Italian Open but withdrew…
It wasn’t too long ago that Rafael Nadal was handing Carlos Alcaraz a PlayStation as the boy’s prize at a local tennis tournament in Spain. Now the Spanish great is about to play versus the promising youngster in the…
Quebec’s rookie team at the Canadian women’s curling championship injected intrigue into its pool Monday. Laurie St-Georges handed Wild Card One its first loss. Quebec pulled the foursome skipped by Chelsea Carey back into the…
Kim Clijsters has been given a wild card into next month’s BNP Paribas Open, another step in her tennis comeback at age 36. The four-time major winner won in 2003 and 2005 at Indian Wells…
