GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona is feeling much better these days. He has a rod in his left foot that bothers him when he wears his beloved flip-flops, but that's a breeze compared with what he experienced in the past. The former big league infielder dealt with gastrointestinal problems and blood-clotting issues [...]

Golden State coach Steve Kerr wants a shorter NBA season. Milwaukee All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo does not. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver isn't sure what the right answer is. Such is the conundrum with the NBA's ongoing battle with load management — often the fancy way of saying resting — and finding ways to optimize player health, [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Vintage racecars crowded into the parking lot of the Streamline Hotel for a "legends party" last week, and hundreds of fans got up-close looks at pieces of NASCAR history. They could have found even more by touring the historic building. The Streamline, which opened in 1941 and has been widely [...]

The Golden State Warriors changed the way the NBA game was played by playing small, spreading the floor and relying heavily on the 3-point shot. The successful tactic dribbled down to college basketball, with teams like Baylor, Virginia and Villanova winning national titles with their versions of position-less basketball. Now that the NBA is starting [...]

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jeff McNeil thinks he'll adapt quickly to baseball's big shift — really, an anti-shift. "I'm playing a normal second base now instead of in short right field. I've been playing second base my whole life so it shouldn't be too hard to adjust to," the New York Mets All-Star infielder and [...]

MINNEAPOLIS — Three years after the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired former Ohio State one-and-done D'Angelo Russell for what then was their dream pairing with Karl-Anthony Towns, they traded him for a much older point guard. In an NBA with so few teams settled on their stars, the Wolves made yet another alteration of their core in [...]

It has happened. LeBron James finally has passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the NBA's career scoring record, the torch getting passed from one member of the Los Angeles Lakers to another. The record-breaker came Tuesday, when James scored 38 points to push his career total to 38,390 — three more than Abdul-Jabbar. Here's the significance of [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Clark Hunt proudly held aloft the AFC championship trophy bearing his father's name, the one signifying that his Kansas City Chiefs were headed back to the Super Bowl for the third time in four years, and reflected that not so long ago, success seemed elusive. It had been 50 years between [...]

Mya Smiley is a student at the University of Akron thanks to an assist from LeBron James, and she is determined upon graduation to become a social worker that helps foster kids. Her education and career path would not have been possible, the sophomore says, were it not for a scholarship and counseling that she [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Donna Kelce is going to have to pull out that now-familiar custom jersey — the one with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce's front stitched to Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce's back — one more time this season. At least this time, she'll get to see her boys in person. [...]