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Cubs bringing back Schwarber

In his second year with the Cubs, Lackey has struggled to find a rhythm, going 5-9 with a 5.20 ERA, allowing a major-league high 24 homers this season. To make ...

Chelsea star says his goodbyes ahead of imminent transfer

Chelsea striker Diego Costa has reportedly said his goodbyes to his teammates as he prepares for an imminent transfer back to Atletico Madrid . In case ...

Red Sox throw another lefty at Rays

Whew! The Boston Red Sox suffered a bad loss to the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Thursday night, but they could have lost much more. The Boston Red Sox's offen...

Merkel hopes for G-20 win-win solutions; protests expected

Police told the Associated Press that they had asked a handcore group of anti-capitalists to remove their masks but they had refused. There was actually...

San Antonio Spurs: Rudy Gay Signs 2-Year Deal

Gay will likely be remembered when he retires as a talented scorer who was miscast as a lead option and who frustrated observers by never reaching his star po...

Tim Hardaway Jr. signs $71M-plus offer sheet with Knicks

The Hawks will have a 48-hour window to match the offer if they hope to retain the hot-shooting swingman home. After struggling in his first season in Atlanta, ...

Whites in talks with ex-Newcastle ace Vurnon Anita, freebie looks on

The club are starting a new project with promotion in mind and that was one of the things that attracted me. They are just like Newcastle: great supporters wh...

Memphis Grizzlies To Retire Zach Randolph's Jersey

The 40-year old has agreed to a one-year, $8 million deal with the Sacramento Kings according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN . The two will now become teamm...

Wimbledon 2017: Dominant Novak Djokovic cruises into round three

Tomic also said he had called for medical treatment during the match against Zverev to "break a bit of momentum" and that he had no real injury. The statement...

Heat sign C Olynyk

Johnson was ranked No. 26 on the list of top available free agents this offseason compiled by ESPN's Kevin Pelton. Agent Greg Lawrence confirmed the decisio...

Federer cruises into third round

The seven-times champion at Wimbledon led was a set and a break up when Alexandr Dolgopolov quit with an ankle injury after 43 minutes. Novak Djokovic , th...

Royals' Mike Moustakas gets final spot in All-Star Game

They were on top of each daily voting update this week leading up to Thursday evening's results announcement on MLB Network. Turner won with a record of 20.8 mi...

Milos Teodosic agrees to 2-year, $12.3 million deal with Clippers

Teodosic, 30, has played each of the past 10 years overseas. Teodosic and Beverley played together in Greece. Bill Oram, a Clippers reporter, confirmed the ...

Kittel bursts through to win Tour de France stage six

At the moment I am still second. It's another ideal stage for Quick-Step's Marcel Kittel, who would continue climbing closer to Arnaud Demare's lead in the gree...

Ice Cube pitches cross-promotion for Big3 basketball league, Mayweather-McGregor fight

I really feel we've come on leaps on bounds in a very short. "That's a huge amount of extra rounds". "You know, remember Bernard used to fight and he used to ...

Mavericks finalizing 2-year, $10 million deal with Dirk Nowitzki

After playing in 75 games or more in three consecutive seasons, injuries limited Nowitzki to just 54 appearances for the Mavericks in 2016-17. That salary f...

Wayne Rooney set to make Everton return this week

Everton's unrelenting summer recruitment plan had turned its attentions back to former youth prodigy and Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney . Accordi...

Knee injury leaves Bethanie Mattek-Sands screaming on the ground at Wimbledon

Mattek-Sands, 32, was forced to retire from the second-round match with the score 4-6, 7-6 (4), 0-0 (40-15). "I said, 'I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.' I think [i...

Dodgers' Wood fans 10 D-backs, improves to 10-0

Wood improved to 10-0 on the season after allowing three hits and walking two on 85 pitches to lower his ERA to 1.67. He's the first Dodgers pitcher with 13 win...

F1 Raceweek: Vettel and Hamilton probed on Baku row

Sebastian Vettel (left) escaped punishment for colliding with Lewis Hamilton at the Azerbaijan GP last month. "I don't think there was a need in that regard t...

Bora-hansgrohe appeal Peter Sagan's Tour de France 2017 disqualification to CAS

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday morning, Sagan said he didn't agree with the sanction but had accepted it. A two-time world champion and five-time victor...

Kyle Schwarber returns to Cubs after Triple-A stopover

Almora will start in center field and bat sixth versus Rays southpaw Blake Snell. In 11 games with Triple-A Iowa, Schwarber hit.343 with four home runs. But w...

Kentucky Wildcats' PJ Washington leads United States of America past Italy in U19 World Cup

The US, aiming to make it a hat-trick of triumphs at the biennial event, claimed a 117-69 win over their African opponents at the Cairo Stadium. The U.S will ...

Barcelona renews contract with Messi until 2021

The 30-year-old all-time club-record goalscorer has been linked to the Premier League with last year's tax evasion case nearly sending him into the arms of Manc...

Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal Advance at Wimbledon 2017

However, not everybody is longing for a return to the era of Sampras and the other great serve volleyers, when Wimbledon's perfectly manicured lawns would fir...

Daniil Medvedev vs Stan Wawrinka

The wave of emotion came as Williams attempted to answer a question about the two-car crash that police say she caused June 9 in Florida; a 78-year-old passenge...

Richard Jefferson to return to Cavaliers, but James Jones might not

James Jones' future with the Cavs remains uncertain. He has one guaranteed year remaining on his contract at $2.5 million. Now headed back to the defending...

USA strikes al Shabaab militants in Somalia - Pentagon

It did not disclose additional information such as the number of fighters killed. On the other hand, they're not offering numerous details they clearly alread...

Kenny Florian Wonders About Five-Round Effect In Nunes-Shevchenko 2

The balance of power in UFC's women's bantamweight division has shifted drastically in the past two years. Just three days before Shevchenko, Nunes and the enti...

Victoria Police investigating AFL diversity manager Ali Fahour punch

After the hearing Fahour expressed his love for the game. Now it seems that his on-field actions have come under scrutiny from Victoria Police, with Fahour fa...

Sources say Warriors' Kevin Durant to take less money than projected

Haynes also reported that Durant's second year is a player option, just like the deal he signed with the Dubs last offseason that allowed him to opt out and res...

Ill Kvitova like 'slow animal' in Wimbledon loss

Konta, Britain's biggest hope for a women's champion at Wimbledon worked her way into the third round after a severe test from Croatia's Donna Vekic . Two-ti...

Terry Francona admitted to hospital to undergo more tests

That sentiment was a sort of blanket statement for the entire process, as Antonetti also dismissed the idea of Francona missing the All-Star Game in Miami, as w...

Andy Murray wants more from British contingent at Wimbledon

Murray won that clash in straight sets and Brown is expecting another stern examination on Wednesday. Murray said: "It's obviously good to have more players p...

Connor McDavid signs $100M contract with the Oilers

Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli said that the dollars could have been higher and the term shorter but that McDavid wanted the Oilers to be able to constr...