Month: July 2016

Closing in on 3,000 hits, Ichiro Suzuki isn’t inclined to stop there. He’s 42, and for some time has said — in Japanese and English — he wants to play until at least 50. He’s joking, right? “Probably not,” says New York Mets manager Terry Collins, who managed the Orix Buffaloes in Japan and is […]

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Chris Froome kept his lead intact during the final day of climbing in the Alps on Saturday and was poised to secure his third Tour de France title in four years. “I still need to get the yellow jersey to Paris tomorrow but the race is done and dusted,” Froome said. Spanish rider Jon Izagirre […]

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New Zealand’s Hurricanes and South Africa’s Lions booked their places in the Super Rugby semifinals on Saturday, joining the defending champion Highlanders as three of the last four teams in the tournament were decided. The Wellington-based Hurricanes, last year’s losing finalists, crushed the Sharks 41-0 in a quarterfinal played in hurricane-force winds. The Lions got […]

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Mo Farah cruised to victory in the 5,000 meters and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce fell short in a sluggish sprint in a Diamond League meet on Saturday in contrasting fortunes for the Olympic champions in their final races before heading to Rio de Janeiro. Back on the London track where he became a double Olympic champion four […]

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Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale was scratched from his start against the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night and sent home after he destroyed collared throwback uniforms that the team was scheduled to wear. Matt Albers, who started in Sale’s place, confirmed the incident, but the White Sox provided no details after their game against […]

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The NBA All-Star Game’s exit from North Carolina because of a law limiting protections for LGBT people represents some of the worst publicity yet for Republican Gov. Pat McCrory’s re-election campaign, even as he dismisses the move as political correctness gone too far. The 2017 event’s departure from Charlotte deprives the state of an estimated […]

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Hisashi Iwakuma worked six innings on Saturday to earn his 11th win of the season for the Seattle Mariners in a 14-5 thumping of the Toronto Blue Jays. Before 47,517 at Rogers Centre, Iwakuma (11-6) allowed two runs on four hits and three walks, while striking out three on a 31-degree day to win his […]

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For the first time in a long time, the next big major league player to come out of Japan could well be a position player, Tokyo Yakult Swallows second baseman Tetsuto Yamada. The 24-year-old Yamada is on a pace to far surpass his production from a year ago, when he earned all but eight of […]

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