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Who wouldn’t want Kevin Durant on their team?

SEATTLE – A feel-good win for the Yankees quickly turned somber in the ninth inning Monday night.

The Jets are returning to London with the hope that crossing the ocean doesn’t inject turbulence into their season yet again.

Jayson Tatum will have an MRI on the lower leg injury he suffered during the Boston Celtics’ 121-113 Game 4 defeat against the New York Knicks on Monday.

SEATTLE — A feel-good night for the Yankees quickly turned somber in the ninth inning Monday.

The New York Knicks defeated the Boston Celtics 121-113 on Monday at Madison Square Garden to take a 3-1 series lead as Jayson Tatum had to be carried off the court with an apparent leg injury.

Jalen Brunson donned that superhero cape yet again, and his latest second-half explosion spearheaded another frenzied comeback to vault the Knicks within one win of the Eastern Conference finals.

The Giants re-signed veteran WR Lil’Jordan Humphrey only three days after releasing him and added CB T.J. Moore, who impressed during a tryout at rookie minicamp. 

Brett Berard will not be a part of Team USA at the 2025 World Championship over the next couple of weeks, after the 22-year-old Ranger had to pull out at the last minute due to some “physical limitations.”

Dwight Gooden never would’ve admitted it at the time. He knows Paul Skenes probably won’t admit it now — four decades after Gooden’s dazzling rookie year in 1984 and the encore that ended with a Cy Young Award in 1985 — as the Pirates’ ace, either.

When examining the Jets offense in its current state, one glaring hole stands out. Who exactly will be the team’s other wide receivers besides star Garrett Wilson?

Much like its NHL counterpart, the NBA draft lottery ended with a completely shocking result.

This has not been Nikola Jokic’s finest hour, but according to Charles Barkley, the NBA has not done the Nuggets superstar any favors.

Will the Rafael Devers drama push him out of Boston?

The Eagles’ Super Bowl defense will start against a familiar foe.

Rahm has struggled to threaten contenders at majors since departing for LIV Golf

Poor free-throw shooting officially looks to be in Mitchell Robinson’s head.

The Godfather of “granny” free throws has a proposal for Mitchell Robinson: Let me fix your problem.

New Zealand cyclist Dion Smith got quite the scare during the third stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia, after almost being knocked off his bike by a runaway goat on Sunday.

With every game, the Colorado Rockies’ season seems to be getting worse. And a day after a historically bad loss, the team has parted ways with manager Bud Black.

Travis Hunter isn’t just a standout football player.

Francisco Lindor showed a little extra emotion after his latest home run heroics. Lindor flipped his bat stylishly, then pumped his fist as he began his trek around the bases. The most underrated Mets superstar deserved every ounce of that mini celebration. His homers all seem like big ones. But this might be his biggest yet this wonderful year.

Barcelona are seven points clear atop La Liga with the victory

The Cavaliers are in major trouble.

Jalen Brunson has found his shot in the fourth quarter of each game of this Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Butler just didn't get enough help as Minnesota took a 2-1 lead

Jannik Sinner enjoyed a winning return to tennis on Saturday after serving a three-month doping ban, as he defeated Mariano Navone in front of a rapturous crowd at his home Italian Open.

Juan Soto ended the Mets’ 6-5 loss to the Cubs on Saturday night with a grounder to second, completing an 0-for-5 night for the slugger.

Knicks’ grades from their 115-93 Game 3 loss to the Celtics on Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden:

The Islanders should be attracting the best and brightest candidates for the vacancies in the executive suite. Maybe they are, and maybe that’s the process unfolding behind closed doors.

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After his first taste of Major League Baseball in a steamy, windy minor league park, Aaron Judge watched as a couple of mishits ended up on the warning track.

Back in the watercolor summer of 1969, as the Mets were getting the hang of playing competent baseball for the very first time, there came a three-game series at Shea Stadium with the first-place Cubs in early July that was quite literally the first important games the Mets ever played. 

It is one of those queries that first-year players hear quite often as they embark on a new chapter of their football life: 

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The Mets are now in the midst of consecutive weekends in which they will play the Cubs, Yankees and Dodgers. 

Everywhere Jaxson Dart went, every 7-on-7 throw he made inside the fieldhouse, Brian Daboll was right there coaching him.

The WBO junior lightweight title is on the line on Saturday night in San Diego

Towns has shown his versatility as New York has built an improbable 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals

Here's how Dart landed in the Big Apple and his expectations for Year 1

The Mets came back home Friday, where they keep on winning. 

Tom Thibodeau doesn’t believe the new pope means his Knicks are now destined to win it all. 

Baseball broadcasts are used to cutting cameras away from unruly fans making obscene gestures — but the blame for one caught live on the air remains the broadcast’s own.

Sometimes it’s about winning the mind game, and ex-Knicks star David Lee says his former team has the edge in that department against the Celtics.

The Texans might not have been Joe Schoen’s first choice in the Jaxson Dart trade.

A pivotal offseason for Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller will coincide with his recovery from surgery on an upper-body injury he sustained toward the end of the 2024-25 season. 

Rafael Devers may be waging his war against the Red Sox front office alone.

The top of the leaderboard is crowded -- and talented -- one week ahead of the PGA Championship

Meanwhile, in the Celtics-Knicks series, Jalen Brunson has planted himself on the top shelf of the NBA's elite

Draymond Green lashed out Thursday night against what he believes to be a portrayal of him as an “angry black man” following the 117-93 Game 2 loss to the Timberwolves.

Motorcycle racing is dangerous, of that there is no doubt. But within the sport there is one category that sits (bruised) head and (fractured) shoulders above the others.