By LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If Aroldis Chapman's 101 mph brush-back pitch Tuesday night didn't push the Yankees-Rays rivalry to its boiling point, Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash's threat certainly did. "Somebody's got to be accountable," Cash said. "And the last thing ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer Miami coach Manny Diaz waited until about a week before the start of training camp before he announced that D'Eriq King would be the team's starting quarterback. It was a formality. From the moment King announced that he was transferring to Miami last ...
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer Mike Norvell has a relatively easy act to follow. Norvell's first season at Florida State should be an upgrade from the Willie Taggart era, which was one of college football's biggest coaching debacles in recent years. Taggart went 9-12 in 21 games in ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Jimmy Butler kept hearing the same message from teammates in every conversation Monday night. "Win the game." He listened to them, and delivered. Butler scored 14 of his playoff career-high 40 points in the fourth ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants acquired left-hander Anthony Banda from the Tampa Bay Rays for $75,000 on Monday, adding depth to their bullpen. Banda went 1-0 with a 10.29 ERA in four outings with one save over seven innings for the Rays before being designated for assignment ...
By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Glasnow flummoxed the Yankees for six innings, Ji-Man Choi and Kevin Kiermaier homered off Gerrit Cole, and the Tampa Bay Rays extended their mastery of New York with a 5-3 victory Monday night. The AL East leaders improved to 7-1 ...
MIAMI (AP) — Willy Adames hit a grand slam and the surging Tampa Bay Rays beat the Miami Marlins 12-7 on Sunday to finish a three-game sweep. Joey Wendle, Yoshi Tsutsugo and Kevin Kiermaier also went deep for the Rays, who have won 12 of their last 14 and have beaten Miami eight straight ...
MIAMI (AP) — Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick returned to practice Monday after missing a scrimmage following his mother's death. Fitzpatrick left just before the scrimmage began Saturday after learning of the death of his mother, Lori. He also missed an earlier practice because ...
By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jaguars moved another step closer to purging Tom Coughlin's tumultuous tenure in Jacksonville. The team waived running back Leonard Fournette on Monday, a stunning decision many outsiders view as the latest in a series of ...
By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars never got the first-round draft pick they wanted for pass rusher Yannick Ngakoue. But coach Doug Marrone says the team "feels good with the compensation" they received in return for a guy with 37 1/2 ...