The Royals’ Billy Butler after stealing second in the third inning. It was Butler’s first steal since 2012.
Kansas City shook off an early 1-0 deficit and rolled to an easy victory, advancing to the American League Championship Series, where it will face the Baltimore Orioles.
Jayson Werth hit a fly ball for the final out in the 18th on Saturday.
The Washington Nationals are in danger of another first-round knockout after earning the top seed in the National League playoffs.
Taking a break from swimming after his second D.U.I. arrest, the Olympic champion Michael Phelps began a six-week program Sunday that he said “will provide the help I need to better understand myself.”
The rookie wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. catching a fourth-quarter pass for a touchdown in his first N.F.L. game.
The rookie Andre Williams scored on a 3-yard run, and Odell Beckham Jr., a first-round draft choice who had been hampered by a hamstring injury, scored the go-ahead touchdown.
The Jets’ loss to the Chargers revealed that while the team’s problems may start at quarterback, they don’t end there.
Tens of thousands of Packers fans are shareholders in the team, making them in some ways a proxy for fans across the nation and the conscience of the N.F.L.
Nelson Cruz hitting a two-run homer in the sixth inning to propel the Orioles and their manager, Buck Showalter, into the American League Championship Series.
Earlier in his career, Buck Showalter had to watch teams he had led to the playoffs — the Yankees and the Diamondbacks — win World Series titles the season after he departed.
This season’s playoffs have been exciting, but they also are demonstrating a need to shorten the length of games.
Utah’s Jared Norris, left, tackling U.C.L.A.’s Nate Starks. The Utes beat the Bruins, ranked eighth at the time.
With college football teams ranked Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 16 and 17 in the Associated Press top 25 going down to defeat, suddenly teams with one loss — or maybe even two — have cause for hope.
James’s return to Cleveland began with a preseason game on a gray, chilly day, far from the white-hot atmosphere that greeted him in Miami.
There will be no more live racing at the Massachusetts track, which in its heyday hosted crowds of 35,000 people, cheering on legends like Seabiscuit.
Poor and haunted by the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti’s women’s national team is pursuing a spot at next summer’s Women’s World Cup in Canada.
Data based on Facebook 'likes' estimates the boundaries of college football fandom.
The tradition of pregame parking lot picnics seems as old as football itself, and can be as highbrow, or lowbrow, as the people bringing the food.
Over 85 days and 18,000 miles, photographer Ray Whitehouse visited all 30 stadiums, capturing a portrait of America through the lens of baseball.
A school district near Toronto has begun a program to teach students about the risks of traumatic brain injuries in sports.
Twenty-nine years after watching the Royals win the World Series, a writer returns to his hometown to take part in Kansas City’s current playoff drive.
If Stewart does not return to the blue-collar style fans have become accustomed to, there could be implications for Stewart-Haas Racing and Nascar.
After many attempts at using a real wolf, an animal skittish by nature, North Carolina State has settled on a dog that resembles one as its mascot.
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