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Longtime Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona was feeling unwell prior to Tuesday’s game and decided to sit out for the first game of a three game series against the Royals. The 64-year-old Francona is set to undergo additional testing on Tuesday at The University of Kansas Health System, according to …

After initially committing to play for the Italian national team in this year’s FIBA World Cup, Paolo Banchero has since decided to play for Team USA. The Orlando Magic star has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Italy – his father is of Italian descent, and he acquired an Italian …

Bob Bradley was fired as head coach and sporting director of Toronto on Monday after the team won just three of 20 Major League Soccer matches this season. Terry Dunfield, a former Toronto player and Canadian international, was promoted to interim head coach. The 41-year-old, who also played for Vancouver …

In a game where offense was hard to come by, Mike Trout’s struggles at the plate stood out. With a chance to get a critical seven-game homestand off to a successful start, he still found a way to create a run, one that didn’t require swinging the bat. Trout scored …

Angel Reese’s influence appeared to have stretched beyond basketball as an LSU baseball star took a page out of the national champion’s book on Monday night during the College World Series. With the Tigers already up 11-3, Dylan Crews led off the eighth inning with a triple. As he sped …

The prestigious Wimbledon tournament is set to introduce artificial intelligence-powered commentary in July.  All England Club has tapped tech giant IBM’s Watsonx AI platform to create audio commentary and captions for its video highlight packages. Watsonx is the company’s enterprise AI and data platform. According to IBM’s the platform has …

It’s been rough sledding for New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton since coming off the IL, and fans in the Bronx are letting him know it. Fans booing their own players at Yankee Stadium isn’t new, and Stanton knows that. His first season in pinstripes didn’t go according to plan, …

Grounds teams at the Detroit Golf Club are already being hailed as “MVPs of the week” ahead of the Rocket Mortgage Classic as they got to work Monday, clearing out the debris of fallen trees behind after a massive storm left more than 70,000 residents in the area without power.  …

Author Haruki Murakami says he’s strongly opposed to the redevelopment of a historic and beloved Tokyo park district that would remove his favorite jogging path and tear down the nearly century-old baseball stadium where he was inspired to become a novelist. The plan approved earlier this year by Tokyo Gov. …

Antonio Brown’s tenure as a National Arena League (NAL) owner may have come to an abrupt end, but his issues with the league have continued on.  The NAL announced earlier this month that it had come to the decision to officially terminate the membership agreement of Brown’s team, the Albany …