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CONCORD, N.C. -- Jumping into the crowd to celebrate a big race victory appears to have become a Team Penske thing.Ryan Blaney held off William Byron to win the rescheduled Coca-Cola 600 on Monday at Charlotte Speedway, giving team owner…

Organizers of an annual global women’s softball tournament have launched a fundraiser to bring a Ukrainian national team to Surrey, B.C., to compete. The Canada Cup, held between July 7 and 16 at Softball City, is set to be the…

HOUSTON -- Rookie Royce Lewis homered with four RBIs in his season debut and Ryan Jeffers hit a two-run shot in the 10th inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 7-5 win over the Houston Astros on Monday.Lewis returned exactly a year from the…

ST. LOUIS -- Josh Staumont and Mike Mayers came within six outs of the first combined perfect game in major league history before Nolan Arenado lined a leadoff single in the eighth inning of the Kansas City Royals' 7-0 win over the St.…

LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pro soccer player Jess McDonald was traded across six teams in her first five years as a single parent, making it difficult to find, let alone afford, child care in new cities. She and her then-8-month-old…

LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pro soccer player Jess McDonald was traded across six teams in her first five years as a single parent, making it difficult to find, let alone afford, child care in new cities. She and her then-8-month-old…

The Detroit Tigers are 25-26 and haven't spent a day above .500 all season. They're also one game out of first place.The Chicago Cubs have the worst record in the National League but are only 4 1/2 games out of a playoff spot.As Memorial…

DENVER -- The Denver Nuggets don't brawl with other teams or bicker among themselves. It's been almost a decade since they fired a coach. Their most spectacular highlights often involve sublime skip passes across the court — or a backward,…

OXON HILL, Md. -- As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee's word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care.Before panelists can debate the words picked for the…

PARIS -- Back on her “favorite court in the world,” Sloane Stephens looked sharp in her opening match at the French Open with a 6-0, 6-4 win over two-time major finalist Karolina Pliskova.While Stephens’ only Grand Slam title came at the…