PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Brazeau beat Ilya Sorokin on a breakaway with 5:39 left to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins past the New York Islanders 4-3 on Thursday night.
Brazeau collected a lead pass from Evgeni Malkin, then deked his way by a sprawled Sorokin as the Penguins won for the second ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers didn't blink as the pressure built, inning after scoreless inning. Both teams pushed a single run across, forcing extra innings. Then came one of postseason baseball's craziest endings.
Orion Kerkering made a wild throw ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Orion Kerkering airmailed a throw into the Los Angeles night that not only unimaginably ended the Phillies' season — it all but ended the run of the core of a roster that suffered through four straight postseasons without a World Series title.
NL home run and RBI ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Blake Snell had yielded to the Los Angeles Dodgers' bullpen after a masterful start and was just a bystander when the Philadelphia Phillies — without any help from their All-Star trio at the top of the batting order — finally mustered a rally in the ninth inning.
A ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers didn't play a down last weekend. Their early hold on the AFC North strengthened anyway.
While the Steelers rested up following the first regular-season game in Dublin, Ireland — a milestone win over the Minnesota Vikings that boosted them to 3-1 ...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Winless in four games in which they never led, their head coach fired, two coordinators gone and No. 7 Penn State in town. UCLA couldn't get much lower.
"Nobody in the world expected us to win," Bruins safety Key Lawrence said.
Indeed, the Bruins were 25 1/2-point ...
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Gavin McKenna scored his first goal for Penn State on a power play with 1:53 left to give the Nittany Lions the lead in a 4-2 victory over Arizona State on Saturday night
Expected to be the No. 1 pick next year in the NHL draft, the 17-year-old McKenna beat goalie Connor ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Teoscar Hernández tries to stuff any mistakes — like an earlier defensive lapse that led to a two-run triple — "in the trash" before the Dodgers right fielder faces any clutch playoff moment at the plate.
He felt euphoric once he put one in the seats.
Hernández ...
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is more the Sultan of Squat than a modern day Babe Ruth when the Los Angeles Dodgers star plays in Philadelphia.
He's yet to hit any of his 250 homers in Philly. He's batting .250 lifetime in Citizens Bank Park with just ...
Pittsburgh Penguins
Last season: 34-36-12, missed playoffs.
COACH: Dan Muse (first-time NHL head coach), hired June 4.
SEASON OPENER: Oct. 7 at the New York Rangers.
DEPARTURES: Coach Mike Sullivan, G Alex Nedeljkovic.
ADDITIONS: Muse, F Anthony Mantha, D Caleb Jones, G Arturs ...