Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has been suspended for three games without pay by the NBA for shoving a reporter during an altercation in the Sixers’ locker room Saturday night, the league announced Tuesday. “Mutual respect is paramount to the relationship between players and media in the NBA,” Joe Dumars, the league’s executive vice president,…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — With the Los Angeles Dodgers’ quest for a World Series title complete, manager Dave Roberts let it be known what his franchise star, Shohei Ohtani, was dealing with. “He was playing with one arm in the postseason,” Roberts said. “So most guys would probably tap out, but he was going to…

Penn State University Police and Public Safety are investigating an incident in which Jason Kelce slammed a fan’s phone onto the ground Saturday after taunts and a homophobic slur were said toward him, a PSU police spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The process for reviewing the incident is ongoing, the spokesperson said. A report for the incident…

Just when you thought the group stage was becoming predictable… Manchester City and Real Madrid, the two teams mostly likely to win this season’s Champions League, took two beatings on Tuesday night to shake the competition up. New Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim quite possibly saved his very best for last at Sporting, signing off…

The Hall of Fame’s Classic Baseball Era Committee considers players, managers, umpires and executives who made their greatest impact before 1980. That’s a huge swath of the sport’s history — more than a century — so simply reaching the ballot is an achievement. Now, for the eight candidates announced on Monday, there’s an even more…

After a 23-22 loss to the lowly Carolina Panthers that extended their losing streak to seven games, the New Orleans Saints on Monday fired head coach Dennis Allen. Allen followed Robert Saleh, formerly of the New York Jets, as the second head coach fired this season. Allen posted an 18-25 record in 2 1/2 seasons…

If John Halls was playing the game Two Truths and a Lie, the 42-year-old north Londoner would be difficult to decipher. In 1991, as a young child, he appeared in the opening scene of a Kylie Minogue music video. The video for Word Is Out was filmed in Camden Market in the early hours of…

The Power Rankings are aware that there may be bigger news around the country today, and that makes Week 10 the perfect time for us to focus on the positive. Our regular readers know that the comments on this piece each week trend away from our better angels as a society, so this week our…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — 23XI Racing co-owners Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin started off NASCAR championship week by facing the sanctioning body in federal court. 23XI, which along with Front Row Motorsports is suing NASCAR and its CEO Jim France for antitrust violations, had its first in-person courtroom showdown with NASCAR during a Monday hearing over…

The first College Football Playoff rankings will be revealed Tuesday night (7 p.m. ET), and once again I’ll be using my projections model to try to predict how the selection committee will rank the teams each week. I’ve studied metrics that have been valued by the committee in the past, and after some guess and…