NEW YORK — Clarke Schmidt was stunned. The New York Yankees pitcher turned to shortstop Anthony Volpe and exclaimed, “What is going on? This is insane.” In Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt made a bold move by intentionally walking Juan Soto to load the bases for Aaron…

Unrivaled, the new 3×3 basketball league co-founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, has a TV rights deal. It reached a multi-year deal with TNT Sports, and will have its games broadcast on TNT and TruTV and streamed on Max, the network announced Wednesday. TNT Sports also invested in the league and has…

Stay informed on all the biggest stories in Formula One. Sign up here to receive the Prime Tire newsletter in your inbox every Monday and Friday. Buddy Boren was circling a good idea. Early in 1983, the lifelong Dallas resident called his friend, Dallas construction owner Larry Waldrop. They met at Arthur’s, an upscale steakhouse near Park Cities,…

The national coordinator of college football officials handed down a rule interpretation Wednesday meant to close the loophole Oregon exploited in its victory against Ohio State by giving the offensive team the choice to reset the game clock if the defense plays with 12 or more players in the final two minutes of either half.…

The Boston Breakers didn’t die for this. Six years after the Breakers, the previous attempt at an NWSL club in Boston was shuttered, its players scattered via a dispersal draft, and a history stretching back to the wake of the 1999 World Cup and the rise of WUSA brought to a sad conclusion, The second…

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made headlines Tuesday morning when he became angry during one of his weekly radio interviews, getting defensive when asked about the franchise’s lack of offseason moves to improve the roster. Jones seemed to take exception with the line of questioning because he was speaking on the team’s flagship radio station,…

ST. LOUIS – Marc-Andre Fleury, wearing his black Wild baseball cap backward, had a front-row seat to history Tuesday night, but he was the one who planted the seed in Filip Gustavsson’s head in the first place. Then, as if Fleury diagramed the play for his goalie partner himself, the St. Louis Blues’ Pavel Buchnevich…

It’s the midpoint of the college football season and usually, the coaching carousel is spinning much faster. It’s spinning slower this year for a few reasons. First, the past two seasons had much more turnover than initially expected; second, this is the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff, which is extending the potential…

One by one, they pull up at the St Regis Hotel in Riyadh. Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Rafael Nadal, Daniil Medvedev and Holger Rune have arrived — only Novak Djokovic is yet to join the biggest stars in men’s tennis in accepting flowers, taking tea and talking with Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment…

ATLANTA — NFL owners voted in favor of Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis’ sale of a minority stake in the franchise at the league’s fall owners’ meetings Tuesday. Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady, former NFL defensive lineman Richard Seymour and businessman Tom Wagner, the co-founder of Knighthead Capital Management, were approved as minority owners.…