New York Jets quarterback Jordan Travis has informed the team he will retire from playing football. The surprising decision ...

A prosecutor in Syracuse, New York, says he’ll bring charges against several students suspected in a violent hazing linked to ...

Daulton Varsho's incredible catch Tuesday night. I've watched it about a dozen times and still don't know how he did it.

2015 — Alex Rodriguez ties Willie Mays for fourth place on the all-time home run list when he hits number 660 against the Red Sox.

The 98-year-old World War II veteran was famously honored by the team in 2024, leading to a year-long celebration of his ...

Baseball. It’s too long. It’s boring. How can you sit and watch that for three hours? I get it. Baseball can be boring, but I ...

1983 — Walter Johnson’s record of 3,508 career strikeouts was eclipsed by Houston’s Nolan Ryan — a record that stood for 56 years. Ryan fanned Montreal pinch-hitter Brad Mills in the eighth inning as ...

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Charles Cooper, an All-American from Duquesne playing with the Harlem Globetrotters, becomes the first black to be picked in ...

1969 — Houston’s Don Wilson beat the Cincinnati Reds with a 4-0 no-hitter at Crosley Field, one day after the Reds’ Jim Maloney no-hit the Astros and nine days after Wilson absorbed a 14-0 pounding by ...

Some revolutions are big from the very start. When Jackie Robinson signed on the dotted line at Branch Rickey’s office on ...

FAIRFIELD, Alabama (WVTM) — The question about what will happen to baseball legend Willie Mays’ childhood home in Fairfield is being asked again. Willie Mays’ son, Michael, wants to give the ...