playoffs

(AP) Six teams are still fighting for three important spots to ease their path to the Super Bowl. While 10 teams have clinched playoff spots entering Week 17, only the Baltimore Ravens (13-2) have earned a first-round bye. The Ravens secured the AFC’s No. 1 seed for the first time in franchise...

If the five-year history of the College Football Playoff has taught us anything it is this: Don't start off third in the initial rankings.

Giancarlo Stanton remained out of the New York Yankees lineup for Thursday night's game.

Gerrit Cole walked into a conference room after one of his first spring training workouts with the Houston Astros in February 2018 and was met by about 10 people.

“I loved our at-bats all night,” Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said. “I love Marcell's at-bats. Just calm, letting the game come to him.”

Hockey players are conditioned to think that winning the Stanley Cup means going through the best teams to be the best team.

It may be the end of the line for veteran Penguins forward Matt Cullen. If this is the finish to Cullen’s 21-year career, it seems he is going out in an unpleasant way following Pittsburgh’s first-round sweep at the hands of the New York Islanders. “It’s disappointing,” Cullen said Thursday. “I...

Jim Rutherford is not going to stand for what he saw from his team this season.

Kris Letang has no intentions of changing his game.

Evgeni Malkin feels the Penguins just did not have it. But identifying what ‘it’ might be seems like it may be a struggle. Malkin spoke for nearly six minutes following the Penguins 3-1 loss to the Islanders Tuesday night, capping a 4-0 New York sweep and the Penguins’ earliest exit from the...