When leaving the Dominican Republic, Ubaldo Jiménez promised his mother he’d get an education. Twenty years later, he graduated from college — with honors.
When the Rangers and the Capitals dropped their gloves to settle a score, the old-school spectacle was greeted with disgust, nostalgia and excitement.
The Mets starter allowed just one hit in seven innings. In Cincinnati, Tony La Russa admitted a mistake.
A recent hot streak and a series win over the hated Houston Astros have dramatically improved spirits in the Bronx.
Going viral because you got dunked on? Yikes — unless you’re Yuta Watanabe, whose effort has endeared him to a growing wave of basketball fans in his home country, Japan.
In his 13 seasons with the team, first in Boston and then in Milwaukee, he helped lead them to two National League pennants and a World Series title.
The former superstar is expected to be released and may join another team as he closes out his extraordinary career.
Olympic officials announced deals to provide vaccine doses to visitors before they travel to Japan, the latest effort to ease the fears of a skeptical Japanese public.
Manchester City and Chelsea seal an all-Premier League final thanks in part to resources and rosters that no club, not even their biggest rivals, can match.
The pandemic slowed worldwide drug testing to a crawl. The process has resumed, but the problems that led to poor testing ahead of the 2016 Games have not gone away.