CLEVELAND (AP) — With financial losses mounting and the Cleveland Indians underperforming, owner Paul Dolan has had to accept life in baseball’s mid-market world. “Every four or five years, if we can have a shot at the World Series and compete for the playoffs like we did in ’05, that’s as good as it gets,” […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — So, what about Philip Rivers? Eli Manning has one Super Bowl ring and on Wednesday became the NFL’s highest-paid player. Ben Roethlisberger has two Super Bowl victories in four seasons and got his big payday last year. Rivers is still waiting for both. He’s the only one of the Big Three […]

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Padraig Harrington never allowed himself to get down during the worst of times, whether he was missing five straight cuts or finishing toward the bottom of the leaderboard. He didn’t act much differently Thursday after his best round of the year. Harrington finally saw some results after eight months of tinkering […]

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Reed Sorenson will drive for Richard Petty Motorsports at Watkins Glen International on Sunday after recovering from the effects of carbon monoxide inhalation suffered in a crash at Pocono Raceway. Former Formula One champion Jacques Villeneuve had been on standby as a replacement, but the team says Sorenson has recovered […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Red Sox star David Ortiz may soon provide more details about his 2003 drug test. The Boston slugger and incoming players’ union head Michael Weiner plan a news conference Saturday at Yankee Stadium before the Red Sox play New York. Ortiz said last week that the union confirmed his name was […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots obtained defensive end Derrick Burgess on Thursday after the two-time Pro Bowl player held out of the Oakland Raiders training camp in hopes of being traded. The Patriots gave up undisclosed draft considerations for Burgess, who is coming off an injury-plagued season in which he had 3½ […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Rocco Baldelli went on the disabled list, Jason Bay was still hobbled and the Boston Red Sox needed someone to play left field at Yankee Stadium. All yours, Kevin Youkilis. “Best-case scenario, nothing gets hit to me,” Youkilis said. A Gold Glove first baseman, the can-do Youkilis emerged as the best […]

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Nick Caserio was throwing passes to Josh McDaniels at John Carroll University just a few years before both joined the staff of the Patriots first championship team. From those Division III days, both got promotions this year — McDaniels to coach of the Denver Broncos and Caserio to the top of […]

The latest tipping point for American soccer appears to be doing just that, tipping, and it’s located in Mexico City, no less. It’s called Azteca Stadium, imposingly perched atop volcanic rock 7,400 feet above sea level, which is only one reason why it might be the toughest road game in all of sports. Throw in […]

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ryne Sandberg’s goal is the same now as it was in 1978: Get to the majors. He was 18 then and trying to prove himself as a player. Now the Hall of Fame second baseman is back where he started, trying to prove himself as a manager. “I think the goal […]