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The Kansas City Royals are planning to extend the netting at Kauffman Stadium to better protect fans. The decision comes after a fan was hit by a ball Sunday during the Royals’ game against the Detroit Tigers. Spokesman Toby Cook told KSHB-TV the girl was kept at a hospital overnight for observation and was expected […]

Lincoln Riley has already won consecutive Big 12 titles and been to the College Football Playoff twice with different Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks in his two seasons as Oklahoma’s head coach. The Sooners, with yet another transfer quarterback, are the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 for the fifth year in a row. Kansas is

In hoops, Giannis Antentokounmpo is court royalty. But in baseball, he’s a complete rookie. In fact, the 24-year-old from Greece said he’d never even touched a baseball before he did so Monday night at Yankee Stadium. The reigning NBA MVP was shocked. “It was really heavy,” Antentokounmpo told The Associated Press. “I thought it would

Brandon Crawford went 5 for 6 with two homers and tied a San Francisco team record with eight RBIs, and the Giants scored a season-high in runs in a 19-2 rout of the Colorado Rockies on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader. Mike Yastrzemski went 4 for 6 with a homer and

The Latest on SEC media days (all times local): 4:20 p.m. Dan Mullen made a big leap in his second season at Mississippi State, but his Florida program doesn’t have quite so much room to grow. Unless, of course, the Gators can jump to national contender status. That’s what another four-win improvement would mean. The

Bob Bowlsby sat on the podium at midfield of the massive NFL stadium where the Big 12 plays its championship game, talking about the successes of the smallest Power Five conference before getting a familiar question about the possibility of expansion. The commissioner said there is no talk about adding to the league’s current 10

Golf’s oldest championship is all about tradition, and this is one Francesco Molinari could have done without. Fifty-one weeks after he won the British Open and gazed at his name etched on the silver claret jug, he had to return it. Getting it back won’t be easy. “I’m well aware of the challenges ahead,” Molinari

U.S. women’s national soccer team goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris pushed back on claims made by former Texas Tech star Jaelene Hinkle, who said she was unwelcome on the team because she is a Christian. “Your religion was never the problem,” said Harris in a tweet on Monday. “The problem is your intolerance and you are homophobic. You

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving gave the Brooklyn Nets two big victories in one night. “They hit the Mega Millions and the Powerball,” former NBA star Charles Oakley said. In the first hours of free agency, the Nets added two of the best players available to a young roster that made the playoffs, giving them

When you’re the NFL’s reigning MVP, you can show off a little. Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback who won the honor last season, put his arm strength on full display recently as a local news helicopter hovered above Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. (See the video below.) He threw the ball up