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By The Associated Press Cleveland will play its final home game as the Indians, the team’s nickname since 1915. The club will be called the Cleveland Guardians next season. President of baseball operations Chris Antonetti doesn’t have a date when the Indians signage outside and inside the ballpark will be removed. Cleveland hosts Kansas City

By RICHARD J. MARCUS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Will Smith struck out the side around three walks in the ninth inning to finish the Atlanta Braves’ 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres that opened a 2 1/2-game lead over Philadelphia heading into their NL East showdown. Pinch-hitter Orlando Arcia hit a go-ahead

BOSTON (AP) — The finale of the series between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox was delayed when a malfunctioning sprinkler head set off the fire alarm at Fenway Park. With two outs in the top of the fourth inning, the game scoreless and Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton at the plate, emergency

By DOUG FERGUSON and TIM DAHLBERG AP Sports Writers SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — The capsule look at the 12 singles matches at the Ryder Cup. The American won the session, 8-4, to cap off a 19-9 victory over Europe.

EDMONTON, Canada (AP) — Muller du Plessis scored his 10th and 11th tries of the weekend to lead series-champion South Africa to a 24-12 win over Britain in the Edmonton Sevens men’s final. South Africa needed only to make the final at Edmonton to be crowned series champion after its tournament victory in the Vancouver,

By MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Mark Canha hit an RBI single with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Oakland Athletics again beat Houston with their final swing, edging the AL West-leading Astros 4-3. The A’s swept the three-game series to move up in the playoff chase.

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Reigning AFC Special Teams Player of the Week Daniel Carlson’s 22-yard field goal as time expired in overtime lifted the Las Vegas Raiders to a 31-28 victory over the Miami Dolphins. It marked the second time in the Raiders’ first three games — both at home

By JIM LITKE AP Sports Writer SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — The best player on the U.S. Ryder Cup team also happened to be the oldest. Thirty-seven-year-old Dustin Johnson won all five matches he played, a score no American had posted since Larry Nelson in 1979. Throughout the weekend, Johnson kept rolling up wins while deflecting

By The Associated Press SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Ryder Cup at a glance from Sunday at Whistling Straits

By MARK LUDWICZAK Associated Press ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Those supposedly easily correctible fixes for the Washington Football Team’s defense have failed to materialize. The once-stout unit was dissected by Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills in a 43-21 loss. The game slipped away when Washington allowed Buffalo to engineer a 17-play, 93-yard scoring

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Matthew Stafford passed for 343 yards and four touchdowns as he outdueled Tom Brady and led the Los Angeles Rams to a 34-24 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The loss snapped the defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers’ 10-game regular season and playoff winning streak

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Corey Seager hit two solo homers, Julio Urías posted his MLB-leading 19th victory and the Los Angeles Dodgers won their 100th game of the season by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-0. The World Series champion Dodgers have had a stellar season, but it still might not

By DOUG PADILLA Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani wasn’t enough to keep the Los Angeles Angeles from their sixth straight losing season. Ohtani allowed Jarred Kelenic’s tying home run in the seventh inning, and Mitch Haniger hit a go-ahead single in a four-run eighth against the bullpen that lifted the Seattle Mariners

By The Associated Press Indianapolis Colts All-Pro left guard Quenton Nelson, Tennessee Titans Pro Bowl wide receiver A.J. Brown and New England Patriots running back James White were among the NFL’s most notable injuries in Week 3. The defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers briefly lost four-time All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski in the second half

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings accelerated past Seattle 30-17 for their first win over the Seahawks in 12 years. Kirk Cousins threw for three touchdown passes before halftime for Minnesota and guided three clock-draining field goal drives after that. Alexander Mattison stepped in for the injured Dalvin

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Courtney Vandersloot led a balanced attack with 19 points and the sixth-seeded Chicago Sky raced past the third-seeded Minnesota Lynx 89-76 in the second-round, single elimination WNBA playoff game. The Sky, who lost four of six coming into the playoffs, won with a 22-6 advantage in fast break points fueled by 11

By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jamal Agnew returned a missed field goal 109 yards for a touchdown in Jacksonville’s 31-19 loss to Arizona. It was the NFL’s first “Kick-6” since 2007. It was Agnew’s second kick return for a score in as many weeks. He returned one 102 yards

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Odell Beckham Jr. made it all the way back. Cleveland’s star receiver played Sunday for the first time since suffering a knee injury in October and finished with five catches for 77 yards in the Browns’ 26-6 win over the Chicago Bears. Beckham said he wrestled

By MICHAEL KELLY Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Brandon Crawford homered to cap a four-run ninth inning and the San Francisco Giants held their lead in the NL West, beating the Colorado Rockies 6-2. The Giants have won 15 of 19. They began the day with a two-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers. San

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer DENVER (AP) — Vic Fangio has a rejoinder ready for anyone downplaying Denver’s first 3-0 start in five years just because the Broncos’ opponents are a combined 0-9. “They’re right,” the Broncos’ coach said after Denver’s 26-0 shutout of the New York Jets. “That’s a fact.” Just like