Six days after blowing out preseason No. 1 Purdue, Kentucky lost its second exhibition game, losing to Georgetown 84-70 in Rupp Arena. UK shot poorly from the field, from deep, and from the free-throw line, making only 33.3 percent of its shots, 23.3 percent from 3-point range, and 65.7 percent from the line. Meanwhile, Georgetown’s two all-conference guards, Malik Mack …
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LOS ANGELES — Imagine a player recording four extra-base hits in a World Series game for the first time in 100-plus years, and then walking five times in the same game to make it a perfect 9-for-9 reaching base. And then realize that performance was easily the weaker of that player’s past two home games. Well, that’s true for Shohei …
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SALT LAKE CITY — It was not a good weekend for several teams ranked inside last week’s Associated Press Top 25 rankings. Of the 21 ranked teams who played this week, eight suffered a lost — three against a ranked opponent. As such, it’s shifted the landscape a bit, most importantly in the top-five, where Oregon seemed to solidify a …
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NEW YORK — His clothes soggy with champagne and beer, Cam Schlittler stood in a wide, empty hallway in the bowels of Yankee Stadium. From the clubhouse, his teammates called for him to pose for a picture with them. They wanted to toast his historic night — eight shutout innings and 12 strikeouts to dominate the rival Boston Red Sox, …
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The most famous night of Eddie Giacomin’s career happened when the Rangers icon was wearing a Red Wings uniform. If that isn’t a microcosm of the tortured 100-year history of the Original Six franchise that will be celebrated throughout this centennial season, I’m not quite sure what else would qualify. Before there was Henrik Lundqvist, there was Giacomin. Before there …
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