The Kansas City Royals' game against the Tampa Bay Rays was postponed on Thursday after heavy rain turned to sleet and snow during the middle of the fourth inning.

Yonder Alonso's two-out fly ball to right field dropped in front of Julio Borbon for an RBI single that led to a four-run eighth inning and boosted the San Diego Padres over the Chicago Cubs 4-2 Thursday for a four-game series split.

The Detroit-area daughter of an ex-Chicago Bears player has been sentenced to six months in a halfway house for collecting about $70,000 from an NFL retirement fund after her dad died.

Call it bad fashion sense or poor playoff etiquette.

Here’s today’s Mariner minor-league report, with news of another strong start by Taijuan Walker. The Mariners just announced that Tacoma manager Daren Brown will be joining the team in Toronto as an extra coach, essentially filling in for third-base coach Jeff Datz while he’s being

American adults rank steroid use among adolescents as less of a problem than alcohol, bullying, marijuana and sexually transmitted diseases, according to a study released Thursday that was co-commissioned by baseball's Hall of Fame.

Mark Sanchez spoke for more than 20 minutes about the New York Jets' crowded quarterback situation, saying all the right things throughout.

Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem's home in South Florida has been burglarized, although authorities say it's not clear if anything was taken.

Now, that was how a homestand is supposed to look for a half decent team. The Mariners spent much of April pretending things hadn’t changed much since 2010-2012 on offense, but then, after things hit a crisis point following their last road trip, they kicked it into gear their last seven games

Blake Beavan, who lost his job in the Mariners' rotation after two starts, will go back to a starting role with Tacoma. Beavan was optioned to...

A homestand that began with the Mariners in seeming disarray ended Wednesday night with considerable optimism that they have turned their...

May 3

Josh Beckett is still looking for his first victory of the season, and he doesn't seem to be getting any closer to it.

Without All-Star Russell Westbrook running the point, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder are struggling to close out the Houston Rockets.

The 11-0 deficit in Game 5 was wiped away. The 3-0 deficit in the series might be next.

Kevin Garnett had 16 points and 18 rebounds and the Boston Celtics stayed alive in the NBA playoffs, cutting the New York Knicks' lead to 3-2 with a 92-86 victory Wednesday night.

The Mariners aren’t out of the woods, but they aren’t wandering around the woods all lost, as was the case when they returned to Seattle a week ago. They had just finished a brutal road trip, losing six of seven games. Eric Wedge closed the clubhouse and lit into them after they dropped

Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez each hit two-run doubles, and center fielder Dexter Fowler robbed Adrian Gonzalez of what would have been his second home run of the game, leading the Colorado Rockies to a 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night.

The Arizona Diamondbacks scored six runs, got six decent innings from their starter and appeared to be on the cusp of avoiding a sweep.