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Roki Sasaki's posting likely will extend into 2025 signing period, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says

Roki Sasaki’s posting will likely extend into the 2025 international signing period, according to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, allowing teams as much as $7,555,500 to sign th...

9 HOURS AGO • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Japanese ace Roki Sasaki to become available to MLB teams this offseason

Japanese ace Roki Sasaki will be available to Major League Baseball teams this offseason

NOVEMBER 9 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Japanese ace Roki Sasaki to become available to Major League Baseball teams this offseason

Japanese ace Roki Sasaki to become available to Major League Baseball teams this offseason

NOVEMBER 9 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Olympic medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan suspended in doping investigation

Olympic silver medalist race walker Koki Ikeda of Japan has been provisionally banned for suspected blood doping

NOVEMBER 1 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Shohei Ohtani's rural hometown honors its superstar son - from city hall to the hair salons

Shohei Ohtani’s hometown in northern Japan is a rural place, famous for its high-quality Maesawa beef, its history of making traditional ironware and the intense green hills and mo...

OCTOBER 29 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Fans in Shohei Ohtani's Japanese hometown watch Dodgers reach brink of World Series title

Hundreds of fans filed into a public viewing center in Shohei Ohtani’s hometown in northern Japan on Tuesday morning to cheer the country’s top celebrity in Game 3 of the World Ser...

OCTOBER 29 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Witt prepares for Royals to take on New York at Yankee Stadium by watching Jeter videos

Happy to be on track for an AL Division Series matchup against the Yankees, Bobby Witt Jr. streamed YouTube on the train ride from Baltimore to New York to watch some Derek Jeter h...

OCTOBER 4 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Witt gets another big hit to send the Royals into ALDS with a 2-game sweep of the Orioles

Bobby Witt Jr. beat out an infield single to drive in the go-ahead run and send the Kansas City Royals into an AL Division Series with a 2-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles for...

OCTOBER 2 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bobby Witt Jr. and Cole Ragans lead the Royals over the Orioles 1-0 to open an AL Wild Card Series

Bobby Witt Jr. hit an RBI single in his playoff debut to back Cole Ragans’ six sharp innings and help the Kansas City Royals return from a nine-year postseason absence with a 1-0 v...

OCTOBER 1 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Italy's Luna Rossa showed two skippers are better than one on the America's Cup yachts

Italy's Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli surprised its rivals at the last America's Cup by showing up with two helmsmen to steer its foiling yachts

SEPTEMBER 25 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Royals' Bobby Witt Jr. becomes first shortstop with multiple 30-30 seasons

The Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr. became the first shortstop in major league history with multiple seasons of at least 30 homers and 30 steals when...

SEPTEMBER 18

Royals' Bobby Witt Jr. becomes first shortstop with multiple seasons of 30 homers and 30 steals

The Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr. became the first shortstop in major league history with multiple seasons of at least 30 homers and 30 steals when the All-Star swiped second base in the...

SEPTEMBER 18 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bobby Witt Jr. passes 100 RBIs for the season as the Royals beat the Pirates 5-1

Bobby Witt Jr. drove in his 100th run of the season with a solo homer in the first inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1

SEPTEMBER 14 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Witt's go-ahead single lifts Royals over Twins 4-2, KC opens 1 1/2-game lead for second AL wild card

Bobby Witt Jr. hit a tiebreaking single in a four-run eighth inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat Minnesota 4-2 to open a 1 1/2-game lead over the Twins for the second AL wild c...

SEPTEMBER 8 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Teenage Paralympians aiming for Team USA's first badminton medal

Miles Krajweski and Jayci Simon are trying to win Team USA’s first para badminton medal in the SH6 mixed doubles event for players of short stature

AUGUST 29 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Australian rugby sevens captain and 3-time Olympian Nick Malouf retires from the sport

Australia men’s rugby sevens captain and three-time Olympian Nick Malouf has announced his retirement following the Paris Games

AUGUST 23 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Daniela Larreal Chirinos, 5-time Olympic cyclist for Venezuela, dies in Las Vegas at 51

Daniela Larreal Chirinos, a five-time Olympic cyclist who represented Venezuela over the course of a decade, has died

AUGUST 22 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

US grouped with Mexico, Italy and Britain at Houston in 1st round of 2026 World Baseball Classic

The United States will face Mexico, Italy and Britain in Group B of the first round of the 2026 World Baseball Classic, which will be based at Houston’s Minute Maid Park

AUGUST 21 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

World Baseball Classic returns in 2026: First look at teams, schedules and locations

Japan will defend its World Baseball Classic title while the USA seeks revenge for the 2023 loss when the WBC returns in 2026. Here is a fir...

AUGUST 21

Matt Richardson was a Paris Olympics track cycling star for Australia and now will race for Britain

Track cyclist Matt Richardson won three medals racing for Australia at the Paris Olympics but is now eight days later switching teams to ride for Britain

AUGUST 19 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bobby Witt Jr. collects 3 hits to up his league-leading average to .352 as Royals beat Reds 7-1

Bobby Witt Jr. homered, doubled and singled to boost his major league-leading average to

AUGUST 17 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Witt homers on shoulder-high pitch, Royals beat Twins 4-1 to avoid sweep

Bobby Witt Jr. homered on a pitch outside the strike zone for the fourth time this season and Paul DeJong finished a triple short of the cycle, helping the Kansas City Royals beat...

AUGUST 14 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Italy beats defending champion US for gold in women's volleyball at Paris Olympics

Italy beat the defending champion U.S. team to win gold in women’s volleyball at the Paris Olympics

AUGUST 11 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Brazil beats Canada in tense three-set women's beach volleyball gold medal match. Swiss win bronze

Brazil beat Canada to win a tense, three-set final to claim the women’s beach volleyball gold medal at the Paris Olympics

AUGUST 9 • ASSOCIATED PRESS

Japan's b-girl Ami wins Olympic breaking's first gold medal

Japan’s b-girl Ami won gold at the Olympics’ first breaking event by spinning, flipping and toprocking past a field of 16 dancers Friday in a high-energy competition that may not r...

AUGUST 9 • ASSOCIATED PRESS