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Baseball Jake Arrieta knocked on the door of a no-hitter several times last season, but the Chicago Cubs finished strong on Sunday night. He got the first no-hitter of his career and his Major...

  What a shame it is that the University of Maryland football team’s behavior obscures its achievement. The Big Ten Conference on Monday handed down penalties for the swinish behavior exhibited in State College,...

  The Kansas City Royals scored two runs in the first inning and didn’t score again. They didn’t have to. They made those runs stand up against the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday afternoon, beat...

  You have to hand it to the Kansas City Royals And if you don’t, they will still find some way to take it. The Royals won their seventh game of this postseason on...

  Give the Pittsburgh Pirates credit for drive and a sense of timing. The Pirates beat the skidding Atlanta Braves 3-2 on Tuesday night and secured for themselves a spot in the National League...

  UCLA entered the season ranked No. 7 in the country and has managed to parlay a 2-0 record into a drop to No. 12. An uninspiring victory over Virginia (albeit all the way...