Sports

Mets manager Beltrán out amid scandal

Published on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 5:00pm
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NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Beltrán, called out on a curveball again. So for the second time since they last threw a pitch, the New York Mets are in the

Prep Sports Schedule

Published on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 4:27pm

Rangers

Friday

 • Basketball @ Manhattan, Boys: 6 p.m., Girls: 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

 • Basketball vs Big Timber, Girls: 6 p.m., Boys: 7:30 p.m.

 

Bruins

Friday

 • Basketball @ Manhattan Christian, 4 p.m.

Saturday

 • Basketball @ Broadview/Lavina, 6 p.m.

 

Rebels

Friday

Baylor hires Aranda as head coach

Published on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:00am

(AP) — Baylor hired LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda as its new head coach Thursday, three days after the Tigers completed their undefeated national championship. Aranda, a head coach for

49ers, Packers look to go from losing seasons to Super Bowl

Published on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:00am
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers are one win away from accomplishing a turnaround that’s been done only once before in the Super Bowl era. With a

Titans, Chiefs on verge of Super Bowl, play for AFC title

Published on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:00am
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Andy Reid rarely digs into his own past, preferring to stay in the moment or focus squarely on the future. It’s an approach that has

Baseball has become a prisoner of technology

Published on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — Technology unleashed baseball’s Analytics Era, and now it’s holding the sport prisoner. AJ Hinch, Alex Cora and Carlos Beltrán are casualties, a triple play of hubris.

Ingram scores 49, Pelicans end Jazz’s 10-game win streak

Published on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:00am
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans wildly celebrated Brandon Ingram’s off-balance jumper in the final seconds of regulation, believing it had won the game. Turns out it didn’t.

Magic beat Lakers in 119-118 thriller

Published on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 4:22pm
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Markelle Fultz faked LeBron James off his hip, weaved through traffic in the waning seconds and scored the final bucket of his phenomenal triple-double performance.

Fultz then dropped to the court with a cramp. The Orlando Magic rushed to their valuable teammate’s aid, with Nikola Vucevic swiftly stretching out Fultz’s foot to make sure he could finish.

“It was the biggest play of the game!” Vucevic said with a laugh.

Fultz had several bigger ones, and so did a half-dozen contributors to what was likely the Magic’s best win of the season.

Prep Sports Schedule

Published on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 4:20pm

Rangers

Thursday

 • Wrestling @ Billings Central, TBA

Friday

 • Basketball @ Manhattan, Boys: 6 p.m., Girls: 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

 • Basketball vs Big Timber, Girls: 6 p.m., Boys: 7:30 p.m.

 

Bruins

Friday

 • Basketball @ Manhattan Christian, 4 p.m.

Saturday

 • Basketball @ Broadview/Lavina, 6 p.m.

Tagliabue in Hall of Fame despite head injury issue

Published on Thu, 01/16/2020 - 4:17pm

The NFL of the 1990s was a different animal than it is today, which explains at least somewhat the creation under Paul Tagliabue’s watch of something laughably called the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee. 

What is harder to explain is why Tagliabue put a rheumatologist with no expertise in head injuries in charge of the panel. Or why, in 1994, the then-NFL commissioner claimed the number of concussions in the NFL was relatively small and that the problem of head injuries was ``one of those pack journalism issues.’’