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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Royals have a new normal. It won’t feature Alcides Escobar, whose franchise-record and majors-leading 421-start streak came to an end Sunday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium. It won’t feature starting pitcher…

Major League Baseball: 2018 All Star Game Royals catcher Salvador Perez is going to Washington, D.C. For a sixth straight season, he will represent the Royals at MLB’s All-Star game, which will be held at…

Mothers lead the way for their children. And new research finds that the paths that moms walk (or the couches they sit and smoke on) make a powerful difference in their children’s propensity to become…

After decades of battling for major championships, two of the greatest golfers of all time are gearing up to go head-to-head in a high-stakes showdown for the ages. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are negotiating…

KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Belgium reached the World Cup semifinals for the first time in 32 years by holding off five-time champion Brazil 2-1 Friday, sending Neymar home without living up to the expectations of…

LONDON (AP) — Venus Williams has become the latest former champion to be knocked out at Wimbledon. Her sister Serena is still going strong, though, after overcoming her toughest test so far this week. Venus…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Baylor University athletic director’s claims that the school used black football players as scapegoats to cover up a school-wide sexual assault scandal are bizarre and “blatantly false,” according to…

1. It’s alive! After lying dormant since February, Chevrolet made some gasping sounds at Chicagoland on Sunday thanks to Kyle Larson, who finished second to Kyle Busch. “Hey, we put on a hell of a…

1. Daytona-bound Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona represents the halfway point (Race 18) of the 2018 Cup Series — only nine races remain in the regular season. The 160-lap run over Daytona’s 2.5-mile…

MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. English-language television viewers for the World Cup’s round of 16 in Russia were down 27 percent from four years ago, leaving the tournament 38 percent below 2014’s level. The eight second-round…