KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jorge Soler hit two home runs, Salvador Perez added a three-run blast and Daniel Lynch pitched eight scoreless innings for his first major league win as the Kansas City Royals…

TOKYO (AP) — Katie Ledecky strolled onto the deck first, which meant she was headed to the second spot on the medal podium. What a strange place for her to be. For the first time…

Iola packed a season’s worth of tense baseball, thrilling defensive plays, clutch hits — and yes, heartbreak — into the final few innings of its 2021 campaign Friday. Iola’s A American Legion Indians saw a…

HOOVER, Ala. — Conference realignment talk is back in a huge way. So is all the drama, the speculation and intrigue with the focus on Texas and Oklahoma. The Houston Chronicle first reported Wednesday that…

Michael Phelps reached for his mother’s hand through a chainlink fence near the pool. The 19-year-old swimmer had just won his first Olympic medal — gold, of course — at the 2004 Athens Games, and…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Thousands of fans lined downtown Milwaukee streets on Thursday to catch a glimpse of their beloved Bucks in a parade to celebrate the city’s first NBA championship in half a century. Six…

NFL teams have been warned they could forfeit a game due to a COVID-19 outbreak among non-vaccinated players, and players on both teams wouldn’t get paid that week. “As we learned last year, we can…

CHANUTE — Logan Page learned 30 minutes before game time Thursday that he would be counted on to extend his team’s baseball season. Page, one of the youngest players on the Iola A American squad,…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nicky Lopez hit a bases-loaded, tiebreaking double, Brad Keller earned his first win in over six weeks and the Kansas City Royals completed a season sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers with a…

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Six outs from her second Olympic no-hitter, Monica Abbott was clinging to a one-run lead when she walked Canada’s Jen Gilbert leading off the sixth inning, and pinch-hitter Sara Groenewegen lined…