New York’s first-year manager said “being negative and throwing things” won’t help his struggling team play better. The players then went out and delivered a win to reduce some angst.

Hayward suffered a gruesome leg injury in Boston’s 2017-18 opener against the Cavaliers and missed the rest of the season.

Brooks Orpik scored his first goal since February 2016, and it came in a big moment.

The Washington Capitals look to even up the Stanley Cup Final at a game apiece. Sporting News will provide live updates from Game 2.

SN has you covered with the draws, schedule and how to watch the French Open at Roland Garros.

The Pistons finished 2017-18 with a 39-43 record and missed the playoffs for a second straight season.

Phillies slugger Rhys Hoskins suffered a broken jaw Tuesday after fouling a ball into his face.

Colangelo told Yahoo Sports on Thursday he did not use burner Twitter accounts to to criticize players and coaches.

The clay of Roland Garros is supposed to be mysterious, an ochre deathbed for the innocent and the ill-prepared. However, at least two players at this French Open have surprisingly divergent views on it.

Naomi Osaka, one of the sport’s unusual thinkers, says it is not clay at all – “not clay-clay” anyway, as she put it after bundling Zarina Dyas out in the second round on Wednesday.

Ken Bates, the Chelsea chairman when a number of youth-team footballers claim they were racially abused by their own coaches, has been accused of making “truly shameful” comments after criticising the alleged victims for wanting to keep their identities secret and questioning why they did not report it when they were children.

Bates suggested the reason for “all these ancient coming-outs so many years later” was because “the sniff of money is in the air” and said those in question should have found other clubs if the racism they allegedly encountered at Stamford Bridge, from the age of 11 onwards, was so upsetting.