MLB salary cap proposed (AP) — Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players' association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond. ...

Baseball talks underway NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players seek expanded free agency and salary arbitration rights. They also want to nearly double the major league minimum salary and increase revenue sharing among teams. The union presented these proposals Wednesday, a day before ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The song selection at the New York Knicks' watch party couldn't have been more obvious. Minutes after the Knicks finished their four-game sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference finals, the DJ at Radio City Music Hall played Prince's "1999." That was ...

ZURICH (AP) — The United States set up a quarterfinal showdown with fierce rival Canada at the ice hockey world championship by beating Austria 4-1 on Tuesday. The U.S. and Canada met in the final at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February, when the Americans prevailed 2-1 in overtime to ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Chicago Cubs spent the first six weeks of the season threatening to run away with the NL Central. A pair of 10-game winning streaks will do that. It's taken just over two weeks for a big chunk of all that hard work to disappear. A skid that earned the Cubs a ...

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — When Daniel Suarez was struggling to make his name in auto racing, he would often get phone calls from Kyle Busch offering words of encouragement and urging him to keep working. That made his crown jewel Cup Series victory Sunday night all the more special. Suarez ...