SF Giants hire Tennessee's Vitello SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants are hiring University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello as their manager for his first professional coaching job. It's a bold gamble by San Francisco executive Buster Posey on a coach with no previous ...

The NCAA approved a rule change on Wednesday that will allow athletes and athletic department staff members to bet on professional sports. Two weeks after the Division I cabinet approved the change, Division II and III management councils signed off on it, allowing the new rule to go into ...

Canada roots for Blue Jays TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays have advanced to the World Series and have a chance of claiming the championship of America's pastime at a time when U.S.-Canada relations remain near historic lows. George Springer put Toronto ahead with a three-run ...

Once Shohei Ohtani homered for the third time — shortly after wrapping up his six scoreless innings on the mound — the superlatives began in earnest. Best baseball performance of all time? Best sports performance, period? Pinnacle of overall human achievement? That last one is ...

TORONTO (AP) — George Springer put Toronto ahead with a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Blue Jays advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1993 by beating the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night. Vladimir ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — During the Los Angeles Dodgers' October rampage to the NL pennant, the defending World Series champions have actually been the dark eminence that many baseball people have long feared they would become. The Dodgers are 9-1 in the postseason — and they've looked like a ...