Payton brings swagger. He makes players believe. He manages expectations. He doesn’t minimize them (he called out the Chiefs ...

Adam Foote, as it turned out, had the presence and weight that Vancouver Canucks brass was looking for in the 22nd head coach ...

Clay Holmes, who had given up only one home run all season prior to Wednesday, gave up two home runs while the Bucs and their ...

If the Avalanche wanted to move on from the big winger, and that's a big if, this would be the first offseason they'd have a ...

How hot is Mikko Rantanen right now? In one word: scorching. The Dallas Stars entered the Stanley Cup Playoffs with some of the shortest championship odds and, three games into the second round, it ...

NHL season begins Wednesday and is expected to run through Saturday, May 8. Each team is scheduled to play 56 games with all games played within regionally-aligned divisions. Below, we make our NHL be ...

And when I saw the story in The Boston Globe about Jimmy Hayes’ autopsy, everything that I’d suppressed about my own ...

Bailey Falter, Chase Shugart, Tanner Rainey, David Bednar and Dennis Santana combined to shut out the Mets (28-16). It was ...

After a self-described “long-winded explanation” for his vision in building a Pittsburgh Pirates team that played poorly enough to get its manager fired May 8, general manager Ben Cherington offered ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates have been receiving largely solid starting pitching of late, with a club ERA of 2.28 in their last ...

Before Wednesday’s action, the Pirates’ offense was anemic. Pittsburgh averaged 2.32 runs per game in 19 contests dating back ...

After looking unbeatable a month ago, the Mets couldn’t beat the second-worst team in the National League. To be fair, the ...