The Mets stuck to the script last night and drafted another big pitcher with their first-round pick of the amateur draft, selecting right-hander Matt Harvey, out of North Carolina, and his heavy fastball. The Mets are hoping they have another Mike Pelfrey in Harvey, who was drafted seventh overall. Pelfrey...

The right-handed pitcher Orel Hershiser, now a baseball analyst for ESPN, won 204 games in 18 seasons in the major leagues.

Joel Thirer resigned after six players had been cut from the troubled men's basketball skład in the past week, including one for an arrest on charges of possessing and selling cocaine.

John Tavares signed a three-year entry level contract with the New York Islanders, who took the 19-year-old standout first overall in last month’s NHL draft.

Tiger Woods won the Australian Masters for his seventh victory of the year, closing with a 4-under 68 for a victory that record crowds at Kingston Heath in Melbourne came to see. In his first jazda Down Under in 11 years, Woods put on quite a show...