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The Liberty have two days between games to somehow regroup and recover from the calamity of Thursday’s meltdown loss to the Minnesota Lynx in the opener of the WNBA Finals at Barclays Center.  As All-Star guard Sabrina Ionescu put it after the Liberty squandered a 15-point lead with five minutes to play before eventually losing … Read more

LOS ANGELES — In this improbably wonderful Mets run through late September and early October that can’t ever be matched, they already beat the hated the Braves, shocked the troublesome Brewers and dispatched the extremely disliked Phillies.  The Mets turned an impossible gauntlet with a worse travel schedule into an utter joyride with necessarily superb … Read more

Dennis Schroder is entering his 12th NBA season, so this is nothing new for him. Schroder has played in lineups alongside another point guard earlier in his career with the Thunder, the Lakers and the Celtics, so he says it wasn’t a huge adjustment being on the floor at the same time with three-time All-Star … Read more

Dodgers vanquish recent postseason frustrations in NLDS Game 5 win over Padres Blake Treinen threw his hands in the sky. His teammates poured out of the dugout and swallowed him near the mound. Around them, the collective force of 53,000 fans all too accustomed to October frustration and heartbreak roared in delirious unison. And not … Read more

Chances are, as a Giants fan, you probably aren’t crazy about how little head coach Brian Daboll opens the door to his soul or that of his team. You have a better chance of getting Bill Belichick to dish on his current love life than you will getting Daboll to show much outward emotion — … Read more

Column: Playoff demons be gone! Dodgers outlast Padres to advance to NLCS This time, they didn’t choke. This time, they did the choking. On a glorious night amid a roiling sea of joyful blue, the Dodgers wrapped their weathered arms around the San Diego Padres Friday and crushed those brown jerseys like an empty paper sack, … Read more

Connecticut Sun star Dijonai Carrington appeared to have fun with the infamous Caitlin Clark eye poke earlier this week. Carrington seemed to crack a joke about the incident to NaLyssa Smith, her girlfriend and Indiana Fever teammate of Clark’s, while the pair was on Instagram Live. “Ow!” she said before telling Smith, “You poked me … Read more

After weeks of scrambling, the Mets were in the unfamiliar position Friday of taking it relatively easy while their next-round postseason opponent faced the stress.  The Mets held an afternoon team workout at Citi Field, ahead of the Padres and Dodgers playing Game 5 of the NLDS in Los Angeles. The winner of that game … Read more

If Jeff McNeil is deemed physically ready, a spot on the Mets’ NLCS roster will belong to him.  But at whose expense?  Among the possibilities team officials were discussing Friday, according to manager Carlos Mendoza, was whether the Mets might subtract a pitcher to create space for McNeil.  The alternative would be to omit Luisangel … Read more

Chest bumps? Sure. But a cup bump? Kiké Hernandez of the Dodgers had an interesting home run celebration after getting Los Angeles on the board on Friday in a win-or-go-home NLDS Game 5. The utilityman was elated to smack a homer out of Dodger Stadium and give his team a 1-0 lead over the Padres … Read more