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Lakers coach JJ Redick directs his players during a 107-102 preseason win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night. (Morry Gash / Associated Press) Despite past tensions and public criticisms, Bucks coach Doc Rivers and Lakers coach JJ Redick said there are no bad feelings between them. “We’re fine,” Redick said pregame Thursday. “I don’t … Read more

Giants top receiver Malik Nabers is one more missed practice away from missing his second consecutive game with a concussion. The team’s No. 1 draft pick and leading receiver, who missed last week’s game at Seattle because he was still in concussion protocol from the head injury he suffered late in the Week 4 loss … Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A hard tag led to some hard feelings in the Yankees-Royals game. Benches and bullpens cleared Thursday in the bottom of the sixth inning in Game 4 of the ALDS, but no punches were thrown before order was restored after the hard tag at second base applied by Anthony Volpe on … Read more

Patrick Roy mentioned more than once in the days leading up to Thursday that the Islanders’ preseason was successful not for its results, but for a process he felt was successful. And though he can keep stressing that message all he wants after opening night, it doesn’t tend to be something people say after wins … Read more

Mark Vientos brought the Mets’ playoff celebration in Queens to the WNBA Finals in the borough next door. The Mets third baseman was one of the many stars in attendance for the Liberty’s 95-93 Game 1 overtime loss to the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday night at Barclays Center, and he got a hero’s welcome. The … Read more

Gerrit Cole was as fired up as anyone after Juan Soto made a crucial catch on the warning track to end the seventh inning before the Yankees clinched a spot in the ALCS with a Game 4 win over the Royals on Thursday night.  Kyle Isbel sent a deep shot to right field right to … Read more

Sandy Brondello acknowledged that the Minnesota Lynx had the Liberty’s number during the regular season, but she also firmly believes her star-studded team had been playing its best basketball of the season entering the WNBA Finals. Both of those statements seemed true at different junctures of one of the wildest games in recent memory. Beginning … Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the land of the Royals, Gerrit Cole and the Yankees were kings. They still have eight wins to go before they can crown themselves champions, but their ace helped them get one round closer Thursday night. Cole tossed seven strong innings of one-run ball and the Yankees gave him enough … Read more

Minnesota Twins.Photo by PHOTO COURTOISIE /PHOTO COURTOISIE MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After 40 years and three generations of owning the Minnesota Twins, the Pohlad family announced Thursday it’s considering selling the team. The Pohlads said they decided during the summer to explore a sale. The family has hired Allen & Company, a New York-based investment bank, … Read more

There were the long days and nights, the moments of self-doubt and the bus rides without the promise of more. Kyle MacLean is lucky to come from a hockey family, with a father who was once a Stanley Cup champion for the Devils, but that was no guarantee of his own success. It wasn’t even … Read more