By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON — Wilson Ramos hit two home runs and Renato Nunez and rookie Akil Baddoo each homered for the second straight game as the Detroit Tigers slugged their way to an 8-2 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night. Ramos has stepped into the cleanup ...
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES — Two-time Olympic boxing gold medalist Claressa Shields of Flint has a date and an opponent for her mixed martial arts debut with the Professional Fighters League. Shields will fight Brittney Elkin on June 10, the promotion told The ...
DETROIT (AP) — Damiya Hagemann of Detroit Edison has been named Michigan’s Miss Basketball. The Mick McCabe Miss Basketball award honors the state’s top senior female player. Hagemann, who plans to attend Michigan State, was given the award Tuesday. Hagemann received 2,413 points in the ...
By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON — Back in the place where he’d received so many cheers over the years, one more ovation after a long and difficult time away was almost too much for manager A.J. Hinch to take. Casey Mize tossed seven scoreless innings for his first career win ...
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES — Marcus Morris Sr. scored a season-high 33 points, Paul George added 32 and the Los Angeles Clippers capped a nine-game homestand with a 131-124 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. George has three straight 30-point games despite ...
By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer Flat cap or not, the Washington Capitals refused to stand by and watch their division foes improve their rosters without making a move at the NHL trade deadline Monday. Not long after the Boston Bruins acquired 2018 NHL MVP Taylor Hall from Buffalo, the ...
The Detroit Red Wings scored an empty net goal with 55 seconds remaining to clinch a 3-1 victory at Carolina and even the season series 3-3 against the team tied for the most points in the NHL’s Central Division. With the game scoreless after two periods, Detroit’s Adam Erne opened ...
EAST LANSING (AP) — Aaron Henry has decided to skip his senior season at Michigan State to enter the NBA draft. Henry said Monday he plans to sign with an agent. He helped the Spartans push their NCAA Tournament streak to 23, extending the longest run in Big Ten history, which trails only ...
By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON — Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch reflected on the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal that cost him his job as the team’s manager in his return to Houston on Monday, saying it put a “cloud over the sport.” Hinch was suspended by baseball ...
MONTREAL (AP) — The Montreal Canadiens have bolstered their blue line depth ahead of the NHL trade deadline. The club acquired veteran defenseman Jon Merrill from the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday for a fifth-round draft pick in 2021 and minor-league forward Hayden Verbeek. Merrill appeared ...
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND — Logan Allen knows that if he or any of the Indians other starters get into any trouble, help is just a phone call away. Cleveland’s bullpen has been stellar. “Unbelievable,” he said. Allen recovered from a bumpy first inning to get his ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Cory Joseph had a season-high 24 points and seven assists in his first game against his former team, Jhalil Okafor made a timely return after missing nearly two months following knee surgery, and the short-handed Detroit Pistons beat the Sacramento Kings 113-101 on ...
DETROIT (AP) — Dr. Benjamin Paolucci, a longtime team physician for the Detroit Pistons who was with the franchise for each of its three NBA championships, has died. He was 84. The Pistons said Paolucci died Wednesday in Florida. Paolucci retired from the organization in 2015 after serving ...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers said Thursday that pitching coach Chris Fetter has rejoined the team and will travel on its upcoming trip. Manager A.J. Hinch had said March 29 that Fetter was going to be away from the team because of a positive COVID-19 test. Detroit had Thursday off ...
EAST LANSING (AP) — Michigan State has added high-scoring guard Tyson Walker, a transfer from Northeastern. Spartans coach Tom Izzo made the announcement Wednesday, a little more than a week after sophomore guard Rocket Watts entered the transfer portal to leave the program. Walker averaged ...
ALLEN PARK (AP) — The Detroit Lions have signed safety Dean Marlowe, hoping he can help a defense that was one of the worst in NFL history last season. Marlowe played in 15 games last year in his third season with the Buffalo Bills. He had a career-high two interceptions along with 16 ...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Pistons signed forward Tyler Cook to a multi-year contract. The team did not release terms of the agreement Wednesday. The 6-foot-8 Cook signed a 10-day contract with the Pistons on March 18, followed by a second 10-day deal March 28. Cook has been in 11 games ...
DENVER — Nikola Jokic scored 27 points in 27 minutes and the Denver Nuggets spoiled the return of Jerami Grant and Mason Plumlee with a 134-119 shellacking of the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday night. Jokic was glad to see Plumlee, his former backup, and Grant, who helped the Nuggets make a deep ...
By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer DETROIT — Jorge Polanco hit a two-run double in the sixth inning and the Minnesota Twins held off Akil Baddoo and the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday. Baddoo hit an RBI triple and threw a runner out from left field — another impressive day in this ...
DETROIT (AP) — Ryan Johansen and Roman Josi scored in the shootout to lift the Nashville Predators over the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 on Tuesday night. The Predators improved to 4-0 in shootouts and have won 10 of their last 12 games. “(Goaltender Juuse Saros is) really good in shootouts, we ...