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For eight innings Wednesday night, Giancarlo Stanton was having another night to forget. Although he had singled in his second at-bat of the night, he had also struck out twice with runners on base. The second time it happened, with a runner on first and the Yankees trailing the Seattle …

Barry Trotz has gone from lifting the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals to coaching the Islanders in just two weeks. Lou Lamoriello, the Islanders’ president of hockey operations, hired Trotz on Thursday, three days after he resigned from the Capitals, and gave him the kind of long-term security Washington …

Nathan MacKinnon, Erik Johnson and Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist each, Jonathan Bernier made 27 saves and the streaking Colorado Avalanche beat the Rangers, 3-1, on Saturday afternoon for their ninth straight win. The Avalanche have won eight straight at home and haven’t lost since Arizona beat …

Zavier Simpson led on both ends of the floor, running Michigan’s efficient offense and anchoring its lockdown defense, and the backup big man Jon Teske scored 14 points as the 15th-ranked Wolverines beat No. 8 Purdue, 75-66, on Sunday to win their second straight Big Ten tournament title. Fifth-seeded Michigan …

The N.B.A. can sometimes feel like an endless game of one-upmanship, but LeBron James took it to another level on Thursday. A day after James Harden of the Houston Rockets had a highlight for the ages when he faked a player nearly out of his shoes before calmly hitting a …

John Shuster, the face of American curling for the past four Winter Olympics — and all the good and bad those experiences have entailed — had a gold medal draped around his neck for the first time in his life on Saturday. Moments before, he and his teammates had done …

It is inevitable that over a 162-game season, even the hottest baseball teams will at some point go cold. But as the Yankees near the halfway point of the 2018 season, the weather has been their toughest adversary, causing six games to be postponed and one to be suspended. Even …

In just two seasons in the N.H.L., Matt Tkachuk, the Calgary Flames’ left winger, has earned a reputation as one of the league’s most skilled, and most annoying, agitators. Soon he will probably have competition in that category — from his younger brother. Brady Tkachuk, a bruising forward at Boston …

Nolan Arenado homered for the third straight game and drove in five runs to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 6-4 victory over the Mets on Thursday. After hitting .171 while the Rockies lost eight of 10 over the last two weeks, Arenado hit .538 in the last three games. …

The Mets shed another pitcher from their 2015 World Series team on Friday, designating for assignment the hard-throwing reliever Hansel Robles. Manager Mickey Callaway, a well-regarded former pitching coach, could not halt Robles’s steady decline. “You kept on seeing the same thing,” Callaway said, explaining that Robles could not make …