Pitchers will be ejected and suspended for 10 games for using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs in a crackdown by Major League Baseball that will start June 21. The commissioner’s office, responding to record strikeouts and a league batting average at a more than half-century low, said Tuesday that …

Elon Musk hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the first time last week and the innovative business mogul made a personal announcement. “I’m the first person with Asperger’s to host SNL,” Musk revealed during his monologue. “Or at least the first to admit it,” he joked. While American psychiatrists no longer use …

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and music industry star Drake are investing in Overtime as part of a new $80 million round of funding for the sport startup, which is geared to fans more interested in watching game highlights on social media than three hours of ESPN. A significant portion of  …

The final new “Jeopardy!” episodes hosted by Alex Trebek will air next week, with highlights that promise to be memorable. The first of the five episodes will air Monday and start with Trebek’s “powerful message about the season of giving,” producer Sony Pictures Television said in a release Wednesday. The …

At a time when many statues are coming down, some lofty women just went up, breaking the bronze ceiling A monument to suffrage pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was recently unveiled in New York City’s Central Park. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who helped commemorate …

Opening day is here, at last. A baseball season that was on the brink before it ever began because of the virus outbreak is set to start Thursday night when excitable Max Scherzer and the World Series champion Washington Nationals host prized ace Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees. When …

The NBA announced Friday that it has finalized a plan for restarting the 2019-2020 season, which was halted in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The league also released a complete game schedule for the remaining matchups.  The season will resume on July 30, with what the league described in …

Meek Mill and fashion designer Milan Harris had a lot to celebrate on Wednesday. Not only was it the rapper’s birthday, but his girlfriend delivered a special gift ⁠— a baby boy. Meek Mill, who turned 33 on Wednesday, said it was the best gift before thanking fans “for all …

The president of the United States Soccer Federation, Carlos Cordeiro, announced Thursday night that he was resigning. The announcement comes just days after widespread outrage from a court filing from the federation that argued “the overall soccer-playing ability required to compete at the senior men’s national team level is materially influenced by …

Bestselling author John Grisham has a new novel that takes readers back to Camino Island, the fictional setting off the coast of Florida and title of his 2017 novel. The sequel, “Camino Winds,” revolves around a murder in the midst of a hurricane. A dozen people lose their lives in …