The Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly considering leaving Shohei Ohtani out of the starting lineup as they try to avoid falling further behind in the National League Championship Series. The Athletic reported Monday that the Dodgers planned to discuss whether to sit Ohtani for Game 3 of the best-of-seven NLCS. The Dodgers lost 7-4 to the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 2 on Monday, falling behind 2-0 in the series. Game 3 is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday in Los Angeles. "It's obviously not a good si

Yoo Hyun-jo moved up in the women’s golf world rankings after winning the KLPGA Tour‘s HJ Shipbuilding & Construction-Dongbu Construction Championship. Yoo received 2.29 points in the rankings released Tuesday, climbing six spots from last week to No. 42. She won the HJ Shipbuilding & Construction-Dongbu Construction Championship on Sunday for her second KLPGA Tour title of the season. The top three remained unchanged, with Nelly Korda of the United States at No. 1, followed by Thailand’s Jeeno

The field for the Genesis Championship, the richest event on the KPGA Tour this season, will be determined at this week's The Charity Classic. The four-day tournament begins Thursday at the par-72 Valley and Seowon courses at Seowon Valley Country Club in Paju, Gyeonggi Province. The tournament offers about $744,000 in prize money, including about $149,000 for the winner, but Genesis points will be even more important. Only players ranked in the top 36 in the Genesis points standings after the t

MIAMI (AP) -- A game-worn, autographed Michael Jordan road jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals has been privately sold for $14 million, an auction house announced Monday, calling it the highest price ever paid for a piece of basketball memorabilia. Pennsylvania-based Hunt Auctions announced the private treaty sale and identified the buyer as Miami real estate investor Ron Firman. The red jersey is the one Jordan wore in Game 2 of that series on June 5, 1998; he and the Chicago Bulls beat the Utah Ja

South Korea international Lee Kang-in of Atletico Madrid has denied online rumors linking him to discord within the national team and warned of legal action. Lee's management agency, The Black Label, issued a statement Tuesday saying it had confirmed that false information concerning the player was spreading online. "The series of claims currently being circulated have nothing to do with Lee Kang-in and are entirely false," the agency said. "We are collecting evidence of posts and comments that

The European tour has delivered an ultimatum to players contemplating the new version of LIV Golf, saying anyone who joins will not be allowed to be a European tour member. "Players need to make a choice," Guy Kinnings, CEO of the European tour, said in a statement Monday first reported by the BBC. The DP World Tour, as it is commercially known, previously let LIV players keep their European membership as long as they paid fines for playing LIV events that conflicted with the tour. It extended a

SHANGHAI (AFP) -- Men's tennis will have a new world No. 1 after Germany's Alexander Zverev secured the year-end top ranking Monday following Carlos Alcaraz's third-round loss in Shanghai. The career milestone will cap a stellar season for the 29-year-old, the current world No. 2, after he won the French Open in June and the US Open in September. The French Open was his first Grand Slam title. "It's been a fantastic season for me winning in Paris and New York and knowing that I will finish the y

Mikel Arteta, who led Arsenal to its first Premier League title in 22 years last season, has signed a new contract with the club. Arsenal announced Tuesday that the 44-year-old Spaniard had extended his contract through June 2030. Arteta took charge in December 2019 and will have spent more than a decade in charge of Arsenal if he completes the new deal. According to The Associated Press, Arteta is already the longest-serving current manager at a single Premier League club. Arteta has enjoyed re

A challenger has emerged to Gianni Infantino as the FIFA president seeks a fourth term. Former Switzerland defender Ramon Vega, 55, announced his candidacy for the FIFA presidency, becoming the first person to publicly declare an intention to challenge Infantino, the BBC and Reuters reported Wednesday. "My purpose is straightforward: to serve football and the people who give the game its life," Vega said in his campaign manifesto. "I am running to reunite the global football family, deliver genu

The LPGA Tour released its 2027 schedule Wednesday featuring 33 tournaments, a record $147 million in prize money and an itinerary that doesn't have players bouncing across the country. LPGA Commissioner Craig Kessler has emphasized routing, quality of courses and prize money, and ticked several of those boxes. The three-week Asia swing beginning in February -- which ends with a new tournament in Hong Kong -- leads to a two-week stretch in Hawaii on the Big Island and Maui. The first stop is the

BERLIN (AP) -- European soccer leaders were gathering Wednesday with time pressing to find a candidate and shape their strategy for trying to oust Gianni Infantino as president of FIFA. UEFA has called its 55 member federations to a previously scheduled summit Thursday in Berlin that arrives in the midst of European efforts to get a new leader for soccer's world body. Infantino's divisive World Cup private investment plan -- which failed within days of being revealed in July -- pushed UEFA to ac

Harry Kane of Bayern Munich scored twice in his record-tying 125th international appearance as England routed the Czech Republic for its third straight victory in the 2026-27 UEFA Nations League. England beat the Czech Republic 3-0 in its fourth League A Group 3 match at Wembley Stadium in London on Tuesday. England, with nine points, has won three straight since opening the campaign with a 3-2 loss to Spain. It remained second in the group behind Spain, which improved to 12 points with a 2-1 vi

LONDON (AFP) -- United States Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk said Tuesday he will ask his players to "do more than any other United States team has in the past" to end a woeful run on European soil. The US heads to Adare Manor in Limerick, Ireland, next year aiming to end a wait since 1993 to win the biennial team event away from home. Furyk was in charge for one of those defeats in Paris in 2018. The 56-year-old has been given a chance to make amends, with Furyk saying he has learned valuable less

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Atlanta Braves behind a strong outing from starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, moving within one victory of advancing to the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers beat the Braves 3-1 in Game 3 of the best-of-five National League Division Series (NLDS) at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday. Leading the series 2-1, the Dodgers need just one more victory in the remaining two games to advance to the NLCS. The Dodgers secured the victory behind Yamamot

Fred Claire, the former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager who helped pave the way for Asian players in Major League Baseball by signing South Korean pitcher Park Chan-ho and Japan's Hideo Nomo, has died. He was 91. The Dodgers announced Tuesday that Claire died Monday in Pasadena, California, after battling cancer for more than a decade. Claire was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the lip in 2015 and had reportedly been receiving hospice care. Claire signed Park, then a sophomore at H