Robinson Cano's 21st home run of the season snapped a ninth-inning tie and enabled the New York Yankees to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 and hang on to first place in the AL East on Saturday night.

David Ortiz lined a three-run double to the left-center gap with one out in the ninth inning Saturday to give the Boston Red Sox a 5-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.

The Jonas Brothers will be looking to make softball hits rather than hit singles when they take on a group from ESPN in a charity baseball game.

Tennis great Ivan Lendl is taking part in the Connecticut Open at the Country Club of Fairfield this week.

Asjha Jones scored 10 of her season-high 23 points in the fourth period and the Connecticut Sun snapped a two-game losing streak with an 88-78 win over the Washington Mystics on Tuesday night.

Josh Tomlin took a shutout into the eighth inning against Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees to win his major league debut with the Cleveland Indians, 4-1 on Tuesday night.

Connecticut Sun player -- and former UConn star -- Asjha Jones has always had trouble finding the right fit. So as Sports Team 8’s John Pierson shows, she made her own shoe fit.

Four days a week in this so-called off-season, Olympic bobsledder and Connecticut native Erin Pac trains. Hard.

DeLisha Milton-Jones scored 20 points and the Los Angeles Sparks set a franchise-record with 15 3-pointers in an 89-80 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Saturday night.

Curtis Granderson hit a pair of homers, Alex Rodriguez drove in three runs — the last when he was hit with a pitch on the hand — and the New York Yankees waited out a lengthy rain delay to beat the Kansas City Royals 12-6 on Sunday and finish another successful homestand.

Andy Pettitte has already been in Joe Girardi's ear, telling the Yankees manager at every turn that he feels fine and could be back soon, despite a left groin strain that the team expects to keep him out until mid-August.

Josh Beckett was in command in his return from two months on the disabled list, and Bill Hall homered in the seventh inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 2-1 victory over the squabbling Seattle Mariners on Friday night.

The fight to save the life of a Yale women's hockey player continues. Mandi Schwartz has leukemia and is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant.

Rushed up to the plate after Brett Gardner was ejected, Curtis cracked a three-run homer Wednesday that sealed New York's 10-6 victory over Joel Pineiro and the Los Angeles Angels.

A federal judge has ruled that Quinnipiac University violated Title IX when they tried to eliminate the women's volleyball team.

The floor of the Red Sox clubhouse was filled with black equipment bags as players packed for their 10-day West Coast trip. Amid the clutter, the stuff that revealed the team's current condition was still hard to miss.

Ike Davis doubled home the go-ahead run in 10th inning after the Mets wasted a two-run lead in the ninth, and New York beat the San Francisco Giants 4-3 Sunday to avoid a four-game sweep.

Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees knocked around All-Star starter David Price, overcoming an early injury to Andy Pettitte with brilliant work by the bullpen Sunday in a 9-5 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.

C.J. Wilson struck out a career-high 10 and the Texas Rangers capitalized on Boston's throwing problems to beat the Red Sox 4-2 on Sunday.

Kevin Youkilis doubled in the tying run in the ninth inning then drove in the winner with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 11th and the Boston Red Sox overcame a strong start by Cliff Lee and beat the Texas Rangers 3-2 Saturday night.

Two-time defending champion Caroline Wozniacki and American Sam Querrey will prepare for the U.S. Open by competing in the Pilot Pen tournament.

Geno Auriemma watched Australia light up his U.S. women's national team for 12 3-pointers in a weekend scrimmage. He'll have to wait a few months before he gets a chance to fix the problems he saw.

Quinnipiac University’s Bill Schweizer covered Steinbrenner for more than twenty years and shared with News 8’s Keith Kountz one of his favorite memories.

Bob Sheppard, whose elegant introductions of stars from Joe DiMaggio to Derek Jeter at Yankee Stadium for more than a half century earned him the nickname "The Voice of God," died Sunday. He was 99.

Lopez hit his second career grand slam off Joba Chamberlain in the eighth inning, and Hernandez outlasted Javier Vazquez to lead the Mariners to a come-from-behind 4-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday night.

Johan Santana saved the Mets from a sweep with another spotless outing and rookie Ike Davis hit his latest titanic home run in New York's 3-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.

Darnell McDonald and David Ortiz hit back-to-back home runs, Daisuke Matsuzaka won for the first time in more than a month and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 Sunday.

University of Connecticut coach, geno Auriemma, has seven former and current players at the team's four-day training camp to help prepare for the world championships in October.

Jon Lester pitched six innings to win his third consecutive start and the Boston Red Sox hit four homers in a 14-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.

Melky Cabrera and Omar Infante hit back-to-back homers with two outs in the seventh inning off knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, and the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets 4-2 Friday night.