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Nelson Cruz, right, celebrates with Taylor Motter (21) after hitting a three run home run in the seventh inning of Seattle's win in Oakland.

Cruz drives in five as M’s snap skid

April 23, 2017, 7:57pm National Sports

Nelson Cruz homered and drove in five runs, Taylor Motter hit his first career grand slam and the Seattle Mariners routed the Oakland Athletics 11-1 on Sunday. Read story

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher James Paxton, center, is pulled from the baseball game by manager Scott Servais during the fifth inning against the Oakland Athletics, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Oakland, Calif.

Valdez’s first start in nearly 7 years highlights A’s win over Mariners

April 20, 2017, 10:59pm National Sports

Cesar Valdez pitched in the major leagues for the first time in nearly seven years and the Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 9-6 on Thursday night. Read story

Canada's Christine Sinclair, left, scores her team's 2nd goal, during the 2016 Summer Olympics football match between Canada and Australia, at the Arena Corinthians, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. Canada won 2-0.

Reflections done, Sinclair ready to lead Thorns

April 20, 2017, 7:36pm National Sports

Following a year of heartbreak and triumph, Christine Sinclair had some time in the offseason to decompress. Read story

Chiefs free safety Husain Abdullah (39) pushes Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) out of bounds short of the goal line during a 2016 divisional game in Foxborough, Mass. The two teams will kick off the 2017 regular season against each other on Sept. 7.

Spoils for champion: Patriots open season hosting Chiefs

April 20, 2017, 6:30pm National Sports

One of the spoils of being champion: The New England Patriots will kick off the NFL season on Sept. 7 by hosting the Kansas City Chiefs. Read story

Massachusetts State Sen. Jamie Eldridge, of Middlesex & Worcester Districts, speaks to media at the entrance of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, on Wednesday in Shirley, Mass. Eldridge spoke about state prison suicide rates in the wake of the news that former NFL star Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell.

Hernandez family wants trauma researchers to examine brain

April 20, 2017, 10:15am Nation & World

Aaron Hernandez's family wants to donate his brain to science, but Massachusetts officials are refusing to release it despite turning over the rest of his body to a funeral home, the former NFL star's lawyer said Thursday. Read story

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick presents President Donald Trump with a Patriots helmet during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, where the president honored the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots for their Super Bowl LI victory. Patriots owner Robert Kraft is at right.

Patriots’ White House visit marred by Hernandez’ suicide

April 19, 2017, 11:27am National Sports

President Donald Trump congratulated the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots on Wednesday, a normally joyous White House ritual marred by the prison suicide hours earlier of former teammate Aaron Hernandez. Trump hosted the five-time champions on the South Lawn and declared that “no team has been… Read story

Former New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial hearing in a murder case against him.

Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez dead after hanging self in cell

April 19, 2017, 9:17am Latest News

Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez hanged himself Wednesday in the prison cell where he was serving a life sentence for murder, taking his life on the same day his ex-teammates on the New England Patriots were set to visit the White House to mark their Super Bowl victory. Read story

Star QB Tom Brady to miss NFL champs’ visit to White House

April 19, 2017, 9:17am Nation & World

Star quarterback Tom Brady will not join his New England Patriots teammates when the Super Bowl champions visit the White House on Wednesday to accept congratulations from President Donald Trump for another NFL title. Read story

Robinson Cano hits a run-scoring double in the fourth inning against the Miami Marlins to score Jarrod Dyson on Monday. Cano was 2 for 4 with a first-inning home run as the Mariners won their fourth game in a row. (Ted S.

Mariners reel in Marlins for fourth consecutive victory

April 17, 2017, 10:59pm National Sports

Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz hit consecutive first-inning homers, Ariel Miranda pitched seven scoreless innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the Miami Marlins 6-1 Monday night in Ichiro Suzuki’s first visit to Safeco Field as a member of the 3,000-hit club. Read story

Geoffrey Kirui, of Kenya, crosses the finish line to win the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday in Boston.

Kenyans Kirui, Kiplagat win 121st Boston Marathon

April 17, 2017, 9:30am National Sports

The Kenyans are back in Boston after a relative lull that saw them shut out in the world's most prestigious marathon twice in the past three years. Read story