
Khris Davis smacked his 29th home run among three hits Tuesday night, powering the Oakland Athletics to a 6-2 win over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.
Khris Davis smacked his 29th home run among three hits Tuesday night, powering the Oakland Athletics to a 6-2 win over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.
No coach of the Washington Redskins has had more than four years at the helm since Norv Turner had a six-plus year run from 1994-2000. Jay Gruden is getting set to enter his fifth season as head coach of the franchise this fall, the first coach to reach that threshold under Dan Snyder’s ownership of the team. “It’s a production-based business, without a doubt,” Gruden said, via John Keim of ESPN.com.
In the highest-scoring game in franchise history, Daniel Murphy hit two early home runs and the Washington Nationals kept pouring it on against emergency reliever Jose Reyes and the New York Mets in a 25-4 rout Tuesday night.
Three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka made another quick exit at the Citi Open, losing 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3) to Donald Young in the first round of the hard-court tournament Tuesday night.
The New Orleans Saints bolstered their depth at wide receiver by signing veterans Michael Floyd and Brandon Tate, according to multiple reports. Floyd, 28, caught only 10 passes for 78 yards last season with the Minnesota Vikings. The former first-round pick out of Notre Dame has 256 career receptions for 3,859 yards and 24 touchdowns but has created controversy off the field with a drunken-driving arrest that led to a brief jail term.
A recent weekend practice has just begun at the Bon Secours Washington Redskins Training Center, but there’s no defense on the field — just quarterback Alex Smith and his receivers. Some of these receivers, Smith has never thrown to, and given the fact the 14-year veteran has been a Redskin for only six months, he knows that every rep matters, especially if he’s going to lead Washington from the depths of the rough-and-tumble NFC East. Smith is locked in, treating this portion of practice with the focus and intensity it deserves, when his new coach, Jay Gruden, inexplicably breaks his concentration.
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs has signed a five-year contract extension, the team announced Tuesday. "To Vikings fans and everybody, you guys are stuck with me for a little longer," Diggs said with a smile in a video posted on the team's Twitter account. "I just signed my extension, I'm happy to be a part of this organization." A fifth-round selection from Maryland in the 2015 NFL Draft, Diggs gained 849 yards on 64 receptions last season.
First-round pick Vita Vea will miss some time with a left calf injury, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were relieved that the defensive tackle didn't sustain a more serious injury, head coach Dirk Koetter said Tuesday. "It's better than we thought," Koetter told reporters of Vea's injury. "What Vita described when it happened was what you would think if a guy tore his Achilles, which would be a year-long injury.