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The St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission said Tuesday it has paid $2 million to the St. Louis Rams to cover the team's legal fees for the dispute over upgrades to the Edward Jones Dome that resulted in arbitration.

CVC spokeswoman Donna Andrews said payment was made May 20 ...

Chicago Cubs starter Travis Wood seems to keep pitching better every outing. He just has very little to show for it.

Wood (5-6) dropped his third straight start Monday night in St. Louis, as he came out on the short end of a 5-2 score. He allowed seven hits and ...

Known for his defense, Yadier Molina is putting together an impressive offensive season.

Molina had two more hits Monday night against the Chicago Cubs, including a two-run double, to help the Cardinals to a 5-2 win in the opener of a four-game series. Those two hits raised his average to ...

Carlos Carrasco's victory slipped away first. Then, the Indians let a win slide past them.

Pinch-runner Elliot Johnson scored from third base when catcher Carlos Santana couldn't block reliever Matt Albers' wild pitch in the ninth inning, giving the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 win over Cleveland on ...

One win at a time, the Royals are scrapping their way toward the top in the AL Central.

Pinch-runner Elliot Johnson scored from third base on a wild pitch by reliever Matt Albers in the ninth inning as Kansas City rallied for a 2-1 win over the Cleveland Indians on ...

A backup Missouri linebacker arrested during the 2012 season on drug charges has been dismissed from the team.

Team spokesman Chad Moller says redshirt freshman linebacker Torey Boozer is no longer a member of the Tigers. He declined further comment.

Boozer was arrested in October on marijuana possession charges along ...

Former Kansas City Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli is joining NBC's Sunday night studio show.

The network said Monday that Pioli will appear on "Football Night in America," along with "Pro Football Talk" on NBC Sports Network.

Pioli left the Chiefs in January after four mostly unsuccessful seasons. He ...

Help is on the way, or at least the Tampa Bay Rays hope so following Sunday's 5-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals.

The Rays called up outfielder Wil Myers, rated by Baseball America before the season as its No. 1 overall prospect, best power hitter and best hitter ...

Wade Davis kept the Kansas City Royals' long stretch of strong pitching intact in a win over the Tampa Bay Rays.

Davis stopped his five-game winless streak, Jeff Francoeur homered, and the Royals beat the Rays 5-3 on Sunday.

The Royals have given up three runs or fewer in 14 ...

Maybe the St. Louis Cardinals were looking ahead to the Chicago Cubs.

In a matchup of worst versus first, NL Central leader St. Louis mustered only five hits Sunday and lost to the woeful Miami Marlins. 7-2.

The Cardinals dropped two of three games in Miami _ the first series they ...

Ricky Nolasco beat the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Miami Marlins won a weekend matchup of worst versus first.

Nolasco allowed one run and three hits in seven innings Sunday to help the Marlins take the rubber game of their three-game series against the Cardinals, 7-2. NL Central leader St ...

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Alex Cobb left the hospital and went home Sunday, one day after he was hit in the right ear by a line drive.

The Rays announced during their game against Kansas City that Cobb had been released from Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg. The team ...

None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were:

28-36-40-48-55

Powerball: 1

(twenty-eight, thirty-six, forty, forty-eight, fifty-five; Powerball: one)

Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $85 million jackpot. The prize goes to an ...

The Kansas City Royals wouldn't typically feel relief after losing a game and a franchise-record pitching streak.

But once they learned that Tampa Bay right-hander Alex Cobb sustained only a mild concussion after taking a line drive to the head, Saturday's 5-3 loss to the Rays was an ...

The Miami Marlins found themselves in a slugfest Saturday with the best-hitting team in the NL.

They lost.

Carlos Beltran homered from each side of the plate and tripled, and Lance Lynn notched his ninth victory when the St. Louis Cardinals beat Miami 13-7.

Miami fell behind 5-0 in the ...

Tampa Bay right-hander Alex Cobb was taken off the field on a stretcher after he was hit on the right ear by a liner off the bat of Kansas City's Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning of the Rays' 5-3 win over the Royals on Saturday.

The Rays announced ...

Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Alex Cobb was taken off the field on a stretcher after he was hit on the right ear by a liner off the bat of Kansas City's Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning of Saturday's game.

Cobb put a hand on his head after ...

The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:

02-05-31-33-34, Mega Ball: 20

(two, five, thirty-one, thirty-three, thirty-four; Mega Ball: twenty)

Estimated jackpot: $29 million

The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Megaplier" game were:

4

(four)

Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost could have been excused for missing his team's game on the night his daughter got married.

But he didn't.

Yost was in Sugar Hill, Ga., on Thursday night with one eye on the wedding ceremony of his daughter, Jenny, while the Royals ...