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James Shields pitched great against the Oakland Athletics again. This time, he had nothing to show for it with his new team.

Shields matched his season best with nine strikeouts in eight innings, allowing late solo home runs to Josh Donaldson and Adam Rosales in the Kansas City Royals' 2-1 ...

No debating this home run by Adam Rosales.

After being denied a game-tying homer last week in Cleveland that Major League Baseball said the umpiring crew should have reversed, Rosales hit a go-ahead shot leading off the eighth inning after Josh Donaldson connected one inning earlier in the Oakland Athletics ...

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

11-15-35-43-49, Mega Ball: 41

(eleven, fifteen, thirty-five, forty-three, forty-nine; Mega Ball: forty-one)

Estimated jackpot: $190 million

The first inning had been the Milwaukee Brewers' strongest suit all season. This time, the St. Louis Cardinals turned the tables and put them in a hole just large enough that six RBIs from Aramis Ramirez left them short.

Ramirez hit a pair of three run homers, but the Cardinals ...

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

4

(four)

David Freese waited a long time for this curtain call. He was impressed with the patience of St. Louis' fans.

Freese hit a grand slam for his first homer of the season, and the Cardinals used a five-run first inning to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 on Friday night.

"That ...

The Kansas City Royals placed center fielder Jarrod Dyson on the 15-day disabled list Friday with a sprained right ankle and recalled outfielder David Lough from Triple-A Omaha.

The speedy Dyson hurt his ankle Wednesday night against the Angels while attempting to scale the outfield wall and rob Mike Trout ...

The Oakland Athletics have promoted left-hander Hideki Okajima from Triple-A Sacramento and designated right-hander Chris Resop for assignment.

Oakland announced the moves before Friday's game against the Kansas City Royals.

The 37-year-old Okajima was 0-1 with a 2.16 ERA in 14 games with the River Cats. He last ...

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jake Westbrook has received another elbow treatment, the Associated Press has learned, perhaps pushing back his return.

The right-hander is on the 15-day disabled list with elbow inflammation and had been scheduled to throw Friday. He told the AP he had an injection to his elbow ...

The third-place playoff between Arsenal and Chelsea in the Premier League would be played May 26 at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.

Chelsea (21-7-9) has a two-point lead over Arsenal (20-7-10) with one game left. If the Gunners beat Newcastle 2-1 Sunday and Chelsea ties Everton 0-0, the teams would ...

The Kansas City Chiefs have signed former Kansas defensive end Toben Opurum as an undrafted free agent after trying him out as a fullback during rookie minicamp.

The Chiefs announced the move in a statement Friday.

The 6-foot-1, 250-pound Opurum began his career with the Jayhawks as a running back ...

Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev says it no longer has plans to acquire Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar, with whom it has been fighting a long legal battle over the use of the "Budweiser" brand.

Frank Hellwig, legal director for AB InBev, says "we don't have any plans, or intention, or ...

Adam Wainwright grimaced at the notion that fatigue factored into an unsatisfactory follow-up to perhaps the most dominant effort of his career.

The Cardinals' ace was surprised to get lifted after six innings of a 5-2 loss to the New York Mets on Thursday that prevented a four-game St. Louis ...

To compensate for early exits, Jonathan Niese did some extra throwing in his bullpen session. Besides the work, manager Terry Collins thought it was no coincidence the lefty rediscovered his groove in shirt-sleeve weather and paved the way for the New York Mets' slump-buster.

"I knew he was going to ...

The Kansas City Chiefs shook up their scouting department Thursday by hiring Will Lewis as director of pro scouting and Marvin Allen as the director of college scouting.

The Chiefs also hired Randy Ball to be their pro scouting assistant and Trey Koziol to serve as an area scout, along ...

There's a not-so-subtle difference between the way the Kansas City Chiefs are operating their defense under new coordinator Bob Sutton, and what they've done the past couple years under former coach Romeo Crennel.

Gone is the bend-but-don't-break style that worked well at times and suffered at others ...

A federal judge has ordered Dow Chemical Co. to pay $1.21 billion in damages after it lost a class-action lawsuit that accused it of conspiring to fix prices.

Dow says it will appeal.

The Feb. 20 jury verdict in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., was for Dow to ...

A University of Missouri study has found that male testosterone levels during competition varies depending on relationships among the competitors _ and may be related to the formation of alliances in war.

The study, released Thursday, tracked men on the island of Dominica playing dominoes or cricket. It concluded that sporting ...

Angels manager Mike Scioscia saw the direction Barry Enright's night was going and he wasn't about to give the right-hander any more rope. So he pulled him with the bases loaded and none out in the third inning _ even though he was only down 1-0.

Then everything fell ...

After getting swept in a three-game series by the New York Yankees at the end of their homestand, the Kansas City Royals turned things around somewhat against the underachieving Los Angeles Angels.

Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run double and Billy Butler capped his most productive series of the season with ...