Wash. — Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold will start Sunday against the Washington Commanders, but the defending Super Bowl champions will be without both starting safeties as Julian Love and Ty Okada have been ruled out

Veteran Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving says he is under no physical restrictions from the torn ACL in his left knee that sidelined him 19 months ago, an injury that he called “probably the best thing that happened to me.”

The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs will play Game 162 of their season at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Sunday afternoon after the league relocated their series because of the forecast for poor weather in the Boston area this weekend.

USC coach Lincoln Riley said Tuesday that he believes the criticism surrounding the Trojans’ sparse home attendance at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this past weekend is a “false narrative.”

The president of the SEC’s executive committee, Tennessee chancellor Donde Plowman, told ESPN on Tuesday that the league “will not budge” on its rule that NFL players cannot return to college. Speaking on behalf of the SEC’s presidents and chancellors, she made clear that the SEC is “prepared to defend our rules” and wants commissioner…

Calif. — Mike Trout said Arte Moreno’s sale of the Los Angeles Angels to Stan Kroenke, who most famously presides over the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, “doesn’t change” his desire to stay with the franchise for the remainder of his contract. If anything, it seems to energize him for what’s ahead