Major League Baseball broadcasts no longer will use the strike zone box to indicate where the pitch was a ball or a strike, a move that coincides with the league's implementation of the automated ball-strike challenge system.The box itself still can be...

Minnesota Twins ace right-hander Pablo Lopez will be sidelined for an extended period while he recovers from a significant tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, general manager Jeremy Zoll said Tuesday.Season-ending Tommy John su...

Carolina Panthers long snapper JJ Jansen will return to the team for an 18th season after signing a one-year contract on Tuesday.Financial terms were not disclosed for the 40-year-old Jansen, who has played in a franchise-record 277 games since 2009. A...

Journeyman first baseman Dominic Smith has joined the Braves' spring training camp as a non-roster invitee on a minor league contract, according to multiple media reports.Smith, 30, is a former first-round pick by the New York Mets in the 2013 MLB Draf...

The window for NFL teams to utilize the franchise and transition tag opens Tuesday.The transaction in place for teams to retain their own free agents can be applied through March 3 at 4 p.m. ET.There's rarely a race to apply the tag as general managers...

MLBPA executive director Tony Clark is resigning from his position mere months before the start of a potential lockout, according to multiple media reports.The reports emerged Tuesday, the same day that Clark was supposed to begin his annual tour of sp...