The Astros are in big trouble. They lost Game 1 Tuesday night when the Nationals touched up the best pitcher in baseball for five runs, and came into Game 2 needing to scratch out some offense against a rolling Stephen Strasburg in order to salvage a split at home. They got off to a good start on that front Wednesday night, but watched their own pitching implode and lost a laugher, 12–3, to head to Washington in a deadly hole.

Ohio State did its part to set up an important showdown in the Horseshoe, but Wisconsin couldn’t do the same. Does that hurt the Buckeyes?

Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer and Anibal Sanchez are pitching in the World Series, which gets under way Tuesday.

HOUSTON — And in an eyeblink, it was gone, all of it: the hard-to-believe comeback, half an inch from the brink of extinction; the dream season stuffed with 108 victories of all make and model, all…

A publicist for McGregor has denied a report alleging the UFC megastar sexually assaulted a woman outside a Dublin bar, his second case of that type in less than 12 months.