Chael Sonnen thinks Alex Pereira immediately rematching Magomed Ankalaev is a bad idea. Pereira (12-3 MMA, 9-2 UFC) lost his light heavyweight title to Ankalaev (21-1-1 MMA, 12-1-1 UFC) by unanimous decision in the UFC 313 main event earlier this month at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

"Gretzky was the coach (of Phoenix), and he couldn’t keep his eye off the jumbotron," Matthews recalled. "Everybody was just kind of more in shock and awe than celebrating, honestly, because they couldn’t really fathom what just happened."

Leonard is an Amherst native who played at Pope Francis, and his debut will come against the hometown Bruins on Tuesday night. He called making the NHL a “dream come true” and will have plenty of familiar faces in the crowd tonight.

Austin Smith (San Diego) and Curtis Hebert (Portland) earned weekly honors from the College Baseball Foundation (CBF) for their respective performances last week. Lodise Jr. earned the Brooks Wallace

Marc Marquez says there is no truth to the notion that his younger brother Alex faces a mental block in the intra-family fight that currently tops the MotoGP points table.

Alex Ovechkin is now five goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record after scoring the 890th of his career in the Washington Capitals’ game Sunday against the Buffalo Sabres.

Former soccer star Alex Morgan and her husband Servando Carrasco, also a former professional soccer player, have welcomed a second child.

In a matchup of rising U.S. players, fifth-seeded Alex Michelsen defeated Learner Tien 6-4, 6-2 on Monday in the first round of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston.