The spender and the saver sat next to each other during the NFL Draft in April, smiling at their recent additions and perhaps feeling slightly differently about their capital moving forward. When the spender, Broncos head coach Sean Payton, asked the saver, general manager George Paton, how much they had left in their draft wallets, […]

By Meghan Coyle | NerdWallet If your swimsuit is still drying from your last trip or you’re packing for a Labor Day getaway, traveling for Thanksgiving or the winter holidays probably isn’t top of mind. After all, it’s not even September. And remember last year when people were procrastinating and finding last-minute holiday travel deals? […]

The Chicago Cubs are bringing up one of their top hitting prospects with rosters expanding Friday. Before Friday’s doubleheader against the Reds, the Cubs called up outfielder Alexander Canario and right-handed Shane Greene from Triple-A Iowa. Canario was scorching in August, producing a 305/.356/.632 slash line with seven home runs and 10 doubles in 23 […]

By AARON BEARD and RALPH D. RUSSO (AP Sports Writers) The Atlantic Coast Conference has cleared the way for Stanford, California and SMU to join the league next year, two people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday, providing a landing spot for two more teams from the disintegrating Pac-12. […]

Those “Sell the team” signs seen at Guaranteed Rate Field the last two seasons haven’t persuaded Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf to take the advice of disgruntled Chicago White Sox fans. Asked during a meeting with selected reporters Thursday why he won’t sell the team, the 87-year-old Reinsdorf had a ready answer. “I’m going to couch this […]

The stretch run is here, and the Orioles enter it as the American League’s best team. Baltimore (83-50) is on pace to win 101 games — potentially reaching the century mark for the first time since 1980 — after going 18-9 in August. But the Tampa Bay Rays kept pace with a 17-8 mark to […]

By YURI KAGEYAMA (AP Business Writer) TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Friday as investors looked toward a United States jobs report being released later in the day. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.6% in morning trading to 32,820.80. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.4% to 7,278.30. South Korea’s Kospi was virtually unchanged, inching […]

GOLDEN — Leave it to one of the nation’s most electric offenses, the NCAA Division II preseason No. 2 Colorado School of Mines Orediggers, to create opening night college football drama. After blowing a three-score fourth-quarter lead against No. 3 Grand Valley State, redshirt senior kicker Hunter Pearson drilled a 41-yard game-winning field goal into […]