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TORONTO – So far through two ALCS games in Toronto, both teams have had to deal with short outings from a starting pitcher. In the Blue Jays' 11-8 win in Game 3, Royals starter Johnny Cueto couldn't get out of the third inning. It was R.A. Dickey's turn to struggle in Game 4 on Tuesday. Dickey was pulled after allowing five runs, four of them earned, over 1 2/3 innings. He served up a two-run home run to Ben Zobrist in the first and a solo shot to Alex Rios in the second. The Blue Jays entered Game 4 trailing in the series 2-1. R.A. Dickey is done after 1.2 innings. The last time he made a start that short was June 13, 2008. He nearly out-Cueto'd Cueto. — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 20, 2015 [Related:  Blue Jays stop selling beer cans in upper deck after unruly ALDS incident ] When Dickey first began to experiment with the knuckleball as his primary pitch, he did not experience instant success. In his first game as a true knuckleballer in April 2006 he g...

If Lakers basketball prez Jim Buss wanted to make Los Angeles fans feel any better about his team’s prospects by sitting for a rare on-record interview, he probably failed in that regard. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] The Lakers stink. They stunk two seasons ago, last season, and they’ll stink again this season. That’s OK! A lot of teams stink, and usually that sort of ineptitude leads to scads of high draft picks and a chance to clear house with salary cap space. The Lakers, though, are still a few years behind in that regard due to the triptych of calamities that were the Dwight Howard Era, the Steve Nash Trade, and the Kobe Bryant Contract Extension. [ Yahoo Fantasy Basketball: Sign up for a league today ] This is part of the reason why Buss spoke with USA Today’s Sam Amick about his team’s fortunes heading forward, and his own role in those Laker champions of lore : “(If) I would have taken credit for all the moves we won cha...

BY CHRIS LOMON Whether she’s speaking of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) or the Toronto Furies, where she’s the general manager, Rebecca Michael knows the key to success is always staying one stride ahead of the competition.  It was a banner start to the 2015-16 regular season on Oct. 17 for the Furies, one of five teams that comprise the CWHL, with a 2-0 home win over reigning champion Boston at the MasterCard Centre. The following day, the two teams faced-off again, this time with Boston netting the two points courtesy of a 2-1 shootout victory. The good for the Furies: grabbing three out of four points. The bad: injuries to key players. “I think that we have a great core of returning veterans and strong group of drafted players,” offered Michael. “That being said, with the season only one weekend in, injuries are proving to be a critical barrier we have faced with three of our top forwards on the sidelines for both short and long periods of time. As a team, ...

Say this much for the Brooklyn Nets: At least they tried. [ Yahoo Fantasy Basketball: Sign up for a league today ] Owner Mikhail Prokhorov empowered general manager Billy King to make bold moves in aggressive pursuit of a championship: trade for Deron Williams, trade for Joe Johnson, hire Jason Kidd, trade for Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, sign Andrei Kirilenko, add draft picks to deals like Splenda to your coffee. No expense was spared; nobody went unpaid. Now it's time to pay the piper, and somehow, he makes even more than Joe Johnson. (In case you forgot: $24.9 million. Joe Johnson's the NBA's  second-highest paid player . It's 2015.) Alas, the Nets never even sniffed the O'Brien, topping out with a second-round knockout two seasons ago before Kidd absconded to Wisconsin , Pierce decamped for D.C.  and Lionel Hollins took the reins of a team seemingly stuck between paring down payroll and pushing for the playoffs . Brooklyn did return to the postseas...

New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey has an insurance policy put in place by his agent Scott Boras protecting him if he suffers an injury that leads to loss of potential earnings.  Such policies are common in the sports world for elite college and professional athletes, but Harvey's is newsworthy because the entire final six weeks of the regular season around the Mets were spent debating whether the team should stop using Harvey because he is in his first season following Tommy John surgery and he was approaching, and ultimately surpassed, a 180-innings limit his agent and the team had discussed before the season. CBSSports reported Boras secured the policy for Harvey at the end of the regular season. [ Check out Big League Stew on Tumblr for more cool stuff from the MLB postseason ] Harvey won't be a free agent until 2018, but he is eligible for arbitration this winter and figures to get a nice bump in pay from the $614,125 he is making this season. Harvey was absolutely dom...

There were a lot of factors that went into the Carolina Panthers' big win at the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Carolina's defense had its leader, middle linebacker Luke Kuechly, back and played very fast as a result. The offense had a sustaining run game. Quarterback Cam Newton got hot after a shaky start. And Seattle's defense continued to fall apart as it keeps experimenting with different schemes. Let's start with the game-winning play, because for as well as the Panthers played, it was a total breakdown by the Seahawks that led to the final touchdown. After the Panthers spiked the ball to stop the clock, the Seahawks totally blew the coverage with a lack of communication. Tight end Greg Olsen was the "X iso" to the boundary. He ran a vertical seam route. Cornerback Richard Sherman looked like he was playing "Cover 2" zone and safety Earl Thomas looked like he was playing "quarters" zone. The bottom line is Thomas did not get the call,...

On Tuesday's heart-pumping program, Brad Evans and Dalton Del Don discuss their takeaways from Monday's eye-gouging Giants/Eagles matchup, decide how many FAAB dollars owners should throw at upstarts Stefon Diggs, Brian Hoyer and Christine Michael, determine if Lamar Miller's resurgence is believe or make believe and go all #TeamHuevos on Martavis Bryant's rest-of-season value. [ Play Yahoo Daily Fantasy and get a 100% deposit bonus with your first deposit ] Give it a listen, make it a habit .  And dig our iTunes and RSS feeds . from Yahoo Sports http://ift.tt/1OQetZ2 via IFTTT