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Basketball great LeBron James is becoming a part-owner of the Boston Red Sox, according to a report in The Boston Globe Tuesday. The Los Angeles Laker is joining Fenway Sports Group as a partner, a source told the newspaper.

The bodycam footage of former Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon’s recent arrest for driving under the influence was released on Wednesday.

Former All-Star baseball player Johnny Damon was arrested early Friday morning in Florida on suspicion of drunken driving and resisting arrest, court records show. Damon’s wife, Michelle Mangan-Damon, was also arrested by Windermere police, who’d pulled the couple over after noticing their SUV was weaving on the road about 1:23 a.m., officers said. Mangan-Damon was charged with hitting an...

Bianca Smith is the newest member of the Red Sox minor league coaching staff and as our John Tomase writes as part of our tribute to Black History Month, she loves the challenge and her role model status.

Ron Roenicke waited five years after his previous managerial job for another opportunity. When it finally came, it wasn’t much of an opportunity at all. The Red Sox told Roenicke before the final game of the season on Sunday that he will not be back in 2021, ending his tenure as a one-year, shotgun stopgap for a pandemic-shortened season with…

Major League Baseball released its report on the Boston Red Sox sign-stealing investigation Wednesday, docking the team a second-round draft pick in the 2020 draft because a video replay operator had used game feeds to revise signs. Former manager Alex Cora, who led the Sox to a World Series title and the most wins in team history in 2018, has…

Like baseball fans across the country, the health care staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston are dealing with the void during an unusual spring season. But John Krasinski has some good news for them. The Newton native on Sunday released the third episode of his YouTube series “Some Good News,” a newscast focusing on all of the…

With Los Angeles fans reeling from news that two of the Dodgers’ recent World Series opponents were linked to a cheating scandal that tipped off batters to what pitch was about to be thrown, the City Council voted Tuesday to ask Major League Baseball to strip the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox of their World Series titles. The resolution…

Jimmy Fallon goes over Wednesday’s top headlines, including a town in Michigan that now smells entirely of weed.

Alex Cora is no longer the manager of the Boston Red Sox amid a sign-stealing investigation that he’d been implicated in and which Major League Baseball has been mulling disciplinary action.

Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday announced the arrest of an 11th suspect in the attempted killing of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz. An official identified the suspect as Franklin Junior Meran. The official, who agreed to disclose the information only if not quoted by name because they weren’t authorized to discuss the case publicly, told The...

Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday announced the arrest of an 11th suspect in the attempted killing of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz. An official identified the suspect as Franklin Junior Meran. The official, who agreed to disclose the information only if not quoted by name because they weren’t authorized to discuss the case publicly, told The...

Boston should be happy to pay this tax bill. The World Series champion Red Sox owe $11,951,091 in luxury tax for having baseball’s top payroll, according to final calculations by the commissioner’s office obtained by The Associated Press. The only other team that owes is the Washington Nationals, who must pay $2,386,097, their second straight year with a bill.

Mookie Betts led off with the first of his three homers, and the Red Sox chased Ohtani after just two innings in a 10-1 victory over the Angels.

Forbes released their 2017 list of most valuable MLB teams. Find out if your team is near the top.