AMSTERDAM-- Argentine full back Nicolas Tagliafico scored two second-half goals as Ajax Amsterdam marked their return to the Champions League group stages with an emphatic 3-0 victory over AEK Athens on Wednesday.
BARCELONA- Lionel Messi scored a record eighth Champions League hat-trick as Barcelona kick-started their campaign with a 4-0 home win over PSV Eindhoven, although they had defender Samuel Umtiti sent off late in the second half on Tuesday.
BOSTON--Andrew Benintendi lofted the tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning on Sunday afternoon as the Boston Red Sox edged the New York Mets 4-3 in the finale of a three-game series at Fenway Park.
MADRID- - PSV Eindhoven coach Mark van Bommel says his players can fight it out for Barcelona star Lionel Messi's shirt if they win at the Nou Camp on Tuesday - but they had better not ask him for it at halftime.
NEW ORLEANS --Drew Brees connected on a pair of short touchdown passes to Michael Thomas in a six-minute span of the fourth quarter, and Wil Lutz kicked a 44-yard field goal with 21 seconds to lift the New Orleans Saints to a 21-18 comeback victory over the Cleveland Browns Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
