Riding a three-game losing streak, the Earthquakes trained hard during a bye week to try to become tougher on defense for the rest of the MLS season.

It wasn’t exactly what the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees wanted.

The first planned colonial town in the New World was founded in 1494, when about 1,200 of Christopher Columbus’s crew members from the 17 ships that made up his second journey to the Americas settled on the north coast of what is now the Dominican Republic .

Sophisticated chemical skeletal studies have begun to yield new insights into the lives and origins of the explorer’s crew. » Kari Lydersen

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 10 (UPI) — Second-half goals by Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Eddie Gaven Saturday helped the Columbus Crew pull out a 3-2 win over Kansas City.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 25 (UPI) — Gonzalo Segares scored in the 89th minute Saturday, giving the Chicago Fire a 2-2 Major League Soccer tie with the Columbus Crew.

A clean-shaven Rick Nash stood in the locker room yesterday discussing the atmosphere inside Nationwide Arena on Thursday night.

TV/radio: 6 p.m. Saturday; Fox Soccer Channel; WRTO-AM 1200 (Spanish).

The Wings twice lost two-goal leads, but never lost their composure. A game steered unavoidably toward overtime stunningly veered off into a season-ender for Columbus.

“Painstaking” seems an insufficient word for the work of the Columbus Foundation, which built seaworthy replicas of two of Christopher Columbus’ famous ships using 15th century tools. Are their Niña and Pinta exact replicas? The Niña was good enough to be used in the Ridley Scott film 1492 , but we say the only fun way to find out is to sail to Spain with them and invade the country. Until that happens, you can walk the deck of the historic ships yourself when they dock this week for a stay at the Inlet Harbor Marina.