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This past offseason, the Las Vegas Raiders looked towards Geno Smith to be their savior of sorts after some time of considerable quarterback uncertainty. They traded for Smith and then promptly rewarded him with a huge contract extension, announcing to the entire league that he was going to be their franchise QB for at least […]

After a successful 2024 season in which quarterback CJ Stroud continued to lead the Houston Texans to the best of his ability, if their back-to-back playoff appearances are any indication, the Texans haven’t been off to the best start in 2025. On Monday, Houston fell to 0-2 on the year after a heartbreaking 20-19 loss […]

The Philadelphia Eagles, regardless of how “ugly” their start to the season may have been, can hold their head high as they start the season undefeated in two contests — including a 20-17 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in a rematch of Super Bowl LIX. It was the Eagles’ defense that starred […]

The San Francisco Giants’ playoff hopes looked cooked not too long ago, but somehow, thanks to the New York Mets’ collapse, the Giants are suddenly in realistic playoff contention. Their 10-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, which marks their second consecutive defeat in as many days, has put them 1.5 games behind the Mets […]

What’s been known for sometime became official on Sunday following the Los Angeles Angels’ 11-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners on the road — the Angels will be missing the playoffs in 2025 yet again. It seems like no matter what the Angels do, they just fall short and end up not having enough talent […]

A rematch of Super Bowl LIX came early in the 2025 season, with the Philadelphia Eagles renewing their rivalry against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead. There are hardly any more difficult games on the schedule than one against the Chiefs, but in the end, the Eagles got the job done and took a 20-17 […]

The Minnesota Lynx’s 2025 revenge tour continues in the playoffs, and they could not have dreamed up of a better start to their postseason run than the one they had on Sunday against the Golden State Valkyries in Game 1 of their first-round matchup. As was characteristic of the one-seed, the Lynx took care of […]

It is when pressure hits that the character of a team is tested, and the Seattle Mariners have been passing the adversity test with flying colors. On Thursday, the Mariners’ incredible run of games continued, as they managed to escape a tough battle against a bottom-dweller in the AL West, the Los Angeles Angels, with […]

The final day of the 2025 WNBA regular season has passed, which means that the playoff field is locked in — with eight teams remaining alive in the hunt for a championship. Earning the first seed by virtue of being consistent from start to finish are the Minnesota Lynx, a team that’s looking to bounce […]

For the second straight game, Anthony Volpe was not available to play for the New York Yankees, as a left shoulder injury sidelined him again, this time in the Yankees’ 9-3 win over the Detroit Tigers. Volpe has made his fair share of blunders this year and has drawn the ire of many Yankees fans […]

Turkey is in the semi-final of 2025 EuroBasket, and it’s thanks in large part to how Alperen Sengun looks to be an even better player than he was when he made his first All-Star Game en route to leading the Houston Rockets to a 52-30 record and the two-seed in the Western Conference. The Rockets […]

Somehow, the New York Yankees keep on developing unheralded talents to come out and produce for them on the mound. One such player is Cam Schlittler, who, despite being drafted in the seventh round in 2022, has emerged as a legitimate big-league talent who has been performing well for the Yankees in the heat of […]

A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces could not have dreamed up a better finish to the 2025 season. For months, they looked off the pace, and after years of being a legitimate title-contender, it was almost jarring to see them stinking it up in the middle of the pack. But the memory of their […]

As if the Colorado Rockies’ 2025 season could get any worse, one of the few potential bright spots of their putrid squad in rookie pitcher Chase Dollander may have thrown his final pitch of the season on the eighth of September in a 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. As Patrick Saunders of the […]

The New York Mets may be saying publicly that they’re not getting rattled by the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies are running away with the NL East. But the NL East title is not what they should be concerned about anyway. The Mets have fallen into a slump, winning just three of their 10 games […]

The Dallas Wings may remain one of the worst teams in the WNBA, as evidenced by their 10-34 record, which was tied for the worst in the association, but their future is bright, if only due to the presence of superstar in the making Paige Bueckers. Bueckers, the first overall pick of the 2025 WNBA […]

The past two years have not gone according to plan for the Tampa Bay Rays. To start the 2020s, it looked as though they were primed to emerge as a powerhouse in the AL East yet again despite their shoestring budget. However, their franchise cornerstone ended up being guilty of sexual abuse of a minor, […]

The St. Louis Cardinals may not be officially eliminated from the playoff race yet, but they may as well be; they are 4.5 games behind the New York Mets for the third and final NL Wild Card spot with four teams ahead of them in the standings. Their 5-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on […]

Through the first six innings of the New York Yankees’ Tuesday night contest against the Detroit Tigers, they were actually holding their own against the AL Central leader. The Yankees actually scored the first two runs of the game before the Tigers tied it at 2-2 in the fifth, with the game looking like a […]

The Las Vegas Aces are a freight train that cannot be stopped, and they are heading into the playoffs with some incredible momentum after they took home their 15th consecutive victory on Tuesday with a 92-61 demolition of the hapless Chicago Sky. The Aces looked mediocre for the first half of the season, an uncharacteristic […]

Over the past few weeks, the Los Angeles Dodgers have played poor baseball (relative to their standards). Over the past two weeks, they’ve gone 6-7 — paving the way for the San Diego Padres to potentially overtake them for the NL West lead. But somehow, the Padres have been worse than the Dodgers during that […]

The Toronto Blue Jays’ Tuesday night contest against the Houston Astros was certainly not for the faint of heart. Down 3-1 during the bottom of the ninth inning, the Blue Jays pulled a rabbit out of their hat to escape with a 4-3 win in 10 innings. In the bottom of the ninth, it was […]

The Philadelphia Phillies cannot be stopped, and it was New York Mets starter Sean Manaea who learned of that firsthand on Tuesday. Manaea, in a 9-3 loss to the Phillies, allowed four runs in five innings of work and was quite overmatched in a few at-bats as Philly poured it on to increase their division […]

The New York Mets cannot afford to slip up with the regular season coming to a close and their playoff standing remaining on shaky ground. But this four-game series they’re currently in against the NL East-leading Philadelphia Phillies could not be going any worse. Following a 1-0 defeat on Monday, the Mets were punched hard […]

The Philadelphia Phillies are well on their way to winning the NL East, as their lead over the New York Mets ballooned to nine games following their 9-3 win over them on Tuesday night. While it was a team effort that powered Philly to victory, one man stood tall as the biggest star of the […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have just one goal in mind heading into the 2025-26 season: to make it back to the playoffs and compete for a championship. They may have won just 24 games last year, but that was with the injury bug ravaging the entire team, with Joel Embiid and Paul George missing so much […]

Victor Wembanyama has had quite an eventful offseason; the San Antonio Spurs star went East to begin his summer filled with sidequests, experiencing what it’s like to stay for 10 days at a Shaolin Temple in Zhengzhou, China. Wemby then hung out with Kevin Garnett right after he underwent Buddhist tradition training, and now, the […]

The Los Angeles Clippers franchise, throughout its history, hasn’t achieved the most success, thanks in large part to the severe mismanagement it went through for years. But that does not mean that the franchise hasn’t had plenty of talented individuals don a Clippers uniform and lead the team to varying degrees of success — especially […]

With the 2025 MLB regular season on its last legs, every game counts for those in the playoff hunt. This is especially the case for the New York Mets, a team that, on Monday, entered a four-game series against NL East leader Philadelphia Phillies. The Mets were already seven games behind the Phillies in the […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers haven’t been playing like a playoff-caliber team as of late, especially against teams with a record below .500. But at the very least, they did take a 3-1 win at home on Monday against the hapless Colorado Rockies, the team with the worst record in MLB. This was their second win […]

The Boston Red Sox are right in the middle of a division race, and on Monday, they faced the last-placed team in the AL West, the Oakland Athletics. While they did take a drama-free 7-0 win at home in the end, the Red Sox did raise a ton of eyebrows before the game when they […]

After finishing 4-13 in 2024, it was clear that the Las Vegas Raiders needed a breath of fresh air. The quarterback job for the team was up in the air all season long; thus, they needed to rectify that if they were to contend in 2025. They did just that this offseason, trading for veteran […]

The Indianapolis Colts could not have dreamed up of a better start to the 2025 season when they thrashed the Miami Dolphins at home, 33-8, to begin the season on the best note. They seem to have made the right decision when they named quarterback Daniel Jones, who seemed to be on the outs in […]

It may just be the start of the new NFL season, but teams are already dealing with a plethora of injury woes. The Green Bay Packers are no exception to that; they face plenty of uncertainty heading into Week 2, with offensive tackle Zach Tom’s availability in doubt this week after he sustained an oblique […]

Every year presents each NFL team a blank slate and a fresh start, which is exactly what the Chicago Bears need after they went 5-12 last year. It even looked as though the Bears were going to start the season off with a huge win, especially as they held Minnesota Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy in […]

To begin his first career start, it looked like quarterback JJ McCarthy was going through some understandable jitters. He seemed almost rattled, as he made some questionable decisions and uncharacteristically poor throws, and the Minnesota Vikings ended up trailing the Chicago Bears by 11 at the end of three quarters. But McCarthy seemed to figure […]

Week 1 of the NFL season appears to be the week of the comeback with the Minnesota Vikings pulling off one of their own in a 27-24 win on Monday night over the Chicago Bears. Things were not looking good for the Vikings in the third quarter with the Bears taking a 17-6 lead into […]

The Philadelphia Phillies were certainly feeling the Monday blues as they decided to place Trea Turner on the 10-day injured list with a Grade 1 hamstring strain. While Turner did dodge a major bullet considering that it was a worse hamstring strain that kept him out for six weeks, this is the last thing the […]

LeBron James and Anthony Davis may no longer be teammates after the bombshell trade in February that sent the latter to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Luka Doncic, but the bond they forged during their time together on the Los Angeles Lakers remains strong as ever. This was very much apparent in the way […]