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The Atlanta Braves are going to miss the playoffs in 2025, snapping their seven-year postseason streak. A lot of their key players have underperformed, and in the end, they weren’t even close to threatening for a playoff spot. But their end to the 2025 season bodes well for their chances at redemption in 2026, as […]

Ben Simmons is only 29 years of age, and for anyone who followed him since his days at Montverde Academy, one would think that he’d still be making All-NBA and All-Defensive teams as one of the biggest stars in the league. Simmons has been billed as the “next LeBron James” before he was drafted first […]

No adjective would come closer to describing the New Orleans Pelicans’ 2024-25 season than the word “nightmare”. Or perhaps “abhorrent” would be much more suitable. Whatever the case may be, it’s clear that the Pelicans did not expect to win just 21 games last season, especially not after they acquired Dejounte Murray to supplement their […]

Nothing comes easy for any team when they’re jockeying for positioning in a stacked Wild Card race. The New York Mets know that their competition for the third and final Wild Card spot won’t be letting up and will be putting the pressure on them until the end of Game 162. Over the past few […]

There is no better time for the Seattle Mariners to have swept the Houston Astros than with less than 10 games to go in the regular season. The Mariners have been inching closer and closer to the Astros these past few weeks and was right on their tail for the AL West lead heading into […]

The Kansas City Chiefs have earned their first win of the season with a 22-9 triumph over the New York Giants that saw its fair share of memorable moments. But at the end of the day, what’s important is that the Chiefs are on the board, as they attempt to put the sting of the […]

It may have been “hard to watch”, as head coach Andy Reid put it, but the Kansas City Chiefs finally managed to earn their first win of the season on Sunday with a 22-9 victory over the New York Giants. There were some heated moments, like the one Reid and Travis Kelce had, and there […]

The Kansas City Chiefs began the season with two consecutive defeats, which made their Week 3 clash against the New York Giants mean more than it otherwise might. Things certainly weren’t going swimmingly for the Chiefs to begin their game on Sunday, and tight end Travis Kelce expressed some displeasure on the sidelines, which head […]

The Los Angeles Angels will miss the playoffs for the 11th consecutive season, as they cannot find a way to snap their longstanding postseason drought. The sad reality of the Angels’ ineptitude over the past decade-plus is that fans have not had an opportunity to witness the greatness of Mike Trout on the grand postseason […]

Friday night was an emotional one for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as legendary southpaw and future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw was making his final career start in the regular season, against division rival San Francisco Giants, no less, after he announced earlier this week that he would be retiring at season’s end. Kershaw has […]

The New York Liberty will not be repeating as WNBA champion after seeing their season come to a disappointing end on Friday night following a 79-73 defeat against the Phoenix Mercury in Game 3 of their first-round matchup. While the Liberty did not have the best of regular seasons, they were still viewed by many […]

Seemingly nothing went right for the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. The current AL East leader got destroyed by a Kansas City Royals team that looks likely to miss out on the postseason, and it wasn’t just some regular old destruction — it was a butt-whooping. The Blue Jays lost by 19 runs, 20-1, […]

The Tampa Bay Rays will have to wait a year for another chance to make the postseason. On Friday night, the Rays were officially eliminated from playoff contention, as pointed out by Talkin’ Baseball on X, following their 11-7 loss to the Boston Red Sox. This defeat pushed their record on the year to 75-79, […]

Years of mismanagement and front office incompetence has led to the shocking downfall of the Colorado Rockies. They’ve never been the team with the biggest payroll, but they were at least competitive in the mid-2010s. But now, they’ve fallen so far off a cliff that one year after the Chicago White Sox set records for […]

The Las Vegas Aces entered the 2025 WNBA playoffs as one of the favorites to win the title, considering how they won 16 consecutive games to end the regular season. Their dominance continued in Game 1 of their first-round matchup against the Seattle Storm as they demolished them by 25 points, 102-77. But then the […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen has had its shaky moments as of late. But the talent they have in the bullpen is undeniable, with one of their biggest weapons being Michael Kopech, the hard-throwing reliever that they acquired from the Chicago White Sox during the 2024 MLB trade deadline. Kopech looked like a new man […]

Roki Sasaki has had to deal with a plethora of injury problems in his first season in MLB following an offseason bidding war that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers win the 23-year-old pitcher’s services. Sasaki has not pitched in the big leagues since the ninth of May due to a shoulder injury; in his last […]

Against all adversity, the Indiana Fever advanced to the semifinals of the 2025 WNBA playoffs with an 87-85 victory over the Atlanta Dream in Game 3 of their first-round matchup on Thursday night. It was Aliyah Boston that had the final word with a go-ahead layup to give them an 86-85 lead late in the […]

It was on Wednesday when the Chicago Cubs punched their ticket to the 2025 MLB postseason, snapping a four-year postseason drought. Thus, they can now look forward to managing their players’ health with the goal of entering the playoffs with all hands on deck. While the NL Central crown isn’t mathematically out of reach, it […]

It is a fact of life that only one team can be crowned the champion of a league in professional sports. Thus, success isn’t necessarily measured by whether or not a team wins a championship or not. But for the Atlanta Dream, they could not have thought of a more bitter end to their strong […]

Earlier in the night, the 30-win, three-seeded Atlanta Dream fell to the Indiana Fever in Game 3 of their first-round WNBA playoff matchup. Thus, it wasn’t the craziest thing in the world to think that the Las Vegas Aces, the best team in the WNBA over the past month or so, could end up seeing […]

With the 2025 regular season coming to a close, the New York Yankees remain in striking distance of the AL East crown, with the Toronto Blue Jays still up by three games with just nine games remaining. But a performance such as the one starting pitcher Max Fried put up on Thursday goes a long […]

It surely is the doldrums of the offseason when random beef such as the war Patrick Beverley is waging on Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young is dominating the NBA news cycle. What started out as some ribbing has devolved into full-blown verbal warfare, with the latest chapter of this smoldering beef featuring Beverley’s rebuttal to […]

On Thursday night, the Indiana Fever and Atlanta Dream battled in a do-or-die Game 3 in the first round of the WNBA playoffs. Entering the postseason, not too many expected a lot out of the Fever considering that their best player, Caitlin Clark, is out for the season amid her ongoing battle with a groin […]

2025 cannot be viewed as anything other than a successful year for the Toronto Blue Jays. There weren’t too many high expectations for them coming into the 2025 season after a lot of their core players underperformed last year, but they have managed to play much better this season — even looking the part of […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ bullpen didn’t exactly cover itself in glory on Tuesday. They followed up Shohei Ohtani’s five no-hit innings with an absolutely miserable performance; Justin Wrobleski ended up allowing five runs in the sixth inning, and Blake Treinen ended up allowing a three-run home run in the top of the ninth inning to […]

Over the past few weeks, it looked like a huge door opened up for the San Francisco Giants in the playoff race. The New York Mets were floundering, and the Giants have been playing much better baseball as of late — even taking care of business against good teams such as the Milwaukee Brewers and […]

What makes Shohei Ohtani a one-of-a-kind superstar in professional sports is that he’s both an MVP-caliber player at the plate and on the mound. For the Los Angeles Dodgers, however, they had to wait until this season for Ohtani to return to the mound, and entering play on Tuesday, the reigning NL MVP was sporting […]

Tanner Scott was able to parlay a strong 2024 season in which he put up an ERA of 1.75 across 72 games (72.0 innings) into a four-year, $72 million contract with the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The expectation was that he would come in to fortify even further what was already a strong enough […]

The past few weeks have certainly not been the easiest for the New York Mets, as they saw their competition for the third and final Wild Card spot in the National League inch closer and closer to them amid what was shaping up to be a painful late season collapse. But they seem to have […]

Christian Yelich has been worth every penny and asset the Milwaukee Brewers have given up to have his services on the team for the past eight seasons. Yelich is aging like fine wine, and his excellent age-33 season continued on Tuesday, when he went 3-5 from the plate with one home run and three runs […]

The worst feeling for any professional athlete is the feeling of not being able to help your team when it matters the most, especially when this inability to contribute comes from circumstances beyond one’s control. For Caitlin Clark, who saw her season come to a premature end due to a groin injury, it has to […]

Kevin Durant is aging like fine wine; even at 36 years of age, he averaged 26/6/4 in his final season with the Phoenix Suns. With Durant still near the top of his game, the Houston Rockets looked at him as the final piece to their championship puzzle, someone who could help elevate them from just […]

It was not looking good for the Indiana Fever heading into Game 2 of their 2025 first-round playoff matchup against the Atlanta Dream. They played from behind for most of Game 1 and they ended up losing by 12 points, and with Caitlin Clark being the most prominent of absentees for the injury-ravaged Fever, it […]

The first round of the WNBA playoffs is a sprint, and after their Game 1 defeat against the Atlanta Dream, the Indiana Fever suddenly find themselves with their backs against the wall. But a best-of-three series means that the series shifted to Indianapolis for Game 2, and the Fever, rallying behind their passionate fanbase at […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks have endured a disappointing 2025 season, with ace Corbin Burnes going down with a season-ending injury and the team having to resort to being sellers prior to the trade deadline. But somehow, someway, the Diamondbacks find themselves looming in the Wild Card race, as they are now just behind the New York […]

There may not be a worse time in the season for a team in the playoff hunt to lose a key contributor like the Houston Astros did on Monday when Yordan Alvarez, who’s done nothing but rake since coming off the injured list, exited their 6-3 win over the Texas Rangers early with an ankle […]

Last season, the Los Angeles Kings recorded 105 points (48 wins, 25 losses, nine overtime losses) and earned home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. But in the end, all that gave them was a first-round matchup against the Edmonton Oilers, the team that made it to the Stanley Cup Final out of […]

To say that the Houston Texans’ offense has been struggling to start the 2025 season would be a major understatement. After suffering a 14-9 defeat to the Los Angeles Rams on opening week, the Texans’ offense tripped on themselves yet again during their Week 2 clash against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, mustering all of 19 […]