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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 […]

LeBron James is going to be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame one day as an individual, that much is certain. However, even though he’s still playing for the Los Angeles Lakers and yet to make an announcement as to when he’ll be hanging up his sneakers, he already received enshrinement as […]

The Miami Dolphins could not have gotten a worse start to the season than the one they had on Sunday when they were on the receiving end of a 33-8 drubbing at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts. For a team looking to return to the playoffs in 2025 after missing out last year, this […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers have not been playing very good baseball lately to say the least. They’ve lost all three of their past series (dating back to August 29) — a stretch that includes a sweep at the hands of the Pittsburgh Pirates. It’s only due to a similar slump from the San Diego Padres […]

The past few weeks haven’t been going very smoothly for the Seattle Mariners. They were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-game set to begin the month, and they followed that up with a loss to the Atlanta Braves in their series opener back on Friday. With the Mariners still on the bubble […]

On Sunday, the Toronto Blue Jays lost the final game of their three-game weekend set against the New York Yankees, 4-3, with veteran starter Max Scherzer taking the loss after allowing four runs in 4.1 innings. Scherzer was outdueled by Max Fried, who held the Blue Jays offense in check across seven innings (allowing just […]

It’s only the first gameweek of the NFL season and fans have already been treated to heated barnburners that make it seem as though the playoffs are right around the corner. On Sunday, the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens engaged in an epic affair that gave way to one of the most impressive comebacks one […]

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has been on a major heater over the summer as he spends his offseason dominating for his home country of Greece in the 2025 EuroBasket. On Sunday, Antetokounmpo once again could not be stopped; he put up 37 points and 10 rebounds on 18-23 shooting from the field as Greece […]

France has long been a powerhouse in EuroBasket, so for them to fall down in the Round of 16 in the 2025 iteration of the proceedings is no small thing. It becomes an even greater deal when a nation like Georgia, which has historically been worse than them in basketball, becomes the team to take […]

The Boston Red Sox decided to call upon highly-touted prospect Payton Tolle to come into their starting rotation for the final month of the regular season. Tolle has done nothing but impress in the minor leagues, and even in his first career start, he was very impressive — going toe to toe with Paul Skenes […]

Watching an MLB game is a common pastime for parent and son in the United States of America. After all, baseball is not called “America’s Pastime” for nothing. But on Friday, during the Philadelphia Phillies’ 9-3 win over the Miami Marlins on the road, the experience of a father and son was sullied by a […]

Every game matters in the push for the playoffs, and for the Houston Astros, their lead in the AL West is far from safe. On Friday, their bid for a more secure place in the playoff race took a hit, as they suffered a 4-3 loss to the Texas Rangers in 12 innings — with […]

A lot of NBA fans will feel old when they watch the enshrinement ceremony for the 2025 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class, especially when two of the best players of the mid-2000s to mid-2010s in Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard will be immortalized in the very exclusive club consisting of the most esteemed […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers have to be kicking themselves for this terrible stretch of play. That is certainly what reliever Tanner Scott is doing after he blew a save opportunity against the Baltimore Orioles when he allowed a walk-off home run to rookie Samuel Basallo to send the Dodgers reeling towards their fourth straight defeat. […]

It’s not too often than an expansion team in professional basketball does well, but the Golden State Valkyries have managed to surpass all expectations in their inaugural WNBA campaign. With an 84-80 win over the Dallas Wings on Thursday, the Valkyries managed to secure their spot in the 2025 WNBA playoffs; if the season ended […]