Russell Steinberg Articles - Page 15

The Houston Astros’ infield is going to look different in 2025. New acquisitions Isaac Paredes and Christian Walker are a major reason why, but so too is what the team decided to do with franchise mainstay Jose Altuve. As Altuve’s defense at second base has cratered over the last few years and the Astros pursued […]

The New York Yankees will be without starting pitcher Gerrit Cole for all of 2025 as he recovers from Tommy John surgery, and the options to replace him aren’t exactly appealing. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman spoke to the media at spring training on Tuesday and he confirmed it’s not likely that the club will […]

Days after scoring 51 points in North Dakota men’s basketball’s Summit League Tournament game against South Dakota State, Fighting Hawks guard Treysen Eaglestaff has entered the transfer portal. Jerry Tipton was first to report the news. Eaglestaff also plans to go through the NBA Draft process this offseason before deciding if he wants to return […]

Boston Red Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito’s long-awaited return to Major League Baseball lasted only one inning before the team was forced to pull him from his first spring training game with left hamstring tightness. Giolito started Boston’s contest on Tuesday against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up two runs on one hit and two walks before […]

The oft-injured Boston Red Sox infielder Trevor Story is dealing with another ailment, but this one doesn’t appear to be serious. The Red Sox scratched him from the lineup on Tuesday against the Philadelphia Phillies with “mild upper back tightness,” according to MLB.com’s Ian Browne. The move is precautionary. Story, 32, has been with the […]

Amid widespread backlash, Major League Baseball and the Texas Rangers have pulled the Rangers’ New Era overlap hat from its stores after fans pointed out the design appears to spell out a Spanish vulgarity. 59Fifty, a New Era subsidiary, created the hats for all 30 MLB teams. The team nickname or city is spelled out […]

Former American League MVP and three-time AL All-Star Mo Vaughn has admitted to using human growth hormone to help recover from a knee injury late in his career. Vaughn played 12 years in Major League Baseball, primarily with the Boston Red Sox from 1991 to 1998. After two years with the Anaheim Angels, Vaughn sat […]

Shohei Ohtani is headed to Fortnite. The Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar will be the first Major League Baseball player to get his own custom skin as part of a partnership between the video game franchise and MLB. Ohtani fans will have a choice between which skins to choose from. The game features three versions […]

Louisville basketball went 8-24 last year and won only three games in the ACC. This year, Cardinals head coach Pat Kelsey is the ACC Coach of the Year. Kelsey, in his first year at Louisville, beat out Duke head coach Jon Scheyer for the award. Louisville went 25-6 overall and 18-2 in an albeit horrific […]

Evan Phillips was a critical piece to the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers’ bullpen, but he had mixed emotions watching his team play in the Fall Classic. Phillips sustained an injury during Game 6 of the NLCS against the New York Mets and did not pitch against the New York Yankees in the […]

Auburn Tigers men’s basketball forward Johni Broome won the SEC men’s basketball Player of the Year award, while his coach, Bruce Pearl, earned Coach of the Year honors, the conference announced on Monday. Broome also earned a spot on the all-conference first team. His teammate, Chad Baker-Mazara, was named third-team all-SEC, and Auburn’s Denver Jones […]

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Michael Grove will miss the 2025 season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder, the team has announced. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters that Grove tried pitching through his injury last year. “He’s disappointed,” Roberts said, per the AP. “He’s already had Tommy John and […]

The New York Yankees owe ace pitcher Gerrit Cole $36 million in 2025 and there’s a good chance the former Cy Young winner won’t even pitch an inning. Cole woke up with pain in his elbow after his most recent start, and a doctor has recommended Tommy John surgery that would, at minimum, wipe out […]

The Duke Blue Devils men’s basketball team has lost just once since December, won the ACC regular season and is a virtual lock for a 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Their double-digit win over the arch-rival North Carolina Tar Heels to close the regular season on Saturday was the icing on the cake, and […]

The New York Yankees’ new closer, Devin Williams, made his spring training debut in the club’s 12-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday, giving New York players and fans alike the chance to see his famed “airbender” pitch for the first time. Williams did not disappoint. The airbender is his version of a changeup […]

College baseball never fails to provide its fair share of absurdity. Unlike other sports, whose college versions closely resemble a less talented version of the pros, college baseball has a tendency to go completely off the rails at the most unexpected times and places. George Mason baseball is one such example. The Patriots set an […]

The 2024 Texas Rangers’ World Series championship defense fell short for a variety of reasons, but a spate of injuries was one of the main culprits. Now, with 2025 still in the spring training stage, the injury bug is back. This time, it’s 2023 ALCS MVP Adolis Garcia. The two-time All-Star and Gold Glove winner […]

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Ranger Suarez is OK after fielding a ball with his pitching hand in the team’s spring training game against the New York Yankees on Tuesday. The play happened in the fifth inning off a one-hopper from Yankees prospect George Lombard Jr. The Phillies staff came to the mound to check on him […]

St. Louis right fielder Jordan Walker left the Cardinals’ spring training game against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday with left knee pain, the team has announced. Walker will undergo further testing. The injury occurred in the second inning as the 22-year-old was pursuing a fly ball. Walker stayed in the game for his next at […]

One day after the Chicago Cubs scratched outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong from their lineup with hamstring tightness, the 22-year-old is expected to return to the lineup. The Cubs will host the San Diego Padres on Tuesday in a 3:05 p.m. start. Crow-Armstrong will play centerfield and bat seventh, easing Cubs fans’ concerns that his removal on […]

Rookie Roki Sasaki will make his spring training debut on Tuesday night for the Los Angeles Dodgers, but it won’t be as a starting pitcher. The Dodgers’ prized offseason signing will come out of the bullpen to follow starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the team has announced. Yamamoto will try to go four innings as he ramps […]

Memphis Grizzlies leading scorer Jaren Jackson Jr. suffered an apparent ankle injury during the team’s game against the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night. He went back to the locker room and the Grizzlies later reported that he was doubtful to return. The play happened in the first quarter as he was trying to contest a […]

Most of the New York Yankees’ 2025 roster is set. We know the Aaron Judges and Gerrit Coles of the world, and they’re all in Tampa preparing for the season as spring training rolls on. But there are also some intriguing prospects that are either fighting for a spot on the Opening Day roster or […]

New York Liberty fans got some disappointing news on Monday when Unrivaled announced that two starters from the 2024 WNBA champions won’t finish out the league’s inaugural season. Sabrina Ionescu and Betnijah Laney-Hamilton will both miss the rest of the Unrivaled season, which runs through March 17. “Sabrina Ionescu 👻 will not participate in remaining […]

Position battles have a funny way of working themselves out in spring training, and for the New York Yankees, it appears their contested third base role may be starting to do that. When DJ LeMahieu went down with a calf injury over the weekend, it cleared the way for Oswaldo Peraza and Oswald Cabrera to […]

Max Scherzer is 40 years old and chasing his third World Series championship. With time running out on his career, he wanted to play somewhere in 2025 that would give him a chance at another ring, and that’s how he ended up with the Toronto Blue Jays. Scherzer joined Foul Territory on Monday where he […]

Spring training is for getting your work in, staying healthy, getting ready for Opening Day, and, in Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner’s case, trolling your friends. The three-time All-Star faced off against former teammate Max Scherzer Sunday afternoon as the Phillies took on the Toronto Blue Jays, and Turner used the first pitch he saw […]

There’s no bad blood between Courtney Vandersloot and the New York Liberty. It was simply time for the veteran guard to move on. Vandersloot played two seasons with the Liberty after spending her first 12 seasons with the Chicago Sky. During her New York tenure, the Liberty made the WNBA Finals both years and won […]

The New York Yankees were thoroughly outclassed in their five-game 2024 World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. But ask ex-Yankee and current Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Nestor Cortes, and he’ll tell you the series could have just as easily swung the other way. And he isn’t wrong. For his part, Cortes regrets one pitch […]

Luka Doncic is about to face his former team, the Dallas Mavericks, for the first time since his shocking trade to the Los Angeles Lakers. And while Doncic is sure to approach the game with mixed emotions after spending his first six-plus professional seasons in Dallas, Jordan Brand’s new ad to honor the moment leaves […]

For the first time in 21 years, Sammy Sosa was in the Chicago Cubs dugout on Tuesday as the team faced the Arizona Diamondbacks in a Cactus League game. The club has had a strained relationship with the former slugger that helped reignite national interest in baseball with his home run race with Mark McGwire […]

2024 All-Star relief pitcher Kyle Finnegan is heading back to the Washington Nationals just months after the club non-tendered him at the end of last season. Finnegan’s contract is worth $6 million over one year, according to Jesse Rogers of ESPN. Compare that to the $8.6 million that MLB Trade Rumors projected him to earn […]

Jose Altuve has played 1,767 games in the field during his Major League baseball career and he has played second base in all 1,767. That will change in 2025 when the Houston Astros send their slugger to left field. It’s a sudden change for the career Astro, but all indications at Houston camp in West […]

In an age of innings limits and baseball teams doing everything they can to protect their young pitchers, Pittsburgh Pirates fans will be happy to hear what their manager, Derek Shelton, had to say about 22-year-old phenom Paul Skenes. Shelton spoke with Foul Territory on Tuesday where the crew asked him if Skenes could keep […]

Head coach Hubert Davis is guiding the North Carolina men’s basketball program through an up-and-down season, but he’s doing so with some job security. Unbeknownst to fans until Tuesday, Davis and the university agreed to a contract extension over the summer, which he signed in December. The deal runs through 2030, according to Brian Murphy […]

The New York Mets spent the offseason reloading a team that came within two wins of the World Series in 2024. Juan Soto was the biggest signing — not just of the offseason, in Mets history — but the team also retooled its starting rotation. It’s not even March and the team has already experienced […]

The Boston Red Sox needed to make a splash this offseason, and they finally did when they signed Alex Bregman to a three-year deal earlier this month. But Boston went 81-81 last year and the American League East continues to improve around them. Red Sox fans could be forgiven for needing another reason to get […]

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Sonny Gray is entering his 13th season in Major League Baseball, and the righty has been through it all in the big leagues. He has twice finished in the top three of Cy Young voting, once in his 20s and once in his 30s. He also struggled mightily during his […]

New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe is entering his third season in the Major Leagues with a little bit of pressure. Sure, he had his moments offensively in year two, but he knows he needs to do more if he wants to carve out a long career at the MLB level. With spring training underway, […]