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By this point in the 2025 season, it’s safe to say no player in Seattle Mariners history has had a year quite like Cal Raleigh. And that includes the great Ken Griffey Jr. The day after Raleigh hit his 50th home run of the season, Griffey appeared alongside his dad, Ken Griffey Sr., on MLB […]

Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian knows that his starting quarterback, Arch Manning, is entering the season with unreal expectations. With the Manning name on his back, the name of the No. 1 team in the country on his front and seemingly the weight of the world on his shoulders, there’s just no way Manning can […]

Ryan O’Hearn ultimately went from the Baltimore Orioles to San Diego Padres at the 2025 MLB trade deadline, but he could have just as easily landed with the Milwaukee Brewers. As O’Hearn tells it, multiple Brewers players, including DL Hall, texted him in the lead-up to the deadline to say, “Hey, we put in a […]

If the New York Liberty suffer an unceremonious early exit from the playoffs, it won’t be because of their 78-62 loss to the Atlanta Dream on Saturday. Instead, they’ll have a trio of inexplicable losses to the three worst teams in the league, including a shocking home defeat to the Chicago Sky just two days […]

New York Liberty guard Natasha Cloud isn’t once to mince words, and she held nothing back after New York defeated the Minnesota Lynx, 85-75, Tuesday night at Barclays Center. It was the Liberty’s first win over the Lynx this season in four tries, and it came after Lynx players sounded off last week about their […]

For weeks, the New York Liberty have been insisting that, despite their injuries and some baffling losses, they have enough in their locker room to beat any team in the WNBA. At long last, they proved it on Tuesday night, leading the first-place Minnesota Lynx almost all the way and gutting out an 85-75 win. […]

Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self has hired veteran assistant Tony Bland to his staff, sources tell ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Bland, most recently an assistant at Washington, comes to the Kansas bench shortly after the Jayhawks lost another veteran assistant, Norm Roberts, who retired after last season. Self also lost assistant Chase Buford to the […]

After benches cleared between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays on Monday, emotions still ran hot in the clubhouse after the game — a 5-2 Pittsburgh win. It all started when the Pirates’ Tommy Pham drew a walk in the seventh inning. After he flipped his bat and pumped his first, Blue Jays catcher […]

New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge hasn’t taken his spot in he field since coming off the injured list two weeks ago. Don’t expect that to change in the next couple days, either, as the Yankees visit the Tampa Bay Rays at their own spring training home of Steinbrenner Field. Yankees manager Aaron Boone […]

Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte defended himself to the media on Monday after an Arizona Republic report last week claimed “teammates and others in the organization have quietly grumbled about his propensity to ask for days off.” Adding fuel to the fire, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale wrote on Sunday that Arizona’s alleged plan to […]

Detroit Tigers outfielder Parker Meadows is working his way back from a right quad strain that he suffered at the end of July. The team hopes he can by back before the calendar flips to September, but manager AJ Hinch is trying to manage expectations. “I don’t know that he will necessarily go out on […]

At long last, Shane Bieber appears ready to make his Toronto Blue Jays debut. The former Cy Young winner will start Friday night for Toronto in Miami against the Marlins, The Athletic’s Mitch Bannon first reported. Bieber last pitched on April 2, 2024 for the Cleveland Guardians — his second start of that season. He […]

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Cade Horton left his start against the Milwaukee Brewers early on Monday with an apparent injury. The Cubs have not released additional info as of this writing, but Bleacher Nation reports Horton is dealing with a blister. Regardless of the reason for his quick exit, it seems to be just about […]

As the Texas Longhorns football program enters the new season atop the AP Poll, its athletic director, Chris Del Conte, is about to get a major raise. Del Conte, who has been at the helm in Austin since 2017, is on the verge of signing an 11-year, $38.8 million contract with the university, according to […]

It’s been a strange year for the Cleveland Guardians. After going to the American League Championship Series last year, the Guardians stumbled through the first half of the season, approaching the trade deadline with a sub-.500 record. To make matters worse, two Cleveland pitchers have been placed on MLB’s restricted list amid gambling investigations. Through […]

Big Ten officials want to pitch an idea that would expand the College Football Playoff from its current 12 team format to potentially up to 28. The problem is that administrators around the college football landscape aren’t thrilled with the league’s execution. News of the Big Ten’s plan leaked before commissioner Tony Petitti was able […]

The New York Liberty have endured a comical stretch of injuries as they try to repeat as WNBA champions. As a result, they are 21-13, locked in a battle with the Atlanta Dream for the 2 seed despite having, on paper, the best roster in the league. Head coach Sandy Brondello knew 2025 would be […]

There was never a scenario where Emma Meesseman wouldn’t be a good fit with the New York Liberty. She’s too good and the Liberty have too much unselfish talent around her — even amid their recent spate of injuries. But few could have predicted the transition would be this fast and this seamless. Meesseman had […]

One day after he was carted off the field after crashing into the outfield wall, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Gustavo Campero is headed to the injured list. Angels PR revealed his injury to be a right ankle sprain. He is scheduled to undergo further testing on Tuesday, according to MLB.com. In 58 at bats, Campero […]

Connecticut Sun guard Marina Mabrey admits she overreacted when she shoved the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark during an altercation between the two teams in June. “It wasn’t like ‘I hate her, here I go,’” she told Sportskeeda’s Mark Medina. The incident occurred after Jacy Sheldon, then playing for the Sun, inadvertently poked Clark in the […]

Right-handed reliever Kyle Finnegan has made four appearances since coming to the Detroit Tigers at the trade deadline from the Washington Nationals. He hasn’t given up a run in any of them and has allowed just one hit with six strikeouts. It’s a small sample size, so there’s no need to make too much of […]

Beset by injuries, the Indiana Fever have added a veteran guard to help them through their next stretch. Indiana has signed Odyssey Sims to a hardship contract, which the Fever qualified for after Sydney Colson and Aari McDonald suffered season-ending injuries — an ACL tear for Colson and a broken bone in the right foot […]

Major League Baseball released its postseason schedule on Tuesday and it comes with one big win for the World Series. The only NFL Sunday on the World Series schedule is the travel day between games 2 and 3, meaning MLB will not have to compete with America’s most popular sports league on its biggest day. […]

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh continues to rewrite the franchise record books, and when he hit his 45th home run of the season on Sunday, he moved into exclusive territory. Only one player in Mariners history has hit more homers in a season than Raleigh, and the name is obvious. It’s Ken Griffey Jr., who […]

When one star comes back for the Dallas Wings, another goes down — potentially. Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale is listed as questionable for Dallas’ game Tuesday night in Indiana against the Fever, according to the team’s injury report, shared by ClutchPoints’ Joey Mistretta. Ogunbowale is dealing with a right knee injury, the report states. Grant […]

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is facing a lawsuit from a Hawaii real estate investor and broker. They claim Ohtani and his agent got them fired from a $240 million luxury housing development that they were hoping the two-way superstar would endorse, according to the New York Post. The Post cites a lawsuit filed […]

New Cincinnati Reds third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes hasn’t done much with his bat this season, but he has been a game-changer with his glove. In the second inning of Cincinnati’s game on Monday against the Philadelphia Phillies, Hayes had an absolute gem of a play to get J.T. Realmuto out at first base. This is […]

Shortstop Carlos Correa is back with the Houston Astros where he spent the first seven years of his career. Ahead of his first home game since the Minnesota Twins dealt him back to Houston at the trade deadline, he revealed the best part about being a part of the club he came up with. “The […]

The St. Louis Cardinals weren’t supposed to contend for the postseason this year, but they’re 3.5 games out of a playoff spot as of August 11. Veteran pitcher Sonny Gray is a major reason why. The Cardinals are 18-6 in his starts this year — a Major League best record among pitchers with at least […]

Ask any Big East fan and they’ll tell you that UConn basketball — on the men’s and women’s sides — has a passionate following. Outside of Connecticut, maybe no one knows this better than St. John’s coach Rick Pitino, who has coached against the Huskies since his days at Providence in the 1980s. Now, his […]

The Boston Red Sox have called up left-handed reliever Jovani Moran from Triple-A Worcester before the team’s series opener against the Houston Astros on Monday, according to Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com. It’s a corresponding move after Boston designated righty reliever Nick Burdi for assignment. “Thank you Red Sox for letting me put on a big […]

Florida State found itself on the outside looking in of the college football preseason AP Poll, but head coach Mike Norvell gave fans something to be excited about after the team’s most recent scrimmage on Sunday. The sixth-year coach met with the media and said that Tennessee transfer Squirrel White has made it all the […]

Houston Astros pitcher Cristian Javier will make his 2025 debut on Monday against the Boston Red Sox in his return from Tommy John surgery. He will go up against Garrett Crochet in a game that will also be Carlos Correa’s first back in Houston after the Astros re-acquired him at the trade deadline. Javier last […]

The New York Knicks haven’t had much luck against Reggie Miller or the Indiana Pacers over the last 30 years, but New York basketball was still able to score a smaller victory thanks to Becky Hammon and the Liberty. As Hammon tells it, the Liberty Ring of Honor member would face Miller during her playing […]

This version of the New York Liberty — the one without three rotation players, including former MVP Breanna Stewart — is good enough to beat the bottom of the WNBA. They established that once Emma Meesseman joined the fold last week and the team beat the Connecticut Sun and Dallas Wings twice. They can also […]

New York Liberty star and 2024 WNBA Finals MVP Jonquel Jones waited a long time before hoisting a championship trophy last October. She spent the first seven seasons of her pro career with the Connecticut Sun in a tenure that included two WNBA Finals losses — including in 2019 to the Washington Mystics in a […]

WNBA games over the past couple weeks have become victims of a bizarre trend in which fans in multiple arenas across the league have interrupted games by throwing green sex toys on the court. Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham joked about the incidents, but also kept her eye on the larger picture. “If someone threw […]

Shelby Miller took one step closer to making his Milwaukee Brewers debut on Tuesday when the team assigned him to Triple-A Nashville to begin a rehab assignment. Miller last pitched on July 5 for the Arizona Diamondbacks before going on the injured list with a forearm strain. The Diamondbacks dealt him and pitcher Jordan Montgomery […]

Ken Rosenthal is backtracking a bit on his report that the Boston Red Sox made a “feeble at best” attempt to pry starting pitcher Joe Ryan from the Minnesota Twins. “All right, I might have been too harsh when I said on my ‘Fair Territory’ show that the Boston Red Sox’s pursuits of Twins right-hander […]