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With former Duke men’s basketball player Cooper Flagg a virtual lock to go No. 1 overall to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2025 NBA Draft, the storied Blue Devils program is about to add to its illustrious history. Once it’s made official on Wednesday night in Brooklyn, Flagg will become the fifth No. 1 pick […]

The Boston Red Sox lost two out of three to the San Francisco Giants over the weekend, and their series loss ended with a pair of ejections as frustrations boiled over. Umpires tossed left fielder Jarren Duran in the eighth inning on Sunday after he argued that replay should have overturned a tag call at […]

The New York Yankees seem to have stabilized themselves after their six-game losing streak last week. Now in first place in the American League East, they can start looking toward the trade deadline and how they will set themselves up for the stretch run. The Yankees’ bullpen will be the team’s primary focus, according to […]

The New York Liberty aren’t going to get sympathy from anyone in the WNBA, so they didn’t waste time making excuses after their third loss in the last four games. “This isn’t going to be the hardest thing that we face all season and we have to embrace the adversity a little bit,” Breanna Stewart […]

Eventually, the mistakes are going to catch up with you. The New York Liberty learned that on Thursday night when they fell 89-81 to the Phoenix Mercury at home. It was the third straight game where the defending WNBA champions went long stretches appearing to be out of sync. The early season malaise left head […]

With international players across the WNBA headed overseas to participate in the EuroBasket tournament, the New York Liberty got off comparatively easy. Leonie Fiebich is away, but her Team Germany teammate Nyara Sabally stuck around (so too did Marine Johannès). Sabally, whose young career has been disrupted too often by injury over the past four […]

The 2025 New York Liberty are good enough that they can beat any team in the WNBA, even on an off night. With the Atlanta Dream threatening to run them out of Barclays Center on Tuesday night, it took a little extra from an unlikely source. Second-year guard Jaylyn Sherrod, mostly relegated to garbage time […]

Amid injuries and overseas commitments, the Los Angeles Sparks have signed Grace Berger to a rest-of-season hardship contract, the team announced on Tuesday. Berger, a third-year player out of Indiana, was most recently a member of the Minnesota Lynx. The Lynx waived her before the start of the season. She was a member of the […]

A day after the Boston Red Sox shockingly traded Rafael Devers, one of their team’s prized prospects did something no Sox player has done since, well, Devers himself. At 21 years and 34 days old, Roman Anthony, the No. 1 prospect in Major League Baseball, became the youngest Boston player to homer since 2017 when […]

The scuffling New York Yankees made a move that could bolster their pitching staff before the second game of their four-game set with the Los Angeles Angels. New York announced on Tuesday that it has returned JT Brubaker from his rehab assignment. It has not yet made a corresponding move and could still opt to […]

A day after the shocking Rafael Devers trade to the San Francisco Giants, the fallout continues around the Boston Red Sox. Boston legend David Ortiz has already weighed in, and now his longtime teammate Manny Ramirez has offered his own scathing analysis of his former team. “Devers was humiliated [by the Red Sox],” he said, […]

Shohei Ohtani is finally making his long-awaited Los Angeles Dodgers pitching debut, and he will make some history along the way. When Ohtani steps into the box in the bottom of the first inning against the San Diego Padres, he will become the first National League player since 1953 to start a game as a […]

With the early weeks of the 2025 WNBA season playing out in the shadow of the NBA Playoffs, you can be forgiven if you’re late tuning into the league. That said, you’ve missed a lot. The New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx are seemingly on another Finals collision course, Caitlin Clark’s disappointing injury has taken […]

On a wild Sunday in Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers made waves by revealing Shohei Ohtani would make his return to the mound on Monday night. Ohtani will make his first start since August 23, 2023 as a member of the Los Angeles Angels. It’ll be the first time he takes the mound […]

Illinois men’s basketball is expected to be in the top 25 conversation when the 2025-26 season starts, but the Illini may be without a key piece. Guard Ty Rodgers sustained a knee injury during a pickup basketball game, head coach Brad Underwood announced on Monday. The Saginaw, Michigan native will need surgery, according to Underwood. […]

Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink won’t let up on one key issue in the WNBA: the 12-person roster limit. Three weeks after calling the current roster sizes “insane,” Brink expanded on her “Straight to Cam” podcast with guest Sue Bird. “I think now rosters need to be expanded before you know we add any […]

The Boston Red Sox shook the baseball world on Sunday when they traded franchise cornerstone Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, seemingly out of the blue. Davvid Ortiz, Hall of Famer, fan favorite, and three-time World Series champion with Boston, shed some light on the shocking move. “No one is indispensable on a team,” […]

Fresh off a sweep at the hands of their hated rivals, the New York Yankees are getting one of their sluggers back on Monday night. Giancarlo Stanton, who missed the first two-plus months of the season with injuries to both elbows, will make his season debut at home against the Los Angeles Angels, SNY’s Andy […]

Tom Izzo has been on the sidelines for the Michigan State men’s basketball program since 1983 and has been head coach since 1995. The Hall of Famer has seen college basketball evolve around him, and he is preaching patience to the fans who are adjusting to the current era of NIL, revenue sharing and the […]

The new NC State men’s basketball coach is already causing a stir on Tobacco Road. Will Wade took a shot at the Wolfpack’s rival, North Carolina, in a video that surfaced on social media over the weekend. He was talking about incoming transfer Ven-Allen Lubin, a forward who played just under 20 minutes per game […]

Down two starters on the road, and on a poor shooting night to boot, the New York Liberty had too much working against them on Saturday as the Indiana Fever handed them their first loss of the season, 102-88. Much like the game these two teams played earlier in the season, the Liberty let the […]

The New York Liberty are not a perfect basketball team, but they’ve done just about everything you could realistically ask of them in their first nine games. Teams with just a couple superstars don’t do that. The Liberty have destroyed teams this year because, one through 12, they have been the better team on the […]

Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese keeps making history. The second-year All-Star was named BET Sportswoman of the Year for the third year in a row, joining Serena Williams as the only athletes to ever win the award three times. Reese was nominated alongside A’ja Wilson, Claressa Shields, Coco Gauff, Dawn Staley, Flau’jae Johnson, Juju Watkins, […]

Dallas Wings guard Tyasha Harris will miss the remainder of the 2025 WNBA season with a knee injury, the team announced on Tuesday. Harris, the primary backup to No. 1 pick Paige Bueckers, underwent successful surgery on her left knee and the team expects her to make a full recovery, according to a press release. […]

Tampa Bay Rays fans got good news and bad news on Tuesday when it comes to pitcher Shane McClanahan. The lefty starter has been out since spring training with a triceps nerve injury, but threw off a mound at full distance over the weekend for the first time since his injury. That doesn’t mean, however, […]

Major League Baseball has acquired a minority stake in Jomboy Media and the two parties have announced they will collaborate on IP Growth, Special Event Ad Opportunities and more, according to a press release. Some of Jomboy’s content will also be shared on MLB platforms, Front Office Sports reported. The two sides will collaborate on […]

Baseball’s top prospect Roman Anthony took the field in the big leagues for the first time on Monday night and it was a mixed bag for the Boston Red Sox rookie. Anthony had an RBI groundout in the 10-8 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, but also made a two-base error in the fifth inning […]

The Miami Marlins have placed left-handed starting pitcher Ryan Weathers on the 60-day injured list with a lat strain. It’s been a rough few days for Weathers, who was hit in the head on an errant throw during his start on Saturday. He lasted only three innings that game as the Marlins noticed a significant […]

Chicago Sky superstar Angel Reese entered the WNBA and immediately broke the single-season rebound record. Now, she’s earning Hall of Fame comparisons. Former NBA guard Jeff Teague is ready to anoint Reese as the best rebounder in WNBA history, saying she’s the league’s Dennis Rodman. “I’m saying her whole overall game is Dennis Rodman” Teague […]

It’s still early in the 2025 WNBA season, but Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier is having the best campaign of her career so far — no small feat for someone on a Hall of Fame trajectory. Barring anything unforeseen, the four-time All-Star figures to be a major player in the WNBA MVP conversation when the […]

In an effort to increase accessibility for young women interested in basketball and the WNBA, the league has announced an initiative to bring its official three-point line to courts in parks nationwide. The initiative, dubbed “Line ‘Em Up,” will also include donations from the league to each participating park, according to a press release. “The […]

Chicago Sky guard Courtney Vandersloot has been in the WNBA since 2011 and there are few players in the league who have more respect from her peers. So when she went down with a season-ending ACL injury over the weekend, players around the league showed their support. Her teammate, Angel Reese, shared a prayer hands […]

Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball guard Otega Oweh could have stayed in the NBA Draft and played professionally next season. Instead, he’s headed back to Lexington with All-American expectations, and no one was more excited about it than his head coach. Oweh put Kentucky coach Mark Pope on the spot on Sunday, putting a mic and […]

A successful first season of the Darian DeVries era for Indiana men’s basketball may hinge on the health of the coach’s son, Tucker DeVries. Tucker transferred to Indiana from West Virginia when his dad got the Hoosiers job, but played just eight games last year due to a shoulder injury. Now, the team has “mostly” […]

Boston Red Sox pitcher Hunter Dobbins hates the New York Yankees. A lot. But he’s welcoming the criticism from Yankees fans for saying he’d rather retire than wear pinstripes. The quote got plenty of run this weekend as the two bitter rivals played for the first time in 2025 — particularly on Sunday when Dobbins […]

The New York Liberty are officially off to their best start in franchise history at 8-0, and to get there, they’ve had to win in a variety of ways. From historic blowouts to nail-biting wins, New York has found a way. On Thursday, it had to hang on, withstanding a late Washington Mystics comeback as […]

It turns out that Kansas City Royals pitcher Cole Ragans’ stay on the injured list will be almost as short as possible. The left-handed pitcher will start for the Royals on Thursday against the St. Louis Cardinals, according to MLB.com’s Anne Rogers. That will mark just 20 days after he went on the 15-day IL. […]

Injured Seattle Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert is about to take his next step toward a Major League return. The right-handed starter will make his second rehab start at Triple-A Tacoma on Wednesday night, Seattle manager Dan Wilson announced on Tuesday. The plan was always for Gilbert to get at least two rehab starts before the […]

His last start not withstanding, Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been dominant for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2025. That doesn’t mean the second-year Major Leaguer has had it easy. Speaking to school children in LA on Tuesday, he admitted that he struggles with loneliness while pitching in the United States with most of his friends still […]