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The Baltimore Orioles appear poised to be sellers at the trade deadline, and that’s good news for contending teams. The O’s won’t trade away their young core, but they may be open to dealing sluggers like Cedric Mullins and Ryan O’Hearn. As ESPN’s Jeff Passan wrote on Tuesday, there aren’t many teams across baseball who […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ quest for a World Series repeat was always going to include a 162-game regular season slog. And while LA is doing just fine at 36-24, it hasn’t been the unrelenting buzzsaw some imagined when the team added Roki Sasaki and more to what was already a championship team. ESPN’s Jeff Passan […]

The 2025 Baltimore Orioles season has been a catastrophe so far, complete with the dismissal of manager Brandon Hyde. With a playoff run nearly impossible, the intrigue in Baltimore now shifts to the trade deadline, and as ESPN’s Jeff Passan wrote on Tuesday, the Orioles are open for business. That doesn’t mean, however, the team […]

Coming into the 2025 WNBA season, no team had ever hit more than 18 threes in a regular season game. The 2025 New York Liberty have now hit 19 treys twice in seven games. Part of it is having great shooters. It’d be foolish to heap credit on the Liberty’s discipline and offensive scheme without […]

The Los Angeles Angels are scuffling at six games below .500, but it took all of one half inning in Boston on Monday night for them to make a statement. Mike Trout, Zach Neto and Jo Adell all homered in the top half of the first for the Angels against the Red Sox, marking the […]

Fresh off taking two out of three from the New York Yankees in a 2024 World Series rematch, the Los Angeles Dodgers have bolstered their pitching staff, acquiring Will Klein from the Seattle Mariners. The Dodgers sent minor league pitcher Joe Jacques to Seattle in return. Klein, a 25-year-old right-handed relief pitcher, broke into the […]

The Minnesota Twins’ history in the City of Lakes dates back to 1961 when they relocated from Washington, DC. Since then, the franchise has won two World Series crowns and three American League pennants as Hall of Famers, AL MVPs and franchise icons have passed through along the way. The 10 players listed below represent […]

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has never had much interest in making friends out of college sports fans, and his latest March Madness expansion take won’t help matters. Sankey appeared on the Dan Patrick Show on Monday where he made his pitch for a 76-team NCAA Tournament — an eight-team increase from the current 68-team format. […]

The Kansas City Royals are calling up Jac Caglianone, and no matter how highly ranked the prospect may be, nothing beats watching his reaction to learning he’s headed to the big leagues. Caglianone, who played just 12 games for the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers, got the news from Omaha manager Mike Jirschele, who started off […]

Ohio State picked up a 2025 commitment on Monday and the name might be ring a bell for basketball fans. Myles Herro, the younger brother of Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro, has committed to the Buckeyes out of Whitnall High School in Wisconsin, Myles told On3. “I chose Ohio State because it felt like the […]

As captain of the New York Yankees, Aaron Judge knows he can barely go a day during the baseball season without the media hounding him. Not only does the pressure not wear on him, he embraces it. So much so that he does what he can to tell players on other teams about his experience […]

With the NBA on TNT officially a thing of the past, Charles Barkley is shedding some light on what he wants to do next. Barkley is still under contract with TNT and will begin working with ESPN next year. After that, he has a couple good years left in him, he told the Dan Patrick […]

Jonquel Jones sent a clear message to the WNBA after the New York Liberty dismantled the Connecticut Sun, 100-52, on Sunday. “We are exactly who we think we are,” she said as her team improved to 7-0 on the season. The unbeaten start matched a franchise record on a day in which the Liberty practically […]

Good teams will often fall back on the cliché of finding a way to win when things get tough. The New York Liberty had no choice but to figure it out on Thursday night against the Golden State Valkyries. Two nights after New York blew out the expansion club by 28 points, neither team led […]

Sometimes it takes a good early season blowout to see what you have on your bench, and New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart got to see exactly that on Tuesday night. Suffice it to say she loved what she saw. “Our bench and our depth is what separates us from anyone else, the ability to […]

The Atlanta Braves enter play on Tuesday five games out of a playoff spot — not where they wanted to be by Memorial Day but by no means a catastrophe either. As former All-Star Jason Kipnis said during an appearance on Foul Territory, the Braves’ 0-7 start to the season may have masked how good […]

The Indiana Fever will be without Caitlin Clark for at least the next two weeks, and for now, Sydney Colson will be the one to fill her spot. Colson, who has started only 10 games in her WNBA career dating back to 2011, will get the start in Clark’s place on Wednesday when the Fever […]

The Texas Longhorns are expected to be among the contenders to win the 2025 College Football Playoff, but their head coach is realistic about expectations. Though Steve Sarkisian is hell-bent on taking Texas to the top, he believes the days of unbeaten national champions are over. “I don’t think we’ll see an undefeated champion,” he […]

Pitchers will tell you: As soon as they release the ball, they become an infielder. Los Angeles Dodgers hurler Yoshinobu Yamamoto knows that and he flashed some serious leather on Monday against the Cleveland Guardians. The play came in the third inning when the Guardians’ Will Wilson attempted a bunt to move runners on first […]

New York Yankees infielder Oswald Peraza isn’t hitting. At all. But despite Peraza batting .167 with a .560 OPS over 32 games, his teammate, Aaron Judge, has his back. “Give him a chance to play every single day, good things are going to happen,” the Yankees captain said on the YES Network on Saturday. Yet […]

The Indiana Fever can’t just hit pause on their season while their star guard Caitlin Clark recovers from a left quad injury, so head coach Stephanie White has to figure out how to keep Indiana competitive without her. The Fever are 2-2 on the young season but their two losses have come by a combined […]

Tayton Conerway, who transferred to Indiana basketball last month, has withdrawn from the NBA Draft and will suit up for the Hoosiers next season, according to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. Conerway is a transfer from Troy, where he scored 14.2 points per game for the Trojans last year. But he did much more than score. […]

Kentucky men’s basketball coach Mark Pope knows first-hand what it’s like to play for the Wildcats. Pope played at Kentucky from 1994-96 and was a team captain on the Wildcats’ 1996 national championship team. So when he talks about sacrifice, he knows what he’s talking about. “There’s nowhere like this, and if you come in […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves demolished the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 3 of their Western Conference Finals series on Saturday night, but before tipoff, Minnesota rookie and former Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr. paid tribute to his college coach. Shannon entered the Target Center that night wearing the popular “Bradimir” t-shirt that references Brad Underwood’s […]

Former Penn State and Ohio State wide receiver Julian Fleming was seriously injured in an ATV crash that also killed his girlfriend. The accident occurred on Friday when a deer jumped in front of the vehicle, causing the collision, the Pennsylvania State Police told TMZ. Fleming’s girlfriend, Alyssa Boyd, was thrown from the ATV upon […]

The team announced that Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark will miss at least two weeks with a left quadriceps strain on Monday. Indiana added that it will provide further updates, as available, following her re-evaluation. The Fever did not specify when the injury occurred. Clark is coming off a rough performance in her most recent […]

The New York Liberty led the Chicago Sky by 21 at halftime on Thursday night and their head coach, Sandy Brondello, wasn’t happy. “It just got real clunky and, regardless of the score, we didn’t have the pace and the urgency and the spacing that we need as we move forward,” she said after the […]

The Los Angeles Sparks will be without forward Rickea Jackson on Wednesday night against the Phoenix Mercury, the team confirmed on Tuesday. Jackson left the Sparks’ game on Sunday against the Minnesota Lynx after a collision with Alanna Smith left her shaken up. The team says she is now in concussion protocol. The former Tennessee […]

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora somehow faced scrutiny for missing Monday night’s game against the New York Mets to attend his daughter Camila’s graduation from Boston College. He answered his critics on Tuesday, saying he made the best decision for his family, via Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald. “People have their own opinions,” […]

The Texas Rangers have placed veteran pitcher Chris Martin on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder fatigue, the team announced less than an hour before first pitch of their series opener against the New York Yankees. The move is retroactive to May 19 and the Rangers called up Cole Winn from Triple-A Round Rock […]

Just days after New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto visited one team he turned down in free agency, he visited another — and it turns out the Boston Red Sox made a serious run at him. Soto spent last year with the New York Yankees, but opted to go across town and join the Mets […]

The Los Angeles Sparks have signed Liatu King to a rest-of-season hardship contract, the team announced on Tuesday. A third-round Sparks selection in the 2025 WNBA Draft, Los Angeles waived King before the start of the season. They brought her back in response to a rash of early-season injuries. Though Cameron Brink is expected to […]

The Detroit Tigers have dealt with a rash of injuries to their outfield, and Javier Baez has been one of the team’s answers. The versatile fielder has played 24 games in center field this season — the only 24 games of his career at the position — and he’s earned the admiration of his manager. […]

The New York Yankees took two out of three from their crosstown rivals, the New York Mets, over the weekend, and the baseball world was watching in record numbers. The series finale on Sunday averaged 2.54 million viewers and peaked at 3.02 million, according to a release from ESPN. That made it the most-watched Sunday […]

The Subway Series is over but the heat is still on New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto. The day after Soto failed to hustle out of the box against his former team, the New York Yankees, he seemed to do it again in a 3-1 Mets loss to the Boston Red Sox. This time, it […]

The Chicago Sky have played one game so far in 2025 and it was enough to put Angel Reese in the WNBA history books. With her 12 points and 17 rebounds in the Sky’s disastrous season-opening loss to the Indiana Fever, Reese became the fastest player in league history to accumulate 450 career points and […]

The Chicago White Sox are working on a deal with right-handed pitcher Adrian Houser, FanSided’s Robert Murray first reported. Financial terms are not yet known. Houser has yet to pitch in the Major Leagues in 2025 and the Texas Rangers released him last week. He had appeared in nine games at Triple-A Round Rock, starting […]

The San Diego Padres enter play on Monday only a game back of the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. With more than two months to go before the trade deadline, it’s safe to say the team is in position to be buyers, and one insider expects them to make a big move to […]

No, Juan Soto is not traveling to New York Mets road games on a private jet. As rumors swirl that the Mets’ $765 million offseason acquisition travels separately from the team, ESPN’s Jeff Passan shut it all down with one post via X. “To clear up what others have asserted: Juan Soto does not fly […]