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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 […]

Juan Soto went 1-10 over the weekend as his New York Mets lost two out of three games to their cross-town rivals and Soto’s former team, the New York Yankees. But the two losses and a few rough games from Soto may be the least of the Mets’ concerns. Bob Klapisch of NJ.com reported on […]

The Minnesota Twins saw their 13-game winning streak come to an end on Sunday at the hands of the Milwaukee Brewers. After the 5-2 loss, manager Rocco Baldelli was able to reflect on his team’s run. “An amazing run over the last two weeks,” he said, per Matthew Leach of MLB.com. “I had to tell […]

The Automated Ball-Strike System, which could come to Major League Baseball as soon as next season, is still imperfect, as Arizona Diamondbacks ace Corbin Burnes has learned. “There is a margin for error that I think fans don’t realize, that a lot of players didn’t realize,” Burnes told The Athletic. Burnes says there may be […]

Hayden Wesneski, the pitcher that the Houston Astros acquired from the Chicago Cubs in the Kyle Tucker trade, will miss the rest of the 2025 season and undergo Tommy John surgery. Wesneski has been on the injured list since May 9 with right elbow discomfort. Doctors diagnosed him with a torn UCL last week. “I […]

The 2025 New York Liberty are not the same team that captured the franchise’s first WNBA championship last year. Much of the personnel is the same, but a few key additions and role changes to Sandy Brondello’s group have given them their own identity. It all starts with newcomer Natasha Cloud. The dynamic point guard […]

The New York Liberty checked off the last items on their 2024 title to-do list on Saturday afternoon, accepting their championship rings and raising a championship banner into the rafters at Barclays Center before their season-opening win over the Las Vegas Aces. The arena was packed, the fans were loud and the emotions ran high […]

When Paul Skenes pitches for the United States in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, the Pittsburgh Pirates ace will be accomplishing a long-held goal. “It’s special,” Skenes told reporters of the opportunity on Tuesday. “Growing up watching the World Baseball Classic as a kid, I never thought I would have the opportunity to play in […]

University of Illinois men’s basketball coach Brad Underwood has agreed to a six-year contract extension that will keep him in Champaign through the 2030-31 season, the university announced on Tuesday. The deal, which is pending Illinois Board of Trustees approval, will pay Underwood an annual salary of $4.4 million, according to ESPN’s Jeff Borzello. He […]

Connecticut Sun ownership is exploring the potential sale of the team, team president Jen Rizzotti confirmed on Tuesday. Tina Charles, who is back with the Sun after spending the first four years of her career with the team, isn’t quite sure what to expect. She told reporters on Tuesday that she is focused on the […]

Arkansas Razorbacks men’s basketball freshman Boogie Fland will withdraw from the 2025 NBA Draft and head back to school, according to ESPN’s Jonathan Givoney. We just don’t know which school. Fland is in the transfer portal and will instantly become one of the best players remaining on the market. That said, he has a “do […]

The Philadelphia Phillies have a roster that, on paper, is good enough to win the 2025 World Series. But the Fall Classic isn’t won in May and, as the season continues, we’re starting to see areas that Philadelphia will need to address before the MLB Trade Deadline on July 31. Unlike many teams, it doesn’t […]