MLB commissioner Rob Manfred revealed Wednesday that support from President Donald Trump was indeed a factor in his stunning decision to end Pete Rose’s permanent banishment from the game. Speaking to MLB team owners at a meeting in New York, Manfred said the opinions Trump expressed to him during an April 16 visit to the White House played a part ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The email hit my inbox with the subject line “Will viewers watch Pacers-Thunder?” The headline in the newsletter from Front Office Sports: “History shows Pacers vs. Thunder may draw record-low ratings.” It’s not the first time and won’t be the last time that TV ratings accompany a discussion of this season’s NBA Finals between Indiana and Oklahoma ...
The Boston Bruins hired Marco Sturm as their new head coach, the team announced Thursday. Sturm replaces Jim Montgomery, who was fired in November after the team got off to an 8-9-3 start. Assistant Joe Sacco was named the interim head coach and Boston finished 33–39–10, tied for the worst record in the Eastern Conference. For the past three seasons, the ...
Messi and the World Cup champions will be on the road playing against Chile at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos in Santiago, Chile. It’s unclear whether Messi will start or come off the bench, Argentine national team coach Lionel Scaloni said Wednesday. Argentina has already qualified for the 2026 World Cup, and could use this match to play several young ...
The SEC keeps finding new reasons to not add a ninth conference game to its football schedule. Throughout the four-team College Football Playoff era, the SEC ruled that postseason format, so it found insufficient incentive to add another conference game. When the scheduling debate resurfaced two years ago, some SEC members expressed reluctance to add another conference game without additional ...
Shaquille O’Neal hovered over two children, leaned down and shared a secret. “Do you know how I made $900 million?’’ he asked in a moment taped three years ago. “Just by listening to my mommy and daddy. Make sure you listen to your parents.’’ Well, boys and girls, it’s slightly more complicated than that, even for a 7-foot-1 basketball legend ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a ‘sick puppy’ who should not have landed on the Democrats’ 2024 presidential ticket. ‘He’s a sick puppy, that guy, that poor guy. I feel sorry for him,’ Trump said Thursday from the Oval Office while meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. ‘But, they ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in grant funding for AmeriCorps and to reemploy thousands of employees, ruling that the administration’s abrupt dismantling of the organization violated federal law. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman agreed to reinstate thousands of terminated AmeriCorps employees across 24 ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s feud about the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ continued on Thursday when the tech billionaire responded to the president’s criticism in a post on X. ‘Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As criticism mounts from within Biden’s world against former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and her new book, one ex-aide lambasted the now-Independent ombudswoman as ‘kinda dumb’ — a tweet he deleted but later stood by. Timothy Wu, now a Columbia Law professor, was former President Joe Biden’s ‘architect’ of antitrust ...