Major League Soccer Golden Boot co-leader Sam Surridge, and former league MVPs Hany Mukhtar and Carles Gil are among six players added to the 2025 MLS All-Star roster, the league announced Tuesday, July 15. Surridge has been a frontrunner in the MLS Golden Boot race this season with 16 goals – a mark recently tied by Inter Miami All-Star Lionel ...
The WNBA’s Portland expansion team is reigniting the flames of history ahead of its 2026 debut. On Tuesday, the league’s 15th franchise announced the team is reviving a familiar name: the Portland Fire. The organization, owned by RAJ Sports since 2024, is reimagining the name from the WNBA’s original Fire franchise that launched in 2000 before folding after three seasons. ...
ATLANTA – He has never done this before, never put so much emphasis on what amounts to less than 10 percent of a football season. One game. One lousy game is now everything at LSU. “Because now it’s a goal,” LSU coach Brian Kelly says. “A tangible, specific and difficult goal.” And a flashpoint to what has become a critical ...
Senate Republicans are gearing up to advance a multibillion-dollar clawback package from President Donald Trump, but dissent among the ranks threatens to stymie the process. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., intends to put Trump’s $9.4 billion rescissions package, which would scrape back congressionally approved funding for a variety of so-called ‘woke’ programs that fund foreign aid and public broadcasting. ...
House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., subpoenaed Anthony Bernal, who served as chief of staff for first lady Jill Biden and as an assistant to President Joe Biden, to testify at a deposition Wednesday. Bernal refused to appear for a transcribed interview on June 26 as part of the Oversight Committee’s investigation into the alleged cover-up of Biden’s mental decline and ...
Tampa Bay Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg has agreed in principle to sell the team to a group headed by Jacksonville developer Patrick Zalupski for roughly $1.7 billion, according to a report by The Athletic. The agreement comes just four months after the Rays backed away from a deal to build a new stadium in St. Petersburg near the site ...
The drought sits at two seasons. What a nightmare, right? It’s been two long, long years since Georgia demolished TCU to capture the SEC’s fourth national championship in a row and fifth in six seasons. Filling that void has been the Big Ten, via Michigan and Ohio State. The SEC is poised to reclaim its perch atop the Bowl Subdivision. ...
ATLANTA — Cal Raleigh long ago departed the world he knew and stepped into the surreal. Yet reaching the zenith of his professional career has a strange way of bringing it all home. Raleigh punched his ticket to Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game and Home Run Derby on the strength of 38 home runs, the most by an American League ...
Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh won the 2025 Home Run Derby — but it didn’t come without some controversy. Raleigh was the penultimate batter in the first round of the derby, and he benefited in knowing how many home runs he needed to hit to likely advance. The top four hitters advance, so Raleigh needed to get past Brent Rooker’s 17 moonshots. ...
Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled senior Defense Department officials from the Aspen Security Conference for promoting the ‘evil of globalism.’ Military commanders were set to speak at the conference, which begins on Tuesday, as has been tradition through Republican and Democratic administrations. But Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson told Just the News the secretary’s office believes the conference ‘promotes the evil of globalism, ...