PHOENIX — It’s like handing a basketball to Michael Jordan. It’s like giving a microphone to Beyoncé. It’s like providing Tony Robbins an audience. Granting San Diego Padres GM A.J. Preller a trade deadline. Preller, who lives for this time of year, and loves to play pick-up basketball at any opportunity, slam-dunked on his competition by pulling off the biggest ...
In this, the year of the flawed team, Major League Baseball’s July 31 trade deadline was appropriately odd and incomplete, largely a slew of imperfect players heading to teams with uncertain playoff prospects, and some of the better prizes ending up in situations where October baseball, let alone the World Series, are far from a certainty. So, who ended up ...
August is an important month in fantasy football. Maybe the most important month. It’s when position battles take place during training camp. When exhibition games get teams out on the field against each other. It’s also when injuries, unfortunately, start to mount. And it’s when average fantasy draft positions begin to take shape. Of course, every fantasy draft is different, ...
BRISTOL, TN — Using a cliché to describe a sporting event has become, well, cliché. Some clichés have made a complete 360, where they start as a description of a sports situation, graduate to becoming totally figurative, and then come home to roost. Such is the situation in Bristol, Tennessee, where the NASCAR racetrack has such an uneven infield that ...
Terry McLaurin has spent the 2025 NFL offseason attempting to negotiate a contract extension with the Washington Commanders. With no such deal yet reached, the 29-year-old wide receiver has requested a trade. It isn’t clear whether Washington will grant McLaurin’s request. The 2024 All-Pro second-teamer was critical to their offensive success, generating 82 catches, 1,096 yards and 13 touchdowns in ...
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has ‘ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions’ following ‘highly provocative statements’ made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev said earlier this week that Trump’s new deadline for Russia to end the conflict with Ukraine is an additional ‘step towards war.’ ‘Based on the highly provocative statements of ...
President Donald Trump issued a full-throated endorsement of Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters for the role of Republican National Committee chair after pre-endorsing him for the role last week. ‘He will be a wonderful Chairman!’ the president declared in a lengthy Truth Social post. Gruters is currently listed as the RNC’s treasurer. The president endorsed RNC national committeewoman from New ...
After the typically furious last couple of hours before Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, it only takes a few minutes for the air to clear and the silence to amplify those untraded stars who stayed with their teams. And in a mild upset, Sandy Alcantara is still a Marlin. Good for them. Hey, perhaps it’s just a byproduct that in ...
AI-assisted summary Wrigley Field will host the 2027 MLB All-Star Game on July 13, 2027. This will be the fourth time the Cubs have hosted the All-Star Game at Wrigley Field. The American League has won all three previous All-Star Games played at Wrigley Field. Wrigley Field, the home field of the Chicago Cubs, will host the 2027 All-Star Game, ...
The defending WNBA champions have officially added a former WNBA Finals MVP to their roster with fewer than six weeks to go until the playoffs. The New York Liberty announced on Friday, Aug. 1, that they have signed Belgian star Emma Meesseman, who is returning to the WNBA for the first time she was an All-Star in 2022 with the ...