NFL free agency begins in March. Wide receivers are expected to be in high demand once the legal tampering period starts on March 10 and the new league year begins at 4 p.m. ET on March 12.  Tee Higgins is the consensus top free-agent wide receiver available. Will Higgins move on from Cincinnati, or can the Bengals afford to re-sign ...

Our latest NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket projection still has a heavy SEC presence. But several Big Ten teams have begun to assert themselves as well. The SEC maintains five of the top eight seeds, including three spots on the No. 1 line. But the Big Ten now has three projected No. 3 seeds with Wisconsin and Michigan moving up ...

It’s been four years since Joe Buck has called a Major League Baseball game on national TV, but that silence will come to an end – at least temporarily – on opening day 2025. Buck will broadcast the New York Yankees’ March 27 opener against the Milwaukee Brewers for ESPN. It will be his first baseball game for the network ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. — In the end, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays had vastly different ideas on the value of a young slugger, the appropriate contract to award a player still one year away from free agency and the import of retaining a star who’s only known one baseball home. And now, Guerrero is just 162 games from ...

After signing All-Star third baseman Alex Bregman to a three-year, $120 million contract over the weekend, the Boston Red Sox have not specified exactly where he’ll play for them this season. That’s because they have their own three-time All-Star at the hot corner in Rafael Devers. And Devers made it clear Monday he’s not willing to change positions to accommodate ...

Team USA lost its first game of the 4 Nations Face-Off on Monday night and also lost a key forward. Sweden rallied from an early 1-0 deficit to defeat the short-handed Americans 2-1 and pick up its first win of the tournament. It was also the USA’s first loss. Gustav Nyquist and Jesper Bratt scored in the first period after ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Two months after Juan Soto signed the largest contract in pro sports history, a $765 million December lightning strike, the enormity of his paycheck still hasn’t sunk in. “I’m still thinking about it and everything. It’s unbelievable,” Soto said Sunday upon reporting to New York Mets camp, where he’ll winter well past his 40th birthday. ...

College football’s administrative heavyweights are meeting in New Orleans beginning Wednesday, and it should come as no surprise where this is headed.  Revenue generation.  Or, this quick summation from universities to players: You want pay for play? We’re getting more games. Not just an expansion of the College Football Playoff, which currently stands at 12 teams and could move to ...

Aaron Rodgers’ New York Jets era is done after two seasons, and Gang Green already has rumored ties to one pending free agent quarterback. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported on ‘SportsCenter’ that the Jets could be a ‘sleeper option’ for Steelers quarterback Justin Fields. The 25-year-old is coming off of a debut season with Pittsburgh that featured 10 regular-season appearances and ...

It may not feel like spring everywhere, but it does in Florida and Arizona. And for baseball fans, that’s all that matters as MLB teams have gathered at their respective spring training camps to get ready for the 2025 season. Fantasy baseball season is also on the way, and to help you get ready for your upcoming drafts, USA TODAY ...