The NBA play-in game has added early and extra tension to a long playoffs season. The Golden State Warriors went all in to acquire Jimmy Butler at the trade deadline and capitalize on a championship window with Steph Curry still playing at an All-NBA level. But the Warriors need to win a play-in game just to get the seventh or ...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – At some point generations from now, after all of us are long gone, they will look back at the records and the numbers and the championships under Rory McIlroy’s name and think that all of it was inevitable, that one of the great players in the history of golf simply did what he was always destined to ...
The 2025 NBA playoffs bracket is (mostly) set, and there’s plenty of intrigue about the potential matchups to start the postseason. The top-six seeds in the East and the West must wait for the play-in tournament to determine the No. 7 and No. 8 seed in each conference before beginning their first-round series, but there’s already a predicted pecking order ...
The New Orleans Saints recently became a strong potential landing spot for Shedeur Sanders. They might not be the only team with a top-10 NFL draft selection that has an interest in the Colorado quarterback. The Las Vegas Raiders are also interested in Sanders and are hosting him on a pre-draft visit Monday, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. Las Vegas ...
Any NFL team that picks Travis Hunter in the NFL draft this month will have a unusual puzzle to solve right away: What exactly do you do with him? Do you seriously consider letting him play almost every single snap on both offense and defense? That’s what he wants. And that’s what he did in college at Colorado. But this ...
The Tampa Bay Rays have made the most of their temporary digs, winning seven of their first 12 games at Steinbrenner Field, their minor league waystation after hurricanes damaged their Tropicana Field home. The Tampa location has made it convenient for a large segment of their fan base, who have enjoyed a bay area rarity: Outdoor major league baseball. Yet ...
For more than four decades, USA TODAY has provided our audience a front-row seat for some of the biggest moments in women’s sports – from the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cups, March Madness and beyond. Now we’re kicking it up a notch with today’s launch of USA TODAY Studio IX presented by Cisco, our new content vertical that will highlight ...
If you think an NBA game in the dog days of late January and early February don’t matter, tell that to the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors’ home loss to Phoenix on Jan. 31 and road loss to Utah on Feb. 5 made the difference between finishing in the top six and a spot in the playoffs and a seventh-place ...
The golf community took to social media Sunday evening to congratulate Rory McIlroy for winning the Masters for the first time. McIlroy earned the green jacket and became just the sixth golfer to complete a career Grand Slam after beating Justin Rose in a playoff. The victory marked his fifth career golf major but his first since 2014. The 35-year-old ...
The Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames won on Sunday and get to live another day, or two in the case of the Flames. The Blue Jackets swept the Eastern Conference-leading Washington Capitals during the weekend to stay alive. But Columbus will have to do some scoreboard watching of the Montreal Canadiens game Monday night to learn whether it avoids ...