The Seattle Storm have punched their ticket to the 2025 WNBA playoffs. The Storm clinched the eighth and final postseason bid Tuesday after defeating the Golden State Valkyries, 74-73, in the team’s regular-season finale at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena. It will be the Storm’s third playoff appearance under fourth-year head coach Noelle Quinn. Erica Wheeler knocked down a go-ahead jumper ...
The first week of the NFL season is always the most chaotic – both on the field and on the fantasy football waiver wire that follows. We can’t really be sure if what we just witnessed is a fact or fluke until we have more corroborating evidence. For example, is the Detroit Lions offense a shell of its former self ...
Jalen Carter was fined $57,222 for spitting on Dak Prescott, the NFL announced. The NFL said in its release that it deemed Carter’s ejection as a one-game suspension given that he missed the entirety of the season opener. Neither Carter nor the NFL Players Association will appeal the punishment. Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter is paying an even heftier ...
Less than three weeks remain in the 2025 Major League Baseball regular season and while the field is largely set in stone, at least three division races will go down to the wire and the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets will have to fight off challengers for the final wild card spots. The Philadelphia Phillies have buried the Mets ...
AI-assisted summary Colorado coach Deion Sanders wants to settle on one starting quarterback instead of rotating players. Sophomore Ryan Staub unexpectedly outplayed the top two quarterbacks in a recent win against Delaware. Sanders has not officially confirmed who will start the next game, but Staub has been taking first-team reps. Colorado football coach Deion Sanders declined to confirm that sophomore ...
Alex Zendejas and Folarin Balogun scored goals for the USMNT in the 2-0 win. The U.S. desperately needed a positive outcome on Tuesday night after a humbling 2-0 defeat against South Korea on Saturday. The USMNT’s next matches come against Ecuador (Oct. 10) and Australia (Oct. 14). Mauricio Pochettino and the U.S. men’s national soccer team got the bounce-back performance ...
University of Illinois athletics is a tide of momentum, with its football program rising to No. 9 in the latest US LBM Coaches Poll ahead of Week 3. The positives continued on Tuesday, Sept. 9 with the school announcing a $100 million donation from Larry Gies, an Illinois alum. The school will rename the Fighting Illini’s football stadium to ‘Gies ...
The Green Bay Packers came out swinging in Week 1 to take a dominant win over the two-time defending NFC North champion Detroit Lions. While the offense had a strong start to the season, they were missing one piece in the wide receiving corps: Christian Watson. The former second-round pick is still recovering from a torn ACL suffered in the ...
A new development has been made in the case regarding former Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco. The 24-year-old, who was found guilty of sexually abusing a minor earlier this year, was detained by police in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday and promptly admitted to a mental health clinic, The Associated Press reports. According to reports, Franco was only detained ...
A new development has been made in the case regarding former Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco. The 24-year-old, who was found guilty of sexually abusing a minor earlier this year, was detained by police in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday and promptly admitted to a mental health clinic, The Associated Press reports. According to reports, Franco was only detained ...