Texas coach Vic Schaefer’s reaction when asked about the NCAA changes to the college basketball transfer portal window was hardly surprising given his team’s success. “Fired up,” he said with a grin. At the NCAA’s annual convention in Washington, D.C., last week, the Division I cabinet approved sweeping alterations to the transfer portal window for men’s and women’s basketball. After ...
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday night due to a paperwork issue but was later released from custody, agent Scott Boras and the team confirmed. Boras said Lee’s detainment was ‘not anything political or anything like that’ and the outfielder was released Wednesday evening, the Giants confirmed in a ...
U.S. women’s national team head coach Emma Hayes has provided an update on star duo Sophia Wilson and Mallory Swanson as they work to return from giving birth last year. Swanson and Wilson both sat out all of 2025 on maternity leave. When healthy, the forwards make up two-thirds of the USWNT’s vaunted ‘Triple Espresso’ front three along with Trinity ...
When the USC men’s basketball team ran back into the locker room after pregame warmups, Alijah Arenas lingered on the court for a few more seconds to get some extra shots up before running back into the tunnel, smile on his face, to join his teammates. The team came back out a few minutes later, and Arenas dapped up as ...
Los Angeles Lakers governor Jeanie Buss issued a statement regarding a story by ESPN about her criticism with LeBron James. In the article published on Wednesday, Jan. 21, James had fallen out of favor with Buss for his role and actions in recent years involving the organization. “It’s really not right, given all the great things LeBron has done for ...
The New York Knicks entered Wednesday night’s game having lost four consecutive contests, but you would have never known it given the way they obliterated the Brooklyn Nets at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks won 120-66, their 54-point margin of victory a team record. It could have been even worse − at one point the Knicks led by 59. The ...
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday night due to a paperwork issue, agent Scott Boras told the San Francisco Chronicle. Boras told the paper Lee’s detainment was ‘not anything political or anything like that’ and Lee was released later Wednesday evening, USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale reported. “We are ...
ESPN’s Paul Finebaum spent most of the 2025 college football season talking down to Indiana football and Curt Cignetti. On Wednesday, Jan. 21, Finebaum released a video less than a minute-long admitting, ‘Almost everything I said throughout the season about him and about Indiana was wrong.’ The Hoosiers capped off a historic 16-0 season with a 27-21 win over Miami ...
USA TODAY Sports released its latest ‘Milan Magic’ episode covering the 2026 Winter Olympics. In preparation for the Milano Cortina Winter Games, ‘Milan Magic’ hosts Christine Brennan and Brian Boitano — an Olympic gold medal champion figure skater — are covering all topics regarding the games extensively and sitting down with Winter Olympics legends in order to get a behind-the-scenes ...
The Denver Broncos quarterback suffered a season-ending ankle injury during the team’s divisional round win over the Buffalo Bills. It marked Denver’s first playoff win since Super Bowl 50, but the celebration was short-lived after it was revealed Nix had fractured his ankle in overtime. Head coach Sean Payton revealed the news to reporters after the game, adding that the ...