SCOTTSDALE, AZ — It may have been a mere spring-training game, one that will be forgotten by morning with statistics that will never appear on the back of bubble-gum cards, but don’t try telling that to defending National League Cy Young winner Paul Skenes. This is a game he’ll never forget. Skenes stood on the field Tuesday, standing at full ...
The NFL’s annual game of tag has come to an end – and four guys are it. The league’s deadline to apply franchise and transition tags, mechanisms designed to reward pending free agents while simultaneously hindering their ability to test the market, expired March 3 at 4 p.m. ET. Aside from New York Jets RB Breece Hall, Indianapolis Colts QB ...
INDIANAPOLIS – The last significant hurdle for NFL players hoping to reach unfettered free agency was cleared – by most – at 4 p.m. ET on March 3, the deadline for teams to apply franchise and transition tags in bids to restrict the movement of stars on expiring contracts. Now it’s full steam ahead to free agency, its official negotiating ...
In his team’s first game of March, Bill Self watched Kansas men’s basketball fall behind a middling Arizona State team by seven points in the first half. Apparently, he’d seen enough. The legendary Jayhawks coach was ejected from the matchup against the Sun Devils on Tuesday, March 6 with 6:07 remaining in the first half and No. 15 Kansas trailing, ...
Help wanted. The Arizona Cardinals have plenty of openings in the quarterback room. They opened up another spot on March 3, when it was revealed that the Cardinals intend to release Kyler Murray when the new league year begins on March 11, per multiple reports. It’s the latest starting quarterback job to become available this offseason, when there will be ...
All aboard the quarterback carousel. It might not be a good year to need a game-changer at the most important position in sports, but it’s not a bad year for the veteran quarterback market. Plenty of proven names are set to hit the open market following trades or releases with their former clubs, opening the door for some new looks ...
Chicago Bears center Drew Dalman is retiring from the NFL at age 27, according to multiple reports. Dalman earned a Pro Bowl selection after starting all 17 games for the Bears last season. He signed a three-year, $42 million contract with Chicago during the previous offseason. The Stanford alum was originally a fourth-round draft pick by the Atlanta Falcons in ...
On the same day the Los Angeles Lakers host the New Orleans Pelicans at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, there was an actual pelican spotted at another sporting event in Southern California. A collegiate baseball matchup between Loyola Marymount and UC Santa Barbara was briefly delayed after a long-beaked, waterbird crashed into the safety net behind home plate. The ...
For at least a few more days, there’s still one undefeated Division I men’s college basketball team remaining. In its penultimate regular-season game, Miami (Ohio) got a team-high 19 points, four assists and three steals from Peter Suder to hang on to beat Toledo 74-72 on Tuesday, March 3 to improve its record to 30-0. With the victory, the RedHawks ...
Trey Hendrickson’s tenure with the Cincinnati Bengals is over. As expected, the Bengals elected not to franchise tag Hendrickson before the March 3 4 p.m. ET deadline to do so. The edge rusher will now enter free agency. Hendrickson’s farewell to Cincinnati came shortly after the franchise tag deadline. “Thank you for the opportunity to play the game I love ...