Late Basketball Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant put on one of the most unfathomable scoring performances in NBA history two decades ago tonight. Peek-a-boo. 81 points. Bryant torched the Toronto Raptors on Jan. 22, 2006 to achieve the second-highest scoring feat ever, behind only Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game. He was on a heater. Bryant shot 28-of-46 from the field, including ...
One of the most dramatic contract sagas in NWSL history has finally ended. The Washington Spirit announced on Thursday that star forward Trinity Rodman has re-signed with the team through the 2028 season. Rodman’s agent told ESPN that the new deal worth more than $1 million per year makes her the highest-paid player in league history and highest-paid female player ...
The College Football Playoff continues to dominate TV viewership ratings. According to ESPN, Monday’s national championship game between Indiana and Miami averaged 30.1 million viewers across the network’s ‘megacast’ offerings, making it not only the most-watched game of this CFP, but also the most-watched non-NFL sporting event since the Chicago Cubs defeated Cleveland in Game 7 of the 2016 World ...
Stanford Cardinal men’s basketball will have to endure the remainder of their season without their senior second-leading scorer Chisom Okpara. The school announced that Okpara suffered a lower extremity injury during the 70-55 loss to Virginia on Jan. 10 and will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season. The senior forward averaged 13.9 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 ...
In last week’s NHL power rankings, the question posed was when the next domino would fall – and we got our answer with Rasmus Andersson going to the Golden Knights and Kiefer Sherwood going to the Sharks. The Olympic trade freeze is in just two weeks, and serving as the NHL’s unofficial trade deadline, perhaps more deals will come. The ...
A trade in the NBA, perhaps more so than the trades in any other major professional sports league based in North America, can only be examined through the prism of what each organization wanted to accomplish in the transaction. The goals of a contender trying to add another piece for its postseason run are different than a struggling team in ...
Tensions were running high at the Australian Open on Thursday, Jan. 22, after Naomi Osaka beat Sorana Cirstea 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, to advance to the third round. Osaka met Cirstea at the net for the customary handshake and exchanged words after Cirstea appeared visibly upset by the four-time Grand Slam champion shouting ‘Come on’ between serves during the match. Osaka ...
Who will be the Fernando Mendoza of the 2026 college football season? It’ll be tough for a player to replicate what the Indiana quarterback achieved in 2025, winning a Heisman Trophy before leading his program to a national championship win and a perfect 16-0 record (becoming just the first player to achieve that feat since DeVonta Smith in 2020 and ...
When it’s all said and done, only one team will get to hoist the FIFA World Cup trophy and be crowned champion. And President Donald Trump will be close by when it happens. FIFA president Gianni Infantino was a speaker at a Davos Kick-off for FIFA World Cup 2026, which coincides with the World Economic Forum. Infantino confirmed that U.S. ...
And then there were three … games left − two of them coming Sunday. The 2025 NFL season is building to its summit, set to stop at base camp this weekend with its conference championship games. The AFC title game will be Sunday’s first, the damaged Denver Broncos hosting the new edition New England Patriots. Historically? It’s a rematch from ...