Though the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is designed to produce a national champion, it’s just as effective at creating stars. The stakes and pressure of a single-elimination tournament can turn once-anonymous figures who spent much of their careers toiling in obscurity into celebrities in an instant, with the fame from their one shining moment staying with them long after they’ve ...
Baltimore traded two first-round picks to the Las Vegas Raiders for edge rusher Maxx Crosby while looking to rebound from a disappointing 2025 season. Recent seasons have ended in disappointment for the Ravens, including missing the playoffs in 2025. The team’s defense, particularly its pass rush, has been a significant weakness despite talent elsewhere. Welcome to Baltimore, Jesse Minter. The ...
DULUTH, GA — The ACC Tournament action heats up in the semifinals on Saturday at Gas South Arena. No. 5 Notre Dame steamrolled No. 4 NC State for the tournament’s first upset of the week on Friday. The Fighting Irish had 22 points in the third quarter to take a commanding lead and never looked back. Now, Notre Dame and ...
Shohei Ohtani homered again and Japan dug out of an early hole to outlast South Korea for an 8-6 win, improving to 2-0 in the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Korea jumped on Japan starter Yusei Kikuchi for three runs in the top of the first on four hits, but Seiya Suzuki hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ...
HOUSTON — Baseball is rarely easy to predict, and so Lucas Ramirez has made a habit of the next best thing. In the months leading up to his World Baseball Classic debut for Team Brazil against Team USA, the outfielder ritually practiced affirmations and visualizations to prepare for his entry onto baseball’s international scene. “Ever since the (WBC) qualifiers, I ...
In what could be the biggest move of the NFL offseason − five days before the official start of free agency − the Las Vegas Raiders agreed to trade perennial Pro Bowl pass rusher Maxx Crosby on March 6 to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for two first-round draft picks, one in 2026 and the other in ’27, per multiple ...
Lindsey Vonn’s time atop the downhill standings is over. Italy’s Laura Pirovano and Germany’s Emma Aicher bumped the injured Vonn down to third in the season standings after the second downhill at the World Cup in Val di Fassa, Italy. Pirovano now leads the race for the season title after her second downhill win in as many days with 436 ...
Nazem Kadri won a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2022 and wasn’t re-signed, starting the team’s search for a No. 2 center. They finally found one at the 2025 NHL trade deadline with Brock Nelson. But now they also have found a Kadri-style player. Nazem Kadri. The Avalanche and Calgary Flames worked out a deal to bring back ...
No. 20 Miami (Ohio) has finished a perfect regular season, and its athletic director believes it “should cement” the RedHawks as an NCAA Tournament team. The last remaining undefeated team in men’s college basketball capped off a 31-0 campaign with a wild overtime win against rival Ohio on Friday, March 6. Despite five technical fouls and 14 made 3-pointers from the ...
While the fate of college sports was being discussed at the White House with the biggest and best of sports and politics, the silent partner of the free-spending, free-falling framework was all but ignoring it. ESPN, Fox, NBC and CBS — who combined to throw more than two billion dollars annually at college sports — were more interested in televising ...