Two more star Japanese players are set to join Major League Baseball. Corner infielder Kazuma Okamoto of the Yomiuri Giants and right-handed pitcher Kona Takahashi of the Saitama Seibu Lions have were posted on Nov. 20 by their teams in Nippon Professional Baseball. Their 45-day window in which MLB teams will be able to negotiate with and sign them will ...
AI-assisted summary Top games include No. 5 Oregon hosting No. 16 Southern California in the Big Ten. In the SEC, No. 8 Oklahoma will face No. 21 Missouri. Other notable contests involve ranked teams like Vanderbilt, BYU, and Georgia Tech. Week 13 in college football is not entirely a cupcake platter, though admittedly there are a few of those. Fortunately, ...
USA Today Sports has live coverage of the Bills at Texans in today’s NFL ‘Thursday Night Football.’ The 2024 NFL season featured a close MVP race between two star quarterbacks in the AFC. Buffalo’s Josh Allen emerged as the winner and earned his first MVP award over Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson, a two-time MVP winner. Allen’s win came by a narrow ...
AI-assisted summary Colorado quarterback Julian Lewis braided his hair after being legally tackled by it in a game against West Virginia. According to the NCAA, tackling a ballcarrier by their hair is a legal play. Lewis is a freshman quarterback who is expected to start the final games of the season for the Buffaloes. Colorado freshman starting quarterback Julian Lewis ...
Major League Soccer announced its 2026 schedule, which gets underway with a showdown between Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami and Son Heung-min’s LAFC at the Los Angeles Coliseum on the Feb. 21 opening night. Other highlights include an extended World Cup break and the opening of Inter Miami’s new stadium (April 4), an extended break for the World Cup and the ...
EVANSTON, IL – Pat Ryan Jr. wants to make a statement with Northwestern football’s new Ryan Field. The $862 million stadium will replace the former Ryan Field and Ryan is willing to bet it will stand out in college and professional football — whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. ‘Never seen a stadium like this before. And ...
The wrongful death lawsuit the family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs filed against the Los Angeles Angels reached a particularly nebulous point Nov. 19, as attorneys for the family and the ballclub aimed to project how much money Skaggs would have earned had he not died in 2019, two weeks before his 28th birthday and in the midst of the ...
Dan Hurley tore up the stat sheet and said his team ‘punked out.’ The UConn men’s basketball coach sat in a postgame interview Wednesday — after his No. 3 Huskies lost 71-67 at home to the No. 4 Arizona Wildcats — frustrated and disappointed with what he called a squandered opportunity to defeat one of the NCAA’s best teams. ‘We ...
AI-assisted summary Several NFL players are under pressure to improve their performance as their teams push for the playoffs. Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence needs to elevate his passing game to help his team contend. Nothing has been decided in the NFL’s postseason outlook, but it sure looks as though the time has arrived to start regularly discussing the playoff ...
A relic of the not-so-distant past could determine the American championship and in turn which Group of Five team reaches the College Football Playoff. With five teams in the mix for the conference title, the American could break a multiple-team tie via the sort of computer metrics college football opted to leave in the Bowl Championship Series era in favor ...