Though the weather might be frigid in many parts of the country, ballparks in Florida and Arizona will soon be filled with the familiar sounds of bats cracking and mitts popping. Spring training is just around the corner for the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the 29 other teams looking to knock them off their perch. ...
AI-assisted summary The Dallas Mavericks are empowering rookie Cooper Flagg to take control of his development, including postgame workouts and recovery. Since being challenged to be more assertive, Flagg has significantly increased his scoring and shot attempts. Despite being the youngest player in the NBA, Flagg is earning respect for his fearlessness in critical game moments. There’s this somewhat unique ...
The curious case of Andruw Jones and baseball’s Hall of Fame is nearing a conclusion – a 10-time Gold Glover and 434-homer candidate whose candidacy produces almost as many questions as it answers. Chief among them: Should a player be penalized for falling so steeply off a cliff at so tender an age? Jones joined the Atlanta Braves one year ...
Texas Tech softball coach Gerry Glasco doesn’t seem to care for the Red Raiders’ No.1 preseason ranking in the Softball America poll. ‘It’s nice to get the attention and nice to get the respect, but it’s rat poison as [Nick] Saban says,’ Glasco said. ‘I’ve never had a team ranked No. 1 in college, so it’s a new thing for ...
The college football transfer portal closes Jan. 16 and players are still popping in. While the majority of the portal business has been wrapped up plenty of notable names and impact players remain available. We’ll keep you posted with daily live updates of portal commitments. Indiana and Miami get an extra five-day window (Jan. 20-24) because they are playing in ...
When the 4 Nations Face-Off teams were named last year, the Washington Capitals had no representatives. But every NHL team will have at least one player on the rosters for the 12 countries participating in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy. The Tampa Bay Lightning are sending a league-high 10 players, though Brayden Point and Victor Hedman are currently ...
A 10-year-old superfan of Indiana football is headed to the national championship game. The Hoosiers, including Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza, put together the news in a heartfelt video to Drew Shouse, who has a rare heart defect and was matched with the program in 2023 through Team IMPACT. Shouse has mitral valve regurgitation and aortic stenosis. ‘There’s no way ...
Finley, most recently at Georgia State, signed to his seventh school in seven seasons on Jan. 13 and will play at Incarnate Word in 2026, according to On3. Finley has certainly had a unique career arc, starting college in 2020 at LSU, before heading to Auburn, Texas State, Tulane, Western Kentucky, Georgia State and now Incarnate Word, an FCS program. ...
AI-assisted summary Grizzlies star Ja Morant declined to answer if he expects to be with Memphis past the February trade deadline. The Grizzlies are reportedly fielding trade offers for Morant for the first time. Morant has missed the team’s last five games with a calf injury and is having a statistically down season. Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant spoke for ...
‘It’s incredible for all the fans,’ Woods told ESPN on Tuesday night before his TGL match. Just 24 hours earlier, the PGA Tour announced Jan. 12 that Koepka, who left LIV Golf last month, would be allowed back under a one-time Returning Member Program extended to former major champions from the past four years. ‘The fan initiative program that we did ...