As usual, free agency isn’t exactly what we were expecting months ago, especially for pass-catchers. Dallas placed the franchise tag on wide receiver George Pickens, which removed the second-team All-Pro from the free-agent market. That leaves the likes of Alec Pierce, Rashid Shaheed, Jauan Jennings, Romeo Doubs, Tyreek Hill and Mike Evans as the top choices at the position. Not ...
NEW YORK — Chet Holmgren knew that, for the Oklahoma City Thunder, it could’ve gone the other way. Minutes before he tried to fit his 7-foot-1 frame into a padded folding chair here at Madison Square Garden, his team escaped with a 103-100 win Wednesday, March 4 over the Knicks that didn’t come without drama. New York whittled an eight-point ...
Tennessee coach Josh Heupel breaks ranks with SEC party platform and offers support for 24-team playoff. Think a super-sized playoff would give coaches more job security? Nope. Nobody cares about bowl games? No, nobody cares about bad playoff games. Josh Heupel reached across the aisle. The Tennessee coach broke ranks with his party, the SEC, when he came out in ...
Teams competing in the World Baseball Classic have a most delicate task: Carve out a legacy in less than two weeks. Yet despite the microwaved format that’s inverse to how we typically watch the sport and assess greatness, the five championship teams all managed to both showcase their talents, conserve their resources and suppress some pretty elite competition to hoist ...
Breanna Stewart has won at every level of women’s basketball. Now she can add Unrivaled, the 3-on-3 women’s professional basketball league she helped start, to that list. Stewart’s championship haul prior to Wednesday, March 4: Two high school state titles Four NCAA championships at UConn Three WNBA titles with the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty Three Olympic gold medals ...
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — He is the only retired pitcher on the USA’s World Baseball Classic roster. He’s also the only one with three Cy Young awards, three World Series championships, and 11 All-Star appearances. And is the lone WBC pitcher who can already make reservations for his Hall of Fame induction in five years. Clayton Kershaw, who could have stayed ...
The Dallas Stars won their ninth and 10th straight games when they beat the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames 6-1 this week, setting a franchise record for most consecutive regular-season wins. While it’s a streak coach Glen Gulutzan and his team will wear as a badge of honor, only four franchises have not won 10 straight: the 2-year-old Utah Mammoth, ...
Pull up a chair, and take a load off, everyone. And soak in the world around you. Forget about football or winning and losing, or championships and near-misses. That’s the very last thing Lou Holtz would’ve wanted any celebration of life to include. Not that football wasn’t part of Holtz’s story, but that his life story — the last chapter ...
A judge denied Shilo Sanders’ request to dismiss a lawsuit from the trustee in Sanders’ bankruptcy case. The trustee alleges Sanders made unauthorized transfers and seeks to recover NIL earnings for creditors. Sanders filed for bankruptcy to discharge an $11.89 million debt stemming from an incident in 2015. A federal bankruptcy judge has issued a ruling against former Colorado football ...
Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett was cited for speeding in Wayne County, Ohio on Feb. 21 for driving 94 mph in a 70-mph zone on Interstate 71. It marks the ninth speeding ticket for the 2025 NFL Defensive Player of the Year since being drafted No. 1 overall by the Browns in the 2017 NFL Draft. Court records showed that ...