Step up to the plate: The 2026 softball season is here. Texas won its first national championship in program history after defeating instate rival Texas Tech in a winner take all Game 3 in the 2025 NCAA Tournament. But the Red Raiders are ranked No. 1 in at least one preseason poll on the strength of NiJaree Canady’s right arm and ...
Across the NCAA, 37 of the top players departed for Olympic national teams, and another handful will find themselves at a six-nations tournament in Austria. The change stripped NCAA hockey of seven of the top 10 scorers nationally, with major programs like Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio State playing with shortened benches due to their absences.The Olympic women’s hockey tournament lasts ...
Drake Maye is looking to join Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to ever lead the New England Patriots to a Super Bowl victory. As Maye prepares to do that, some of the guidance the legendary quarterback has given him over his career has been rattling around in his brain. Maye was asked at Super Bowl opening night about the ...
Deion Sanders recently told his Colorado football team about dousing broadcaster Tim McCarver with water in 1992. Sanders said he did it because McCarver had described him as selfish for playing both baseball and football. Sanders said he wanted to win the World Series MVP that year so McCarver would have to interview him. Colorado football coach Deion Sanders told ...
A USA TODAY analysis found thousands of underage bettors are caught annually by legalized sportsbooks. While sportsbooks file fraud reports with state regulators, consequences are rare, typically resulting only in a ban from the app. Seventy-five dollars is all Sam needed for his next round of sports bets on his BetMGM app. Well – it wasn’t officially his. He was ...
DAVIDSON, NC — When Curt Cignetti was hired at Indiana as the school’s head football coach two years ago from James Madison, he famously said at his introductory press conference, “It’s pretty simple. I win. Google me.” If she wanted to, George Mason women’s basketball coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis could make the same declaration. Last Wednesday, her Patriots defeated Davidson 62-51, ...
The Department of Justice released millions of files associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Jan. 30. Included in these files were emails exchanged by the disgraced financier and New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch. The NFL acknowledged it would ‘look into the matter’ in a statement released Feb. 2, just hours before NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s annual state ...
The WNBA and its players’ association met on Monday to continue ongoing negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement. The two sides talked face-to-face in New York City at the NBA’s offices, the first such meeting in weeks. The league arrived to the meeting with no response to the WNBPA’s last proposal, a person with knowledge of what transpired told ...
The Miami Heat just got some good news. Terry Rozier, too. The franchise had been waiting on a ruling about the contract status of Rozier, whose 2025-26 salary had been placed in escrow after he was arrested Oct. 23 for his alleged role in an insider sports-betting scheme. But on Monday, Feb. 2, an arbitrator ruled in favor of Rozier and the National ...
Now more than ever, it’s a near inevitability that Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks are nearing the end of their relationship. It may come before the Thursday, Feb. 5 trading deadline, or it may come in the offseason, but Antetokounmpo has reportedly indicated that he’s ready to move on from the Bucks. Milwaukee, understandably, has started to listen to ...