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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO − Crafting a list of the greatest players in Super Bowl history is a near-impossible endeavor. Do you favor the biggest stars? Those who shone brightest on Super Sunday? The ones with sustained levels of excellence? While undertaking this fool’s errand, I weighed each consideration, attempting to also make it representative of all positions rather than skew too ...
There’s no escaping it now. The Big Ten just dusted off the last excuse the SEC had over all of college football. No one plays the schedule we play! What if I were to tell you Ohio State in 2026 will play seven of the top nine Big Ten teams from the 2025 final standings? A schedule so daunting, it ...
Jessie Diggins, the most decorated U.S. cross-country skier, will retire after this season. Diggins keeps her three Olympic medals in tote bags rather than displaying them at home. She focuses on the joy of skiing, not results, and wears glitter as a pre-race ritual to remind her of her why. Diggins has been a vocal advocate for mental health after ...
A junior hockey team in Canada lost three of its own on Monday Feb. 2, in a tragic car accident. The young men – members of the Southern Alberta Mustangs – were on their way to practice when their car was hit by a large gravel truck at an intersection in Stavely, Alberta, about an hour’s drive south of Calgary. Caden ...
The Seattle Mariners, who have been trying to get St. Louis Cardinals utilityman Brendan Donovan since the World Series concluded, finally got their man Monday in a three-way trade that included the Tampa Bay Rays. The Mariners’ price was steep, giving up two prospects and a draft pick to grab the man who they believe could be the missing piece ...
Though a team from outside of men’s college basketball’s five biggest conferences hasn’t won a national championship since UConn in 2014 — and even that feels like a bit of a technicality for a school that was one year removed from being in the Big East — several teams from those leagues have made their presence felt nationally this season. ...
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 ...