Another star point guard could be on the move ahead of the NBA trade deadline. The Memphis Grizzlies are entertaining offers for Ja Morant for the first time with an eye toward potentially moving him to another team before Feb. 5, according to a new ESPN report on Friday, Jan. 9. Though Morant has been the subject of trade rumors ...

GLENDALE, AZ — There was some strange symmetry to it all, a torch passing no one saw coming.  Miami, everyone, is built and playing like an SEC team.  The SEC, meanwhile, just polished off a postseason where it lost a conference-record eight games against other conferences.  “We line up, and we want to punish you on offense and defense,” said ...

The WNBA and its players won’t reach a new CBA agreement by Friday’s deadline, entering a ‘status quo’ period. What happens now? What does that mean? Under ‘status quo,’ the working conditions established in the current CBA would remain unchanged. It allows both sides to continue negotiations. The current agreement also prevents the WNBA or its players from engaging in ...

Bill Belichick is adding an experienced offensive coordinator to his coaching staff at North Carolina football for the 2026 college football season. On Friday, Jan. 9, the Tar Heels announced the hiring of Bobby Petrino as the offensive coordinator. Petrino spent the last two seasons with Arkansas as the offensive coordinator and was promoted to interim head coach following the ...

Miami football clinched a spot in the 2026 College Football national championship game on Thursday, Jan. 8. Now the No. 10 Hurricanes will sit back on Friday, Jan. 9, to await their opponent for the Jan. 19 national championship game from HardRock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. While the game will be a default home game for Miami, a potential ...

When Rachael Rose stripped the ball away from Khamil Pierre and then connected on a fast break layup, it was easy to see the energy shift inside Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum with about two minutes left to play. The swipe-and-score gave Clemson a 10-point advantage against mighty North Carolina State, and the Tigers would hold that margin to defeat the Wolfpack ...

During the past two years, Curt Cignetti has engineered one of the most remarkable and unimaginable turnarounds in American sports history. Under Cignetti’s watch, an Indiana football program that was synonymous with losing has morphed into a national powerhouse, with an undefeated record and a No. 1 ranking this season. It happened quickly, too, with Cignetti’s first Hoosiers team going ...

Hirving Lozano’s time with San Diego FC appears to be over. The MLS club’s sporting director Tyler Heaps said on Friday that the Mexico forward has been told he isn’t part of the team’s plans moving forward. Lozano was San Diego’s marquee signing ahead of its expansion season last year, joining in a reported $12 million move from Dutch power ...

Max Kepler, the veteran major league outfielder who most recently played for the Philadelphia Phillies, was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball on Jan. 9 after testing positive for epitrenbolone, an anabolic steroid. Kepler, 32, is a free agent and his suspension would begin upon signing with a major league team. He hit 17 home runs in his one ...

A season that figures to be Tarik Skubal’s last with the Detroit Tigers will begin with a record gulf between the two-time Cy Young Award winner and his team. Skubal and the Tigers could not come to an agreement before the Jan. 8 deadline for arbitration-eligible players to reach agreement on 2026 salaries. Consequently, both sides exchange salary figures and, ...