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As the women's sports movement grows, the March Madness tournament grows with it. Things like fan attendance and viewership are all growing because people want to watch these exciting athletes compete in some of the biggest moments of their careers. Each year of the tournament seemingly gets more exciting than the...Read more...

If March Madness follows the script, Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes will suffer a heartbreaking loss before the Final Four - just like Zion Williamson and Duke in 2019. But unlike that year on the men's side that gave us a lackluster national semifinal that featured the likes of Virginia, Texas Tech, Michigan...Read more...

With March Madness approaching, we are entering the best time of year to be a college basketball fan. To usher in a new year of upsets, stellar performances and champions, here are 15 moments from 2000 to now that are some of the most memorable moments in March Madness history.Read more...

For all the misguided complaints about the melodrama that can be the NBA at times, or the claims that its wokeness" will be its ruin, or how the league beats itself up over load management or whatever else, it still offers something that none of the other three non-NFL leagues can. And that's regular-season games...Read more...

The 2023 World Baseball Classic was fantastic. I was watching the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament at a bar in Los Angeles, when I noticed that most people there had gathered to watch Mexico take on Puerto Rico. The energy in the room was captivating, much of it because Loan Depot Park in Miami was abuzz. I had not...Read more...

This year's NBA Draft has been dubbed the weakest since the Cleveland Cavaliers wasted the first overall pick on Anthony Bennett. There's no consensus prize, or catchy tank phrase. Just the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Washington Wizards, and Portland Trail Blazers vying to see who can most egregiously throw...Read more...

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It's Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees.Read more...

Does a name mean anything anymore? There is a frightening trend of professional sports teams leaving their namesake cities for the suburban sprawl. The Washington Capitals and Wizards have announced moves to Arlington, Virginia. The Tampa Bay Rays are proposing a new stadium built in the St. Petersburg area. Even the...Read more...

After yet another Spring in which Trevor Bauer posts pics of himself at Spring Training and tries to convince us all that he has just tons of support and interest among MLB teams who want to hire him but can't, Bauer has finally been signed - by a Japanese travel team called Asian Breeze.Read more...

The NBA's annual battle of attrition that precedes the playoffs struck again as Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns is out indefinitely with a torn meniscus. It's the same ailment that forced Philadelphia Sixers center Joel Embiid to the sidelines, and one that should be treated with an abundance of...Read more...

No, not that wall. Calm down, Jethro.Read more...

The MLB is one of the oldest leagues in American sports. With that comes some legendary players and names for all of its teams, but nothing is better than watching your team acquire someone legendary from your rivals, or pass on someone who turned out to be a hall of famer because they weren't all that good early in...Read more...

Here is where we look at some of the athletes and sports figures we've lost in 2024.Read more...

A soon-to-be 58-year-old Mike Tyson is returning to the ring to fight none other than loudmouth influencer turned boxer Jake Paul.Read more...

Authentic Brands Group is getting a major payout for severing ties to a licensing agreement for Sports Illustrated, just not the one you think.Read more...

Nathaniel Hackett is who we thought he was, and the last time head coach Sean Payton won a ring the sports world was still a month away from being introduced to Brad Stevens and the Butler Bulldogs. Putting the Denver Broncos' mistakes all on Russell Wilson's shoulders is a cowardly move.Read more...

Fans who attended the Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game on Jan. 13, the fourth-coldest NFL game on record, are being advised to have their affected body parts amputated.Read more...

It's Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees. Next up are the L.A. Clippers and the 2024 season possibly being the culmination of their decade of prosperity.Read more...

The Buffalo Bills gave it their best shot. When they signed Von Miller to that six-year, $120 million contract it was a sign that a Super Bowl or Bust," had been hung on the team bus, plane, practice facility, and on the front of Ralph Wilson stadium.Read more...

We realize the enormity of saying the most CONCACAF game ever," as this particular region of the soccer world is literally where people throw ducks at balloons and nothing is the way it seems. Just about anything can happen when the North and Central American Federation is in charge, and boy did it on Wednesday...Read more...

The 1995-96 season was the end of the golden era for big men in the NBA. Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson and Shaquille O'Neal were stuffing opponents into lockers with their unstoppable back-to-the-basket games. They were the superstars in the paint, but Alonzo Mourning, Rik Smits, and many others...Read more...

Each year following NBA All-Star weekend, we discuss the slam dunk contest for at least two to three weeks afterward. Whether it's good, bad or somewhere in the middle, the conversation surrounding it blazes on for some time. Now we get Zion Williamson fanning the flames dunk contest banter, with his fake...Read more...

What happens every time an NFL quarterback resets the QB market? A relatively crap quarterback gets overpaid. The reason Daniel Jones netted a four-year $160 million deal after one good season, instead of getting franchise tagged like he should've been, is Joe Burrow got enough money that, by comparison, Jones'...Read more...

If you've been following the story that Chelsea and Matalidas star Sam Kerr has been charged with the alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer in London, and scouring the internet to figure out what she may have said, we finally have an answer.Read more...

The NHL trade deadline has gotten into high gear a couple days before Friday afternoon's deadline, so let's roll through the highlights of what's already gone down.Read more...

Now that the Denver Broncos have made their decision about moving on from the Russel Wilson era, it's time for head coach Sean Payton to get serious. There's a lot at stake here and Payton can't whiff on this quarterback selection. Whether it be via free agency or the draft, Payton is only going to have a year or two...Read more...

On Tuesday, Dartmouth's men's basketball team became the latest college team to attempt to unionize - voting 13-2 to join Service Employees Union Local 560, which currently represents other Dartmouth employees. As labor unions rise in popularity - more than two-thirds of all Americans and 88 percent of those under 30...Read more...

For those of us who hoped Nick Saban retiring would be the end of Nick Saban, this idle/jilted version of him might be even more insufferable. In an ESPN story about how Alabama pivoted from Saban to Kalen Deboer in 49 hours, the seven-time title winner revealed that player attitudes" and the NIL era contributed to...Read more...

Spanish police were able to stop a potentially massive and dangerous brawl from breaking out during a Champions League match between Real Sociedad and Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday.Read more...

Update March 6: New footage captured by police body cameras shows Miami Heat forward Haywood Highsmith visibly shaken up after he crashed his car into a pedestrian, causing him to have his leg amputated above the knee.Read more...

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest is on life support. The G-League's Mac McClung has won the contest for a second year in a row. Despite Boston's Jaylen Brown attempting to bring stars back to the iconic event, his dunks were relatively unimpressive.Read more...

Nobody asked for this, but, yet, here we are. In the middle of a volatile election year where Charles Barkley has free rein to spew his illogical political takes on TV. True bipartisanship looks like viewers from both parties working together to make this end.Read more...

Emmitt Smith is probably not the first athlete people associate with Black people's American struggle. He wasn't at the press conference with the then-Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Bill Russell, and Jim Brown in support of Muhammad Ali electing to not serve in the United States military after being...Read more...

Leave it to the A's and John Fisher to be three months late on the renderings for a ballpark that still feels like it has a better chance of being built in Narnia than it does in Vegas, and then to have it leak out a day after they meant it to:Read more...

It's Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees.Read more...

The New York Giants are reportedly looking to move on from QB Daniel Jones - whom they signed to a four-year, $160 million deal - and decided against using the franchise tag on Saquon Barkley, arguably the second-best player in franchise history.Read more...

The Seattle Seahawks are entering a retooling phase. It's not quite a full-on rebuild but there's enough movement within the organization on and off the field that the team will look quite different next season. It was announced on Tuesday that the Seahawks would be releasing three-time Pro Bowl safety, Jamal Adams....Read more...

Updated March 5: The suspect in the YMCA attack - 20-year-old Malik Ali Smith of Farmington Hills, MI - has been charged with assault with intent to murder.

It was only slightly over a year ago that New Jersey Devils fans were apologizing en masse to Lindy Ruff. They had called for his head early last season, and then when the Devils caught fire they all were ready to admit they had egg on their face. New Jersey would go on to the second round of the playoffs with...Read more...

With free agency around the corner, the NFL is currently engaged in its age-old tradition of taking some of the best names off the market. The franchise tag period allows teams to hold onto premier players just a bit longer, extending the negotiation window for a long-term deal while still maintaining team control.Read more...

The Los Angeles Clippers have been a delightful surprise in the NBA since bouncing back from a rough start once James Harden joined the team at the end of October.Read more...

Remember when NBA Twitter, now NBA X, spent an entire season obsessing over where Ben Simmons would be traded? It ended up being Brooklyn, and that ended up being the last time he was relevant to professional basketball. The latest update is there is no update, just Simmons' agent, Bernie Lee, falling on his client's...Read more...

Vince McMahon made more than $400 million yesterday after selling over five million of his shares in TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of WWE, according to documents provided to the New York Post by the Securities and Exchange Commission.Read more...

It's official. According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the New York Giants will not give running back Saquon Barkley the franchise tag. He will hit the open market for the first time since entering the league in 2018.Read more...

It's simple. Since America loves an underdog, America should be applauding Rajah Caruth.Read more...

Iowa's Caitlin Clark surpassed Pete Maravich as the NCAA's all-time leading scorer in college basketball - and continues to add to her legacy in her final collegiate season before entering the WNBA Draft.

Need any more evidence that Gilbert Arenas' bellyaching about Europeans and foreigners ruining basketball with their sweet outside strokes is all hot air? I'll give you one: Josh Giddey. Now that his legal woes appear to be in the rearview mirror, the whispers about his liabilities in the Oklahoma City Thunder's 5-out...Read more...

Updated March 5: Drew Eubanks revealed that he had suffered bloody gums and his teeth feel looser since getting punched by Isaiah Stewart on Feb. 14 before their game.Read more...

It is tempting to say that the Milwaukee Bucks turned a corner on Monday night. Without Giannis Antetokounmpo in the lineup, they were still able to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers, 113-106, and remain undefeated since the All-Star break. Damian Lillard did not play his best game of the season in Antetokounmpo's...Read more...