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Restricted free agent defenseman Evan Bouchard signed a two-year, $7.8 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.Read more...

Kirby Smart left January travel itineraries and references to the Southeastern Conference championship game out of his motivational material as Georgia pursues history in 2023.Read more...

The Minnesota Vikings on Thursday released wide receiver N'Keal Harry, a former first-round draft pick.Read more...

After making just eight starts over the previous three seasons, Nationals All-Star right-hander Stephen Strasburg will retire after 13 seasons, the Washington Post reported Thursday.Read more...

Update Aug. 24: According to multiple reports, Luis Rubiales plans to resign.

Adding insult to the cruelest injury the Los Angeles Angels could have imagined was the mere presence of the team they shared space with all day and night Wednesday.Read more...

TCU transfer Sam Jackson V was named as California's starting quarterback, coach Justin Wilcox announced Thursday.Read more...

The reactionary nature of the sports media has foisted Trey Lance on the trading block after the third overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft fell to the third spot on the San Francisco 49ers QB depth chart. Losing any quarterback competition to Sam Darnold is perilous for your career - especially if it's for the backup...Read more...

While half of America's electorate swoons over a reprobate ex-president, a man who was once nicknamed America's Mayor," and his loyalists' mugshots, America's Team has embraced the same recidivism in a desperate bid to halt the Cowboys' 30-year Super Bowl drought. Jerry Jones' response following Dallas Cowboys...Read more...

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Defending FedEx Cup champion Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland will attempt to play the Tour Championship despite injuring his lower back this week, Golf Channel reported Thursday afternoon.Read more...

The San Diego Loyal, a United Soccer League club owned in part by soccer legend Landon Donovan, will cease operations after the 2023 season, the league announced Thursday.Read more...

Trey Lance's immediate future with the San Francisco 49ers became one of the hottest topics in the NFL after coach Kyle Shanahan announced that Sam Darnold won the backup quarterback job behind Brock Purdy.Read more...

The Oakland Athletics stand to lose $40 million this season, making a move to Las Vegas crucial to the franchise becoming competitive on the field, owner John Fisher told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in a wide-ranging interview about the present and future of the A's.Read more...

The Los Angeles Lakers announced plans Thursday to unveil a statue of the late Kobe Bryant on Feb. 8, 2024.Read more...

Longtime NFL defensive coordinator Steve Sidwell died Wednesday evening at the age of 78.Read more...

The New York Mets will retire the numbers of 1980s superstars Daryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden next season.Read more...

Here's a bit of advice for everyone. If you did not play in a professional sports league, association, or alliance, you have no business challenging former pro athletes in anything that requires athleticism. Sounds simple, right? Wrong. Kevin Hart learned this lesson the hard way while hanging out with former New...Read more...

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The Washington Nationals placed outfielder Stone Garrett on the 10-day injured list Thursday due to a fractured left fibula.Read more...

Screaming and arguing are in. Context and nuance are out. And over at FS1, the decimal levels just got louder, while the conversations just got dumber.Read more...

The Arizona Cardinals are trading linebacker Isaiah Simmons to the New York Giants in exchange for a 2024 seventh-round draft pick, multiple outlets reported Thursday.Read more...

The top of the 2024 NFL Draft features flex-worthy talent at quarterback and offensive tackle, the type of star power that changes the fortunes of an NFL team upon arrival.Read more...

Vancouver Canucks star Elias Pettersson said extension talks are "on hold" as he prepares for the 2023-24 season.Read more...

Haas has retained drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen for the 2024 Formula 1 season.Read more...

Legendary wrestler Terry Funk died yesterday. He was 79. I am certainly nowhere near a talented enough writer to eulogize him properly. Nor have I been a fan long enough or deeply enough for long enough to try and encompass his whole career. The thing is, no one is, so it's not a personal failing. Funk is just that...Read more...

The New York Rangers announced a two-year extension Thursday with forward Alexis Lafreniere.Read more...

Kyle Shanahan has been watching Trey Lance practice for three years. He knows a great deal more about the young man than I ever will. If Shanahan is willing to write off the loss of first-round draft picks in 2022 and 2023, and be done with Lance on the San Francisco 49ers, he must certainly have a good reason that I...Read more...

Neil Young told us that it was better to burn out than to fade away. In the same fashion, some things are just meant to divebomb so hard into the dirt that they cause a smoldering crater that affects all life on the planet rather than just saunter out to the woods to die in peace. That quickly approaching projectile...Read more...

Most baseball players, and really most pro athletes, will tell you that they stopped being fans long ago. It is a job now, and any star on another team becomes an obstacle eventually. They'll tell you they respect other guys in the league, and that's probably true, but they don't see them as anything other than...Read more...

Ken Waldichuk might finally be turning a corner in his rookie season with the Oakland Athletics.Read more...

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios will look to continue his dominance of the Orioles when he starts against them Thursday night in the finale of a key three-game American League East series in Baltimore.Read more...

After getting a day off to recharge, the slumping Texas Rangers continue their nine-game road trip against the Minnesota Twins in the opener of a four-game series on Thursday night in Minneapolis.Read more...

After fouling a pitch directly off his left foot in the top of the 10th inning on Wednesday, Boston Red Sox center fielder Adam Duvall needed more than a couple of minutes to recover from the searing pain.Read more...

Despite being caught up in the middle of a tight playoff race, the Chicago Cubs are feeling loose heading into the opener of a four-game series against the host Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday.Read more...

Late Wednesday afternoon, longtime general manager Brian Cashman described the season as a disaster for the New York Yankees.Read more...

Late-inning magic and manic momentum have been on display by the bay in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the first two games between the Colorado Rockies and host Tampa Bay Rays.Read more...

The Los Angeles Dodgers will need to put in a full day's work if they wish to claim their seventh straight series win.Read more...

The dreadful end to the 2023 season for the Los Angeles Angels and Shohei Ohtani became a full-blown nightmare on Wednesday, as the club announced the two-way star has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and will not pitch again this season.Read more...

Aaron Judge produced his first career three-homer game as the host New York Yankees cruised to a 9-1 victory over the Washington Nationals and snapped their first nine-game losing streak since 1982 on Wednesday night.Read more...

The Atlantic Coast Conference's expansion plans might include not just Stanford and Cal but also SMU, multiple media outlets reported on Wednesday.Read more...

Matt McLain completed a spectacular homecoming trip with a two-run homer and three RBIs to lead the visiting Cincinnati Reds to a 7-3 win Wednesday night, completing a doubleheader and three-game series sweep of the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, Calif.Read more...

Carlos Vela scored one goal and assisted another in his first match since he incurred a leg injury early this month and LAFC romped to a 4-0 victory over the visiting Colorado Rapids on Wednesday night.Read more...

Adalberto Carrasquilla scored halfway through the 30 minutes of extra time, propelling the host Houston Dynamo to a 3-1 victory over Real Salt Lake in a U.S. Open Cup semifinal match on Wednesday.Read more...

A dominant defensive effort and 54 percent shooting from the floor paced the Los Angeles Sparks to their fifth consecutive win, a 91-62 rout of the visiting Phoenix Mercury on Wednesday.Read more...

Adam Duvall homered for the third time in as many games, clubbing a three-run home run in the 10th inning that lifted the visiting Boston Red Sox to a 7-5 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday.Read more...

Washington right fielder Stone Garrett was carted off the field due to an apparent leg injury during the eighth inning of the Nationals' 9-1 loss to the host New York Yankees on Wednesday.Read more...

Lionel Messi is a game away from helping Inter Miami win its second major trophy since his arrival after they won another penalty shootout to advance past host FC Cincinnati in the U.S. Open Cup semifinals following a 3-3 draw on Wednesday.Read more...

Charlie Morton pitched seven scoreless innings, and Marcell Ozuna continued his torrid hitting with four RBIs to lift the Atlanta Braves to a 7-0 win over the visiting New York Mets in the rubber game of their three-game series.Read more...

LSU defensive tackle Maason Smith's return to the field will be delayed one more game, multiple media outlets reported Wednesday.Read more...