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The Los Angeles Dodgers will introduce rookie right-hander Landon Knack to what has become a one-sided rivalry when they visit the San Francisco Giant

Preparing for the second game of a four-game set against the visiting Cleveland Guardians, the Kansas City Royals are glad to be home again.,The Royal

The Milwaukee Brewers will ask right-hander Colin Rea to maintain their home-field hot streak when they face the Chicago Cubs on Friday in the opener

The Philadelphia Phillies didn't just lose a game Thursday when they faced the Miami Marlins.,They may have lost two of their marquee players.,Kyle Sc

The Atlanta Braves will play their fourth game in three different cities over a three-day span when they open a nine-game homestand on Friday night ag

The visiting New York Yankees will try to end a season-high, four-game losing streak Friday night when they resume their series with the Toronto Blue

The Denver Nuggets, attempting to clear salary-cap room, dealt point guard Reggie Jackson to the Charlotte Hornets, the Denver Post and ESPN reported

The Texas Rangers will try to snap a four-game losing streak with perhaps the ideal pitcher going to the mound Friday night against the Baltimore Orio

The Philadelphia Phillies may have lost more than a game at home Thursday night. Major League Baseball's best team fell to the Miami Marlins 7-4 but s

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Sam Presti is the only NBA executive ever to draft three future MVPs and he did it in three consecutive drafts. It's a maniacal stroke of luck and an exercise of risk/reward, chance and foresight. By doing so, Presti at the time guaranteed short-term success for the soon-to-be relocated Seattle Sonics into the...Read more...

What is a point guard in today's NBA? The role and term has evolved so much from the 1990s when the position was defined by midrange scoring, playmaking and limited athleticism. Today's concept of a point guard runs the whole gamut, across all five positions, where a center in Denver is the best passer and facilitator...Read more...

When Michelle Obama said, When they go low, we go high," she wasn't talking about Kim Mulkey. Class and decorum have never been her thing. On Sunday, No. 1 South Carolina remained undefeated and won its eighth SEC tournament title after defeating LSU, 79-72. It was a rematch of their January showdown in Baton Rouge,...Read more...

The fire hydrant has been busted open and money is spewing in the streets of college sports. Mens' college basketball saw the success of the Inaugural 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament and has decided to start one of its own.Read more...

Sometimes, there's no choice but to cover a vile person in sports because they are doing something that can't be ignored. Trevor Bauer is not that, but that didn't stop Bob Nightengale from auditioning to get on his payroll, next to Rachel Luba, whatever it is she does other than be the occasional bullhorn.Read more...

Work Hart, not smart, has been the New York Knicks blueprint since the end of January. While injuries to Julius Randle and OG Anunoby have kept their front court stars out of the rotation, Tom Thibodeau has turned to his tried-and-true method of working his blue collar contributors until they're dog tired. His most...Read more...

It's cap casualty season. The new league year begins on March 13, and every team in the league has to be under the hard salary cap by 4 p.m. EST on that date. Teams across the league are bleeding talent to reach the $255.4 million number.

During the course of an NBA season, we get quite a few wow moments in many different ways. If it's not a defender getting crossed up so badly he hits the canvas, it's a rim-shattering dunk that makes folks rise up out of their seats. Sometimes it's us watching in awe as players like Stephen Curry or Damian Lillard hit...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.The Minnesota Timberwolves' deceptive seasonhas been one of the hottest topics in the West so let's start there.

The explosion in three-point shooting ushered in by Stephen Curry, alongside fellow splash bro Klay Thompson, has literally changed the game we all know and love over the past decade. Once Golden State proved that you could win a championship playing largely on the perimeter offensively, the entire league attempted to...Read more...

The North Carolina Tar Heels won their first outright regular season ACC title in seven years with an 84-79 win over archenemy Duke on Saturday. The annual season finale for the conference is one of the best things going in college basketball, yet there's a sinking feeling that fans should relish this rivalry, and ACC...Read more...

Renowned aggravator Rudy Gobert pissed off another group of people Friday night, and though getting T'd up isn't newsworthy in itself, it's what the Frenchman did to earn a technical that's interesting. In the closing seconds of the Cleveland-Minnesota game with his team ahead by a point, the Timberwolves center was...Read more...

Update March 9: Stephen A. Smith says there's no beef between him and fellow ESPN talking head Pat McAfee.

Updated March 9: Antonio Brown has been ordered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to pay Shuki International, the creator of the crystalized finger cover jewelry $1,095,000 because Brown has failed to return the borrowed pieces to their owner.Read more...

Are you looking for traditional flavors with a Japanese flare, a stunning lounge with a live DJ, bowling lanes, exotic hookah, a nightclub, and bottomless J. Harden Wine prosecco all in one convenient, classy one-stop shop? Well look no further than Thirteen Houston, James Harden's new restaurant venture.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...

It was natural to think the New York Rangers got it" after they traded in the misguided clenched jaw ways of Gerrard Gallant behind the bench for the usually up-tempo ways of Peter Laviolette after the Devils essentially skated them out of the building last spring in the first round. The Devils were clearly faster,...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. - Julie DiCaro Read MoreRead more...

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...

Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs' linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put five-year-old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a traumatic brain...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: - Sam Fels Read MoreRead more...

It was natural to think the New York Rangers got it" after they traded in the misguided clenched jaw ways of Gerrard Gallant behind the bench for the usually up-tempo ways of Peter Laviolette after the Devils essentially skated them out of the building last spring in the first round. The Devils were clearly faster,...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. - Julie DiCaro Read MoreRead more...