Category: Sports

Head coach Sheldon Keefe announced that forward Michael Bunting will not play for the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup playoffs first-round series. Bunting was issued a three-game suspension after he made an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak. The suspension has expired but Keefe […]

Suffice it to say, LIV Golf’s contingent of pros are feeling pretty good about themselves after last weekend’s event in Australia where the breakaway golf league sold out tickets and drew record crowds.  Of course, there is speculation that Greg Norman’s pull in his home country has a lot to do with that crowd size. […]

Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson won’t attend the upcoming IIHF World Championship after all. A report from Aftonbladet indicates that the Swedish ice hockey federation could not secure insurance for him at the event. Pettersson, 24, is only signed through next season and expected to ink a massive extension at some point this offseason. He […]

The Hawks are going home. And they’re bringing the Celtics with them. Atlanta came back from a 13-point fourth-quarter deficit to win 119-117 after Trae Young hit a three with 1.8 seconds remaining to extend the series to a sixth game. Young played 44 minutes and was 14-of-33 (5-of-13 from three) from the field for 38 […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves were eliminated from the playoffs in five games with a 112-109 loss to Denver on Tuesday. During a season where the front office went all-in on being a champion contender, the lackluster playoff showing should mark the end of a failed experiment. Minnesota traded the rights to five future first-round picks to […]

It’s spring, but it’s never too early to start thinking about who the best teams of the 2023 college football season will be. Here’s our early take at the top 25 teams entering this coming season.   Jeremy Reper/USA TODAY Sports The Roadrunners have won 23 games the last two seasons while also winning back-to-back […]

Low: Mauricio Cuevas to the L.A. Galaxy. Cuevas, a former Galaxy academy player, returns to the club after a short stint in Belgium with Brugge’s youth outfit Club NXT. All parties had higher hopes for Cuevas in Europe than 23 starts in the Belgian second tier, so this move is strange. Why is Cuevas returning so […]

After a pair of cards in their Las Vegas home base, UFC returns to pay-per-view, and New Jersey, for a card headlined by a championship matchup in the bantamweight division for UFC 288 on May 6. After three years away, former two-division champion Henry Cejudo is back to regain the 135-pound title from current king […]

The red-hot Pittsburgh Pirates finally locked in star outfielder Bryan Reynolds on a long-term contract extension on Tuesday. The deal is an historic one for the franchise for a host of reasons. According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the agreement is “essentially the same” as the one that was being negotiated earlier this year. A 2021 […]

New York Mets fans may not have to wait much longer for the regular-season debut of co-ace Justin Verlander. Per Joon Lee of ESPN and Danny Abriano of SNY, Verlander will complete a scheduled rehab start on Friday at a to-be-determined location as he works to return to 100% from the low-grade teres major strain […]