Category: Sports

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 […]

Jimmy Butler might single-handedly will the Miami Heat to the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.  On Monday night, Butler was otherworldly, scoring 56 points in the Heat’s 119-114 Game 4 victory over the No. 1 seed Milwaukee Bucks. The win put the Bucks, widely viewed as the championship favorites, on the brink of […]

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 […]

Everything is going right for the Pittsburgh Pirates now. At 16-7 entering play on Tuesday they are off to their best start since 1992, and they finally agreed to a new contract extension with All-Star outfielder Bryan Reynolds signing him to an eight-year, $106M deal.  Heck, even Potato Pete is back in the mix.  They […]

Jimmy Murphy of Boston Hockey Now reports that it appears as though center Patrice Bergeron will dress in Game 5 for the Boston Bruins. Bergeron has been sidelined for all four of Boston’s first-round games against the Florida Panthers after sustaining an injury in the regular-season finale against the Montreal Canadiens. Monday both head coach […]

The Crimson Tide had their spring game on Saturday as well, but things didn’t go nearly as well for Bama’s quarterbacks, a group that includes Jalen Milroe, Ty Simpson, Dylan Lonergan and Eli Holstein. Both Milroe and Simpson, two redshirt prospects who were with the Tide last season, threw interceptions in the spring game. Lonergan […]