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One of baseball’s best closers may be available at the trade deadline, and it may allow the rich to get even richer. According to Jon Morosi of Fox Sports, multiple teams have asked the Baltimore Orioles about reliever Zach Britton, with the …
The Major League Baseball All-Star break provides a great opportunity for teams to rest, sit back, and reassess where they stand. Some teams know they’re out of it. Some know they’re performing a little above expectation and will have to …
Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, a Baltimore restaurant, has a rather famous history of offering athletes free food for life for various reasons. Wide receiver Jeremy Maclin got such an offer, and he elected to take them up on it. When Maclin was being …
Russell Westbrook and Paul George will hope to complement each other nicely on the court for the Oklahoma City Thunder next season. Off the court, though, George is planning on challenging Westbrook in one particular department. George said Wednesday …
Anyone still harboring a hope or belief that Tony Romo will eventually return to the NFL now has evidence to suggest otherwise straight from the man himself. Romo, now a CBS broadcaster, told NFL Total Access on Wednesday that he has given no thought …
LeBron James has a lot of off-court business interests, and one of them seems to be doing quite well for him. Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes profiled Blaze Pizza, a chain of restaurants that went from two franchises to 200 in the span of four years, …
The Detroit Tigers may be getting ready to tear things down with the trade deadline looming. According to MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand, the Tigers are not actively shopping starting pitcher Justin Verlander, but would be open to moving him. Source …
Bob Stoops’s sudden retirement as Oklahoma Sooners head football coach caught pretty much everyone by surprise — including his own brother. Mark Stoops, who coaches the Kentucky Wildcats, said at SEC Media Day that even he had little …
2018 will mark the tenth anniversary of the Boston Celtics’ 2008 NBA Championship, but the key pillars of that team are still angry with Ray Allen for joining their rivals with the Miami Heat. Doc Rivers, who coached the 2008 Celtics, does …
Carmelo Anthony appears closer than ever to leaving the New York Knicks. According to Frank Isola and Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, a four-team trade that would see Anthony land with the Houston Rockets is “at the two-yard …
Many may view Tim Tebow’s minor league progression with the New York Mets as a cynical marketing ploy, but at least a few Major League Baseball All-Stars are rooting for him to succeed. ESPN.com spoke to several All-Stars in Miami about Tebow, …
Houston Astros third baseman Alex Bregman appears to need some thicker skin on social media. A Houston Astros fan posted what he claimed were a series of direct messages from Bregman in response to offseason posts suggesting that the Astros use him …
The 2017 MLB All-Star Game no longer counts for home field advantage in the World Series, and has subsequently been a bit more light-hearted than in previous seasons. That was made quite obvious in the top of the sixth inning, when Seattle Mariners …
Bryce Harper is a big fan of Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys, and that respect is mutual. With the MLB All-Star Game returning to its long-held status as a simple exhibition game, Fox Sports was allowed more extensive access to the players on the …
Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona would have been at the helm of the American League All-Star team on Tuesday night, but a heart procedure meant he had to skip the game. Instead, Francona’s bench coach, Brad Mills, took charge of the …
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor kicked off their press tour ahead of their fight in rather predictable fashion. During a stop in Los Angeles — which consisted mostly of an ebullient McGregor talking a whole lot of trash — the MMA …
