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The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim boast the best player in baseball, but the team has made the playoffs in just one of Mike Trout’s five MLB seasons. After a 74-88 season in 2016, Trout admitted that the team’s repeated failure to make …
Whoever set up the locker layout in the Western Conference All-Star dressing room doesn’t seem interested in forcing awkward interactions between Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. NBATV’s Tas Melas shared a video from the locker room …
We all know there are some parents of young athletes out there who are very bullish on their children’s skills. LaVar Ball goes above and beyond that. Ball, the father of UCLA freshman sensation Lonzo Ball, told Pac-12 Network that as far as …
Eric Gagne last threw a Major League pitch in 2008, but nearly a full decade later, he’s looking for opportunities to come back. Gagne, who is serving as a special instructor in Los Angeles Dodgers spring camp, plans to pitch for Team Canada in …
Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Mallex Smith came to his current team by way of the Seattle Mariners. His tenure in the Pacific Northwest lasted just 77 minutes, as he was traded twice in one day. Smith looked back on his illustrious tenure with the …
It sounds like Jimmermania is taking a new country by storm. Jimmer Fredette, now playing for the Chinese Basketball Association’s Shanghai Sharks, put up 73 points on Sunday – on 49 field goal attempts – in his team’s 135-132 …
James Harden may or may not be the best basketball player in the word. He’s certainly not lacking in self-belief either way. Harden told Sam Gregory of TIME, when asked, that he definitely considers himself the best player on the planet right …
There is at least a willingness on the part of NBA commissioner Adam Silver to assess the current NBA age minimum. In fact, he says that he and NBPA director Michele Roberts agree that the issue should be studied long before the next collective …
It’s generally accepted by players that baseball is a business, and sometimes teams will make tough decisions that their players don’t completely approve of. Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria knows that too, but nearly a month …
The Philadelphia 76ers pulled Jahlil Okafor from their lineup because they felt they were near a deal, and now we know where he would have gone. According to TNT’s David Aldridge, the 76ers held Okafor out of action last week because they were …
Kyrie Irving’s comments about the earth being flat sparked quite the frenzy online, and on Saturday, the Cleveland Cavaliers point guard hinted that that was exactly what he wanted. Irving said Saturday that he’s well aware that it is …
Andrew Miller may be the Cleveland Indians’ best reliever, but he won’t be closing games for them to start 2017. Manager Terry Francona said Saturday that Cody Allen remains the team’s closer, with Miller and Bryan Shaw serving as …
The Indiana Pacers are reportedly willing to pay a significant price to get Paul George some help in the hopes of being an Eastern Conference contender for years to come. According to Chris Haynes of ESPN, the Pacers are dangling their first-round …
Yu Darvish’s Tommy John surgery is well and truly in the rear-view mirror, because he’s throwing his split-finger fastball again. The Texas Rangers ace used the pitch sparingly before his 2015 surgery, and then mostly abandoned it after …
New York Yankees president Randy Levine may have driven a wedge between the organization and one of its elite talents. Yankee setup man Dellin Betances, who has been one of baseball’s best relievers since the beginning of the 2014 season, …
Usain Bolt still has at least of chance of keeping a relay gold medal that was stripped from the team. The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced Friday that Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter, whose positive drug test led to the 2008 Jamaican relay …
