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One of Major League Baseball’s unwritten rules appears set to go by the wayside with the league’s enforcement of foreign substance rules. In the past, it was virtually unheard of for teams or managers to ask umpires to check opposing …
Jacob deGrom is having a historically great season for the New York Mets, and it’s prompted some questions about his long-term future. deGrom’s current contract runs through 2023 with a 2024 team option. However, the Mets ace has the …
Chris Paul couldn’t be around the Phoenix Suns on Game 1 Sunday, but he may have found another way to communicate his points with the team. Paul’s brother C.J. was courtside for Sunday’s game despite Paul’s absence due to …
The Tampa Bay Rays are set to bring up the player touted by many as MLB’s next star. As first reported by Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, the Rays are calling up No. 1 prospect Wander Franco, and he will join the team on Tuesday for their …
The spotlight will be on Ben Simmons during Sunday’s Game 7. If there was any doubt about that, the pregame reception he got from his own fans in Philadelphia proves it. Simmons worked on his much-maligned free throw shooting during pregame …
The Phoenix Suns won Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals without Chris Paul, but made sure he was part of the postgame celebration. The Suns spoke to Paul on FaceTime after their 120-114 win over the Clippers. Coach Monty Williams said this was …
Devin Booker picked up the slack and then some in the absence of Chris Paul in Game 1 on Sunday, dominating the Los Angeles Clippers on the way to a victory to open the Western Conference Finals. Booker posted his first career triple-double, scoring …
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara has parlayed his NASCAR fandom into a job. On Sunday, Kamara announced that he was joining NASCAR as its first-ever Growth and Engagement Advisor. According to NASCAR.com, Kamara’s role will involve …
Phoenix Suns fan Nick McKellar became a viral sensation for his immaculate prediction after beating up a pair of Denver Nuggets fans. Sunday provided evidence that, at least in Phoenix, the guy has actually become sort of famous. For the uninitiated, …
The Los Angeles Clippers found a way to exploit Rudy Gobert defensively in the Western Conference semifinals, something few teams can say they’ve done. It left Gobert clearly frustrated on Saturday a day after Utah’s elimination. Gobert …
Things got a bit silly Friday when Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid showed up at a Kansas City Royals game — except it wasn’t actually Andy Reid. Chiefs fan Matt Black, who calls himself “the official doppelganger of Coach …
It does not appear likely that the Los Angeles Clippers will have Kawhi Leonard for at least the start of the Western Conference Finals. According to Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, Leonard will not travel to Phoenix with the team for Game 1 against …
It pretty clearly isn’t Sergio Garcia’s day at the US Open. Garcia hit perhaps the unluckiest shot of the entire tournament with his third shot on hole 13 on Saturday. The former Masters champion’s bid for birdie looked perfect …
The San Francisco 49ers have been insistent that Trey Lance won’t be starting for them at quarterback in 2021. That’s not stopping them from putting together an aggressive plan for his first training camp. According to ESPN’s Jeremy …
Broken bats can be a dangerous byproduct of playing baseball. Often, the hazard is more associated with pitchers and fielders having to dodge pieces of shattered wood than the hitters themselves. On Saturday, however, we got a reminder that the …
Major League Baseball’s crackdown on the use of illegal substances by pitchers is certainly changing behavior, at the very least. One of the biggest advances in baseball in the last decade has been the widespread acceptance of the importance of …
