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October is when stars are born — and MVPs are named. In recent years, the World Series has seen award-worthy performances from top talents like Freddie Freeman, Corey Seager (for two different teams!), Stephen Strasburg and George Springer. We also saw Steve Pearce take home the hardware in 2018, one of the most unlikely MVP […]
Cooper Flagg’s NBA debut was completely eclipsed by an MVP performance from Victor Wembanyama, who put up 40 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks. Flagg finished the game with 10 points and 10 rebounds on 4 of 13 from the floor in a 125-92 blowout loss to the Spurs, as the Mavericks were completely clueless […]
The NFL season is nearing its halfway point, and the league is as unpredictable as ever. Entering the Week 8 slate of games, six of the eight divisions have a team in first place — or tied for first — that did not win its division last season. All of the divisions in the AFC […]
Getty Images Playing at home, Bayern Munich kept their excellent start to the season going by defeating Club Burgge 4-0 in the Champions League league phase, but they had an unlikely scorer rise to the occasion to open the scoring. On Wednesday, 17-year-old Lennart Karl opened the scoring with a great finish, looking like a […]
As Frankfurt host Liverpool on Wednesday, it will be a reunion between the German side and former striker Hugo Ekitike, who joined Liverpool over the summer as the latest forward export from the system, but as the Reds descend upon Deutsche Bank Park in the middle of the forest, something special is happening. No team […]
NEW YORK — A year ago in this very building, Dan Hurley made the media rounds at Madison Square Garden and pitched why UConn should have been ranked No. 1 heading into the season. Coming off back-to-back national titles, the Huskies were No. 3 in the preseason AP Top 25 poll. Nevertheless, Hurley was on […]
College football action heats up on CBS Sports Network this week, with six games across five days set to deliver crucial conference clashes and high-stakes matchups. The Week 9 slate opens Tuesday night in Ruston where Louisiana Tech hosts Western Kentucky in a pivotal Conference USA battle. Both teams are coming off losses, with the Bulldogs’ […]
LOS ANGELES — It’s not hyperbole that the Golden State Warriors‘ offseason quite literally revolved around Jonathan Kuminga. So much so, the organization didn’t even have enough players on their active roster to run a five-on-five scrimmage until they figured out which direction they wanted to take with Kuminga. Sure, the Warriors had commitments from […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers are headed back to the World Series for the second straight year, looking to become the first repeat champion in two and a half decades. There’s obvious star power here with tons of talent and skill. They’re a worthy National League champion. It’s funny, though, because any team getting to the […]
Throughout the build to Saturday’s UFC 321 main event in Abu Dhabi, when Tom Aspinall makes the first defense of his undisputed championship against fellow former interim titleholder Ciryl Gane, much of the prefight narrative has surrounded the word pressure. Aspinall (15-3), who never received his star-making opportunity to unify heavyweight titles against Jon Jones […]
