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Getty Images Major League Baseball’s posteason will continue with the beginning of the respective best-of-five Division Series. The No. 1 New York Yankees are hosting the No. 5 Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium for Games 1 and 2 on Saturday and Monday. (Sunday is a designated off day for the series.) The Yankees, as […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to a trade with the New York Knicks that sends Karl-Anthony Towns to the Big Apple for a package including Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo, the teams announced Wednesday, five days after the deal was first reported. The Timberwolves are also receiving a protected first-round pick from the Knicks that originally belonged […]

Ideally, veterans acquired via free agency or trade will help improve a team’s fortunes. Typically, it’s helping a team go from mediocrity to the playoffs or playoff participant to Super Bowl contender. Quarterback Baker Mayfield was last season’s best veteran acquisition. 2023 was supposed to be a transition season for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with […]

Nine games, 19 goals scored, four goals conceded, eight wins, and one loss. The Arne Slot era at Liverpool couldn’t be off to a better start as he’s taken over for Jurgen Klopp, instilling his own tactics to make this team his own. It led to a 2-0 victory over Bologna on Wednesday in the […]

Fresh off the addition of Gonzaga, the Pac-12 is pausing its pursuit of new members as it enters a media rights evaluation for the eight current schools it has committed to the conference, sources told CBS Sports on Wednesday. The evaluation, led by sports and entertainment consulting firm Navigate, could last until the end of […]

The Atlanta Braves were eliminated from the postseason on Wednesday, dropping Game 2 to the San Diego Padres. The Braves, the final team to qualify for the playoffs, will now head home for the winter following a frustrating year. After consecutive 100-win efforts, the Braves entered the spring primed to compete for their seventh consecutive […]

Getty Images Luka Doncic started his preseason preparation in a bang, but not in a good way. The Dallas Mavericks star “sustained a hit during workouts this week resulting in a left calf contusion” the team announced Wednesday. He’ll be re-evaluated in a week, according to the Mavericks, and miss their preseason opener against the […]

Several high-profile UFC fighters have left the mixed martial arts promotion to pursue big boxing paydays. Francis Ngannou is chief among them, parlaying his 2023 UFC exit into big-money boxing matches against Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. UFC CEO Dana White argues the financial upside for UFC fighters in boxing is overblown. Ngannou left UFC […]

FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys (2-2) losing both three-time All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons (high ankle sprain) and four-time Pro Bowl edge rusher DeMarcus Lawrence (Lisfranc/mid-foot sprain) in their 20-15 road win at the New York Giants is nothing short of “tragic” in the words of Parsons himself.  Lawrence was placed on injured reserve […]

Here’s how all 36 teams rank after Matchday 2 Oct 2, 2024 at 7:01 pm ET • 6 min read Getty Sports Matchday 2 of the Champions League league phase put our power rankings in a blender. From Juventus winning despite going down to 10 men to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich picking up surprising […]