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The U.S. women’s national team were as good as gold on Saturday, clinching the top honor at the women’s Olympic soccer tournament with a 1-0 win over Brazil. New coach Emma Hayes managed to lead her team to glory 12 years after the nation last won it back in London in 2012. It was not […]

Getty Images We are less than a week out from the opening day of the new season in La Liga and Real Madrid are the team to beat more than ever before after the acquisition of Kylian Mbappe. Barcelona are competing as best they can with the signing of Dani Olmo from RB Leipzig but […]

The Dodgers and the Pirates will continue their weekend series at 9 p.m. ET with a game that features a juicy subplot: the second career meeting between Los Angeles’ superstar DH Shohei Ohtani and Pittsburgh’s rookie ace Paul Skenes — two of the most compelling athletes in the world, no matter the sport of the […]

Getty Images Very few players know the honor of dunking on LeBron James. While the exact number is probably unknowable, Jake Fischer wrote for Bleacher Report in 2020 that only nine players had done so. James is one of the greatest athletes in the history of basketball, and his basketball IQ means he’s almost always […]

Serghei Spivac will seek revenge on Saturday against fellow ranked heavyweight contender Marcin Tybura in the main event of UFC Fight Night. Their five-round battle is set to anchor the main UFC fight card starting at 7 p.m. ET from the Apex facility in Las Vegas. The No. 9-ranked Spivac lost a decision to the […]

Week 1 of the preseason is underway! For the first time since Week 18 of last year, every team in the NFL is slated to kick off over the course of the weekend and continue laying the foundation for the 2024 regular season. While these games are merely exhibitions, there are still substantial takeaways that […]

The U.S. women’s national team’s reputation of historic success precedes them but before they landed in France last month, there was a surprising thing missing from the 2024 Olympics squad — not a single member of the team had won a gold medal, a glaring omission from their résumés as the disappointment of last year’s […]

Long hailed as one of the most exciting up-and-coming boxers in the sport, Vergil Ortiz takes a big step up in competition when he takes on Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday. Bohachuk’s WBC interim junior middleweight title will be on the line when the pair meets in Las Vegas. Ortiz has finished all 21 men who […]

Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith is one of the most ballyhooed freshmen in recent college football history. Less than a year into his Buckeyes career, Smith is already in line to start for a team with national championship upside.  It’s also the same Ohio State team that has produced four first-round wide receivers since […]

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics wrap up this weekend, and baseball was not on the docket this year. Baseball (and softball) will return in 2028, however, when Los Angeles hosts the Summer Olympics, and there is a push by big-league players to participate in the 2028 games. Right now players on MLB 40-man rosters are […]