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USATSI Juan Soto launched his first home run as a member of the New York Mets on Friday night, hitting a solo shot off Houston Astros right-hander Hunter Brown in the third inning to open up a 3-0 lead (GameTracker).  Soto’s blast, which came off a 1-2 fastball from Brown, had a 107.3 mph exit […]

USATSI Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh isn’t going anywhere, at least for the next few years. The Ravens announced on Friday that they’ve reached a three-year contract extension with Harbaugh. Terms were not yet disclosed. The 62-year-old has been the Ravens’ head coach since 2008. He won Super Bowl XLVII after the 2012 season […]

USATSI Nikola Jokić is one of the few NBA players who disregards his traditional shooting percentages in the name of launching end-of-quarter heaves pretty much any chance he gets. It’s only right that he be rewarded now and again.  So far this season Jokić has taken a league-high 20 heaves (almost double that of the […]

Welcome to the NHL Star Power Index: A weekly gauge of the players who are controlling substantial buzz around the league. When a player is included on this list it may not be a good thing — it means that they are capturing a large amount of the hockey world’s attention. These players are in no particular […]

The 2024-25 Serie A season is in full swing as the usual giants aim to fight for the title, while other clubs hope they can pull off what Bologna did last season and surprisingly qualify for the Champions League. Inter and Napoli look like the favorites to win the league on paper, but teams like […]

The Edmonton Oilers are considered one of the favorites to win the Stanley Cup, but their two best players are dealing with injuries as the playoffs approach. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are expected to miss at least the team’s next few games. The earliest McDavid and Drasaitl could return is April 1, but the […]

Getty Images Barcelona breezed past Osasuna in a 2-0 win at home on Thursday, ensuring they would have a three-point lead in La Liga’s title race ahead of another pivotal weekend in a tightly-contested race for first place. The hosts scored the game’s lone goals fairly early on, with Ferran Torres opening the scoring in […]

The opening was as big as West Texas. And when a tight group of Texas Tech power brokers saw it last summer, their football and financial instincts kicked in. They ran to daylight.  Included in what turned out to be a football summit like no other was Gary Petersen, founder of EnCap Investments, Cody Campbell, […]

NEWARK, N.J. — What’s so glorious about sport is how frequently it gives us something that seems so rare, it feels sent from another dimension. As if it could never happen again. What transpired at the Prudential Center on Thursday night surely applies. Who knows how long it will take, if ever, for the world […]

The Tampa Bay Rays and Colorado Rockies each open their 2025 MLB seasons when the square off on Friday, March 28. Due to extensive damage to the roof of Tropicana Field, the Rays will play their home games at George M. Steinbrenner Field, the Spring Training home of the Yankees, this season. Tampa Bay finished […]