Month: September 2024

Caitlin Clark is a tough grader. In her 2024 rookie season with the Indiana Fever, the Iowa-legend-turned-WNBA-superstar drew more eyes to women’s professional basketball in the U.S. than the league had ever seen. Yet all she would call her first professional year was “solid.” On Wednesday, the 22-year-old was far more focused on what lay […]

MONTREAL — When Austin Kaiser arrives at a PGA Tour stop, he first does his homework: He walks every inch of the golf course for his player, Xander Schauffele. Maybe he talks to a few other caddies along the way, chatting with a buddy or two as he scribbles notes and maps greens in his […]

ATHENS, Ga. — The fans walking into a Georgia baseball game on an April afternoon cannot look in on the football practice taking place across from the stadium. But there is no escaping the booming, amplified voice radiating over Rutherford Street. “Take his f—ing job!” “His ass wants to quit!” “Do it again! Get it […]

Major League Baseball didn’t ask for Hurricane Helene to interrupt what is shaping up to be two fantastic wild-card races. But the league isn’t blameless in avoiding the worst-case scenario announced Wednesday: the potential for the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets to play a doubleheader Monday, the day before postseason play begins. The […]

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was in typically relaxed form when he spoke to the media before Tuesday’s La Liga game at home to Deportivo Alaves this week. “I’ve been lucky enough to coach 300 games at the best club in the world,” Ancelotti said. “To be on this bench is something special. To sit […]

“He’s in charge of that right butt cheek,” Eli Manning says. It’s Sunday afternoon of Week 2, a little more than 24 hours before the Manning brothers are on the air, and a flurry of voice memos lights up Peyton’s phone. “The RPOs all look bad, Peyt.” “I don’t think Kirk was under center for […]

By Antonio Morales, David Ubben and Brian Hamilton The starting quarterback for UNLV will sit out the rest of the season because of a disagreement over payments following his transfer to the school. Matthew Sluka said Tuesday he planned to redshirt this season by not playing in any more games. His decision, which comes on […]

Shohei Ohtani’s home run baseball that founded the 50-50 club is up for sale. Goldin will auction off the ball beginning at noon ET Friday, with the opening bid starting at $500,000. Buyers have the chance to purchase the baseball outright for $4.5 million between Sept. 27 and Oct. 9. If bidding reaches $3 million […]

I actually have the NL Manager of the Year ballot this year, an award on which I think I’ve only voted once previously in my 15ish years in the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), and certainly my least favorite one to vote on, because I don’t think there’s a good way to evaluate managers […]

Chloe Primerano had a choice to make. Less than two years after making the switch from boys to girls hockey, Primerano was already one of the sport’s best young players, leading her team in scoring and winning Canadian Female Prep High School MVP in her 10th grade debut season. And after her international debut at […]