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At 40-20, the Texas Rangers looked to be a lock for the postseason. The Dallas-area MLB team always appears to have a loaded farm system, an...

Amid the NFL’s arms race, NFL running backs have gotten lost in the shuffle while teams look for ways to amplify their passing attacks at th...

Five years after a Deadspin investigation prompted Brandeis University to fire its men’s basketball coach following allegations of blatant r...

We had our clash of teams that have looked most dominant so far, and we can pare that list down to “one team that’s looked dominant so far.”...

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have traded their 2nd and 3rd ranked prospects to the Chicago White Sox for Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lop...

The Rangers haven’t spent all this time operating like tomorrow is coming, so there’s no reason to stop now. Two winters ago it was Corey Se...

We’ve gotten to the business end of the Group Stage, with Group A finishing up their schedule and sending a host home before the knockouts f...

The only ruling necessary after Terence Crawford’s TKO of Errol Spence Jr. was whether Saturday’s fight at the T Mobile Center in Las Vegas...

To open this year’s World Cup, Sweden hoped for a straightforward contest against, on paper, the easiest team to beat in Group G in South Af...

It feels like just yesterday that the New York Mets had orchestrated a coup, signing Carlos Correa, and putting the other 29 clubs on notice...

The NBA league office prolonged the current stalemate between the Portland Trail Blazers and Miami Heat over a deal for Damian Lillard. A me...

Errol Spence and Terence Crawford’s highly-anticipated welterweight Fight of the Year doubles as a ring showdown for the pound-for-pound cro...

At some point on Thursday, before seeing the news that Joe Burrow was carted off the practice field, I was running over some story ideas in...

What happens when a seventh seed and a 13th seed meet on a basketball court in a country that doesn’t have an NBA franchise? Who knows, but...

Coming into the 2023 season, many thought that the Oakland A’s had the potential to be not just the worst team in baseball this year, but th...

Doing the bare minimum to win seems to be England’s way in this World Cup. The Three Lionesses have a pair of 1-0 wins in the tournament, in...

The St. Louis Cardinals may suck ass, but they’re also petulant pissbabies too, clinging to their binky of outdated and archaic baseball the...

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I come to you today with a philosophical query: Is it better to have more and tighter playoff races, or a more active trade deadline? In pre...

Last week at the Pac-12 Conference’s annual football media days, Colorado was considered by far the league’s biggest flight risk. It’s USC a...

There’s a unique frustration to watching Team USA men’s basketball in the Olympics after the world caught up. Yes, America has a better coll...

Free agent running back Dalvin Cook is still on the open market as we enter the month of August. When he was released in June by the Minneso...

This tournament started with how every organizer wishes it would, with both hosts getting wins to up the energy and buzz around the whole th...

Disgruntled NFL tailbacks are on the counteroffensive against unfavorable market forces and a collective bargaining agreement that leaves th...