The offseason is fully underway, the World Series having been in the books for two weeks now. That means there’s no better time to look backward, and see just how we all did at predicting the 2025 season. As we all know, you can’t predict ball, and I suspect that as we go through this […]
How was he acquired? Signed out of the Dominican Republic as part of the 2020-2021 international signing period, Tavarez received $1.5 million from the Braves to join the organization. What were the 2025 expectations? It feels as though Ambioris Tavarez has been a part of the organization for at least a decade — or at […]
Colts CB Sauce Gardner has a rare combination of humility and confidence!
Clemson beat a ranked team in the regular season! Virginia dominated Duke and Georgia Tech barely edged Boston College. Teams that are bad 17. Syracuse (3-7 [1-6] Prev 17): Syracuse was off this week. They’ll go to South Bend to face Notre Dame next week and it will probably get ugly. 16. Boston College (1-10 […]
Despite some individual successes, it was an unsuccessful day on the whole on the mat for the Wildcats. Northwestern dropped its first dual meet of the season on Saturday, losing 20-13 to the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougars. The ‘Cats earned victories in four weight classes, but were unable to come away with the team […]
The Jets get set for three games at home with a practice.
The Indianapolis Colts did not play in the NFL’s Week 11 slate, but they still took a loss of sorts. Although Indy’s commercial break from regularly scheduled programming allowed them to reset both mentally and phyiscally, they had to sit back and watch the rest of the league fight for playoff seeding. As a result, […]
Week three of the college basketball season in the Horizon League will feature a relatively back-heavy slate of games. After Green Bay nearly stunned Minnesota, the league is trending in the right direction to finally get an upset of a power-conference opponent, and the opportunities are once again aplenty this week. Whether it is an […]
Gameweek 12 is fast approaching, and while most managers are rushing toward the same popular transfers — Mbeumo (322k), Thiago (258k), Mateta (178k), Doku (139k), Rice (129k), O’Reilly (93k), and Gabriel (88k) — the real advantage in FPL often comes from choosing smart, low-owned differentials. These are the players who help you outperform your rivals, […]
The Seattle Seahawks not only lost another game to the Los Angeles Rams and therefore the NFC West lead, they also lost their promising rookie left guard in the process. First-round pick Grey Zabel left Seattle’s 21-19 loss in the fourth quarter after Charles Cross fell backward onto his leg during Kenneth Walker’s touchdown run. […]
Today, after a 12-year big league career, Kyle Hendricks has officially retired from Major League Baseball. It was an incredible run for a guy who just kept getting results in the face of evaluations that didn’t see the upside, and Hendricks will forever be celebrated as one of the most important pitchers during one of the most celebrated eras of Chicago Cubs baseball.
The team sent out some visual love to The Professor, and released a statement congratulating Hendricks on a magnificent c...
It was a great win for the Huskies on Saturday, as they added another W to their sterling home record with a 49-13 shellacking of Purdue. Let’s get to what we learned! The Kids Are Alright The Huskies were shorthanded on Saturday, with not only Jonah Coleman and Denzel Boston standing on the sidelines, but […]
Ohio State women’s basketball traveled to Connecticut on Sunday to face the No. 1 ranked UConn Huskies. With only two mid-major non-conference games before it for the Buckeyes, the weekend matchup was a planned barometer for where Ohio State is this season. Big Ten voters had them in fifth place but Associated Press top-25 voters […]
Tuesday marks the next important day in the off-season calendar, representing an important inflection point for all MLB rosters: Tuesday, Nov. 18: Rule 5 Deadline Eligible minor leaguers must be added to 40-man rosters by 6 PM EST on Nov. 18 or else teams will risk losing some minor league players in the Rule 5 Draft. […]
The NBA is still operating with small sample size theatre a month into the season, but that doesn’t mean we can’t discern between the trends that are sustainable and the ones that are not. Taking a closer look at the underlying metrics can help us predict how the season will play out, which is what […]
Photos from basketball and football coverage overlap for the final time this year in this week’s column. Men’s basketball took down Minnesota 83-60 on Wednesday, and football celebrated senior night with a 49-27 win over Mississippi State for the final home game of the season. Basketball is one of my favorite sports to shoot. The […]
While the Arizona Cardinals did as much as possible to make life easy for Brock Purdy on his return from injury, the 49ers quarterback’s performance was still worthy of great praise, and he received plenty from his offensive teammates following their 41-22 win. Though Purdy didn’t have to put too much pressure on his troublesome […]
The crow has been served, and I am about to eat it dutifully. Every time someone asked before the season how I felt about the Chicago Bears’ prospects for 2025, I’ll charitably say I went with the “reverse psychology” approach: “Wake me up once they get to seven wins.” In my mind, seven wins felt […]
A 42-13 loss to the No. 8-ranked Oregon Ducks on Friday did nothing to help the Minnesota Golden Gophers’ (6-4) bowl game prospects. But with two winnable games on tap for the final two weeks of the regular season, the Gophers have an opportunity to bolster their bowl standing. For now, here are the latest […]
Just before the end of spring training 2025, the Yankees made a small move to address their swath of pitching injuries. The Blue Jays had informed lefty Ryan Yarbrough that he wouldn’t be making the team, so he exercised his opt-out, New York got in contact, and they quickly came to terms on a deal […]
Last week the AP Poll had a rarity. Purdue received more first palce votes than No. 1 Houston, but enough writers dropped the Boilermakers far enough back (some as far down as 10th) for committing the crime of (checks notes) trailing Oakland briefly in the second half while one of our All-Americans was not playing. […]
Northwestern field hockey has now reached championship weekend in five consecutive seasons. However, the NCAA quarterfinal game that sends it there has never been for the faint of heart. It took until the final minute of regulation for either team to score in 2021, when Lauren Wadas somehow got through four Iowa defenders to score […]
Could a No. 1 ranking be on the line when Arizona squares off with UConn in Storrs, Conn. on Wednesday night? Arizona moved up to No. 4 in this week’s AP Top 25 poll, setting up a top-five clash with No. 3 UConn. The winner will have a strong case for the top ranking. Arizona […]
Real Madrid defender Trent Alexander-Arnold spent his four days off in Dubai completing a training camp in the NAS Sports Complex in order to improve his form and conditioning before Los Blancos return to action on November 23rd with their visit to Elche. Alexander-Arnold has recently recovered from the muscle injury he suffered early in […]
Not to be confused with the recently-announced Contemporary Baseball Era ballot (for modern-ish players who’d fallen off the traditional ballot), the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is out for this year, complete with 12 new names. I’m not sure there will be any first-ballot guys this year – old friend Cole Hamels might be the closest – but it’s possible some holdovers will make the cut.
Here’s the full ballot :
The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot as announced moments ago b...