The NASCAR Cup Series is on a short track for the first time this season with the Cook Out 400 on March 29 at Martinsville Speedway.The half-mile paper clip has not produced the best racing in the Next Gen era, but increased horsepower this season could help the race quality.AdvertisementLast week, Tyler Reddick won at Darlington for his fourth victory of the season out of six overall. He is aiming to become the first driver with 10+ wins in a Cup Series season since Kyle Larson in 2021.Denny Hamlin is the defending race champion and on the pole. Keep an…
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It appears the Cleveland Cavaliers will deal with injuries from start to finish this season. The team announced that both Jaylon Tyson and Dean Wade will remain in Cleveland while the Cavs leave for their final West Coast road trip.Tyson suffered a bone bruise in his left great toe on March 19 against the Chicago Bulls. He hasn’t played in a game since.Advertisement“He’s still not there,” said Kenny Atkinson on Tyson’s game availability before the Cavaliers played the Miami Heat on Friday. “But he did play a small set of games this morning, three-on-three and stuff, so that’s good news.”Meanwhile,…
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I cannot emphasize enough the degree to which I think lineup construction is overrated in the discourse relative to the difference it makes in practice. I almost don’t even want to post this. But even with that caveat, lineup construction doesn’t not matter, and I think we saw a mistake last night. So thanks to a conversation between users GrasshoppingonNails, AJPDX, GrassRockFish, and rumdoodle in this morning’s Moose Tracks, I’m posting this despite my hesitance.As noted on the broadcast, Rob Refsnyder has the third-highest OBP against LHP since 2023, behind only Vladito and Aaron Judge. So I totally get why…
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The Detroit Red Wings have reassigned defenseman Anton Johansson to the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins, bringing the young blueliner back to North America following his stint with Leksands IF of the Swedish Hockey League.Johansson, 21, was selected by Detroit in the fourth round of the 2022 NHL Draft and has…
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Borussia Dortmund aim to steady the ship for a comfortable top-four finish when they welcome Hamburg to the Signal Iduna Park this weekend.Dortmund’s Bundesliga title hopes were practically reduced to ashes when Bayern Munich beat them 3-2 in this season’s final Der Klassiker. However, Niko Kovač’s men rebounded with two…
Only one person, Matt Wallace says, saw him accidentally move his golf ball.Or so he thought.The golf gods, remember, see all.The divine sequence played out Friday during the Valspar Championship’s second round, where Wallace shoved his tee ball right and into the pine straw on the Copperhead Course’s par-5 11th…
Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to fight again by World Boxing after undergoing the governing body’s new sex test.The 30-year-old won featherweight gold for Chinese Taipei at the 2024 Olympics in Paris but, alongside Algeria’s welterweight champion Imane Khelif, became embroiled in an eligibility row.AdvertisementBoth Lin and Khelif…
Many people who have been associated with hockey for a long time understand that NHL goalies are simply a different breed.It takes an insane level of mental fortitude to play the toughest position at the highest possible level, so being a netminder in the NHL is not for the faint…
ESPN | Buster Olney: Shortstop has not been all that much fun the past few seasons, reaching a nadir in 2025 when Anthony Volpe struggled his way to an 83 OPS+ while also slipping defensively from his first two seasons in the big leagues. But as spring training approaches its…
Portland Trail Blazers (35-36, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (43-28, fifth in the Western Conference)Denver; Sunday, 5 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Denver will try to keep its three-game home win streak intact when the Nuggets play Portland.AdvertisementThe Nuggets have gone 25-16 against Western Conference opponents. Denver averages 120.7…
The Cleveland Browns have been quite busy this free agency, but it has come in multiple waves.In the first week of free agency, Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry made a bit of a splash by acquiring OL Tytus Howard, signing OL Zion Johnson and OL Elgton Jenkins, retaining OL…
Tyler Reddick continues to lead the championship standings, 61 clear points over 23XI Racing teammate Bubba Wallace. Denny Hamlin is the latest driver to visit Victory Lane, winning at Las Vegas and jumping up to fourth in the standings.NASCAR now heads to Darlington where Hamlin is also the defending race…
Celin Bizet Donnum has two dreams: one is to play professional football, the other to start a family.The first came true long ago for the Manchester United winger, while her second wish is about to be granted.Advertisement”If you have two dreams, you can live both of them at the same…
Whisper it quietly, but by the end of 2028 it has been predicted that there will be more rounds of virtual golf played in the UK than outdoors ones.It’s a bold claim made by one of indoor golf’s leading technology firms, who also suggest that globally 80% of all rounds…
After a really great performance against the Dallas Stars that still ended up with a 2-1 loss in the shootouts, the Avalanche need a bounce back to snap their three-game losing streak, and there’s no better team than the Chicago Blackhawks.It was a dominant performance all around: production on the…
How good is an SEC baseball team without a closer?The No. 2 Texas Longhorns have a burgeoning back-end problem because Dylan Volantis is no longer walking out of bullpen gates and that’s been a major factor in head coach Jim Schlossnagle’s team blowing a second consecutive ninth-inning lead on a…
