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The New York Yankees, led by right fielder Aaron Judge, face the Oakland Athletics in a regular season game on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 (6/28/22) at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. Local fans can watch the game for free via a trial of DirectTV Stream -- YES Network for fans in New York, NBC Sports California for fans in Oakland. Fans in…

Young Winton harness racing horsewomen Chelsea Faithful has a lot of strings to her bow. She successfully trains a small team, works for the busiest stable in the province, is breeding from two mares, is preparing two yearlings for the upcoming sales and is photographing yearlings for a handful of clients. "I was born into it. Mum tried to get me…

It was 2013 and Alev Kelter, then 23, stood on top of a mountain near her house in Eagle River, Alaska, clutching her snowboard with both hands. Her mind was elsewhere. She was replaying the just-concluded Olympic ice hockey team tryouts over and over in her head. She had been so close. But she'd failed to make the final cut for the 2014 Sochi…

Notre Dame welcomes 12 early enrollees to its 2023 football team, and five of those signees are on the offensive side of the ball. Getting this group in early should give the Irish depth chart a big boost in the spring, and several could have a chance to make an early impact. A look at the early enrollees for the Notre Dame offensive signees who…

Have more comments, questions? Reach out to me at bwhite1 @ dispatch.com To editor: I think members of Buckeye Nation need to wake up and stop threats to football players. Winners build up and strengthen, not threaten. These young men come to get educated and developed for a career after attending Ohio State. They are learning with each game. Every…

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Every week during the college basketball season, and every other week during the offseason former Michigan Basketball standout Tim McCormick joins TMI's Sam Webb for a podcast called'The Michigan Basketball Insider.' Each show offers a deep dive into the X's & O's and statistical analysis from Michigan's games, commentary on college basketball in…

LINCOLN - One more offseason. One more preseason. One more football season. And one more postseason. All with a new commissioner, and an eye toward a larger future in the league. One more trip around the sun with this iteration of Big Ten football. And one more year with divisional schedules. One more year, for certain, of a Big Ten title game. The…

The Super Bowl is just around the corner, and we all have our own guesses as to who will be playing and who will win, but the Super Bowl is not the only great thing about football! There is another thing that makes NCAAF betting all that much more fun! Rivalries! We all know the main rivalries, we know the big ones, but if you are from the Northern…

Look, I understand my job each week in my quizzes is to educate, illuminate and entertain you (and occasionally frustrate you as you attempt to go 9-for-9). I'm definitely not here to bring you down, even in a memorial for those we lost in 2022. I look at it more as a celebration of their lives and hopefully give you something to further remember…

Everybody loves a feel good story. Last season couldn't have gone much worse for the TCU football program, finishing with a disappointing 5-7 record. Under-pressure head coach Gary Patterson (the longest-serving coach in the school's history) resigned mid-season after two decades in the role. But that's what made this season all the more special as…

Geoff Pontes hosted a chat to discuss the Astros system. You can read the transcript here. JC (NYC): Hey Geoff! I'm sure I'm not the only one asking about this player, but how close was Colin Barber to making the top 10? When healthy (and it's not often) he seems to show solid tools. Are consistent injury concerns keeping him from the top? Thank…

What did you do Monday night? If you were like most of the country, you sat down to watch David and Goliath. The little engine that could against the machine that chews up and spits out your dreams. I have really, really, really enjoyed this TCU season. I have long prayed for one year that a team truly comes out of no where with far less talent to…

West Virginia's football program has announced the signing of four transfers to grants-in-aid (scholarships). Those players are now enrolled at WVU for the spring 2023 semester, and eligible to participate in spring practice. The players (Ja'Shaun Poke, Montre Miller, Michael Hayes, Kole Taylor) are part of a current group of eight transfers who…

After a rocky start to 2023, the UFC will put on its first card of the year in the wake of the promotion's president Dana White being caught on camera slapping his wife across the face. In a fight made on short notice due to Kelvin Gastelum pulling out due to injury, Sean Strickland will be stepping in to take on Nassourdine Imavov in Saturday…

LEBRON JAMES HAS shown no signs of slowing down as he rapidly approaches the NBA's all-time scoring record long held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It seems like a safe bet that James, who recently celebrated his 38th birthday, will become the first player to break the 40000-point barrier. He's averaging 29.1 points per game for the Los Angeles Lakers,…

Joc Pederson has enjoyed a successful MLB career, considering he was drafted in the 11th round of the 2010 MLB Draft. Since then, the slugging outfielder has won two World Series titles, while also receiving two selections to the All-Star team. "Mickey Mantle has the most home runs in WS history with 18. Here are the top 5 active players in HRs in…

Liam Coen has officially returned to Kentucky football as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the second time in three years, returning to Lexington after spending one season as OC of the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL. Coen signed a three-year contract on Dec. 12, though the news wasn't made official by Kentucky until Tuesday, Jan.…

Dylan Raiola turned heads recently when he de-committed from Ohio State, but one school appears to be the new favorite landing spot for the No. 1 player in the 2024 college football recruiting class. 247Sports director of recruiting Steve Wiltfong revealed his new Crystal Ball prediction for the quarterback, with Georgia emerging as the favorite to…

The Georgia Bulldogs are national champions once again, as the Bulldogs' 65-7 victory over TCU brought the 2022 college football season to a close. Unfortunately, when the clock hit double zeros in that game, it meant that the college football offseason is officially here. But the 2023 college football season is just seven months away. On Saturday,…

This article is part of our College Football Picks series. The 2021-22 College Football Playoff showed that it was in fact possible for new blood to finally break into the sport's final four teams. With big question marks hanging around a number of the playoff's annual contenders, could the 2022-23 season repeat with two programs making their…

JJ Cooper hosted a chat to discuss the Twins system. You can read the transcript here. Brendan (Boston, MA): 6 months after the draft, how does Brooks Lee compare to the other top college bats he was being drafted around? Have any of the tier 1 college hitters significantly changed their value in that short time? J.J. Cooper: It's hard to make many…

Rob Gronkowski is a four-time Super Bowl champion, so he's no stranger to high-pressure situations. But he'll be trying to do something he never has before in his NFL career - on a live FanDuel commercial during the big game - make a field goal. Rob Gronkowski will attempt a 25-yard field goal on live TV sometime during the third quarter of Super…

Izell Reese thinks of himself as a visionary, the kind of man who finds solutions to big problems. As a teenage football star, he went unrecruited from his Dothan, Ala., high school. Undaunted, he walked on at the University of Alabama Birmingham, not only making the team but starting as a freshman. Four years later, he was drafted by the Dallas…

Kirby Smart walked into the SoFi Stadium coach's room after Georgia's 65-7 rout of Texas Christian in Inglewood, California, on Monday night. And Smart saw his 10-year-old son, Andrew, bawling. "I'm like, 'Oh no, somebody's hurt his feelings,'" Smart said. "Somebody's thrown him down or done something to him. I said, 'Why are you crying? You're…

With the 2022 college football season officially over, it's time to direct attention to the 2023 season. There's no better way to do that than to talk about "way-too-early" top 25 rankings and look at Big Ten Championship and College Football Playoff championship odds, so we decided to do just that. We took a look at where Ohio State falls in the…

The NFL's coaching carousel is about to start spinning. Let's look at three long-shot NFL head coach picks. There are several vacant head coaching positions in the NFL following Black Monday. That means it's time to assess the odds, dig through some rumors, and see whether we can cash a long-shot bet on which head coach a team will hire. The…

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State football's quest to find a starting quarterback for 2023 looms as one of the most pivotal position battles in the country this offseason. The battle between third-year Kyle McCord and second-year Devin Brown could be intense. The stakes are unquestionably massive for a team expecting to once again contend for a national…

New offensive coordinator. New defensive coordinator. New quarterback. New running backs. New wide receivers. New starting middle linebacker. New almost everything. But there is an old mission around the Indiana football program: discovering how to make Hoosiers relevant in the Big Ten East again. After a surprising Top 25 finish in the shortened…

Most of us grew up watching Disney movies, many of which tell tales of the little guy navigating through the impossible to achieve a dream. Even as adults, we're romantic about the underdog stories, the Davids versus Goliaths, the Cinderellas. We crave them. We so badly want to believe they're true. That's what made some of us inexplicably…

Monday's college football championship between Georgia and TCU is a showcase for some of the best prospects entering this year's NFL draft (and also for Stetson Bennett IV). If you're curious which of the players in Monday's championship will be awkwardly hugging Roger Goodell in April and then dominating in the Sundays to come, here is a guide to…

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State's entire 2023 football recruiting class is now signed, and a few of its members will begin their college careers this week. There are 11 freshman Buckeyes who arrived in Columbus over the weekend as early enrollees expected to participate in winter workouts and spring practice this year. Often those who do get a head…

Georgia Bulldogs vs TCU Horned Frogs Monday, January 9th Spread: Georgia -13 7:30 PM on ESPN It's always a bittersweet feeling on the day of the National Championship. We've watched the two best competitors give their all to get to this point. The best team will walk away hoisting that solid gold trophy. However, there's always the fact that after…

Standing side-by-side on the court at Seton Hall's Walsh Gym, center Sidney Cooks towered a foot above point guard Lauren Park-Lane. But don't let the contrasting heights fool you. The 5-foot-3 floor general always finds a way to feed the ball inside to her 6-4 teammate. And during Seton Hall's New Year's Eve victory over Butler - for one brief,…

Only 238 days until the first full Saturday of the 2023 college football season, which leaves plenty of time for procrastinating about stuff like yard work while pausing to weep and reflect. The Palmetto State's best of the 2022 college football season: Clemson 51, Wake Forest 45 in double-overtime on Sept. 24 in Winston-Salem. It was former…

Florida A&M football's special teams coordinator Chili Davis has been selected to deliver a presentation at the 2023 American Football Coaches' Association convention following his first season with the Rattlers. Davis, from Chesapeake, Virginia, has been a member of the AFCA since joining the coaching ranks at his alma mater Campbell University in…

Konrad Wasiela was stunned after his first time watching the Intel Extreme Masters professional gaming competition in Poland. It had all the trappings of a serious sporting event: a packed stadium, tens of thousands of fans, and esports athletes as committed as Wasiela's teammates had been during his days playing in the Canadian Football League. "I…

One of my good female friends graduated from a rival college of mine. We love talking smack about who has a better football team. When her school loses games, I gloat. One time this year, I said her school had zero chance of winning against my school. I did this level of trash-talking for two months, practically daily. She said that if I was so…

The new year is here, and it's a good one. Why? Because after being illegal for as long as living memory, sports betting in Ohio is no longer against the law. Sports betting is the best of both worlds. You get to enjoy your favorite teams and capitalize on their successes. But as thousands flock to place bets in Ohio, many are realizing it's not as…

According to SportRadar, NBA games this season have gone over Las Vegas betting totals 51.5% of the time. LAS VEGAS - The recent rise in NBA and NHL scoring has caused the betting markets to respond in kind, posting totals that would have been unimaginable not long ago. NBA teams were averaging 113.8 points a game through Thursday. That is the…

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Tennessee baseball's Tony Vitello on how Chase Dollander is handling MLB Draft attentionTennessee baseball's Chase Dollander is projected as the potential No. 1 pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. Welcome to the inaugural MLB draft lottery. The Detroit Tigers have the sixth-best odds to land the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft during the…

We are just five days into the new year, and people are slowly getting acclimated to the normal, day-to-day realities of living their lives. The same is likely true at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. So, if Ryan Day and his coaching staff are a bit behind on putting together their 2023 New Year's Resolutions, we figured we would give them a…

Following the first-ever MLB draft lottery at the annual winter meetings earlier this month, it's time for our first official 2023 mock draft! There is still a lot of time for prospects to rise and fall during the upcoming spring seasons, but this draft class has already taken shape on the strength of 2022 performances during the high school and…

Leeds United will take on West Ham United at 2:45pm ET on Wednesda y at Elland Road. Leeds are 3-3-2 at home while West Ham United are 1-6-1 away from home. Latest Leeds vs. Caesars Sportsbook's West Ham list West Ham as the+160 favorites (risk $100 to win $160) at the 90-minute money line, with Leeds the+165 underdogs. A draw is priced at+235, and…

I read with interest your recent article on the birth of NASCAR. While the France family has long had a monopoly on who founded NASCAR, team owner Raymond Parks was also considered a founder and provided a lot of start-up cash to get things moving. If you will check the book written by Neil Thompson called "Driving with the Devil," you will get the…

New Zealand sprinter Eddie Osei-Nketia figured he'd "try something new." He already holds the 100-meter record in his country. Plus, he's got some rugby experience. "I reckon the boys will hit harder and the tackling technique in American football is going to be way different compared to rugby," he told The Associated Press. "I've just got to be…

This is one of baseball's most exciting weekends for those who follow and love the MLB draft process. Later today is the All-Star Futures Game, where two Blue Jays prospects Ricky Tiedemann and Yosver Zulueta made the roster and could potentially pitch an inning or two in the game at some point through the day (start time 4. p.m. PT). On Monday the…

The Clemson Tigers have one of college football's top 25 scoring offenses, averaging 34.7 points per game. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney isn't sure that clip will cut it against Tennessee in the Orange Bowl. "If you're playing Tennessee, you better score," Swinney said Wednesday afternoon. "If we don't score, we've got no chance, because these guys…

Quarterback is always a hot topic at Notre Dame, and that has ramped up in recent weeks as rumors continue to swirl about the Irish landing a player at that position in the transfer portal. Since the 2022 regular season ended, 10-game starter Drew Pyne has transferred out in part to the Irish staff telling him they are going to bring in a transfer,…