And now for something completely different in the venerable history of a storied rivalry: Andrew Friedman matching wits against Buster Posey. Six years ago, with great fanfare, the San Francisco Giants recruited Friedman’s Dodgers lieutenant, Farhan Zaidi, to return the Giants to glory. After one season with a winning record and no postseason series victories, … Read more
NEW YORK – Major League Baseball is going back to using primary team uniforms for the All-Star Game, scrapping criticized special jerseys used for the past four years. Club uniforms were used by the American League from 1933-2019 and by the National League from 1934-2019. Players from the All-Star host team league wear their home … Read more
JACKSON, Miss. – Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is trying to expand his defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Auditor Shad White to include a book White wrote about the misspending of welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the U.S. White’s book, “Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal … Read more
Klay Thompson walked through the Dallas Mavericks’ facility in his new uniform for the first time. Chris Paul posed side-by-side with Victor Wembanyama in San Antonio, one standing about a foot and a half taller than the other. And LeBron James and Bronny James officially headed to work together in Los Angeles as the NBA’s … Read more
GREENBURGH, N.Y. – Karl-Anthony Towns was in the Knicks’ building, though not yet on their team. The trade bringing the All-Star center to New York and sending out Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo hadn’t been completed Monday by the time the Knicks reported for training camp and met with the media. So the Knicks tiptoed … Read more
ATLANTA – Four months after dropping 11 games under .500, the New York Mets earned a playoff berth a day after the regular season was supposed to end. With an 8-7 win at Atlanta in the opener of a makeup doubleheader on Monday behind Francisco Lindor’s ninth-inning homer, the Mets advanced to a best-of-three NL … Read more
Remember when National League pitchers batted and Clayton Kershaw seemed like an automatic out? Your memory serves correctly: The Dodgers star left-hander batted an anemic .162 over 847 plate appearances during 13 seasons before MLB mercifully took the bat out of his — and all other pitchers — hands after the 2021 season. Well, experts … Read more
As a boy, Bryce Harper loved watching the All-Star Game, with the game’s best players taking the field in their team’s uniform. “If we could change back to that,” Harper said on the day before this year’s All-Star Game, “I think it would be really cool.” The next day, commissioner Rob Manfred said he would … Read more
The plot has thickened over the fate of Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run ball as another person is claiming legal ownership of the piece of baseball history. Joseph Davidov, a 32-year-old Broward County, Fla., resident, filed a lawsuit Friday in Florida’s 11th Judicial Circuit Court stating that he is the rightful owner of the milestone … Read more
ROME – Italian police arrested 19 people, accused of criminal ties with the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia group, in a move that decimated the fan clubs backing Serie A teams Inter Milan and AC Milan. Prosecutors said at a press conference on Monday that possible charges include criminal association, with the use of “mafia methods,” extortion, … Read more