MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – There might be a FaceTime call on Sunday, as there is just about every week, in which Miami quarterback Cam Ward and Virginia Tech quarterback Kyron Drones connect to talk about their most recent games. To say the two are close is an understatement. They’re cousins. They’re offseason training partners. They … Read more
DENVER — Will Smith has hardly been a bad hitter for the Dodgers during the past two seasons. But as his offensive production has declined at the plate, with the sixth-year catcher setting career lows for OPS in back-to-back campaigns, there’s been one common denominator to what he’s been missing. From 2020 to 2022, Smith did … Read more
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins will turn to Tyler “Snoop” Huntley at quarterback when they face the Tennessee Titans on Monday night. With backup Skylar Thompson nursing a rib injury suffered last Sunday at Seattle, Huntley and Tim Boyle were Miami’s options for Week 4. Tua Tagovailoa remains out with a concussion. Coach … Read more
By Rustin Dodd, Zack Meisel and Andy McCullough When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers snapped a record 26-game losing streak in December 1977, head coach John McKay tried to look on the bright side. “Three or four plane crashes and we’re in the playoffs,” he said. It was hard to blame him. The year before, the … Read more
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that it will appeal against the “no fault or negligence” finding in Jannik Sinner’s anti-doping case, WADA is seeking a “period of ineligibility of one or two years,” in which the world No. 1 tennis player and two-time Grand Slam champion would be barred from competing in the … Read more
Having etched her name across the record book during the 2024 WNBA season, Caitlin Clark has been named the league’s Rookie of the Year, league sources told The Athletic on Friday. That Clark won the award came as little surprise considering how prolific her debut season was. Clark broke both the WNBA’s single-season and single-game … Read more
The mania around Cooper Flagg at Duke is here. And it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Flagg, the Class of 2024’s most-hyped recruit and projected 2025 No. 1 NBA Draft pick, spoke publicly Friday for the first time since starting his career with the Blue Devils. Sporting a “Dream Biggest” Duke T-shirt, the 6-foot-9 freshman … Read more
Joe Wolf, who rose to stardom as a North Carolina basketball captain under legendary coach Dean Smith, died earlier this week. The Milwaukee Bucks announced Wolf’s passing. “Throughout his life, Joe touched many lives and was a highly respected, adored and dedicated coach and player across the NBA,” the Bucks said in a statement on … Read more
PHILADELPHIA – Joel Embiid could go back to school and write a pretty heady report on how he spent his summer vacation. Embiid won Olympic gold for Team USA. He signed a contract extension with Philadelphia that will pay him more than $64 million in its final season. Embiid spoke at the UN General Assembly … Read more
Erling Haaland was kept scoreless in a Premier League game for the first time this season as Manchester City was held 1-1 by Newcastle on Saturday to drop points for the second straight weekend. It was City’s first league match since influential midfielder Rodri was ruled out for the season with an ACL injury and … Read more