The Memphis Grizzlies suspended Ja Morant one game for conduct detrimental to the team. The looming absence comes after Morant challenged coach Tuomas Iliaso’s leadership in an exchange after Friday’s 117-112 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Morant also made pointed postgame comments about the Grizzlies’ coaching staff in the wake of the defeat in […]
I’m back. After two bad weeks, it’s back to the winning ways for me with my NFL picks. I went 9-4 against the spread last week and 10-3 straight up. That’s my kind of week. It ups my season records to 64-57 ATS and 86-34-1 straight up. The actual football that was played last week […]
With the possible exception of the very early weeks of the season, when Celtic and Rangers meet, it is usual for one of them to be hovering somewhere close to crisis. It is simply the nature of Scottish football, the overwhelming strength and remorseless antipathy of the Glasgow sides. When one is down, the other […]
Miami is a respectable 24-7 in August through October under fourth-year coach Mario Cristobal. But when the calendar flips to November, problems mount. That was the story again Saturday, when the No. 10 Hurricanes fell 26-20 in overtime at SMU, dropping the Hurricanes to 4-11 in November and December under Cristobal’s direction. The manner of […]
Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto was named World Series Most Valuable Player on Saturday, just minutes after Los Angeles completed a comeback Game 7 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays. In the process, the Dodgers both overcame a 3-2 deficit in the best-of-seven set, and became the first team since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees to […]
When Josh Giddey averaged better than 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists on 45% 3-point shooting over the final 25 games of last season, nobody knew quite what to make of it. On the one hand, his shooting had improved every year in the league, especially with time to take aim, and his creative […]
Another week, another round of must-see matchups across the NFL. One week after some stunning developments, like the Bo Nix-led Denver Broncos routing the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens blowing out the Chicago Bears despite missing Lamar Jackson, we’ve got another slate full of intriguing action in Week 9. As we’ve done every week throughout […]
Getty Images After an embarrassing first-round elimination in the MLS Cup Playoffs last season, Inter Miami find themselves in the exact same tricky situation. A year after their shock elimination to Atlanta United in the opening round, the Herons will go to a decisive Game 3 for a second straight year in their opening series, […]
(NEW YORK) — Beginning Saturday, some 42 million low-income Americans, including 16 million children, lost access to benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown continues. The Department of Agriculture has said that funding for this month’s benefits, which it says comes to about $9.5 billion, has run dry. A federal […]
We now have the complete career resume when it comes to the all-time great career of Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw. He ends his 18-season career with three World Series rings after the Dodgers staged an all-time great comeback in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series. Kershaw was in the bullpen but didn’t see action, […]
