Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Over the past three years of Michigan football’s charmed existence, the program’s long-awaited breakthroughs — beating rival Ohio State, winning the Big Ten and reaching the College Football Playoff — suddenly became routine. Those feats, repeated each season since 2021, appeased restless fans who had…
Updated January 4, 2024 at 5:25 p.m. EST|Published January 4, 2024 at 5:51 a.m. EST Noah Lyles won three gold medals at last year’s world championships and aims to do the same this summer in Paris. (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Never shy about publicly proclaiming grand…
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This winter’s NFL playoff slate includes plenty of change. Six teams that missed the postseason last year are in. Both of 2022’s No. 1 seeds failed to win their conferences, meaning the Kansas City Chiefs missed out on a first-round bye for just the second time since Patrick Mahomes became the starter in 2018. In…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save For teams that never had much chance at Shohei Ohtani and even for those who did, the defining feature of this baseball offseason has been the frantic and expensive scramble to secure starting pitching. From the top of the market to the bottom, the prices…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, one of baseball’s top young stars, was freed from custody by a Dominican court Friday as details emerged about an investigation in which he is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl and paying her mother…
correction A previous version of this article incorrectly said Vaughn Grissom is the son of Marquis Grissom. They are not related. Boston and Atlanta orchestrated the first trade surprise of this baseball offseason when the Red Sox dealt oft-injured ace Chris Sale to the Braves for infield prospect Vaughn Grissom. Sale, 34, was an all-star…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would fulfill a long-sought request from the Washington Nationals: a new revenue fund to pay for improvements to Nationals Park. Mendelson’s legislation would create the Ballpark Maintenance Fund, ensuring a steady stream of…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Brad Ciolek’s interest in baseball began in Detroit, where he watched his first game with his dad, an avid Tigers fan. As Ciolek grew up in the Chicago suburbs, his love of the game grew, too. He attended every White Sox game he could. By…
