Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save CLEVELAND — After the Washington Wizards acquired Tyus Jones last summer in the three-team deal that sent Kristaps Porzingis to Boston, the locker room welcomed two new bodies, not just one. Jones is frequently accompanied after games by his mop-topped, 3-year-old son, Tyus Jr., who…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save If somebody told you to trust your money to Bill Belichick to invest, would you? Now turn the question around. Why would you trust football decisions to a mall developer? It’s that time of year again, the NFL hiring cycle, when billionaire superegos confuse their…
The Memphis Grizzlies announced Monday night that star guard Ja Morant will miss the rest of the season with a shoulder injury. Morant’s fifth NBA season will thus consist of just nine games. He began it on a 25-game suspension handed to him by the league after he flashed a gun on a social media…
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…
For the second time in three years, Washington Capitals winger Tom Wilson is headed to the NHL All-Star Game. In 2022, Wilson was named as a replacement for Washington captain Alex Ovechkin when Ovechkin tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the event. This time around, Wilson was included among the initial 32 all-stars, one…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save That Ron Rivera was finally, mercifully relieved of his duties as head coach and roster builder of the Washington Commanders falls into the pope-is-Catholic, sun-rises-in-the-east category. If new owner Josh Harris hadn’t fired Rivera on Monday, there might have been a mutiny of a fan…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Nothing, not even the brutal realities of the sport itself, can stop the NFL. This weekend, as another regular season stomps to a close, we’re reminded of its dominance. While ambivalent retiree Tom Brady might criticize today’s football, believing it has tumbled into “mediocrity,” millions…
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…
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…
