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 The NBA reinstated Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green following his indefinite suspension for striking Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the head, the league announced Saturday. Green, 33, has missed Golden State’s past 12 games after the Dec. 12 incident with Nurkic and is…
Can the NHL get out of its own way? On the ice, the quality of the NHL has never been higher. Play is faster, and players are more skilled — and feel more freedom to try out the kind of highlight-reel plays that wouldn’t have been tolerated in previous eras. Whether it’s Edmonton’s Connor McDavid…
The Texas Rangers on Wednesday did not end Major League Baseball’s longest World Series drought. That belongs to the Cleveland Guardians, who have not won the World Series since 1948. But the Rangers still ended decades of misery by winning the first World Series title in franchise history, which began in 1961 when the team…
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 Week 18 finalized the playoff bracket, and it accurately represents the oddity of the season. Joe Flacco is in, but Trevor Lawrence is nowhere to be found. The teams that lost Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers made it. Three teams from the AFC North are…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save HOUSTON — The famous football program at Michigan, which spent the first two decades of the young century in that murky wilderness of good-but-not-great, even fading into afterthought at times, spent Monday night completing a dizzying three-year climb to the summit it always craves. It…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Franz Beckenbauer, who led the West German national team to World Cup championships as player and coach and whose on-field presence was so dominant that he was nicknamed “Der Kaiser,” died Jan. 7 at 78. His family announced his death in a statement to German…
The Washington Nationals signed first baseman Lewin Díaz to a minor league contract Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal includes an invite to spring training. Díaz, 27, spent last season with the Baltimore Orioles’ Class AAA affiliate, ending the year with a .268 batting average and an .804 OPS in…
