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…
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…
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…
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…
