Pro Picks is a weekly column where AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi shares his picks for upcoming games. For all previous Pro Picks, head here. ___ Matthew Stafford vs. the Lions. Mike McCarthy vs. the Packers. Tyreek Hill vs. the Chiefs. The NFL’s wild-card weekend is all about reunions and some rematches, too. Stafford…

If you ski, you know it’s pretty much tradition at this point to have a day where everyone dresses up as either a tiger, elephant, leprechaun, or whatever takes your fancy – and this is fun in your ski group. But it’s incredible when it’s 100s of people together. Every single attendee participates and you…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The absolutely dreadful Washington Wizards managed their fourth win in 24 games Friday night, and if this season didn’t already feel like a slog, well, now there’s a dark lining to it all. Maybe, in five years, the Wizards will have pulled themselves from their…

Robert Kraft hoped things would end differently. He’d spent the final years of a dying dynasty patching together a fraying relationship between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, but in early 2020, it was all over. Separate conversations with his head coach and quarterback had kept the pair together long enough to win a sixth Super…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save One day after announcing Barcelona’s Jonatan Giráldez as its next coach, the Washington Spirit made another offseason splash by signing U.S. national team defender Casey Krueger to a three-year contract. A two-time NWSL Best XI honoree, Krueger spent the past eight seasons with the Chicago…

Business & FinanceSports 23 November 2021, 12:22 pm 1 minute Reuters revealed that a FIFA proposal for a World Cup every two years and changes to the Club World Cup could cost the big domestic soccer leagues and UEFA around 8 billion euros ($9 billion) per season in lost TV rights and match day and commercial agreements,…