10:54 AM ET To see how a new development might affect the future, take a look at how it would have affected the past. That’s a go-to of mine — see: how larger playoffs would have worked in 2020 or how a much bigger, earlier playoff would have affected things — and with the news
5:00 PM ET Next week, the College Football Playoff management committee will consider a proposal to expand the CFP to 12 teams. The proposal calls for the bracket to include the six highest-ranked conference champions and the six remaining highest-ranked teams as determined by the CFP selection committee. So what happens now? First, the management
6:30 AM ET The NHL’s final four is set. The Vegas Golden Knights took care of business at home, eliminating the Colorado Avalanche to set up a semifinal date with the Montreal Canadiens. Sadly, we have two days off from hockey before the New York Islanders and Tampa Bay Lightning kick off their series Sunday.
9:30 AM ET When Carey Price returned home after winning Game 4 against the Winnipeg Jets, there was a gift waiting for him. Placed on the front porch of his Montreal home was a goalie stick. Strapped to the blade was the head of a broom, a neighborly acknowledgment of the Montreal Canadiens‘ second-round sweep,
4:38 PM ET ASHBURN, Va. — Washington Football Team coach Ron Rivera learned a lesson last summer, one he doesn’t want to repeat. That’s why there will be a quarterback competition, he said, even if Ryan Fitzpatrick will enter training camp with a firm grip on the starting job. Ever since Washington signed Fitzpatrick in
8:00 AM ET KEVIN GAUSMAN saw his own reflection in the numbers; their stark, unsentimental truth contained a judgment, and a promise. Everything he knew about himself as a pitcher could be found inside them: strengths, flaws, anxieties. It was liberating, and maybe a little unsettling, for Gausman to realize the San Francisco Giants, making
7:13 AM ET McLaren will enter Extreme E, an all-electric off-road championship, in 2022 as it expands its McLaren Racing brand into new series. 1 Related McLaren will race alongside teams owned by seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton and 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg. The series aims to raise awareness of environmental issues by
By the time Zak Crawley completed his epic 267 at the Ageas Bowl last August, it appeared England had found a young player of significant ability. It wasn’t just the size of the innings that impressed. It was the range of stroke, the assured way he dealt with periods of pressure and the timing that
Jun 9, 2021 Liam Napier For better or worse, professional athletes increasingly grow influential platforms. Within this wide-ranging realm public utterances in interviews or posts on personal platforms are made about the oft turbulent rides in their chosen sports; to push global or emerging brands, support causes, deliver messages and establish profiles they can leverage
3:17 AM ET SALT LAKE CITY — The LA Clippers find themselves trailing 2-0 for the second straight series, but Kawhi Leonard says his team has “a lot of fight” left in it. The Clippers, though, are going to have to dig deeper than any other team in NBA history to get out of this