Rick Pitino will become the new head coach of Iona next season. Pitino, who currently coaches Panathinaikos in Greece, returns to the collegiate ranks for the first time since Louisville fired him in 2017 after 16 seasons due to an FBI investigation regarding a recruiting scandal. Pitino is the only […]
Major League Baseball announced a delay to the start of the 2020 regular season on Thursday, becoming the latest professional sports league to take drastic steps in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the league announced that the regular season would be delayed by at least two weeks […]
Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander has a strained latissimus dorsi muscle injury and has been shut down by the team. Verlander, who won the 2019 AL Cy Young, will most likely miss Opening Day, but he’s not expected to miss more than a start or two with the lat injury. […]
“The Bad News Bears,” a baseball movie directed by Michael Ritchie in 1976, featured an alcoholic, washed-up minor leaguer (Walter Matthau) coaching a tomboy pitcher (Tatum O’Neal) on a team of misfits in the ultra-competitive North Valley Little League. The legendary Walter Matthau signed on to play the curmudgeon coach […]
The bad beats continue for the New York Yankees in the latest episode of Bronx ER. Aaron Judge is the latest high-profile member of the Yankees to catch the injury bug with a fractured rib. The team announced Judge will be out indefinitely, but tests revealed he’s had the injury […]
Spring training for Major League Baseball is in full swing and less than a month remains before the start of the regular season. As with any sport’s preseason, certain factors must be taken into consideration when playing DFS spring training contests that won’t necessarily apply to such contests in a […]
The Red Sox are taking no chances with Chris Sale’s elbow, as team officials have now sought a third opinion on the pitcher’s health before they decide what to do with their ace this season. Sale suffered from elbow inflammation last season and didn’t appear in a game after an […]
Christian Yelich, the National League’s top hitter over the past two seasons, signed a contract extension with the Milwaukee Brewers worth $215 million. The new deal will keep Yelich a member of the Brewers until at least 2028, or 2029 if both sides exercise a mutual option. Yelich won the […]
The Philadelphia Phillies are expected to be an above-average team competing in a division with as many as four possible playoff contenders. Their win total for the upcoming season is projected at 86.5, ranking third-highest in the National League East, and the same as their rival New York Mets. The […]
In 1992, Penny Marshall directed “A League of Their Own,” a baseball film set during World War II about two sisters, played by Geena Davis and Lori Petty, who join the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Tom Hanks plays Jimmy Duggan, the alcoholic manager of […]
With the 2020 Major League Baseball season beginning on March 26, teams have already reported to spring training and have played a few exhibition games. I’m sizing up all 30 squads for bettors, with a breakdown of the rosters and projections for how they’ll fare. Today, this exclusive series continues […]
The 2020 Major League Baseball season begins March 26. Teams have already reported to spring training, and exhibition games have begun. Over the next month until opening day, we’ll be sizing up all 30 squads with a breakdown of the rosters, and projections as to how they’ll fare this season. […]
The 2020 Major League Baseball season starts March 26th. Teams have already reported to spring training and exhibition games have begun. Over the next month, we’ll be sizing up all 30 squads with a breakdown of the rosters, and projections as to how they’ll fare this season. Today, this exclusive […]
Another day, another member of the New York Yankees is down. The Yankees got word from their medical staff that outfielder and designated hitter, Giancarlo Stanton, has a Grade 1 calf strain injury. Stanton is expected to miss spring training and, possibly, Opening Day while recovering from the mild calf […]
The horror show known as “Bronx ER” continues for another season in Gotham. The New York Yankees announced that starting pitcher Luis Severino has an elbow injury and will undergo Tommy John surgery. He will miss the entire 2020 season. The Yankees shutdown Severino last week due to discomfort in […]
The Houston Astros are trying to put the cheating scandal behind them, but fans and their opponents won’t let them. During the team’s first spring training game on Saturday, they were heckled and booed — in their own stadium. The Astros were playing the Washington Nationals. The two teams share […]
Major League Baseball apparently won’t discipline Houston Astros players for cheating to win the 2017 World Series, but oddsmakers believe opposing pitchers will be handing out punishment of their own. Three sportsbooks, William Hill, BetOnline, and Sportsbetting.ag, have all released proposition bets on the likelihood of Houston batters getting hit […]
A 2018 FBI raid uncovered a solar-energy Ponzi scheme that would ultimately defraud investors for nearly $1 billion, and red flag an entire NASCAR Xfinity team. As race fans gear up for Sunday’s Daytona 500, it’s hard to believe that just one year ago, DC Solar’s collapse was wreaking havoc […]
Major League Baseball is considering adding two more wild-card positions in each league, a move that would expand the playoffs to allow in a total of 14 teams each postseason. Multiple media outlets reported that these changes could go into effect as soon as 2022, if MLB officials decide to […]
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Mike Bolsinger filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday seeking to force the Houston Astros to forfeit $31 million in charity due to the team’s sign-stealing scandal. Bolsinger, who also spent time with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Toronto Blue Jays, says the […]
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