If Jacob deGrom continues at his current pace, he’ll put together one of the greatest pitching seasons in MLB history. In fact, the New York Mets ace has been so good that sportsbooks now rate him as the favorite to win the NL MVP award. Only 25 pitchers have ever […]
Major League Baseball rules already prohibit pitchers from using foreign substances to improve their grip on the ball, but that hasn’t stopped players from flaunting that rule — to varying degrees — for decades. But starting on Monday, MLB officials say they’ll be cracking down on ball-tampering in an attempt […]
The Prince of Wales’s Stakes gives you defending champion Lord North with leading jockey Frankie Dettori and standout trainer John Gosden getting an assist from his son, Thady. What could possibly go wrong for the 5-year-old gelding in Royal Ascot’s Day 2 marquee race? Well, that’s what Love’s got to […]
The much anticipated Group F game between Germany and France in Munich confirmed the World Champions’ firm bid for a continental triumph at Euro 2020. Germany enjoyed more of the ball (59% vs 41%) and had more attempts (10 to 4), but forced France Keeper Hugo Lloris to just one […]
The Euro 2020 Group F opener between Hungary and Portugal was decided in the last 10 minutes, with Portugal earning the win 3-0, despite the game being tied at 0-0 until the 84th minute. Almost 70,000 fans attended the match in Budapest. Tens of thousands of Hungarian supporters rallied across […]
Three series have yet to finish in the second round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs, and all three are tied at 2-2 while teams are struggling to adapt to injuries to star players. The Philadelphia 76ers (-315 odds), Milwaukee Bucks (-186 odds), and Utah Jazz (-125 odds) are the favorites […]
The Brooklyn Nets are down to one-third of their Big 3 after Kyrie Irving left Game 4 with a serious ankle injury and never returned. Irving is out for Game 5 against the Bucks, while the Nets updated the status of James Harden from doubtful to hopeful with a sore […]
Christian Eriksen (29) is still in the hospital after collapsing on the pitch in Denmark’s opener at Euro 2020. OG News offers you all the updates on the breathtaking story that panicked the entire football world. On Saturday afternoon, the sun was shining warmly in Copenhagen. Danish and Finnish supporters […]
The New York Yankees suffered a sweep at the hands of the Philadelphia Phillies over the weekend, the latest in a string of disappointing results for the preseason World Series favorites. The Phillies blanked the Yankees 7-0 on Sunday, handing New York its third straight loss and its seventh defeat […]
Remaining on the legal offensive, even as he keeps a low profile, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert filed a lawsuit against the New York Racing Association Monday. The suit claims Baffert’s right to due process was violated when the organization suspended him. The Thoroughbred Daily News first reported that […]
The #2 Phoenix Suns became the first team to punch their ticket to a conference finals when they pulled off a four-game sweep against the #3 Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals. Thanks to the impressive sweep, the Suns saw their NBA championship odds jump to +375, according to […]
Not content with owning Cheltenham and the Grand National, standout jockey Rachael Blackmore will now tackle Royal Ascot on Tuesday’s first day of the five-day meet. Blackmore takes the reins of Cape Gentlemen for the Listed Ascot Stakes, the finale of Royal Ascot’s seven-race opening day. Headlining the day are […]
Stefanos Tsitsipas took the first two sets of the French Open men’s final to come within touching distance of his first Grand Slam title. But Novak Djokovic roared back, winning the final three sets on Sunday to claim his second title at Roland Garros and his 19th career Grand Slam. […]
Art Collector, one of last year’s most heralded 3-year-olds, will make his 4-year-old debut in the Black-Type Kelly’s Landing Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs. The June 25 Kelly’s Landing is one of eight stakes on Churchill Downs’ closing weekend for its Spring Meet. It sends its competitors seven furlongs on […]
Spiders have eight legs, but Donovan “Spida” Mitchell only has two. Mitchell suffered an ankle injury in Game 3 when the Utah Jazz lost to the LA Clippers in Los Angeles over the weekend. Despite the injury, Mitchell said he will play for Game 4 on Monday night in Tinsel […]
Before he went down with a calf injury, Danny Green was supposed to be the Philadelphia 76ers’ good luck charm because he won back-to-back NBA championships during one-year stints with the Toronto Raptors in 2019 and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. The top-seeded 76ers will lose Green for at […]
Since Informative can’t explain himself or describe the impact of his 79/1 upset in Saturday’s Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park, let’s go to his jockey, Jose Ferrer. “The horse can’t read the board, so he didn’t know (his odds),†Ferrer told Monmouth Park. “I’ve always said you don’t have a […]
For the fourth consecutive year, Royal Ascot’s 2021 meet not only features the usual pomp and pageantry, but four tickets to the 2021 Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar. The prestigious meet, which begins Tuesday and runs through Saturday, will play host to the season’s first four Breeders’ Cup “Win and […]
Brandon Moreno surprised pundits and fans when he stood toe-to-toe with Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC 256 last December, earning a draw against the flyweight champion. Now, the challenger will try to go one step further when he challenges for Figueiredo’s crown again in the co-main event at UFC 263 on […]
The Los Angeles Clippers have never advanced out of the second round of the playoffs and they typically bust in the first round, or fail in the Western Conference semifinals. This freaky phenomena is widely known in LA as the “Clippers Curse” because the franchise cannot get over the playoff […]
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