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The Chicago White Sox have the best record in baseball and lead the AL Central by 3.5 games. (Image: Jim Mone/AP)

The Chicago White Sox Might Just be the Best Team in Baseball

The Chicago White Sox came into the 2021 season with high hopes. They expected to contend for the AL Central title, and most experts considered them one of the top teams in the American League. Now, after 40 games, the White Sox aren’t just meeting those expectations, they’re surpassing them, […]

Pep Guardiola enjoying himself at City's title party. (Image: Twitter)

Pep Guardiola Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before

Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola went viral with his club-party video on Monday night. Guardiola, the tactical genius whose style influenced world football over the past 15 years, has never let himself be caught like this on camera before. In a video posted on Twitter by a City employee, Guardiola is […]

Just as he started cooking at the plate with nine home runs, New York Yankees DH Giancarlo Stanton will miss time with a quad injury. (Image: Porter Lambert/Getty)

Giancarlo Stanton Out Again, Yankees Send DH to IL with Quad Strain

For the third season in a row, the New York Yankees are plagued with injuries to their starters and pitching staff. And, once again, Giancarlo Stanton counts among the growing number of players on the injury list after the Yankees shut him down with a quadriceps strain. Stanton indicated he […]

Trainer Bob Baffert's travails continued Monday, when the New York Racing Association suspended him from racing at any of its Thoroughbred tracks. (Image: Luke Sharrett/Getty)

NYRA Temporarily Suspends Trainer Bob Baffert From its Tracks

Adding to the fallout from Kentucky Derby champion Medina Spirit’s post-Derby positive medication test, the New York Racing Association temporarily suspended Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert from entering horses for any of the association’s races. The ban extends to Baffert horses occupying stall space at Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack, […]

Midnight Bourbon could be one of only two horses to run all three 2021 Triple Crown races.(Image: AP Photo)

Belmont Stakes Field Remains in Flux as Connections Ponder Options

While the Belmont Stakes field remains an early work in progress, several trainers with possible sights on the final jewel of the Triple Crown have either indicated interest or put their horses through workouts with that June 5 race in mind. The Belmont Stakes field of possibles starts with Kentucky […]

Rombauer trainer Mike McCarthy, jockey Flavien Prat and owners John and Diane Fradkin hoist the Woodlawn Vase replica after Rombauer's Preakness Stakes victory Saturday. The colt heads to Belmont Park for a likely date in the June 5 Belmont Stakes. (Image: AP Photo/Will Newton)

Rombauer Comes out of Preakness Well, Belmont Stakes Likely Next

While Rombauer’s trainer, Mike McCarthy, headed west back to his California base, his newly minted Preakness Stakes champion left Pimlico Race Course early Monday morning for a northerly destination. That destination? New York’s Belmont Park. “We will go ahead and go to Belmont. We will get there and see how […]

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have experienced dramatic price drops in recent days, impacting the prices of sports NFTs like Topps MLB as well. (Image: Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

Cryptocurrency Plunge Sends WAX, Topps MLB NFT Prices Tumbling

Over the past week, cryptocurrency prices have dropped significantly. As of Monday afternoon, Bitcoin had fallen nearly 27% over the last seven days, while Ethereum fell 19% over the same period. Smaller cryptocurrencies also felt the pinch, and that meant falling prices for Topps MLB NFTs as well. WAX, the […]

Zinedine Zidane leading Real Madrid from the bench in the La Liga game vs Granada. (Image: Twitter / @RealMadrid)

Real Shock: Zidane to Leave Madrid at the End of the Season

Zidane has just eight days left in his reign at Real Madrid. The French manager will end his second stint at Real at the end of the season. “Zizou” had one year left in his contract, but will not honor it. The 48-year old has already informed his players of […]

Rombauer and Flavien Prat captured the 146th Preakness Stakes with a closing flourish that belied their 11/1 odds. It was Prat's second Triple Crown race victory, following his promoted Kentucky Derby win aboard Country House in 2019. (Image: AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Improbable Rombauer Turns in a Vintage Preakness Performance

Rombauer, the horse named after a vineyard, now goes by the new name: Preakness Stakes champion. And Rombauer, the horse named after the Napa Valley vineyard, wasn’t supposed to run the Preakness because he wasn’t supposed to run the race that got him into the Preakness. He wasn’t supposed to […]

It's been a wild week for Kentucky Derby winner and Preakness Stakes morning-line favorite Medina Spirit. But the colt has no idea what controversy is. (Image: Maryland Jockey Club)

It’s Been A Spirited Week: Breaking Down the 2021 Preakness Stakes

Before we break down the field for the second jewel of the Triple Crown, we’ll dispense with the news everyone waited for concerning Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Both Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit and Concert Tour passed their three pre-race drug tests, meaning they […]