Four members of the San Antonio Spurs tested positive for COVID-19 and the NBA postponed the team’s next four games in accordance with the league’s health and safety protocols. The NBA also postponed tomorrow night’s game between the Charlotte Hornets and the Chicago Bulls, and bumped Friday night’s Charlotte game […]
Four of the top seven seeds in the men’s draw will be in action against each other as the Australian Open quarterfinals continue on Wednesday. No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal will take on No. 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, while No. 4 Daniil Medvedev faces off against countryman and No. 7 […]
The much-improved New York Knicks (14-15) are in the hunt for a playoff spot, but their postseason pursuit just got a little bit harder after losing starting center Mitchell Robinson due to a hand injury. Backups Noel Nerlens and Taj Gibson will split playing time for the Knicks at center […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers, at +275 odds, have the inside track to sign defensive end JJ Watt because two of his younger brothers already play for the team. The race is on to sign Watt after the Houston Texans released the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year. The Green Bay […]
Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain are clubs that frequently make deep runs in the Champions League, with PSG even reaching last year’s final. But one of the two will suffer an early exit this season, as the two European powerhouses face off in the Round of 16 beginning on Tuesday. Barcelona […]
The Los Angeles Lakers will shut down Anthony Davis for two to three weeks while he recovers from a calf strain on his lower right leg after suffering the injury in a game against the Denver Nuggets over the weekend. Davis said he experienced pain in the lower calf area […]
Oaklawn Park announced late Monday evening that it canceled this weekend’s Thursday through Sunday racing card, citing stormy forecasts for the Hot Springs, AR, region. This once again pushes back three Grade 3 races, including a key Kentucky Derby prep involving Champion 2-Year-Old Essential Quality. That race, the Southwest Stakes, […]
If you tuned into Fan Controlled Football on Saturday hoping for something that resembles the NFL, you would have been wildly disappointed. Purist fans will probably rebel just by hearing about the seven-on-seven action on a 50-yard field. But in Fan Controlled Football, that’s only the beginning. As the name […]
With the Belmont Stakes headlining eight Grade 1 races that day, Belmont Park will play host to one of the biggest days in American racing on Saturday, June 5. The New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced Belmont Park’s Spring/Summer Meet stakes schedule, which features 11 Grade 1 races among 59 […]
When it comes to Kentucky Derby futures, Mandaloun and Rombauer illustrated the differences in weight books and bettors give to various Derby prep races. And Life Is Good illustrated that, if you’re a Bob Baffert product, you don’t even have to run to watch your odds shrink. After finishing third […]
Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka will both play their quarterfinal matches at the Australian Open on Tuesday after facing tough tests in the fourth round over the weekend. Both Williams and Osaka needed three sets to get by their seeded opponents on Sunday. Williams Faces Halep in Quarterfinals Williams got […]
Looking at this weekend’s notable stakes races takes the eye halfway around the world to the $20 million Saudi Cup. Another look also takes the eye back to three races postponed from last weekend to this weekend – the Southwest Stakes, the Bayakoa Stakes, and the Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn […]
Michael McDowell only held the lead for one lap at Sunday’s Daytona 500, but that was enough for the veteran driver to finally capture his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in a stunning finish punctuated by a final-lap crash. Joey Logano led the race heading into the final lap, […]
Denny Hamlin will try to become the first driver ever to win three consecutive Daytona 500 races on Sunday, as NASCAR’s 2020 season kicks off with its marquee race. Hamlin will start in 25th position, but remains the favorite to work his way up the field and make history at […]
The El Camino Real Derby is one of those Kentucky Derby Trail detours. Like December’s Springboard Mile at Remington Park, the John Battaglia Memorial and Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park and the Sunland Derby at Sunland Park, it’s not on the beaten Derby trail path. Once upon a time, […]
Joseph “JoJo†Diaz lost his IBF junior lightweight belt when he failed to make weight on Friday, but mandatory challenger Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov can still win the title when the two face off at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California on Saturday night. If Diaz wins the fight, the IBF […]
Magnus Carlsen needed an Armageddon tiebreak yet again, but found a way to get past Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and reach the finals of the Opera Euro Rapid online chess tournament. The World Champion will take on Wesley So, who finished off Teimour Radjabov in their semifinal to advance. Carlsen Advances Despite […]
The Risen Star Stakes is, to paraphrase Drew Carey from the old “Whose Line Is It Anyway?†improv show, the race where the points begin to matter. Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds is the season’s first Kentucky Derby prep offering 50-20-10-5 qualifying points to the […]
Kamaru Usman will try to continue his dominance over the UFC’s welterweight division when he defends his title against Gilbert Burns in the main event of UFC 258 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Usman hasn’t lost since the second fight of his career, and has overwhelmed each of his […]
Cricket and sports betting came up multiple times during Walt Disney’s earnings call on Thursday. It was a knuckleball for Disney analysts who normally focus on theme parks and movies. They failed to predict the impact of Disney’s newest revenue streams. Disney’s parks can’t operate at full capacity, due to […]
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