Fernando Tatis, Jr., nicknamed “El Nino”, came into this Spring Training as one of the Top 5 prospects in baseball. Tatis made the opening day roster for the San Diego Padres and he’s made a huge splash during his rookie season hitting .326 with 14 home runs. If it were […]
Former Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is facing a six week ban from soccer and a £75,000 ($93,800) fine for breaching the Football Association’s betting regulations following a review by an independent regulatory commission. According to the FA, Sturridge had been charged with 11 alleged breaches of its gambling rules, but […]
Stephen Strasburg got the win in the Washington Nationals’ 13-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Thursday. But while his pitching performance was nothing more than pedestrian, his day at the plate was one of the best ever for a pitcher in the modern era. Strasburg went 3-for-3 with a […]
Kurt Busch got two breaks in the span of less than a week, one unfortunate, and the other lucky. Two Sundays ago, Busch was in the lead at the Coke Zero Sugar 400 when he made a pit stop late in the race. The strategy was Busch was hoping for […]
Two recent allegations of WNBA players involved in domestic violence incidents has resulted in one 10-game suspension, and looming disciplinary action. Los Angeles Sparks guard Riquna Williams and Natasha Howard of the Seattle Storm were the two players involved. Williams received the 10-game suspension for a dispute with an ex-girlfriend. […]
The Oklahoma City Thunder traded Russell Westbrook and two draft picks to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul last week, but Thunder have been unable to trade CP3 to another team due to salary cap issues. It looks like Paul will be playing next season in Oklahoma City. Not many […]
Irishmen Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry couldn’t have had two different rounds of golf at Royal Portrush for the first round of the Open Championship. One golfer struggled, while the other thrived, but it’s not who you think it was. Lowry, who went off at 80/1 to win, shot a […]
The National League Wild Card race is such a toss up with 70 games remaining that every team in the NL, with the exception of the last-place Miami Marlins (35-58), are still in the thick of the Wild Card. Only the Los Angeles Dodgers (64-34) and Atlanta Braves (58-39) have […]
Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) won a three-man sprint to win Stage 12 as the Tour de France departed Toulouse and reached Bagneres-de-Bigorre in the Pyrenees after a 209.5 km ride during the treacherous mountain stages. Yates outsprinted Pello Bilbao (Astana) and Gregor Muhlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe) during the final stretch of Stage 12 […]
Perennial contender Rafael dos Anjos will take on rising English star Leon Edwards in the main event of UFC on ESPN 4, this Saturday night in San Antonio. Both dos Anjos and Edwards are currently ranked contenders in the UFC’s welterweight division, though they’ve gotten to that point via very […]
Manny Pacquiao will try to hand WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman his first loss on Saturday when the two meet at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. While Pacquiao may now be 40 years old, he remains one of the biggest draws in boxing, and he has shown […]
NASCAR is planning to conduct a soft launch of its proprietary betting product in September in a move designed to put the sport at the forefront of legalized sports betting in the United States. The launch date for the pilot version of the product comes after NASCAR announced in May […]
Adding games to the regular season schedule has been an NFL priority for nearly a decade. So no one was surprised when New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft pushed the idea of an 18-game season at a recent collective bargaining session, according to The Wall Street Journal. Two more games […]
Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is now suing the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. The DMTC manages the racing operation at the track on the San Diego County Fairgrounds. The track begins its 80 season Wednesday. The civil action filing in California Superior Court Monday seeks a temporary restraining order, […]
Maximum Security makes his second start Saturday since his disqualification in the Kentucky Derby, squaring off against just six rivals in the $1 million Haskell Invitational Stakes. It’s a small but highly talented field in the 1 1/8 mile signature race during the summer season at Monmouth Park on the […]
There is a driving range full of professional golfers that would take the results Brooks Koepka has had in the last four major championships. The 29-year-old has finished no worse than second in his last four majors. Yet Koepka comes into the Open Championship not satisfied with his performance, and […]
Tiger Woods was looking for a little advice before the Open Championship, and thought who better to get it from than Brooks Koepka. Koepka’s caddie, Ricky Elliott, lives in the town where Royal Portrush is, and could have helped out Woods and his caddie, Joe LaCava. Neither of them had […]
Australian Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) edged out Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma) at the finish line in Toulouse for his first stage victory during Tour de France Stage 11’s 167 km ride from Albi to Toulouse. Ewan became the tenth rider to win a stage at the 2019 Tour de France. Following the […]
The Oakland A’s (54-41) are one of the hottest teams in baseball right now, while riding a five-game winning streak and winning 18 out of their last 23 overall games. However, they have 10 games on deck against a trio of division leaders including the Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, and […]
Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks told New York sports talk radio station WFAN that Kevin Durant indicated his choice to join the team in free agency came down to the style of basketball they play. Marks made the comments on Tuesday, saying that he hadn’t talked to Durant before […]
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