As Chicago baseball fans soak in an All-Star break with two teams performing well below expectations, it’s natural to look ahead to the upcoming offseason for opportunities for the Cubs and White Sox to improve their clubs heading into 2024.
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Penn State football hopes to replicate its success from a year ago with another 10+ win season in 2023. The Nittany Lions return 14 starters from the Rose Bowl team, rising stars Drew Allar, Nicholas Singleton and Kaytron Allen are set to take over on offense, and the defense ranked among the best in the Big Ten last fall.
However, if there is a concern, it is the defensive front. There is a lack of size and manpower at the defensive tackle position.
Three of the seven scholarship players listed at that position during spring practice were listed at 275 pounds or less.
Former UFC champion Holly Holm said she’d love to face Ronda Rousey again if Rousey returns. Holm, however, said she wasn’t sure if the rumors of a Rousey return to the UFC are true.
A woman who survived the fatal car crash that killed a Georgia football player and a recruiting staff member Jan. 15 has filed a lawsuit against former Bulldogs defensive lineman Jalen Carter and the University of Georgia Athletic Association, per ESPN’s Mark Schlabach.
Victoria Bowles, a former recruiting analyst for the school, alleged that the athletic association was negligent when it allowed recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy to keep the university-leased SUV the evening of the team’s national championship celebration in Athens, Ga.
A viral quote from Kevin Durant started making waves on Wednesday where Durant proclaimed himself as the best scorer in NBA history. There is only one issue: it’s not real.
A Twitter account called NBACentel tweeted a quote and attributed it to Durant saying, “I’m 7’ tall and have the skillset of a shooting guard. I am the best scorer in NBA history, my only weakness is injuries.” When a fan asked Durant if it was fake, he reacted with some genuine concern.
“We’re reaching dangerous territory,” Durant wrote on Twitter.
2007 Heisman Trophy-winner and Florida Gators great Tim Tebow is adding something completely new to his resume: minor league hockey owner.
This comes as earlier this week the ECHL — think of it as Double-A hockey, two steps below the NHL — announced the team would be adding a new team in Lake Tahoe.
#ECHL Board of Governors approves Expansion Membership for Lake Tahoe to begin play in 2024-25 Seasonhttps://t.co/NpJJxFsx6F
— ECHL (@ECHL) July 10, 2023
Attached to that announcement was this other announcement about Tebow’s involvement in the yet-to-be-named club.
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Steph Curry never holds back when it comes to trolling. Ahead of American Century, he stayed petty about where Charles Barkley will finish.
Steph Curry and Charles Barkley have a unique relationship. They interact with each other during the NBA season, and they are also both avid golfers.
This week, Barkley and Curry are in the field at the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe, NV.
Sports talk icon Dan Patrick ripped LeBron James and ESPN on Thursday after James announced he’s not retiring from the NBA during a speech at the ESPYs on Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
James made the statement when he received the award for best record-breaking performance by surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time scoring leader this past season. Few observers believed James would retire, and Patrick accused James of seeking attention and ESPN of manufacturing a storyline for the same reason.
“I wasn’t waiting for an announcement,” Patrick said. “I got one.
ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith, who is one of the most iconic figures at the network over the last two decades, almost never rose to prominence in sports media.
In fact, Smith, who is now the executive producer of one of ESPN’s most successful shows in First Take, almost left sports media to work in banking, according to a story published in The Athletic on Wednesday.
“While a cub reporter in North Carolina, he called [Rob] Parker, then a baseball writer in Cincinnati, and told him he was quitting the business and going to apply for a job at Wachovia,” the story said of Smith.
Every summer, college football conferences hold their media days to preview the upcoming season. And every summer, one team in each league is picked to finish last in the preseason media poll.
For the Big 12 this year, that team is West Virginia. And head coach Neal Brown is not happy about it.
“It really kind of pissed me off because I really think it’s kind of lazy reporting in some senses,” Brown said Thursday, per ESPN’s Heather Dinich. “We won’t finish where we’re predicted to finish.