Shohei Ohtani is a one-man wrecking crew.
The Los Angeles Angels pitcher has nine wins already. And in his last outing on Thursday, Ohtani threw a complete game, giving up just one hit while striking out eight.
At the plate, he’s batting .302 with 81 RBI and a league-leading 39 homers. He’s also stolen 12 bases.
Shohei Ohtani is having one of the best years in baseball history. (Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports)
With those numbers, some opposing players might think: Why pitch to him at all?
And Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Matt Chapman went viral Friday for asking just that.
Author: Michael
It’s going to take a whole hell of a lot more than a measly 5-place grid penalty for a new gearbox to keep Max Verstappen from winning a Formula 1 Grand Prix.
The Dutchman started P6 on the grid and was up to P4 before the first lap was even in the books en route to his 8th straight win this season.
Look, I’m getting tired of Verstappen winning all of these races too, but the level of dominance he and Red Bull have demonstrated this season is unbelievable.
While we got a taste of the rain that dominated the rest of the weekend, the Grand Prix was mostly dry.
Before taking off on its traditional summer break, F1 descends into the Ardennes Forest and the idyllic Spa-Francorchamps circuit this weekend for the Belgian Grand Prix.
The Mets‘ trade of Max Scherzer to the Rangers continued the team’s decision to sell off key pieces 104 games into a disappointing season. Scherzer signed a two-year deal with an option before the 2022 season, and the expectation was that he would be a Met through 2024.
As New York tries to rebuild their farm system on the fly, current players are left to wonder about the state of the team. After the Mets 11-6 loss to Washington on Saturday, players addressed the importance of the Scherzer deal.
Step aside, Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky is officially the greatest individual swimmer in United States history on the World Championship stage. And she’s only 26!
Ledecky’s laundry list of accomplishments only continues to grow alongside her dominant career. That was the case again on Saturday.
The standard for Ledecky is at the highest of highs. Her margin of victory is often unbelievable.
Ledecky is competing against her own supremacy at this point. However, there was a mark that she had not been able to cross off of her lengthy list of accomplishments— being the greatest ever.
Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell is leaving no doubt the Badgers will look very different when the 2023 season opens.
Hype in Madison is off the charts for Luke Fickell and a new era of Badgers football. After three incredibly disappointing seasons, the slate has been wiped clean and Fickell has been tasked with bringing the team’s style of play into the 21st century.
The two biggest adjustments were bringing in QB Tanner Mordecai and hiring Phil Longo as OC. Anyone paying attention knew the days of three yards and a cloud of dust were dead as soon as Fickell was hired.
The Vikings and pass-rusher Danielle Hunter agreed to a restructured one-year deal for the 2023 season, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports. Hunter will make $20 million this season with $17 million guaranteed, along with a clause that the team cannot tag him in the offseason.
Hunter was set to enter the final year of a five-year deal with Minnesota, but he was unhappy with his former contract that had him making just $4.9 million in base salary.
Justin Gaethje officially has options after UFC 291.
And this from the back end of my Saturday two-a-day—my takeaways from an early-evening Colts practice …
1. Anthony Richardson is impressive, and it doesn’t take more than a couple of throws to really understand why the Colts were comfortable taking a kid with 13 college starts fourth overall. But that the rookie, who is up to 255 pounds (11 pounds bigger than he was at the combine) and is carrying it easily, is a physical freak is news to no one. What Indy’s liked since drafting him is how quickly he’s picking things up.
LAS VEGAS — Roughly 28 hours before their career- and sport-defining clash, Terence “Bud” Crawford and Errol “The Big Fish” Spence Jr. walked into an empty T-Mobile Arena from opposite sides, through lit tunnels, toward the clearest of clarity with their futures. Crawford’s entourage was so large it resembled a football team and hid him somewhere in the middle of a few dozen bodies. Spence’s group was smaller and leaner, but no less ready or intense.
Boxing champions like Roy Jones Jr., Evander Holyfield, Antonio Tarver and Riddick Bowe milled backstage.