Bryce Harper is back in action after undergoing Tommy John surgery. On Friday, he’ll make his first appearance of the season at Citizens Bank Park and will surely get a massive ovation.
That’s a problem, what with the new pitch clock rules. The Phillies would prefer not to have Harper meet the same fate as the Cubs’ Cody Bellinger upon his return to Los Angles earlier this year.
A standing O for Bellinger and he gets a fucking pitch clock violation for it. Bullshit. pic.twitter.
“At the end of the day, that was their choice.
Rory McIlroy is a hot name in golf lately. Unfortunately, most of it is not due to his play on the course.
McIlroy skipped the RBC Heritage earlier this season because he needed a “mental health break.” Those are all the rage with millennials, but most young people who use a “mental health day” to get out of work don’t lose $3 million.
But McIlroy did, thanks to missing his second designated event of the season. That cost him a large portion of his PGA Tour bonus.
That aside, though, McIlroy is finally back in action this week at Quail Hollow in the Wells Fargo Championship.
Deion Sanders’s method of cutting dozens of football players is not unusual in college athletics and is part of improving the Buffaloes programs, Colorado athletic director Rick George says.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated while at Pac-12 conference meetings in Arizona, George defended his first-year coach in the wake of mounting criticism over what has transpired this spring in Boulder. In a roster turnover unlike any seen in college athletics, 30 Colorado players have entered the portal since the April 22 spring game.
College football programs across the country are going to spend the next few weeks shopping before fall camp gets underway in August and South Carolina is no different. Head coach Shane Beamer and his staff are working to assemble the best roster that it can before the Gamecocks open the 2023 season against North Carolina.
Shane Beamer is portal searching. (Photos by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images)
However, in doing so, they are not going to make any promises. Even if that is what it takes to get a prospective player in the boat.
The prevailing —no, overpowering—emotions at Churchill Downs during Kentucky Derby week are joy and excitement. They permeate the morning training hours, then percolate through the grandstand during the afternoon races.
But this year there is an undercurrent of tension, perhaps even dread. Unsettling things keep happening to racehorses, too jarring and numerous and awful to be swept aside by pageantry.
There were four well-publicized deaths in less than a week’s time, three during or after a race and one in training.
Former Northwestern offensive tackle Peter Skoronski was selected by the Titans with the 11th overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft. One team that passed on Skoronski was the Falcons, which may not have been a surprise given the interaction Skoronski had with the Falcons at a Combine interview. Skoronski told Dan Pompei of TheAthletic.
What the future holds for Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton is one of the biggest question marks in Formula 1. His current deal expires at the end of this season, but it sounds more and more like the 7-time World Champion is talking about continuing in F1 for the foreseeable future.
Last weekend, Hamilton talked to ESPN about this. He also pointed to two athletes who have been able to compete at a high level for a long time: Tom Brady and LeBron James.
“I don’t plan on stopping any time soon,” the 38-year-old said.
The Rays and Orioles are dominating, while another AL East team tumbled down our Week 5 list.
Baseball fans across the country love to bust out the boo birds whenever a player linked to the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal comes to town. Apparently, players on other teams haven’t forgotten about it either.
White Sox pitcher Keynan Middleton was candid about his feelings on the matter after striking out Twins shortstop Carlos Correa on Wednesday night, telling reporters after the game, “I don’t like him, so it was kind of cool. I like that. I enjoyed that a lot. … I mean, he’s a cheater.
