The San Diego Padres have attempted to increase their standing in Major League Baseball through seemingly limitless spending.
Team ownership has made it a stated goal to compete with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the perennial NL West favorites.
The Dodgers have won nine of the last 10 division titles, missing out by one game during a 106-win 2019 season. They won the 2020 World Series, sweeping the Padres in the NLDS in the process.
They’ve dominated the series between the teams, often filling half of San Diego’s Petco Park with Dodgers fans.
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Jimmy Butler sustained the injury in a Game 1 win over the Knicks.
Grant Williams expected the Celtics to be in a highly contested battle in Game 3 of the best-of-seven semifinal series against the 76ers on Friday night.
However, the Boston forward did not expect his head to be smashed into the floor while going after a loose ball. During the fourth quarter of Friday’s game, Williams and his teammate, Jaylen Brown, crashed into each other on the court while scrambling for a loose ball inside Wells Fargo Arena.
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Early favorite Forte has been scratched from the 2023 Kentucky Derby
According to multiple reports Forte, the morning-line favorite at the 2023 Kentucky Derby, has been scratched from the field.
Forte, winner of four-straight races, opened as the 3-1 favorite earlier this week. Those odds moved to 4-1 on Saturday morning, ahead of this news. Forte was the favorite for a reason, with wins in six of seven races, including the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and the Florida Derby.
Down 2-0 to the Nuggets, Devin Booker carried the Suns to a victory in Game 3 with 47 points on 20-of-25 shooting. Yet, Phoenix’s win was partly overshadowed by the team’s decision to bench DeAndre Ayton, which led to Ayton not speaking with the media after the game.
The center had just four points and nine rebounds on the night, his worst performance of the playoffs thus far. After the game, Booker explained how he approaches trying to keep Ayton in the game when he’s struggling.
“We’ve been around long enough to understand every night’s not gonna be your night,” he said.
To say Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had fun at the NFL draft in Kansas City seems like an understatement.
Kelce and Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes seemingly worked as unofficial masters of ceremonies for the weekend, acting as the public faces of the Super Bowl champions two months after their 38-35 victory over the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.
However, a widely circulated the video of Kelce spiking the Lombardi Trophy at a music festival he staged adjacent to the draft suggested to some that the Cincinnati product had a little too much fun.
Angel of Empire and Tapit Trice are the two favorites to win the 149th annual Kentucky Derby after prior favorite Forte was scratched from the field merely 10 hours before Saturday’s race.
Both horses have 9–2 odds of winning the “Fastest Two Minutes in Sports.” The change in the odds comes after Forte became the fifth horse to be eliminated from the field in Saturday’s race. Forte entered the day at 7–2 odds to win.
However, following a one-mile sprint on Saturday morning, trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Mike Repole convened for a meeting with state veterinarian Nate Smith.
Tom Thibodeau first coached Jimmy Butler. Then he traded for him. Then he traded him away. Now they face off in a Knicks-Heat semifinal only they could’ve predicted.
The Padres–Dodgers rivalry has picked up in recent years as San Diego has established itself as a contender in the National League. That peaked last postseason, when the Padres beat the Dodgers in the NLDS.
This weekend, the two teams faced off for the first time since that playoff series, and San Diego struck first with a 5-2 win. Fernando Tatis Jr. led the way, as the outfielder slugged two home runs off Clayton Kershaw in the game.
When the Packers traded quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the Jets on April 24, someone had to move into his locker.
Who knew that someone would be a rookie?
The four-time MVP’s former home is now the property of Green Bay rookie quarterback Sean Clifford, after the Packers took the longtime Penn State gunslinger with the No. 149 pick in the 2023 draft.
Clifford, 24, played parts of five seasons for the Nittany Lions. He helped pilot Penn State to the ’23 Rose Bowl, and was named the offensive MVP of the Nittany Lions’ 35–21 win over Utah.