Follow along with rumors, deals and reactions as we near Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline.
Author: Michael
Weather often gets in the way of summer baseball games and that was the case once again in Baltimore ahead of the AL East rivalry tilt between the Orioles and the Yankees.
However, the scenes from Camden Yards on Friday showed something above and beyond the usual July storm.
A photo taken by Orioles reporter Melanie Newman showed dark, swirling clouds in the skies right above the stadium shortly after the game was scheduled to get underway at 7:05 p.m. ET.
Former NFL linebacker Terence Garvin ripped Colin Kaepernick for continuing to push for an NFL comeback years after he has taken a snap.
Garvin — who spent six seasons in the NFL — joined fellow ex-NFLer Arthur Moats on the latter’s podcast The Arthur Moats Experience with Deke Podcast.
Moats attempted to segue into talk of Kaepernick’s recent video of him working out at Nike headquarters with current pros including Steelers running back Najee Harris and Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb.
Apparently, MLB fans aren’t the only ones in awe of Shohei Ohtani’s greatness, as even the Angels superstar’s teammates have a tendency to be starstruck from time to time.
Case in point, new Angels pitcher Lucas Giolito, who gave fans a hilarious viral moment in his first start for the club on Friday against the Blue Jays.
Prior to taking the mound, Giolito, whom L.A. acquired on Wednesday, had a front row seat in the dugout to watch Ohtani follow-up a historic doubleheader against the Tigers.
The Oakland A’s have one foot out the door on their way to Las Vegas. And they’re not concerned with making any friends as a lame duck organization.
A’s fans have organized multiple “protests,” most notably the so-called reverse boycott at the Oakland Coliseum.
Their efforts to get team owner John Fisher to sell the franchise have even moved across the bay. At a San Francisco Giants home game against the A’s, both sets of fans united in calling for Fisher to sell the team.
Even Rob Manfred has admitted that the A’s stadium situation is his “biggest regret” as commissioner.
A tennis player is facing criticism after folks weren’t impressed by the handshake she gave her opponent after an upset loss at the Hamburg European Open.
Italian Martina Trevisan is the No. 76 player in the world and on Thursday she faced off against Germany’s Noma Noha Akugue, the 206th-ranked player in the world.
It’s safe to say the Italian was going into the match as the heavy favorite.
However, things didn’t work out her way and she lost to Noha Akugue. Then came the handshake which you can see below.
Blink and you’ll miss it.
A full offseason with Roquan Smith. Maybe the best safety tandem in the NFL. There’s plenty of reason to be excited about the other side of the ball in Baltimore.
After a fiery friendly caused tensions to linger between Wrexham AFC and Manchester United, a famous yet unlikely mediator reportedly stepped in this week in hopes of mending fences between the clubs.
According to a Friday report from ESPN, Wrexham co-owner and movie star Ryan Reynolds served as a “peacemaker” in the midst of the public spat by sending a message of support to Manchester United’s Nathan Bishop.
A Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman was pulled over for speeding Monday morning. Then, to make matters worse, he was arrested on a previous warrant later that afternoon.
Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, a redshirt sophomore, was dinged for speeding in Franklin County, Georgia.
According to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Ingram-Dawkins was clocked going 90 miles per hour in a 70 miles per hour zone. According to Athens Banner-Herald
However, Ingram-Dawkins was arrested later that afternoon due to an outstanding warrant.
The fight that the boxing world has been anticipating for five years, will finally go down in Las Vegas on Saturday night when Terence Crawford (39-0, 30 KO), the current WBO welterweight champion steps into the ring to face Errol Spence Jr. (28-0, 22 KO) who holds the WBC, IBF and WBA titles.
The odds makers at SI Sportsbook have installed Crawford (-145) as the slight favorite, most likely factoring in that he has been the more active fighter, while Spence has only fought twice since 2019.