The New York Mets are in the midst of a miserable stretch as they’ve lost nine of their last 10 games.
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University of Miami baseball has an opening at head coach and the Hurricanes are reportedly kicking the tires on Troy Tulowitzki. According to D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers, who never misses, both sides share mutual interest in the idea of the five-time MLB All-Star taking over the program.
Tulowitzki, 38, played three years of college baseball at Long Beach State and most recently served as an assistant coach at Texas from 2020 to 2022. The Longhorns made two College World Series appearances during his time with the program before he spent the 2023 season away from the game.
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In today’s SI:AM:
🏒 Vegas cruises to the Cup
💸 The Heat’s looming payroll crunch
🐘 Oakland’s “reverse boycott”
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Vegas’s (not so) long wait is over
Just six years after entering the NHL, the Golden Knights are Stanley Cup champions.
Los Angeles Country Club has valued privacy over publicity for most of its history, so hosting one of the world’s biggest golf events is quite a change.
Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs was not present at the start of the team’s mandatory minicamp, and it had coach Sean McDermott and quarterback Josh Allen concerned about his status with the franchise.
Amid the uncertainty surrounding the star wideout, he posted a cryptic message on his Instagram story.
“I just be letting people cap. If them lies help you sleep better tell ’em big dawg.”
Could this be in response to something McDermott or Allen said? Potentially.
“[Stefon] is not here. Everybody else is here at the current time,” McDermott said on Tuesday.
The term “breakout” has different meanings for different people in the world of fantasy football. Some folks believe it’s simply a player who will outperform his draft position. Others think it’s an established player who emerges into a regular fantasy starter after never having reached that sort of status in the past.
In my opinion, both definitions are true but with a caveat. I don’t see a player as a breakout candidate if he’s already reached his “statistical ceiling” during his career. For example, Justin Herbert or Najee Harris aren’t “breakouts” to me.
CBS Miami reporter Samantha Rivera went viral during Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final when she stiff-armed a fan who was trying to get into her live shot. While plenty of hockey fans applauded her effort to keep the fan away, she says she’s received plenty of hate messages since the incident as well.
The viral moment took place when Rivera was recapping the Golden Knights’ 7-2 win over the Panthers in Game 2. Rivera shared the clip on her own personal Twitter account, which shows her firmly standing her ground against the very excited Vegas fan.
Photo by Dan Istitene – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images
The Haas team boss got himself in some hot water recently, but was his underlying premise regarding race stewards correct?
Anyone who has watched the slightest bit of Formula 1 over the past few years, or even the Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive, knows that Haas Team Principal Guenther Steiner is not shy about speaking his mind.
The team themselves have even leaned into that trait from their boss. With just a few clicks on the Haas team store you can find the “[H]e does not foksmash my door!” t-shirt.
Following the Nuggets’ first-ever NBA championship, Denver star Nikola Jokić’s gave his perspective on the team’s title, and the adversity it took to reach the mountain top.
The Nuggets had been contending in the West for a number of years now, but injuries and disappointing playoff losses set them back from reaching their end goal of an NBA championship.
In 2022–23, Denver was the best team in basketball all season, and backed it up with a dominant postseason en route to a championship.
Jokić reflected on the journey and what it took to finally reach the end goal.