Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson threw down a highlight reel grab followed by a throw from his knees that probably decapitated any worms living in the Wrigley Field grass.
It happened on Saturday with the Cubs playing their second game of a season-opening three-game series against the division-rival Milwaukee Brewers.
Brewers catcher William Contreras was at the dish, and he got a hold of a 1-1 pitch from Cubs lefty Justin Steele. It looked like had that ball gotten past Swanson Contreras could’ve had an extra-base hit if he hustled.
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Knicks legend Charles Oakley sat down with Hall of Fame big man Kevin Garnett on his KG Certified basketball show on Showtime to answer what seems like an age-old question.
Would you rather play with LeBron James or Michael Jordan?
Oakley, who played against Jordan in his heyday and considers the Bulls legend his best friend, surprisingly chose James.
“They’d ask me ‘who would you rather play with? LeBron or Mike?’ I said LeBron but Mike’s my best friend,” Oakley began. “Mike ain’t passing me the ball. He don’t care if I get a shot today or tomorrow.
South Carolina star Aliyah Boston announced Saturday that she will enter the 2023 WNBA draft and forego her final year of eligibility with the Gamecocks’ program.
“There is a quote that says – Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away,” Boston wrote in a note addressing her decision. “In this moment, I am truly breathless as I make the next best decision of my life. I have decided to further pursue my dream by declaring for the 2023 WNBA draft.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame made its official announcement of several former NBA and WNBA players as well as coaches that will be inducted into class of 2023.
From the NBA, Heat legend Dwyane Wade became the first player drafted by Miami to earn the honor, and the most recent member to enter in the Hall on the first ballot unanimously. Former two-time NBA champion and six-time All-Stars Pau Gasol and Tony Parker and 14-time All-Star Dirk Nowitzki will also be inducted.
Former WNBA star Becky Hammon, a six-time All-Star, will also be enshrined to the Hall of Fame.
Washington Post sportswriter John Feinstein wrote the book on college basketball—quite literally, in the case of A Season on the Brink, his 1986 magnum opus on a year spent with Indiana’s men’s team.
Feinstein has been to 39 Final Fours during his career. This year’s men’s event, being contested Saturday in Houston by Connecticut, Miami, San Diego State and Florida Atlantic, would have been his 40th. However, Feinstein is staying home for this one, a decision he discussed at length in a Post column Thursday morning.
For the second time this season, Max Verstappen will start on pole, this time for the Australian Grand Prix.
Still, don’t think that things were easy for a Red Bull Team that has dominated this season. That’s because it’ll be next to impossible for the Red Bulls to play the team game because Sergio Perez is at the complete ass end of the field in P20.
Perez’s Saturday was one of the worst he and the team have had in quite some time.
Late Friday night, the NBA and NBPA agreed to a new seven-year CBA, avoiding a potential lockout situation over the next year. There are many new aspects of the agreement, including an in-season tournament, limiting spending on high-payroll teams and changing the upper-limits of contract extensions.
While the deal ensures labor peace for the foreseeable future, one outspoken player believes the players should have drawn a harder line in the sand. Warriors forward Draymond Green expressed his displeasure with the union, believing that they lost the negotiation.
“Players lose again….
HOUSTON – Those damn women. They’re taking over everything.
The late, great South Carolina sports columnist Ken Burger once said, “I love women. And I love basketball. But I don’t like women’s basketball.”
I wish he would have been alive to see the NCAA women’s Final Four open Friday night in Dallas – 239 miles north of here on Interstate 45. Big D may have let H-Town know yet again that it’s still No. 1, and with dueling Final Fours, too.
The women are dominating Dallas. And the men are trying to keep everybody awake in Houston.
Fox’s Major League Baseball coverage is set for quite the shakeup.
Hall of Fame slugger Frank Thomas is reportedly out at the network after 10 years as an analyst for Fox’s pregame baseball coverage. Fox hired Hall of Fame shortstop Derek Jeter after he left the Marlins’ front office and the former Yankees shortstop will now take Thomas’s place.
The news of Thomas being let go from Fox’s pregame baseball coverage was first reported by Andrew Marchand of the New York Post.
Things got heated late in a Celtics blowout of the Bucks.