The Cincinnati Reds recently called up one of baseball’s top prospects, Elly De La Cruz.
De La Cruz was expected to deliver power, speed and defense to a surprisingly competitive team in a weak NL Central.
So far, the call up has been an extraordinary success for both the Reds and De La Cruz himself.
Through an admittedly small sample, he’s been a well-above average hitter, with a 129 wRC+.
He unleashed one of the fastest tracked throws by an infielder in MLB, got from first to third in record time, and launched a massive shot for his first big-league homer.
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Venus Williams made her return to the tennis court on Tuesday in the Netherlands at the Libéma Open after not playing since January, and it sounds as if she isn’t going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Even though Williams lost in three sets Tuesday in the first round at Amsterdam, the 42-year-old wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday that she is ready to continue improving her health and performances in her “next events.
Nuggets center Nikola Jokić may have gotten the biggest Q Score boost from the 2023 NBA Finals after a dominant, MVP-caliber performance.
However, Burnie—the Heat‘s martyred mascot, who was sent to the emergency room during Game 4 after taking a ferocious punch from ex-UFC champion Conor McGregor—was presumably not far behind.
After five days of speculation as to what precisely happened between McGregor and the basketball-nosed anthropomorphic fireball, the fighter addressed the incident Tuesday afternoon in New York.
“The mascot is good.
Is it possible to cheat and stink at your sport? Apparently, the Mets are (allegedly) guilty of both.
Game officials ejected Mets pitcher Drew Smith from Tuesday’s Game 1 of their Subway Series against the New York Yankees because of suspicion of using a foreign sticky substance.
Mets relief pitcher Drew Smith has been ejected upon entering the game tonight after a substance check pic.twitter.com/cuHow7idea
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) June 14, 2023
Umpire Bill Miller throws out New York Mets pitcher Drew Smith #40 for a suspicious substance on his hands.
Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to review the planned golf partnership for antitrust law violations.
Los Angeles Country Club presents unusual challenges for the world’s best golfers with some extremely long par-3s and a very, very short one.
The Stefon Diggs drama is over if you believe the unequivocal words from Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott.
“I feel like it’s resolved,” McDermott said Wednesday afternoon after the Bills completed the second of three minicamp practices.
Diggs was present for the practice after missing Tuesday’s session. McDermott originally described Diggs as being “not in attendance” for that Tuesday session and said he was “very concerned” about it.
Hall of Fame center Henri Richard, an 11-time Stanley Cup champion during his 20-year career with the Canadiens, tested positive for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a posthumous test, his family announced Wednesday morning.
“I hope my father’s brain donation and diagnosis will lead to more prevention efforts, research, and eventually a CTE treatment,” Denis, Henri’s son, said in a statement.
Citing the Concussion Legacy Foundation, Rick Westhead of TSN in Canada reported that Henri, who died in March 2020, is the 16th NHL player known to have suffered from the disease.
After winning 10 games in 2013, Duke football was largely irrelevant over the course of the last decade— until 2022. In the first year after David Cutcliffe parted ways with his program of more than a decade, Mike Elko rattled off eight regular season wins and a Military Bowl victory over UCF.
To say that Duke is “back” would be a stretch. It was one year with a solid record and taking it to that extreme would be an overreaction, especially considering the Blue Devils’ difficult ACC schedule.
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At this point—a few years after the rule changes allowing for seismic player movement in college sports—it feels hard to be too surprised by anything that happens in the transfer portal. Yet the news out of college softball this week still managed to feel genuinely shocking.
Sophomore pitcher Jordy Bahl is leaving Oklahoma.
The announcement was stunning both in that it came from this specific player and from this specific program. Bahl won back-to-back championships in her two seasons at Oklahoma—the second of which came just last week and saw her named Most Outstanding Player.