Author: Michael

No one is getting more mileage out of the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl championship than Travis Kelce. Sure, quarterback Patrick Mahomes is doing his thing. But he’s the biggest star in the biggest league in America. Kelce, though, is making the rounds like never before. And now he’ll throw out the first pitch for the Kansas City Royals on Monday.

Travis Kelce. First pitch. Monday night.https://t.co/8EG6arZhwo pic.twitter.com/b8dDCFxSHe
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) June 8, 2023

Travis Kelce, a Cleveland native, threw out the first pitch for the Guardians two months ago.

The Vikings have informed Dalvin Cook that they intend to release him, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter, ending the running back’s six-year tenure in Minnesota.

Barcelona say Lionel Messi turned down their proposal because he wants to “compete in a league with fewer demands” after the forward confirmed he will join MLS side Inter Miami.

The LIV Golf Tour “is not going anywhere,” an official told ESPN, and it’s “business as usual” following the PIF’s alliance with the PGA Tour and DP World Tour.

Liverpool have signed World Cup-winning midfielder Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton, the club announced on Thursday.

Reds top prospect Elly De La Cruz hit his first big league homer Wednesday night, a 458-foot shot that landed in the last rows of the right-field stands in an 8-6 win over the Dodgers.

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick has been very influential in the world of college athletics, including help create the 12-team College Football Playoff.

The Angels already employ two of the most impressive players in baseball: Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. Now they’ve added another.
Ben Joyce was taken in the third round of last year’s MLB draft after lighting up radar guns in his lone season at Tennessee. Last May, he threw the hardest pitch in NCAA history, a fastball that was clocked at a blazing 105.5 mph. He zipped through the Angels’ minor league system and made his MLB debut on May 29. 

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All he’s done since then is throw absolute heat on a remarkably consistent basis.

If someone told you on good authority that sharpshooter Michael Porter Jr. and one-time NBA champion Kentavious Caldwell-Pope would shoot a combined 5-for-22 from the field—and just 2-for-14 from three-point range—over Games 2 and 3 of the NBA Finals, that would’ve been fair reason to suspect that the Nuggets would drop both games.

Let’s dive in and try to come away with a sweep in the second-to-last week of the regular season.