Tennessee is headed back to the Men’s College World Series for the second time in three years and no one is more excited than Volunteers pitcher Chase Burns.
Monday night’s game between the Vols and Southern Miss in Hattiesburg was a do-or-die situation for both teams. They had split the previous two games of the best-of-three and the winner of the rubber match would be headed to Omaha.
With runners on the corners in the top of the seventh and Tennessee holding onto a 4–0 lead, Vols coach Tony Vitello called on sophomore Chase Burns to get the final two outs of the inning.
Author: Michael
Last Thursday morning vehicles zipped along Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., as a parade of dignitaries from the Southeastern Conference walked toward the U.S. Capitol.
Passersby recognized the group of college football celebrities and gushed. A few drivers honked their horns and waved out of their windows.
Shortly after Lionel Messi announced he was headed to the United States to join MLS’s Inter Miami, the soccer legend was asked if he plans to continue playing so he’s available to play in the 2026 World Cup to help his home country Argentina defend its title.
Messi did say before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar that it would be his last, but that he would continue competing for Argentina’s national team. However, since he won his first World Cup, fans wondered if he changed his mind about 2026. It doesn’t sound like it.
The Nuggets‘ voyage to their first NBA title brought numerous Denver-area sports figures out of the woodwork, befitting a city that has now seen each of its Big Four sports teams play for championships in the last 17 years.
Appropriately, Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson was a constant presence throughout the playoff run.
The American League has a new home run leader, and it shouldn’t be a surprise who it is.
With two homers in Monday night’s win over the Rangers, Shohei Ohtani brought his total on the season to 20, one ahead of Aaron Judge’s 19. He’s still two homers shy of Pete Alonso’s major league lead, but with Alonso on the injured list after being hit on the wrist by a pitch, Ohtani could soon overtake him.
Ohtani’s two dingers on Monday weren’t cheap ones, either. The first one came on a good low, inside pitch from Grant Anderson that Ohtani absolutely demolished.
Former NFL running back Peyton Hillis was hospitalized for more than two weeks after he saved his son and niece from drowning when they were caught in a rip current in Pensacola, Fla., in January. For the first time since the harrowing rescue, Hillis sat down for an interview and discussed what happened.
“It is 100% a miracle that somebody didn’t die,” he told Michael Strahan of Good Morning America. “It’s just amazing we weren’t burying somebody.
Nuggets rookie Christian Braun has had a pretty good year.
After winning a national title in April 2022 with Kansas in his final year of college, Braun is now a champion again with the Nuggets. That puts him in exclusive company: He’s one of five players all-time to win an NCAA and NBA championship in consecutive years, joining Bill Russell, Henry Bibby, Magic Johnson and Billy Thompson.
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Amazingly, Braun’s incredible championship run doesn’t stop with just these back-to-back titles.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic is a man of very few actual basketball interests. After winning the NBA Finals, Jokic looked like it was just another Monday night at the office. He sounded like a man who really just wanted to get home from work.
Jokic just wants to go back home and watch his horses race, but now he has to stay in Denver for a work celebration and that’s just all a pain honestly.
The NBA Finals may now be over, but the 2023 NBA draft’s projected No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama is still competing for a French League title in the finals series between his Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 and Monaco.
Even though Mets 92 lost 95–88 in Game 2 of the finals on Monday, the 7’4” Frenchman shined in his performance, finishing with 19 points, seven rebounds, four assists, three blocks and two steals. This stat line was quite different from Wembanyama’s Game 1 performance when he only scored eight points on eight shots.
In the spring of 2018 when the Miami Dolphins signed Josh Sitton as a free agent, there were some questions about whether the offensive lineman would play left or right guard.
Sitton had played left guard his entire career and likened a possible move to the other side thusly: “It’s like trying to wipe your [butt] with the other hand.”
Illustrator of words, Sitton didn’t use the word “butt.”
Josh Sitton just said playing RG instead of familiar LG is like “trying to wipe your ass with the other hand.