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Ben Foster has signed a new one-year contract at Wrexham, the team announced on Friday. Ben Foster has signed a new one-year contract at Wrexham, the team announced on Friday.

Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass said Thursday that he didn’t believe the post he shared, which described the sale of LGBTQIA+ merchandise as “evil” and “demonic,” should be considered hateful.

Novak Djokovic will vie for a record 23rd Grand Slam title at the French Open after beating a cramping Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinals on Friday.

The Nuggets are two wins from their first NBA title but are still planning for the future after acquiring three draft picks in a trade with the Thunder, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

With Chris “Mad Dog” Russo becoming a staple on First Take each Wednesday, the show, led by Stephen A. Smith, wanted to reunite Russo with his WFAN partner of 19 years, Mike Francesa, for a special episode earlier this year.
The date for Mike and the Mad Dog on First Take was set for Feb. 1. 
There ended up being one big problem. A couple of hours before the show was set to begin, Tom Brady announced his second retirement from the NFL from a beach via an Instagram video.

The Blue Jays announced they designated Anthony Bass for assignment on Friday to make room to reinstate pitcher Mitch White from the 60-day injured list.
Bass has been under the spotlight since he shared an anti-LGBTQ video on his Instagram story last month. The relief pitcher apologized for his actions the next day, saying he was trying to “educate himself” moving forward.
“I recognize yesterday that I made a post that was hurtful to the Pride community, which includes friends of mine and close family members of mine, and I am truly sorry for that,” Bass said.

The only people who hate horse racing more than someone who just lost their ass on a bet, are the batty ladies and gentlemen at PETA. As is tradition, they’re all upset that the Belmont Stakes is going ahead as planned.
That’s not a surprise, but what did catch me off guard was that they switched up their reasoning.
While I thought they would go their typical route and call horse racing inhumane — perhaps point to the rash of deaths at Churchill Downs — they instead were mad that the race will go ahead despite the Canadian wildfires.

Jay Williams is nearing the end of his contract at ESPN, and new comments call into question whether he’ll return to the network.
However, as the network undergoes changes and massive cutbacks, the NBA analyst is not pleased with the state of the company. In a recent appearance on the Pat Bev Podcast with Rone, Williams stated his frustration about not being able to be his authentic self at the network as well as working in a hot take media landscape.
“You can never really be your f—— self,” Williams said. “I don’t care if you’re Stephen A.

The blockbuster match of the 2023 French Open was billed as youth versus experience: the youth of 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz against the experience of 36-year-old Novak Djokovic. That was a tidy shorthand, but that is precisely what happened.
For two enthralling hours, this was the titanic clash between tennis’s next big thing and tennis’s stalwart. And then youth and experience came to bear. Alcaraz began cramping, and the blockbuster match ended with a fizzle, as Djokovic won 6–3,5–7,6–1,6–1, to move into the men’s final.

Stephen A. Smith’s take on Jimmy Butler left basketball fans heated during Friday’s episode of First Take.
Smith opined that Butler, whose team faces a 2–1 deficit to the Nuggets in the NBA Finals, isn’t the right fit to be the best player on a championship team.
“Jimmy is a star, make no mistake about it, and he’s a closer … but as JJ Redick pointed out the other day, a lot of his successes is predicated on getting to the free throw line,” Smith said.