The Athletics’ eventual move from Oakland to Las Vegas cleared a major hurdle Tuesday, with the team and Bally’s Corporation reaching an agreement to build a $1.5 billion stadium on a portion of the Tropicana hotel site near the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip, according to Howard Stutz of The Nevada Independent.
Bally’s plans to demolish the Tropicana, per Stutz, to build the 35,000-seat stadium in a move that’s expected to reduce public funding for the project to $395 million.
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The Georgia football team has elected to not visit the White House to celebrate the program’s second College Football Playoff national championship.
The White House extended an invitation for the Bulldogs to visit Washington, D.C., on June 12. However, a spokesman from Georgia’s athletic department wrote in a statement that the date listed for the program to attend the White House was “not feasible” in consideration of the schedule for its student athletes.
Moments that previously felt like end-all blows have instead revealed a different level of grit for Philadelphia. It has been on display in these East semifinals.
This week on the Bandwagon, Hannah and Zach try and figure out how Juan Soto ended up in a Petco for his calendar shoot, explore the already tumultuous relationship between Willson Contreras and the Cardinals, and chat with Craig Goldstein from Baseball Prospectus about appreciating umpires.
DJ Rodman, the son of Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman, revealed his intention to transfer to USC for his fifth and final season of college basketball, he announced on social media.
“All these ups and downs, lefts and rights led me to Fight On,” he said on Instagram.
Rodman spent the past four seasons at Washington State, playing in 111 total games for the Cougars. He started 42 games and has averaged 5.5 points and 4.0 rebounds in his career. But he is coming off his best season in 2022-23, having started 30 of 31 games while averaging 9.6 points and 5.8 rebounds.
Bucks star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo shared a mysterious tweet on social media Tuesday, seemingly offering his thoughts on the criticism that his team has received after the No. 8-seed Heat eliminated Milwaukee in five games in the first round of the playoffs.
Milwaukee entered this year’s postseason as the top seed in the Eastern Conference after concluding the regular season with a league-best 58–24 record. Despite the Bucks’ regular-season success, Milwaukee became the sixth No. 1 seed in NBA history to lose to an eighth seed.
Football is a game that plays tricks on the mind. It offers narrative paths that you think you’ve seen before and then, just as you think you know the destination, turns off on a different route. Real Madrid against Manchester City was billed as the final before the final, and lived up to that billing for quality, both of the play and the two goals. And it was tight, a 1–1 draw that leaves the semifinal to be settled in the second leg next week.
And yet it didn’t look it would be tight, at least at the start. But then that in itself is not uncommon.
The famous TikTok corgi named Lilo is going viral once again after the dog has correctly predicted every game of the Lakers–Warriors second-round series thus far.
Lilo, also known as “Air Corg,” is known for his basketball trick shots. His owner throws Lilo the plastic basketball while “Steph Furry” is on the stairs, and then he uses his nose to shoot the basketball into one of two hoops, each representing a team.
The corgi, who has over 1.3 million followers on TikTok, has been adorably making his predictions for each NBA playoff series.
The New York Mets are facing another setback in their starting rotation, this time with Max Scherzer.
It certainly hasn’t been the expected start to the 2023 MLB season for the Mets, and the news continues to get worse.
In March, prized offseason acquisition Justin Verlander missed the start of the season with an injury.
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After a lengthy absence, Verlander returned recently to make his first start.
But good things apparently don’t last long in Queens.
Hunter Dickinson, one of the highest-profile transfers in men’s college basketball history, revealed Tuesday a key reason he decided to depart Michigan: name, image and likeness money.
On the latest episode of the Roundball Podcast, a show Dickinson co-hosts with Barstool Sports’ Marty Mush and former Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon, Dickinson made some eye-popping claims about how little money he earned through NIL last season while playing for the Wolverines.
“The people hating on me would leave their job right now for a $10,000 [a year] increase,” Dickinson said.