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The Vancouver Canucks currently lead the Nashville Predators 3-2 in their opening-round series and can close things out and move on to a date with the Edmonton Oilers with a win on Friday in Music City.
Center JT Miller is doing his part to not let the gravity of Game 6 get to his teammates’ heads, and he’s doing it with the power of a dress shirt.
Canucks writer Iain MacIntyre spotted Miller wearing what definitely wasn’t the typical practice jersey he’d normally wear.

For generations, the configuration of Fenway Park has caused headaches for outfielders.
The stadium, Harry Jones of The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote, “is a structural monstrosity that through the years has proven to be a dreaded nightmare to its visiting baseball clubs.” The year was 1948.
San Francisco Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee experienced the gamut of Fenway Park emotions in 2024 on Thursday as the Giants ground out a 3-1 win over the Boston Red Sox.
First, Lee misplayed a fly ball in the sun and wound up flat on the ground.

With five races already in the books in the 2024 Formula One season, the action on track is heating up. Max Verstappen and Red Bull have grabbed commanding leads in the drivers’ and constructors’ championships, but behind the scenes, the annual silly season has begun and the carousel of drivers has started to spin.
Before teams take to the grid Sunday at the third annual Miami Grand Prix, let’s take a look at what’s happened so far and what might be on the horizon when it comes to movement around the paddock for the 2025 season.

For the first time since 1994, Tiger Woods is not qualified to compete in the U.S. Open – which is being held in June at Pinehurst in North Carolina – based on his play on the golf course. 
Normally, that would mean that he would have to enter and win a qualifying tournament – as several LIV Golf players are attempting, although not Talor Gooch, who apparently thinks he’s above that. But, I digress. 
The USGA offered Woods a special exemption to enter the tournament without having to qualify and Woods accepted.

The Chicago Cubs and New York Mets played a day game at Citi Field on Thursday. In the top of the second inning, Cubs rookie Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a double to right field that scored Patrick Wisdom.
As Crow-Armstrong ran the base paths, his helmet started to fall off so he grabbed it before sliding into second. Then things got really weird. Crow-Armstrong tried to do a pop-up slide, but failed to pop. Instead, he slid over second and came off the bag as Joey Wendle caught the throw from Starling Marte.

The year following a breakout postseason appearance, the 2016 Chicago Cubs won the World Series with six starting position players aged 26 and younger. Eight years later, the Baltimore Orioles, in the year following a breakout postseason appearance, will have five or six starting position players aged 26 and younger once Jackson Holliday returns from his minor league sabbatical with his confidence restored.
Both teams went through deep rebuilds. Both teams built their core by using high draft picks on position players, not pitchers, especially out of college.

The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles, locked in for a final game of a four-game set on Thursday afternoon to determine the sole leader of the AL East, were delayed briefly for a reason you probably haven’t heard before. A wristwatch was causing issues for Juan Soto in the third inning.
Soto complained to the umpire about something out near the batter’s eye. There was some confusion both in the stadium and among broadcasters of the game over what the complaint was.

Jake Fischer and Dan Devine recap last night’s Mavericks win over the Clippers and wonder what comes next for the Heat, Suns and 76ers.

Magic Johnson regrets a social media post he sent to the internet shortly after the Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated by the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
“Laker Nation, I have to apologize to the Lakers organization,” Johnson posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. “It was injuries that plagued the Lakers this season, not load management.

Since his MLB debut in 2019, San Francisco Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski has found himself in the limelight relatively often. Such is life when your grandfather is legendary Boston Red Sox outfielder and first baseman Carl Yastrzemski, a Hall of Famer, Triple Crown winner and three-time batting champion.
Since the Giants and Red Sox rarely cross paths, the younger Yastrzemski rarely reckons on-field with his grandfather’s considerable aura. When the two teams have met up, however, magic has happened. On Sept.