Many fans across Major League Baseball heading into 2024 have labeled the Los Angeles Dodgers as the sport’s villain, thanks to an impressive offseason.
The Dodgers committed $700 million to Shohei Ohtani, $325 million to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, $136.5 million to Tyler Glasnow, $23.5 million to Teoscar Hernandez, and re-signed Clayton Kershaw despite the 35-year-old missing most of the 2024 season. Doing the math, that’s an outlay of effectively $1.2 billion in guaranteed contracts.
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“Sheryl Swoopes is right: Black people can’t be racist,” read a headline in the Los Angeles Times this week.
The author, a black man named Clyde Ford, references Sheryl Swoopes’ defense against accusations that racial animus stirred her inaccuracy-laden belittlement of Caitlin Clark’s collegiate career earlier this year.
“For people to come at me and say that I made those comments [about Clark] because I’m a racist … First of all, black people can’t be racist; but that’s the farthest thing from my mind,” said Swoopes.
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Bojan Bogdanović left a petty review on Pistons’ owner’s private equity firm after trade
Tom Gores became a billionaire by founding Platinum Equity. In 2011, he used his fortune to buy the Detroit Pistons. The Flint, MI native and Michigan State grad was hailed as a savior for ending a drawn-out sale by former owner Karen Davidson, but unfortunately results haven’t followed. Since Gores bought the team, the Pistons have the worst record in the NBA at 368-639 overall.
Gores has poured money into the Pistons several times, but nothing has worked.
On Friday, the Pittsburgh Steelers sent quarterback Kenny Pickett to the other side of the state—dealing him, along with the 120th pick in the 2024 NFL draft, to the Philadelphia Eagles for the 98th pick and two future seventh-round picks.
The move took place as part of an offseason-long shakeup of the Steelers’ quarterback room. Pittsburgh signed quarterback Russell Wilson to a one-year contract on March 15, and longtime Steelers signal-caller Mason Rudolph formally signed with the Tennessee Titans Friday.
It was obvious to anyone with eyes that Kenny Pickett couldn’t be thrilled about the Pittsburgh Steelers signing Russell Wilson this week. Ever since then it’s been Russell Wilson this, Russell Wilson that among Yinzers.
And the Steelers have kind of joined in the celebration.
So where was this Russellmania going to leave Pickett?
It was either going to leave Pickett peeved he was looking like a second fiddle. Or it was going to leave him peeved and ready to compete for the starting job with Wilson. Or it was going to give everyone a third option.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Boring golf. It’s what everyone in professional golf subscribes to.
Just go out there, stripe it down the middle of the fairway, find the green, maybe within 20 feet of the hole. Make the putt or lag it close, then tap it in.
That is boring golf to a tee.
That’s the golf Justin Thomas witnessed for two days. The problem for Thomas is that it wasn’t his own golf, but that of his playing partner, World No.
Wyndham Clark hits a shot during the second round of The 2024 Players Championship. | Photo by Ben Jared/PGA Tour via Getty Images
For the second straight day, Wyndham Clark proved why he is one of the best golfers in the world at The Players Championship.
Wyndham Clark continues to exert his dominance in big-time events.
On Friday, the reigning U.S. Open champion shot a 7-under 65 for the second consecutive day. He became the first player in Players Championship history to open with a pair of 65s or better, per Justin Ray of The Athletic.
Here’s what the numbers say about Aaron Donald’s career, and where he stacks up among the best defensive tackles of all time.
Juwan Howard was fired as Michigan’s men’s basketball coach, the school announced Friday.