American Madison Keys celebrates match point against Aryna Sabalenka to win the 2025 Australian Open title. (Photo by MARTIN KEEP/AFP via Getty Images) Having already authored one surprising upset after another in the 2025 Australian Open, 19th-seeded American Madison Keys had one final stunning match left in her, taking down world No. 1 and two-time … Read more
The Utah Hockey Club would like to have a permanent team name before the 2025–26 NHL season, but the six names under consideration have been refused by the U.S. Patents and Trademark Office. (Photo by Hunter Dyke/NHLI via Getty Images) The Utah Hockey Club can’t get the puck into the net regarding its efforts to … Read more
The fans have had their say… mostly. They wanted LaMelo Ball to be an All-Star starter, but the players’ votes (had him third) and mostly the media (seventh) ended that. However, the media wanted Victor Wembanyama and Anthony Davis to start over LeBron James and Kevin Durant, but they didn’t get that wish, either. The … Read more
USC players run onto the field before their 2024 season opener against Louisiana State at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sept. 1. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) After months of promising major changes to its personnel operation, USC has hired a general manager for its football program. Chad Bowden will be USC’s next … Read more
Now that every team will have hit the 41-game mark Friday night, it’s time to honor the best performers from the season’s first half. Without further ado, here are our midseason award winners … The Midseason MVP is … Kevin O’Connor: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who is having the best season on one of the most dominant … Read more
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame offensive lineman Pat Coogan, who started 26 games over the last two seasons and often served as the team’s pregame hype man, is transferring. Coogan announced his intentions on social media and will have one year of eligibility remaining as a graduate transfer. He joins fellow guards Rocco Spindler … Read more
(Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports Illustrated) In the NBA’s free-agency period of 2016, as Kevin Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder for the team that had beaten them in the Western Conference finals, selecting the Golden State Warriors over the Boston Celtics and other suitors, Al Horford did the opposite. He left the Atlanta Hawks for the … Read more
The Pegasus World Cup Invitational was first run on January 28, 2017, and has been a premier horse racing event since with its big purses and even bigger names. The race was initially proposed to provide the best horses with one last high-stakes race before retiring to stud during the breeding season, which starts in … Read more
J.T. Miller has a no-move clause, which makes it more difficult for the Vancouver Canucks to trade the veteran forward. According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the Carolina Hurricanes and New York Rangers are two of the teams with permission to talk with Miller. The Rangers and Canucks were reportedly progressing on a trade before the … Read more
On Friday, the Jacksonville Jaguars officially announced that Liam Coen would be the team’s new head coach. The path to get there, though, was far from linear: Coen agreed to join the Jaguars during a secret second interview on Thursday, after already verbally agreeing to an extension as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator. In … Read more