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The NFL presented its major awards for the 2025 season on Thursday night, and I was honored to again be part of the 50-member panel chosen by the Associated Press to vote on its All-Pro team and season awards. I've been able to do this for the last four years, and the ballot has expanded in that time to now have us voting for a top five on each of […]

There are good teams. There are great teams. And then there is the juggernaut that Team USA will be sending to the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Under manager Mark DeRosa, this is clear-cut the best roster that Team USA has ever compiled. That seemed to be a given when Aaron Judge, who is set to play in his first WBC, signed on to be the captain of the team. But […]

Japan's the team to beat, but they'll have some stiff competition from the rest of the globe in the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Will the returning champs earn their fourth WBC title? Or will this be a Dream Team for the USA? Rosters were officially unveiled Thursday night for the World Baseball Classic, as the 20-team tournament will return in March with a record 78 MLB All-Stars taking part. Before […]

Three years after Shohei Ohtani struck out then-Angels teammate Mike Trout to claim Japan’s third World Baseball Classic title, baseball’s biggest international tournament is only weeks away from returning. In its quest to rebound, Team USA has reloaded its roster with the best one it has ever assembled — a group that includes AL MVP Aaron Judge and the AL and NL Cy Young Award winners Tarik Skubal and Paul […]

Aaron Judge. Shohei Ohtani. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Juan Soto. The world's biggest stars will be on display soon, and we don't even have to wait until the MLB Playoffs for the stakes to be as high as they get. Twenty teams representing countries from around the world will compete in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, and after a long wait, we finally have the full rosters. Who's in? Who's out? […]

A lot was different in sports the last time that the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks met in the Super Bowl on Feb. 1, 2015. The San Francisco Giants had just won their third World Series in five years (2010, 2012 and 2014); Ohio State defeated 2014 Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota and the Oregon Ducks in the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship the month prior; projected lottery […]

BOWMAN GRAY STADIUM (WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.) — A snow-delayed race that featured rain and sleet had drivers spinning out as they battled each other and their rain tires Wednesday night in NASCAR’s preseason exhibition Clash. So maybe it was appropriate that Ryan Preece, a short-track modified standout from the Northeast who had not won a Cup points event, captured the marathon that took 2 hours, 20 minutes on the historic quarter-mile […]

The countdown to the 2026 FIFA World Cup continues, and we're just months away from seeing the world's biggest sporting event hit the shores of North America. The U.S. men's national team take on Paraguay in its opener on June 12 in Los Angeles, so that leaves plenty of time to talk about who will be in the starting XI for Mauricio Pochettino's squad. We all have our thoughts, but […]

For most of the season, we’ve seen statistics that encapsulate why Drake Maye is one of one. He's the first NFL quarterback, for example, to ever have a game with a 90-plus completion percentage, 250-plus passing yards and five touchdowns. There are several more examples. But it’s not the specific stats that matter, really. It’s that Maye did something unprecedented: the first. On Sunday, he has the chance to be the […]