WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Orioles arrived in California as MLB’s hottest team, winners of six straight games. The Athletics, meanwhile, were in a vicious spiral, losers of 20 of their past 22 games. But the A’s pitched two left-handed starting pitchers this weekend. Therefore, the O’s lost two of three. Baltimore is on pace […]
June 6 – French manager Didier Deschamps has praised his young side following their 5-4 defeat against Spain in the last four of the Nations League. France rallied from 5-1 down to deliver a respectable 5-4 scoreline with a flurry of goals in the latter stages of the match, even igniting the hope of an […]
Sitting for dinner with his high school coach on the Las Vegas Strip in 2021, Aaron Wiggins sought guidance. After three seasons at Maryland, the Oklahoma City Thunder, then knee-deep in a rebuild, drafted Wiggins with the 55th overall pick. He signed a two-way deal right there in Nevada. History said he’d be a long […]
June 3 – The English Premier League season closed on Sunday 25 May, the traditional time for players to head on holiday, relax, and repair their bodies after a long, hard season. However, the financially driven football landscape now requires players to endure long haul flights to far reaching countries just days after the campaign […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Pascal Siakam and Tyrese Haliburton made sure the Indiana Pacers gave their fans a celebration they waited 25 years to see again. Siakam had 31 points and Haliburton scored 11 of his 21 in the fourth quarter, carrying the Pacers to a 125-108 victory over the New York Knicks on Saturday night for a […]
May 29 – Real Madrid may have played a season without significant silverware but they have retained their title of being the world’s most valuable football club, according to the 10th Football Benchmark Football Clubs’ Valuation: The European Elite report, with an Enterprise Value (EV) of €6.3 billion. Another club with a poor year on the […]
Spalding enjoyed a tremendous spring season in sports. At one point in May, the Cavaliers had four varsity programs — boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse, softball and baseball — ranked No. 1 in the Baltimore Sun metro-area poll. Unfortunately for the Cavaliers, none of those traditional spring sports teams were able to secure conference championships. However, […]
May 22 – When Mauricio Pochettino (pictured) unveiled his 27-player United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) roster for the upcoming Concacaf Gold Cup, the conversation inevitably centered on who wasn’t there rather than who was. In an era where player welfare collides head-on with international ambition, the Argentine manager finds himself navigating perhaps his most […]
Maryland stewards declined to take action against two jockeys in a bumpy running of the 150th Preakness Stakes that was won by favorite Journalism on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. Umberto Rispoli squeezed between horses around the top of the stretch and then rode Journalism to a tremendous rally. He kept Journalism near the rail, […]
May 22 – Human rights research and advocacy NGO Fairsquare has accused FIFA of “ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules” following the world governing body’s failure to act against the Israeli Football Association (IFA). At last week’s FIFA Congress, Zurich yet again stalled when the Palestinian FA (PFA) demanded a swift conclusion to […]
