CHICAGO — Alex Bregman, welcome to the NL Central. Welcome back, Eugenio Suárez. Bregman is hoping to lead the Chicago Cubs to their first Central title since 2020 after signing a $175 million, five-year contract with the North Siders in free agency. But the competition is tough in a ...
When NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood learned in November that his network would be back doing baseball, he immediately knew who he wanted as his play-by-play voice and the format for it. Viewers will get their first look and listen on Thursday when NBC has an opening day ...
TAMPA, Fla. — Alvaro Folgueiras left Spain as a 16-year-old with a dream to play basketball in the United States. He made the biggest shot of his life in the national spotlight to eliminate the defending champions from the NCAA Tournament. On college basketball's grandest stage and with his mother in attendance, Folgueiras nailed a 3-pointer with 4.5 seconds remaining to lift Iowa over No. 1 seed Florida on Sunday, sending the Hawkeyes to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1999. He ran to hug his mom while teammates celebrated by mobbing one another on the floor. Beatriz ...
Ilia Malinin and Amber Glenn stood out for how they handled their Olympic disappointment. Now they get a chance at a different gold medal. The world figure skating championships in Prague from Wednesday offer a chance for Malinin and Glenn to end the season on a high and bring back the kind of dominance they showed when winning U.S. national titles two months ago. "Now I just want to enjoy it," Glenn said after practice on Tuesday. Malinin and Glenn have had over a month to digest what happened at the Milan Cortina Olympics, where both won team gold for the U.S. but missed the ...
There are some big games on Wednesday in the NBA. Atlanta visits Detroit in a matchup pitting a Hawks team that is rolling against a Pistons team trying to lock up the Eastern Conference's No. 1 seed. Oklahoma City plays Boston, a showdown featuring the two most recent champions. Houston plays Minnesota, a game that could factor mightily into Western Conference seeding. And Washington plays Utah. A team on a 16-game slide will visit a team that would unquestionably benefit from finishing fifth or worse in the league this season. The tanking epidemic is being discussed yet again ...
TAMPA, Fla. — Kevin Cash isn't worried that manager ejections will become a relic of baseball's past just because robot umpires have arrived to settle some debates. "You only get two challenges, right? That can come up in the first inning," the Tampa Bay Rays manager said. Manager ...
