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Aaron Judge ties Alex Rodriguez on Yankees' all-time HR list
Aaron Judge continues to climb the all-time home run rankings for the New York Yankees, with his 36th homer of the year on Sunday moving the captain into a sixth-place tie with Alex Rodriguez for the most long balls in Yankees history.,Judge sent a 2-1 cutter 409 feet over the wall in right-center f...
NBA Board of Governors approves sale of Timberwolves
Four years after starting the process to take over, Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez are officially in charge of the Minnesota Timberwolves.,The NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale on Tuesday of the controlling interests in both the Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx from Glen T...
Reports: Alex Rodriguez, Marc Lore to own Timberwolves, Lynx
Glen Taylor has agreed to transfer complete ownership of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx to the group led by Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez, multiple outlets reported Wednesday.,Taylor agreed to part ways with the NBA and WNBA teams for $1.5 billion, which was the same price that the sides initial...
Alex Rodriguez, Marc Lore win arbitration case for Wolves ownership
An arbitration panel on Monday ruled 2-1 in favor of Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore in their quest for a controlling ownership stake of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx.,The NBA Board of Governors need to approve Rodriguez and Lore before the deal is formalized. Current o...
Report: Wolves' ownership saga to face arbitrator in January
The nearly five-year ownership battle for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx is set to go in front of an arbitrator in January, Sportico reported Wednesday.,The $1.5 billion sale of the teams to Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez was put in limbo in March when current owner Gle...
Reports: A-Rod, Marc Lore put $940M in escrow in move to buy Wolves
Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore have at least $940 million in escrow to strengthen their cause as limited partners attempting to buy out majority owner Glen Taylor for full control of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Lynx, according to multiple media reports on Tuesday.,Rodriguez and his...
Report: Michael Bloomberg to join effort to buy Wolves, Lynx
Alex Rodriguez and business partner Marc Lore have added a power hitter to their team as they attempt to gain majority ownership of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx.,Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, is joining the prospective ownership group, The Athletic...
Are the Minnesota Timberwolves for real or <em>American Fiction</em>?
It’s Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees.The Minnesota Timberwolves’ deceptive season has been one of the hottest topics in the West so let’s start there....
Let's have some fun with who could replace Rob Manfred as MLB commissioner
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has announced his retirement, calling it once his contract expires at the end of the 2029 season. There are many people who are perfectly qualified to take over for him, so here are our top 10 choices for the next commish. ...
How suspected or confirmed PED users have fared in Baseball Hall of Fame voting
Is Gary Sheffield more Hall of Fame worthy than Alex Rodriguez, despite the fact that both are inextricably linked to performing enhancing drugs?...
A-Rod set to become majority owner of Timberwolves, Lynx
A-Rod’s transition from tape-measure shots to three-point bombs seems to be complete....
Phoenix Suns' Big 3 will be put on hold...again
Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught, and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe....
This week in MLB: Shohei Ohtani stirs controversy; Mariners' tough spot is bad for game; Juan Soto takes NY
Maybe GM Jerry Dipoto is trying to make that 54 percent a real challenge. ...
Why is Juan Soto such a burden?
Juan Soto might be the best hitter of his generation. In the past 53 years, only six players have accumulated more fWAR than Soto has before hitting age 25. They are Mike Trout, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, Ken Griffey Jr, and Andruw Jones. All of them Hall of Famers except for Jones. And the othe...
Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce and other high profile athlete-celebrity romances that make you go, 'Hmmm'
Even if you’re famous, having someone to cuddle with at night is still a priority. It’s harder in the public eye to keep who your bedmate is on the down low, and in some cases, wondering how these pairs came together is more interesting than their relationship itself. Have we seen a more notorious a...
Here are all the 200+ hit seasons, by franchise, in MLB history
Immaculate Grid has been a hit with baseball stat geeks since its launch in April. While the stats puzzle has since expanded to basketball, football, and hockey, it’s still baseball that makes the game what it is. So if you need help filling out your daily grid, give these stats a look....
LeBron James, wife and 2 associates named in federal PED investigation
There hasn’t been a performance-enhancing drugs scandal in basketball. At least, not to the level of, say, the likes of BALCO and Major League Baseball. As close as we came was when the NBA started testing players for HGH before the beginning of the 2015-16 season. The trendy thing to do online at t...
The time has come for Mike Trout and the Angels to part ways
It’s time. Point blank. The Los Angeles Angels need to deal Mike Trout and rebuild. It’s a layered dynamic that’ll have people around Hollywood already upset that their beloved American superhero doesn’t figure into future plans. It’d have more substance if Mike Trout had ever been a part of a team ...
Victor Conte: Players are still doping and the leagues know it
There is a warped irony in the timing between Netflix’s new sports-doping documentary, Untold: Hall of Shame, and the most recent suspension of a professional athlete for violating a league’s performance-enhancing drug policy....
Skip and Rich are Undisputed, it could work
If Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez can share a set together then why not Richard Sherman and Skip Bayless? That was a one-time viral social media beef 10 years ago. Bayless is several controversies removed from that one. That A-Rod and Jeter beef stewed for decades, much of it with them next to each ...