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Report: Pats sign C David Andrews through 2025
The New England Patriots and center David Andrews agreed to an extension through 2025, ESPN reported Thursday.,He will earn a base salary of $12 million in each of the next two seasons, with a max value of $13 million, plus a total of $8 million fully guaranteed, per the report.,Andrews, 31, has won...
Jordan Beck (5 RBIs), Rockies blank Padres for 7th straight win
Jordan Beck hit his first major league homer and drove in a career-best five runs and Austin Gomber delivered a strong start as the visiting Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 8-0 on Wednesday for their seventh straight win.,Colorado has swept back-to-back series for the first time since tak...
Newly aggressive Rockies pursue sweep of Padres
The team that won just eight of 36 games to start the season has suddenly ripped off six straight victories.,So what's different about the Colorado Rockies, who will aim for a series sweep on Wednesday afternoon when they finish a three-game set against the host San Diego Padres?,According to Colora...
Rockies double up Padres for sixth straight win
Cal Quantrill pitched into the seventh inning and Ezequiel Tovar homered as the visiting Colorado Rockies stretched their winning streak to six games with a 6-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night. ,Quantrill (3-3) scattered six hits over six-plus innings, allowing one run and three w...
Padres' Dylan Cease faces Rockies, winners of 5 in a row
As he watched Dylan Cease strike out one helpless Chicago Cubs hitter after another last week, San Diego Padres right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. came to a realization.,"When you see that, you're just grateful he's on your team," Tatis Jr. said.,Cease will try to keep up his dominant early-season for...
Rockies edge Padres as Dakota Hudson ends skid
Elehuris Montero drove in three runs and Dakota Hudson snapped a personal six-game losing streak to start the season as the visiting Colorado Rockies held off the San Diego Padres 5-4 on Monday.,Hudson (1-6) worked 5 2/3 innings, allowing three hits and three runs with three walks and three strikeou...
Randy Vasquez, Padres look to subdue Rockies in series opener
Randy Vasquez has been left with quite a tall bar to clear.,Four straight San Diego Padres starters have worked at least five innings and allowed two or fewer hits. It's believed to be the first time it's happened in 131 years, according to research from Elias Sports Bureau.,Vasquez will try to make...
Yu Darvish sharp, Padres hit three HRs in win over Dodgers
Yu Darvish retired the first 14 batters he faced Sunday and allowed just two hits in seven shutout innings as the San Diego Padres blanked the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 in the rubber game of a three-game series.,Darvish (3-1) walked one and fanned seven in winning his third straight start. Si...
These MLB players went straight to the majors
On Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates told No. 1 overall pick Paul Skenes that he will begin in the minor leagues. While it is disappointing we get robbed of seeing one of the league’s most exciting pitching prospects right out of the gate, the move is not unprecedented. In the history of the MLB, only ...
The NFL's best free agent signings of 2023
The 2024 NFL league year is around the corner. That gives us one full year’s sample size to judge last year’s free agent class. Among all the teams who spent big in free agency last season, whose money made the most for them? These 2023 free agents were hugely important to their teams’ success and a...
With Russell Wilson gone, Sean Payton can’t point the finger at anyone but himself
Now that the Denver Broncos have made their decision about moving on from the Russel Wilson era, it’s time for head coach Sean Payton to get serious. There’s a lot at stake here and Payton can’t whiff on this quarterback selection. Whether it be via free agency or the draft, Payton is only going to ...
It was time for Jamal Adams and the Seattle Seahawks to part ways
The Seattle Seahawks are entering a retooling phase. It’s not quite a full-on rebuild but there’s enough movement within the organization on and off the field that the team will look quite different next season. It was announced on Tuesday that the Seahawks would be releasing three-time Pro Bowl saf...
Do the Thunder have a Josh Giddey problem?
Need any more evidence that Gilbert Arenas’ bellyaching about Europeans and foreigners ruining basketball with their sweet outside strokes is all hot air? I’ll give you one: Josh Giddey. Now that his legal woes appear to be in the rearview mirror, the whispers about his liabilities in the Oklahoma C...
Liverpool pulled another rabbit, but its pixie dust might only last a week
While I really shouldn’t let my frustration with how MLB has sullied their regular season into my soccer coverage, it was hard not to think about how Rob Manfred just discarded those moments during the regular season that portended to more down the line as I watched Darwin Nunez dig out a Liverpool ...
Every No. 1 NFL Draft pick since 2000
The NFL Scouting Combine is the first sign for everyone to get serious about draft talk. It gives football fans just under two months to prepare for a new name to walk across the stage as Roger Goodell says, “With the first overall pick…” Will they become the new face of the league? Or will they fla...
The Houston Cougars would be the unlikeliest champion in modern NCAA history
Coming off the high of 2023, the 2024 NBA Draft class is destined to be one of the most lifeless in modern history, which explains the predicament men’s college basketball has found itself in here in 2024. While the women are pumping out household names such as Caitlyn Clark, JuJu Watkins, Paige Bue...
This may upset Rob Manfred, but starting pitchers are not ever going to be what they used to be
It’s easy to say that MLB gets too caught up in its past and tries too hard to be the game it once was. A major part of baseball’s charm is its connection to its past. While the other sports don’t look anything like they did even 20 or 30 years ago, baseball doesn’t ever move too far from what it’s ...
An ode to the enigma that was Paul Pogba
With the news that Paul Pogba has been suspended for four years (pending appeal), it almost certainly ends his career. Should he have to serve the full four seasons, he’ll be 35 and not have played in forever. The question of whether he’s a legend or left far too much on the table would depend on wh...
Justin Jefferson pressured ex-girlfriend to get abortion: paternity suit
Minnesota Vikings star receiver Justin Jefferson is facing a paternity lawsuit and allegedly pressured the child’s mother into getting an abortion. ...
The Patriots sure put the F in family
The New England Patriots are not a family-friendly organization. Color me surprised. ...