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X factor for each AL team
With the start of the baseball season upon us, teams are finalizing their rosters, hoping to put together the group of players that will lead them to the postseason. Which player could be a key -- the X factor -- for each American League team?,American League East,Baltimore Orioles: RHP Zach Eflin,T...
MLB power rankings: Who's favored to meet Dodgers in World Series?
Remember Sham? Of course you do.,On name alone, you just had to buy a ticket on him in his quest to upset Secretariat in the 1973 Belmont Stakes.,As far as we know, Sham is still somewhere rounding the far turn, winning the duel of horses no longer visible on your TV screen.,And there goes Secretari...
MOUZ, Vitality advance to ESL Pro League Season 21 final
Team Vitality and MOUZ advanced on Saturday to the grand final of the ESL Pro League Season 21 at Stockholm.,MOUZ emerged with a 2-1 victory over Team Spirit in one semifinal. MOUZ took a close result, 16-14, on Nuke, then fell 13-7 on Dust II before ousting Team Spirit with a 13-10 win on Ancient.,...
Team Liquid to play for title at PGL Wallachia 3
Team Liquid waited for its opponent to be determined - either Team Falcons or Tundra Esports -- after advancing on Saturday to the Grand Final of the PGL Wallachia Season 3 in Bucharest, Romania.,The $1 million Dota 2 tournament began last weekend and runs through Sunday. All matches in the double-e...
Real Salt Lake score 2 first-half goals, beat Dynamo
Real Salt Lake scored two goals in the first half and successfully held on to defeat the Houston Dynamo 2-1 for a road victory Saturday night.,Diogo Goncalves and Diego Luna each punched in goals to lead the offensive attack for RSL (2-2-0, six points).,Despite earning a 18-10 shots advantage, Houst...
SuperSonics icon Donald "Slick" Watts dies at age 73
Seattle SuperSonics legend Donald "Slick" Watts died Saturday at age 73, according to his son, Donald Jr.,The elder Watts had a stroke in 2021 and had struggled with his health in recent years.,"You did so much for so many of us. It was an honor to call you pops," said Watts Jr., a former college pl...
Real Salt Lake scores 2 first-half goals to beat Dynamo
Real Salt Lake scored two goals in the first half and successfully held on to defeat the Houston Dynamo 2-1 for a road victory Saturday night.,Diogo Goncalves and Diego Luna each punched in goals to lead the offensive attack for RSL (2-2-0, six points).,Despite earning a 18-10 shots advantage, Houst...
Jaren Jackson Jr. pours in 31 as Grizzlies rout Heat
Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 31 points and Desmond Bane added 22 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists to lead the Memphis Grizzlies past the visiting Miami Heat 125-91 Saturday night. The Heat suffered their seventh consecutive loss.,Brandon Clarke scored 12 points, Zach Edey contributed 12 points and ...
Senators defeat Maple Leafs to extend win streak to 6
Claude Giroux scored the go-ahead goal in the second period and the visiting Ottawa Senators defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 on Saturday night.,Jake Sanderson, David Perron and Michael Amadio also scored for the Senators, who have won six in a row and won their past five games against the Maple...
CF Montreal, D.C. United play to scoreless draw
A seven-save performance for Jonathan Sirois helped visiting CF Montreal to a 0-0 draw against D.C. United on Saturday night.,Despite not scoring for the third straight match, Montreal (0-3-1, 1 point) claimed its first non-losing result and first shutout of the season.,D.C. (1-0-3, 6 points) kept i...
Arsenal brace for tough match vs. improving Chelsea
Second-place Arsenal likely need a win to keep their remote title hopes alive on Sunday when they host a fifth-place Chelsea side focused on closing its own gap with its fellow Londoners.,Arsenal (15-3-10, 55 points) have taken only two points from their past three matches to fall 15 points adrift o...
2025 NFL Free Agency: Biggest Losers From First Week of New League Year
It's hard to win the offseason, but these teams are Deadspin's biggest losers from the first week of free agency due to overspending or ignoring holes in their rosters....
Grizzlies bid to bounce back vs. skidding Heat
The Memphis Grizzlies will play the second game of a back-to-back set on Saturday night when they host the Miami Heat.,The Grizzlies (42-25) are coming off a 133-124 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers that snapped the team's four-game winning streak.,As for the Heat (29-37), they're coming off a far gr...
Vitality, MongolZ power into ESL Pro League Season 21 semis
Team Vitality and The MongolZ cruised through their quarterfinal matches on Friday in ESL Pro League Season 21 at Stockholm.,Vitality downed Team Liquid 2-0, and The MongolZ routed Natus Vincere 2-0.,In the semifinals on Saturday, Vitality will oppose The MongolZ, and MOUZ will face off with Team Sp...
Bills signings Larry Ogunjobi, Michael Hoecht banned 6 games for PEDs
Two of the Buffalo Bills' recent free agent signings, defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi and defensive end Michael Hoecht, face six-game suspensions for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.,The news came down Friday, the same day that the Bills introduced both players to the local media.,B...
On road again at D.C. United, CF Montreal hunger for first win
It has been a difficult start to the 2025 MLS season for CF Montreal, who head into their match against host D.C. United on Saturday with three straight losses to open the campaign.,Montreal (0-3-0, 0 points) twice came back from a goal down before falling 3-2 to Atlanta United in the season opener ...
Frequent foes RSL, Dynamo renew rivalry
Two teams that are anything but strangers to each other will take to the pitch this Saturday night when the Houston Dynamo host Real Salt Lake.,This will mark the 10th meeting between RSL (1-2-0, 3 points) and the Dynamo (0-2-1, 1 point) in the past three years. In that time period, they've played e...
Celtics separate in fourth to hand Heat sixth straight loss
Jayson Tatum scored a game-high 28 points, leading the visiting Boston Celtics to a 103-91 win over the slumping Miami Heat on Friday night.,Boston (48-19) also got 25 points from Jrue Holiday, who made 10 of 15 shots, including shooting 5-of-8 on 3-pointers.,Derrick White was key for the Celtics as...
Senators go for another win over rival Maple Leafs
The Ottawa Senators aim to extend their five-game winning streak and continue their dominance in the Battle of Ontario when they visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.,The Senators, who are 6-0-1 in their past seven games as they make a run for the playoffs, are coming off a 6-3 home victo...
Cooper Kupp returns home with 3-year, $45M deal with Seahawks
Former Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp agreed to a three-year, $45 million deal with the Seattle Seahawks, multiple outlets reported Friday.,Joining the Seahawks rates as a homecoming for Kupp, who grew up roughly 140 miles away in Yakima, Wash., and was later an FCS star at Eastern Washington...