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Celtics' Brad Stevens named NBA Executive of Year
Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens was named the NBA Basketball Executive of the Year for the second time in three seasons on Tuesday.,Stevens' Celtics finished with the second-best record (56-26) in the Eastern Conference in 2025-26 and secured a top-two playoff seed for...
Star-studded trio finalists for NHL's Ted Lindsay Award
Connor McDavid, Nikita Kucherov and Macklin Celebrini were named finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award on Tuesday.,The award goes each year to the most outstanding player in the NHL, as chosen by members of the NHL Players' Association. The three finalists were among the top four points scorers in the...
Steelers place rare contract tender on Aaron Rodgers
If Aaron Rodgers plays another season, the Steelers want to make sure it's with Pittsburgh.,The franchise placed the rare right-of-first-refusal tender on unrestricted free agent quarterback Aaron Rodgers, ESPN reported on Tuesday morning.,The move means Rodgers can accept a 10-percent raise from la...
Top Remaining Veterans Teams Should Target After NFL Draft
A look at the top NFL veterans still available in free agency, including Aaron Rodgers and Stefon Diggs....
Long-ball White Sox chase series win vs. Angels in clash of aces
Back-to-back home runs from Munetaka Murakami and Miguel Vargas sparked the Chicago White Sox to a seven-run outburst in the seventh inning on Monday night.,While the long ball proved the key to an 8-7 home victory against the slumping Los Angeles Angels, the White Sox also are confident in their ab...
Munetaka Murakami blasts 3-run homer to spark Angels' rally past White Sox
Munetaka Murakami belted a go-ahead three-run home run and Miguel Vargas followed with a solo shot to key a seven-run seventh inning and lift the host Chicago White Sox to an 8-7 victory against the skidding Los Angeles Angels on Monday.,Chicago regrouped from a sluggish start to send the Angels to ...
NCAA advances age-based eligibility pitch; not retroactive for ’25-26
The Division I Board of Directors directed the Division I Cabinet to move forward with a major change to NCAA eligibility rules Monday, but president Charlie Baker said he won't recommend that current seniors and graduates be grandfathered in.,The model in question will allow NCAA athletes to play ...
Report: FIFA adding another yellow card amnesty for World Cup
FIFA is planning to add a second yellow card "amnesty" period for the 2026 World Cup, The Athletic reported Monday.,The FIFA Council will meet Tuesday in Vancouver to discuss new rules ahead of the first 48-team tournament in World Cup history. That reportedly will include an additional yellow card ...
Mavs' Cooper Flagg narrowly wins ROY over Kon Knueppel
In the second-closest vote in the award's recent history, a 100-member global media panel selected Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg as the 2025-26 NBA Rookie of the Year on Monday.,Flagg, who earned the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy along with the honor, outpaced his former Duke teammate Kon Knueppel...
Report: Phoenix, Vegas potential options if Whitecaps relocate
Las Vegas and Phoenix are the top contenders to become an MLS city if the Vancouver Whitecaps were to relocate, The Athletic reported on Monday.,MLS declined to comment on the report.,Per the report, a special committee of MLS owners met earlier this month to conduct talks on the future of the White...
Seven-time Olympic champion Allyson Felix chasing comeback at 40
Allyson Felix, the most decorated Olympic track athlete with 11 medals and seven golds, wants a ticket to the Games in her hometown of Los Angeles in 2028 and has no intention to buy it.,Felix, 40, said Monday she is launching a comeback four years after retirement to prove she remains worthy of rep...
Two days later, Mike Vrabel back with Patriots
Mike Vrabel was back with the New England Patriots on Monday, two days after he voluntarily left the team to seek counseling amid a controversy over his visit to an Arizona resort with then-Athletic reporter Dianna Russini.,Vrabel was photographed in Utah at a Salt Lake City airport boutique on Satu...
Fever's Kelsey Mitchell, Sophie Cunningham remain committed to Europe's Project B
Indiana Fever stars Kelsey Mitchell and Sophie Cunningham remain committed to upstart women's basketball league Project B despite some earlier mixed messages about how the WNBA's new CBA might affect their desire to play overseas.,Mitchell told reporters last week that it would take a "drastic, uniq...
Tigers' Spencer Torkelson eyes history in opener vs. league-best Braves
Detroit's Spencer Torkelson could write his name in the franchise record book when the visiting Tigers open a three-game series against the red-hot Atlanta Braves on Tuesday.,Torkelson matched the franchise mark by hitting a home run in his fifth consecutive game on Sunday against Cincinnati. Anothe...
Celtics return home with chance to finish off reeling Sixers
The Boston Celtics can close out the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series with the visiting Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 on Tuesday night., ,After splitting two games in Boston, the second-seeded Celtics took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series by beating the seventh-seeded 76ers twice i...
Angels, White Sox looking for offensive consistency
One month into the season, the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Angels have experienced extreme positives at the plate to go with frustrating negatives.,As the teams begin a three-game set in Chicago on Monday, the aim remains to build consistency -- with victories hopefully to follow.,After outsco...
Former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says timing right for new leadership
Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said the timing was right for both him and the organization when he stepped down after 19 seasons without a losing record.,Tomlin, who guided the Steelers to victory in Super Bowl XLIII in the 2008 season, told NBC on Sunday night in his first interview s...
Guardians place RHP Shawn Armstrong (groin) on 15-day injured list
The Cleveland Guardians placed right-hander Shawn Armstrong on the 15-day injured list on Sunday because of a right groin strain.,The move was retroactive to Thursday. In a corresponding move, the Guardians recalled right-hander Colin Holderman from Triple-A Columbus.,Armstrong, 35, last pitched on ...
Lane Thomas, Royals outslug Angels in 10 innings
Lane Thomas hit a three-run, walk-off homer in the 10th inning, after Jac Caglianone clubbed a tying two-run shot in the ninth, and the host Kansas City Royals rallied past the Los Angeles Angels 11-9 on Sunday to complete a three-game series sweep.,In a contest whose start was moved up roughly thre...
Payton Pritchard (32), Celtics shoot down Sixers, lead 3-1
Payton Pritchard scored a career-playoff-high 32 points off the bench and the Boston Celtics took a 3-1 series lead with a convincing 128-96 road victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night.,Jayson Tatum made five treys and recorded 30 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds and Jaylen Brown a...