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Bigger dance? Conferences weighing NCAA Tournament fields of 72, 76
Expansion plans for the NCAA Tournament were presented to Division I conference commissioners, who are also reviewing an option for the men's and women's annual March tournaments to remain 68-team events. ,No expansion of the men's and women's tournament would be approved for March 2025, but could b...
Adam Silver: NBA expansion talks on list after media deal
Once the NBA finalizes an expected long and lucrative media-rights deal, commissioner Adam Silver said the focus can turn to expansion.,Speaking on NBC Sports Boston's pregame show before Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night, Silver said no decisions have...
WNBA confirms 14th team heading to Toronto
The WNBA awarded an expansion team to Toronto on Thursday, making the franchise the league's 14th member and the first outside the United States.,The Toronto franchise will join the league in 2026 and will play will most of its home games at Coca-Cola Coliseum at Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto...
Golden State WNBA expansion team reveals name, logo
The WNBA expansion team due to begin play in 2025 in San Francisco unveiled its name, logo and colors on Tuesday, introducing the Golden State Valkyries.,Valkyries are warrior women from Norse mythology.,"This brand is Golden State's modern interpretation of Valkyries: strong, bold, and fierce," the...
It’s fun to watch MLS get smacked down
We get pretty used to sports leagues doing whatever they want, and whatever they want is usually not in any interest of the fans. It’s almost always about control and profit, which runs in direct opposition to fans’ desire to see competition, accessibility and the game we remember that got us all he...
2023 NHL points leaders
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2023 NHL assists leaders
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2023 NHL plus/minus leaders
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2023 MLB AL batting average leaders
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2023 MLB AL stolen bases leaders
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2023 MLB SB leaders
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Coming soon to a city near you: MLB expansion
It’s always been the mantra of Rob Manfred that MLB wouldn’t look towards expansion until the stadium situations for the A’s and Rays were settled. After all, anywhere they’d award an expansion team could still be used as leverage for those teams to wrangle all the tax giveaways and government hando...
The continuing adventures of Angel Hernandez, Leo Messi is doing that thing again, and charter flights in women’s sports rears its ugly head
If you haven’t been following the touring artist exhibition that is Angel Hernandez attempting to call balls and strikes, or simply trying to disprove the utility of rules and conventions in society at all, in various Major League parks this summer, you’re missing one of the truly great examples of ...
What Lionel Messi coming to MLS means — and what it doesn’t
MLS, arguably, have already gotten what they wanted from the signing of Lionel Messi. They were in the headlines the past couple days, a place the league has struggled to stay in. It is something, for the league, that ESPN.com has a Messi headline right next to a headline about Liverpool signing Ale...
Where are the Arizona Coyotes going?
The only thing more exciting to hockey fans than a player in free agency is an entire franchise going into free agency, which it now feels like the Arizona Coyotes have just done. And they certainly don’t mind treading all over the feelings of whatever Coyotes fans are left. It’s a cruel world, but ...
Paul Riley done with 'political, woke' NWSL after lifetime ban
Even if the egregious quartet of Paul Riley (pictured), Richie Burke, Christy Holly, and Rory Dames never would’ve coached American professional soccer again after their despicable actions towards individual players and teams became widely known, making the official move to ban the foursome from the...
MLS becomes the first to go full streaming
Well, someone was going to do it. ...
NBA expansion talk heating up
While the NBA’s Conference finals are making surface-level headlines, tectonic plates are shifting underneath the NBA’s crust. On Tuesday, the NBA’s scuttlebutt radar detected signals that could alter the composition of the league. If a report from Portland 750 AM host and Oregonian sports columnist...
Only the NBA has teams in all three of Atlanta, New Orleans and Memphis and the league is much better for it
At Smoothie King Center in New Orleans they serve frozen daiquiris, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta there is a barbershop, at FedExForum in Memphis they regularly play, from the Oscar winning film Hustle and Flow, “Whoop that Trick.” ...
Just because the season is over doesn’t mean the cleanse stops for the NWSL
I had a feeling, obviously due to recency bias, as soon as I saw the news about Chicago Red Stars coach Rory Dames resigning yesterday morning. It was two days after he had guided the Red Stars to the championship game, even though they were without at least half of their first-choice 11. Sure, he’d...