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Swiss striker Breel Embolo gets visa, cleared to enter U.S.
Switzerland forward Breel Embolo could not travel with the team on Tuesday due to a flagged visa, but the Switzerland football federation on Thursday announced that Embolo would be joining his teammates later this week.,"We have just been informed that Breel Embolo's visa has been approved," a state...
Dodgers place IF Kike Hernandez (oblique) on IL, recall Alex Freeland
The Los Angeles Dodgers returned infielder Kike Hernandez to the injured list on Wednesday due to a left oblique strain. With Hernandez back on the shelf after a mere two-game return, infielder Alex Freeland has been recalled in a corresponding move.,Hernandez, who started the season on the IL due t...
Rockies starter Kyle Freeland scratched (shoulder) against Padres
Colorado Rockies starter Kyle Freeland was scratched from his start Sunday at the San Diego Padres because of left posterior shoulder soreness.,Freeland, who was 1-1 with a 2.30 earned run average in his first three starts this year, was replaced by right-handed reliever Jimmy Herget. It was the sec...
Giants 3B Matt Chapman suspended 1 game for pushing Rockies P Kyle Freeland
San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Chapman has been suspended one game for pushing Colorado Rockies starter Kyle Freeland during a benches-clearing incident Tuesday night at Coors Field, MLB announced Wednesday.,Chapman's suspension was supposed to begin Wednesday, but he's appealed the decisio...
Giants' Willy Adames and Matt Chapman, Rockies' Kyle Freeland ejected in 1st
A leisurely Rafael Devers home run trot spawned three ejections in the first inning of the San Francisco Giants' game against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night in Denver.,Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland and San Francisco's Matt Chapman and Willy Adames were ejected after the benc...
Dodgers place INF Hyeseong Kim (shoulder) on 10-day IL
The Los Angeles Dodgers placed infielder Hyeseong Kim on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday due to left shoulder bursitis.,In a corresponding move, the Dodgers selected the contract of shortstop Alex Freeland from Triple-A Oklahoma City in his first call-up to the majors.,Kim, 26, played on Monday a...
Kyle Freeland, Rockies seek improvement against Astros
Kyle Freeland was getting into a good rhythm for the Colorado Rockies before he landed on the injured list in mid-June. ,The left-hander posted three consecutive quality starts and dropped his ERA by more than half a run, but his first start after coming off the IL broke that string of good outings....
Rockies place LHP Kyle Freeland on IL, activate LHP Austin Gomber
The Colorado Rockies on Sunday placed left-hander Kyle Freeland on the injured list with lower back stiffness, while left-hander Austin Gomber was activated from the 60-day IL and lefty Carson Palmquist was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque.,The Rockies also optioned right-hander Zach Agnos to Albu...
Rockies' starter Kyle Freeland exits with finger injury
Colorado Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland has left Sunday's game after two innings with a finger issue on his pitching hand.,The 31-year-old has a history of recurring blister issues throughout his major league career.,Freeland warmed up for the top of the third inning before manager Bud Black and ...
Knee surgery in future for Kevin Streelman
Kevin Streelman announced Saturday over social media that he will require surgery to repair his injured knee.,"It saddens me to report that I suffered a knee injury the other day. The MRI showed a tear in my (meniscus) that will require surgery in the upcoming weeks," Streelman wrote on X, formerly ...
Three share lead at windy World Wide Technology Championship
Kevin Streelman, Tom Whitney and Rico Hoey are tied atop the leaderboard after the first round of the World Wide Technology Championship on Thursday in Los Cabos, Mexico.,The round is effectively but not officially over, as play was suspended due to darkness with one threesome still on their last ho...
Jaguars sign UFL Defensive Player of Year Breeland Speaks
The Jacksonville Jaguars signed 2024 UFL Defensive Player of the Year Breeland Speaks on Thursday.,The 28-year-old defensive end tallied 9.5 sacks and 13 tackles for loss this spring for the Michigan Panthers.,Speaks was a second-round draft pick by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2018. He played in all 1...
Shohei Ohtani's most likely landing spot is the NL West
We’ve come to the end of our tour of the islands of every MLB team’s offseason outlook. We wrap up in the NL West, still the favorite landing place for Shohei Ohtani, as two of the rivals here are going to duke it out to bring him either slightly up the coast or six hours up it. One more time…...
The best individual Super Bowl performances by Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs players
Sunday will be far from the first rodeo in the Super Bowl from the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. Within the last seven years, multiple players on both teams have won Super Bowl rings....
The warm glow of MLB’s Hot Stove warming glow — NL West
Everywhere except Houston, it’s time for teams and fans to try and get to where Houston is. Or it will be in January or February instead of November and December, like it used to be. Anyway, we run through what teams might need and what they might do, for most of them these things don’t line up, and...
Don’t worry USMNT fans, England have been even more ass
As we discussed yesterday, the first half of the last batch of friendlies for the USMNT could really not have gone worse or been more discouraging. Against the B-team version of Japan, a squad that’s just about on the same plane as the USMNT, the Yanks laid a foul-smelling egg that also doubled as a...
The Rockies don’t make any sense
As infuriating, or disappointing, or occasionally exciting as baseball teams can be these days, you can generally figure out their direction and aims pretty quickly. As well as where they are on said arc. You don’t need a Watson to figure out what the Reds and A’s are doing. Nor do you for the Mets ...
What an actually good, consistent Rockies roster should look like
The timing of it made you wonder what exactly Jeff Bridich was fired for, or encouraged to step down, as it was. Make no mistake, Bridich deserved to be shitcanned for his job, and has for a couple years now. Maybe right after the ink dried on Ian Desmond’s or Wade Davis’ contract. But he was allowe...
Even When Aaron Rodgers Slips Up, He's Spectacular
Even with Patrick Mahomes stuck on the sideline, Sunday night’s game between the Chiefs and the Packers played out as an entertaining battle of offenses that kept matching each other blow for blow. But in a fight between the recently un-retired Matt Moore and the god Aaron Rodgers, it was only a mat...
Deshaun Watson Got Kicked In The Frickin' Eye And Still Threw A Touchdown
Texans QB Deshaun Watson can get you out of your seat at a moment’s notice, but he might have outdone himself while throwing a go-ahead fourth quarter touchdown in his team’s game against the Raiders on Sunday.Watson dropped back with his team down four and facing first-and-goal with six-and-a-half ...