2026

Milwaukee Brewers left-hander Aaron Ashby broke Andrew Miller’s record for scoreless innings by a reliever in one postseason with a 1-2-3 ninth in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night. Ashby followed with a scoreless 10th and the first out of the 11th, getting him to 18 innings scoreless in nine postseason appearances….

And just like that, the NFL trade deadline season has arrived. The Indianapolis Colts made sure of that on Tuesday. They traded a pair of franchise cornerstones within a few hours, agreeing to deals to trade defensive tackle DeForest Buckner to the San Francisco 49ers and guard Quenton Nelson to the Seattle Seahawks. We’ll almost…

I left last week’s Caleb Williams-Drake Maye showdown wishing that the two quarterbacks could face off against each other more often. They’d make incredible rivals — not because of any animosity between the draft classmates. But because of how good they are, how their games overlap and how their stories overlap. They are both top…

When a new generation of blue-chip teenagers recently led the U.S. men’s soccer team to four convincing wins in its first four games since capturing the imagination of the American public during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, optimism about the program’s future surged among USA fans old and new. Perhaps nobody was happier about how Cavan…

Hot seat season is, well, heating up. Three coaches — Mike Locksley (Maryland), Dave Doeren (NC State) and Dave Aranda (Baylor) — were relieved of their duties over the last week for the first Power Four firings of the cycle. I called around to agents and search firm executives in recent weeks to help put…

I’m rather astonished by the reality faced by Oregon, USC and Texas A&M. They’re not represented anywhere at all in my latest projected 24-team College Football Playoff field. In a 12-team format, only USC still stands a chance of receiving an invitation to the tournament. But that’s like saying a ripe banana dropped into a…

The Milwaukee Brewers will have to wait for their World Series championship celebration. The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Brewers 4-3 in 12 innings on Tuesday night at Tropicana Field on Ben Williamson’s walk-off single, avoiding elimination and forcing a Game 5 on Wednesday. Brewers manager Pat Murphy’s message to the Brewers after their heartbreaking…

Welcome to the Quarterback Notebook, where I’ll cover the past week in NFL quarterbacking — from the most interesting passers, plays and storylines to some other stuff that caught my eye while watching film this week. This week, we’ll evaluate J.J. McCarthy’s first start for the Giants, figure out what’s behind Daniel Jones’ regression, and…

The ball traveled 396 feet off the bat of Brewers rookie Cooper Pratt and into the left-field bleachers in the 12th inning at Tropicana Park, seeming less like a floating orb and more like a darting dagger delivered directly to the hearts of Rays’ fans. But Tampa Bay wasn’t ready for its season to end….