Phoenix Raceway (Avondale, Ariz.) — INDYCAR has a new points leader. That shouldn’t really be news. But Alex Palou had not left a race in any other spot than the points leader after every race since Laguna Seca in June 2024 — a span of 28 straight races. That streak ended after he crashed early…
Phoenix Raceway (Avondale, Ariz.) — Josef Newgarden now has his first win of the 2026 INDYCAR season. He’s also got jokes. After taking the checkered flag Saturday, Newgarden jokingly put some pressure on his Team Penske counterparts in the NASCAR Cup Series to deliver in their race Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1) as part…
All-Stars, MVPs, and Cy Young winners. Plenty of MLB’s best players will be taking the diamond and representing their countries at the 2026 World Baseball Classic. We’re following along with the top moments of each day. Here was the recap of the action on Saturday, March 7, which included a whopping 20 home runs across…
Has Tarik Skubal thrown his last pitch for Team USA at the 2026 World Baseball Classic? The Detroit Tigers ace went three full innings in the United States’ rout of Great Britain in pool play on Saturday at Daikin Park in Houston. He was retired after 41 pitches, five strikeouts, two hits allowed and one…
It took a little time for the United States’ lethal offense to wake up, a credit to the weapons on Great Britain’s pitching staff. But once Team USA finally got rolling, the second game of the World Baseball Classic looked a lot like the first. After throttling Brazil on Friday, USA again took care of…
The best player available this NFL offseason has been traded. The Las Vegas Raiders have sent defensive end Maxx Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens, according to ESPN, for Baltimore’s 2026 and 2027 first-round draft picks. That pick in this year’s draft is 14th overall. [NFL Top 100 Free Agents] Crosby is a two-time second-team All-Pro…
Phoenix Raceway (Avondale, Ariz.) — As Joey Logano stood on pit road during the final INDYCAR practice Friday, he marveled at what he was seeing … and hearing. “They’re going really fast, number one,” Logano told me. “They’re a little quieter than what our race cars are like. “The biggest things you notice is just…
This was supposed to be the biggest mismatch of the World Baseball Classic, a team composed primarily of non-affiliated baseball players facing the most decorated roster in the competition’s history. Instead, Brazil gave the best USA team ever assembled everything that it could handle through the first eight innings of its first game of the…
Where will Alec Pierce, the top wide receiver in NFL free agency, land? Which team will sign Stefon Diggs, who was informed of his release by the Patriots this week after he played in his first Super Bowl? What about five-time All-Pro Tyreek Hill? Or Bucs legend Mike Evans? Here are the top 10 free-agent…
Are South American teams going to dominate at the 2026 FIFA World Cup? Maybe not all of them, but it would not be surprising to see two of CONMEBOL’s best in the tournament’s semifinals. Here are my full power rankings with less than 100 days until the first game on June 11: You know, you…
