Twelve teams get a shot at October. Only one finishes it with a World Series title. The MLB postseason sends six American League clubs and six National League clubs into a four-round bracket. The top two division winners in each league earn a bye. Everyone else has to survive a best-of-three Wild Card Series before the bracket shifts into the longer rounds. The 2026 postseason is tentatively scheduled to begin […]

For USC football fans, showing up to support a blue-blood program seems to require a specific temperature. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum saw lower attendance numbers during USC's Week 0 win over San Jose State, raising questions about fan turnout and program engagement to start the season. Addressing the turnout, Joel Klatt acknowledged that while USC remains widely recognized as a blue-blood program, attendance for Los Angeles-based teams differs from […]

One of college basketball’s cathedrals is getting a corporate makeover. Duke is slated to announce a four-year sponsorship deal with Edward Jones that will see the company’s logos added to the floor at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The agreement will also include Edward Jones being designated a "Champion Partner of Duke Athletics" and becoming the presenting sponsor of the Duke Champions Club. "What we have available and the changing economic realities […]

Preseason is over, thankfully. Next stop: Week 1. There will be so many things to preview for the first week of the season, especially the 2026 NFL opener — a Super Bowl rematch between the Patriots and Seahawks on Sept. 9. But I want to take this last week of the offseason to write about the vibes and the processes around the league — just to honor training camp and […]

A fluke occurrence leads to a big W. Pete Crow-Armstrong is on fire. The Yankees made some history. Max Scherzer looked like Max Scherzer. Sunday's MLB action provided all that and much more. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball: Padres’ closer Mason Miller went over a year without allowing a home run. Now, in the last week, in consecutive appearances, he’s given up […]

It’s hard to remember a defending Super Bowl champion flying under the radar entering a season more than this year’s Seahawks. Seattle has the fourth-best odds to win the Super Bowl this year and is a rare defending champion that is not even favored to win its own division. Granted, the odds are what they are for a reason. The Los Angeles Rams are the favorites in the NFC West […]

Success is all relative in the NFL, and it means different things for each of the 32 teams. Every win and loss is framed in the context of the original expectations for your season. You can go 11-6 and disappoint, like the Philadelphia Eagles last season. Or you can just go 6-11 and take a step forward as a franchise, just as the New Orleans Saints did this past year. […]

September is nearly here, which means it's a good time to examine the road ahead for every playoff hopeful. While the Brewers, Dodgers and Braves hold comfortable leads atop their divisions in the National League, the American League races are much tighter. The Astros hold a two-game lead on the Rangers in the AL West, the White Sox are up 3.5 games on the Guardians in the AL Central, and […]

With the college football season upon us, NFL executives and scouts will be keeping a close eye on a talented 2027 quarterback class that has the potential to rank as the best in NFL history. That mythical title still belongs to the 1983 class headlined by Hall of Famers John Elway, Dan Marino and Jim Kelly. For more than four decades, that was the only class to feature six QBs […]

With the NFL cutdown day off to a fast start, there have been plenty of trades, surprise cuts, and even a future Hall of Famer coming out of retirement. Sunday provided much-needed news in a truly eventful fashion. Three-time Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald is coming out of retirement for one last championship run on a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Rams. Meanwhile, Odell Beckham Jr. made […]