There’s no need to fear – LeBron James isn’t standing behind that door ready to ball spin and break a collective basketball nation’s heart. It’s nearly one decade later, and a great deal has changed. The Raptors won a championship, James is catching lobs from his son, and about a dozen new catch-all metrics dropped …
Sabrina Walter, his mother, was his driving instructor. Not: She took her son driving so he could get some practice in. But actually: She was a driving instructor, at Prosper Driving school in McKinney, Texas, and her then 16-year-old son was her student, practising for his license. It was the ultimate test of coachability and …
The first round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs features a rematch from the 2021 Stanley Cup Final. Odd as it might be to recall, a pandemic-impacted, 56-game season concluded with the defending-champion Tampa Bay Lightning downing the Montreal Canadiens — the worst team, by record, to make the 2021 playoffs — in five games …
The Saskatchewan Roughriders released Ajou Ajou after the CFL suspended the receiver for at least six games for violating the league’s gender-based violence and harassment policy The league said Thursday in a statement that it was made aware of multiple allegations in late January and immediately initiated a third-party investigation, which included interviews with Ajou, …
Bowness, the club’s head coach, will sign an extension with the team that is expected to be announced when he and general manager Don Waddell meet with the media for the end-of-season availability at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT on Thursday, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. The decision comes less than 48 hours after …
For the two clubs on either side of Pennsylvania, it’s been a rough few years. The Pittsburgh Penguins have waded through three seasons without playoff hockey. For the Philadelphia Flyers, it’s been a half-decade. But here, in 2026, the longtime rivals have made it back, have clawed their way to the post-season spotlight once more, …
Morgan Rielly knows his days in Toronto may be numbered, and it’s not the first time he’s thought like this. The Maple Leafs defenceman has a full no-movement clause on the eight-year, $60-million deal he signed back in 2021, and he’s under contract through the 2029-30 season. Still, he knows he may be approached about …
It’s not often that a fighter who’s described as the best striker at their gym or as creative in the cage as Jon Jones gets a nickname as conventionally unflattering as “Rat Garbage.” Yet it’s fitting, considering nothing about Mandel Nallo’s winding journey in mixed martial arts has followed a standard path. From hiding ankle …
For the first time in his NHL career, Alex Ovechkin doesn’t have a clear next step. After a season that sees the Washington Capitals and the NHL’s all-time leading goalscorer at a crossroads, Ovechkin isn’t ready to give a definitive answer on his playing future. “I don’t know,” Ovechkin said when asked during the Capitals’ …
This week’s second legs of the quarterfinals separated the wheat from the chaff in the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League. We’re now down to four teams is club soccer’s most prestigious competition, with all four teams having an equal chance of hoisting the European Champion Clubs’ Cup. Real Madrid won three consecutive titles from 2016-18, but …