Two months ago Riley Tirotta was on a shortlist to make his Major League debut. A genuine call-up candidate. A guy who’d ground his way through the minors, learned multiple positions, done everything right. Then the Blue Jays released him. Just like that. No fanfare, no explanation that made any real sense — just a…
Most coaches land a big recruit and spend at least a week basking in it. Maybe a celebratory dinner. A couple of glad-handing phone calls. A moment to exhale. Not Mark Pope. The man landed Milan Momcilovic — a five-star transfer — and within the same week had turned around and locked down five-star freshman…
At this point Cubs fans aren’t even shocked anymore. They’re just tired. Deeply, bone crushingly tired of refreshing their phones and seeing another injury notification pop up before they’ve even finished their morning coffee. Daniel Palencia. Fifteen day IL. Right elbow inflammation. Of course. How It Happened The cruel part is that Palencia looked…
Edward Cabrera walked off the mound at Wrigley Field on Tuesday night wearing the face of a man who had just been through something genuinely frightening. Hand cramping up mid outing, velocity already a concern, command deserting him in the fifth — and a Cubs rotation that simply cannot afford another setback watching on…
53 Years. One Night. One Man. The last time the New York Knicks won a championship, Nixon was in the White House, the World Trade Center had just opened, and your grandfather was probably still arguing about it at the dinner table. That was 1973. Half a century of heartbreak, dysfunction, and false dawns —…
The Texas Rangers loaded the bases against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Again. And once again they did absolutely nothing with it. The final score was 6-3 to Boston and another golden opportunity went to waste. This isn’t a one off. This isn’t a rough patch. This is a full blown trend — and…
The Philadelphia Phillies have one of the most fearsome top three rotations in all of baseball. Christopher Sanchez, Zack Wheeler and Jesus Luzardo is the kind of 1-2-3 punch that gives opposing lineups nightmares before they even step into the batter’s box. But beyond those three? Things get uncomfortable very quickly. And one young pitcher…
One moment he was the best player on the pitch. The next he was walking down the tunnel at halftime with no explanation and 70,000 fans collectively holding their breath. Christian Pulisic coming off at the break against Paraguay was the one moment that threatened to put a dampener on an otherwise perfect evening for…
Five World Cup appearances. Three assists. And a record that Cristiano Ronaldo — with 22 appearances and six World Cups under his belt — has never managed to match. Captain America is doing something very special. And the tournament has barely even started. The Number That Stopped Everyone In Their Tracks Let’s put this into…
70,000 seats. A historic 4-1 win. And somewhere in that vast SoFi Stadium bowl, scattered among tens of thousands of screaming fans, sat some of the most recognisable faces on the planet. President Trump couldn’t make it — he had an 80th birthday party to plan back in Washington, which is a sentence that exists…