For 85 minutes this looked like one of those evenly matched knockout battles that could have gone either way. Then the clock ticked toward the 86th minute and football reminded everyone of a simple truth — when you have Erling Haaland on your team, the game is never quite over. Norway weren’t even playing particularly…
745 games. Over 3,000 plate appearances. Eight years grinding through Minor League ballparks most fans have never heard of. And on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field, Justin Dean finally got the moment he’d been chasing his entire adult life. A three run triple. A lost helmet rounding second. A standing ovation from a crowd…
A 2-0 win over Australia on Friday night in Seattle. A perfect record through the group stage. And now, thanks to Paraguay’s 1-0 win over Turkey, the United States have officially clinched top spot in Group D. The road to potential World Cup glory is mapped out. And right now it’s looking brighter than American…
Two separate ten game winning streaks. And yet the Chicago Cubs sit at 39-36, third in the NL Central, eight games back of the division lead. That’s the kind of season that makes you scratch your head — flashes of brilliance buried inside a frustrating, inconsistent grind. The trade deadline is coming. And there’s no…
The Most Hated Man in Baseball Is Also One of the Best Funny how that works, isn’t it. Pete Crow-Armstrong is the crown jewel of Chicago, the guy Cubs fans would run through a wall for — and simultaneously, somehow, the most despised player in the sport to literally everyone wearing a different jersey. Both…
Corey Seager has been the heartbeat of the Texas Rangers since the day he signed his ten year, $325 million contract back in 2021. A World Series ring in 2023 proved every dollar of that investment was worth it. And right now, for the first time since putting on that uniform, fans are genuinely…
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…