The NBA announced Wednesday that San Antonio Spurs swingman Keldon Johnson has been voted the league's Sixth Man of the Year
- Nancy Armour USA TODAY
Easy as it is to fault Aaron Rodgers for the most insufferable soap opera in NFL history, the Pittsburgh Steelers deserve equal billing in the latest episode.
- BOB NIGHTENGALE USA Today
Maybe Munetaka Murakami won’t have a difficult time making that transition from Japan to Major League Baseball after all.
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Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was the runaway winner in the Clutch Player of the Year award balloting, revealed Tuesday night.
- Doug Kyed, Boston Herald
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel, who’s been in headlines this month after being photographed with former The Athletic NFL reporter Dianna Russini at a resort in Arizona, made a statement Tuesday afternoon. Vrabel had not addressed the matter since releasing a …
- CHRIS BUMBACA USA Today
Running backs rarely go early. Jeremiyah Love might change that in 2026.
- MICHAEL MIDDLEHURST-SCHWARTZ USA Today
With the 2026 NFL Draft starting Thursday in Pittsburgh, here are seven college football standouts who could be in for a long wait.
The Green Bay Packers finished the season with a 9-7-1 before being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs to the Chicago Bears.
The NBA Defensive Player of the Year award has been around since 1983, and in that time, no player has ever received 100% of the first-place votes for the award.
Mason Miller has been untouchable all season. And so have the San Diego Padres lately. Miller's scoreless streak is now at 32 ⅔ innings, just one shy of the Padres' franchise record.
What, exactly, can be gleaned from the early games of the playoffs? Plenty. Here are the winners and losers from the first weekend of the 2026 NBA playoffs.
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is a first-time NBA Most Valuable Player candidate, along with Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
After a whirlwind of an offseason, 2026 WNBA training camps opened Sunday.
With the 2026 NFL Draft just days away, here's a full breakdown of each team’s biggest need.
Editor’s note: The Union-Tribune’s Eddie Brown is breaking down prospects, position by position, leading up to the NFL draft (April 23-25). Here are his top 10 cornerbacks, plus players he believes will be drafted or signed as a priority free agent: 1. Mansoor Delane (Sr., LSU, 6-foot, 182 pounds) The former three-star recruit teased his next-level talent early at Virginia Tech, then upgraded ...
At its core, the NFL draft is a matchmaking exercise. Teams employ scouts and general managers to determine the who best fits the franchise's current and/or future goals and make moves to secure those players.
It’s only three weeks in — but that won’t stop the overreactions. Here are MLB’s biggest surprises and disappointments so far.
PITTSBURGH — Doug Whaley can be honest. The Steelers weren’t in love with Troy Polamalu. At least not yet. When Polamalu was a senior at USC in 2003, they scouted his film and saw, as Whaley said, a “hell of a football player.” They saw an undersized 5-foot-10 safety who ran like a banshee and attacked the ball with ferocity. He was quick and explosive, but the Steelers weren’t sure about the ...
Every year, the NFL draft offers three days of excitement for avid and casual NFL fans alike.
Does Major League Baseball play any differently after three weeks of the automatic ball-strike challenge system?
The NFL draft is supposed to level the playing field — but some teams have way more on the line than others this year.
LOS ANGELES — Jackie Robinson may not have played at Dodger Stadium, but make no mistake, his influence is as much a part of one of baseball’s most storied ballparks as the World Series trophies and the sweeping views of the Sierra Madre mountain range. His influence extends for miles all over the Los Angeles area, stretching from Pasadena, where he grew up, to Westwood, where he lettered in ...
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Long gone are the days where impulse buying meant grabbing an unplanned candy bar or magazine in the checkout line. Now, social media makes it quick and easy for us to purchase just about anything with the click of a button, whether or not it’s in the budget. And for some Americans, it’s hurting them...
Black Friday is fast approaching, and shoppers are gearing up. The National Retail Federation expects more than 183 million people to shop over the weekend spanning Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday this year. But fraudsters are preparing for Black Friday too, looking for opportunities to steal your money or personal information. Before you dive into holiday...
Holiday shopping season is upon us, and the pressure is on, or at least it feels that way for some parents. A new NerdWallet survey, conducted by The Harris Poll, finds that 48% of parents with children under 18 feel pressure to spend more money on holiday gifts than they’re comfortable spending.According to NerdWallet’s annual...
Trying to account for the gap between a player's proven play and their capabilities can be one of the more bewildering elements of evaluations.
Editor’s note: The Union-Tribune’s Eddie Brown is breaking down prospects, position by position, leading up to the NFL draft (April 23-25). Here are his top 10 quarterbacks, plus “bonus” players he believes will be drafted or signed as a priority free agent: 1. Fernando Mendoza (Jr., Indiana, 6-foot-5, 236 pounds) The former two-star recruit worked his way up the depth chart and became a ...
Here are the six biggest questions headed into the 2026 NBA postseason.
We’re less than two weeks away from the final tell, the statement that could send shockwaves through the SEC. The NFL draft. And more specifically, its unassailable place in it.
Fudd is the seventh UConn player to be selected first in the draft. One of the others is Paige Bueckers, who went No. 1 to Dallas last year. Fudd and Bueckers are in a relationship and played together for four seasons with the Huskies.
The Masters delivered drama, surprises and a few questions for the PGA Tour. Here’s what stood out in Augusta.
Editor’s note: The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Eddie Brown is breaking down prospects, position by position, leading up to the NFL draft (April 23-25). Here are his top 10 interior offensive linemen, plus “bonus” players he believes will be drafted or signed as a priority free agent: 1. Olaivavega Ioane (Jr., Penn State, 6-foot-4, 320 pounds) Ioane was one of the few bright spots for the Nittany ...
An elite field of players gathered in Augusta, Georgia, for the 90th playing of the Masters.