Month: May 2022

How about some National League action at Wrigley Field for your Thursday evening? Kick off your shoes and relax to this matchup between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Chicago Cubs. Join us for our MLB odds series, where our Diamondbacks-Cubs prediction and pick will be revealed. Eager to end a dreadful losing streak that has reached six games and has seen Arizona be outscored 36-20 over the past week of play. After getting swept by the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the D-Backs will call upon one of their most productive pitchers of 2022 to end the winning drought in RHP Zac Gallen, who has a 2-0 record and 1.05 ERA in his five starts this season. On the bump for the Cubs will be the former Blue Jay and Met in right-handed hurler Marcus Stroman. The 31 year-0ld has seen his fair share of ...

We are starting to roll. We had our second consecutive winning day yesterday with a 2-1 performance. We gave our four picks, but Reds vs. Guardians got postponed, so only three could count. We took the Dodgers on the spread, and they won 5-3. I was surprised Arizona kept it that close, but we got the win. We took the Mets to win through the first five innings, which started well, got bad quick, then was great again. The Mets started the game with two runs, but Scherzer allowed two runs. The Mets put up four runs in the bottom of the fifth to seal the victory. We took the Blue Jays on the run-line, which did not work out. I thought the Blue Jays would break out of their slump against a pitcher due for regression, but that wasn’t the case. The Blue Jays couldn’t manufacture runs eve...

Major League Baseball has suspended Baltimore Orioles pitcher Matt Harvey for 60 games after he admitted under oath in February that he illegally used cocaine and shared Percocet with the late Tyler Skaggs. Harvey’s suspension, issued on Tuesday, is less than one-fifth the 324-game suspension MLB recently imposed on former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer. Bauer has been accused of domestic violence, but he adamantly maintains his innocence and has not been charged with a crime. Can these two penalties sensibly co-exist? More from Sportico.com Sports Power Attorneys Tied to Boehly, Tepper and Others Jump to New Firm Magic Johnson Joins Josh Harris Bid for Denver Broncos Yankees Lose Appeal to Suppress Manfred Letter to Cashman on Cheating The short answer is yes, ...

The Miami Heat ripped Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals from the Boston Celtics in the third quarter. Jimmy Butler scored 27 of his 41 points after the break, and Miami's defense locked down Boston to flip an eight-point halftime deficit into a 17-point lead by the end of the third quarter in a 118-107 conquest. The Celtics lost Al Horford to health and safety protocols in the hours before the series started and ruled Marcus Smart out with the right mid-foot sprain he Houston Texans Jerseys suffered in Game 7 of their second-round playoff series. Whether they ran out of gas two days after their hard-fought battle with the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks or succumbed to Miami's relentlessness, the Celtics collapsed after halftime and never recovered. The Heat, who were als...

The U.S. Soccer Federation and its men's and women's national teams agreed to side-by-side collective bargaining agreements that will equalize pay and vindicate the women in their years-long battle with the federation over inequities. The two deals, which run through 2028, will pay men's and women's players on "identical" terms, the federation and the two players unions announced Wednesday. They will also equalize World Cup prize money, clearing a major barrier that had perpetuated inequality and still does elsewhere around the globe. And whereas previous labor agreements positioned the USMNT and USWNT as competitors for finite resources, the new agreements position the men and women as partners on a joint mission: to raise soccer's profile in the United States, and capitalize financ...

There are a lot of forces that lead to pressure building up around rookies. Some of them emanate from the player himself — whether they possess the obvious physical tools for stardom, or minor-league domination or a novel profile everyone wants to succeed. Others are decidedly external. Prospect lists, comparisons to stars of yore, a famous father, etc. And sometimes, a rookie doesn’t even get to define himself as A Guy before he’s tapped to replace The Guy. It’s perhaps the toughest ask of a young player. You don’t just have to adjust to the majors and find your way, you have to do it while everyone compares you to the franchise player who just left. Also, a perennial contender’s division dominance might ride on it. Such was the scenario for Jeremy Peña, the 24-year-old shortstop...