To find Cinderella stories at this men’s Final Four, you have to look at the name on the back of the jersey rather than the front. For the second time in the history of the NCAA Tournament’s modern-day bracketing practices, all four top seeds advanced to the national semifinals. It will be No. 1 Florida…
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) are all set to take on each other in Match 13 of the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) on Tuesday, April 1 at BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow. Both teams are coming into the fixture having won their respective last matches. Lucknow beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)…
SPOKANE, Wash. — The mindset could not have been clearer for USC heading into its Sweet 16 clash against Kansas State. The Trojans, a woman down without superstar JuJu Watkins, still expected to live up to their billing as the top seed and come out with a win against No. 5 seed Kansas State. And…
More than 1,000 Division I men’s basketball players have entered the transfer portal since it opened on March 24. That’s a lot of names and faces to learn as college basketball’s roster management busy season increasingly resembles NBA free agency. This is where The Athletic’s transfer portal rankings come in. The rankings are a living…
Rahul Dravid with the KKR players (Video grab) NEW DELHI: On the eve of Rajasthan Royals‘ Indian Premier League 2025 clash against defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, RR head coach Rahul Dravid, currently on a wheelchair due to injury, had a heartwarming interaction with KKR players, including Rinku Singh…
Lucknow Super Giants assistant coach Lance Klusener has said that the team will have to continue to ‘mix and match’ till the injury crisis subsides after their loss to Delhi Capitals on Monday, March 24. LSG are currently without their frontline pacers and have lost Mohsin Khan for the entire season. “At the moment, we…
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Do you miss those robots yet? We’ve spent the past five weeks watching them pop out of hiding, every time a catcher, hitter or pitcher tapped his head to ask his favorite robot umps: Where the heck was that pitch? Then, almost instantaneously, a six-second animation would roll on the ballpark videoboard…
The coach of a high school women’s basketball team from a community in New York’s Adirondacks was fired after he pulled a player’s ponytail at the end of a state championship game on Friday, the school district confirmed. Videos on social media and local television news show an older man yanking a distraught player’s hair,…
One of the most exciting aspects of every MLB season is when young up-and-coming players have breakouts that make pretenders into contenders, or contenders into champions, or simply just give their team’s fan bases new hope. This is my annual roster of the players I think are most likely to have “breakout” seasons. My definition…
Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Rankings & Tiers series, an evaluation across sport about the key players, front offices, teams, franchises and much more. Welcome to The Athletic’s fourth annual MLB Position Player Tiers, where we rank the top 100 position players in baseball based on their expected all-around hitting, fielding and baserunning value for…