Safety Walter Thurmond had a big 2015 season and could have cashed in with a huge payday in free agency. Instead, he’s walking away. According to multiple reports on Tuesday, including ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Thurmond is retiring. He’s 28 years old, with six seasons of NFL experience with the Seattle […]
If anyone needed a reminder of how far Matt Harvey had sunk, it came Monday, after what was easily his best outing of the season. Harvey was outstanding in the New York Mets ‘ 1-0 win over the Chicago White Sox, allowing just two hits in seven scoreless innings while […]
The White Sox and Padres are discussing a trade involving righty starter James Shields, and those negotiations have “significant momentum,” Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Saturday. It’s unclear whether a deal is likely to be completed soon, however. The Padres initially signed Shields prior to the […]
Klay Thompson made a playoff-record 11 3-pointers and scored 41 points, and the defending champion Golden State Warriors forced a seventh game in the Western Conference finals with a 108-101 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night. Stephen Curry bounced back from a slow start to finish with […]
Regardless of a team’s goals or expectations, there is nothing routine or informal about winning a conference championship. It is always a big deal, not the biggest, but there are only a few trophy presentations per year and this was one of them. This is not lost on the Cleveland […]
The Rockets are finalizing a deal to make Mike D’Antoni their next head coach, according to multiple sources. The offensive-minded D’Antoni has been a head coach with the Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers. He is currently an assistant coach with the Philadelphia 76ers. […]
Peyton Manning has plenty of decisions to make, now that he has retired. One of the first decisions he made was a smart one. Christine Brennan of USA Today reports that Manning won’t be suing Al Jazeera over the report that HGH was delivered to Manning’s wife in 2011, while […]
With Lucas Duda expected to miss the next four-to-six weeks with a stress fracture in his back, the New York Mets lineup has been dealt a huge blow. They are now in a position where they have to replace a player who can hit 30 home runs with unappealing in-house […]
At least a half-dozen top NFL health officials waged an improper, behind-the-scenes campaign last year to influence a major U.S. government research study on football and brain disease, congressional investigators have concluded in a new report. The 91-page report describes how the NFL pressured the National Institutes of Health to […]
The Oklahoma City Thunder walked into Game 3 against the Golden State Warriors with plenty of unknowns. How would they respond to being beaten by 27 in Game 2? How would they adjust with three days off? How would they play on their home floor as the series moved to […]