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Sports Oct 13, 2026 Brewers Chase Yamamoto, Silence Ohtani to Take 2-0 NLCS Lead Over Dodgers William Contreras drove in three runs and Milwaukee's bullpen retired the final 15 Dodgers batters as the Brew Crew pushed the two-time defending champions to the brink.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 10, 2026 Mike Ditka, Bears Coach Who Won Super Bowl XX, Dies at 86 The Hall of Famer who led Chicago to its only Super Bowl title and was the first tight end inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame died Friday morning, surrounded by family.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 9, 2026 Messi Scores in 208th and Final Argentina Cap, Bids Buenos Aires Farewell Lionel Messi closed out a 21-year international career with a goal against Benin at the Estadio Monumental on October 6, leaving the sport's most decorated national team resume to the record books.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 6, 2026 White Sox Lead ALDS 2-0, One Win From First ALCS Since 2005 Chicago's bullpen-first pitching strategy and a sixth-inning double from rookie Braden Montgomery erased a two-run deficit in Cleveland, putting the South Siders on the doorstep of a league championship series.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 5, 2026 MLB Drops Grand Teton Ballpark Proposal After Community Revolt Commissioner Rob Manfred pulled the plug on a plan to stage a regular-season game inside Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park days after local leaders sent letters of opposition to Manfred and Interior Secretary Burgum.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 4, 2026 NFL Suspends 49ers Owner Jed York 6 Games for Prostitution Sting Arrest The league also hit York with a $500,000 fine under its personal conduct policy; three games already missed during the investigation count toward the ban.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 3, 2026 South Korea Chases Fourth Straight Asian Games Football Gold Against Japan, With Military Exemptions on the Line Korea faces Japan in Saturday's final in Toyota, where a win would deliver an unprecedented fourth consecutive gold medal and free most of the U-23 squad from 18 months of compulsory military service.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 2, 2026 Aces Sweep Fever From WNBA Playoffs as A'ja Wilson Closes Case on Best Big Three Left Standing Wilson dropped 36 points in Game 3 to send Indiana and Caitlin Clark home, setting up a semifinal showdown the league has been waiting for.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Oct 1, 2026 Ogunbowale Drops WNBA Playoff-Record 45 Points, Forces Game 3 Against Golden State The Dallas Wings guard buried a corner 3 with 4.1 seconds left in regulation to send Game 2 to overtime, then put the series away in the extra frame, 108-100.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 29, 2026 U.S. Wins Presidents Cup on Historic Sunday Rally, but Foursomes Problem Follows Team to Ireland The Americans erased a three-point deficit with a 9.5-2.5 singles blowout at Medinah, but their chronic failure in team formats leaves real doubt heading into the 2027 Ryder Cup.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 28, 2026 MLB's Salary Cap Standoff Puts the 2027 Season in Real Jeopardy With the CBA expiring Dec. 1 and both sides dug in on a salary cap, a lockout that wipes out the start of 2027 is no longer a hypothetical.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 27, 2026 U.S. Wins Presidents Cup for 10th Straight Time at Medinah The International team led by three heading into Sunday singles but couldn't hold on, extending the longest losing streak in team golf.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 25, 2026 Giants Lose Dart for Season, Turn to Winston as Harbaugh Weighs QB Trade New York's second-year starter will undergo knee surgery after a Week 2 hit against the Rams left him with MCL, PCL, and meniscus damage, putting the franchise's plans on hold.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 24, 2026 MLB Players Survey Shows Deep Skepticism on Cap, Split Odds on 2027 Lockout With the CBA expiring Dec. 1, ESPN polled more than two dozen big leaguers anonymously, and the answers suggest the gap between owners and players on a salary cap is as wide as ever.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 21, 2026 PGA Tour Shuts Door on LIV Return Program as Saudi-Backed Circuit Files for Bankruptcy CEO Brian Rolapp says the Tour won't offer another Returning Member Program, leaving stranded LIV stars like Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau to earn their way back the hard way, if at all.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 16, 2026 LIV Golf Files for Chapter 11 as Saudi Money Runs Out The Saudi-backed league filed for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 8, entering a restructuring deal that would hand majority ownership to its players and leave stars like Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau as unsecured creditors.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 15, 2026 LIV Golf Files for Chapter 11 With Players Owed Millions and Saudi Money Gone The Saudi-backed breakaway tour, which burned through more than $5 billion in PIF funding, filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey on Sept. 8 and is now seeking a restructuring that would hand majority ownership to its players.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 12, 2026 LIV Golf Files for Chapter 11 as Saudi Money Runs Out The Saudi-backed golf league filed for bankruptcy protection on September 8, entering a restructuring deal that could leave players as majority owners of whatever comes next.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 10, 2026 Goodell Gets Four-Year Extension, Stays NFL Commissioner Through 2031 The NFL's compensation committee locked in Roger Goodell on a new deal days before the league's 2026 season kickoff, with more than 95 percent of his pay tied to performance metrics.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 7, 2026 Djokovic Loses in US Open First Round for First Time, Ending 78-Slam Streak A visibly ill Novak Djokovic fell to Argentina's Mariano Navone in five sets on Aug. 30, his earliest Grand Slam exit in 20 years and the end of a record opening-round winning streak.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 5, 2026 NBA Strips Clippers of Five First-Round Picks, Suspends Owner Ballmer in Kawhi Leonard Cap Scheme An independent investigation found a 'pattern of misconduct' in which the Clippers funneled off-court income to Leonard through corporate partners to circumvent the salary cap.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 4, 2026 NFL Takes Its First Regular-Season Game to Australia, with Rams and 49ers Set for MCG on Sept. 11 The league plants its flag on a new continent Thursday night U.S. time, putting a real divisional game on Netflix from a cricket ground built for 100,000 people.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Sep 1, 2026 Scheffler Tops Tiger Woods as PGA Tour's Career Earnings Leader A $10 million Tour Championship check pushed Scheffler's career total to $130.4 million, ending a record Woods held since February 2000.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 31, 2026 Scheffler Wins Second FedExCup, Passes Tiger Woods on Career Money List Scottie Scheffler overcame a three-shot deficit at East Lake on Sunday to claim the Tour Championship and his second FedExCup title, pocketing $10 million and surpassing Tiger Woods as the PGA Tour's all-time earnings leader.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 30, 2026 Hellebuyck Goes Public With Trade Demand as Jets Stall Three Weeks Before Camp The three-time Vezina winner confirmed he privately asked Winnipeg to trade him months ago and his patience has run out.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 28, 2026 PGA Tour Unveils Match-Play Overhaul for Tour Championship, Starting in 2028 CEO Brian Rolapp announced a wholesale remake of the season-ending event at East Lake this week, scrapping stroke play for a two-week, bracket-style match-play format launching in 2028.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 27, 2026 Manfred Says Baseball Will Play in 2027, but the Gap on a Salary Cap Is Wide Open With the CBA expiring Dec. 1 and owners pushing a hard salary cap for the first time since 1994, MLB and the players union are talking weekly but moving slowly toward a potential lockout.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 21, 2026 NFL Committees Clear $9.6 Billion Seahawks Sale to Khosla Family The finance and ownership policy committees voted unanimously to approve the record deal; a full ownership vote is set for August 26 in Atlanta.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 20, 2026 NFL Suspends Falcons Edge Rusher James Pearce Jr. Eight Games for Conduct Violation Atlanta loses its best pass rusher for the first half of the 2026 season, compounding a defensive injury crisis that already cost them Jalon Walker for the year.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 19, 2026 Cubs' Crow-Armstrong Hits Leadoff and Walk-Off Homers in Same Game, Clinches Second Straight 30-30 Season The 24-year-old center fielder became the first player in Cubs history to post back-to-back 30-30 seasons, doing it the hard way against the crosstown White Sox.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 18, 2026 Feds Seek to Jail Rozier Co-Defendant Over Alleged Witness Tampering Federal prosecutors asked a judge to revoke Deniro Laster's bond, alleging he used Instagram rat emojis and intermediaries to intimidate witnesses in the NBA gambling case.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 16, 2026 Lakers Sell for Record $12.5 Billion to Iger-Kushner Group The storied franchise changes hands for the second time in roughly a year, with former Disney CEO Bob Iger and Thrive Capital founder Josh Kushner topping the previous record by $2.5 billion.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 14, 2026 Falcons Start Tua in Preseason Opener but Refuse to Name Their QB1 Kevin Stefanski gave Tua Tagovailoa the first preseason snap against Denver but held back the Week 1 designation, keeping a quarterback competition alive that is only half-competitive so far.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 12, 2026 Chiefs' Rice Breaks Silence on Jail Stint With Contract Year on the Line Rashee Rice spoke publicly for the first time since last season about his 30-day Texas jail sentence, calling it a reality check while heading into the final year of his rookie deal.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 11, 2026 Senate Punts on College Sports Act, Schedules Vote for September The Protect College Sports Act survived an all-night pre-recess scramble in the Senate but ran out of clock, earning a spot on the September calendar with its future still genuinely uncertain.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 9, 2026 Commanders LT Tunsil Tears Triceps in Training Camp, Faces Season-Long Absence Washington's $60.2 million left tackle went down in one-on-one pass-rush drills Saturday, likely needing surgery and leaving the team to scramble before a Week 1 date with the Eagles.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 5, 2026 Dodgers Land Skubal, Red Sox Grab Rutschman as 2026 Trade Deadline Reshapes AL and NL The Aug. 3 MLB deadline produced two of the biggest moves in recent memory: Tarik Skubal goes to Los Angeles and Adley Rutschman crosses the AL East to Boston.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 4, 2026 CBS Benches Tony Romo After DUI Arrest, Taps J.J. Watt as Replacement The network's lead NFL analyst was arrested in Milwaukee on July 23 on suspicion of impaired driving; his court date lands on Week 2 Monday night.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 2, 2026 Federal Judge Blows Up NCAA's Eligibility Model, Grants Class of '22 Athletes a Fifth Season U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney issued a class-wide injunction Friday ordering the NCAA to restore eligibility to every Division I athlete who started college in 2022 and used up their four years this spring, threatening roster chaos weeks before fall sports begin.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Aug 1, 2026 Celebrini Signs NHL-Record $94M Extension With Sharks The 20-year-old center agreed to five years at $18.8M per year, making him the highest-paid player in the league, after breaking San Jose's single-season points record.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 31, 2026 Browns Make Ward NFL's Highest-Paid DB Despite Apparent Rebuild Cleveland handed cornerback Denzel Ward a two-year, $62.2 million extension, $52.3 million guaranteed, the day after trading away Myles Garrett, raising real questions about what exactly the Browns think they're building.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 27, 2026 LeBron James Signs With 76ers on $8M Deal, Choosing Philly Over Retirement The 41-year-old four-time champion takes a massive pay cut to join Joel Embiid, Jaylen Brown, and Tyrese Maxey on a 76ers squad that spent the whole summer building around his arrival.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 26, 2026 LeBron James Signs With 76ers on Two-Year, $8 Million Deal in 'Last Decision' The 41-year-old, who made nearly $53 million with the Lakers last season, takes a veteran-minimum-range contract to chase a title in Philadelphia alongside Jaylen Brown and Joel Embiid.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 25, 2026 LeBron James Signs With 76ers on $8 Million Deal, Calls It 'Last Decision' The 41-year-old, who earned nearly $53 million last season with the Lakers, takes a near-minimum contract in Philadelphia to chase a fifth championship alongside Joel Embiid and Jaylen Brown.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 23, 2026 NFL Suspends Cardinals Scouting Director Gold for Gambling; State Agency Opens Probe Ryan Gold, Arizona's director of college scouting, faces an indefinite league suspension and a separate Arizona Department of Gaming investigation over alleged parlay bets and leaked draft information.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 20, 2026 Chiefs Lock Mahomes Into NFL's First $500M Deal Amid ACL Rehab Kansas City reworked Mahomes' contract to $504.75 million through 2033, setting NFL records for total value and average annual salary, while the quarterback is still recovering from a torn ACL.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 19, 2026 Clark Posts First 45-Point, 10-Assist Game in WNBA History, Drags Fever Past Storm Indiana's Caitlin Clark scored a career-high 45 points with 10 assists on Friday, becoming the first player in WNBA history to reach the 40-point, 10-assist threshold in a single game.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 15, 2026 MLB Runs Salary Cap Ads Mid-Season, and the Players Union Calls Them 'Perverse' Commissioner Rob Manfred defends the league's 'Level the Field' campaign as a good-faith public message; MLBPA interim director Bruce Meyer says it's a push to pad owner profits before a CBA deadline.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 14, 2026 Khosla Family Buys Seahawks for NFL-Record $9.6 Billion Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla's family has agreed to purchase the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks from the Paul Allen estate, blowing past the previous NFL sale record by nearly 60 percent.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 12, 2026 Ducks Match Record $90M Offer Sheet to Keep Carlsson, But Cap Crunch Looms Anaheim retained its 21-year-old franchise center by matching Philadelphia's stunning five-year, $90 million offer sheet, setting a new NHL salary record at $18M per year and leaving the Ducks with a serious roster puzzle.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 10, 2026 FIFA Suspends Two U.S. Soccer Officials Before Belgium Rout, Offers No Explanation Team manager Sam Zapatka and security VP Frank Pannell were quietly banned from the sideline ahead of the USMNT's 4-1 round-of-16 loss, with the governing body staying silent on why.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 9, 2026 FIFA Lifts Balogun Ban After Trump Call, U.S. Loses Anyway A presidential phone call got Folarin Balogun back on the field for the U.S.-Belgium round of 16. Belgium won 4-1. The controversy outlasted the Americans.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 2, 2026 USMNT Beats Bosnia 2-0 but Loses Balogun to Controversial Red Card Before Belgium Showdown Folarin Balogun scored his third goal of the tournament, then got sent off by VAR in the 64th minute, and now the U.S. faces Belgium in Seattle without its best player.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jul 1, 2026 Grizzlies Trade Ja Morant to Trail Blazers, Ending a Turbulent Memphis Tenure Memphis deals its two-time All-Star point guard to Portland for Jerami Grant, Kris Murray and $1 million in cash, completing the teardown of a once-promising core.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

Sports Jun 28, 2026 Wizards Take AJ Dybantsa No. 1, Betting Everything on a 19-Year-Old BYU Freshman Washington used the top pick in the 2026 NBA Draft on BYU's AJ Dybantsa, the first Cougar ever drafted first overall and the first scoring leader to go No. 1 since Glenn Robinson in 1994.

By Frank Donovan, Senior Correspondent

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