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The White Sox selected UCLA's Roch Cholowsky with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 MLB draft, landing a potential cornerstone shortstop. The post Chicago White Sox Draft Shortstop Roch Cholowsky No. 1 Overall appeared first on College Baseball, MLB Draft, Prospects - Baseball America .
It’s the postseason, and the pressure is intense. But pressure comes in different forms for different teams in different circumstances. Some teams have regular pressure, while others have capital-P pressure. Some teams go all caps and break out the fancy fonts. You get the picture. It’s time for our annual Playoff Pressure Rankings, where we count down from the teams that would prefer to win to those that have no other option. >> Read the full post at The Athletic
The deadline to enter the transfer portal has officially passed. Players had until 11:59 pm April 21 to notify their schools of their intentions to enter the portal. We’ll hear of some players across college hoops entering the portal over the next 48 hours as schools process the paperwork, but now coaches don’t have to […]
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The Rangers had five players who played in five or fewer games this season. Grind those beans because we're kicking off Report Card season with the Cup of Coffee Crew.
There was only a brief camera pan to Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman during Game 1, but his excitement on Jason Dickinson’s tying goal mirrored the thousands in attendance and many more across western Canada. Bowman acquired the likes of Jason Dickinson, Connor Murphy, and Colton Dach at the Trade Deadline to fill specific…
Circle it on your calendar: per Charlotte Varnes of the Athletic, Zack Wheeler will be making his comeback this Saturday, for a start against the Atlanta Braves. We all know what Wheeler can do when he’s at full strength. And if he was at full strength, this would be a very boring question of the […]
Draft week is here. After a disappointing season, the week the Dallas Cowboys rely on the most to improve their team from year-to-year is here. The Cowboys own eight picks in the 2026 NFL draft with the idea a majority of them will be spent on defense. The most recent shakeup in the top 10 […]
Rejoice, for the NFL Draft is upon us. This is the first big NFL event since the Draft Combine where fans get to see what their teams will do to try to improve their team. Fans will channel all of their emotional and psychological well-beings into the actions of their team engaging in a glorified, […]
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Just a light general news post for the day, where we look at Dillon Dingler’s incredible zone awareness, just how good Kevin McGonigle has been to start his rookie season, and in a more broad strokes look at baseball news we get a preview of the All-Star Week events, Craig Counsell calls […]
Michael Busch has been in a season-long slump. Hopefully, his bases-l0aded two-run single that broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning will help him get back to who he was last year. The Cubs also got home runs from Nico Hoerner and Seiya Suzuki and rode yet another outstanding outing from Shōta Imanaga to […]
Essentially, the lab is a place where we can test what we see. That is what statistics are ultimately for. The whole goal is to explain mathematically what we are seeing and feeling. Sometimes we can explain it mathematically and sometimes we aren’t really seeing what we think we are seeing. It might seem like […]
Taylor Doll’s latest Making Monsters is all about some offensive linemen the Chicago Bears could target in the 2026 NFL Draft. First, she interviews Bill Riley, the Voice of Utah Athletics, to talk about both tackles Spencer Fano and Caleb Lomu. She’s then joined by Tim Fitzgerald, who covers Kansas State for 247 Sports’ Gopowercat.com, to […]
New Orleans Saints defensive line coach Bo Davis has reportedly met with Tennessee EDGE Tyre West, according to Aaron Wilson of KPRC-2 Houston. The 23-year-old Tifton, GA native spent all four seasons of his college career with the Volunteers, recording 65 total tackles (34 solo), one pass breakup, 10 sacks and two forced fumbles. This past season, West posted career […]
As the calendar inches towards May, NCAA spring sports are gearing up for the postseason. Arizona will be represented in the NCAA golf, tennis and track and field championships over the next couple of months, making it a good time to spotlight some of the top Wildcats athletes competing this spring. This year is turning […]
In Today’s Links: roster needs and points of focus for our Seattle Seahawks in the upcoming 2026 NFL Draft, another look at the ease in which the ‘Hawks can trade back, a comprehensive Seahawks-centric draft guide, a check-in with Devon Witherspoon, horizontal boards, vertical boards, and all the other good things you are gonna need […]
Watching Laz Diaz umpire home plate yesterday, and the way both teams basically froze up after unsuccessfully using one challenge in the first PA of the game, reinforced for me that two ABS challenges is insufficient. But, a little before that, I had read this Jayson Stark article in The Athletic about the headwinds, such […]
With fewer and fewer players completing testing, assembling an NFL Draft board is getting harder and harder to do with each passing year. One thing that is nice for the Green Bay Packers is that the non-testers are disproportionately weighted to the top of the draft where they won’t have a pick; in the area […]
The 2026 season will bring major changes on defense to the Kansas City Chiefs. Four starters departed the team as free agents following the blockbuster trade that sent star cornerback Trent McDuffie to the Los Angeles Rams for a package of draft picks centered around pick No. 29 in the upcoming NFL Draft. On Tuesday, […]
CFP Expansion Talks On Going The push for a 24-team College Football Playoff is gaining momentum this week at the College Football Playoff governance committee meeting in Dallas. The question is; How close are we? Jake Hall Stayed, why? MWC Freshman of the Year returned to UNM. Why, exactly? Boise State football receives $1 million […]
Frisco and Round Rock were both rained out on Tuesday. Frisco plays two on Wednesday. Round Rock plays just one, but it is an 11:05 a.m. start, so keep an eye peeled to see if Alejandro Osuna or Michael Helman are out of the lineup while we wait to see what Wyatt Langford’s status is. […]
Pop quiz one focused on Giannis Antetokounmpo, while pop quiz two featured Ryan Rollins. Up next is the most divisive Buck, Kevin “Sakuta” Porter Jr. Season in a snippet 38 GP, 33.2 MPG, 17.4 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 7.4 APG, 2.2 SPG, 0.5 BPG, .465/.322/.878 Kyle’s end of season grade: B- Porter ended last season on […]
Efforts to improve name, image, and likeness remain a major theme under incoming Athletic Director Bryan Blair, and the Syracuse Orange are moving forward with a new push designed to expand revenue-generating opportunities for student-athletes. Syracuse University Athletics on Tuesday announced a new partnership with One Orange Alliance, a third-party NIL marketing agency. Broadly speaking, […]
Yesterday was a busy day for UNC basketball. Michael Malone had three players publicly commit to come to Chapel Hill next year in roughly an eight-hour span. First, Utah point guard Terrence Brown chose UNC over fellow blueblood contenders Kansas and Kentucky. Shortly afterwards, N.C. State freshman guard Matt Able chose to play at UNC […]
One of the biggest problems with entering the NFL Draft with an obvious, glaring need is that everyone knows it. According to at least one report, the Detroit Lions may have this exact problem on Thursday as they prepare to make their selection with the 17th overall pick. The Lions have a pretty clear need […]
Rob Liddington was the hero of the night for the TCU Horned Frogs, who walked off Dallas Baptist for a 6-5 win during their nonconference midweek matchup at Lupton Stadium on Tuesday evening. Liddington, who hit an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to even the score, smacked the game-winning single in the […]