After a 15-run loss at the hands of the Reds yesterday, the Cubs dropped into fourth place in the NL Central at 18-26. Chicago’s early performance hasn’t been too far off preseason expectations. After the Cubs watched much of their previous core departure, the 2022 season looked likely to be a transitional year. Particularly as … Read more
IT’S BIG CUP FINAL, BABY After a season that has become more extraordinary with every passing week, it all comes down to this. Two teams fueled by a sense of destiny, competing for a huge prize at a gleaming modern football cathedral; it’s just a shame somebody has to lose. And yet, when The Fiver … Read more
When Tim Connelly took his front-office talents from Denver to Minnesota this week on a five-year, 40 million deal that would eventually give him equity in the Timberwolves organization, a natural question emerged in the Mile High City: Given the relationship between Nikola. Jokic and Connelly, who drafted him 41st overall back out of Serbia … Read more
Can you tell the difference between praise and ridicule? More importantly, who do you trust to know the difference? If you trust Tim Anderson understands how words work, then the Chicago White Sox star who dared to call out Josh Donaldson’s nonsense for what it is had every reason to fire back when the Yankees … Read more
Just as we did last year and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that, the crew here at CBSSports.com recently set out to rank each NFL team’s “triplets.” Why not, right? It’s the middle of the offseason and, it’s an offseason tradition around … Read more
Just as we did last year and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that, the crew here at CBSSports.com recently set out to rank each NFL team’s “triplets.” Why not, right? It’s the middle of the offseason and, it’s an offseason tradition around … Read more
This morning, the Colorado Rockies unveiled their Nike MLB City Connect uniform, the eleventh big league club to reveal their design since the program began last season. In what I’m just going to go ahead and call a “Big Four” first, their new uniform was modeled off the design of the license plate of their … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO – The scene was familiar and foreign all at once. We’ve seen the Golden State Warriors celebrating an NBA Finals appearance plenty of times in this era – five times in seven years at Oracle Arena before this one on Thursday night, to be exact. When you see the Ayesha Curry / Mary … Read more
The Cincinnati Bengals proved to be the ultimate dark horse in 2021. Despite starting the year 7-6, Joe Burrow and Co. rallied to win three out of their final four regular-season games to clinch the AFC North, and then won three straight playoff games to get to Super Bowl LVI, where they fell to the … Read more
The Giants on Thursday held their sixth practice of organized team activities. They have four of these voluntary practices left, and then their three-day mandatory minicamp. And then they’re off until training camp starts in late July. So let’s bring you some observations and takeaways from Thursday’s practice (the second of OTAs that was open … Read more