For some dogs entered in the Westminster Kennel Club’s annual showcase in Manhattan this week, the show is already over. Hundreds of entrants in dozens of breeds got the once-over and a sudden goodbye in judging on Monday. As always, a few crowd favorites survived the cut. (They won’t win. They rarely do.) For those that remain, Tuesday will be […]

TAMPA — I think the Yankees made the right choice. Now, we begin learning if that is correct. They did not sign Bryce Harper or Manny Machado. Both remain free agents. But short of Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Gleyber Torres falling off a treadmill together and all blowing out ACLs, we can assume Harper and Machado have a better […]

Kyler Murray has made his choice, opting to go full bore into his pursuit of a career as a  quarterback rather than take a swing at baseball. Now, it's NFL teams who face the dilemma: Which one is prepared to make the 5-10 passer a top pick? The Heisman Trophy winner and former Oklahoma quarterback will have plenty of opportunities […]

In a week in which Tony Abbott claims to be the father of gay marriage in Australia, it is best to take all official utterances with a grain of salt and then spit them out anyway. With that in mind, it can be said with some assurance that whatever the numbers say, the Big Bash League desperately needs a bashingly […]

PORT ST. LUCIE — Jeurys Familia took a Mets uniform over a chance to pitch the ninth inning. The veteran reliever on Monday indicated he had multiple offers this winter to resume in a closer’s role, but couldn’t decline an opportunity to rejoin the organization in which he grew up and became an All-Star. “I really wanted to come back […]

The New York Times reported tonight that Meredith Watson, the woman who has said she was raped by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax when they were students at Duke, told two friends that she also was raped by former NBA player Corey Maggette while they were at the university. One discussion was with a friend while they were home for […]

The Red Devils look a completely different prospect under interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, whilst PSG are running away with Ligue 1 and searching for a first European title since 2001. What time is kick-off? THIS first-leg will be held at Old Trafford on Tuesday, January 12. Kick-off is at 8pm. It's four years since the sides last met in a […]

Nebraska running back Maurice Washington is being charged under California’s “revenge porn” law for keeping a 2016 video on his phone of a then-15-year-old classmate being sexually assaulted, and sending the video to the victim along with the message, “Remember this hoe.” NBC Bay Area reports that the video was made when two 17-year-old students at The King’s Academy High […]

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James thinks it’s about him, and maybe he’s right. “Everybody in the East thinks they can get to the Finals,” James told The Athletic, “because they ain’t gotta go through me.” Maybe he’s right, maybe not. Either way, the wild merry-go-round of trade deadline activity has made the Eastern Conference the more interesting of the NBA’s two conferences, by […]

THE FEBRUARY NIGHT that ended Kareem Hunt’s career with the Kansas City Chiefs — and landed the NFL in yet another controversy involving an act of violence against a woman and captured by a security camera — might have culminated with Hunt kicking a woman in the hall of a luxury hotel, but it began as something much more benign. […]