NHL odds, predictions: Two long shots can take advantage of the weak Western Conference
An imbalanced draw always creates betting opportunities.

An imbalanced draw always creates betting opportunities.

The latest incident is the fourth time Tiger Woods has been involved in a car crash.


Shoeless Joe Jackson walked so Pantsless Dan Hurley could run.

PHOENIX — The NFL will gather for its annual league meetings this week in Phoenix. Among the items on the agenda is a new ownership succession plan for the Raiders, another Super Bowl for Las Vegas, and some new rules changes. Here is what owners will consider in Phoenix: The Super Bowl LVII logo is...

The torrid stretch of play Luka Doncic has been on during March will cool down, at least for one night, when the Lakers host the Wizards on Monday. With the NBA not rescinding Doncic’s technical foul from Friday’s win over the Nets, which was his 16th tech of the season, the Lakers star guard will...

UConn 73, Duke 72 just 48 hours after Blue Devils 80, St. John’s 75 matters more than the consecutive Big East Tournament titles that Rick Pitino’s group won.

Francis is expected to be a top 10 pick and the first offensive tackle selected in the 2026 draft, joining Kiko (a Jets 2025 fifth-round pick) in the journey from the Ili’ili village of about 3,000 islanders to the pros.

"I guess that's one way to market your products...," one social media user quipped.

The NFL is preparing to hire replacement referees for the upcoming season as talks between the league and the NFL Referees Association on a new collective bargaining agreement remain at an impasse, with the current CBA set to expire in the coming months.

Three games into his NHL career, Adam Sykora doesn’t appear to have an “off” button.

The hydration breaks were implemented for Saturday’s 5-2 USMNT loss to Belgium, and will be for Tuesday’s match against Portugal as well, to replicate conditions for this summer.

The closer, an All-Star in 2023, was somewhat stunningly sent down to the minors after a rough three-game stretch to open the season.

Both teams are now one win away from the national title games after the women downed Notre Dame earlier on Sunday and the men defeated Duke in comeback fashion the same day.

The season’s first McLean Day got off to a strange start, the young righty throwing seven of eight balls to begin the game and walking the first two batters he faced.

Duke radio broadcaster David Shumate captured the spirit of the thing with his broadcast of Duke's heartbreaking defeat against UConn.

Jets coach Aaron Glenn cleared up any questions about whether Geno Smith will be the team’s starting quarterback Sunday.

If those wins against Paraguay and Uruguay four months ago felt like a validation of everything Pochettino had done so far, then Saturday’s 5-2 loss to Belgium, in which the U.S. lineup was pretty close to its most talented possible XI, functioned as a reminder that they still have plenty left to work through.

The Knicks, losers six straight to the Thunder, did what inferior teams tend to do. They hung around with the defending champs until crunch time, when OKC flexed its pedigree and closed on a 19-9 run.

The Nets’ 116-99 win over tanking rival Sacramento before a sellout crowd of 17,548 at Barclays Center broke a 10-game slide, but hurt their odds in the all-important NBA Draft lottery.

It’s imperative that they erase the terrible taste in their mouths after Belgium toyed with them in the second half Saturday.

The next step is the NBA, and likely becoming the first Johnnie drafted since Sir’Dominic Pointer in 2015.

The Knicks guard, who returned from a 28-game absence Sunday following sports hernia surgery, appeared to hurt his groin area in the third quarter against the Thunder.

The Blue Devils watched a 19-point first-half lead disappear as the Huskies pulled off the comeback victory, marking the second consecutive year that Duke had blown a double-digit lead in a crucial NCAA Tournament game.
