The 2024 Formula 1 season wraps up this weekend in Abu Dhabi and in many ways nothing is different, but at the same time, everything has changed. First off, you have Max Verstappen. The Dutch driver wrapped up his fourth straight title a couple weeks ago. But his team, Red Bull, has...
German Marquez and Jon Gray have been terrific, but Colorado certainly could use another starter, although it hasn't been in the Rockies' DNA to make a big midseason trade even as they made the playoffs the past two seasons.Bryce Harper hasn't been able to point the Phillies in the ...
How They Got Their Name: With a history that traces back to 1883, the Philadelphia Phillies were first called the Quakers and the Phillies alike. According to authors Fred Leib and Stan Baumgartner, By general consent, the new team (1883) came to be known as the...
How They Got Their Name: With a history that traces back to 1883, the Philadelphia Phillies were first called the Quakers and the Phillies alike. According to authors Fred Leib and Stan Baumgartner, By general consent, the new team (1883) came to be known as the...
ATLANTA -- From Chipper Jones to Freddie Freeman to Matt Olson, the Braves have spent the past three decades or so serving as the Mets’ chief tormentors. For even the best New York teams over that time, the Braves have been the final boss. It was just t
the middle of next year, I have no obvious heirs, and baseball in particular has done a lot to make me not care as much about baseball in the Manfred era. There’s also the “How many cards do I need of any athlete whose cards I don’t collect and, in some cases, who I have ...
But for many in and around the league, suspicions have remained that the full story has not been told, that what really happened has been suppressed. It matters all the more now. On May 14 of last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1992 federal law that had forbidden states ...
Well, look at that: the Mariners (twice), Phillies, Marlins and White Sox–none of whom actually have made the playoffs under the two wild card format–are good enough to make the playoffs. (Obvious caveat: teams may have approached games differently with a finish line closer in sight; th...
Green Bay’s has two losses – one was to the rival Vikings. But that game against the Buccaneers- a team that pushed the Packers around on the offensive line and made life miserable for Rodgers all day long- stands out as a haunting memory because the Colts defense is not that far awa...
You don’t have to bet $100, of course. If you bet $3 on New York, you’d win $1. Bet $1 on the Reds, win $2.50. Are There Point Spreads in Baseball? In football and basketball, the most popular betting option is the point spread – it’s a bet on the margin of victory ...