With Byron Buxton patrolling center field, the Minnesota Twins have that rarest of baseball superheroes — an individual player who can single-handedly take over a game and will his team to victory. The Chicago White Sox felt the full force of Buxton’s powers last weekend: On Saturday, Buxton went 4-for-4 with a home run, two […]
Just before Villanova sealed its third trip to the men’s Final Four in the last six NCAA Tournaments, an injury threw a wrench into its season. As the Wildcats worked to run out the clock on their Elite Eight win against Houston, they put the ball in the hands of their sophomore guard, Justin Moore, […]
We start with the unusually high number of injuries this week in the NFL. While they feel more significant because so many big-name players were sidelined this week, there isn’t much in the way of conclusive data about whether the quick ramp-up to the 2020 season and lack of teamwide offseason training regimens are to […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Week 2 of the NFL season saw a classic Sunday night matchup, a very familiar collapse and a list of brutal injuries. Let’s start with the worst part of the day: Sunday brought major injuries to major stars across the league, with massive implications for the rest of the season. […]
If you’ve logged off the NBA circuit for the summer — understandable given how crazy last month was, and how insane this upcoming season figures to be — you might have missed that DeMarcus Cousins of the Los Angeles Lakers suffered yet another serious injury, tearing his ACL in an offseason workout last week. Rewinding […]