In a WNBA draft full of surprises, one particularly shocking development was a trio of players projected as top picks falling into the second round. Arella Guirantes out of Rutgers was considered a possible lottery pick but didn’t go until the Los Angeles Sparks selected her at No. 22 overall. Widely expected to go as […]
cwick (Chadwick Matlin, deputy editor): Well, a few days and several tons of schadenfreude later, the European Super League is officially dead. If it ever really lived. I’ve asked three of our finest soccer thinkers to join me to discuss what went wrong, and what it tells us about the state of global soccer. Ryan, […]
For a few hours this past weekend, it seemed like the Utah Jazz’s chances of winning the NBA title (which FiveThirtyEight’s RAPTOR-based predictions model pegs at 15 percent) might have evaporated. Donovan Mitchell’s ankle injury looked plenty scary in the moment, but an MRI revealed no structural damage, and Mitchell is merely expected to miss […]
First, we react to the big news out of European soccer that 12 clubs intended to form a Super League in which they would get to play each other, all the time, every year, without needing to do anything onerous like qualify for the Champions League. We talk about the blowback from fans and from […]
Think of the Rule 5 draft as a bet Major League Baseball teams make on behalf of their future selves. It’s not a huge bet. Teams select players from other teams who are not on the 40-man rosters but have played at least five years in a minor league system if signed 18 or younger, […]