Ordinarily, a rookie season like the one Jake Cronenworth enjoyed would be enough to guarantee him a regular job. Cronenworth posted a slash line of .285/.354/.477 in 2020, good for an OPS+ of 130, while playing primarily second base for San Diego, along with some fill-in at shortstop, first base and third base. But with […]
Florida State and Michigan are two of the most dependable names in men’s college basketball these days. Though both are traditional football powerhouses, each has seen far more recent success on the hardwood. Florida State is coming off of consecutive top-two conference finishes and has reached the second weekend of the Big Dance in three […]
In the coming days, one question may come up again and again: Are there other games in the Sweet 16? Or just UConn vs. Iowa, and more specifically, freshman phenom guards Paige Bueckers vs. Caitlin Clark? The hype around those two — obvious one-and-done candidates if the rules allowed, instead set to be fixtures for […]
If you’re an NBA fan, then you’re already familiar with the Philadelphia 76ers’ structural problem: Their best player, Joel Embiid, is a behemoth with balletic feet who’s best when brutalizing opponents down on the block. Their second-best player, Ben Simmons, is an athletic marvel, a gazelle-like 6-foot-11 point guard with a preternatural ability to pass […]
There wasn’t much expected from the Pac-12 Conference this year when the men’s NCAA Tournament tipped off. The Conference of Champions hasn’t won a national title since 1997, representing the longest championship drought of any major conference. It didn’t appear that would change any time soon given that the Pac-12 didn’t boast a single team […]