This year’s San Antonio Spurs are an anomaly. First of all, they have the distinction of being only the second Gregg Popovich-coached team to begin a season having not made the playoffs the year before. The 1996-97 Spurs missed out on the postseason as well, though they had the built-in excuse of having star center […]
We start with the results of the NFL’s divisional round, where Drew Brees may have played his last game after New Orleans’s loss to Tampa Bay. The Saints have had some fluky playoff exits in the past few years, and while this wasn’t one of them, it feels like Brees should perhaps have more than […]
Prepare for a wild ride: WNBA free agency is here. As of Friday, Jan. 15, players who are eligible — and there are many — can negotiate with any team, while signings can begin, officially, on Feb. 1. We’ve only begun to get answers on who is going where, with teams making their qualifying offers […]
With Kawhi Leonard and Paul George leading the way, the Los Angeles Clippers are one of the NBA’s most star-powered teams — and one of just a handful that can claim a legitimate chance to win the championship. Both Leonard and George are off to great starts so far this year, with each averaging over […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): After an up-and-down divisional round, only four teams remain — and, unbelievably, we’re only three games away from crowning an NFL champion. Let’s start with the only upset of the weekend, a game that saw the longest pass of the night thrown not by either of the two legendary quarterbacks […]