Further acknowledging a mistake made, the Dallas Mavericks took another step to undo the infamous Luka Dončić trade. The Mavericks have reportedly shipped the headliner of that deal, forward-center Anthony Davis, to the Washington Wizards. The deal generates interesting implications, so how do we make sense of what this means? Here are grades for the […]

LIVIGNO, Italy – Mary Carillo will host NBC’s 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony coverage after original host Savannah Guthrie stepped down, as her mother Nancy remains missing. Carillo and Terry Gannon, who was originally Guthrie’s co-host for the ceremony, will anchor the show, which starts at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, Feb. 6. […]

On Wednesday, Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL) announced it signed Pickens to the league’s first NIL deal. As part of the partnership, the ace will help raise awareness about the AUSL through marketing and social media posts. The pro softball league says the signing is a ‘strategic move’ to connect college softball to the pro […]

USC, LSU, Oregon, and Texas Tech are highlighted as winners of the recent college football recruiting cycle. Penn State, Baylor, and Auburn are listed as losers, facing challenges from coaching changes and decommitments. The transfer portal and NIL era have significantly changed roster management, making it difficult to retain recruiting classes. Signing a great college […]

New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns went to the locker room after he suffered a significant cut in a collision with the Denver Nuggets’ Spencer Jones during the teams’ game on Wednesday night. The incident at Madison Square Garden occurred late in the first quarter. Towns knocked heads with the defending Jones on a drive, […]

Ryan Preece has won the first race of 2026, winning the Cook Out Clash exhibition race on Wednesday night. He becomes the third driver all-time to win the Clash before earning his first career Cup win, joining Jeff Gordon and Denny Hamlin. The race served as the unofficial start of the 2026 NASCAR season as […]

The Golden State Warriors’ trade saga with Jonathan Kuminga is officially ending as the team is dealing the 23-year-old forward and guard Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, ESPN reports. In another deal, the Warriors are sending Trayce Jackson-Davis to Toronto for a second-round pick, per ESPN. Kuminga had been in a […]

The death of former NFL defensive tackle Kevin Johnson could be connected to three other murder cases of homeless people in the same area of Los Angeles, authorities said on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Johnson, 55, was found dead shortly before 8 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at a homeless encampment about 10 miles east […]

Los Angeles Lakers big man Jaxson Hayes was handed a one-game suspension by the NBA ‘for pushing a Washington Wizards mascot during pregame introductions,’ the league said in a statement on Wednesday, Feb. 4. Hayes shoved the Wizards’ mascot, G-Wiz, during pregame introductions before the Jan. 30 game in Washington. The mascot had been running […]

Forward Artemi Panarin is off the trade market and the free agent market. The New York Rangers traded Panarin on Wednesday. Feb. 4 to the Los Angeles Kings, who signed the high-scoring winger to a two-year contract extension averaging $11 million a year. The Rangers received prospect forward Liam Greentree and conditional third- (2026) and […]