Dodgers lead MLB narratives that are already changing — even if it’s early
NY Post
You might be on sports overload. You might have been tied up wondering if Shedeur Sanders would go second pick or third day. You might have been coping with Masters afterglow just as the NBA and NHL playoffs began.
So have you noticed that we are a month into the baseball season? Just kind of sneaks up on you as part of the “It’s still early” portion of the program.
When the fifth weekend of last season began, the Astros already were double-digit games under .500, ushering in the possibility of them as trade deadline sellers, and the Mets were just about to begin their May nosedive that seemed to doom their season.
Both made the playoffs.
Many of us longtime baseball people were heartened to hear on Tuesday that Pete Rose finally has a chance to get into baseball’s Hall of Fame. But does Rose really have a chance?
Punter isn’t exempt from the Jets youth movement.
BOSTON — It is an unforgiving game, and there was no better evidence of this than Monday night, late, with the Celtics desperately trying to halt the Knicks runaway train. There were 3 minutes and 6 seconds left in Game 4. Boston was frantic, Madison Square Garden was frenetic, and became more so when Mikal Bridges knocked the ball free from Jaylen Brown.
Jayson Tatum’s injury could spell disaster for the Celtics — and not just for the series against the Knicks.
A grim sight during Monday night’s 117-110 Warriors loss to the Timberwolves, Steph Curry in street clothes, got far more bleak after the game as Steph Curry looks unlikely to return from his hamstring injury for Game 5 as previously hoped.
Who wouldn’t want Kevin Durant on their team?
SEATTLE – A feel-good win for the Yankees quickly turned somber in the ninth inning Monday night.
The Jets are returning to London with the hope that crossing the ocean doesn’t inject turbulence into their season yet again.
SEATTLE — A feel-good night for the Yankees quickly turned somber in the ninth inning Monday.
Jalen Brunson donned that superhero cape yet again, and his latest second-half explosion spearheaded another frenzied comeback to vault the Knicks within one win of the Eastern Conference finals.
The Giants re-signed veteran WR Lil’Jordan Humphrey only three days after releasing him and added CB T.J. Moore, who impressed during a tryout at rookie minicamp.
Brett Berard will not be a part of Team USA at the 2025 World Championship over the next couple of weeks, after the 22-year-old Ranger had to pull out at the last minute due to some “physical limitations.”
Dwight Gooden never would’ve admitted it at the time. He knows Paul Skenes probably won’t admit it now — four decades after Gooden’s dazzling rookie year in 1984 and the encore that ended with a Cy Young Award in 1985 — as the Pirates’ ace, either.