Here we go again. The Yankees took care of one AL East rival by absolutely dismantling the Boston Red Sox in the Wild Card round, and their reward is another AL East rival waiting for them in Tampa. The Yankees and Rays open the ALDS tonight at Tropicana Field, and this is where October really starts to get interesting. Best-of-five series. A Rays team that won the division. A Yankees team coming in hot after scoring 18 runs in two games against Boston. And now we officially

It wasn't pretty. It wasn't comfortable. It definitely wasn't stress-free. But Browns-Steelers games aren't supposed to be any of those things. The Cleveland Browns are 3-1. Read that again. After beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-24 on Thursday Night Football, Cleveland is sitting atop the AFC North through four games, and the Dawg Pound has every reason to be barking right now. Was it a perfect football game? Absolutely not. The Browns committed 14 penalties, turned the ba

So much for the regular season. The Chicago Cubs came into this Wild Card Series having gone 5-1 against the San Diego Padres during the regular season. They knocked San Diego out of the playoffs in this exact round a year ago. They finished the season with the highest-scoring offense in baseball and had Pete Crow-Armstrong putting together an MVP-caliber year. On paper, there were plenty of reasons to believe Chicago could walk into Petco Park and do it to the Padres again.

If there was any question whether Tuesday night's 9-0 beatdown was just one of those nights, the Yankees answered it pretty quickly. For the second night in a row, they absolutely hammered the Boston Red Sox, this time 9-2, to complete the Wild Card sweep and send their biggest rival home for the winter. Two games. Eighteen Yankees runs. Two Boston runs. Now the Yankees are headed to Tampa this weekend to take on the Rays in the ALDS, and after what we just watched for two ni

What a turnaround this has been for the Chicago White Sox. A franchise that was basically the punchline of baseball not that long ago just walked into Houston and swept the Astros right out of the postseason. Chicago took Game 1 by a score of 6-3 and then came right back in Game 2 and beat them 7-3, finishing off the Wild Card Series without even needing a third game. And considering where this organization has been the last few years, I don’t think this should just be viewed

If this is how the Yankees plan on starting October, I am perfectly fine with it. Game 1 of the American League Wild Card Series was supposed to be a stressful night in the Bronx between baseball’s biggest rivals, especially with Aaron Judge unavailable. Instead, the Yankees turned it into an absolute ass kicking. New York shut out Boston 9-0 behind another dominant postseason performance from Cam Schlittler and a ridiculous six-RBI night from Ben Rice. The Yankees finished w

The 2026 MLB postseason opens Tuesday with four Wild Card Series that all feel completely different. Philadelphia and Atlanta give us another round of one of baseball’s nastiest divisional rivalries. The Cubs and Padres run back last year’s Wild Card matchup, this time in San Diego. The Yankees and Red Sox meet again with two loaded pitching staffs and a ton of uncertainty surrounding Aaron Judge. Then there is White Sox-Astros, where Chicago finished with the better record b

The Giants did not wait very long to address the quarterback room after losing Jaxson Dart for the season. On Monday, New York agreed to acquire J.J. McCarthy from Minnesota for a 2027 fifth-round pick, giving the Giants another young quarterback option while Dart recovers from knee surgery. McCarthy was the No. 10 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, but after only 10 career starts in Minnesota and a 2026 season spent buried behind Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz, the Vikings w

Sunday night in Denver turned into one of the wildest games of Week 3. The Rams led 16-0 at halftime, looked completely in control, and seemed ready to move to 2-1 after an ugly opening-week loss in Australia and a dominant rebound against the Giants. Instead, Denver scored 30 points in the second half, took the lead four different times in the final nine minutes, and escaped with a 30-26 win that dropped the Rams to 1-2 and pushed the Broncos to 2-1. It was a game that someh

After 162 games, six months of baseball and a final weekend that still had division titles and Wild Card berths hanging in the balance, the 2026 Major League Baseball regular season is officially over. There were teams that had known their October fate for weeks, teams that spent September desperately trying to hang on, and a couple of races that somehow survived all the way until Game 162. By Sunday night, everything was finally settled. Twelve teams remain, four Wild Card S

The late-afternoon slate did not have the volume of the 1 p.m. window, but it made up for it with four games that all had something interesting going on. San Francisco nearly let Arizona steal a divisional game before Brock Purdy and George Kittle slammed the door. Minnesota improved to 3-0 while Tampa Bay fell into an 0-3 hole and watched Baker Mayfield leave injured. Las Vegas continued what might be the strangest undefeated start in football by rallying past New Orleans. T

The 2026 Presidents Cup looked like it might finally be the year the International Team broke through. For most of the week at Medinah Country Club, the Americans looked vulnerable, the International side looked composed, and by Saturday night the United States was staring at a three-point deficit with only Sunday singles remaining. Instead, Team USA produced the best singles session in Presidents Cup history, winning 9.5 of the 12 available points to erase a 10.5-7.5 deficit

The 1 p.m. slate in Week 3 gave us a little bit of everything. Jacksonville absolutely embarrassed the defending AFC champion Patriots, Washington ended Seattle's massive winning streak despite getting outgained by almost 180 yards, Pittsburgh survived Cincinnati in a classic AFC North rock fight with actual offense mixed in, the Giants somehow won a game without scoring a touchdown, Kansas City quietly moved to 3-0, Houston found a new and creative way to lose, Detroit survi

I genuinely did not expect to be writing this three weeks into the NFL season, but the Cleveland Browns are 2-1. Not 0-3. Not 1-2 with us already talking ourselves into draft position by October. Two and one. After beating Carolina 21-18 in the home opener Sunday, Cleveland is sitting alongside Pittsburgh and Cincinnati at 2-1 in the AFC North before Baltimore plays later today. Considering where my expectations were after that Week 1 disaster in Jacksonville, I will gladly t

Week 2 of the NFL season is basically complete, minus Giants-Rams tonight, and I am not sure there has been a weirder Sunday so far this year. The 1 p.m. slate was kind of dog shit if we are being honest. A bunch of low-scoring games, multiple offenses that looked completely broken, sloppy football everywhere, rain affecting games in Chicago and New York, and then Cleveland-Tampa got hit with a ridiculous 132-minute lightning delay with less than two minutes left. The afterno

The Yankees somehow managed to turn what should have been a routine Wednesday afternoon into a four-hour stress test. They lost 5-4 to the Twins in 13 innings, failed multiple times to put the game away after finally waking up offensively in the ninth, and the much bigger story is that Aaron Judge left the game in the sixth inning with tightness in his lower right leg. That is obviously the part that has every Yankees fan immediately forgetting about the actual loss and wonde

The 1 p.m. games were chaos, and somehow the 4:25 window decided it wanted a turn too. Philadelphia nearly blew a game to Washington before surviving a late two-point conversion. Green Bay looked like it had Minnesota handled until the Vikings completely flipped the game in the second half. Arizona went into Los Angeles and beat the Chargers by double digits. Las Vegas looked much more competent than I expected with Kirk Cousins, while Miami already looks like it might be in

The first full NFL Sunday of the 2026 season gave us basically everything you could possibly ask for. Chicago scored 59 points. Baltimore looked like a legitimate Super Bowl contender. Josh Allen and C.J. Stroud traded punches until the final seconds. Detroit almost blew a three-touchdown lead and needed overtime. Cincinnati forced four turnovers. The Jets actually looked like a functional football team. T.J. Watt won Pittsburgh a game almost by himself. And then there were m

The first real NFL Sunday of the year is finally here. We already got Seattle beating New England on Wednesday and San Francisco stunning the Rams in Australia on Thursday, but today is when the season actually starts to feel normal again. Thirteen games, RedZone running all afternoon, fantasy teams immediately ruining friendships and everyone convincing themselves by about 2:15 that whatever happened in the preseason clearly meant everything. For betting purposes, Week 1 is

Michigan is 2-0. That is the good news. The bad news is that I still have absolutely no idea how good this football team actually is. A week after needing one of the strangest endings you will ever see to survive Western Michigan 13-12, Michigan turned around and beat No. 11 Oklahoma 17-10 in another game that was ugly, physical, frustrating and somehow exactly the kind of game Michigan seems comfortable playing right now. This is not a team that is going to win style points.