The Los Angeles Dodgers expect two-way star Shohei Ohtani to be ready to hit when the 2025 season opens with two games in Tokyo but manager Dave Roberts said Monday it’s unlikely that he will pitch in those games.”Very unlikely,” Roberts said at Major League Baseball’s winter meetings in Dallas in comments posted on MLB.com. …
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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson kept the overall lead in fan voting numbers revealed Monday for the NFL Pro Bowl Games with Philadelphia running back Saquon Barkley a close second.Jackson topped vote-getters with 82,402 and Barkley was next, only 320 votes behind. Barkley was 4,079 votes back of Jackson in last week’s first voting results.Eagles star …
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Dominican slugger Juan Soto’s 15-year Major League Baseball deal worth a record $765 million has turned the New York Mets from a punchline to a club with punching power.Soto’s reported deal, the largest in North American professional sports history, has yet to be confirmed, reportedly because a final physical has not been taken.But the free …
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Paris Olympic women’s football champion United States will host Brazil next April in rematches of this year’s gold medal final, US Soccer announced on Monday.The top-ranked Americans, who beat Brazil 1-0 in France last August on a goal by Mallory Swanson to claim Olympic gold, will entertain eighth-ranked Brazil on April 5 at Los Angeles …
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Reigning Olympic discus champion Roje Stona of Jamaica was among 14 international athletes named Monday to the NFL’s International Player Pathway’s 2025 class, all hopeful of an American football career.The 25-year-old Jamaican, who set a personal best and Olympic record of 70.0 meters to capture Paris gold, was invited to mini-camps last May by the …
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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen produced an historic six-touchdown performance but it was not enough to stop the Los Angeles Rams from clinching a wild 44-42 victory on Sunday as the NFL playoff picture became clearer.Allen became the first player in history to rush for three touchdowns and throw for three more in the same …
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Nikola Jokic produced another dazzling high-scoring performance with a 48-point masterpiece, as the Denver Nuggets crushed the Atlanta Hawks 141-111 on the road on Sunday.Reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Jokic — who scored a career-high 56 points in vain during a defeat to Washington on Saturday — was nearly unplayable in a dominant display that …
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Dominican baseball superstar Juan Soto has agreed to join the New York Mets on a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million deal, multiple US media reports said on Sunday.ESPN and Major League Baseball’s official website both reported Soto’s blockbuster move, which if confirmed would be the richest contract in the history of North American professional sport.Soto had …
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Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as Philadelphia outlasted Carolina on Sunday and clinched an NFL playoff berth while Minnesota routed Atlanta to reach the brink of the post-season.Hurts completed 14-of-21 passes for 108 yards and ran eight times for 59 yards as the Eagles (11-2) held off stubborn Carolina 22-16 …
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Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid scored 31 points and pulled down 12 rebounds in his return after missing seven games to spark the 76ers on Sunday in a 108-100 NBA victory at Chicago.Embiid had been sidelined by a left knee injury and personal reasons since a November 20 loss to Memphis, the Sixers going 4-3 in his …
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