Category: Sports

Jimmie Johnson will not race this weekend in NASCAR’s Cup Series street race in Chicago following the deaths of his wife’s parents and a nephew in Oklahoma.  The bodies of Jack Janway, 69; his wife, Terry Janway, 68; and their grandson Dalton Janway, 11, were discovered Monday at a home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, located about 50 miles southeast of Tulsa, […]

 LSU went from its low point of the season to the ultimate high in a span of 24 hours. A day after it gave up the most runs ever in a Men’s College World Series game, LSU cranked up its offense and won its first national title since 2009 with an 18-4 victory over Florida on Monday night in the […]

Marcell Ozuna responded with a go-ahead homer off Gray in the seventh, Spencer Strider allowed three hits in seven innings while striking out 10 and the Atlanta Braves beat the Minnesota 4-1 in the Twins’ first visit to Atlanta in seven years.

League opponents for the 2023-24 college basketball season were announced by the SEC on Monday.  The Gamecocks will have home and homes with Georgia, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss and Tennessee. Carolina will host additional home games at Colonial Life Arena against Florida, Kentucky, LSU and Vanderbilt. The Gamecocks will travel to Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn and Texas A&M.  Conference play […]

Matt Olson hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning and the Atlanta Braves held on for another wild 7-6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. The Braves, who snapped the Reds’ longest winning streak in 66 years at 12 games with a 7-6 win on Saturday, have won 17 of their last 20.

Florida had been involved in more close games than any other team at the Men’s College World Series this year.  That changed in a big way Sunday when the Gators unleashed an offensive barrage of historic proportions.  Florida scored the most runs in an MCWS game and came up one short of the record for largest margin of victory in […]

Ross Chastain has been criticized as reckless and too aggressive, a driver seen as giving no respect and not deserving any from competitors.  His hard-driving style paid off Sunday night as Chastain held off Martin Truex Jr. to win the Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, his first win in over a year and the third NASCAR Cup Series victory of […]

 The Victor Wembanyama era has officially begun, as the Spurs made him the No. 1 overall pick in Thursday night’s NBA draft. Wembanyama, a 7-foot-5 French phenom with an 8-foot wingspan, walked across the stage at the Barclays Center in New York to shake NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s hand and formally mark the start of his new career.  The Charlotte […]