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How to watch Diamondbacks vs. Rockies: TV channel and streaming options for May 16
The Arizona Diamondbacks visit the Colorado Rockies at 3:10 p.m. ET on Saturday, a game featuring two of MLB’s most consistent batters. Ildemaro Vargas has an average of .347 (first in league) for the Diamondbacks, while Troy Johnston ranks seventh at .318 for the Rockies. Eduardo Rodriguez (4-0, 2.25 ERA) will start for the Diamondbacks, who are 21-22 this season and third in the NL West. Tomoyuki Sugano (3-3, 4.07 ERA) is starting for the Rockies, who are 17-28 and fifth in the NL West.Adverti...
How to watch Royals vs. Cardinals: TV channel and streaming options for May 16
The St. Louis Cardinals will look for another big outing from a hitter on a hot streak against the Kansas City Royals on Saturday at 2:15 p.m. ET, at Busch Stadium. Jordan Walker is riding a two-game homer streak. Noah Cameron (2-2, 5.55 ERA) will start for the Royals, who are 19-26 this season and fifth in the AL Central. Kyle Leahy (4-3, 4.31 ERA) is the expected starter for the Cardinals, who are 26-18 and third in the NL Central.Advertisement
Man Utd reach agreement to appoint Carrick manager
Man Utd reach agreement to appoint Carrick managerBySami MokbelSenior football correspondentPublished2 minutes ago1 CommentsManchester United have reached an agreement with Michael Carrick to become the club's permanent head coach.The formal process of exchanging contracts is now under way, with an announcement expected inside the next 48 hours.As things stand there is some doubt over whether the formalities can be completed before Sunday's match against Nottingham Forest, but there is a will to...
Chelsea vs Man City LIVE: FA Cup final match stream, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction
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Robert Lewandowski to leave Barcelona at end of season
Robert Lewandowski has confirmed he will leave Barcelona this season and is set to play his last game at Camp Nou on Sunday.Lewandowski, 37, delivered an emotional speech during a training session this week with his teammates and backroom staff, highlighting that it has been a pleasure for him to be a part of the club and this Barca squad. He confirmed the news in a social media post on Saturday.Advertisement
Wales aim to avoid unwanted history against Italy
Wales aim to avoid unwanted history against ItalyImage source, Huw Evans Picture AgencyImage caption, Wales are on a record eight-Test match losing streakByCeri Coleman-PhillipsBBC Sport WalesPublished1 minute agoOnce again Wales face Italy in their final game of the Six Nations with in some ways nothing and everything on the line when they meet on Sunday, 17 May at Cardiff Arms Park (12:15 BST).For the fourth successive Championship, these teams face-off on the final weekend and for the third t...
What we heard from Wild free agents, Middleton, Spurgeon and more on exit-interview day
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild have eight pending unrestricted free agents this offseason. They have not talked to any of those players’ agents yet, president of hockey operations and general manager Bill Guerin told The Athletic.After the Wild dissect the end of this season, they’ll begin to formulate their offseason plan and which players they may be willing to re-sign.Advertisement
Gotham FC’s potential New York City move could be a win for everyone
Gotham FC appears to be searching for a new home.The reigning NWSL champions are in discussions with New York City FC about moving into the Major League Soccer team’s future $780 million, 25,000-seat stadium at Willets Point in Queens beginning in 2028, according to a source. Talks are ongoing and an agreement is not close to being finalized, the source said.The timing of the news, first reported by Sportico, might not be coincidental.Advertisement
Spencer Arrighetti is pitching like an ace for a pitching staff in need of one
HOUSTON — The savior of baseball’s worst pitching staff has a chip stuck to his shoulder. He has tried to block out how he began this season somewhere he did not want to be, but these six brilliant starts still raise the question of why he went to the minor leagues in the first place.“It felt like a kick in the face in the moment,” Spencer Arrighetti said, “but I just never got discouraged. I feel like that’s just a common theme, whether it be results or things happening that are out of my contr...
Bruce Cassidy is the right coach for the Maple Leafs. Are they the right team for him?
Randy Carlyle in 2007. Mike Babcock in 2008. Craig Berube in 2019.Three of the last four full-time head coaches of the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup before they took over the bench in Toronto.It was a huge part of their appeal, especially Carlyle and Berube. They were winners, and the Leafs, after decades of championship futility, desperately needed a winner.But none of them, for a whole whack of reasons, worked out.Unless you’re Scotty Bowman, winning a Cup in one place doesn’t often translat...
Premier League matchweek 37: The numbers to know
Just two rounds of Premier League football remain, and matchweek 37 looms large at both ends of the table. Only two points separate the top two in the title race, and just two points stand between safety and relegation at the bottom. One slip from any of four clubs on the penultimate weekend could prove decisive.We take a look at the numbers behind the story…Newcastle v West Ham, 17 May, St James’ ParkNewcastle have kept one clean sheet in their past 14 Premier League games, a 1-0 win at Chelsea...
Meet Liam and Markus Ruck, the twins who've shot up 2026 NHL Draft boards
Typically, after losing the four leading scorers, No. 1 defenseman and starting goalie from your WHL championship-winning team, you’re supposed to take a step back. Rebuild even. Such is the cyclical nature of junior hockey.This year’s Medicine Hat Tigers? They went out and won 50 of 68 games, leading the WHL in goals with 348 and finishing third in points with 108.Advertisement
When will Sidney Crosby sign a contract extension with Penguins? Mailbag, Part 2
Good morning, and welcome to Part 2 of the monthly mailbag.Thanks as always for all the questions, some of which have been edited for length and clarity.Is a Sidney Crosby extension in the works? He has one year left. — @cgibson724No, it is not.Don’t let this bother you too much, however. First, Kyle Dubas is plenty busy right now. Second, Crosby is in Switzerland for some World Championship hockey.Advertisement
NHL free-agent targets: One player each team should sign this offseason
There are just over six weeks until NHL free agency opens on July 1, and teams will be looking to fill holes on their rosters.Although the free-agent class is short on big names, there are plenty of quality players eligible to hit the open market — many of whom could land shocking contracts, with NHL teams poised to spend plenty of money in a rising-cap environment.Advertisement
Ranking the 2026 'Monday Night Football' games: Bills-Rams, Eagles-Bears, Mahomes' return?
After months of mounting hype and idle space, the 2026 NFL schedule has finally been unveiled in full. Rejoice, fair townspeople! Now is our time for projection and prediction.Here, we are ranking the 17 “Monday Night Football” matchups that were just announced. The league’s primetime spots are all cool in their own ways, but there’s a special hold around MNF — its end-of-week finality, enduring theme music and disarming graphics. Though we’re still a few months away from hearing Joe Buck’s stat...
Manchester United’s summer strategy: who to keep, who to sell and who to sign
Marcus Rashford and Manuel Ugarte appear prime candidates to leave while Elliot Anderson and Adam Wharton are among the targetsManchester United’s return to the Champions League means they need squad members who can cope with the playing in two elite competitions a week. Casemiro’s departure has been announced and he will not be the only one leaving. Tyrell Malacia’s existence has often been forgotten over the past four years, the left-back having made 27 league appearances, so he will not be mi...
How one NHL family prepares to head home for the offseason — to Australia
ST. LOUIS — Last Saturday morning, St. Louis Blues forward Nathan Walker received a text message from his mother, Ceri.“Hope everything is OK with the packing,” she wrote. “Just a reminder that it’s Mother’s Day.”For Walker in St. Louis, it was actually the day before Mother’s Day. But for Mom, who was 15 hours ahead in Australia, it was the holiday.Advertisement
Canadiens' Phillip Danault providing exactly what Montreal hoped for when it traded for him
BUFFALO, N.Y. — There are always two sides to every story when evaluating a top player’s performance in the Stanley Cup playoffs.For the Montreal Canadiens in the first round, a narrative throughout the series was the production of their top line against the Tampa Bay Lightning. And while captain Nick Suzuki took that lack of production to heart and owned it, the reality is there was an opponent on the other side factoring into that performance.Advertisement
Remembering the Guardians' late PA announcer Bob Tayek: 'He was the voice of the ballpark'
CLEVELAND — Joe Buck kicked it over to Bob Tayek for the honor of a lifetime, to introduce two World Series teams on national TV in October 2016. In the Tayek household, everyone gathered around the TV, phones in hand, ready to record their own videos of the Progressive Field public address announcer receiving his moment to shine on the grandest stage.Advertisement
The Knicks are for real? Plus: Aronimink gets nasty.
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox.Good morning! If you can read this newsletter here, you can read it anywhere. Inside: 🗽 Knicks have a chance 🚦 Traffic jam at the PGA 🏇 Preakness minus Tempo New York, New York: The Knicks could actually do it this timeFor a non-Knicks fan with a normal level of interest in the NBA playoffs, it’s become a springtime ritual the past few years: Peer in on the New Yo...