By Pat Forde If Louisville and Payne do not come to an agreement, he could be on the radar for other college jobs. Louisville has narrowed its search for a new men’s basketball coach with New York Knicks assistant Kenny Payne the primary target, source…
Report: Al Michaels Expected to Call All 16 Thursday Night Football Games With Amazon
By Zach Koons The play-by-play broadcaster is in line for a big payday. After a report indicated that Al Michaels’s deal with Amazon to call Thursday Night Football was on the ‘half yard line’, additional information came to light about the play-by-pla…
Good for Al Michaels: TRAINA THOUGHTS
By Jimmy Traina Al Michaels expected to land big contract with Amazon after NBC let him go 1. Amazon was determined to put together an A-list booth for Thursday Night Football and it appears it has succeeded. The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reports…
March Madness: Sleepers to Love
By Frankie Taddeo If the No. 1 seeds fall, these four teams have a chance to go far in the NCAA tournament. As successful sports investors can attest, making money in the betting industry is simply about “numbers.” Professional bettors scour all outlet…
Braves Sign 1B Matt Olson to Eight-Year, $168 Million Contract Extension
By Nick Selbe After landing the All-Star in a blockbuster trade, Atlanta locks in Olson for the next eight seasons. View the original article to see embedded media. A day after swinging a blockbuster trade to land Matt Olson from the A’s, the Braves ha…
GEICO Nationals Unveils Eight-Team Field
By Jason Jordan Six of the eight teams in the field are ranked in the SB Live/SI Power 25 basketball rankings. Last year Montverde (Fla.) Academy knocked off Sunrise Christian Academy (Bel Air, Kan.) in the GEICO Nationals championship game, 62-52, now…
Week 17: SBLIVE/SI Power 25 National Boys Basketball Rankings
By Jason Jordan Eight programs make their debut in this week’s Power 25 national boys basketball rankings. The Power 25, presented by Discount Tire, is a collaboration between SBLive and Sports Illustrated. Power 25 rankings are compiled by SBLive repo…
Cinderella Stories: Sleeper Picks for the Women’s NCAA Tournament
By Ben Pickman These eight teams have the potential to make a Final Four run. In the women’s NCAA tournament, No. 1 seeds usually reign supreme. In the first 39 years of the event, 87 of the 156 (55.7%) top seeds have made the Final Four, with at least…
On and Off the Court, Venus Williams’s Work Is Not Done
By Jon Wertheim The tennis legend is pushing for pay equity beyond her sport, using past lessons learned to help more workplaces break down systemic inequalities. ‘We have to look at ourselves.’ The tennis caravan is parked in Indian Wells, Calif., thi…
Lawmakers Slam NCAA for Failing to Address Disparity in Men’s and Women’s Sports
By Ross Dellenger In the six-page letter, U.S. House members criticize Mark Emmert for failing to implement key recommendations from an external review after 2021 tournament controversy. WASHINGTON — Three congressional lawmakers sent a letter to NCAA …