That figures to be the theme throughout what should be a tightly bunched Major League Baseball season, and USA TODAY Sports’ projected win totals for 2026 reflect as much. Our five-person panel’s aggregate rankings suggest it will be another late September of scoreboard-watching,

Men’s hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy will start on February 11. The first game of the group stage features Slovakia and Finland in Group B. Later that night, host national Italy will take to the stage, playing against Sweden. Team Sweden has ...

The NFL playoff race is completely wide open. The current Super Bowl favorite (Seahawks at +330)has the sixth-longest odds among all favorites entering the postseason over the past 50 years, according to ESPN Research. One reason for this: a strong field ...

There’s more talent in college basketball this season than maybe any time this century. It should make for a fun March and April.

We’re just beyond the halfway point of the 2025-26 college basketball season, and while I’m still not ready to tell you who’s going to be cutting down the nets on the first Monday of April, I’m ready to tell you that it’s absolutely going to be ...

If the last 24 NFL seasons are any indication, anything is possible for a team that won only seven games the previous season. Well, almost anything. The historical record tells us that between 2002 (when the league moved to the current divisional alignment ...

Canada's William Dandjinou, Courtney Sarault, Felix Roussel, and Kim Boutin won Olympic silver in the short track speed skating mixed team relay final on Tuesday in Milan, Italy.