New York Liberty at Chicago Sky at 8 p.m. ET Phoenix Mercury at Dallas Wings at 8 p.m. ET Golden State Valkyries at Minnesota Lynx at 8 p.m. ET Las Vegas Aces at Los Angeles Sparks at 10 p.m. ET For playoff seeding, tiebreakers are likely to come into play. Head-to-head records serve as the first tiebreaker, while conference winning …
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Buy or Sell Each MLB Playoff Hopeful Advancing in 2025 Postseason
The ‘Outside Looking In’ Tier (National League) 2 of 14 If the regular season ended today, the postseason bracket would be Boston, Detroit, Houston, New York, Seattle and Toronto in the American League, as well as Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia and San Diego in the National League. Once again, this has been the case every morning dating …
Read More »WNBA 2025 playoff field set as Storm clinch final postseason spot
The 2025 WNBA playoff field is set. The Seattle Storm clinched the eighth and final spot in the 2025 postseason with a win Tuesday over the Golden State Valkyries. Erica Wheeler hit a go-ahead jumper with 19.2 seconds to play, and the Storm denied the Valkyries twice on the final possession to secure the victory. The playoffs begin Sunday with …
Read More »Who is in danger of NASCAR Cup playoff elimination at Bristol?
The Round of 16 will come to an end after 500 high-intensity laps of racing at Bristol Motor Speedway. Two drivers are locked in, several others can breathe easy, but there is another group who will find sleep difficult in the coming days. No one wants to be the first to fall in the playoffs, but we’ve seen everyone from …
Read More »Winners, losers from NASCAR Cup playoff race at WWT Raceway won by Denny Hamlin
MADISON, Ill. — Here is a look at the winners and losers from Sunday’s Cup playoff race at World Wide Technology Raceway. WINNERS Denny Hamlin — He wins to advance to the second round of the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season. Hamlin scores his series-high fifth victory of the year. It is his fifth season with at least five …
Read More »Rory McIlroy eagles 72nd hole, wins playoff to capture Irish Open to fans’ delight
Rory McIlroy made a 30-foot eagle putt on his final hole of regulation to force a playoff and then beat Joakim Lagergren on the third extra hole — all with the support of a highly partisan crowd at the Amgen Irish Open. Lagergren (66) eagled the par-5 16th and birdied the par-5 18th at The K Club to enter the …
Read More »How a playoff loss fueled Justin Herbert in season-opening win over Chiefs: ‘A different 10’
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — He hears it and he sees it. He will not respond with words because that is not who he is, not how he was raised, not how he conducts himself. He will respond the only way he knows how: on the field. Consider this Justin Herbert’s official statement. The Los Angeles Chargers defeated the Kansas City …
Read More »2025 NFL Bold Predictions: 3 Playoff Darkhorses; Joe Burrow for MVP?
Wait, the Cardinals and Titans in the playoffs? Our five national NFL reporters have assessed the league landscape and are ready to make their bold predictions for 2025. Three of them feature last-place teams from last season making the playoffs this season, none of which you’ll likely have seen anywhere else. NFL football is back, so let’s get into our …
Read More »Without Caitlin Clark, WNBA playoff spotlight will be dimmer
The look on Caitlin Clark’s face said it all. Instead of celebrating an assist to Kelsey Mitchell to help seal a win for the Indiana Fever, Clark hung her head. A sellout crowd in Boston that had come to see the city’s second-ever WNBA regular-season game watched as Clark pounded her head against the opposite stanchion and saw her eyes …
Read More »Who runs the NFL in 2025? Nick Jacobs’ Chiefs, NFL playoff predictions
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs roster is in place. The team is set for their first game in Brazil (How to watch the game) and there have been plenty of practices to evaluate the roster since the last prediction in May. Throughout the offseason, the national media focused on the Chiefs not being able to duplicate their …
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