Author: Gary Butts

Eddie Rosario hit a tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning and Atlanta held on to beat the Detroit Tigers 6-5 Wednesday night and sweep a doubleheader.  Ozzie Albies and Ronald Acuna Jr. had solo homers for the NL-East leading Braves, who scored in five of the first six innings in the second game.  In Atlanta’s 10-7 win earlier in […]

When the Vegas Golden Knights entered the NHL in 2017 as an expansion team, their owner Bill Foley said his plan was to win the Stanley Cup in six years.  That prophecy was emphatically fulfilled Tuesday night in Las Vegas, as the Golden Knights blew out the Florida Panthers 9-3 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final to win […]

 The Detroit Tigers and Atlanta Braves were rained out on Tuesday night after a 2-hour, 25-minute wait.  The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader Wednesday starting at 1:10 p.m., which originally had been a single day game.  Tigers rookie right-hander Reese Olson (0-1, 2.70) and Braves ace right-hander Spencer Strider (6-2, 3.79) are expected to start […]

Junior lefthander and first baseman Caden Grice was named the winner of the John Olerud Two-Way Player-of-the-Year Award on Tuesday, presented by the College Baseball Foundation. Grice is Clemson’s first winner of the award that was first presented in 2010.

 Confetti flying in Denver. The Nuggets sharing hugs while passing around the NBA championship trophy.  Those scenes that, for almost a half-century, seemed impossible, then more recently started feeling inevitable, finally turned into reality Monday night.  The Nuggets outlasted the Miami Heat 94-89 in an ugly, frantic Game 5 that did nothing to derail Nikola Jokic, who bailed out his […]

 Spencer Torkelson sparked a three-run, ninth-inning rally against Raisel(ray-zohl) Iglesias with a two-run homer and hit a game-ending single in the 10th, lifting Detroit over the Atlanta Braves 6-5 on Monday night to stop the Tigers’ nine-game losing streak.

Six University of South Carolina football player have been named to Phil Steele’s 2023 preseason All-America and All-SEC teams, the national publication announced today.  Senior punter Kai Kroeger and senior wide receiver Antwane “Juice” Wells Jr. both earned spots on Steele’s All-America squads, with Kroeger listed on the second team, while Wells garnered a third-team selection. Kroeger and Wells were […]

Washington had a rare power surge against the Atlanta Braves.  Dominic Smith and Jeimer Candelariohit two-run homers in the sixth inning and the Nationals beat Atlanta 6-2 on Sunday to stop a six-game skid and the Braves’ seven-game winning streak.