Major League Soccer has been around for a quarter century, but the red-hot media race for U.S. professional sports rights is fueling its new future, today.
Why it matters: Apple is going all-in, deploying money and a content strategy in an innovative bet that the world’s most popular game can finally make a dent domestically.
Elly De La Cruz has arrived. And judging by his first two big league games, it's safe to say the 21-year-old phenom will be in baseball fans' lives for the foreseeable future.
Driving the news: The Cincinnati Reds' 6-foot-5, switch-hitting shortstop demolished his first career home run in Wednesday's 8-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers — a 458-foot bomb that nearly left Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park. At 114.8 mph, it's the hardest-batted ball by a Red since 2019.
The Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat, 109-94, on Wednesday night in Miami, seizing a 2-1 National Basketball Association Finals lead behind a historic performance from their star duo.
By the numbers:Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray became the first teammates in NBA history to each record 30-point triple-doubles in the same game (regular season or playoffs). To reiterate: What they did has never been done before in any game — and they just did it in the NBA Finals.
Two Wednesday night baseball games, a women's basketball game and a women's soccer game have been postponed due to record poor air quality in the northeastern U.S., the teams announced.
Driving the news: Smoke from wildfires across Canada has engulfed many cities in the northeastern U.S. withNew York City ranked the worst in the world for air pollution on Wednesday, according to IQAir.
Golf's civil war is over less than a year after it began.
Driving the news: The PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed breakaway tour that launched on June 9 of last year, agreed to merge on Tuesday in a deal that left the sports world gobsmacked.
