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Oct 8, 2026 - Sports

Potential weather is making things not-so-straightforward for bettors ahead of the huge Georgia-Alabama showdown. Patrick Everson has more.

Oct 8, 2026 - Sports

Check out the odds and what to know for the Guardians-White Sox ALDS series.

Oct 8, 2026 - Sports

Teams have always symbolized division within America. And the Fever have come to prominence during a time of dark political intensityIt’s over for now, but no professional sports team spent more time receiving and drawing attention to itself than did the Indiana Fever this season. The Fever has broken, the team eliminated by the defending champion Las Vegas Aces for the second straight season, but Indiana succeeded in being the WNBA’s canary in the coal mine, embodying both the obvious and unintended consequences of rapid growth, while also allowing themselves to be a season-long distraction: part-time professional basketball team, part-time right-wing culture war centerpiece. Less than a decade ago, Atlanta and Minneapolis were praised for their unified political stances. Today, Trumpism has replaced social justice as the defining characteristic of the league – and as the curtain closed on the 2026 WNBA regular season, Indiana stood at its epicenter.The Fever were the most polarizing team in professional sports, known less for their basketball than their culpability in pulling the league from its old cultural identity as a Black/queer league into its current climate of political divisiveness – a calculated and dangerous path to popularity. This season, there was the basketball of the WNBA, and then there was the Indiana Fever, the league’s Maga-friendly option.This article originally appeared on Howard Bryant’s Substack. You can subscribe here. Continue reading...

Oct 8, 2026 - Sports

The last three-peat took place from 1998-2000. Can the Dodgers make history? See the latest World Series odds.

Oct 8, 2026 - Sports

The pennant races are as close as can be now that we're inching toward baseball's final four. See the latest odds.