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The Syracuse men's basketball team is back on track after a blowout win versus Miami, but SU faces a tough test on Saturday vs. Virginia Tech. Hosts Ben

Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images Good morning afternoon, Athletics Nation! The New York Mets began the winter with a fresh start, but it didn’t last long. The team was bought by a new owner, Steve Cohen, and he overhauled the front office from scratch, led by president Sandy Alderson. Just over a month ago, they hired Jared Porter as their general manager, and not long afterward they made a blockbuster trade for superstar Francisco Lindor. But now the revamped organization has already hit i...

Welcome Back, Michael. Even though you never really left.

January 21, 2021 The Blue Jays made the biggest free-agent move of the offseason late Tuesday night by signingGeorge Springer. By the next morning, they looked like they were on the verge of adding his friend and former teammate Michael Brantley too. But reports early Wednesday that he had put pen to paper turned out to be a bit too aggressive, and while he did end up signing by day’s end, it wasn’t with Toronto. Instead, Brantley is returning to Houston on a two-year, $32 million contract...

Free agent Michael Brantley is reportedly staying with the Houston Astros after agreeing to a two-year deal worth $32 million.

Dr. Smooth is staying put in Houston

Though it was initially reported that Brantley was headed to the Blue Jays, he ultimately ends up staying in Houston.

The Cybersecurity 202: Biden has options to remove former GOP operative as NSA top lawyer Tonya Riley The National Security Agencys move to install former GOP political operative and White House official Michael Ellis as the agencys top lawyer has raised concerns that President Trump is making one last effort to politicize the intelligence community before leaving office.  “I think its very clear this is a part of the administrations effort to embed people in the civil s...

Watson reportedly wants Eric Bieniemy to be the teams next head coach, but its unclear if the franchise feels the same way.

Now it’s only a matter of the Rockets extracting everything possible out of a trade that rids the team of a malcontent who has no interest in being around any longer.