A troubling trend lingered between the Detroit Lions’ most meaningful game of last season and their first exhibition of 2025. Turnovers, your honor. Detroit committed five during Thursday’s lopsided Hall of Fame Game loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in Canton, Ohio, matching its total from a season-ending, 45-31 defeat in an NFC divisional playoff…
Antonio Gates was ninth on the Chargers in catches the preseason he broke into the NFL back in 2003 — still a power forward in cleats trying to find his way between the white lines that summer, when Cleo Lemon was the primary exhibition-game passer for the then–San Diego–based team. Gates came to the Chargers…
Jul 27, 2025; Cooperstown, NY, USA; Hall of Fame inductee Ichiro Suzuki poses with his Hall of Fame plaque after the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Clark Sports Center. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — On an overcast Sunday in this charming village, thousands of fans from the Far East…
Feb 15, 2024; Peoria, AZ, USA; Former Seattle Mariners player Ichiro Suzuki looks on during a Spring Training workout at Peoria Sports Complex. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images Every Baseball Hall of Fame class is comprised of inductees whose path to baseball immortality was fascinating and challenging. But the 2025 quintet of Ichiro Suzuki, CC…
We may have to ask Justin Verlander to leave the premises after this season. Of course, he still has half a campaign to make his case. But the legendary right-hander—whose Hall of Fame bust was secured years ago—doesn’t appear to have much tread left on the tires. Verlander is winless in 13 starts for the…
Trainer D. Wayne Lukas watches the training during training Friday morning at Churchill Downs April 26, 2024 in Louisville, Ky. The 88-year-old has won four Kentucky Derbies. Hall of Fame horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas is gravely ill and has retired immediately. The Lukas family issued a statement Sunday that said the 89-year-old had been…
Now that Pete Rose has been formally reinstated by Major League Baseball, hopefully somebody other than Commissioner Rob Manfred will choose to do the right thing and keep him out of the Hall of Fame. By betting on games in which he played and managed, Rose broke MLB’s Rule 21 and was banned for life…
