Editor’s note: This is a Weird and Wild short. To read this week’s full Weird and Wild column, go here. For weeks now, months to be honest, we’ve been spending way too much valuable time making all-important comparisons between the 2024 White Sox and Casey Stengel’s legendarily hapless 1962 Mets. But now we know: That was actually…

CLEVELAND — The number of women who have accused Deshaun Watson in court filings of sexual misconduct is now up to 27.  The number of games he has started for the Cleveland Browns since they acquired him — and guaranteed him $230 million — is 13.  We are early into the third year of Watson’s five-year contract,…

On Saturday against Brentford, Erling Haaland will attempt to do something nobody has managed since 1946. The Manchester City striker has scored hat-tricks in his previous two Premier League games and if he can get another at the Etihad Stadium against Thomas Frank’s side this weekend, he will join a very exclusive list of players.…

TORONTO — Luis Severino has just finished his pregame work on a sunny Wednesday in Toronto. This was a simple day, catch, as the right-hander prepares for the 29th and most important start of his season, Saturday in Philadelphia. Severino’s emergence as a reliable option in the Mets’ rotation is one of the main reasons…

The two-member Pac-12 is starting to rebuild, beginning with four Mountain West schools. Boise State, San Diego State, Colorado State and Fresno State will join the conference in 2026, the Pac-12 announced on Thursday. The schools will officially join on July 1, 2026. After conference realignment decimated the Pac-12 and left it with just Oregon…

The question that Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill raised Sunday evening, hours after his face was planted on a Miami street and the knee of a Miami-Dade police officer was planted in his back, continues to echo. “What if I wasn’t Tyreek Hill?” the five-time All-Pro wide receiver asked. No doubt, Hill viewed himself…

Caitlin Clark, the No. 1 pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, made the most outward political statement of her young career when she liked music superstar Taylor Swift’s Instagram post on Tuesday endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. Clark did not publicly endorse Harris but explained to reporters on Wednesday…

SAN DIEGO — Last week, I tossed out my plans to be in Washington D.C. for a different NWSL match and booked a last-minute flight to San Diego. I then stood on the field at Snapdragon Stadium, staring through my camera lens at Alex Morgan, the athlete, one more time. I watched every microexpression flicker…

Robert Kraft’s candidacy for the Pro Football Hall of Fame has become a sort of annual tradition throughout New England, not unlike Opening Day at Fenway Park and Marathon Monday. And now, thanks to Don Van Natta Jr.’s exhaustively reported piece at ESPN, the entire world of football has been invited to ponder the mystery…

For 14 seconds, Jordan Chiles paused and looked down to collect her thoughts and emotions. The question — about what Chiles felt she lost when the International Olympic Committee stripped her of her bronze medal in the Olympic women’s gymnastics floor exercise — forced her to stop mid-answer. The audience at the Forbes Power Women’s…