Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
This is the cleanest game of the weekend and maybe the most violent stylistic collision left in the bracket. Michigan walks in 35-3, first in the Big Ten, after becoming the first team to win four NCAA tournament games by double digits while scoring at least 90 in each. Arizona is 36-2, first in the […]
April 4, 2026
Four episodes in, Rooster has made its core deal clear: Greg Russo is not just doing a drive-by dad check-in—he’s getting absorbed by Ludlow’s weird little ecosystem, where every personal crisis becomes campus business. Episode 3 locked him into the faculty lane, and Episode 4 doubled down on the show’s preferred texture: Greg dodging the […]
April 3, 2026
UPDATE: Per the Cubs and Marquee Sports Network’s Taylor McGregor, Horton left the game due to right forearm discomfort. The next step, almost certainly, is imaging. We’ll likely hear more from Chicago skipper Craig Counsell after the game, but it’ll all be speculation until they get that right forearm under some lights. Meanwhile, the Cubs […]
April 3, 2026
After experiencing technical issues with their electricity, the Minnesota Twins have delayed their game against the Tampa Bay Rays today from 3:40 PM CT to 4:10 PM CT. Stay tuned here for more updates on the delay and the eventual resumption of play.
April 3, 2026
Chicago finally gets to open at home, but the first week has already told you what this team is—and what it isn’t. The White Sox (1-5) return from a brutal road trip to face a Toronto club (4-2) that just played in October and now rolls in with Dylan Cease at the front of the […]
April 3, 2026
The Miami Marlins (5-1) head to the Bronx for the New York Yankees’ home opener against a fellow 5-1 club. This is a clean contrast game: Miami arrives with one of the league’s hottest early offenses, while New York has ridden elite run prevention to its record. Eury Pérez (RHP) faces Will Warren (RHP), and […]
April 3, 2026
Six games into the season and into the third series, the St. Louis Cardinals (4-2) head to Comerica Park for Detroit’s home opener against the Tigers (2-4). This matchup lands cleanly as early-season offense versus established pitching—St. Louis has shown more life at the plate, while Detroit leans on Framber Valdez and a stronger baseline […]
April 3, 2026
Stanford arrives at 20-12 with an offense that found real rhythm late in the year, while West Virginia comes in at 18-14 having spent the last month living inside low-possession, grind-it-out games. That makes this quarterfinal less about raw talent than about whose version of tournament basketball can actually take hold in Las Vegas. Below […]
April 2, 2026
Stanford arrives at 20-12 with an offense that found real rhythm late in the year, while West Virginia comes in at 18-14 having spent the last month living inside low-possession, grind-it-out games. That makes this quarterfinal less about raw talent than about whose version of tournament basketball can actually take hold in Las Vegas. Below […]
April 2, 2026
Hinkle Fieldhouse becomes something different this week. And for this Final Four game, it’s a compression chamber for two No. 1 seeds that took very different paths to get here. National Invitation Tournament semifinal night strips everything down to execution, and both New Mexico (26-10) and Tulsa (29-7) arrive with credible claims. One brings control, […]
April 2, 2026
Chase Field has already turned this series into something unstable. Arizona has taken the first two—9-6, 7-5—both games hinging on late-inning avalanches, both games slipping once Detroit moved off its starter. That’s the texture: a series that has belonged to the Diamondbacks after the sixth, and a matchup tonight that sets up almost entirely before […]
April 1, 2026