Griffin Wong has been a content writer at DK Network since November 2024. Prior to that, he was the former sports editor for the Harvard Crimson, where he covered the football team for two years and earned four Story of the Year nominations from the Associated College Press. A lifelong Lakers and Dodgers fan, Griffin’s favorite athlete of all time is Kobe Bryant. When he’s not writing, Griffin is usually skiing, running, golfing, or playing basketball — badly.
After a long — but incredibly fun — All-Star Week, the MLB regular season is back. Gone are robot umps and swing-offs to determine the winner; back is human error and extra innings. As fun as the swing-off was, it’s baseball, and we love it all. Though all 30 teams will play today, only 22 […]
July 18, 2025
This season has been an tumultuous one for the Tampa Bay Rays, who are playing in the New York Yankees’ spring training facility this season while Tropicana Field undergoes repairs following damage sustained during Hurricane Milton. But the Rays have had a successful season, sitting just five and a half games behind the Toronto Blue […]
July 17, 2025
Though offense has generally exploded in recent seasons, there’s one major area in which pitches have gained a further upper hand: hitters have been striking out far more. The analytics behind it make sense — a strikeout is worth the same as any other out and a more aggressive approach at the plate can produce […]
July 17, 2025
Some 16 months after being involved an offseason car accident in Texas, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has been sentenced to five years’ probation and 30 days in jail, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. He’s likely to serve an NFL-mandated suspension during the 2025 season, with Chiefs Digest writer Matt Derrick writing that […]
July 17, 2025
The summer of 1998 was known as the Long Gone Summer, when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire went back and forth, tit-for-tat, bomb after bomb in a pursuit of Roger Maris’ single-season home run record so epic that it became the subject of a 2020 30 for 30 documentary. Maris, a two-time American League MVP, […]
July 16, 2025
While most of the teams in the league have either made moves to improve their championship or lottery odds, the Chicago Bulls remain stuck in the dreaded middle, tied to a core of Coby White, Josh Giddey, and Nikola Vučević. The Bulls have participated in the Play-In Tournament in each of the past three seasons. […]
July 16, 2025
Today, the WNBA will play its final set of games before resetting for the All-Star Weekend festivities set to take place this weekend in Indiana. 10 of the league’s 13 teams are in action tonight, with two of the five games on DraftKings’ featured DFS slate, which locks at 7:30 p.m. ET. The biggest question […]
July 16, 2025
Less than a month ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder won their first championship since moving to the prairie in 2008, then dished out more than $800 million in contracts to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams, and Chet Holmgren. So far in the NBA Summer League, they’ve gotten the chance to test out yet another member of […]
July 16, 2025
Until last season, the Utah Jazz had never lost more than 60 games in a season in their entire history, the last franchise in the league to do so. The Washington Wizards suffered their seventh 60-loss season. Neither team was rewarded for its futility; the Jazz landed the fifth overall pick (which turned into Ace […]
July 16, 2025
Griffin Wong gives his best bets at DraftKings Sportsbook for Wednesday's MLS slate.
July 16, 2025
Caitlin Clark is back in action tonight as part of a two-game slate of WNBA action, as her Indiana Fever visit the Connecticut Sun for an 8 p.m. ET clash and the Los Angeles Sparks host the Washington Mystics at 10 p.m. ET. For Connecticut, Los Angeles, and Washington, it’ll be the last game before […]
July 15, 2025