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.
The Seattle Mariners went all-in at the trade deadline, pulling off deals for Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suárez from the Arizona Diamondbacks. The aggression made sense: with MVP candidate Cal Raleigh, Naylor, Suárez, Randy Arozarena, and Julio Rodríguez on the roster, the offense is stacked. However, Seattle has lost five straight games entering its home […]
August 22, 2025
Last season, first overall pick Caitlin Clark helped lead the Indiana Fever to the playoffs in her first WNBA season. Perhaps the only stain on 2025 first overall pick Paige Bueckers’ tremendous rookie season is that her Dallas Wings were eliminated after Wednesday’s defeat to the Los Angeles Sparks. For the Wings, the focus will […]
August 22, 2025
The Minnesota Twins made one of the biggest fire sales in MLB history at the trade deadline, recognizing that their playoff hopes were slim and that the franchise’s long-term future would be best served by a race to the bottom. It’s kind of worked; the Twins are just 7-12 so far in August. Minnesota will […]
August 22, 2025
The Cincinnati Reds’ playoff hopes come down to this: a nine-game road trip featuring three series against three solid teams. Cincinnati has gotten off to a good start, winning two of three games against the Los Angeles Angels. Tonight, the Reds will begin a three-game set against the 2023 NL-winning Arizona Diamondbacks. The first pitch […]
August 22, 2025
One season after a disastrous campaign that saw them go just 7-10, the Dallas Cowboys will enter the 2025 campaign with hopes that, once again, this will be their year. There are some reasons for optimism: quarterback Dak Prescott, who was the runner-up for MVP in 2023, played just eight games last season, and George […]
August 21, 2025
When there’s a sufficiently large slate, MLB Thursdays can be pretty great. Because some teams are ending midweek series and others are starting weekend series, there’s baseball on all day. The first game of the day is more than halfway complete, and three more won’t even start until after 7 p.m. ET. The trio of […]
August 21, 2025
From here on out, nothing matters for the Minnesota Lynx until the postseason begins. Minnesota is 28-6, even after losing to the New York Liberty in the fourth WNBA Finals rematch of the season, and with a 6.5-game advantage over New York for home court advantage throughout the WNBA playoffs with 12 games to play, […]
August 21, 2025
As the WNBA season enters the home stretch, the New York Liberty’s magic number to clinch a playoff spot is down to five. Their opponents tonight, the Chicago Sky, have already been eliminated from postseason contention, leaving five teams to vie for three spots, with the sixth-seeded Indiana Fever leading the 10th-seeded Washington Mystics by […]
August 21, 2025
With five teams soaring above the 70-win mark, the battle for the second playoff bye in the National League will be a hotly-contested storyline down the homestretch of the season. Four of those teams are in action tonight; the Milwaukee Brewers will seek to avoid dropping a fourth straight game to the 73-win Chicago Cubs, […]
August 21, 2025
Just one more week of preseason football remains before the scores actually start to count. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers will kick off the final week of exhibition action with a 7 p.m. kickoff tonight. Pittsburgh is a 5.5-point favorite at DraftKings Sportsbook (-250 Moneyline), with the game total set at 35.5 points. Carolina […]
August 21, 2025
