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.
Ahead of tomorrow’s MLB trade deadline, the San Francisco Giants will be one of the teams to watch. Although they looked to be contenders for most of the season, a five-game losing streak has left them 54-54, nine games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the NL West and five games behind the San Diego […]
July 30, 2025
Three seasons ago, Sandy Alcantara was the best pitcher in the National League, winning the Cy Young Award unanimously after a season in which he went 14-9 with a 2.28 ERA and struck out 207 batters. This season, he’s been baseball’s worst qualified pitcher and looks certain to be traded ahead of Thursday’s deadline. He’ll […]
July 29, 2025
The Baltimore Ravens hope to do one better than the AFC Championship Game elimination they managed in 2024-25. Their quest towards the Lombardi Trophy hit its first snag when tight end Isaiah Likely rolled his ankle at the end of Tuesday’s practice and got carted off before limping back to the facility. According to Ravens […]
July 29, 2025
While at least three of the MLB’s six divisions project to be competitive down the stretch, the NL Central has arguably baseball’s most intriguing battle at the top, with the Milwaukee Brewers leading the Chicago Cubs by one game after winning last night’s series opener against them. Two more games in Milwaukee, tonight and tomorrow […]
July 29, 2025
Fittingly, on the week that one of the franchise’s best-ever players, Ichiro Suzuki, earned his long-awaited induction into the Hall of Fame, the Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh took over from Aaron Judge as the favorite to win American League MVP at DraftKings Sportsbook. Entering the second game of the series against the Athletics, Big Dumper […]
July 29, 2025
Welcome to MLB trade deadline baseball, where impending deals can change lineups in a hurry as contenders and sellers alike gear up for the stretch run. In advance of Thursday’s deadline, uncertainty is the name of the game; basically the Minnesota Twins’ entire pitching corps is available as part of tonight’s featured DFS contest in […]
July 29, 2025
The New York Liberty narrowly avoided disaster on Saturday when two-time MVP Breanna Stewart left the court hobbling after just three minutes, 27 seconds against the Los Angeles Sparks. Though New York ultimately lost, snapping its win streak at five, avoiding any long-term injury to Stewart was the priority. Stewart won’t play tonight against the […]
July 28, 2025
As the MLB trade deadline approaches on Thursday, the San Francisco Giants are a team to watch. Seven games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the NL West and three games adrift of the Wild Card, the Giants could be buyers, but given their poor recent form, there’s also reason to believe that they could […]
July 28, 2025
The Colorado Rockies are 27-78, on pace to finish 42-120, one game ahead of last year’s Chicago White Sox for the worst 162-game regular season in MLB history. Coincidentally, the 2024 White Sox also had a 27-78 record at this point in the season. Colorado hopes to give itself more cushion against that record with […]
July 28, 2025
As the Philadelphia Phillies chase the New York Mets atop the NL East — currently, they’re one and a half games back — they’d normally relish a series against the Chicago White Sox, who have nothing to play for. But Chicago has looked like a completely different team since the All-Star break, so the Phillies […]
July 28, 2025
With the MLB’s trade deadline approaching on Thursday, both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Miami Marlins will be among the teams to watch entering their three-game series, which begins tonight with a 7:45 p.m. ET clash in St. Louis. The Cardinals have already made a move, dealing struggling starter Erick Fedde to the Atlanta […]
July 28, 2025