From first-year players to returning candidates, here are top names to watch in the 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame voting process.

Eric Allen, known for his exceptional career as a cornerback, is being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

NFL scouts worried about the hell-raising. Among the 13 defensive ends drafted before him in 2004 were Ohio State’s Will Smith (No. 18 overall), Hawaii’s Travis LaBoy (No. 42), Ohio State’s Darrion Scott (No. 88) and Georgia’s Robert Geathers (No. 117). Allen (No. 126) soon got to the head of the class.

Shaquille O'Neal made the headlines again by firing shots at Rudy Gobert. This has become a regular occurrence between Shaq and the Frenchman, as the three-time Finals MVP is a notable critic of Gobert.

International Boxing Hall of Famer and former two-division world champion Dwight Muhammad Qawi died Friday. He was 72.

If you ask one of the people who covered him on the biggest of stages in that era, the answer is an unequivocal yes.

The Irish-bred ridgling, a Grade 1 winner at Churchill Downs this spring, enters on a three-race win streak and has only one defeat in seven career starts

Tom Hamilton joined Jimmy Dudley and Jack Graney in representing Cleveland as winners of the Ford C. Frick Award.