The daily pitch from Sports Editor Matt Daniels: March 17, 2025 – Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Trevor Bauer has dominated the Mexican League this season. In 10 starts for Diablos Rojos del Mexico, Bauer has a 1.63 ERA with 83 strikeouts. And yet, he’s still searching for a Major League team to sign with. Bauer was suspended by MLB for 194 games for violating the league’s domestic violence, sexual assault and […]

World Cup winner Benjamin Mendy signed a two-year deal with French soccer club Lorient on Wednesday, only days after the France international was found not guilty of raping a woman and the attempted rape of another. The 29-year-old Mendy left Manchester City last month after his contract expired. He had not played for the Champions […]

Two-time Women’s World Cup winner and two-time Olympian Julie Ertz will bid farewell to the United States women’s national soccer team Thursday at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati.  The match against South Africa will be the 123rd and final time she takes the field wearing the red, white and blue for her country after announcing her […]