The 2025 MLS season won't end quite how a half-dozen Eastern Conference clubs had planned back in February.

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference and rightfully so. After tripling their win total to 44 games last season and pushing the New York Knicks to six games in the playoffs,

Cavaliers trade proposal sends Jarrett Allen to Eastern Conference foe originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The enter the 2025-26 campaign with a chip on their shoulders, aiming to reach the NBA Finals for the first time since the 2017-18 campaign.

Philadelphia Union II will host FC Cincinnati 2 in the first round of the 2025 MLS NEXT Pro Playoffs on Sunday, October 19 at Subaru Park. The Eastern Conference Quarterfinal match kicks off at 4:00 p.m. ET on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV. Tickets to Union II’s postseason opener can be purchased clicking here.

The Milwaukee Bucks are a team that has bent over backwards to appease their homegrown superstar, Giannis Antetokounmpo. Despite winning an NBA championship in 2021, the Bucks have done nothing but regress since then. Milwaukee hasn’t sniffed the Conference Finals since that run, and in the last three years, has been eliminated in the first round.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC picked up an emphatic 2–1 win over Orlando City this weekend, with Nelson Pierre scoring in the 81st minute to tie the match at 1–1 before Thomas Müller scored his sixth MLS goal in the 97th minute to seal the victory.

The NBA's Eastern Conference looks like a two-team race between the Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks. Injuries have derailed title hopes for the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers while franchises like the Orlando Magic,

With numerous teams focusing on player development and a couple facing gap years, the conference's lower end could be unsightly.

"It's been 11 years since Devin Booker and Karl-Anthony Towns were teammates at Kentucky, although the Phoenix Suns should be interested in a reunion now. "The Suns could be the t

Tom Fitzgerald did not mince words. Just days after the Devils were bounced from the playoffs by the superior Carolina Hurricanes, the fifth-year GM was asked what his team needed to do to “get over the hump” entering next season.