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Championship gold isn’t cheap.  Fresh off taking down the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series, the back-to-back defending champs are set to cough up a record $169.4 million in competitive balance tax (CBT) for the 2025 season, the Associated Press reported Friday. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series. AP The stunning cost stems from LA’s whopping $417.3 million CBT payroll, which is calculated based on the average annual value of player contracts rather than year-to-year salary.  According to Cot’s Baseball Contracts, the Dodgers’ actual cash payroll for 2025…

article FILE-A sign at a supermarket entrance with text that says We Welcome EBT customers and a SNAP logo in Lafayette, California, November 13, 2025. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Two store owners were arrested in an alleged $7 million Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits scheme, according to federal prosecutors in Boston. Antonio Bonheur, 74, and Saul Alisme, 21, were each charged with one count of food stamp fraud. Bonheur owned the Jesula Variety Store and Alisme owned Saul Mache Mixe Store in a Boston neighborhood.  RELATED: Trump must fully fund SNAP benefits in November, federal judge orders What happened in…

Getty (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images) The Boston Red Sox have yet to make a significant splash in free agency this MLB offseason. However, they could be brewing a swoop of one or possibly two Japanese players to bolster their lineup for the 2026 season.Boston are likely looking to retain free-agent hitter Alex Bregman, but it seems they might not want to put all their eggs in that basket. As a result, they may be considering other options.On December 20, MassLive’s Chris Cotillo reported that the Red Sox have “kicked the tires” on Kazuma Okamoto and Munetaka Murakami. Cotillo followed…

Another winter high school sports season is upon us in the Greater Taunton area. See all of the scores, stats and highlights from the first 10 days.

Team USA’s Ashley Farquharson competes in the 2023 FIL luge World Cup in Lake Placid. (Enterprise photo — Parker O’Brien) LAKE PLACID — The international luge elite will be competing at Mount Van Hoevenberg today and Saturday. In all, 38 women, 44 men, 14 women’s doubles and 20 men’s doubles teams from 16 nations have registered for the FIL Luge World Cup. In addition to the World Cup races, the 15th America-Pacific Championships will be held in race-in-race mode. The second of three mixed World Cups is also on the program for Saturday. Luge athletes last…

We’ve reached the holiday break in the USHL so it’s time to look back on some notable performances from the first stage of the season. First up, Lincoln Stars forward Alex Pelletier. The native of Granby, Connecticut has 25 goals and 14 assists (39 points) through 24 games played this season, resulting in an impressive 1.63 points per game mark. On December 9th, Pelletier surpassed his point total from the 2024-25 season (37), with a 3 point performance as the Stars bested the Sioux Falls Stampede 5-3 at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center.On November 3rd, Pelletier announced his commitment to…

Bryson Mercedes had 13 points along with the game-winning three as time expired while Mathaios Stamm led the scoring with 20 as Newton North topped St. John’s Prep, 55-54, in a nonleague boys basketball thriller. Boys hockey In the Middlesex League, Declan McLean scored twice as Melrose defeated Lexington, 5-1. … In a MVC/DCL 2 clash, host Tewksbury received two goals and two assists each from Jake Cunha and Tyler Bourea during an 8-0 victory over Acton-Boxboro. Girls hockey Avalina Coffey scored twice as Winthrop defeated Newburyport, 5-0, in nonleague play. In Bay State Conference action, Emma Fair and Catherine…

Boston Red Sox Imai has been one of the top pitchers in Japan over the last couple of years. Tatsuya Imai has been one of NPB’s best pitchers over the last couple of years. (Kyodo News via AP) By Conor Roche December 20, 2025 | 4:40 PM 3 minutes to read The Red Sox seem to be in the mix for another notable free agent.Boston has been connected to Japanese right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai and is believed to be one of the clubs most interested in the pitcher, MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand recently reported. Imai, 27, has pitched for NPB’s Saitama…

There are some of us predisposed to wake most mornings, reach for our iPhones on the nightstand, open the latest AM edition of the D1.ticker newsletter, and deliberate over what sports-related public records requests we should send—and to which university.It is not a life for everyone. But for a certain compulsive type of information gatherer—hello!—it works. Or it is our work. However, if 2025 has taught us anything, it’s that this once-bespoke club is rapidly expanding beyond its traditional ranks of eggheads, nerds, wet blankets, muckrakers, basement-dwellers and haters (aka journalists)—though some of those contingents are growing too.AdvertisementMore from Sportico.comThis…

December 15, 20224 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmInternational Sports Need to Prioritize SustainabilityEvents like the World Cup can emit millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide, but it doesn’t have to be that wayBy Seth Wynes Fans arrive at the stadium ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group C match between Argentina and Mexico at Lusail Stadium on November 26, 2022 in Lusail City, Qatar. Climate researchers normally use megatons (millions of metric tons) to measure the annual emissions of entire countries, not sporting events. But the carbon footprint of this year’s World Cup will be…