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The new year is already in full swing, with the month of January having come to a close.Â
It’s been an eventful month to say the least, with a few teams winning championships in some sports and others making playoff runs elsewhere. But what were the absolute biggest storylines in sports over the past month?
We dove into what’s transpired in college football, the NFL, college basketball, the NBA, MLB, and soccer in January and gave you the biggest headlines to follow.
Let’s take a look:
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10 biggest storylines in sports in JanuaryÂ
10. Ichiro Suzuki and C.C. Sabathia headline baseball Hall of Fame class
Ichiro Suzuki became the first player from Japan to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the 2025 class, and was just one vote shy of being a unanimous selection. Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 and joined Fred Lynn in 1975 as the only players to win AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP in the same season. Falling just short of the unanimous vote, Mariano Rivera remains the only player to be unanimously selected for induction in Cooperstown.
C.C. Sabathia received 86.6% of the vote in his first year on the ballot. He was a six-time All-Star, won the 2007 AL Cy Young Award and a World Series title in 2009. He went 251-161 with a 3.74 ERA and 3,093 strikeouts, third among left-handers behind Randy Johnson and Steve Carlton, during 19 seasons with Cleveland (2001-08), the Milwaukee Brewers (2008) and New York Yankees (2009-19).
9. Manchester City and PSG avoid elimination in new Champions League format
There were several questions about how the new UEFA Champions League format would pan out, with 36 teams battling to make the knockout stages. Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain struggled in the league phase, recording eight points and 10 points respectively and tinkering on the brink of elimination. But on the final matchday, both teams pulled out convincing victories to remain in the competition.
Pep Guardiola led City to a 3-1 victory over Club Brugge, despite going down 1-0 early in the match. The four-time defending English Premier League champions went on to score three unanswered goals. As for the French powerhouse, Ousmane Dembélé netted a hat trick in an easy 4-1 win over Stuttgart to secure them a spot in the knockout phase. Manager Luis Enrique engineered quite a turnaround over the last few months, leading them to three victories with 11 goals scored in that span. So, while some of the biggest clubs in the world were in danger of missing the cut in the new format, the final field still resulted in very familiar faces. Â
8. Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey continue to dominate
There was a lot of hype surrounding these three freshman heading into the college basketball season, and so far they’ve absolutely lived up to it.
Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey have each all but guaranteed themselves a top five draft spot in the 2025 NBA Draft. January has been especially kind to Flagg and Bailey, who rank third and sixth in the country respectively in scoring for the month — with the Duke product putting up 25.4 points per game and the Rutgers big man putting up 24.3. While Bailey’s January hasn’t been quite as prolific, he’s still averaging 18.6 points per game with 4.8 rebounds and 4.1 assists per outing.
Below are some nuggets that highlight just how incredible the true freshman have been this year:
- Flagg averaged 25.4 points per game on 57.9% shooting in January; the only other Division-I freshman in the last 15 years to average 25 points on that high of a shooting percentage in any month with five-plus games is Zion Williamson, who did it in January and March 2019.
- Flagg came a single assist shy of averaging 25-5-5 in January; he would have had the highest field goal percentage by any Division-I player averaging 25-5-5 in any month over that same span.
- Flagg had 42 points, 7 assists, 6 rebounds against Notre Dame on 11-of-14 shooting (78.6%) and 16-of-17 from the free throw line (94.1%) on Jan. 11; his shooting percentage in this game was the highest of any Division-I player with at least 40 points, 6 assists, and 6 rebounds in a game this century.
- Harper joined De’Aaron Fox as the only Division-I freshmen over the last 15 years with a 35-point game and a triple-double in the same season.
- Harper is the first Division-I freshman to score 35+ points in consecutive games over the last 15 seasons.
- Harper had 37 points against No. 9 Alabama, the most by a freshman vs an AP Top-10 opponent since Cade Cunningham had 40 at Oklahoma in February 2021.
- Bailey had 37 points against Northwestern on Jan. 29, two points shy of tying the Rutgers single-game freshman record.
- Bailey and Harper are the second pair of freshman teammates over the last 15 years to each post 35-point games in the same season; they joined Kentucky’s De’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk, who did it in 2016-17.
7. Miami lands Carson Beck for $4M in transfer portal
Former Georgia quarterback Carson Beck announced that he’d be returning to school for a sixth season, after committing to play for Miami (Fla.) in 2025 despite recently declaring for the NFL Draft. Beck is reportedly set to receive a little over $4 million to transfer, roughly double the $1.6 million Heisman Trophy finalist Cam Ward earned through Miami’s collective, according to FOX Sports’ Bruce Feldman. The senior signal-caller spent five seasons at Georgia, serving as a backup to Stetson Bennett on the school’s 2021 and 2022 title teams before spending the past two as the Bulldogs’ starter.
Beck completed 68% of his passes for 7,912 yards, 58 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in his college career. He appeared in 39 games for Georgia, 27 of them in the past two seasons, leading them to a combined 24-3 record. The Hurricanes will look to replicate the success they had with Ward under Beck’s command, coming off a 10-3 record.Â
6. Jimmy Butler wants out in Miami
The saga of Jimmy Butler wanting to leave the Miami Heat seems never-ending, as signs of disagreement first came to light when the two parties failed to reach an extension in June of 2024 ahead of the season. On January 2nd of this year, Butler stated, “I want to see me getting my joy back playing basketball. Wherever that may be, we’ll find out here pretty soon.”
Over the next three weeks, Butler reiterated his desire to be traded multiple times to the front office, and has been suspended by the Heat on several different occasions in that span due to a “disregard of team rules.” He is currently suspended indefinitely, and Miami is still searching for the right trade partner to unload the six-time All-Star.
5. Saquon Barkley’s remarkable season lands Philly back in Super Bowl
It’s not often that a player gets to make the Super Bowl in their first season with a new team, but Saquon Barkley did just that in his first campaign with Philly. Highlighted by leading the league with 2,005 regular-season rushing yards, Barkley has been the driving force of a Philadelphia running game that ranked second in the league (179.3 rushing yards per game) and was strong enough to catapult the Eagles to Super Bowl LIX. His postseason run has been absolutely electric, with 442 rushing yards— the second-most by a player in a single playoff run before reaching the Super Bowl.
Barkley also became the sixth player in NFL history to have 120 scrimmage yards and three rushing scores in a conference championship game, joining Adrian Peterson, Emmitt Smith, LeGarrette Blount, Raheem Mostert, and Thurman Thomas. And to cap it off, Barkley has been the most dangerous big play threat in the postseason— recording three rushing touchdowns of 60+ yards in the 2024-25 playoffs. He is the first player in NFL history with three rushing scores of 60+ yards in a playoff career, let alone a single postseason! Entering the Super Bowl, he is just 30 rush yards shy of breaking the single-season record held by Terrell Davis (including the playoffs), and three scrimmage yards shy of breaking that record as well (also held by Davis).Â
4. Roki Sasaki signs with Dodgers
Roki Sasaki, a 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 mph, announced that would join fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a move many baseball executives had long expected. The San Diego Padres and Toronto Blue Jays were said to be the other finalists still in pursuit of Sasaki. The Dodgers are planning to use a six-man rotation, which could ease his transition to Major League Baseball, as Los Angeles attempts to become the first repeat champion since the New York Yankees from 1998 to 2000. Sasaki was 10-5 with a 2.35 ERA in 18 games last year, striking out 129 hitters in 111 innings during a season limited by shoulder inflammation. He went 7-4 with a 1.78 ERA in 15 starts in 2023, when he had an oblique injury. He has a 29-15 career record with a 2.10 ERA over four seasons with the Marines and pitched a perfect game against Orix in April 2022.
3. Ohio State wins first 12-team CFP
Ohio State and Notre Dame made history even before kickoff of the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship. The Buckeyes and Fighting Irish were the first two teams to reach the inaugural 12-team playoff title game. Ohio State built a 31-7 lead in the third quarter before Notre Dame came charging back. The Buckeyes held on for the 34-23 win, thanks in part to a 56-yard completion from quarterback Will Howard to freshman sensation Jeremiah Smith late in the fourth quarter. The win gave Ohio State head coach Ryan Day his first national title in his second appearance in a championship game. It’s also the first national championship for the Buckeyes since the 2014 season.
Smith broke the Big Ten single-season record for receiving yards by a freshman with 1,315, passing Purdue’s Rondale Moore (1,258 in 2018), while Quinshon Judkins is the sixth player in the CFP era to have three scrimmage touchdowns in the national championship, joining Ezekiel Elliott, Travis Etienne Jr., Najee Harris, Derrick Henry and DeVonta Smith. The Buckeyes roster was truly a special one, boasting four 1,000-yard performers— the first time that’s happened in a single season in Buckeye history (Jeremiah Smith, Emeka Egbuka, TreVeyon Henderson, Quinshon Judkins).
Ohio State finished the year with five wins vs. AP top-five opponents this season, not only the most since the FBS/FCS split in 1978, but also the most in the AP poll era (since 1936)— with four of its five wins came in the CFP.
2. Jayden Daniels’ historic playoff run
Jayden Daniels was absolutely stellar in the month of January, leading the Commanders to the NFC Championship before ultimately falling to the Eagles. It was Washington’s first NFC title game appearance since the 1991 season, the same year in which they won the Super Bowl.
In three playoff games, the former Heisman winner recorded 822 pass yards, five pass touchdowns, 135 rush yards, and a rushing touchdown— all the highest marks by a rookie quarterback in a playoff run ever. While his January was something to remember, below we’ve listed out all the records he broke throughout the season just to emphasize how unprecedented his season was:
Jayden Daniels Rookie QB Records Broken 2024 Season, Including Playoffs
- 1st to lead team in rush yards in regular season and make playoffs
- 1st to throw 2+ pass TD in road playoff win (Tampa Bay)
- 1st to lead team in pass and rush yds in playoff win (Tampa Bay)
- 1st to defeat No. 1 scoring offense in playoffs (Detroit)
- 1st to defeat multiple top five scoring offenses in playoffs (Tampa and Detroit)
- 1st to defeat multiple No. 1 overall drafted QBs in playoffs (Baker Mayfield and Jared Goff)
- 1st to have 300+ offensive yards in multiple playoffs games
- 1st to have 100+ passer rating in multiple playoff games
- 1st to win multiple playoff games without a top three scoring
- Most offensive yards in rookie season
- Most offensive touchdowns in rookie season
- Most pass yards in a rookie postseason
- Most pass touchdowns in a rookie postseason
1. Chiefs meet Eagles in Super Bowl rematch; K.C. looking to record first three-peat
Could we have asked for a better Super Bowl? A rematch of a game that ended 38-35 just a few years ago, with Patrick Mahomes & Co. looking to make history— going up against arguably the most talented team in the league in the Eagles.
No team has ever won three Super Bowls in a row, with the Packers having come the closest— winning the 1965 NFL Championship before winning Super Bowls I and II. The Chiefs are the first team ever to make five Super Bowls in a six-year span, and also the fourth team in league history to reach three consecutive Super Bowls.
The AFC title game was a thriller, with Kansas City coming out on top 32-19. It was their 17th straight win in a one-possession game, the longest such winning streak in NFL history when including the playoffs. Mahomes joins Tom Brady (10) and John Elway (five) as the only starting quarterbacks in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl five times, and he’ll be the only one to start five Super Bowls before age 30.
As for Philly, they’re looking for their first title since the 2017 season— having taken down Brady’s Patriots in a 41-33 barn-burner. Their NFC title game performance was beyond dominant, scoring 55 points and rushing for seven touchdowns— both NFL conference championship records. The two teams have a combined 10 All-Pro selections, which should make this an incredible game.
One fact we’ll leave you with: Andy Reid vs Nick Sirianni will be the fifth head coach rematch in a Super Bowl all-time. The head coach that won the first meeting also won the second meeting in all of the previous four instances. Can the Birds break the curse?Â
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What are the 10 most unbreakable records in sports?
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Sports are truly amazing for a lot of reasons. For example, just when you think there will never be anyone better, along comes another player who makes you question everything.Â
After Michael Jordan, it was almost a certainty that there would be no one who could come close to him, and then came LeBron James. After Babe Ruth, there was Barry Bonds and then Shohei Ohtani. Sports continue to evolve and record books continue to be rewritten.
But which records are ones we should etch in stone? Let’s take a look:
10 most unbreakable sports records
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10. Rickey Henderson: 1,406 career stolen bases
Henderson’s larger-than-life personality was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to his career. He was unstoppable on the basepaths. Never before had a player reached base and so quickly turned a single into a double or triple as often as Henderson did. His 1,406 steals are 468 more than Lou Brock’s 938 steals, the second-most in MLB history.Â
If you add up the top four players in steals active today, they equal just 1,191 career steals, 215 fewer than Henderson. Take into account that no active player has had 75 steals in a season and only one has had 70 or more steals in a season (Ronald Acuna, 73 in 2023) and this record looks impossible to surpass.
9. Pete Maravich: 44.2 PPG career average and 44.5 PPG single-season average at LSU
Maravich was a special talent and his scoring prowess knew no bounds. He currently owns the top three single-season scoring averages in college basketball history, giving him a career average of 44.2 points per game. His best season came in 1969-70, when he put up an eye-popping 44.5 points per game while playing for LSU. Only one player other than Maravich has averaged 40 points per game in a season: Johnny Neumann, who put up 40.1 points per game for Mississippi during the 1970-71 season, one year after Maravich’s last season in college.Â
Since 2000, only one player has been able to average even 30 points per game in a season — Chris Clemons, who recorded 30.1 points per game during the 2018-19 season for Campbell. That puts both Maravich’s career and single-season averages well out of reach for anyone in the foreseeable future.Â
8. John Stockton: 15,806 career assists and 3,265 career steals
Stockton was a maestro on offense and a pest on defense. Combine that with his longevity, and you get two of the most incredible records in basketball history. His passing ability led him to compile 15,806 assists in his 19 seasons in the NBA, 3,500+ more than Chris Paul, who is currently second on the list. That is a massive gap that feels unreachable, but looking closer it is even more unlikely than that. No player has had 1,000 assists in one year since Stockton did so in the 1994-95 season. The highest in the last 20 years was Paul in 2007-08 with 925. That means the 39-year-old Paul would need four more full seasons at his career high in assists to top Stockton.
Paul is also just under 600 steals behind Stockton, who is the only player in basketball history to record 3,000 thefts. That number seems unfathomable in today’s game; Paul is the only active player with 200 or more steals in a single season, which he did twice (2007-08 and 2008-09).
7. Michael Phelps: 28 total Olympic medals won, 23 Olympic gold medals won
The Olympic run put together by Phelps is one-of-a-kind. His 28 medals are 10 more than any other participant, but what separates him is his pure domination in the sport. His 23 Olympic golds are 14 more than any other athlete!  No other athlete in history has even 10 gold medals in Olympic competitions. To put that in perspective, if you add together the gold medals of two other famous Olympic swimmers — Katie Ledecky and Mark Spitz, who had nine each — they would have a combined 18 Olympic golds.Â
6. Nolan Ryan: 5,714 career strikeouts
Everyone knows Randy Johnson was a strikeout machine and that Roger Clemens pitched, and with success, for a very long time. Despite that, neither one is even close to Nolan Ryan when it comes to strikeouts. Ryan’s 5,714 strikeouts are 839 more than Randy Johnson’s 4,875 K’s, the second-most in the game’s history.Â
If you factor in the current crop of MLB pitchers, the record looks even more unattainable. Justin Verlander leads all active players with 3,416 punchouts — 2,298 strikeouts fewer than Ryan’s pristine mark.Â
5. Jerry Rice: 22,895 career receiving yards
Easily the best receiver in NFL history, Rice is in a category all his own. He is the only player to surpass the 20,000-yard receiving mark and is 5,403 yards ahead of Larry Fitzgerald, who comes in at second on the all-time list. That means even if Fitzgerald came out of retirement and set the single-season record with 2,000 receiving yards in two straight years, he would still be 1,403 yards short of tying Rice.Â
4. Emmitt Smith: 18,355 career rushing yards
Smith, the longtime Cowboys running back, was impressively durable in his career. He played in 226 regular-season career games and finished with an absurd 18,355 rushing yards. That is 1,629 rushing yards more than Walter Payton for most in NFL history.Â
The logic says if a running back plays long enough, he could catch Smith, but that isn’t even true. One of the NFL’s longest-tenured backs was the recently retired Frank Gore, who trails him by 2,355 rushing yards, despite playing a full season longer than Smith.Â
Only one active running back has even 10,000 rushing yards: Derrick Henry, who ranks No. 19 on the NFL leaderboard with 11,423 rushing yards.
3. Wayne Gretzky: 2,857 career points and 1,963 career assists
Famously nicknamed “The Great One,” Gretzky was on a level all his own. Fantasy hockey used to have to split his player stats into assists and goals because he was too valuable as just one player. He could swing the entire league. To put the career points and assists record into perspective, Gretzky is the only player to reach 2,000 points in the history of the NHL and surpassed it by 857 points!Â
To put it in today’s terms, Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin both have more than 1,580 points, while Jaromir Jagr sits in second place all-time with 1,921 career points.Â
Gretzky also holds the NHL record with 1,963 career assists. Only 14 players all-time have even registered 1,000 assists. No one, besides Gretzky, has passed 1,250 assists.
2. Tom Brady: 102,614 career passing yards, 737 career TD passes, oldest QB to win a Super Bowl (43 years, 6 months, and 4 days), 286 career wins; playoffs included
Patrick Mahomes has had an electric start to his career, but Brady has set an almost impossible bar to reach. The G.O.A.T’s 102,614 passing yards (regular season and postseason combined) are almost 17,000 more than Drew Brees for the second-most all-time and over 23,000 more than Peyton Manning for third all-time. He also has 129 more passing TDs than any other QB, playoffs included.Â
The most amazing thing, though, is he has 86 MORE all-time wins than any other quarterback. Second-place is Manning with 200, which means even if he came out of retirement and led a team to a perfect 20-0 record through the next four seasons, Manning would still be six wins short of tying Brady.
If Manning somehow did that, he’d also pass Brady as the oldest quarterback to win the Super Bowl, but it’s a tall task imagining anyone beating Brady in that regard, either.
1. Wilt Chamberlain: Highest PPG average in a season (50.4), highest MPG average in a season (48.5) and most points in a single game (100)
It should come as a shock to no one that Chamberlain holds the top spot in multiple places. His average of 50.4 points per game in a season is laughably good, considering no one but “Wilt the Stilt” has even averaged 40 points per game in a season. James Harden’s scoring surge during the 2018-19 season put him at 36.1 points per game, 14.3 per game fewer than Chamberlain’s best year.
Everyone also knows about his 100-point game, which is a remarkable feat; the only player to top 80 points was Kobe Bryant, with his 81-point barrage in 2006.Â
The most unbreakable, though, might be his average of 48.5 minutes per game, considering NBA games only last 48 minutes. There would need to be a lot of overtimes, and those players would need to play every minute of every game on top of that.Â
Honorable mentions:
- Bill Russell: 11 NBA championships
- Cy Young: 749 complete games
- Barry Bonds: 73 home runs in a single season
- Joey Chestnut: 83 hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes
- Simone Biles: 23 gold medals at World Championships (next best is 9)
- Cal Ripken Jr.: 2,632 consecutive games played
- Usain Bolt: ran 100-meter dash in 9.58 secondsÂ
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Reports: Raiders bringing back Graham as DC
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Jan 30, 2025, 12:43 AM ETOpen Extended Reactions
The Las Vegas Raiders are retaining Patrick Graham as their defensive coordinator, according to multiple reports.
Graham has been with the franchise since 2022, when he was hired by Josh McDaniels and stayed on as part of Antonio Pierce’s staff.
Graham’s contract expired at the end of this season, and he interviewed twice for the Jaguars head-coaching vacancy before they hired Liam Coen. Graham also interviewed for the Jacksonville defensive coordinator job.
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NFL plans for ‘more visible’ security at Super Bowl
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Jan 29, 2025, 06:44 PM ET
The NFL’s security chief projected confidence in the league’s security plans as New Orleans prepares to host the Feb. 9 Super Bowl in the aftermath of a terror attack that killed 14 people there on New Year’s Day.
Cathy Lanier, the NFL’s chief security officer, said Wednesday there would be heightened measures around the game.
“I think the most important thing is, very clear and unequivocal, saying without hesitation that we are really confident in our security plan going into the Super Bowl,” she said.
The 11th Super Bowl hosted by New Orleans next weekend is expected
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Eagles fan dies after fall from pole in celebration
Jan 29, 2025, 09:41 AM ET
An 18-year-old Temple University student has died after falling from a light pole while celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles’ NFC championship win.
Tyler Sabapathy was among the fans celebrating on the streets of Philadelphia after the Eagles beat the Washington Commanders 55-23 on Sunday. Video shows Sabapathy holding onto a street pole then slipping and falling flat on his back, hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk. He was hospitalized with a brain injury and pronounced dead two days later.
Temple president John Fry and vice president for student affairs Jodi Bailey issued a statement Tuesday.
“The loss of
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Reports: Some Super Bowl ads to cost $8 million
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At least 10 commercials to air during Super Bowl LIX on Fox have sold for $8 million, according to multiple reports Wednesday.
Fox reported in November that it had sold out of ad spots, at what it said it believed to be “record pricing,” Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said at the time. As spots were dwindling, the price increased, according to reports. Super Bowl ads normally increase by about $100,000 each year, but this year, the increase was reportedly closer to $500,000.
“What was unique to this Super Bowl, or this marketplace, was
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Source: McCarthy shifts focus to ’26 hiring cycle
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Mike McCarthy, the former Dallas Cowboys coach who was in the running for the Saints job, is no longer planning to coach this year, and Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore has emerged as a lead candidate to fill the New Orleans vacancy, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Tuesday night.
No final decision has been made by New Orleans, which has held second interviews with three candidates in total — Moore, Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver and New York Giants offensive coordinator
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MLB The Show 25 cover stars revealed, features three players for first time ever
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For the first time in its history, MLB The Show will have multiple players on its cover.
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson will appear on the cover of MLB The Show 25, it was announced Tuesday.Â
The decision to name Skenes, De La Cruz and Henderson the cover athletes follows a recent trend by San Diego Studio, the game’s developer, to place rising stars on the cover of MLB The Show. Its decision to focus on young stars in this year’s edition of the game was intentional.
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“Historically, we’ve chosen a single cover athlete for MLB The Show, someone who is at the pinnacle of the sport,” The Show global marketing group manager Todd Liss told MLB.com. “However, with the unprecedented young talent coming into the league, we wanted to represent the changing current climate of baseball and showcase it on our cover. These three players are changing what’s possible in baseball, and we’re changing how many players can be on the cover of The Show.”
Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vlad Guerrero Jr. was on the cover of last season’s game while then Miami Marlins star Jazz Chisholm appeared on MLB The Show 23, with each making their cover debut relatively early in their careers.Â
Skenes, De La Cruz and Henderson seem like logical successors to be cover athletes based on the starts of their careers. Skenes lived up to the hype as one of the top pitching prospects in recent memory after getting called up in May 2024. The 22-year-old won National League Rookie of the Year and finished third in NL Cy Young voting after going 11-3 with a 1.96 ERA, 170 strikeouts and a 0.947 WHIP.
De La Cruz has arguably become one of the league’s most electrifying players in recent memory. He became the fifth player since 1901 to have at least 20 home runs and 60 stolen bases in a single season last year, recording 25 homers to go with his MLB-high 67 stolen bases. That came after he recorded 13 homers, seven triples and 35 stolen bases in 98 games as a rookie in 2023.
Finally, Henderson has been one of the keys to the Orioles’ back-to-back playoff appearances over the last two years. The 23-year-old was one of the best hitters in the American League last season, hitting .281 with 37 homers, 92 RBIs and a .893 OPS. He also had 21 stolen bases after winning AL Rookie of the Year in 2023.Â
Unlike its NFL counterpart, there hasn’t been much of a curse associated with being on the cover of MLB The Show. Last season, Guerrero actually had a bounceback year after appearing on the cover, hitting .323 with 30 homers and a .940 OPS. Chisholm missed some time due to injury in 2023, but he still hit a career-high 19 homers that year. Shohei Ohtani also had another stellar two-way season after appearing on the cover in 2022, finishing second in AL MVP voting.
MLB The Show 25 will mark the 20th edition of the game. Former Boston Red Sox star and Hall of Famer David Ortiz appeared on the first cover of the game in 2006, hitting a career-high 54 homers that season.Â
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2025 MLB Opening Day: Schedule, times, dates, how to watch, starters
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The MLB regular season is scheduled to start in Tokyo, Japan on March 18, with MLB’s traditional Opening Day scheduled for Thursday, March 27. This is the earliest Opening Day in MLB history. Check out the complete details on how to watch this year’s Opening Day games, including teams, times and TV channels — all times Eastern.
When does the 2025 MLB season start?
The 2025 MLB season is scheduled to begin overseas with a two-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo, Japan. The Dodgers and Cubs will play on Tuesday, March 18 and Wednesday, March 19. This is the sixth time that a MLB season opener has taken place in Tokyo, Japan.Â
2025 MLB Opening Day Schedule
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A week after the games in Japan, MLB Opening Day is slated for Thursday, March 27, 2025. Below are the matchups scheduled for that day:
How to watch 2025 MLB Opening Day games
Where can I watch MLB Opening Day games? What channel will they be on?
Most Opening Day games will be played on the regional sports networks affiliated with each baseball club. MLB’s Opening Night game will be broadcast on ESPN. For each specific channel, check out our MLB Schedule.
How can I stream MLB’s Opening Day games or watch them without cable?
Streaming services that carry ESPN and RSNs can be used to stream the games. You can also stream MLB games on MLB.TV with local blackout restrictions.
Which MLB teams play on Opening Day?
28 of the 30 MLB clubs will be in action on Opening Day. The Colorado Rockies and Tampa Bay Rays will start their season on March 28, after their game was moved in order to provide more time to prepare George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, FL, the field that will serve as the Rays’ home park for the 2025 season.Â
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Chiefs to wear white, Eagles green in Super Bowl
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The Kansas City Chiefs will wear their away white jerseys in Super Bowl LIX, the same color they donned two years ago in the big game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Eagles had the choice of jersey color given that they are considered the home team with the Feb. 9 game being played in New Orleans, an NFC host market. They opted for their home green jerseys, the same color they’ve worn in all of their previous four Super Bowl appearances. Philadelphia is 1-3 all-time in the big
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