2006 — Kobe Bryant scores a staggering 81 points — the second-highest total in NBA history — and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-104.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest players of all time. The Basketball Hall of Famer (and Los Angeles Lakers legend) retired after the 1989 season, so he doesn't get mentioned as much as the more recent superstars.

Bob Uecker took a radio gig with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1971. He stayed in that job the rest of his career, becoming a franchise and national icon.

The baseball world reacted Thursday to the death of Bob Uecker, who gained more fame as a broadcaster and actor after his brief playing career ended.

Major League Baseball on Thursday announced start times for its entire 2025 calendar of games, including the regular season, Spring Training and the second annual Spring Breakout.

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an immediate end to the “chains of discrimination” that force Black people onto “a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.”

Ichiro Suzuki, a veritable hits machine on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, became the first Japanese player to gain entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame when he was

Baseball Hall of Fame voting results will be revealed Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET on MLB Network, and it is far from certain who will earn induction

Wright eventually spent an hour Wednesday revisiting the anecdotes and accolades that made his 14-year career, all with the Mets, worthy of special recognition. New York will retire Wright’s No. 5 in a pre-game ceremony before the 4:10 p.m. game against the Cincinnati Reds on July 19.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner. 1947 — Carl Hubbell, Frank Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Social Development Commission board voted to restore its audit committee and discussed SDC’s grant funding and financial records at a meeting on Thursday.

ET on Tuesday evening, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will reveal who will join Classic Era Committee inductees Dave Parker and Dick Allen in its 2025 class. Qualifying Baseball Writers’ Association of America members had to submit their ballots by New Year’s Eve,