Tom Goldman

The NBA's Sacramento Kings are close to clinching a playoff spot, which is saying a lot. The have the longest running playoff drought — 16 years — of any U.S. major professional sports league team.

The women's and men's NCAA basketball tournaments continue and the World Baseball Classic comes to a cinematic end.

It's Opening Day for Major League Baseball. The league is hoping that some new rules this season will mean big changes for players — and for fans.

The NBA Playoffs get underway later Tuesday and — for the first time ever — not a single team from Texas will be playing and all four teams from California made the playoffs.

So far there's been drama in nearly every series in the first round of the NBA playoffs: upsets, injuries to key players and older stars are flexing their aging muscles.

Women's basketball star Brittney Griner meets the press on Thursday ahead of the WNBA season. Griner has said little publicly since her release from Russia after a months-long detention.

Resume A new era in college sports begins this week. Following Kentucky Gov.

Willie Mays, a generational baseball player known as the 'Say Hey Kid', has died at 93. Mays was considered by many to be the greatest all-around baseball player in history.

Willie Mays is widely considered the best baseball player in history. His speed, his hitting and overall understanding of the game. He's shown here at the 2004 Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Mays' Hall-of-Fame career spanned more than two decades, from the 1950s to 1970s. He spent nearly all of those years with the Giants – first in New York and then in San Francisco.