August 2025

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MLB will play Field of Dreams Game in 2026, featuring Phillies and Twins in August showcase event

Major League Baseball will return to Dyersville, Iowa next year for the third Field of Dreams Game on the site made famous by the 1989 film starring Kevin Costner. 

The Philadelphia Phillies will play the Minnesota Twins in the showcase event to be played in August, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reports. Minnesota will be the home team. The exact date for the game will be revealed when the 2026 MLB schedule is released Tuesday. The previous two events were played on the second Thursday in August. 

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MLB will play a regular-season game at the Field of Dreams site for the first time in four years. The inaugural event in 2021 featured the New York Yankees playing the Chicago White Sox. Tim Anderson hit a walk-off home run to give the White Sox a 9-8 victory.

The following year, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals played in Dyersville, with the Cubs getting a 4-2 win. 

That event may not have featured the pageantry of Costner introducing the event, the players emerging from the cornstalks to take the field didn’t feel quite as special the second time, and the game wasn’t as dramatic. However, Ken Griffey Jr. and Ken Griffey had a catch on the field before the game, invoking the spirit of the beloved film. 

MLB did not play a game at the Field of Dreams for the past two years while the site was sold to new owners and a permanent facility was constructed with fields for youth baseball and softball teams. During the past two seasons, August events were played at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama (paying tribute to the Negro Leagues) and Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. 

The MLB regular season has featured games and series played at alternate sites since 2016, including Japan, South Korea and Puerto Rico, while also playing the annual Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 

Pat Beverley boldy claims Warriors win more with Paul George than Klay Thompson

Pat Beverley boldy claims Warriors win more with Paul George than Klay Thompson originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Klay Thompson is a foundational pillar of the Warriors’ dynasty, but would Golden State have won even more championships if another star shooting guard took his place?

12-year NBA veteran Patrick Beverley certainly believes so.

During a recent episode of “The Pat Bev Podcast with Rone,” Beverley revealed he thinks Golden State would have won more than four titles if Paul George replaced Thompson.

“If you put Paul George in that role playing as Klay Thompson, playing with [Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Andre Igoudala] at a point — obviously we know Paul George a couple years ago, was in the MVP race,” Beverley said.

“If you substitute those two, and we don’t know, we’re just going off what we think in basketball, I think that Golden State probably wins more championships.”

While George is a superstar in his own right, it’s a bold claim to assert that anyone could’ve stepped in and replicated, let alone exceed the impact Thompson had on the Warriors while Golden State ruled the NBA realm. Particularly when George hasn’t played in an NBA Finals during his 15-year NBA career.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest shooters ever to pick up a basketball, Thompson perfectly complimented Curry’s superhuman perimeter shooting, creating a backcourt tandem the likes of which had never been seen before in the NBA.

Thompson spent 13 years in Golden State, earning five consecutive NBA All-Star selections while playing a pivotal role in ushering in one of the most dominant dynaties the league has ever seen as the Warriors won four championships.

On an individual level, George has the advantage when it comes to All-Star nods (9), All-Pro selections, (6) and All-Defensive honors (4). However, Thompson was a much more efficient shooter during the postseason while nearly equaling George’s playoff-scoring output in their respective careers.

Thompson also earned a reputation for delivering when the lights were brightest in elimination games, an aspect that can’t be overlooked when hypothesizing which player would contribute more to winning at the highest level the NBA has to offer.

Ultimately it’s an interesting thought excercise, but Thompson’s greatness and contributions to Golden State can’t be overlooked.

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Jordan & Kobe signed card sells for record $12.9m

An anonymous bidder paid a record £9.56m ($12.9m) at an auction for a basketball card signed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant making it the most expensive sports collectable card in history.

The card is known as the 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autographs Jordan & Bryant card and was sold by Heritage Auctions in the United States.

It had been in the hands of its previous owner for more than a decade and went into auction with a valuation expecting it to achieve £4.4m ($6m) or above. In total 82 bids were then received as the estimate was more than doubled.

The winning bid beat the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, which was sold for $12.6m in August 2022, though the exchange rate at the time meant this was equivalent to £10.8m.

The Jordan-Bryant card is the second most expensive sports collectable ever, behind baseball legend Babe Ruth’s 1932 World Series “called the shot” jersey which sold for £18.1m ($24.12) in August 2024.

Heritage’s director of sports auctions Chris Ivy told ESPN the Jordan-Bryant card was “the pinnacle” for modern card collectors.

He added that “another one can’t be created” and has always been looked at by modern basketball collectors as a “holy grail”.

“The pre-auction estimate was $6m-plus. So sometimes if a piece is unique like this, it’s really beneficial to let it have its day,” Ivy said.

Jordan is widely regarded as the greatest player in NBA history winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls between 1991 and 1998.

Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash in 2020, is also considered an NBA legend and won five championships during a two-decade stint at LA Lakers between 1996 and 2016.

One-of-a-kind Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant Logoman card sells for record $12.9 million

How much money are you willing to spend on your hobby of sports cards? Is it $12 million?

A one-of-a-kind, 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Michael Jordan-Kobe Bryant Logoman card — one featuring NBA uniform logos and is signed by both legends — sold for $12.9 million at Heritage Auctions to become the most expensive sports card sold at public auction.

It surpassed the $12.6 million paid for a 1952 Mickey Mantle card sold in 2022. The Kobe/Jordan card shattered the previous record for the highest price paid for a basketball card, $5.2 million for a 2003-04 Exquisite Collection LeBron James Gold Rookie Patch Autograph card. This card is now the second-highest price paid at auction for any sports collectible, trailing only the $24.2 million forked over a year ago for Babe Ruth’s 1932 World Series “called shot” jersey.

Heritage’s director of sports auctions, Chris Ivy, called it “the finest modern basketball card in the world.” When the auction opened, Heritage estimated that the card would sell for $6 million, still an NBA record, but the competitive bidding drove up the price — the auction had 82 bids.

The auction was timed to end on Mamba Day, 8/24.

Milwaukee had no interest in talking Giannis Antetokounmpo trade with Rockets (or anyone)

The only way the Milwaukee Bucks are ever going to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo is if he asks for a trade. He did not.

While other teams know that, they have to at least check on the possibility, and the Rockets GM, Rafael Stone, talked about doing so in a recent ESPN Radio Houston appearance (hat tip Real GM). To be clear, Stone would get fined for discussing Antetokounmpo directly — team officials cannot discuss a player under contract with another team — so the hosts asked him about potential blockbuster trades such as “the big man from Greece in Milwaukee,” and Stone responded without mentioning names.

“I deal well with [Bucks GM] Jon Horst, I really like him. Jon was very clear that they weren’t doing anything. So, that was that.”

Stone pivoted and landed Kevin Durant instead, a player who makes them a legitimate threat to win the West this season.

While some pundits floated the idea of the Bucks initiating a trade for Antetokounmpo as a good basketball move — “if they’re not title contenders anymore, better to pull the rip cord early and jumpstart the next rebuild” — that’s living in a fantasy basketball world devoid of NBA reality. Milwaukee has a better chance of winning a title with a top-three player in the world on their roster than they do without, and getting players of that level to Milwaukee is a once-in-a-generation thing. As for the Bucks’ fans, ask Nico Harrison and the Mavericks about what happens when a fan favorite and franchise anchor is traded early (Dallas got bailed out by the NBA Draft Lottery or that anger would still be a story).

A player of Antetokounmpo’s status does far more than just help a small-to-mid-sized market win on the court, he makes the business profitable — the Bucks sell a lot of seats in the Fiserve Forum, and Milwaukee gets a lot of sponsorship dollars coming in, because companies want to be associated with Antetokounmpo and being on national television so much because of him. The franchise value is higher with him on the roster. Walk through the blocks around the Fiserve Forum before a Bucks game, and restaurants and bars are busy and pulsing with energy. What does that look like during year three of the rebuild?

The Bucks are not trading Antetokounmpo unless he asks. Knowing that, Antetokounmpo has used that leverage to get the Bucks to make all-in moves, such as trading for Damian Lillard, or then waiving and stretching Lillard to sign Myles Turner.

Eventually, Antetokounmpo may ask out. However, until he does, every call to Horst checking on Antetokounmpo’s status will go a lot like Stone’s did.