The future of the Cincinnati Reds arrived at PNC Park in Pittsburgh for the 2006 Futures Game, a flame-throwing first-rounder out of Texas, whose right arm carried so many of the franchise’s hopes and dreams. Just 20 at the time, the kid had the looks, the blazing fastball, and the guts to hopscotch between the […]
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Wolves’ pre-season trip to Spain in the summer of 2022 proved eventful for Yerson Mosquera. There was the ‘Battle of Benidorm’, in which he, team-mate Daniel Podence and two Levante players were sent off as a training ground ‘friendly’ played in the grounds of Wolves’ plush hotel in the hills north of the popular seaside […]
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Speculation that Jeff Bezos was in play to buy the Boston Celtics lasted about as long as it takes to get a fast delivery from Amazon.com. As in overnight. The buzz for Bezos is gone, apparently, even if the idea made some sense. The man has a net worth of somewhere in the neighborhood of […]
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NEW YORK — After a Staten Island Little League coach dissed Aaron Judge for allegedly shunning his players over the weekend, the New York Yankees star refused to acknowledge the coach’s comments. On Monday, South Shore Little League manager Bob Laterza ripped Judge for not spending time with the kids he managed at the MLB […]
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In late July, Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, visited Japan to announce support for players in the country’s top league, Nippon Professional Baseball. Japanese ballplayers are trying to take control of their name, image and likeness rights, or NIL — a fight familiar to college athletes in the […]
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Illustrated scenes and thoughts from delegates and others at the Democratic Convention. Source link
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Last week new Michigan coach Dusty May spent a day with the Miami Heat staff, then flew to Pittsburgh to trade ideas with Utah Jazz coach Will Hardy and Charlotte Hornets assistant Josh Longstaff. May will read any book or study any basketball team’s film if he thinks it might equip him with an idea […]
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Gov. Tim Walz completed his transformation from a little-known governor to a leading party figure with his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday night. As he gave the most consequential address of his career, attendees made clear that they had quickly become familiar with his life story, including his background as […]
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On Tuesday, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced that it had sanctioned men’s world No 1 Jannik Sinner for twice testing positive for clostebol, an anabolic steroid and banned substance. It also announced that an independent tribunal convened by the ITIA had reviewed its investigation into Sinner’s anti-doping case, and had found “no fault […]
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