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The power of pinstripes: How Gerrit Cole bought into becoming a Yankee NEW YORK -- A week before Christmas last year, the New York Yankees held a news conference in the posh Legends Club at Yankee Stadium to introduce Gerrit Cole after signing him to a $324 million deal, the richest contract for a pitcher in Major League ...
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The return of the megadeal: Why Mookie Betts' monster contract is a win for other MLB stars The baseball megadeal, presumed a thing of the past since the arrival of the coronavirus, was resurrected Wednesday. As with any proper reanimation, there were double takes, bulging eyes and mouths agape -- all the ingredients for a proper derp face.
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Brown doesn't want to retire, demands NFL finishes investigation Surprise, surprise, Antonio Brown doesn't actually want to retire. The free-agent receiver, who two days ago suggested on Twitter he was retiring -- for the umpteenth time -- indicated on Instagram he wants to continue playing and called for the NFL to ...
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Fox taking fans to the ballgame with a virtual crowd LOS ANGELES -- Fox will be taking viewers out to the ballgame by adding a virtual crowd in parks during its baseball telecasts this season. The network revealed on Thursday that it will include computer-generated fans in the stands beginning with their three ...
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Cancelled preseason could impact the Bengals more than other NFL teams CINCINNATI — Playing football during a global pandemic is challenging, but it's exactly what the NFL and the Players Association hope to do this fall. The two sides agreed to scrap the entire preseason this week. It's one of the many measures being taken to ...
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MLB 2020: Season preview in STATS facts After months of waiting, and toing and froing between MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the 2020 season is finally set to get underway. Originally scheduled to begin in March, the coronavirus pandemic has led to an enforced ...
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Michelle Wie named Solheim Cup US team assistant captain Michelle Wie has been named an assistant captain for the U.S. team at the 2021 Solheim Cup at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. The LPGA announced the news from U.S. captain Pat Hurst Wednesday morning, marking Wie's sixth Solheim Cup appearance ...
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Yankees Enter MLB Opening Day as Favorites—But Can They Win the World Series? After three-plus months of a dark-side news flow and committing every mistake in the PR playbook, baseball is finally about to rescue itself. Its opening act tonight will be a battle of titans: Washington Nationals vs. New York Yankees, Max Scherzer versus ...
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How Detroit Tigers' Kyle Funkhouser found a fix: 'Just ... have some fun' Detroit Tigers right-handed pitcher Kyle Funkhouser hit a low point in his career when the coronavirus nixed spring training this March. Or maybe that was his saving grace. He was coming off a dreadful performance last season in Triple-A Toledo, where he ...
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No rust for Miami Heat's Duncan Robinson in return to court It hardly looked like Miami Heat forward Duncan Robinson went more than four months without playing an actual basketball game. Robinson scored 18 points, including five 3-pointers in the Heat's 104-98 scrimmage victory against the Sacramento Kings ...
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp can see more potential in his side despite title win Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes there is room for improvement in his squad even after their runaway maiden Premier League title win. A 5-3 win over Chelsea was the ideal warm-up to the trophy presentation party which followed at Anfield, with ...
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Who's Who In The NBA Bubble: The Potential Party-Crashers We're now just one week away from the resumption of the NBA season. On Monday, we reintroduced you to the bottom tier of teams invited to the league's restart in Walt Disney World. Today, we'll continue this exercise, with the six teams positioned as ...
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Former UConn Final Four starter Stanley Robinson dies at 32 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Former UConn basketball player Stanley Robinson has died of unknown causes at a family residence in Birmingham. He was 32. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said Robinson was found unresponsive by a ...
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CB De'Vante Bausby Explains How the Canceled NFL Preseason Could Negatively Affect Broncos Denver Broncos cornerback De'Vante Bausby enters his second season with the team as a man well-versed in the art of perseverance. Bausby's propensity for bouncing back from adversity has been essential to carving out a niche for himself at the NFL level.
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Weekly Run newsletter: Catching up with the Jazz, and leaving on a jet plane (maybe) We're 19 weeks removed now from that crazy night that changed the Utah Jazz, the NBA, and, honestly, pretty much the entire country in general. It almost seems a lifetime ago, doesn't it? And yet here we are, 19 interminable weeks later, on the verge of Utah ...
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LEADING OFF: Opening day in DC, Dodger Stadium amid pandemic A look at what's happening around the majors today: OPENING DAY. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. Washington ace Max Scherzer is set to throw the first pitch of the coronavirus-delayed season when he faces Gerrit Cole and the New York ...
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UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till odds, predictions: MMA insider reveals surprising fight card picks Robert Whittaker pulled no punches when asked how he will beat Darren Till on Saturday in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till. Their middleweight bout tops the card at Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. The main UFC Fight Night card is scheduled ...
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Sam Smith Says Michael Jordan And Scottie Pippen's Relationship Is Not Good Right Now Nobody knows the Chicago Bulls' dynasty of the 1990s better than longtime beat writer Sam Smith, who now writes for Bulls.com. And Smith says he doesn't think the relationship between Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen "is good now" because of how ...
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Daly's goal sends Dash to final with 1-0 win over Thorns SANDY, Utah (AP) -- Rachel Daly scored on a header in the 69th minute and the Houston Dash advanced to the Challenge Cup title game with a 1-0 victory over the Portland Thorns on Wednesday. The fourth-seeded Dash, the highest remaining seed in the ...
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Zero players on-site test COVID-19 positive at 3M Open The PGA Tour announced that Grayson Murray was the lone player in the 3M Open field to test positive for coronavirus. As Murray received his result at home, zero players or caddies tested positive on-site at TPC Twin Cities, giving the tour its third straight ...
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Leeds defend open top bus celebration at Elland Road Leeds United have defended their decision to park an open top bus outside Elland Road to celebrate their Championship title and promotion to the Premier League despite telling fans to stay away. Club officials had asked people to stay away from the ...
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Bellingham calls out 'disgusting' racist trolling after Dortmund move Newly signed Borussia Dortmund teenager Jude Bellingham has called racist abuse he received on Twitter after signing with the Bundesliga club "disgusting." The 17-year-old posted the message on Twitter and linked to a tweet that called him an "overrated ...
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Simone Biles opens up about Tokyo Olympics, Vogue cover and her first experience with racism The star gymnast looked back on racist comments a competitor made about her during the 2013 world championships and what gave her the motivation to move forward. Simone Biles talks about Tokyo Olympics, her Vogue cover, racism, Larry Nassar.
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Americans are pessimistic about pro sports in a pandemic Via Josh Peter of USA Today, a recent Harris Poll of 1,970 adults found that only 32 percent of Americans believe that the NFL will have a season. Only 24 percent believe that college football will be played. The poll, conducted over the weekend, had only 29 ...
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Unai Emery to coach Spanish club Villarreal for 3 seasons VILLARREAL, Spain — Unai Emery has agreed to coach Villarreal for the next three seasons, the Spanish club said Thursday. Emery last coached at Arsenal but he was fired in November, 18 months after replacing Arsene Wegner. Previously, he won the ...
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Marquez declared fit to ride at Andalusian GP Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has been declared fit to ride in this weekend's Andalusian GP, just four days after an operation on a broken right arm in the Spanish Grand Prix,. Marquez crashed heavily on lap 22 of 25 of last Sunday's ...
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Gymnastics Australia promises action after multiple former athletes allege mental and physical abuse (CNN) Australia's gymnastics federation has promised to take action after multiple former gymnasts allege they were subject to emotional and physical abuse during their careers. Ex-athletes took to social media this month to share their own experiences of ...
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Michigan State football stops workouts due to positive COVID-19 test Michigan State football has paused workouts because of a positive COVID-19 test, the athletic department announced Wednesday. After student-athlete testing was completed Wednesday afternoon, the department became aware of a staff member who ...
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Chelsea Have Exceeded Expectations This Season, Says Lampard LIVERPOOL, England — Chelsea still have it in their own hands to clinch a Champions League berth and have exceeded expectations this season, manager Frank Lampard said after they lost 5-3 at Liverpool on Wednesday. The defeat denied Chelsea an ...
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Boston Red Sox put up Black Lives Matter billboard over Massachusetts Turnpike (CNN) -- The Boston Red Sox are showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The phrase "Black Lives Matter" -- written in the baseball team's font -- has been placed on the massive billboard that runs alongside the Massachusetts Turnpike by ...
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Carolina Panthers training camp: 4 players who need to stand out The Carolina Panthers are about to embark on one of the most important training camps in their history. Substantial changes were made across the franchise during the offseason. And their task now will be to rebuild in the hope of becoming a contender once ...
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Beginning at WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, the PGA Tour will allow more people at tournaments The PGA Tour will begin loosening its restrictions on the number of people allowed on-site during tournaments beginning with next week's WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis. While fans are still prohibited from attending, Golf Digest reported ...
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Charlotte FC announced as name for new MLS team CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte's new Major League Soccer team is following the sport's traditional European and South American style of having just the city name and no formal nickname. The team, scheduled to start play in 2022, will be known as Charlotte ...
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In a year of 'nos' and 'won'ts,' what will 2020 look like for the Giants? The discourse surrounding the 2020 Major League Baseball season, especially when it comes to the San Francisco Giants, centers mostly around who won't be present and what won't be happening. No Buster Posey. No Madison Bumgarner. No Bruce ...
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Now is the right time for the Redskins to change the team's name The Washington Redskins had an abysmal 3-13 record last season and haven't won a Super Bowl in close to 30 years, but the team surely still has devout fans who will be in the stands come hell or high water, even if they go 1-15. And many of those fans ...
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NBA's 'next-level' bubble arena a compelling blend of technology, COVID-19 safety LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Bubble reporters received our first in-person look inside one of the arenas that will be used for the 2019-20 NBA restart's scrimmages, seeding games and playoffs. About 20 print and broadcast journalists received a tour Tuesday of ...
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Rice warned off Chelsea move as West Ham legend says there is plenty of time to join 'big guns' Tony Carr, who worked in the Hammers' academy system when a promising talent first joined their ranks, believes a big-money transfer can wait. Declan Rice has been warned off a move to one of the "big guns", with West Ham legend Tony Carr calling on ...
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Eagles land in the top-2 of the 10-best-performing NFL offensive lines by expected rushing yards The Philadelphia Eagles build from the inside out and the dominating line play on both sides of the ball is a huge reason for the sustained success over the past three seasons. The Birds enter the 2020 season with huge expectations and the offensive line is a ...
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Richaun Holmes was just trying to get some chicken wings Kings F/C Richaun Holmes made headlines a few weeks ago when he was the first player to leave the NBA bubble. Holmes claims he left the bubble to go pick up food delivery, breaking the rules and being forced to go into quarantine. Now that he's out and ...
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