Author: Michael

Houston Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco fell to the dreaded ‘glove check’ Tuesday night and was booted from the game for an illegal sticky substance found on his glove.
The ‘cheating Astros’ jokes poured in, but the story was a real bummer for Blanco — the unlikely Houston ace that tallied the season’s first no-hitter this year. 
Even as the fifth guy in the Astros rotation, Blanco overcame tremendous odds to make baseball history. Fast-forward one month, and Blanco gets slapped with a 10-game suspension, announced by MLB on Wednesday.

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Career sports broadcaster Doug Gottlieb, currently of Fox Sports Radio, first started talking publicly about his desire to be a major college head men’s basketball coach eight years ago when he was at CBS Sports after leaving ESPN.
Without any significant coaching experience, he actually said in interviews that he wanted to start right off as a head coach, because he was past age 40 and didn’t want to spend many years as an assistant coach. National media made fun of his supposed Walter Mitty-like fantasy.

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While the first few months of the 2024 Major League Baseball season have seen major injuries, star-level performances, and even a few trades, perhaps its most defining feature has been the game’s new uniforms.
Nike, now infamously, redesigned the on-field jerseys heading into 2024, triumphantly rolling out a new template in spring training. Immediately, problems cropped up.
The names on the back of the jerseys were sometimes comically small. Standardization meant that the curvature could result in bizarre visuals for certain players.

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