Author: Michael

It’s officially the Major League Baseball offseason, and as soon as the free agency period heats up, Scott Boras’ music starts playing.
Boras represents a number of top free agents yet again this year, and as one of the game’s most powerful figures, his words carry a substantial amount of weight with players and by extension, the league at large. At the general manager meetings this week in San Antonio, Boras went on his usual rampage of Dad-joke level puns, i.e.

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Kevin O’Connell is a quarterback whisperer. If you didn’t know that about the Minnesota Vikings head coach, check out what he’s doing with his starting quarterback Sam Darnold. 
But now O’Connell is expanding his quarterback building talents to other teams. To other quarterbacks. 
And that includes Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson.
Check out the scene after the Vikings beat the Colts last week:
This is absolutely great. It really is.
Richardson, only 22 years old, was benched a whole 10 starts into his NFL career.

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19-year-old Philadelphia Flyers rookie Matvei Michkov has been off to a decent start with his NHL career, but there will be ups and downs and some growing pains throughout the process, and that could be why head coach John Tortorella has decided to healthy scratch him for Thursday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
I know… it’s not what I wanted to see either…
Hey, Tortorella has been at this a long time, perhaps he has his reasons.
“Just part of the process,” he said, per TSN. “We’re trying to help him.

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Luis Tiant, Dick Allen and Tommy John are among eight players on this year’s Classic Era ballot.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has had some form of “Veterans Committee” ballot in its induction process going all the way back to 1939. The committees have taken various forms over the years, but the most recent process breaks up potential candidates into three groups: Contemporary Era players (since 1980), Contemporary Era non-players, and the Classic Era, which includes players and non-players prior to 1980.

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