Author: Michael

The Toronto Blue Jays may not have made the biggest splash of the MLB trade deadline, but they might be having the most fun.
Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette left Monday’s game with an injury, acquiring making infield depth a priority on Tuesday. Sure enough, they agreed to a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals for infielder Paul DeJong.
DeJong has struggled mightily over the past few years, but his 2023 offensive production has recovered to near average levels. Even more importantly though, he’s turned in his typically excellent defense.

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Federal law enforcement agents executed a search warrant against WWE executive chairman Vince McMahon last month, the company announced today.
According to the company’s SEC filing reports, agents raided McMahon as well as served him with a federal grand jury subpoena on July 17th. The raid was a result of an ongoing federal investigation in regards to McMahon’s alleged sexual misconduct against coworkers as well as “hush money” payments to them for millions of dollars. McMahon has previously denied any intentional wrongdoing.

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Most college football fans thought when the calendar turned to August that conference realignment talks would subside and fall camps across the country would be the priority.
In the words of the great Lee Corso, “Not so fast my friend.”
As first reported by Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel, and confirmed by Sports Illustrated, a handful of Big Ten presidents have held internal talks about potentially adding more Pac-12 teams to the mix in the next stage of conference realignment.

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With the Oakland Athletics organization mired in a historically bad 2023 season and plans in place to relocate to Las Vegas, pressure keeps ramping up for A’s owner John Fisher to sell the team. But A’s fans got additional support for that cause from an unlikely source Tuesday night: Dodgers fans.
With the Athletics in town in Southern California for three games against the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine, Dodgers supporters picked up the slack and broke out their own “Sell the Team!” chants.

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A small group of Big Ten presidents held a preliminary meeting Wednesday to discuss adding two to four new members from the Pac-12, sources confirmed to Sports Illustrated. The potential expansion targets are Oregon, Washington, California and Stanford. The news was first reported by Yahoo Sports.
A source familiar with the Big Ten thinking said the conference’s presidents are more interested in adding all four schools, while the league’s media partners are more interested in a two-member addition of Oregon and Washington.

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Ah, the “dreaded vote of confidence.” Usually reserved for head coaches, but sometimes can be used for others. On Tuesday, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank delivered the vote of confidence for quarterback Desmond Ridder.
Ridder, a third-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, played just OK in his rookie season. The team benched veteran Marcus Mariota late in the season and turned the reins over to Ridder.
The team went 2-2 in four Ridder starts. The rookie QB completed 63.5% of his passes, but averaged fewer than 200 yards passing per game.

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