The Dodgers and Angels played one of their Freeway Series exhibition games in two hours and eight minutes. “That was nuts,” said Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw. That was almost an hour less than the standard major league game last year, which prompted a thought by Kershaw about the hidden cost of playing so fast: “Hopefully, they sell enough beer,” he said.
The pitch timer cut 25 minutes of dead time out of minor league games, 26 minutes out of spring training games and 26 minutes out of Opening Day games. It works.
Author: Michael
We made it, everybody, Masters week is officially upon us. Be sure to get any important work or projects around the house done by Wednesday because from Thursday to Sunday you know that you’ll be entirely worthless both at work and on the homefront.
Before we get into the nitty-gritty of the Masters we need to look back on last week’s Valero Texas Open and break down Corey Conners’ win.
Just kidding, no we don’t.
Let’s argue in a court of football law.
We can pinpoint with exact precision when the first sports argument took place.
It was moments after the first sports game in history ended.
Arguing over sports has become a pastime of its own. It has created its own industry, has spawned countless careers, and opened the doors for people like us to carve out our own little slice of the sports media world.
One great debate underway in the football media space?
Which quarterback the Carolina Panthers should draft with the first-overall selection in the 2023 NFL Draft.
Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight was hospitalized this past Friday.
Alumni of the Indiana program were alerted Knight was hospitalized with an acute illness Friday, according to the Indy Star.
People close to the situation are hoping Knight, who is 82, will be able to return home as quickly as possible, according to the same report.
No further details about his status are known as of early Monday afternoon.
Former Indiana Hoosiers head coach Bob Knight hospitalized at the age of 82. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)
Bob Knight is a college basketball legend.
Former Braves center fielder Andruw Jones will forever be a part of franchise history as the team announced Monday that they will officially retire Jones’s No. 25 this September.
Jones played in Atlanta from 1996 to 2007. In that span, he earned 10 Gold Glove Awards and five All-Star berths. In ’05 alone, Jones led the majors in home runs and the NL RBIs, and won the Silver Slugger Award and the Hank Aaron Award.
The now 45-year-old is also known for being the youngest MLB player to hit a home run in the World Series back when he was 19 in 1996.
WWE and UFC parent company Endeavor have officially agreed to a merger.
Endeavor now plans to form a multi-billion dollar live sports and entertainment company with WWE and UFC. The deal values WWE at $9.3 billion and UFC at $12.1 billion, bringing the two combat sports brands together under a new publicly traded company, with Endeavor holding a 51% controlling interest and WWE shareholders in control of the remaining 49%. The new company, which has yet to be named, will trade under the ticker symbol “TKO.
There are a lot of pitchers in Major League Baseball throwing some really nasty stuff these days and now, we can add another name to that list of guys: Kodai Senga.
The Mets’ 30-year-old rookie made his debut on Sunday and he picked up his first strike out with a pitch called a ghost fork. It was his best pitch during his Japanese baseball league years and now, it’s going to be a problem for lots of hitters in MLB.
Miami’s Yuli Gurriel had absolutely no chance on this pitch in the first inning of Sunday’s game:
Kodai Senga, Ghost Fork. 👻🍴
Yuli Gurriel, Ghost Bat.
LSU national champion Angel Reese is known for her dominance on the court, but one of her key accessories has caught the eyes of many fans.
Reese is known for wearing a long legging that matches her uniform’s color on just her left leg. The 6’3” forward said there are two reasons for why she wears it: to cover up a scar and to honor her idols.
When she was a freshman, she suffered a Jones fracture and had a rod inserted into her left leg that left a scar. She also said two basketball players she admires wear just one legging.
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Saying Angel Reese is ‘classless’ is dog whistling at its worst.
The national championship game between LSU and Iowa in the 2023 women’s NCAA tournament was everything college basketball could have ever wanted. The Tigers were one of the best teams in the country, Caitlin Clark is the biggest star in the game, and more visibility than ever thanks to the mystique and allure provided by the Angel Reese vs. Caitlin Clark matchup, which morphed into its own version of Magic vs. Bird.
The image that danced in the general manager’s head is one you might remember. It happened in the Sunday night window of Week 4 last season on a second-and-goal, with the Chiefs at the Buccaneers’ 2-yard line, the ball on the left hash and 11:35 left in the second quarter. Patrick Mahomes took the snap and rolled right; Tampa Bay DE Pat O’Connor came free to the right side of the Chiefs’ line and shot straight at Mahomes like he came out of a cannon.