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Good morning, I’m Kevin Sweeney, pinch-hitting for Dan Gartland. We’ve got an abbreviated newsletter for you this morning, which might be good for Yankees fans reading this.
In today’s SI:AM:
⚾ Yankees’ disastrous season hits a new low
⚽ USWNT coach steps down
🏈 Dispatches from Rams, Raiders camp
Not much has gone well for New York since the All-Star break.
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Yankees Shut Out … Again
The 2023 season has officially gone off the rails for the Yankees.
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Max Verstappen will need to wait a little longer for his Hungarian GP trophy
Last month, we covered the saga of Max Verstappen’s first-place trophy at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The handcrafted porcelain trophy, which a team of 30 workers helped craft, was caught up in the podium celebration.
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Christopher Morel ended a game, then lost his mind
A night after Luis Robert shushed Chicago Cubs fans after his seventh-inning home run gave the Chicago White Sox a one-run lead, Christopher Morel made sure he had those fans’ back.
Then lost his mind in the process.
The Cubs were down 3-1 in the ninth inning at Wrigley Field Wednesday night, and Morel was at the plate facing newly-minted closer Gregory Santos. Two runners were on, and Morel was in the hole 1-2, having swung and missed twice to begin the at-bat.
The Browns and Eagles are holding joint practices in training camp this week, and as such, reporters are observing the sessions, trying to glean as much information as they can ahead of the new season.
Eagles reporter Eliot Shorr-Parks of 94WIP.com posted a picture of Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson on Wednesday, and went into detail about his mixed performance against Philadelphia.
“Deshaun Watson Training Camp Stats vs. Eagles defense,” Shorr-Parks posted on X. “The Eagles defense definitely got the better of Watson during the joint practices.
Rays star shortstop Wander Franco is under investigation in the Dominican Republic for an alleged relationship with a minor.
The investigation began earlier this week following social media rumors surrounding the shortstop that alleged that Franco was engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a minor. MLB subsequently opened its own investigation into the allegations on Sunday.
Now, just days into the investigation, a new report casts doubt on the future of Franco’s baseball career.
Back again by popular demand—or force of habit—we present the annual college football Most Intriguing Lists. We started with the Most Intriguing Coaches. Then the Most Intriguing Quarterbacks. This week: the Most Intriguing Non-Quarterbacks for 2023:
1. Brock Bowers, Georgia tight end
Bowers has played a key role in transforming the Bulldogs offense from mundanely effective to creatively devastating. He can line up anywhere and do just about anything: catch, run, block.
Pedro Martinez is bringing the insults to add to the Yankees injuries.
While speaking on TBS postgame baseball show on Tuesday night, the former Red Sox and Mets pitcher that was right in the middle during the heated Yankees and Sox rivalry of the mid 2000’s, went right at the Yanks with his assessment of how just how bad they are this year.
Pedro Martinez just compared the Yankees to chihuahuas man this might be rock bottom for real this time pic.twitter.
Two balls, one strike.
It was a rough night for Lars Nootbaar and Cardinals. Not only did St. Louis lose to the hapless A’s, but in the bottom of the fifth ball met balls in the worst way.
Ouch pic.twitter.com/TVmsPt6zg4
— A’s on NBCS (@NBCSAthletics) August 17, 2023
You know it’s bad when you’ve been hit in the nuts so hard that you do that weird circular Three Stooges walk around home plate. This feat of ball-busting physics occurred as Nootbaar tried to drive the ball into right field, cannoning it right into the ground, and then up into his danger zone.
Many aspects of the Michael Oher – Tuohy family situation have felt off from the get-go of this now nearly week-old saga. The timing of it all has undoubtedly been the most-fishy part of the entire thing.
Oher is alleging the Tuohys never legally adopted him. He claims he was tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators shortly after he turned 18. This allegedly resulted in him losing power over his finances and missing out on millions of dollars from “The Blind Side.