Author: Michael

The Yankees are expected to hire MLB Network analyst Sean Casey as their next hitting coach, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports. According to The New York Post’s Jon Heyman, the deal is expected to last just through the rest of the 2023 season.
New York fired hitting coach Dillon Lawson following their loss to the Cubs on Sunday, as the offense has struggled mightily this year. The Yankees enter the All-Star break ranked bottom five in OBP and bottom three in batting average.

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They literally put him next to a trash can.
I’m generally a fan of making fun of stuff like this, but man… this just feels sad.

Newest Warrior alert
Please welcome @CP3 pic.twitter.com/DpL7AwiGCI
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) July 10, 2023

Okay, so Chris Paul is older now — I get it. Still, the Warriors didn’t even bother to iron the man’s damn jersey. Instead he’s standing with a wrinkly-ass No. 3, in the popcorn walls of an office hallway, with a photo taken on a phone.

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For the second consecutive year, Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami hosts the LIV Golf Championship. But this year, the tournament was originally scheduled to be held at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Not only that, but the Saudi-backed league changed the date for its finale. Originally set to start on November 3rd, the players will now tee it up on October 20th in South Florida, according to ESPN.

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Cardinals pitcher Steven Matz had his best start of the season on Sunday against the White Sox, thanks in part to a wacky, amazing defensive play he and Paul Goldschmidt combined to make in the third inning. 
With two outs in the inning, Chicago shortstop Tim Anderson hit a hard line drive right back to the mound. Matz tried to catch the 99.4 mph comebacker but the ball knocked the glove right off his hand. It squirted weakly into no man’s land between first base and the mound, where Goldschmidt dropped to a knee, picked it up and threw to first, all in one motion.

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At a time when high school recruiting is seen as far less important due to the annual influx of names in the transfer portal, several college coaches Sports Illustrated spoke with at Nike’s EYBL Peach Jam tournament feel the current recruiting calendar and game times within the live periods are only further hurting limiting high school players’ recruitments.
The 2023–24 college basketball season projects to be the first one ever during which more than 50% of points nationally are scored by transfers.

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