After winning 99 games and cruising to the AL East title in 2022, the Yankees have found sledding tougher in 2023. New York is 30-23, eight games behind the first-place Rays in the division.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone has been desperate to find a spark for his club—so much so that he’s tried to provide it, getting ejected so frequently he incurred a one-game suspension “for his recent conduct toward major league umpires” per MLB.
If fans of New York and its rivals were wondering whether the suspension and fine would chasten Boone, they got a firm answer Saturday.
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The Bucks are set to hire Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin as their next head coach, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
Griffin replaces Mike Budenholzer, who was fired following five seasons with Milwaukee after the team lost to the Heat in five games in the first round of the playoffs. Griffin has spent the past 15 seasons as an assistant coach for five different teams, including for the 2019 NBA champion Raptors. He began his career as a Bucks assistant from 2008 to ’10.
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F1 investigated a potential ‘slam dunk’ incident of impeding involving Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris
Charles Leclerc qualified third for the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix, as the Ferrari driver hopes to break through in his home race and finally taste victory after so many bitter defeats.
But he will not stay there.
Despite qualifying third, Leclerc has been penalized by race officials and dropped three spots on the grid following an investigation by F1 officials.
The Texas Rangers are suddenly baseball’s biggest story.
For most of the start of the 2023 Major League Baseball season, the Tampa Bay Rays dominated discussion. The Rays have hit, collectively, as well as Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts has throughout this career.
They’ve used elite pitching from a group of mostly unknowns to get to baseball’s best record.
And yet, using run differential, they’re no longer the league’s best team.
That description somehow now belongs to the surprising Texas Rangers.
The Rangers blew out the Baltimore Orioles 12-2 at Camden Yards on Friday.
A bill introduced in the Nevada Legislature would give the Athletics up to $380 million for a potential 30,000-seat, $1.5 billion retractable-roof stadium on the Las Vegas Strip.
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The Southern California teaching pro had another heartwarming moment despite missing the cut at the Colonial.
Despite finishing dead last at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Michael Block continued to warm the hearts of golf fans everywhere.
On the course, he struggled, likely due to his mentally tolling week.
But off the course, Block remained true to himself: the father of two, the local club pro, and a teacher.
He got burned by his burner.
The NBA is investigating veteran referee Eric Lewis after a fan discovered what appears to be a Twitter burner account belonging to the ref.
Lewis, a 19-year NBA official, made news Thursday when Twitter user @Mikey_Wyllin claimed the user @CuttliffBlair was actually Lewis.
“The jigg is up,” he said.
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But if the Twitter account doesn’t actually belong to Eric Lewis, the real user is no doubt Eric Lewis’ biggest fan.
All of the tweets from @CuttliffBlair are replies to tweets that criticize Lewis and other NBA refs.
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F1 investigating a potential ‘slam dunk’ incident of impeding involving Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris
Charles Leclerc qualified third for the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix, as the Ferrari driver hopes to break through in his home race and finally taste victory after so many bitter defeats.
But will he start third in the Grand Prix?
In what broadcasters on F1TV called a “slam dunk and without mitigating evidence,” Leclerc is being investigated by F1 officials for an incident of impeding.
The NFL’s new scheduling rule, allowing the league to flex Thursday Night Football games late in the season, has drawn criticism across the sport from fans, players and media alike.
However, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Eagles center Jason Kelce are big proponents of the league’s decision, even if it means that their respective team plays two Thursday Night games in one season.
“As we’ve talked about before, I’m a huge fan of the Thursday Night game,” Jason said on the duo’s New Heights podcast.
A piece of baseball trivia known primarily in Cleveland sports circles goes like this. In Game 5 of the 1920 World Series, Cleveland turned an unassisted triple play, hit a grand slam, and got a home run from a pitcher against the Brooklyn Robins (today’s Dodgers). It was the first time any of those events had ever happened in the World Series, and shortstop Bill Wambsganss’s big moment remains the only unassisted triple play in the history of the postseason.
For an extremely unlikely reason, however, the Guardians‘ century-old secret is out.