Contreras is day-to-day with a scalp laceration after taking a backswing to the head.
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Cue Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly.
It was only the top of the first inning during Thursday’s game between the Cardinals and Cubs when things got mighty testy between the two longtime division rivals. The trouble started when Chicago outfielder Ian Happ’s bat hit St. Louis catcher Willson Contreras in the head on his follow-through, forcing Contreras out of the game. Two pitches later, Cardinals pitcher Miles Mikolas plunked Happ in the hip area.
Happ appeared to know what was coming, as it looked like he was preparing for impact before the pitch was even delivered.
A couple weeks ago, fans thought Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott made quite the confident statement when he claimed that wouldn’t even reach 10 interceptions during the 2023 season after he led the league last year with 15.
The Cowboys cleared up the “10 interceptions” comment shortly after the quote went viral, though, as the team stated Prescott was actually talking about having fewer tipped interceptions.
But Prescott is now indeed calling his shot on his turnover numbers, albeit in a less defined way.
Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark enjoyed perhaps the biggest mic-drop moment of any league commissioner in sports history on Thursday when he channeled his inner Michael Jordan.
Colorado, who left the Big 12 back in 2011, announced Thursday they will be leaving the Pac-12 in 2024 to rejoin the conference. As Sports Illustrated previously reported, “The conference’s presidents and chancellors reportedly voted unanimously to accept Colorado as a new member of the Big 12 during a conference call on Wednesday night.
There is seemingly no limit to what Shohei Ohtani can do on a baseball field, with his performances turning into nightly journeys into the annals of baseball history. But what the incomparable Angels star was able to do during a doubleheader on Thursday against the Tigers somehow raised the bar on his growing list of accomplishments.
Ohtani took the mound in the opening act of the twin billing and did something that even he had never done before by notching his first career shutout.
Yankees pitcher Carlos Rodon isn’t a fan of the new Starr Insurance logo on the jerseys.
New Yorkers have likened the ad patch to adding a decal on a Lamborghini; though the team (54-48, fifth in the AL East) has been running like a Hummer.
Rodon sneakily covered up the disdained patch during Wednesday’s game against the Mets — giving a voice to the fans at Yankee Stadium that also hate the laughable ad.
WATCH:
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INDIANAPOLIS — Eventually, Mount Harbaugh will erupt. The caldera is smoking, the volcanic heat is building, and there will be a spewing of indignation (righteous or otherwise) whenever the coach of the Michigan Wolverines is allowed to talk about being charged with NCAA violations.
Until that comes, Jim Harbaugh will lead the nation in reluctant no comments.
“I’m not allowed to talk about any aspect of that ongoing situation,” he said Thursday at Big Ten media days, the first of many times he answered questions that way. “I’m with you, I would love to lay it all out there.
New Broncos head coach Sean Payton delivered a fiery critique of last year’s Denver squad.
On Thursday, Payton set a flamethrower to Nathaniel Hackett and the 2022 Broncos, vowing he’ll do a better job than the 5-13 team. Payton singled out Hackett’s coaching job as one of the worst in NFL history.
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“Everything I heard about last season, we’re doing the opposite,” Payton said in part.
Denver Broncos OTAs (Getty Images)
Now one former Broncos is standing up to Payton and calling him out as a “f**king bum.
L.A. was expected to accept its fate with Shohei Ohtani. Instead, it’s choosing to believe postseason odds are malleable.
Utah Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham recently shared his thoughts on the state of college football realignment and where the NCAA is heading.
And it represents a fascinating potential picture of how NIL and realignment could impact the NCAA model going forward.
Whittingham believes that there will be “massive changes, super conferences” in the not-so-distant future. “It’s going to be unrecognizable from what it is now,” he said.” Eventually, he believes those super conferences will split off from the NCAA entirely, and “govern themselves.