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Major League Baseball has decided to give Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Angel Perdomo a few days off after he clobbered San Diego Padres star Manny Machado with a pitch.
That kind of thing happens, of course, but this seemed far from accidental.
On Tuesday night, Perdomo was on the hill in the bottom of the seventh in a close, 2-1 game between the Padres and Pirates in San Diego.
Padres left fielder Juan Soto got a hold of the 3-1 pitch and blasted a solo homer into the right field seats.

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Vincent Goodwill welcomes James Edwards III from The Athletic to the Good Word with Goodwill podcast to talk about Jaylen Brown’s massive contract extension, Bronny James’ health scare and the Detroit Pistons.

The Major League Baseball owners announced Wednesday an extension of commissioner Rob Manfred’s contract.
The extension ensures that Manfred will run the sport through the 2028 season, despite a series of controversies.
Most famously, Manfred moved the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta after pressure from liberal sportswriters, activists and President Joe Biden.
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He also came under fire for his handling of the 2017 Houston Astros cheating controversy.

INDIANAPOLIS — David Braun walked away from the podium and exhaled deeply, cheeks puffing, a thankless task completed, an impossible situation survived. He’d just done more than any of his no-account, hide-and-seek bosses at Northwestern University have done in weeks, by making himself available for an extensive public interview about the smoking crater of a football program he inherited.
Braun has been employed at Northwestern for less than six-and-a-half months. He’s been the emergency head football coach for 12 days.

CHARLOTTE—The corners of Jordan Travis’s mouth wriggle into something resembling a smile as he tries not to give too much credence to the question posed: Do you notice people who were saying a certain thing about you last year—‘he can’t play,’ ‘he’s not this or not that’—and how they’ve changed their tune after your success?
“I saw a couple people that were talking pretty bad, but now they admit it,” Travis says.

The New York Jets and Aaron Rodgers agreed to restructure the quarterback’s contract. The purpose is to save the team money against the salary cap.
According to NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero, “Rodgers is taking a pay cut of roughly $35 million as his previous deal had nearly $110 million guaranteed remaining.
“[Rodgers’] new contract is technically a five-year deal with two option years to spread out bonus proration. The pact also creates a 2023 cap number of just less than $9 million.

Sophia Smith took a star turn against Vietnam. Can she keep it up against the Dutch in a critical group stage game? Stay tuned for updates and highlights throughout.

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers confirmed Wednesday that he has agreed to a reworked contract but declined to give specifics of the deal.

Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is largely expected to be the next player to receive a gargantuan contract extension following the Chargers’ deal with Justin Herbert, which was agreed upon on Tuesday.
The five-year, $262.5 million deal Herbert penned in Los Angeles carries the highest average annual value of any contract in NFL history, but ESPN’s Adam Schefter indicated that record will almost certainly be broken when Burrow re-signs with Cincinnati.

Bills receiver Stefon Diggs called the issues and conversations that led to his absence from one mandatory minicamp practice last month a “family matter” and said it was all “water under the bridge.