Author: Michael

Yankees outfielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa was making plays with his legs on Wednesday during the Subway Series against the Mets. 
On third base in a 2–1 game during the seventh inning, the speedster stunningly took off for home plate, completely catching the Mets off guard as he successfully thieved a run for his team.
Left-handed reliever Brooks Raley wasn’t prepared for Kiner-Falefa’s fleet-footed attempt to steal home plate, enabling the 28-year-old to successfully pull off the rare feat.

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Nuggets center Nikola Jokić has proven to be an eminently relatable NBA champion, from his earnest desire to return home after reaching the pinnacle of his sport to his frustration with the number of texts inundating his phone after winning it all.
This, however, may be his most relatable move yet.
In an interview with ESPN’s Malika Andrews on Wednesday, Jokić revealed that he misplaced his Bill Russell trophy, awarded to the NBA Finals MVP, and he does not know where it went.

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ESPN’s SEC Network had quite the accidental welcome for Oklahoma on Wednesday.
The conference announced its football schedule for 2024, which will be the first season that the conference expands to 16 teams with the introduction of Texas and Oklahoma. While the schedules were being announced, SEC Network aired a special show to unveil the highly anticipated slate.
But when showing a graphic listing eight teams and their top nonconference opponents for ’24, SEC Network goofed on Oklahoma’s logo.

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Ten quick takeaways from the 2024 Southeastern Conference football schedule, which was revealed Wednesday night:
1. This should have been a nine-game schedule with a 16-team league. But the league nailed the eight-game slate as best it could.
As previously stated here, the big, bad SEC has no business only playing eight league games with a league of this size and caliber. That was decided a couple of weeks ago, though, and the direction was set for an eight-team schedule that will essentially be a one-off creation. (The league may well go to nine in 2025, stay tuned.

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The NBA Finals ratings suffered because of the league’s woke politics.
NBA Ratings Suffer From Woke Streak
The 2022-23 NBA Finals averaged 11.6 million viewers — the league’s fourth-lowest total in the last 30 years.
Denver and Miami’s five-game series underperformed against last year’s Golden State vs. Boston matchup (12.4 million) and barely passed 2021’s Bucks versus Suns Finals (10.8 million).

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At the height of the NBA’s woke activism in 2020, amid the George Floyd riots and BLM uprisings, the Finals recorded its lowest viewership, averaging 9.

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They are both unlikely Northern California success stories—one a nomadic baseball team turned world champion four times over, one a hardscrabble punk band turned Rock & Roll Hall of Fame act.
Given their shared underdog origins, it only makes sense that Green Day would oppose the Athletics‘ expected departure for Las Vegas. In attendance as Oakland fans staged a “reverse boycott” at Oakland Coliseum on Tuesday night, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made his feelings on the subject abundantly clear.
“Oakland forever. Vegas never.

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It’s hard to forget Marshawn Lynch’s iconic line back in 2015 at media day before Super Bowl XLIX: “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.”
Colts rookie quarterback Anthony Richardson paid homage to the retired running back Tuesday during his press conference after the team’s first day of mandatory minicamp.
Unlike Lynch, though, Richardson meant it solely as a prank to the reporters in the room. The former Florida star said he promised his mom that he would say it during his press conference.

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With the NBA offseason upon us, ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins outlined a series of bold moves he’s forecasting for this summer.
Amid the madness yet to ensue, Perkins predicted an eye-opening destination for Sixers star James Harden in free agency.
Harden is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract with Philadelphia and hit the open market, at which point Perkins indicates the Lakers could be a suitable destination for the veteran guard.
If the move comes to fruition, it would mark a homecoming for Harden, a Los Angeles native who attended Artesia High in nearby Lakewood.

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