Author: Michael

A fitting Valentine’s Day debut for Ferrari’s SF-23
In rather fitting fashion, Scuderia Ferrari unveiled their SF-23 on Tuesday ahead of the 2023 Formula 1 season.
Valentine’s Day.
Ferrari’s car for the 2023 season has many of the same livery features from last season — spots of bare carbon fiber including on the front and rear wings, along with the distinctive matte red — but some aerodynamic tweaks that may be notable in the year ahead:

Passion driven in 2023 ❤️#SF23 pic.twitter.

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You can draw a straight line from the hellish endurance race Zeinab Rezaie ran two years ago, trying to escape Kabul, to the moment she became the first Afghan woman to finish an Ironman 70.3.
It could’ve been scheduled for any day, but Zeinab Rezaie’s flight happened to be scheduled for that day.
The night before Kabul fell, Rezaie and her family had been glued to the chaos on the news, and in the early morning, as she and her husband, Ali Karimi, drove toward the city center on the way to the airport, their new reality became clear. Everything was suddenly different.

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Even more than you realize, the end of the shift will be a boon for lefty hitters—and the sport’s entertainment factor.
“A stalling game is a game between coaches. But the [shot] clock gives the game back to the players.”—Jacksonville basketball coach Bob Wenzel, 1982
This is the year baseball gives the game back to the players. The bans on shifts and stationing infielders in the outfield help restore baseball as an athletic competition, not an intramural competition among analytics departments as to who can build a better algorithm.
The Shift Era is over. Good riddance.

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Tiger Woods is set to make his first competitive start since last July at this week’s Genesis Invitational, but he made a quick stop at the site of this year’s U.S. Open, Los Angeles Country Club, to get his week going.
Given that Riviera Country Club, host of this week’s Genesis, is just seven miles away from LACC, the big cat going on a quick scouting trip to the venue makes plenty of sense.
The first photo appears to show Woods talking with Adam Scott. The two may have made a quick loop around LACC before turning their focus to the Genesis Invitational.

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The champion Chiefs proved worthy of the top spot, and the Eagles sit a 27-yard field goal away in second place. How do the other 30 teams stack up?
Close the books on the 2022 NFL season! The Chiefs beat the Eagles 38–35 to win Super Bowl LVII and claim their second championship in four seasons. Sure, we are covering all angles of the game, from how Patrick Mahomes handled his ankle injury to the idea of a Chiefs dynasty to Andy Reid’s beautiful mind, but let’s not dwell too long.

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Tom Brady doesn’t want to see Aaron Rodgers’ time in the NFL come to an end.
The Green Bay Packers QB is currently on his darkness retreat, and the belief is he’ll make a decision on his future once his alone time in a dark room is over.
Brady, who hung it up after this past season, certainly hopes this isn’t the end of Rodgers slinging it on Sundays.
Tom Brady wants to see Aaron Rodgers keep playing.
“You know what, I hope he doesn’t retire because like I said, I think the league needs good quarterbacks and he’s one of the greats.

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Here’s how the Chiefs star stacks up against the GOAT after his second Super Bowl victory.
Patrick Mahomes notched the second Super Bowl victory of his young, but already accomplished career on Sunday, leading the Chiefs to a 38–35 victory over the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII. Given the star quarterback’s rise to the top of the league so early in his career, some observers already have begun to wonder if the 27-year-old might one day rival the legendary Tom Brady.

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The PAC-12 continues to try to convince people everything will be okay as the conference appears on the brink.
With USC and UCLA leaving in 2024 and the conference entering the final football season of its media deal, it appears that the conference is in serious trouble.
Is the PAC-12 in huge trouble? Will the conference land a new media deal? (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
The two largest brands in the conference are leaving, and there’s been absolutely no major movement on landing a new media deal.

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