Author: Michael

Aroldis Chapman is one of the most dominant closers in Major League Baseball history, and one of the hardest throwers in the league. At age 35, the Cuban fireballer is coming off the worst season in his 16-year career, but seems to have turned back the clock some in his first year with the Royals.
Chapman has made just two one-inning appearances in 2023, both in losses, but has yet to allow a run. He recorded four strikeouts and allowed one walk while facing seven batters with Kansas City.
Three of them came on Tuesday night, when Chapman came in during the ninth and struckout the side.

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AEW’s big announcement
When Tony Khan makes a promise, he intends to deliver.
Khan will make an announcement on Wednesday night’s episode of Dynamite that he believes will be pivotal to the company’s success.
“This is something I’ve dreamed of for years,” says Khan. “It’s a huge milestone for AEW, and I can’t wait to talk about it. There will be fans around the world who will be excited—it is one of the most important announcements ever in AEW.

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This is where Tiger Woods stands entering The Masters.
The deep history between The Masters and Tiger Woods is winding down.
As golf mortality battles the 47-year-old Woods and his body, it’s unclear how many times Tiger can continue to play his most famous event. Playing a limited schedule since returning from his 2021 car accident, Woods is mainly training in the hopes of winning major No. 16.
Optimism for at least a competitive weekend for Tiger at Augusta grew after February’s Genesis Invitational.

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I’ve never been to Oakland — and I’m almost certain I’ll never go — so I don’t know what people do there for fun. I do know, however, it is NOT going to Oakland Athletics baseball games. That, evidently, is a big no-no nowadays out west.
The ones who do go like to heckle players — we know that. But that’s very few and far between.
The baseball isn’t dying crowd may wanna look away for a minute:

THE A’S WALK IT OFF AND THIS CROWD IS LOSING THEIR COLLECTIVE MINDS!! I CAN’T EVEN HEAR MYSELF THINK!! pic.twitter.

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It’s been a tough start to the 2023 MLB season for Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Smith. His team is doing fine and he’s off to a respectable start at the plate, it’s just that he took a pitch straight to the face that forced him to get half a dozen stitches in his mug.
Now, he did get a nice bottle of whiskey for his troubles, which some booze aficionados might feel makes the situation a wash.
It was a very high, and very inside pitch from Baltimore Orioles’ left-hander Danny Coulombe that caught the former LSU Tiger in the chin.

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Joe Greiner, the caddie of six-time PGA Tour winner Max Homa, used two words to describe what he witnessed from Gordon Sargent during a practice round at The Masters: holy sh-t.
That’s likely the same exact phrase patrons used who watched the world’s No. 1 amateur turn Augusta National into a pitch-and-putt during his Monday practice round with Justin Thomas and Homa.
While Gordon may just be a 175-pound sophomore at Vanderbilt, he’s a legitimate freak when it comes to the power he delivers to a golf ball.

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Even their shadows got posterized.
The full story of Ja Morant’s season has yet to be written. For now, the defining moment of Morant’s year was a team suspension for flashing a gun in an Instagram video that prompted an NBA investigation, led to mandated counseling, and a meeting with commissioner Adam Silver amid reports of previous aggressive behavior. There were rumors that Morant would sit out the rest of the year, but instead he was cleared to return to the court with his Memphis Grizzlies holding down the No. 2 seed in the West.

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It’s been a trying season for Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins. A year after making the All-Star Game and winning the NBA title, Wiggins has played in just 37 games—and none since Feb. 13—while dealing with a personal issue.
On Tuesday, however, Wiggins returned to the bench after 22 games away from the Warriors. Golden State fans responded by giving him a standing ovation during the team’s game against the Thunder, eliciting a huge smile from the 2015 Rookie of the Year.
“It was all just love and support,” Wiggins said of the Warriors’ support of him.

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Pitchers in Major League Baseball are very good these days at making fans wonder how they can throw such beautiful pitches that give hitters no chance of trying to put the bat on the ball. 
Sometimes their pitches don’t really seem fair at all. 
Also unfair was what Seattle’s Luis Castillo did on a hard-hit grounder back to the mound Tuesday night. The play left everyone in awe of how he pulled it off.

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