Author: Michael

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Sometimes all you need is one spark and Mark Vientos found the spark that he needed for the biggest hit of his Postseason so far.
As the old baseball axiom goes, “momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.” In a world where momentum does exist and has a real and tangible impact on a series of baseball games, the Los Angeles Dodgers probably would’ve continued to bop the New York Mets upside their collective heads in Game 2 after opening up this season’s NLCS with a dominant 9-0 win.

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The Detroit Pistons have been the laughingstock of the NBA for a half-decade now, having won 23 or fewer games in each of the last five seasons. That 23-win season came during the 2021-22 campaign, and while it’s hard to fathom the franchise has taken a step backward since then, it has, having won 17 and 14 games over the last two seasons, respectively.
After the Pistons’ 14-win campaign a year ago that didn’t see the team win its fifth game until past the halfway point of the season, it understandably parted ways with head coach Monty Williams.

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Finnish hockey player Janne Puhakka — that nation’s first openly gay professional player — has been murdered by his partner in a disturbing incident just outside of Helsinki.
According to TMZ Sports, local reports stated that Puhakka, 29, was found dead in the home in Henttaa, Espoo — a suburb of Helsinki — that he had formerly shared with his partner, 66-year-old Norwegian veterinarian Rolf Nordmo. 
Police quickly determined that the death was a homicide and suspected that Nordmo had been the shooter.

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