Fantasy baseball analyst Fred Zinkie focuses on hitters in this week’s trade analyzer.
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With every day that passes, the Athletics’ season gets sadder and sadder. The latest example came when a video started making the rounds online, showing a fan who easily ran onto the field without a single security guard stopping him and proceeded to run all the bases.
On Monday, a fan posted a TikTok that showed a young boy hopping over the barrier and rounding the bases while the ground crew was at work. With little effort from security to stop him, the fan casually jogged back to his barren section in the crowd after his conquest.
‘Ted Lasso’ stuck the landing in a perfectly imperfect conclusion.
Yeah, it might be all that we get. Ted Lasso ended season three on Wednesday, and while nothing official has been said about the future of the show, it’s impossible to view “So Long, Farewell” as anything but the series finale. Our last trip to Richmond AFC was nothing short of perfection, which gave us satisfying conclusions to all the storylines that could be settled — while leaving others open for interpretation as they move on with their lives.
1. The best NBA television analyst has some wild thoughts on how to improve the television product.
Speaking on a conference call Tuesday to promote the NBA Finals between the Heat and Nuggets, which begin Thursday night, ESPN’s Jeff Van Gundy was asked what he thought could be done “to continue evolving with the modern basketball coverage and keeping consumers engaged with the broadcast?”
If you gave me a million guesses on how Van Gundy would answer, “getting rid of free throws” (for the most part) wouldn’t have crossed my mind.
The month of May hasn’t been great for Shohei Ohtani, but he’s ending it on a high note.
Ohtani hasn’t exactly struggled this month, but his stats aren’t quite up to the high standard he’s set for himself both on the mound and at the plate. In 26 games this month, he’s batting .230/.319/.470, not terrible but a significant drop-off from the .294/.355/.541 slash line he put up in the first month of the season. And after a lights-out first month on the mound in which he posted a 1.85 ERA, Ohtani’s ERA in May is 4.
Could Ezekiel Elliott once again become a major player in the Cowboys backfield in 2023?
Elliott, who was released by Dallas back in March after seven seasons, remains unsigned as a free agent.
So could Dallas potentially bring him back into the fold at a lower salary? Sports Illustrated‘s Conor Orr released his 100 NFL predictions heading into the 2023 season, and Elliott landing back with the Cowboys made it on the list.
“There are seemingly not a great deal of other options for Dallas at this point, when you really look at it,” Orr wrote.
Texas Tech head football coach Joey McGuire has yet to follow-through on a promise that he made last month. Details of the agreement are unclear, but it has been documented on Twitter!
McGuire was named the head coach of the Red Raiders on November 8, 2021. The 51-year-old took over a program that had not won more than seven games since 2013 and went 8-5 in his first year, with a Texas Bowl win over Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss.
There is a lot of hype around what McGuire is (re)building in Lubbock.
“You ain’t see nothin yet,” -head coach Joey McGuire. pic.twitter.
Week 7 in the USFL gave us some much needed separation in the standings. Here’s how to approach Week 8 as teams jockey for the playoffs.
There is only one achievement in baseball more amazing than Shohei Ohtani succeeding at an elite level as a hitter and pitcher: that he has done it for this long. He blows away Babe Ruth in two-way longevity.
But even Ohtani has slumps. And when he does, as he has over the past few weeks, the question is inevitable: How long can he keep up this pace excelling as a two-way player? Angels manager Phil Nevin promises to lighten Ohtani’s workload this year, but only by a bit.
“What did he play, 158 games last year?” Nevin says. It was 157. “It won’t be that many, that’s for sure.
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NBA forward Josh Hart is a sick man for this one.
Look man, I’m not one to judge people’s dietary habits. I think if you want to make a change in what you put in your body you go for it.
But look man, I draw the line here.