It’s still unclear, who Blue Jays manager John Schneider was referring to when he said “Shut up fat boy, shut up” at someone. However, Yankees assistant hitting coach Brad Wilkerson assumes it was him.
Aw, c’mon, Brad. There were plenty of other fat boys he could’ve been talking to,
It happened during Tuesday night’s Blue Jays-Yankees game, which was the first following Monday night’s Aaron Judge eye-shifting controversy.
In the third inning, Schneider and Toronto pitching coach Pete Walker became agitated with where the Yankees had positioned their base coaches.
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The Coyotes intend to play the 2023-24 NHL season at the Mullett Arena, though their future in Arizona remains uncertain after residents voted down a referendum for a new arena Tuesday.
With relocation potentially in the organization’s future, star NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes swooped in with an eye-opening suggestion for the franchise.
The Chiefs signal-caller posed the idea of the NHL franchise relocating to Kansas City, and he even tested the waters on how the team name would sound with “KC” at the front.
The first day of scrimmages at the NBA draft combine is in the books, with just over half the players invited to the event participating in five-on-five games in front of executives from across the league.
The caliber of play in these settings is mixed: Few if any players likely to go in the first round play in the scrimmages, and teams of prospects with little to no familiarity with one another trying to mesh on the fly generates somewhat sloppy action. Still, it’s a good chance for players to solidify their draft stock and make an impression in front of an audience of NBA personnel.
Miami and Boston are no strangers to the Eastern Conference finals — or to each other.
Although 12 years has passed since George Karl was JR Smith’s head coach in Denver, it appears the contentious relationship between the two reached a fever pitch on Wednesday.
While appearing on The Old Man and the Three podcast with JJ Redick and Tommy Alter, Smith took a shot at his former coach, stating, “We didn’t have one out-of-bounds play, my whole time playing for this man.”
In response to that comment, the 2013 NBA Coach of the Year responded by joking that Smith’s marijuana use might have clouded his awareness during Nuggets practices years ago.
On Tuesday, OutKick’s Grayson Weir reported on the WNBA suspending Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon. The league says Hammon violated their “Respect in the Workplace” policy with regard to Dearica Hamby. The team traded Hamby, who claimed her pregnancy was the reason why.
From Weir’s story: “Hamby claimed that the forthcoming birth of her second child was a direct factor into the team’s decision to trade her to the Sparks. She also said that the team held her pregnancy against her and called the treatment ‘traumatizing.’
I was asked if I planned my pregnancy.
Did Ja Morant’s apology over his second gun-video sound robotic?
It sounded as such to Undisputed co-host Shannon Sharpe, who put on his tinfoil cap and speculated that Morant’s apology was generated by the AI-takeover, Doomsday tool known as ChatGPT.
Shortly after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver went on ESPN with Malika Andrews and rebuked Morant’s behavior after appearing on IG Live with a handgun, Morant’s team issued an apology.
The Coyotes’ proposed plans for to build an arena in Tempe, Ariz. as part of a new entertainment district in the area were voted down on Tuesday night. The project would have cost around $2.1 billion had it been approved, including $1.9 billion in private funding.
With Arizona’s hockey team facing an uncertain future, the organization said that it will still continue with its plan to play in Tempe next season.
Team president and CEO Xavier A. Gutierrez told ESPN on Wednesday that the team intends to play next season at Mullett Arena, an arena on the campus of Arizona State University.
University of Houston basketball coach Kelvin Sampson has interviewed for the Bucks’ head coach vacancy, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Sampson, who recently completed his ninth season at Houston, spent six seasons in the NBA as an assistant coach with the Bucks and Rockets before building the Cougars into an elite program within the college basketball landscape. In Milwaukee, Sampson was an assistant on Scott Skiles’s coaching staff from 2008 to ’11.
On Wednesday, Pat McAfee took time to address the reaction to his recently announced deal with ESPN.
McAfee is one of the biggest names in sports media, and on Tuesday it was announced that he had inked a deal with ESPN that would see him earning a reported $10 million. The move means that The Pat McAfee Show will appear on ESPN, ESPN+, as well as the company’s YouTube channel.
However, this left some fans concerned that ESPN would assume some degree of creative control over McAfee’s show. His irreverent style doesn’t seem like it would mesh with the current state of ESPN.