Author: Michael

When I was a kid, I had two plastic, replica baseball helmets on my bureau. Neither of them fit my gigantic 6-year-old head, but I still loved them. One of them was for the Boston Red Sox (duh). But the other was for the Oakland A’s.
I loved that A’s helmet. There was something about that Oakland helmet that I loved: maybe it was the unique font of that capital “A,” or the aesthetically pleasing green and yellow color scheme. Whatever it was, I genuinely treasured it.

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Curt Cignetti sent one of the best football guy emails you’ll ever see.
Cignetti and his Indiana Hoosiers are currently 4-0, and have a chance to start a season 5-0 for the first time in 57 years with a Saturday win over Maryland.
There’s been a significant vibe shift in Bloomington in Cignetti’s very short run as the team’s head coach. The Hoosiers used to be a punching bag in the Big Ten. Now, they’re off to one of the hottest starts in America, and Cignetti needs students to do one thing:
Put down the books and get to the game.

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F1 teams, and more, said goodbye to Daniel Ricciardo this week
This past week Visa Cash App RB F1 Team made it official, announcing that Daniel Ricciardo would be out, and Liam Lawson would be sliding into his seat, for the rest of the season. That means starting with the United States Grand Prix next month it will be Lawson alongside Yuki Tsunoda, as VCARB looks to hold off Haas in a fight for sixth in the Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship.

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