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Winning an MVP award is one thing. Winning your second career MVP award is quite another.
Winning your second MVP award while celebrating with your best friend in the whole world, however, is something else entirely.
Angels designated hitter and pitcher Shohei Ohtani did just that Thursday, gleefully celebrating his unanimous victory by high-fiving his beloved pooch.
The dog waited patiently as Ohtani was introduced alongside his fellow finalists: Rangers shortstop Corey Seager and second baseman Marcus Semien.

Take the outfits from Zoolander and attach them to hulking NFL athletes. If you’re into that kind of thing, you may want to consider being a Ravens fan.
The Baltimore Ravens may be No. 1 in the AFC North, but their players’ pre-game outfits appear among the worst in the league.
Ravens players certainly made a case for worst-dressed Thursday afternoon: showing up in parachute pants, an outfit stolen from a Michael Jackson world tour and more confusing pants.
By the way, Baltimore’s social media proudly posted these intros, thinking they were doing the players a favor.

Ronald Acuña Jr. won the 2023 National League MVP Award on Thursday night, adding another prestigious honor to his résumé this year. He was a unanimous selection, earning all 30 first-place votes.
This is the Braves outfielder’s first time winning the NL MVP, although he won the NL Rookie of the Year Award back in 2018.
In 2023 alone, Acuña was named the NL Player of the Month twice (April, June), he earned his second Silver Slugger Award and he received the most National League votes for the All-Star Game to become one of the starting outfielders.

One of the few remaining hurdles for the Oakland A’s to move to Las Vegas was cleared Thursday when the 30 MLB owners voted unanimously to approve the team’s relocation.
READ: MLB OWNERS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVE A’S MOVE TO LAS VEGAS
It’ll mark the first relocation for Major League Baseball since 2005 and moves one of the 30 teams out of a top media market to a much smaller one. There’s any number of reasons why the organization is leaving, chief among them the ownership of John Fisher. Fisher, whose net worth is estimated at $2.

No player had even hit 30 homers and stolen 60 bases in a season before Acuña.

The Giants could franchise tag Barkley for the second year in a row if the two sides once again are unable to work out a long-term contract agreement.

Multiple sideline reporters have reacted to the admission from former sideline reporter, and current Fox Sports and Amazon Prime host, Charissa Thompson that she would, at times, make up content for her in-game reports.

Joe Burrow and the Bengals trail Lamar Jackson’s Ravens in an AFC North matchup between contending teams on Thursday Night Football.

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU basketball superstar Angel Reese, one of the most famous women’s athletes in the world this side of LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne, is undergoing an “attitude adjustment,” according to a source close to the Tigers’ women’s team.
Reese did not play in the second half of reigning national champion LSU’s last game on Tuesday – a 109-79 win over lightly-regarded Kent State. LSU led only by 39-37 at halftime. She had 11 points and five rebounds in 13 minutes. But the Final Four MVP from seven months ago and BET Sportswoman of the Year did not play again.

Fox Sports’ Charissa Thompson was the focus of high criticism from fellow NFL sideline reporters on Thursday after the now host of Fox NFL Kickoff admitted that in the past, she has made up quotes from coaches during sideline reports.
In a recent interview on the Pardon My Take podcast, Thompson admitted that if she wasn’t able to speak to a coach at halftime, she would make up a broad report.
“I’ve said this before, so I haven’t been fired for saying it, but I’ll say it again,” Thompson said.