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• I spoke with Gill Gross about some of the macro issues in tennis: the Saudi dilemma, the WTA’s perilous finances, doping, on-court coaching, etc.• Who wants to direct tennis at one of the most august clubs in the U.S.?• An extended round of applause—and Montgomery Inn gift card—for tennis treasure Greg Sharko.
Onward …
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We had a lot of chatter over email and Twitter last week about tennis and its relationship with sports gambling.
ESPN intends to promote color commentator Doris Burke to its No. 1 NBA announcing team and hire Doc Rivers as the third member of the booth with play-by-play announcer Mike Breen, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post.
The move by ESPN made longtime color commentator Mark Jackson expendable. He was laid off by the network, joining his former sidekick Jeff Van Gundy, who was cut from ESPN last month.
Jackson released a statement on Monday night confirming the news.
“This morning, unexpectedly, I was informed that my services were no longer needed at ESPN,” the statement began.
The Padres are one of the most disappointing teams of the 2023 Major League Baseball season and those bad vibes continued Monday night when they lost to the Rockies, 4–3, to fall to 52–55 on the year.
Their stinker of a season was summed up perfectly by a stinker of a decision made by their third base coach, Matt Williams, on a play in the top of the third inning when he sent Juan Soto home on a single to center.
Was Soto able to beat the throw? No, no he wasn’t. He was thrown by a country mile and then comically tried to talk the ump into a blocking-the-plate call.
The players are out of sync. The coach is clueless. The Americans are supposed to be the No. 1 team in the world, but are being outclassed at this World Cup.
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The young Mercedes driver will take George Russell’s spot in FP1 at the Mexican Grand Prix
Formula 1 has reached the August shutdown, but that does not mean the news has stopped as well.
August typically marks the start of the summer “silly season,” when rumors about driver movement for the upcoming season begin to fly. This year’s silly season kicked into gear a bit early with the sacking of Nyck de Vries, as AlphaTauri replaced him with veteran driver Daniel Ricciardo.
Back by popular demand—or force of habit—it’s time for the annual preseason College Football’s Most Intriguing lists. First up, the most intriguing coaches:
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1. Deion Sanders, Colorado
This is one of the great chemistry experiments in the history of the sport.
The USWNT completed group play at the Women’s World Cup with a 0–0 draw with Portugal by the skin of their teeth, advancing to the knockout stage to continue their run towards an unprecedented third straight World Cup title.
With that said, the USWNT has not looked sharp through three matches. The 3–0 win over Vietnam should have been much more convincing given the talent deficiencies between the two sides, and the last two draws against the Netherlands and Portugal only further emphasized the notion that the U.S. has not played its best soccer.
Whoever is in charge of writing the copy for push notifications at the Minneapolis Star Tribune is not a fan of Lee Hodges. That, or they had money on J.T. Poston at the 3M Open, because the notification that was sent out to subscribers on Sunday was straight-up ruthless.
Based on screenshots shared by The Shotgun Start, the first push notification that was sent out was fine as it read ‘Lee Hodges completes wire-to-wire victory after 3M Open, winning by seven shots.
Fantasy football season is just around the corner, and that means it’s time to start getting excited about this year’s breakouts!
Below are five players I have my eyes on, all of which are still values at their average draft position (ADP) according to how high I value their ceiling. These are not sleepers or deep sleepers (that article is coming soon), but players that are primed for their best seasons yet. I will be leaving each of my drafts with at least one of these five players. I hope you will, too.
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The do-everything running back might be falling out of favor in the NFL, but they are still king in the world of PPR fantasy. Teams are leaning more and more towards running backs needing to be skilled catchers out of the backfield, even if their overall usage is waning in the modern, big-play NFL.
This year there are a handful of players worthy of top picks in PPR, and all of them carry significant risks. In short: This year is a minefield when it comes to drafting.