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Injuries continue to pile up in Major League Baseball, but there is also plenty of talent available on the waiver wire. If you lost Giancarlo Stanton or Jeffrey Springs this week, I’ve got a few players that should be available – even in deeper leagues – listed below. Besides those listed below, don’t forget about players such as Franchy Cordero and Joey Gallo, who clobbered a three-run shot in his first game back from the IL on Wednesday.

Police are reportedly investigating Odell Beckham Jr. over an alleged assault.
The Ravens WR is being accused by an unnamed woman of putting “his hand around her neck” at Delilah in Los Angeles several weeks ago, according to TMZ.
The woman alleges the NFL player “went up to her and grabbed her throat with light pressure,” according to the same report. Neither left the venue after the alleged incident and there were no further issues throughout the night. The accuser filed a report a few days later.
Odell Beckham Jr. accused of assault.

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If you’re a team that needs to nail their first-round pick, look no further.
Every team in the NFL wants to find the right balance between safety, risk, and payoff when it comes to their first-round picks. They’re not all going to work out for every team. In fact, in most years, most of them don’t.
But I’m here today to be the guiding light for those NFL teams looking to say, “I don’t need to risk it for the biscuit. I’m going to play it safe and still be the hero.

Two NFL draft prospects who are often described as “generational talents” might seem like opposites, counterpoints. One plays defense, at a premium position, and his main focus is terrorizing quarterbacks. He starred for a traditional college power that continually ranks among the country’s top teams. The other plays offense, at a position that’s perpetually discounted in the modern NFL, and his focus centers on taking pressure off quarterbacks.

At first, she seemed confused.
“A possum?” she asked.
“Yes,” I said. “If you found out a possum was living in the walls of this Banana Republic, how quickly would you do something about it?”
“Immediately,” she said.
I got the same answer at the Gap and at Old Navy. “Within 24 hours,” said the employee who humored me at the Gap. “The same day,” said the one at Old Navy.
So you wouldn’t ignore it for nine months, as Oakland A’s owner—and Gap Inc.

Payton McNabb, a high school volleyball player in North Carolina, was struck in the face by a volleyball spiked by a biological male claiming to be a girl last fall. The senior recently told lawmakers that she is still suffering physical and mental trauma from the situation involving the trans athlete.
Video of the trans volleyball player’s spike that injured McNabb was posted to YouTube as a ‘highlight.’
McNabb told state lawmakers at a state hearing on fairness in sports that she suffered both a concussion and neck injury that she’s still recovering from.

Bryce Young. Will Anderson Jr. Bijan Robinson.
These are names we’ll hear quickly once commissioner Roger Goodell opens the 2023 NFL draft Thursday night in Kansas City.
But who are the players who we might not hear until Friday or Saturday, yet whose impact could be felt for years to come? Here are five names you should know before next week’s festivities begin.

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Jake Haener, QB, Fresno State

The ideal situation is for Haener is to develop as a backup after someone makes him a mid-round pick.

Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis isn’t pumped about the Oakland A’s moving to Sin City.
The A’s reached an agreement to buy 49 acres of land on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, and the plan is to build a new stadium that will seat 30,000 fans and cost $1.5 billion.
Sports fans are pumped about Las Vegas finally getting an MLB team, but the man who owns the Raiders is definitely not among them.
In fact, Mark Davis is very much against the people who own the A’s after the two sides had a falling out before the Raiders came to Vegas.

It’s last year, April 30, Las Vegas, Caesar’s Forum. Melanie Salata-Fitch waits patiently, for one specific NFL draft pick, the same selection, always—the very last one. Her pops, the late Paul Salata, sold the wider sports world on the relevance of that particular selection. He sold it by tying that pick to a tag that accomplished the opposite of its literal meaning. The final NFL draft choice became his vision, Mr. Irrelevant, starting in 1976, adding modest intrigue to the end of what’s now a full-blown, three-day, wall-to-wall-coverage extravaganza.

Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes is taking a risk and standing up to support women’s sports at a critical time.
Holmes’ support arrives at a time when women’s sports face real uncertainty following the inclusion of transgender athletes; notably, biological men competing against women.
During a season of contention regarding whether biological males should compete against biological females, Holmes made his opinion on the matter clear when he wore a “Support Women and Girls in Sports” sweatshirt before reporters during a pre-draft press conference on Thursday.