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Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. is your 2023 MLB Home Run Derby champ! Before winning the award his father (Vladimir Guerrero) won as part of the LA Angels in 2007, Vladdy Jr. drilled a poor kid in the outfield at T-Mobile Park with a rocket that lasered left.
Guerrero caught the kid with a stray hit in his final at-bat against Tampa Bay Rays’ Randy Arozarena for the 2023 title.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – JULY 10: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. #27 of the Toronto Blue Jays bats during the T-Mobile Home Run Derby at T-Mobile Park on July 10, 2023 in Seattle, Washington.

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On Tuesday, PGA Tour board member Jimmy Dunne and COO Ron Price will testify before Congress pertaining to the shocking deal with the Saudi PIF.
On Tuesday morning, PGA Tour Chief Operating Officer, Ron Price, and policy board member, Jimmy Dunne, are set to testify before the United States Senate.
Congress has become involved with the blockbuster deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Pubic Investment Fund (PIF). Concerns regarding antitrust violations, as well as alleged sportswashing are surely to be discussed.

The decision by Northwestern to fire longtime head coach Pat Fitzgerald sent shockwaves throughout the college football world on Monday, with many throughout the sport expressing shock that the school made the decision to part ways with the 17-year veteran so quickly.
That paled in comparison to the response from some current members of the football team, who defended Fitzgerald and bashed the school’s administration for the way it handled Fitzgerald’s firing.

16 years after his father won the 2007 HR Derby, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. does it himself in thrilling fashion by defeating Randy Arozarena in Seattle.

Julio Rodríguez announced himself to the baseball world with his performance in the Home Run Derby in 2022. The Mariners center fielder bashed 32 home runs in the quarterfinals, 31 in the semifinals and 18 in the finals en route to a second-place finish.
Monday evening, however, Rodríguez surpassed his feats from a year ago.
The Dominican Republic native hit 41 home runs in the quarterfinals at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, easily defeating Mets first baseman Pete Alonso and setting a record for most home runs in a single Derby round.

Chad Kelly is currently dicing up Canada, but he would much prefer to be playing professional football in the United States. Not with the XFL or USFL.
The 29-year-old quarterback wants to make a return to the National Football League.
Kelly, the nephew of Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Kelly, had multiple opportunities to follow in his uncle’s footsteps. He was drafted dead last overall by the Broncos in 2017, spent two years in Denver, and later spent two seasons bouncing between Indianapolis’ active and practice squad rosters.
Neither opportunity stuck.

Ever since his 2022 MLB debut, Orioles catcher and former No. 1 MLB draft pick Adley Rutschman has looked like a burgeoning star. And while he’s still working on leading Baltimore to the postseason, he got a chance to step into the baseball spotlight during Monday night’s Home Run Derby.
And though his appearance was short-lived, it was undoubtedly a memorable one.
The switch-hitting Rutschman began his first-round matchup against White Sox center fielder Luis Robert Jr. standing in the left-handed batter’s box.

Holy smokes! America’s Catcher Adley Rutschman put on a hell of a show in the first round of the 2023 MLB Home Run Derby.
The Baltimore Orioles switch-hitter stunned audiences at T-Mobile Park.

Adley Rutschman #35 of the Baltimore Orioles and Luis Robert Jr. #88 of the Chicago White Sox face off. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
(Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Full circle moment for Adley Rutschman #HRDerby pic.twitter.com/g3DwK1hycr
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 11, 2023

Pitted against the first-seeded Luis Robert, Jr.

LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the modern era, if not of all-time. He is also the epitome of a corny AAU dad in the best way.
Whether you hate LeBron or adore LeBron, there is no way to discount the love that he has for his kids. The four-time NBA champion is always pushing his three children to be better people and to approach every moment with the utmost passion and intensity.
NBA star LeBron James coaches his son from the bench.(Photo by: Katie Goodale-USA TODAY Network)
For LeBron’s two sons, that push also comes on the basketball court.

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He did not advance, but Adley Rutschman might have still won the Home Run Derby
Adley Rutschman just won the Home Run Derby.
Sure, he has yet to technically “win,” as he is locked in his first-round matchup against Luis Robert Jr., and the Chicago White Sox outfielder has belted 26 home runs this year and entered the Home Run Derby as the top seed.
But what the Baltimore Orioles catcher did on Monday night at T-Mobile Park will go on in Home Run Derby lore.