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The 23-year-old is the second active player associated with MLB to come out.
White Sox prospect Anderson Coma came out as gay in a heartfelt message posted on Instagram on Sunday.
The 23-year-old is just the second player associated with MLB to come out as gay while active. Giants prospect Solomon Bates previously came out as gay in August 2022.
“This may be my most personal thing I ever share and it’s that I’m proudly and happily part of the LGTBQ+ community,” Coma wrote on Instagram.

Jonathan Gannon, fresh off of a Super Bowl loss, was hired by the Cardinals as their head coach on Tuesday of last week. He arrived in Arizona for the first time on Friday and his unique personality was on full display.
Gannon, 40, is the seventh-youngest head coach in the NFL after serving as the defensive coordinator in Philadelphia in each of the last two seasons. Although there were a lot of questions surrounding the Eagles defense in Super Bowl LVII, the group allowed just 301.5 yards per game during the 2022/23 regular season, which was the second-best in the league.

Links to our coverage from the first post-Super Bowl Monday, including Albert Breer’s conversations with Chiefs players on the one playcall they loved.
We’re more than a week out from Super Bowl LVII, and there was no shortage of news. The MMQB staff has it all covered, but we also take one more look back at how the Chiefs knocked off Philly, and the moment that started it all.
We are trying things a little differently at The MMQB with Albert Breer’s Monday-morning column, publishing items as separate stories throughout the morning.

Houston returned to No. 1 in the AP men’s college basketball poll on Monday for the third time this season, while Northwestern barged into the rankings.

After a stretch of mediocrity, Northwestern is on the cusp of making just its second NCAA tournament ever and, in the process, may have saved Chris Collins’ job.

After a stretch of mediocrity, Northwestern is on the cusp of making just its second NCAA tournament ever and, in the process, may have saved Chris Collins’ job.

Antoine Davis is charging toward Pete Maravich’s career NCAA scoring record, while the Tar Heels are in danger of setting the wrong kind of history.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball, where even Georgetown can occasionally win a road game:
Story lines for the stretch run
It’s less than three weeks until Selection Sunday, as a wildly scrambled season seeks to find some order—or, perhaps more likely, another player of chaos. The Minutes has identified a half dozen story lines to watch over the next 20 days.

The Angels check in at No. 25 in our comprehensive ranking of each MLB franchise’s 26-and-under talent. We look at the organization through the prism of top prospect Logan O’Hoppe.

Now that NBA All-Star Weekend has come and gone, we take a look at the updated odds for teams to win the NBA title, with insight from FOX Bet.

Following some offseason adjustments, the 23-year-old and former top prospect could finally become a key contributor and help Seattle make a difference in a deep AL West.
The Mariners recently invited their players to a bat-fitting session. They hired a private company to run players through motion-capture technology to find what size, shape and weight of bats best fit their swing movements. The star of the show was the second-worst hitter ever with at least 550 plate appearances.
Mariners outfielder Jarred Kelenic is a career .168 hitter. Only John Vukovich (.