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An MLB ump was caught mocking a Marlins challenge into a hot mic before overturning the call.
Replay review remains a fiercely debated topic even years after being adopted by every major sports league in America. On one hand, it’s great that referees and umpires can consult video replay to make sure they get calls correct. On the other, it slows the game down and often loses the momentum of what’s happening on the field, ice, or court.
The pro-replay types have a new argument in their favor after Saturday night’s Los Angeles Angels vs.

Le’Veon Bell was one of the best running backs in the NFL and a star for the Steelers from 2013 to ’17. His success led to him wanting a long-term contract that he felt he deserved—but it never happened and instead, he left the team for the Jets.
Five years later, Bell admitted that he didn’t want to leave Pittsburgh and explained what soured his relationship with the team that drafted him. 
“Yeah, it was a little petty, the little guarantee stuff,” Bell said on the Steel Here podcast.

Hendriks announced his non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis in January.

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Steve Stricker won his second major the year at the Senior PGA Championship, but this one meant a little more because his daughter was on his bag.
Steve Stricker defeated Padraig Harrington in a playoff to win the Senior PGA Championship, with his daughter Izzi Stricker caddying for him. The father-daughter duo shared a heartwarming moment after Stricker won his second straight major in two weeks.
The reporters asked him about her in his post round interview, and he choked up talking about how special it was for him to share this major with her.

Over seven weeks after announcing he is cancer-free, White Sox closer Liam Hendriks is heading back to the big leagues.
Chicago announced that Hendriks had been added back to the active roster on Sunday with an emotional tribute video. Hendriks revealed in January that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Prior to his reinstatement, he appeared in six games during his rehab assignment in Triple-A Charlotte.
In the video, White Sox players and coaches share warm messages to their teammate, welcoming him back and congratulating him for completing his return to the mound.

Boston faithful were on fire Saturday night after the Celtics won a close Game 6 against the Miami Heat.
Fans gathered outside TD Garden after Derrick White hit a last-second layup to beat the Heat by one point, 104-103. From climbing street signs to stirring loud chants, Boston fans were pumped to see their team get one last shot at going to the NBA Finals after falling 0-3 at the start of the series.
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C.B. Bucknor blew a call. His crew chief thought the Marlins shouldn’t have challenged.

Edward Olivares made the scoreboard literally start smoking with a monster home run.
There have not been many highlights for the Kansas City Royals through the first two months of the 2023 MLB regular season. The Royals are off to a 16-38 start, which puts them in the basement of the AL Central and gives them the second fewest wins in baseball to this point in the season. Only the Oakland Athletics have been worse.
On Sunday, Royals fans finally got a moment worth celebrating.

Few sports teams in North America or elsewhere have had as bleak of a 2023 as the Athletics.
Oakland is 10–45, on pace for a 29–133 ledger that would give it MLB’s worst record since 1899. Average game attendance is 8,889, the worst in baseball by a wide margin. The team is openly plotting a move to Las Vegas.
On Sunday, the Athletics’ woes came to a head in the form of a humiliating 10–1 home loss to the Astros—their 11th in a row. With the win, Houston put a bow on a series in which it outscored its once-competitive division rival 21–6.

The NBA has launched an investigation into longtime referee Eric Lewis over a Twitter account that responded to posts on league officiating and defended Lewis, sources confirmed to ESPN.