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Amid all the major pitching moves this winter, Ben Verlander ranks the five best starting rotations heading into the 2023 MLB season.

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Tom Brady’s final chapter is still unwritten
This has not been the kind of season that Tom Brady expected.
But is this really how it ends? With Brady manning a team that finishes with a losing record for the first time in his entire football career? That’s right. This was the first season Brady as at the helm of a team that finished under .500, dating back to his high school days.
25-straight years with a winning record.
Until this year.
It could all come to an end tonight, with a loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

Eleven ranked teams lost on Saturday, clearing the way for much change in our latest college basketball power rankings.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has joined Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Justin Marks in the new ownership group of the short-track CARS Tour.

Police have laid out what happened in the arrest of former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles.
The former Crimson Tide player and Michael Davis were arrested on capital murder charges yesterday after allegedly killing Jamea Jonae Harris in the early morning hours on Sunday.
Harris was killed in horrific fashion after rounds were fired into the car carrying her on The Strip (on Grace Street and University Boulevard).
Now, police have revealed another victim in the car returned fire and successfully hit one of the attackers.

With the Dallas Mavericks playing in the Western Conference Finals a year ago, expectations were high heading into the new season, but they haven’t come close to meeting them thus far. The Mavs are just four games over .500 through 44 games this season. And outside of Luka Doncic, the team hasn’t shown much life.
It’s no secret that without Doncic this Mavericks team would be in shambles, just like any other team with a superstar on the roster.

He’s in danger of falling off the ballot, but he deserves more consideration.

Hunter was one of the most well-rounded and consistent players in baseball for 15 years.
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Torii Hunter’s mentor and center field predecessor with the Twins was Kirby Puckett. The player who eventually pushed Hunter to the corner outfield for good was Mike Trout. One is in the Hall of Fame, and the other is sure to be enshrined at the soonest possible moment. Whether Hunter gets the call to join them is another question entirely.

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Just hear me out.
Full disclosure: I am a Falcons fan. So what you’re about to read may seem a little self-serving (OK, more than a little self-serving). But I believe in my heart that the Chargers’ implosion against the Jaguars during the NFL’s Super Wild Card Weekend was absolutely worse than the Falcons’ implosion against the Patriots in Super Bowl LI.
Why even bring up 28-3, you ask? Because I, an innocent person minding my own business, am catching stray after stray after that loss.

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All hail the greatest regular season Pro Bowl quarterback in the NFL.
There’s going to be no shortage of jokes about the Vikings this week. Their fraudulent path to the No. 3 seed was a road littered with near-losses to mediocre teams. The play inside the game against the Giants, uninspired, boring, and failed in key places at the worst possible times. Even their future, which is is looking, well, kind of bleak. Minnesota is projected to be well above the salary cap, and without much draft capital to get younger — or better in the process.

A closer look at potential suitors for the Ravens quarterback. Plus, what we’re hearing on the coaching front with the Cardinals, Panthers, Broncos, Texans and Colts.
We are through the meat of Super Wild-Card Weekend. I’ll fall in line with NFL branding protocol this one time given that the games were, kind of, mostly, really super.
With Buccaneers-Cowboys still to come Monday night, here are 10 takeaways from what we’ve seen already in the opening round, and what you might have missed …
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