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Yes, I am the same guy who recently wrote that I am tired of “prospect promotion” videos. But that’s for players who are blue-chippers and inevitable big leaguers. However, I’m all-in on videos of guys finally getting the call after years in the minors. That’s what happened Sunday for 33-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates “prospect” Drew Maggi.
The Arizona Diamondbacks originally drafted Maggi in 2008. But, he chose to go to college. The Pirates later selected him in 2010.
He spent five seasons in the Pittsburgh organization before bouncing around for several seasons.

It was a low blow, but it looks like the NBA is going to let it slide.
The league won’t issue further punishment to Dillon Brooks after he was ejected from Saturday’s game for hitting LeBron James in the groin area.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Sunday, “The NBA has reviewed Dillon Brooks’ flagrant 2 foul on LeBron James and there will be no additional penalty, sources tell ESPN. League reviews all flagrant fouls.”

The NBA has reviewed Dillon Brooks’ flagrant 2 foul on LeBron James and there will be no additional penalty, sources tell ESPN.

Oladipo went down in the fourth quarter of Miami’s first-round playoff win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night.

As a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, Dr Lil Stevens has spent her career searching for traces of ancient life, traversing the globe to study fossils of extinct plants and animals.

The senior independent director of Britain’s biggest tobacco company is to take the same role at THG, the online retailer behind Cult Beauty, as it holds talks about a bid to take it private. Sky News understands that THG will announce on Monday that Sue Farr, a former advertising executive, is joining its board. Ms Farr, who is SID at British American Tobacco and Lookers, the car dealership network, will replace Damian Sanders, who was named THG’s chief financial officer several weeks ago.

When headaches plague Leigh Joseph, she doesn’t immediately reach for the Tylenol bottle. When winter’s flu strikes, cough medicines and throat soothers are acquired, but not from the pharmacy or the drug store aisle of her local supermarket. Instead, Joseph, a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) ethnobotanist, looks to the great outdoors for remedy. The natural world, she attests, can be a great source of healing and nourishment.

Gervonta Davis is unofficially the biggest name in boxing after stopping Ryan Garcia in the seventh round of a 12-round super fight on Saturday night. But the loud-talking, hard-hitting 28-year-old is letting his 24-year-old opponent off of the hook.
A few days prior to the most-anticipated fight of the year, Garcia agreed to put his entire purse on the line. Davis and his camp were not only shocked, but completely beside themselves.
The former was set to make $350,000 for the fight, with the latter cashing $1.5 million. They were to split a percentage of the PPV sales.

Anne Hoffman, editor-in-chief of the German magazine Die Aktuelle, has been fired after publishing a fake, AI-generated interview with retired Formula 1 star Michael Schumacher. The magazine also apologized to Schumacher’s family after the interview ran on the magazine’s website earlier this month.
FUNKE, the parent company for Die Aktuelle, made the announcement Saturday. Hoffman had served as the magazine’s editor-in-chief since 2009.

After reviewing Dillon Brooks’s flagrant 2 foul from Game 3 of the Grizzlies–Lakers series, the Memphis forward will not be suspended for Game 4 of the first-round playoff series, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Brooks was ejected Saturday night for hitting LeBron James in the groin during his team’s 111–101 loss. 
During the third quarter of the game, Brooks was defending James as he tried to dribble past midcourt and hit the Los Angeles star down low. Brooks was ejected and refused to speak to reporters after the loss.

Draymond Green believes Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers said it best when it comes to the Warriors star’s Game 3 suspension.