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Once an obscure art, pitch framing has become an essential MLB skill. But it is suddenly endangered.
Charlie Greene tries to find something he can compare to what might soon happen to MLB catchers. He can’t.
The Brewers’ catching instructor reaches for a few analogies. This would be like telling a quarterback he can’t make passes of over 50 yards, he says. It would be like telling a basketball player he can’t dunk or take a three-pointer. But Greene knows these comparisons aren’t quite right.

This was awkward.
Sergio Romo won three World Series titles during his time with the Giants and became a hero in the city during those championship runs. 
The reliever is retiring from the game, but before he does that, the Giants had him come back to pitch in one last exhibition game Monday night against the A’s at Oracle Park. It was a special night for Romo and the fans in San Francisco as they all got to say one last goodbye to each other.

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From the struggles at McLaren to Red Bull’s dominance, here is what to watch this week as F1 returns to Australia
Formula 1 is back this week, with the grid heading to Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix. As with every week in the F1 world, there is no shortage of storylines to follow during the third race of the season.
From Red Bull’s early dominance to the struggles at McLaren, and even the return of two favorite sons to Australia, here are the things to watch this week.

Is Odell Beckham, Jr. heading back to the Giants as ludicrous as it sounds? Apparently not, considering Giants co-owner John Mara is giving his front office the OK to pursue and sign OBJ.
At the NFL owners’ meeting in Phoenix, Mara spoke about Beckham’s free agency frenzy with NFL reporters. The Giants have been mentioned as suitors interested in landing the 30-year-old wideout, a re-teaming since Beckham left New York in 2019.
Despite having lost some momentum in the OBJ sweepstakes, the Giants are still interested, according to Mara.

Several teams that currently look like fringe playoff contenders should consider a hard pivot for the upcoming season.
According to the NFL, teams in the league do not tank. They do allow cash incentives to coaches who accumulate more draft picks. They do allow the release of veteran players en masse. They do allow oddly timed benchings, the hiring of television analysts to become head coaches in season and other methods that seem, in the moment, to make teams worse in efforts to eventually make them better.

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Shaedon Sharpe is the most fascinating rookie in the NBA
No player in the 2022 NBA Draft class sparks the same level of intrigue as Shaedon Sharpe.
As a 19-year-old rookie who was rumored to possess a 49-inch vertical and sat out his single season at Kentucky, Sharpe seemed to be half-man, half-mystery.
But now that we have nearly a season’s worth of data on the Canadian-born prodigy, we can begin to parse through some once-unanswerable questions.

PHOENIX — For a while during Bill Belichick’s breakfast meeting with reporters at the NFL annual meeting on Monday, it was business as usual. And you can take that to mean Belichick was being as vague and uncooperative as he could muster in talking about the New England Patriots.
A sample?
What went into the decision to bring back Bill O’Brien as offensive coordinator?
Belichick: “I thought it was the best thing for the team.”
Why was it the best thing for the team?
Belichick: “It’s a number of reasons.”
That’s the Belichick Patriots fans have come to know and love.

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Clark Phillips had a disappointing 2023 NFL Combine, but he should still be a first-round pick in the NFL draft.
Utah cornerback Clark Phillips III enters the 2023 NFL Draft after starting 31 career games across three seasons. Phillips earned unanimous All-American honors in 2022. He was a finalist for the 2022 Jim Thorpe Award (top defensive back in college football) and a semifinalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award (best defender in college football).

Xavier Babudar, the Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as ‘Chiefsaholic,’ was set to make a court appearance on Monday over his alleged involvement in a bank robbery in December. He never showed, and instead, removed his ankle monitor and is believed to be on the run.
According to FOX4 KC, Babudar was set to make a court appearance in Bixby, Okla. to be arraigned on charges stemming from the bank robbery. He has now been charged with removing his ankle monitor and will be held on $1 million bail if found.

The 2020 No. 1 draft pick gave Green Bay a glimpse of his development against the NFC champions in ’22.
Many football pundits at some point this offseason have probably utilized NFL Game Pass to watch the Packers’ Week 12 matchup against the Eagles on Thanksgiving weekend. The watch numbers likely increased after reports about Aaron Rodgers’s meeting with the Jets.