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Spring training is an opportunity for baseball players to hone their fundamentals in preparation for the daily grind of the regular season. You practice things like baserunning and bunting in February so that they’re second nature in the dog days of August. Those drills have been mostly the same for as long as anyone can remember, but the Cincinnati Reds put an interesting twist on one of the drills they had their catchers run.
The Reds posted a video on social media on Monday of catchers practicing their tags with the help of a stuffed animal.

Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant and Inside the NBA analyst Charles Barkley have a long history of exchanging barbs over the past several years. The latest shot in their ongoing war of words came with some criticism from Barkley during Sunday’s All-Star Game in Indianapolis. 
Barkley often has said that Durant won’t be recognized as one of the NBA’s greatest players of all time until he leads a team to an NBA title as he refuses to acknowledge Durant’s two championships with the Golden State Warriors as such.

One of the scariest moments in recent sports history unfolded during the second half of Luton Town’s Premier League match against AFC Bournemouth on Dec. 16 when Luton Town’s captain, Tom Lockyer, suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch. The 29-year-old recently revealed that he has had a defibrillator surgically implanted into his body following the incident.
Lockyer’s heart stopped for two minutes and 40 seconds.

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Kenny Smith’s comments were lazy, loaded with misogyny, and ruined an iconic event.
Everything about the three-point contest between Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu at NBA All-Star Weekend was incredible. Everything except Kenny Smith.
Ionescu pushed Curry to the final rack. She tied the score that Damian Lillard won the NBA three-point contest with moments earlier. The two shooters gave us a contest worthy of the hype, a remarkable feat considering “Steph vs. Sabrina” had been pushed to the moon.

It’s the end of an era in New England. 
Longtime New England Patriots special teams ace and team captain Matthew Slater announced his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday in an essay he penned for the team’s website.
He thoughtfully saluted his father, Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive tackle Jackie Slater, as a longtime inspiration, dating back to summers spent in Meridian, Miss., as a youth.