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Expansion options have become an increasingly popular topic of conversation around Major League Baseball, with several cities going so far as to create plans and stadium renderings in hopes of landing a team. 
Salt Lake City is one such example, with groups in Nashville, Portland and potentially Austin or Charlotte also hoping to land a franchise.
READ: Salt Lake City Group Wants to Bring MLB Team to Utah, Joins Nashville, Portland In Expansion Race
But for fans getting excited about the possibility of having their own local MLB team, it might be a much longer wait than previously expected.

Alvaro Ortiz hits his drive off of the 15th tee during the second round of the 2024 Mexico Open. | Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images
Alvaro Ortiz, one of six Mexicans in the field this week, shares the 36-hole lead with two others at the PGA Tour’s Mexican Open.
The PGA Tour does not stage events in Mexico often, so Alvaro Oritz is taking full advantage of his opportunity at this week’s Mexico Open at Vidanta.
And he is having fun doing so—as a sponsor’s exemption, no less.

The states of Tennessee and Virginia have won a small victory in their battle against the NCAA.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday prohibiting the NCAA from enforcing its rules governing NIL until the resolution of a lawsuit filed by Tennessee and Virginia against American college sports’s governing body.
“It is… ORDERED that, effective immediately, the NCAA is restrained and enjoined from enforcing the Rule of Restitution as applied to the foregoing NIL activities until a full and final decision on the merits in the instant action,” Judge Clifton L. Corker wrote.

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Wallace went low on Friday at the Mexico Open and opened up about his mentality that keeps him sharp on the course.
Matt Wallace fired an impressive 6-under 65 during the second round of the Mexico Open to sit tied for the lead alongside Sami Valimaki and Mexico’s own Alvaro Oritz.
Wallace hasn’t started the year like he wanted. With a T40, T52, two missed cuts, and a T53 at his last start in Phoenix, Wallace and his caddie, Jamie Lane, decided to find a new approach.

If the entire Ja Morant saga wasn’t enough for professional athletes to remember to be wary of what they post or stream on social media, here’s yet another example and it involves Arizona Coyotes forward Adam Ruzicka.
The team announced that the 24-year-old Slovakian has been placed on unconditional waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract. Ruzicka was due to become a restricted free agent following this season.

Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team were killed in a single-vehicle car crash on a rural Colorado highway, the school announced Friday morning.
The three athletes killed in the wreck were sophomore Charlie Clark, a 19-year-old distance swimmer from Las Vegas, freshman Carson Muir, an 18-year-old freestyle and butterfly swimmer from Birmingham, Ala., and sophomore Luke Slabber, a 21-year-old freestyle and individual medley swimmer from Cape Town, South Africa.

The New Orleans Pelicans have decided to fire shots back at Stephen A. Smith after the commentator called Zion Williamson fat…again.
On today’s episode of “First Take,” Smith roasted the former No. 1 draft pick for remaining in substandard physical shape. He said that Williamson spends more time thinking about his next McDonald’s run than getting into shape.
“Zion Williamson, it’s not about his game.