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What happens when a historically cash-strapped team starts spending like never before? We’re about to find out.
Major League Baseball had a problem. It was 1968, A’s owner Charlie Finley had just moved his team from Kansas City to Oakland, and Missouri Senator Stuart Symington was threatening to revoke the league’s antitrust exemption, the carve-out that allows the sport to operate as a legal monopoly. To placate Symington, baseball’s 20 owners agreed to create the Royals, plus three other teams.

In his latest mailbag, Jon Wertheim answers this, plus pays tribute to one of the sport’s greatest trailblazers, Sania Mirza.
While marveling over Novak Djokovic’s 378 weeks as the world’s No. 1 player and wondering where the WTA/CVC deal stands, here are answers to your questions this week:
Jon,
Having reached the one-year mark since the start of the war in Ukraine, I was wondering about the status of Ukrainian players … specifically those that joined the armed forces in Ukraine. Do we know how they are doing?
Lilas PrattMarietta, Ga.

As he officially begins his post Wednesday, Charlie Baker outlines his first 100 days in office.
For Charlie Baker, the past few months have been quite a whirlwind.
As he completed his term as Massachusetts governor, the NCAA hired him in December to replace Mark Emmert. After he was whisked around the NCAA convention in mid-January, he took off to Australia for two weeks—his first vacation with wife Lauren in more than 20 years—and then became a grandfather last week.
Through it all, Baker’s phone buzzed constantly.

Duke’s Jon Scheyer became the first head coach in the history of the ACC to go undefeated at home in his first season.

We identified players who could use fresh starts this offseason, including the Saints’ wideout.

The 2023 NFL Scouting Combine is underway in Indianapolis. Here’s what to know about the event.

Sandy Alcantara is the favorite to repeat, but there are other contenders who offer better value.
The reigning NL Cy Young, Sandy Alcantara, is the favorite at +475 to repeat in 2023 at SI Sportsbook.
Alcantara impressed last season, pitching to a sparkling 2.28 ERA (fifth) across an MLB-leading 228⅔ innings pitched. The Marlins ace is not a high strikeout guy, but he has an impressive five-pitch arsenal. It’s a joy to watch him pitch. There’s no reason to think he can’t repeat the volume from 2022, but with a low K-rate (only 8.

Duke guard Tyrese Proctor should be embarrassed by a Tuesday night flop against North Carolina State.
During the 71-67 win for the Blue Devils, the talented guard flopped in truly mind-boggling fashion, but even worse, the refs fell for it. North Carolina State star Terquavion Smith was hit with a technical foul.
The video is so damning against Proctor and the refs that it’s hard to believe it’s real.

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— Will Raftery (@WillRaftery22) March 1, 2023

Duke guard Tyrese Proctor should be embarrassed.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers need an heir to Tom Brady — or at least a starting quarterback for 2023 that doesn’t stink — but with their current salary cap and roster makeup the search may feel like a hunt for Jimmy Hoffa or Atlantis.
Hopeless.
And so now the Buccaneers are trying to convince everyone they really, really, truly have hope and, indeed, confidence that Kyle Trask will be the answer in the coming season.
“Yeah, we’re very excited about Kyle,” Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht said Tuesday.

Andre Iguodala has turned into an overpaid cheerleader at this point of his career having played in just 34 games over the last two seasons, but his recent comment comparing Steph Curry to Jesus is over the top, even for him.
Curry is undoubtedly one of the best shooters and point guards to ever step foot on a basketball court. The man has legitimately changed the game of basketball at every level around the globe with kids wanting to shoot threes instead of ever stepping foot inside the paint.