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Just over one year ago, I wrote an article for this fine website about the sport of conkers.
It involves competitors trying to smash other players’ chestnuts threaded onto strings with their own and it’s popular in the United Kingdom (see what can happen when there’s no Division I college football in your country?).
Last year’s concern was that the nuts were too soggy, and I thought that would be the last time I ever wrote about conkers, though that was largely because I used my best nut jokes.

It’s not exactly rocket science, but it turns out that baseball fans and casual observers really like big-market postseason matchups. That’s exactly what Major League Baseball lucked into with the National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.
Over the last few years, MLB’s chase for more television revenue has created mostly disappointing national postseason series.

Last spring, Washington native Ahnaleigh Wilson, a then-14-year-old female track & field athlete, came in second place in the 1600m race at the Cashmere Junior Olympics. But she noticed something different about the runner that beat her. 
“Their legs were super muscular and the same with their arms,” Wilson told OutKick. “It was pretty obvious … like the comparison between all the girls lined up on the podium and this transgender athlete. It was completely different.