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• Cubs, Zach Pop Agree To Minor League Deal
The Cubs reached agreement with reliever Zach Pop on a minor league contract, according to Tommy Birch of The Des Moines Register. The right-hander was assigned to Triple-A Iowa. Pop is on his fourth organization of the season. He has bounced between the Blue Jays, Mariners and Mets. Pop was on the injured list with Toronto…...2025
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• NASCARs Iowa Fan Fest Set for downtown Des Moines on July 31

NASCAR is bringing high-octane excitement to the heart of downtown Des Moines with NASCAR‘s Iowa Fan Fest on Thursday July 31. This free community celebration will be held from 4-7:30 p.m. at Cowles Commons, 221 Walnut St, Des Moines, IA 50309. Fans of all ages are invited to enjoy an evening packed with racing-themed fun, […]...2025
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• After four seasons in USHL, former Alaska Anchorage coach Curley tapped as new associate head coach for Alaska
Alaska has announced the hiring of Matt Curley as the team’s new associate head coach. Curley joins the Nanooks after four seasons as general manager and head coach of the USHL’s Des Moines Buccaneers. … The post After four seasons in USHL, former Alaska Anchorage coach Curley tapped as new associate head coach for Alaska appeared first on College Hockey | USCHO.com....2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 14, 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images All-Star Break time! The Royals ended the first half of the season 47-50, but just 4.5 games back of a playoff spot. “It’s clearly not the way we wanted the first half to go as far as the standings or what our record is,” Quatraro said. “And we know we have to play better consistently in the second half to get back in this and make September an interesting mon...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Jefferson Rojas and South Bend stomp on Timber Rattlers, 13-4

Jefferson Rojas | MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK Lots of home runs today and wins for Knoxville and South Bend. Right-hander Thomas Mangus, the Cubs’ 18th-round pick last year, was promoted to Low-A Myrtle Beach from Mesa. Iowa outfielder Owen Caissie was named International League Player of the Week. Iowa outfielder Kevin Alcántara left tonight’s game with a leg in...2025
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• Cub Tracks comes up short

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. The Cubs couldn’t quite recover after the Cardinals had a five-run eighth and so the meatloaf weighs in the balance. The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Any MLB team can beat you. The good teams WILL beat you. PCA says hey. [VID...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Jefferson Rojas and South Bend stomp on Timber Rattlers, 13-4
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• REVOLVER Cage Of Horrors Results (6/14): Ninja Mack, Priscilla Kelly, Rich Swann, AJ Francis Compete
Pro Wrestling REVOLVER held its REVOLVER Cage of Horrors event on June 14th from the Horizon Events Center in Des Moines, IA. The event aired on Triller TV. Full results and highlights are below. REVOLVER Cage Of Horrors Results (6/14) - Wrestling Revolver Remix Championship: AJ Francis def. Jake Crist (c) to win the title. - Priscilla Kelly vs. Zachary Wentz ends in a no-contest. The bout was sto...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 9

Dennis Wierzbicki-Imagn Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content. *Tyler Colvin’s disappearing home run and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as they unfold over the course of time. Here’...2025
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• UNH Commits Update: Final 2024-25 Statistics Plus UNH Adds Goalie Kristian Coombs, Defenseman Oscar Plandowski to 2025-26 Roster

Kristian Coombs (G)2025 UNH Commit Oscar Plandowski (D)2025 UNH Commit Profiles of 2 New Additions to UNH 2025-26 Roster Following the commitment of forward Cameron "Cam" MacDonald in the middle of May, UNH had only 2 openings left on the 2025-2026 roster. Since then, goalie Kristian Coombs and defenseman Oscar Plandowski committed for 2025-26. UNH has now replaced the 6 forwa...2025
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• Hymie Wiseman: The Corn Belt Ace

Hymie Wiseman was a drastically underrated bantam and featherweight from Des Moines, Iowa. After his career, he managed heavyweight contender Lee Savold and became mixed up with the mob.The middle child out of seven, Hyman Morton Wiseman was born on March 24, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, Jacob and Rebecca, had immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1906 with their eldest daught...2025
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• BCB After Dark: What should Cubs fans expect from Cade Horton?

Cade Horton pitches against the Los Angeles Angels during Spring Training | Photo by Marison Bilagody/MLB Photos via Getty Images It’s been reported that the Cubs will call up their top pitching prospect. We’re having a wild day at the late-week, late-night, indie coffee shop where we are all stunned that the new Pope is from Chicago. It’s the talk of the bar where we’re mixing up any cock...2025
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• Merab Dvalishvili, Brandon Royval, and Others React to Cory Sandhagen Shredding Deiveson Figueiredo’s Knee in UFC Des Moines Win
Cory Sandhagen stops Deiveson Figueiredo via injury TKO at UFC Des Moines, prompting calls for a title shot after a dominant performance....2025
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• UFC Fight Night: Sanhagen vs. Figueiredo Results (5/3): Cory Sandhagen Stops Deiveson Figueiredo
UFC held its UFC Fight Night: Sanhagen vs. Figueiredo event on May 3rd from the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa. Full results are below. UFC Fight Night: Sanhagen vs. Figueiredo Results - Juliana Miller def. Ivana Petrovic by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) - Thomas Petersen def. Don’Tale Mayes by unanimous decision (30-25, 30-26, 30-26) - Quang Le def. Gaston Bolanos by submissio...2025
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• WWE Star Injured During Match On SmackDown

A WWE star suffered an injury during a match on tonight’s May 2 episode of WWE SmackDown in Des Moines, Iowa. Tonight’s SmackDown played host to a tag team match […]...2025
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• Browns history: Kicking in Cleveland, college at Drake and more as we catch up with K Billy Cundiff

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images 25 questions with a former Cleveland specialist Want to know something strange? Every NFL kicker, holder and long snapper wants to be involved in the last play of every game and the opportunity to kick the game-winning field goal. RELATED: 2014 – LIFE AS AN NFL KICKER Why is this odd? If they make the kick, then it is fun and games, rainbows and unicorns...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ stars and swipes
Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Read all about it! #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs visit the nation’s capital and are victorious behind Drew Smyly’s strong outing. Cody Bellinger is aggressive on the bases early ands sets the tone. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and blo...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ Open Season
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. It’s here! Opening Day at Wrigley! Play Ball! Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight f...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ best paw forward
Photo by Matt Dirksen/Getty Images All the #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Clark is looking for a Clark bar and a Clark station, on Clark St. Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then c...2023
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• Cubs fan gets World Series champs tattoo because of course he did
The Chicago Cubs enter the MLB postseason as the prohibitive favorites to win the World Series, but that doesn’t make a fan’s decision to tempt fate and awake curses by getting a tattoo prematurely touting the team as 2016 world champions necessarily the smartest thing. A guy named Noel based in Des Moines, Iowa, was the lucky “winner” of a contest held by 1460 KXNO where a Cubs fan would receive ...2016
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"Date: March 1 & 2, 2025 Location: Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines Brackets – HERE Streaming – HERE Saturday, March 1st: A & B Divisions: Doors open at 7 AM & Wrestling begins at 8 AM C Division: Wrestling begins at the conclusion of A & B divisions, approximately 3:00 PM Sunday, March 2nd: Grand […]"

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"Incidentally, I know some of you were wondering, given the late-night finish Tuesday and day game today, how the Cubs got Wesneski (and Colten Brewer) from Des Moines to Phoenix in time for the game."

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"The West Des Moines native has been the most complete basketball player we’ve seen in years, and her chameleon-like ability to morph from scorer to distributor is second-to-none."

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"The longtime Mets right-hander has enough service time to reject an outright assignment in favor of free agency, but Tommy Birch of the Des Moines Register tweeted…"

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"It was one more American Hockey League bus ride, from Des Moines to Milwaukee."

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"Tommy Birch of the Des Moines Register first reported that Davis had landed a deal with the O’s (Twitter link)."

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"Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor is trying to quell speculation that Fred Hoiberg is in line for a coaching or front-office job with the organization, relays Danny Lawhon of the Des Moines Register."

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"They were strangers when Victor Caratini stepped into the batter's box to face Daniel Poncedeleon during a school-day game at Principal Park in Des Moines, Iowa, last May."

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"com/SportsDayDFW/status/828479711575683072 Des Moines Registerhttps://twitter."

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"Patrice Cormier's late goal lifts Manitoba Moose over Iowa Wild 3-2"

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"com in Des Moines, Iowa reported that Stewart donated a total of $1,400 to the grieving family."

2014
"Armstrong’s visits to Omaha FC and Sporting Lincoln came on the heels of his trip to Des Moines and Wichita in early October."

• Cubs, Zach Pop Agree To Minor League Deal
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 14, 2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Jefferson Rojas and South Bend stomp on Timber Rattlers, 13-4
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• Cub Tracks comes up short
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 9
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• Hymie Wiseman: The Corn Belt Ace
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• BCB After Dark: What should Cubs fans expect from Cade Horton?
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• Aleister Black already gets to beat a WrestleMania main eventer

Photo by Heather McLaughlin/WWE via Getty Images Aleister Black wrestles his first WWE match in almost five years. SmackDown airs tonight (May 2) with a live show emanating from Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa. This is the second episode of SmackDown during the three week build towards Backlash, which takes place on May 10. Aleister Black already gets to beat a WrestleMania main eve...2025
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• Cubs To Select Chris Flexen
The Cubs are selecting the contract of veteran righty Chris Flexen from Triple-A Iowa, reports ESPN’s Jesse Rogers. He’s been excellent through his first five starts in Des Moines and would’ve been able to opt out of his minor league contract tomorrow if not added to the 40-man roster. Chicago has a full 40-man roster,…...2025
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• Cubs Re-Sign Caleb Kilian To Minor League Deal
The Cubs re-signed righty Caleb Kilian to a minor league contract, reports Tommy Birch of The Des Moines Register. He’ll return to Triple-A Iowa after being released over the weekend. Chicago designated Kilian for assignment last Thursday when they acquired Tom Cosgrove in a trade with San Diego. Kilian was on the minor league injured list at…...2025
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• You tell us: What’s the best way to win an NFL game?

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images And what’s your favorite NFL play of all time? When it comes to NFL discourse, one of the easiest ways to get people riled up is to say that something is the best. That is the way discourse works. As humans we all have opinions and stick to them with relative gumption. For this week’s edition of The Skinny Post we, Michael Peterson and RJ Ochoa, are liv...2025
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• The Short Porch is taking a closer look at Ben Brown’s demotion to Triple-A

Ben Brown pitches against the Tigers in early June | Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images This move is probably a vote of confidence in him over the long-term The Cubs opening game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday didn’t go the way any Cubs fan would have wanted. While there were moments that looked good both offensively and defensively, Ben Brown struggled through five innings, giving up ni...2025
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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (6/24/25): Happ DH, McGuire Catching, Taillon Tossing
The Cubs got blown out in the series opener thanks to a quartet of two-run homers by the home team. Ben Brown was responsible for all of them and earned a trip to Des Moines as a result. The Cubs will continue looking for rotation help, but activating Shōta Imanaga from the IL will give … The post Chicago Cubs Lineup (6/24/25): Happ DH, McGuire Catching, Taillon Tossing appeared first on ....2025
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• REVOLVER Cage Of Horrors Results (6/14): Ninja Mack, Priscilla Kelly, Rich Swann, AJ Francis Compete
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 9
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• UNH Commits Update: Final 2024-25 Statistics Plus UNH Adds Goalie Kristian Coombs, Defenseman Oscar Plandowski to 2025-26 Roster
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• Hymie Wiseman: The Corn Belt Ace
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• BCB After Dark: What should Cubs fans expect from Cade Horton?
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• UFC Fight Night: Sanhagen vs. Figueiredo Results (5/3): Cory Sandhagen Stops Deiveson Figueiredo
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• Cub Tracks’ outshined

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. The Cubs are looking especially vulnerable right now. Matt Shaw had a good game, but it wasn’t enough. Cade Horton didn’t. The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. Any MLB team can beat you. The good teams WILL beat you. The Cubs are a go...2025
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• The Short Porch is taking a closer look at Ben Brown’s demotion to Triple-A
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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa sweeps doubleheader from Louisville

Owen Caissie | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Everyone wins! Iowa wins twice. Everyone wins! Even the major league team and the ACL team! The Cubs system was 7-0 tonight. (The two Dominican Summer League teams went 1-1 if you want to be pedantic about it.) Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs swept a doubleheader from the Louisville Bats (Reds), 10-2 and 5-4 in nine in...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Caleb Thielbar returns from paternity list, Gavin Hollowell optioned

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs lefthander is back. Cubs lefthander Caleb Thielbar was placed on the paternity list before Friday’s game in New York: Caleb Thielbar and his wife welcomed a baby girl into the world today, Craig Counsell announced. Thielbar is going on the paternity list, and the Cubs are recalling Tom Cosgrove.— Maddie Lee (@maddie_m_lee) May 9, 2...2025
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• WWE SmackDown Crushes Network Competition in Key Demo on May 2
WWE SmackDown made a dominant impression in the ratings race this past Friday, continuing its momentum as a weekly television standout. Airing live on May 2nd, 2025, from the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, the blue brand scored a major victory in the all-important 18-49 advertising demographic, surpassing...2025
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• UFC Fight Night: Sanhagen vs. Figueiredo Results (5/3): Cory Sandhagen Stops Deiveson Figueiredo
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• WWE SmackDown Results 5/2/25
WWE SmackDown returns live tonight from the Wells Fargo Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Live results coverage to begin momentarily. Stay tuned … Refresh this page often for the latest WWE SmackDown results!...2025
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• Television report: Tony Stewart helps grieving family of accident victims
After overhearing of a family that suffered the tragic losses of three sons in a recent car accident in Iowa, Tony Stewart steps up to assist. WHOTV.com in Des Moines, Iowa reported that Stewart donated a total of $1,400 to the grieving family....2015
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• Nondrinker Harrison Barnes Reveals Steve Kerr Gave Him Tequila After Finals
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• Tyler Sash, Former Iowa and Giants Safety, Dies at Age 27
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• Patrice Cormier's late goal lifts Manitoba Moose over Iowa Wild 3-2
DES MOINES, Iowa - Patrice Cormier's power-play goal at the 14:32 mark of the third period as the Manitoba Moose edged the Iowa Wild 3-2 on Wednesday in American Hockey League action. Brenden Kichton and Darik Angeli also scored for the Moose......2016
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• Caitlin Clark is the biggest superstar of March, and it’s not even close
Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images If you’re not watching Caitlin Clark, you’re missing out. Caitlin Clark is on another plane of existence. Watching her feels like witnessing history. Somehow both these statements feel like hyperbole and understatement at the same time. Sunday night was a virtuoso performance from the Iowa superstar. The kind of game that halts Twitter in its tracks, p...2023
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• Maxime Fortunus leads Iowa Wild past Manitoba Moose 2-1
DES MOINES, Iowa - Maxime Fortunus scored near the midway point of the third period as the Iowa Wild edged the Manitoba Moose 2-1 on Wednesday in American Hockey League action. Zack Mitchell also scored for Iowa (18-30-7) toward the end of th......2016
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• Zac Dalpe's two goals lead Iowa Wild past Manitoba Moose 3-2
DES MOINES, Iowa - Zac Dalpe scored twice — including the late winner — as the Iowa Wild slipped past the Manitoba Moose 3-2 on Monday night in American Hockey League action. Dalpe's second goal came with just under two minutes to play as Iow......2016
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• Cubs Likely To Place Jorge Soler On DL, Promote Albert Almora
The Cubs will promote highly-touted outfield prospect Albert Almora for today’s game unless fellow outfielder Jorge Soler is able to fend off a trip to the disabled list, according to a report from Tommy Birch of the Des Moines Register (Twitter links). Almora will be on hand and ready, and expectations are that Soler’s hamstring will…...2016
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• Preseason Prep - February 27, 2025
Bryce Harper, 1B (PHI) Scary moment for the Phillies as Bryce Harper was hit on the arm by a pitch in Wednesday's Grapefruit League game against the Blue Jays. It was his first game of the spring as he missed time with an illness. The good news is the Phillies training staff is categorizing the injury as a triceps contusion and don't intend to send the slugger for X-rays. Philadelphia will undoubt...2025
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• The Linc - Jordan Brand pays Jalen Hurts’ fine for wearing mismatched cleats

Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 12/21/24. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ... Jalen Hurts fined for wearing mismatched cleats during Eagles’ win over Steelers, AP source says - CBS SportsPhiladelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was fined $5,628 by the NFL for wearing mismatched cleats that were not “constitutional team colors,” a per...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Jefferson Rojas and South Bend stomp on Timber Rattlers, 13-4
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• The Short Porch is taking a closer look at Ben Brown’s demotion to Triple-A
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• 1 reason why each College World Series team could win the whole thing

Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY Sports Anything can happen in Omaha It’s anybody’s guess who will become the 2025 Division I NCAA baseball champion, as none of the eight teams that have qualified for the College World Series made it this far a year ago. That’s the first time an entrant from the previous series hasn’t made a return trip since the tourney expanded in 1999. The CWS is a double-el...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ type casting

Rick Osentoski-Imagn Images The #1 source for #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes. Cubs win 7-1 behind a barrage of blasts and the steady right hand of Jameson Taillon. Danger, Will Robinson! The going is weird. Cub Tracks™ turned pro a long time ago. Cub Tracks™. Where the great ones run away. All of the players in MLB are pros. Any given team can beat you. Good teams WILL beat you, if ...2025
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• Another Major week for Nippon Shafts
Newly crowned U.S. Women’s Open Champion Maja Stark won her first major, using N.S.PRO MODUS³ WEDGE 105 and AWT 2.0 in her irons enroute to a 2-shot margin of victory over the LPGA’s number 1 player Nelly Korda. On the PGA TOUR Champions, Miguel Angel Jiminez took home his third victory in 2025 at Wakonda Club in Des Moines, Iowa after birdieing the first playoff hole for his sixteenth care...2025
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• Hymie Wiseman: The Corn Belt Ace
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• BCB After Dark: What should Cubs fans expect from Cade Horton?
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• Aleister Black already gets to beat a WrestleMania main eventer
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• Remembering the life of Fay Vincent

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images Baseball’s eighth commissioner . When I was aspiring to be a writer, I began keeping magazine and newspaper articles of stories I found of interest. Over the years I accumulated a pile of stories which soon found their way into alphabetized file folders. I now have a box of accumulated stories and two of my favorite files are titled: Baseball and Good w...2025
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• Caitlin Clark’s crossover superstardom is the greatest show in sports

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Caitlin Clark’s transcendence is changing women’s sports for the better. When Michael Jordan arrived in Paris in 1997 for a preseason corporate showcase known as the McDonald’s Championship, the French press treated his appearance with Christ-like reverence. “Michael Jordan is in Paris,” wrote the local tabloid France-Soir, as memorialized in David Halb...2024
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• Thoughts & Jots: From Donovan Peoples-Jones to the Bengals to Colin Kaepernick

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Things on my mind 1. I was expecting to see Chase Young be traded but for a single third-round pick? His teammate Montez Sweat was traded to Chicago for a second. Young joins a playoff contender whereas Sweat will go to a team that is competing for the first overall draft pick. Both players would have been free agents this off-season so at least Washington g...2023
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• Cub Tracks strikes back
Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Cubs pile it on again and force the issue. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brewed overnight for maxi...2023
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• Glen Taylor: Timberwolves not considering Fred Hoiberg for head coach
Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor is trying to quell speculation that Fred Hoiberg is in line for a coaching or front-office job with the organization, relays Danny Lawhon of the Des Moines Register. Hoiberg, who was fired by the Bulls last month, has past experience with Minnesota, both as a player and an assistant general manager. But during a trip to Iowa Wednesday to see the team’s G League affil...2019
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• Jury: Univ. of Iowa discriminated against athletic official
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A jury on Thursday awarded more than $1.4 million to a former University of Iowa athletic administrator, ruling that the university had discriminated against her because of her gender and sexual orientation....2017
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