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• The Cubs could have their best run-scoring season in more than nine decades

The Cubs greet Michael Busch after his grand slam in Milwaukee May 2 | Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images It’s not impossible. Truth be told, this article would have worked better if the Cubs hadn’t been shut out Sunday and limited to one run Wednesday. But this idea’s been floating in my head for a while, since the Cubs have been leading MLB in runs per game for much of the 2025 seas...2025
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• Canada’s Stanley Cup drought, explained, and how 3 teams can break it in 2025

Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images Canada’s dry spell could end this year. You’d be hard pressed to find anything innately funnier than Canada’s inability to win a Stanley Cup over the last three decades. The nation that gave us the sport of hockey, nurtured its culture, and provides over 40% of players in the league hasn’t had a team hoist the cup since 1993, when the Montreal Canadien...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rocky Mountain low

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Aaron Judge continues to amaze. So do the Colorado Rockies, but in a different way. A look ahead to the draft. And a legend returns to the White Sox. Good morning. Louisa Thomas has an interesting piece in The New Yorker that is about the Mets, but it’s something that a lot of Cubs fans could relate to ten years ago. Thomas looks ...2025
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• Cubs 9, Giants 2: The offense resumes its onslaught

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images And the Cubs got solid pitching from Matthew Boyd again. After being shut out Sunday for only the second time this year and then losing Shōta Imanaga for an indefinite time with a hamstring injury, you could have forgiven the Cubs if they had entered Monday’s game in a bit of a down mood. No matter. The Cubs opened a brief three-game homestan...2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images It’s just a business after all, right? This organization needs a fresh start, and it starts by breaking a few hearts. It starts with GM Chris MacFarland. When he makes the right moves on the battlefield, MacFarland comes off as a genius, but like most of your friends were while playing Call of Duty Zombies, the quick trigger finger would come back to bite th...2025
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• Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco Giants preview, Monday 5/5, 6:40 CT

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images The Cubs open a brief three-game homestand. Today’s roster move: Here Monday notes... MILESTONES APPROACHING: If the Cubs hit a home run against the Giants during the next three days, it will be their 7,000th at Wrigley Field against National League opponents. If they hit a second homer, it will be their 7,500th at home against all opponents since 1901, first...2025
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• Canada’s Stanley Cup drought, explained, and how 3 teams can break it in 2025
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• Cubs 9, Giants 2: The offense resumes its onslaught
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 30

Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Billy Williams* makes it 1,000 in a row, Andy Pafko needs time, and other stories for the discerning reader. 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...2025
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• Braves 8, Rockies 2: Making history (and not the good kind)

Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images Although there are signs of offensive life, the Rockies losing streak extended to nine games. The Colorado Rockies continued to make baseball history tonight, but not in a good way. With an 8-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves, the Rockies extended their losing streak to eight games, their second eight-game losing streak of the season. (The first was April 1...2025
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• Top 44 prospects for Cowboys in 2025 NFL Draft

Photo by Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images With draft night upon us, here’s a 44-man big board for the Cowboys’ early picks. Ahead of each NFL draft, teams rank players based on the combined factors of perceived talent or potential in the players and the needs of their existing rosters. How players are graded and how much need is felt at the position is up to each team or analyst. Everyone has t...2025
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• MLB Week 3 Hot or Not: Harper and Judge mash while the Rox, Fish, and ChiSox fall down the totem poll

Bryce Harper does a subtle gender reveal for Philly fans on April 14 against the Giants. | Emilee Chinn/Getty Images The best only get better, while the worst race to beat the 121-loss record If watching the Chicago White Sox warrants too much hair-pulling and sighing, have no fear. Welcome to a new weekly feature covering hot and not-so-hot players and teams from every division in a weekl...2025
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• Wednesday Rockpile: What necessitates a coaching change? A look at Rockies history

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, April 16, 2025 In this modern era of baseball, teams have become less callous when it comes to coaching changes during the season. Since 2018, only three managers have been dismissed before the All-Star game, all of which came in 2022. Last season, two managers were dismissed in August, and the other late ...2025
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming

Two of the Cubs’ home run heroes from Saturday night, Carson Kelly and Michael Busch | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images It took a while, but the Cubs brought out the big bats at Dodger Stadium Saturday evening. The Cubs and Dodgers looked like they would be locked in a classic pitcher’s duel for the first five innings of this game. Ben Brown and Roki Sasaki were both dealing, and both teams flashe...2025
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• Rams should not draft a receiver with their first pick

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images It would be a waste for the Rams to draft a receiver on day one The Los Angeles Rams should not draft a wide receiver with their first round pick, a position of decreasing value, increasing abundance, and little need of Sean McVay in 2025. Of all the positions that are frequently mocked to the Rams in round one, receiver makes the least sense. Chad Reuter...2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Erik Spoelstra is the Heat’s biggest cheat code in NBA Finals
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Erik Spoestra can’t lose. If you forced me to define what I think makes a good coach in this modern league, my answer would be “Rigid flexibility”. It’s a paradox that demands being able to hold two things in your head at the same time, to understand two conflicting ideas can be true. If you’re too dogmatic, you live and die by the same double-edged s...2023
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• Terrell Owens Has One Person to Blame for Hall of Fame Snub: Terrell Owens
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"More from BCB’s JohnW53: This was the Cubs’ 1,982nd game against the Dodgers since 1901, first year of the Modern Era."

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"Former Broncos Demaryius Thomas, Aqib Talib among first-year Modern-Era nominees for Pro Football Hall of Fame"

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"Brooks Koepka joins Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus in history books with PGA Championship victory"

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"Joe Thomas, James Harrison, Darrelle Revis among modern-era nominees for 2023 Hall of Fame induction"

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"Anquan Boldin, Andre Johnson, DeMarcus Ware among 10 first-time nominees for Pro Football Hall of Fame"

2020
"Troy Polamalu headlines the 2020 Hall of Fame modern-era finalists; Patrick Willis among notable snubs"

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"Simmons and Miller were inducted via the “Modern Era” veterans committee, a 16-person panel focusing on people whose largest contributions to the sport fell between 1970…"

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"UCF's Griffin lifts 20 reps with prosthetic hand"

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"Former longtime Tigers teammates, right-hander Jack Morris and shortstop Alan Trammell were named to the Hall of Fame's Class of 2018 by the Modern Era Committee on Sunday."

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"Disgraceful Bengals Loss in Ugly Playoff Could Cost Coach Marvin Lewis His Job"

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"Is Stephen Curry the Best Shooter Ever? Yes, Say Many of NBA's All-Time Marksmen"

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"Can the NBA Ever Replace Kobe Bryant? "

• Canada’s Stanley Cup drought, explained, and how 3 teams can break it in 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rocky Mountain low
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• This Day in Braves History: Tim Hudson earns his 200th career win

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1961 - Willie Mays becomes the ninth player in major league history to hit four home runs in a game to help the Giants to a 14-4 win over the Milwaukee Braves. 1970 - Billy Williams becomes the first player in National League history to play in 1,000 consecutive games in a 9-2 loss by the Cubs to the Atlanta Braves at Fulton Coun...2025
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• Amir Khan Reveals Shock Comeback Fight Offer From Former World Champion: “Why Not?”

has been retired since February 2022, but has now been offered a huge comeback fight. Khan is one of the best fighters Britain has produced in the modern era. The former Olympic silver medalist went on to become one of the youngest ever world champions from this country when he lifted the WBA belt aged […]...2025
• Braves 8, Rockies 2: Making history (and not the good kind)
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• White Sox’s new City Connect jerseys are a reminder their owner ruined 2 Chicago teams

The White Sox’s new City Connect jerseys are a reminder of how irrelevant both of Jerry Reinsdorf’s franchises are. All the Chicago White Sox did last year was finish with the modern era MLB record for the most losses in a single season. The South Siders went 41-121 overall in a season where they scored nearly 100 fewer runs than the next worst offense in baseball. The White Sox responded to their...2025
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• 2025 NFL Draft: How did national media grade the Jaguars’ class?

Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images The reviews are in! We’ve gathered grades from national media outlets to provide a fresh perspective on how the Jacksonville Jaguars fared in the 2025 NFL Draft. All of our 2025 NFL Draft content covering the Jacksonville Jaguars is available HERE. From Pete Prisco of CBS Sports: A In his first draft running things, new general manager James Gladstone...2025
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• Top 44 prospects for Cowboys in 2025 NFL Draft
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• Cowboys draft: The “reach” label is thrown around a lot during the draft, but it is meaningless

Kyle Terada-Imagn Images This is going to be a hectic week. The dreaded R-word during every NFL draft season is “reach.” It’s a label that gets thrown around a lot, meaning a player was drafted well ahead of where analysts said he should go. Nobody wants to hear their favorite team’s picks criticized like this, but we also shouldn’t overreact if it happens. Just as every class has its bust...2025
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• Canada’s Stanley Cup drought, explained, and how 3 teams can break it in 2025
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Braves 8, Rockies 2: Making history (and not the good kind)
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• Cubs 7, Dodgers 6: Sweep!

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs won this brief two-game set — and the season series — from the supposedly mighty Dodgers. I told you this was a good Cubs team! They spotted the Dodgers a lead, came back to take a one-run advantage, blew that lead partly on bad defense, then came back again and held on with solid relief pitching to defeat the Dodgers 7-6 Wednesday e...2025
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• Cowboys draft: The “reach” label is thrown around a lot during the draft, but it is meaningless
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• You tell us: Is Alex Ovechkin a Top 3 all-time NHL player?

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images We want. you know what you think of Ovi’s career. Alex Ovechkin stands alone on top of one hockey mountain after passing Wayne Gretzky to become the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer. With just over a year until his retirement, Ovi will have a chance to add to his total — one that should stand for a long, long time. With the scoring record in hand it’s ...2025
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• Cinderella’s decline might be greatly exaggerated in college basketball’s new era

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Four reasons why we might be overreacting to no Cinderella teams advancing to the Sweet 16. Every year there’s a storyline that develops from the first week of the NCAA tournament that dominates the national sports conversation for those three days that separate the second round and the Sweet 16. Typically, play resumes on Thursday, the focus returns...2025
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• How an assistant coach helped a WNBA star rebuild one of the ACC’s signature women’s basketball programs

Duke assistant coach Tia Jackson waves her piece of net after winning the ACC Tournament title on Sunday, March 9, 2025 in Greensboro, North Carolina. | Mitchell Northam / SB Nation Tia Jackson is the through-line between the great eras of Duke women’s basketball and she’s helped mold Kara Lawson into a head coach. GREENSBORO, N.C. — It had been 19 years since Tia Jackson cut down a net. B...2025
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• Christopher Bell Wins his Third Straight NASCAR Cup Series 2025 Race at Phoenix
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Christopher Bell prevailed in a dramatic side-by-side finish with his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin — the second-closest finish in Phoenix Raceway history — to earn Bell his third consecutive NASCAR Cup Series victory this season, a record in the sport’s Next Gen Car era. Bell’s No. 20 JGR Toyota went high alongside Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota as the two cars dueled it out in...2025
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• Oscars 2025 predictions if they were sports

Photo by Michael Buckner/Penske Media via Getty Images Here are our winners. Why should Hollywood have all the fun? On Sunday the stars of the silver screen will gather to celebrate their night of nights, and it’s a good time to look back on the greatest performances in our world and give them props too. We have divided up the year that was into Oscar-themes categories and given our award...2025
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• Canada’s Stanley Cup drought, explained, and how 3 teams can break it in 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Rocky Mountain low
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 30
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• Competing Against No One

Congratulations to Vancouver who officially became the seventh city where a PWHL franchise will operate. Vancouver seems like a safe bet for the PWHL when it comes to expansion, and it allows them to potentially establish a more national identity if they honestly had a smart, well-structred expansion plan. But that's where this expansion celebration ends because it seems clear that the PWHL is exp...2025
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• Cowboys draft: The “reach” label is thrown around a lot during the draft, but it is meaningless
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• Wednesday Rockpile: What necessitates a coaching change? A look at Rockies history
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• Today in White Sox History: April 15

On this day one year ago, Braden Shewmake led off the fifth inning with a duck snort to center. He then stole second base. He was the only White Sox batter to reach second in the game. | Jamie Sabau/Getty Images The 2024 futility continues ... 1915 It was the biggest shutout in team history, as the White Sox pasted St. Louis, 16-0. The Pale Hose put up seven runs before the home Browns eve...2025
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• Amanda Nunes To Be Inducted Into UFC Hall Of Fame 2025 As Part Of Modern Wing
Amanda Nunes is headed to the UFC Hall of Fame. The Ultimate Fighting Championships announced that former UFC Women's Bantamweight and UFC Women's Featherweight Champion Amanda Nunes will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame class of 2025 as part of the modern wing. From UFC: Las Vegas – UFC today announced that former UFC bantamweight and featherweight champion Amanda Nunes will be inducted i...2025
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• Today in White Sox History: April 7

On this day, 48 years ago, it was time to PLAY BALL! in Toronto. It’s time to play ball — dodging flurries 1970 The worst White Sox team in history began their forgettable season by getting pounded, 12-0, at home by the Twins before just 11,473 fans. Starting pitcher Tommy John only lasted into the fifth inning by giving up six runs (five earned). The Sox would go on to lose a franchise-re...2025
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• Can the NBA Ever Replace Kobe Bryant?
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• Is Stephen Curry the Best Shooter Ever? Yes, Say Many of NBA's All-Time Marksmen
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• Troy Polamalu headlines the 2020 Hall of Fame modern-era finalists; Patrick Willis among notable snubs
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is one step closer towards finalizing its largest-ever induction class...2020
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• Terrell Owens Had Agent Reach Out to Dallas Cowboys After Dez Bryant's Injury
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• Why Everyone in the NBA Hates the Clippers
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• At Current Pace, Aaron Rodgers Is on Track to Shatter Most QB Records
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• Kevin Durant Becomes 2nd-Youngest Player to Score 15,000 Points
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• Joe Thomas, James Harrison, Darrelle Revis among modern-era nominees for 2023 Hall of Fame induction

The trio are among the nine nominees who are eligible for the first time...2022
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Puka Nacua not as afraid of Fred Warner as others: ‘I know him as little Fred’

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Rams receiver Puka Nacua wasn’t as afraid going across middle vs. Fred Warner because of their history Puka Nacua didn’t make it to the Super Bowl in his first season in the NFL with the L.A. Rams, but his experience has been unlike any other rookie in the modern era, if not ever. The fifth round pick out of BYU set rookie records for catches and yards, ...2024
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• Spurs vs. Warriors: Score, Highlights and Reaction from 2016 Regular Season
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• Pro Football Hall of Fame 2016: NFL Inductees, Class Finalists and Predictions
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• Champ or Choker? Inside Peyton Manning's Complicated Legacy
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• Evolving in the Matrix: Aaron Gordon Should Follow the Shawn Marion Blueprint
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• Canada’s Stanley Cup drought, explained, and how 3 teams can break it in 2025
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• Cubs 9, Giants 2: The offense resumes its onslaught
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• Opinion: Rantanen trade blew up in our faces, fire Bednar and MacFarland
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• Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco Giants preview, Monday 5/5, 6:40 CT
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Milwaukee Brewers preview, Saturday 5/3, 6:10 CT

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The Cubs go for the series win. Saturday notes... MILESTONE INCOMING: Win or lose tonight, the Cubs will make some team history. A victory will bring their total to 5,000 at National League parks since 1876, the league’s inaugural season. They have lost 5,703 games at NL parks since 1877. .A defeat would be their 5,000th at an NL park since 1901, s...2025
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• Baseball history unpacked, April 30
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• White Sox’s new City Connect jerseys are a reminder their owner ruined 2 Chicago teams
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• Colorado Rockies game no. 28 thread: Bryce Elder vs Ryan Feltner

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images The Rockies have won just once in their last 15 contests. Now they open a series against a Braves team working on righting the ship. The Atlanta Braves had a rough start to their 2025 season. They lost their first seven games—all against National League West opponents—and are still struggling to right the ship. Unfortunately, a three game set against the Colora...2025
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• 2025 NFL Draft: How did national media grade the Jaguars’ class?
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• White Sox’s new City Connect jerseys are a reminder their owner ruined 2 Chicago teams
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• Top 44 prospects for Cowboys in 2025 NFL Draft
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• Cowboys draft: The “reach” label is thrown around a lot during the draft, but it is meaningless
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• What a difference competent leadership makes

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images Kansas City Royals pitching has gone from an expectation of bottom feeding to the top half of the MLB very quickly. Fangraphs finished their positional power rankings for 2025 last week and the one thing that really stood out to me was the opinion on the Royals pitching as a whole. Royals pitching has been bad to terrible for a very ...2025
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• Triple H Reveals How John Cena’s WWE Heel Turn Came Together
The post Triple H Reveals How John Cena’s WWE Heel Turn Came Together first appeared on PWMania - Wrestling News.One of the most shocking moments of WWE’s modern era came at Elimination Chamber 2025, when John Cena stunned the wrestling world by turning heel and aligning with The Rock against Cody Rhodes. Since then, Cena has embraced his villainous role, blaming the fans for his actions and vowin...2025
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• Cinderella’s decline might be greatly exaggerated in college basketball’s new era
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• Jimmy Butler is back to being the villain

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The veteran NBA star finds comfort wearing the black hat. It started, as it almost always does, with a tweet by Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski, the former ESPN sports reporter. It was in the middle of October, in the afternoon, after Jimmy Butler’s infamous practice session, where he took the bench players on his then-team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and beat ...2025
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• Braves look to fortify their roster with MLB’s Winter Meetings starting very soon

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images The Winter Meetings are finally upon us and we could see Alex Anthopoulos and Atlanta’s front office making some big moves over in Dallas This Sunday marks the beginning of the annual Winter Meetings for Major League Baseball. The four-day long gathering of front office members, agents and some players is a major event that takes place each offseason and...2024
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• Deshaun Watson is trash, and he’s dooming the Browns to mediocrity

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Deshaun Watson is the new Carson Wentz, and it’s bad news for Cleveland. There was a time Deshaun Watson was a promising quarterback. It wasn’t that long ago either. The bright-eyed, 24-year-old quarterback who ascended firmly into the realm of elite at the close of the 2020 season is now gone. The spark extinguished, the magic unresponsive — now replaced...2024
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• This might end up being the best Braves lineup in franchise history
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Atlanta Braves as a franchise have had some fantastic offenses dating back to their days in Boston. This might be the best in that long, long line. Yesterday afternoon, the Atlanta Braves walloped the Los Angeles Angels 12-5. This included a six-run barrage in the fourth inning that ultimately put the game out of reach at 9-1 at that point. The baseba...2023
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