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• Dodgers' Freddie Freeman strengthens HOF case with career milestone

A nine-time All-Star, Freeman is a three-time World Series champion, winning one with the Atlanta Braves in 2021 and then being a key piece of the Dodgers' back-to-back championship teams in 2024 and 2025....2026
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• Dodgers raising eyebrows over silence on White House visit — after Dave Roberts vowed to attend

Coming off their second consecutive World Series title last year, the Dodgers entered this season planning to visit the White House to celebrate their 2025 World Series title, as The California Post first reported in February....2026
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• Breaking down the 8 teams heading to Omaha for the Men's College World Series
2026
• Every 2026 MCWS team's winning moment from baseball super regionals
Watch the final moments from each of the eight teams that clinched a spot in the 2026 Men's College World Series....2026
• Todd Boehly, part owner of Lakers, Dodgers, considering Seahawks ownership bid

Add another name into the hat of billionaires reportedly interested in becoming the next owner of the Seattle Seahawks. Todd Boehly, who has minority ownership stakes in Major League Baseball’s three-peat seeking World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the National Basketball Association’s storied Los Angeles Lakers, is looking at forming a group that would […]...2026
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• College World Series futures odds 2026: Expert reveals college baseball picks, predictions for Omaha

David Bearman has locked in his best futures picks for the College World Series 2026, which begins on Friday, June 12...2026

• Long may they reign (in my memory)

During the 1960s, the Dodgers made the World Series three times, all within a four-year period. Throw in 1959 and they were in the World Series four times in seven years. Currently, the Dodgers have been to the World Series four times in six years. It's a fairly similar run to the 1960s one, although this version of the Dodgers has been more successful winning Series. (Three compared to...2026
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• Dodgers get major Mookie Betts injury update

The Dodgers are sitting on an NL-best 23-14 record, and getting Betts back in the lineup will be crucial to their aspirations of winning the first World Series three-peat since the 2000 New York Yankees....2026
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• MLB futures odds: How Tarik Skubal's injury affects Tigers' AL Central, ALCS and World Series chances

The SportsLine Projection Model's simulations on Detroit's season outlook after Skubal's injury may surprise you...2026
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• Big Game Hunting: Austin Riley targeting bounce-back year after two injury-marred seasons

Many things have not felt quite right for the Atlanta Braves over the past two years. Injuries and inconsistency have plagued the club since its 104-win season of 2023. Perhaps no single player personifies those struggles more than third baseman Austin Riley. A two-time All-Star and key member of Atlanta’s World Series championship team, Riley […]...2026
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• FanGraphs Weekly Mailbag: April 11, 2026

We discuss the terrible Nationals pitching staff, TTO pitching greatness, what Dodgers injuries would keep them from being World Series favorites, and more....2026
• Blue Jays taking umbrage with Shohei Ohtani’s special treatment

The Blue Jays’ series with the Dodgers this week brought back nightmarish memories from the 2025 World Series....2026
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• Dodgers Post podcast: Lineup is rolling, even with Mookie Betts injury

On this episode of The Dodgers Post, Jack Harris and Dylan Hernández are in Toronto, where the Dodgers emphatically opened their World Series rematch with a blowout of the Blue Jays. They talk about the team’s offensive surge, which has been led by Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and early breakout star Andy Pages; and whether......2026
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• Dodgers Roundup: Decisions with Dave Roberts, worst-case scenarios, underrated Zach Ehrhard, root of pitching injuries, more
Alright, time for one last Dodgers Roundup before the season starts. One last time (before every other time to come) looking back at the 2025 season and Dodgers projections for 2026. ====== The Athletic: Tyler Kepner goes through Game 7 of the 2025 World Series with Dave Roberts. The gap between what many of Dave’s …...2026
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• Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas Speaks Out on False PED Report

Two days after The Athletic’s Evan Drellich erroneously identified Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas as the recipient of an 80-game suspension due to PED use, the World Series hero is speaking out....2026
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• 30 teams, 2026 edition

So, where have I been all week? Fair question. It is March, but I'm usually more consistent than this. A week ago Thursday I was getting a workout in during the early afternoon when I heard an unbelievable crash out in the driveway. From the kitchen windows, I could see ice falling and I knew it wasn't good immediately. A giant sheet of ice slid off the roof and dropped two stories onto ...2026
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• From World Series winner to sausage meister: A visit to Byung-hyun Kim's German restaurant
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• 2003 Retired case (time capsule journal)

Editors Note: This behemoth of a post is actually a bunch of posts in one. "Self-indulgent" is a word that comes to mind. It's probably not worth your time to read it, so by all means, feel free to ignore this post. It was mostly written years back, so much of what I say is outdated here in 2025. A lot of it is me hoping to pull a card that-- whoops-- turns out doesn't even exist. I guess I s...2026
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• Octavio Dotel, World Series champion and 15-year MLB vet, dies at 51 in Dominican Republic nightclub collapse

Dotel pitched for 13 franchises throughout his major-league career...2025
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• MLB should consider starting the regular season later

Getty Images Weather in northern cities is just bad in late March/early April. Monday’s Cubs home opener was played in conditions not really suitable for baseball. It was 43 degrees at game time — bad enough — but then around the sixth inning it started raining, making conditions miserable for fans and players alike. The weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday isn’t any better, in fact,...2024
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• The Cautionary Tale of Ken Caminiti: The Steroid Era's First Truth-Teller
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"The Dodgers are sitting on an NL-best 23-14 record, and getting Betts back in the lineup will be crucial to their aspirations of winning the first World Series three-peat since the 2000 New York Yankees."

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"Dave Parker, a 2-time World Series Champion and 7-time MLB All-Star, has died at the age of 74."

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"The Reds legend won two World Series with Cincinnati and another with the Phillies"

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"Robinson spent his entire 23-year career in Baltimore, where he won two World Series and was an 18-time All-Star."

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"Phillies to include Pete Rose as part of celebration for 1980 World Series championship team"

2021
"World Series: Joc Pederson becomes ninth player to win championship in back-to-back years with different teams"

2020
"Tom Seaver, the Hall of Fame pitcher who led the Mets to a World Series title in 1969 and won three Cy Young Awards, died Monday at age 75."

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"The defending World Series champs and the game’s biggest agent have kicked off the Winter Meetings with a bang."

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"Cubs seek return to World Series in '18"

2017
"Enrique Hernandez smacked three home runs, including a grand slam in the third inning, and had seven RBIs to back Clayton Kershaw and power the Dodgers to an 11-1 victory in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series presented by Camping World and eliminate the defending World Series champion Cubs."

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"The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago."

2015
"A mainstay player on 10 Yankee championship teams who as a manager led the Yankees and Mets to the World Series, Berra may have been better known for his bumbling yet wise way with words."

2014
"Troops will be honored at Game 1 of the 2014 World Series on Tuesday during the seventh-inning stretch, and Big Papi made sure Tom Pittman (Iraq and Afghanistan veteran), Doug Whalen (two tours in Iraq) and Molly Alesch (active servicewoman) would play a part."

• Vagabond Binder: Kenny Lofton

Man, my previous post-- re: the "We Didn't Start the Fire" binder-- was very well received. Felt great getting congratulatory comments from lots of folks including many I haven't heard from in a while. Ended up dragging my feet, but figured I'd follow up that post with another curated binder page.My Vagabond Binder is a fun little project wherein I fill each page with cards of one player, but the ...2026
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• The Opener: Ashcraft, Naylor, Lewis
The Yankees officially selected Ali Sánchez‘s contract yesterday. Had the game not been rained out, Sánchez would have been the first right-handed hitting catcher to start for the Yankees since Jose Trevino in the 2024 World Series. Today’s lineup isn’t public yet, but Sánchez could still start, as the Red Sox are starting a lefty in […]...2026
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• Which World Cup Team Most Resembles The Timberwolves?
June is typically one of the busiest months on the sports calendar in the United States. The NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals are running concurrently. The U.S. Open is a June tradition unlike any other. The WNBA is in full swing. The hotly anticipated drafts for the NBA and NHL are coming up in mere weeks. And the men’s and women’s College World Series are taking place....2026
• We Didn't Start The Fire (but we finished the binder!)

Way back in 2017, I got the idea to put together a binder corresponding to subjects referenced in the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire". Fun way to combine the hobby and history, right? Took damn near a decade, but I've now finally filled every open slot. Is every selection a perfect match? Nah, there are definitely some cheeky placeholders that might be a stretch, and occasiona...2026
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• Cade Denton looks to build on a strong fall in Arizona

When the Colorado Rockies selected right-handed pitcher Cade Denton (No. 42 PuRP) in the sixth round of the 2023 draft, MLB Pipeline considered him one of the best pure relievers available. The hard-throwing righty had just helped his Oral Roberts Golden Eagles go deep in the 2023 College World Series by posting a 1.83 ERA […]...2026
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• Worth the postage due

The other day I received one of those pink postage-due-your-cards-are-waiting-for-you-way-down-at-the-post-office slips. I always go and pay the postage because CARDS, and even being down to one vehicle -- that also needs work done kind of immediately -- wasn't going to stop me. It was a little surprising how much "postage due" has gone up for simple PWE, but after seeing the contents, ...2026
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• Acting accordingly

When faced with the decision of watching the so-called "World Series rematch" between the Dodgers and Blue Jays or the Sabres' showdown with the Lightning last night on the TV, I chose the Buffaloes in their goat-head jerseys. Rather easy choice actually. My wife's a Buffalo gal and back on the hockey bandwagon, the baseball game was No. 10 out of 162 and not worth the hype and, finally...2026
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2460: The Arc of History Bends Toward .500

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Joey Wiemer, Colt Emerson’s contract, the concept of “sticking at shortstop,” and pre-arbitration (and pre-debut) extension trends, then (29:11) answer listener emails about A.J. Preller trading himself, Harrison Bader and the press conference threshold, plotting to prevent a switch-hitter from batting from both sides, no-selling a World ...2026
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• After Giants draft miss, Brian Sabean has watched Aaron Judge fulfill MVP promise up close

With three World Series titles and his legacy secured, Sabean doesn’t look back with regret at not picking Judge....2026
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• MLB futures odds: Expert offers best World Series bet, longshot and team to fade in AL, NL for 2026

SportsLine expert Angelo "Amags" Magliocca has looked at the 2026 season from all angles and has his top plays for betting on the World Series champion...2026

• Vagabond Binder: Kenny Lofton
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• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026
• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026
• World Series Wrestling “Rise Against Sydney” results: Vetter’s review of Killer Kross vs. Nic Nemeth for the WSW Championship, Myla Grace vs. Ash By Elegance for the WSW Women’s Title
By Chris Vetter, ProWrestling.net Contributor... The post World Series Wrestling “Rise Against Sydney” results: Vetter’s review of Killer Kross vs. Nic Nemeth for the WSW Championship, Myla Grace vs. Ash By Elegance for the WSW Women’s Title appeared first on Pro Wrestling Dot Net....2026
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• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026
• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026
• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026
• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026
• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026
• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule for the Men’s College World Series
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 NCAA DI baseball tournament, including the bracket, scores and schedule for the Men's College World Series....2026

• Every 2026 MCWS team's winning moment from baseball super regionals
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• Long may they reign (in my memory)
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• Baseball Roundtable Trivia(l) Tidbit Tuesday … Riding a Rookie Arm, All the Way to A World Series Championship

It’s Tuesday and that means it’s time again for Baseball Roundtable’s Trivia(l) Tidbit Tuesday. I hope you are enjoying this weekly presentation of baseball occurrences that for some reason caught The Roundtable’s eye. (I’m particularly fond of unexpected performances and statistical coincidences.) These won’t necessarily be momentous occurrences, just events, statistics or coincidences that grab...2026
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• Acting accordingly
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• The closest I had to a sure thing

The farther I get away from the age 18-49 demographic, the more the players that dominated the sports scene for seemingly forever fade out of the conversation. You could have never convinced me in the 1970s and 1980s that guys like Reggie Jackson would slowly disappear, that their names would cease to be on everyone's lips, on every magazine cover, in every card set, in every sports column an...2026
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• The End Of A Forgettable Era

It became official today: the Buffalo Sabres will break their streak of fourteen seasons without appearing the playoffs thanks to the Pittsburgh Penguins defeating the Florida Panthers, officially eliminating the two-time defending champions from the playoffs. The last time that Buffalo was in the playoffs was 2011 where the Lindy Ruff-led Sabres qualified as the seventh-seeded team and fell in th...2026
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• The 2026 MLB gifts we stand to lose with an impending lockout

Positive momentum continues to build after a wonderful World Baseball Classic followed a classic World Series. Here are five reasons we can’t take our eye of this game....2026
• Royals honor World Series champ Terrance Gore who died suddenly at 34

A sold-out, announced attendance of 39,320 strong at Kansas City’s Kauffman stadium united in a moment of silence for the fallen former Royals outfielder and pinch-runner, who helped the club capture a World Series title in 2015....2026
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• Jason Heyward retires: Memorable moments with Braves and Cubs highlight 16-year MLB career

Heyward, who homered in his first MLB at-bat, won five Gold Gloves and two World Series rings...2026
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• Welcome to the Big Leagues, Boys — It Can Only Get Worse From Here

While one or more of these kids might become an All-Star, a World Series winner, even a Hall of Famer, the median day in the big leagues is not going to be this good....2026

• Yogi Berra, Master Catcher With a Goofy Wit, Dies at 90
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• Seaver, Hall of Famer and Mets legend, dies at 75
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• Arrieta, Cubs ace Wild Card test vs. Bucs
The Cubs' first step toward their ultimate goal of ending a 107-year World Series championship drought was contentious, yet also decisive. Jake Arrieta weaved his routine spell, and rookie Kyle Schwarber drove in the first three runs -- two on a majestic 450-foot homer out of PNC Park -- and Chicago blanked Pittsburgh, 4-0, in Wednesday night's National League Wild Card Game presented by Budweiser...2015
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• Resolution: Dodgers should be awarded WS titles
A resolution urging Major League Baseball to strip the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox of recent World Series titles and award them to the Los Angeles Dodgers has been unanimously approved by the L.A. City Council....2020
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• Astros' Luhnow, Hinch suspended for 2020 season
Astros GM Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch have been suspended for one season after an MLB investigation found the team used technology to cheat during its World Series-winning 2017 season, it was announced Monday....2020
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• Dodgers' Series dream ends with loss to Cubs
The Cubs are headed to the World Series for the first time since 1945 after they defeated Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 5-0, in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday night at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Cubs won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, to wrap up the 11th NL pennant in franchise history....2016
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• Yankees to retire Nos. of Bernie, Jorge, Pettitte
The Yankees will honor some of the most influential figures of the 1990s World Series dynasty when they retire the numbers of Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte. The club will also add a plaque for Willie Randolph to Monument Park this season....2015
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• Blazing Cain: Dash from first sends KC to WS
The Royals advanced to their second straight World Series for the first time in franchise history with a pulsating 4-3 win over the Blue Jays in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium....2015
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• Preseason Prep - February 18, 2026
Alex Bregman, 3B, Cubs Alex Bregman is getting another venue change in 2026, this time with the Cubs after slashing .273/.360/.462 with 64 runs, 18 home runs, and 62 RBI in 114 games for Boston last season. His plate discipline remains as good as ever, as he posted a 19.8% chase rate (95th percentile), 15.0% whiff rate (92nd), 14.1% strikeout rate (88th), and 10.3% walk rate (73rd). However, the m...2026
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• 2003 Retired case (time capsule journal)
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• 2025: the best, the worst, the ... haves and the have-nots

In 2025, the hobby started trying to kick me out at every turn. I'm sure it probably started before 2025, but I didn't really notice until this year. And it's not going to succeed. Because I make the rules when it comes to my hobby. Let others play their pretend games, collect their fantasy role-playing products, act like cards are worth more because they're sealed in plastic, claim tha...2026
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• College World Series futures odds 2026: Expert reveals college baseball picks, predictions for Omaha
2026
• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
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• Georgia, Mississippi State smash 10 HRs in super regional slugfest | HIGHLIGHTS
Watch extended highlights from the 2026 Men's Baseball Super Regionals Game 2 matchup between Georgia and Mississippi State with a trip to the Men's College World Series on the line....2026
• The Opener: Ashcraft, Naylor, Lewis
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• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
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• Joy of a team set, chapter 30 (looking to the sky for inspiration)

The Dodgers are playing the Angels this weekend in another "Freeway Series"/interleague clash. This doesn't mean a whole lot to me. I've lived on the east coast my whole life, and was a baseball fan for more than 20 years before interleague play started. But the Angels have popped up a couple of times recently in my fan and hobby pursuits. I've been struggling for blog topics late...2026
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• World Series Wrestling “Rise Against Sydney” results: Vetter’s review of Killer Kross vs. Nic Nemeth for the WSW Championship, Myla Grace vs. Ash By Elegance for the WSW Women’s Title
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• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
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• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
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• 2026 NCAA baseball tournament: Bracket, schedule, scores for the Men’s College World Series
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• We Didn't Start The Fire (but we finished the binder!)
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• An outrageous owner and savvy businessman, Ted Turner reshaped the sports world
Ted Turner was a sportsman of all types, a world champion in sailing and a World Series-winning owner in baseball. Turner, who died Wednesday, bought the struggling Braves in the 1970s, put the team on his then-tiny TV station and then sold the signal to cable systems nationwide. “He effectively transformed the Braves into a team with a national reach and set the table for ways that local teams ...2026
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• Dodgers ‘Yoshi’ bobblehead, Shohei Ohtani pitching debut sends ticket prices soaring

A World Series hero and beloved video game character are behind the buzz....2026
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• Peter Schmuck: Hall of Fame voting has become an exercise in moral relativism

Chances are, Carlos Beltrán will be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame this year – or next. Rafael Palmeiro is unlikely to ever darken its door. Beltrán was a major figure in the Houston Astros’ electronic sign-stealing scandal, which tarnished the 2017 World Series and led to two managers being suspended for a year and […]...2026
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• Long overdue

The internet has a great way of providing something you have always wanted, or never even imagined possible ... and then eventually ruining it. I experienced this great disappointment in duplicate in 2025. Two sites, so entrenched in my entertainment preferences for so many years, had evolved so far away from what I had valued them for that I could no longer ignore it. I am struggl...2026
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• 2003 Retired case (time capsule journal)
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• White Sox “need” new stadium to compete?

Apparently, billionaire Jerry Reinsdorf needs more money, and he doesn’t even feel he needs to ask you for it. | John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images We’ve heard this song and dance before Haven’t we heard this story before? Jerry Reinsdorf is again making specious and unsubstantiated claims that the ballpark his White Sox play in inhibits them from competin...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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• Dynasty! Love 'em or loathe 'em, the Astros are World Series champs

Amid both scandal and success, Houston has built a modern-day juggernaut....2022
• White Sox reliever Joe Kelly: Astros are 'tarnished for life' due to cheating scandal

The Houston Astros will play in their fourth World Series in six years beginning on Friday night, when they host the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 1 at 8:03 p.m....2022
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