Quote of the week
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
~ Rogers Hornsby
Well, this is awkward. Tarik Skubal has been a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers for all of about five minutes, and he’s already talking about going back to Detroit. Okay, I’m exaggerating a little bit, but the timing of Skubal’s recent comments on Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take podcast certainly caught my attention. The…
If you’ve spent decades coaching college basketball, you accumulate stories. Some are about buzzer-beaters. Some are about championships. Others are about the players who changed your life or the mentors who shaped your career. Every once in a while, though, you hear a story that perfectly captures the personalities that made college basketball what it…
Michael Harris II was one of the most egregious All-Star snubs of the season. He put up a .296 batting average, an .816 OPS and 16 home runs in the season’s first half. Part of the reason may have been because the Atlanta Braves already had five representatives in the Midsummer Classic, and part of…
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