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The Detroit Tigers have won four World Series titles. Ever. Their last win came in 1984, but they have been to the championship in the last 10 years before they lost to the San Francisco Giants. Even after the loss, they were still dominant, winning the NL Central every year between 2011-14 and making the ALCS in three of those seasons. Every year since they have failed to make the postseason from 2015 on. The only constant is general manager Al Avila. The Tigers announced last week that they fired Avila, who served as the team’s executive vice president and general manager since 2015 when he ...
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Titans cornerback and Former Jets defensive back Buster Skrine is set to retire. Announced by Titans head coach Mike Vrabel. the 11-year veteran has called it quits on a long career. “I really respect Buster as a person, as a player,” Vrabel said during his first press conference of Titans training camp on Tuesday. “But he made a decision which he felt like was best for him and his family and we’ll respect that and support him however we can.” Skrine had just resigned with the Titans in March after being signed in late last season to counteract the injuries suffered to key secondary players su...
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In a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, executive director of Advocates from Minor Leaguers Harry Marino expressed his dissatisfaction with the MLB’s antitrust exemption and the lack of protection given to minor leave players. Marino asked Congress to expand the Curt Flood Act, a law that revoked the MLBs antitrust exemption in 1998. The exemption allows the MLB to have protection against laws that prevent collusion and anti-competitive practices. This means that the Major League has the ability to relocate franchises more freely and influence media blackouts, among other things. T...
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The rich just got richer in the NBA. It is reported that Houston Rockets guard John Wall will join the Los Angles Clippers after clearing waivers. Earlier this week, Wall decided to opt-in to the final year of his contract which would have netted him $47.4 million. In buyout negotiations, however, Wall elected to take $6.3 million less to become a free agent. The Rockets reportedly wanted to grant Wall an agreement before the start of free agency on Thursday in order to provide him with more flexibility in choosing a new team. Wall was traded to Houston in 2020 with a first-round pick for Russ...
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For 39 hours, sports fans who rely on YouTube TV to watch games were outraged at the timing of a Walt Disney-owned channel blackout. The blackout went into effect at 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, which happened to be right in the middle of ESPN‘s broadcast of the Los Angeles Lakers–Minnesota Timberwolves game. “Worst timing ever! You did this during Bowl season, NBA Christmas games, and NFL playoff races!? So disappointing,” one YouTube TV subscriber tweeted. Disney and Google, which owns YouTube TV, were able to come to an agreement Sunday afternoon. “We appreciate Google’s collaboration to reach...
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On Wednesday evening, Marcus Stroman broke the news himself via Twitter that he signed a three-year, $71 million deal with the Chicago Cubs. Stroman, 30, will make $25 million in 2022, $25 million in 2023 and $21 million in 2024. The deal also included $2 million escalators for 160 innings pitched in 2022 and 2023 and an opt-out after the 2023 season. During the 2021 season with the New York Mets, Marcus Stroman posted a 3.02 ERA across 179 innings and 33 starts. Throughout his career with both the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Mets, Stroman accumulated a career 3.63 ERA. In 2017, Stroman...
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Four-star recruit Langston Love has torn his ACL just two weeks before No. 8 Baylor starts their regular season on November 12. Love will be out for the remainder of the season. Baylor is the defending NCAA men’s basketball champion after going face to face with fellow No. 1 seed Gonzaga and in the end, defeating them 86-70. During that 2021 March Madness run, Love was playing high school basketball and had already made quite the name for himself. He signed with Baylor in July of 2020 after his Junior year. The freshman shooting guard, who was playing in a preseason scrimmage against Texas A&M...
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The Kyrie Irving vaccination saga has persisted despite the start of the 2021-22 NBA season being less than two weeks away. The seven-time All-Star’s resistance to getting vaccinated has been an ongoing headache for the Brooklyn Nets organization as well as a distraction for a team with championship ambitions. According to NBA insiders Adrian Wojnarowski and Brian Windhorst, “the Nets remain unclear on All-Star guard Kyrie Irving’s ultimate intentions to get vaccinated and have made no decision on whether the organization will accommodate him as a part-time player this season.” New York is cur...
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Jalen Smereck is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the Ukrainian Hockey League (UHL) after being the target of a racist gesture during a stoppage in play. The 24-year-old Detroit native is a defenseman for HC Donbass, based in Druzhkivka, Ukraine. In the second period, he was taunted by Andrey Deniskin of HC Kremenchuk, who mimicked peeling a banana and eating it. On his IG account, Smereck called for the UHL to remove Deniskin from the league “Therefore I have been putting a lot of thought into what comes next for me in my career but as of right now I have decided that I will be taki...
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Within weeks of the first game of the NBA season, the Minnesota Timberwolves are caught in the middle of a humiliating situation. Minnesota’s president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas was fired unexpectedly during a crucial time of the year. Sachin Gupta, Rosas’ EVP of basketball operations, has been promoted into the vacant role for the time being. There was confusion and frustration earlier this week from fans and observers outside of the franchise. Now, details are surfacing and the motives behind the decision are becoming more clear. According to The Athletic, several events and fac...
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