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Archives for July 2023
July 31, 2023
Texas Rangers Arm Up on Pitchers: The best offense in baseball has added starting pitchers Max Scherzer and Jordan Montgomery and reliever Chris Strattion. The Texas Rangers sent infielder Thomas Saggese and pitchers Tekoah Roby and John King to the Cardinals for Montgomery and Stratton and infielder and center fielder Luisangel Acuna to the Mets for Scherzer.
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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
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July 30, 2023
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
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July 29, 2023
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
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July 28, 2023
CFL Pickem Week 8: Come On You Elks Edition: This week's CFL slate will be three games because the post went up late. Saskatchewan visits undefeated Toronto on Saturday afternoon, British Columbia visits winless Edmonton on Saturday night and two-win Calgary visits two-win Montreal on Sunday night. Our pickem has a new leader after ic23b scored 84 points to win the week and passed Tommybiden by 4. Make your picks.
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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
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July 27, 2023
Shohei Ohtani is very, very good at baseball.: In the first game of today's doubleheader at Detroit, Ohtani threw his first complete game, an 11K, 1-hit shutout. And then followed that up with a 2-HR performance in Game 2.
posted by Ufez Jones to baseball at 09:52 PM - 7 comments
Aaron Rodgers Has a Smaller Cap Hit Than Zach Wilson: The New York Jets have $35 million in extra cap space because Aaron Rodgers restructured his deal to turn $110 million in guarantees into $75 million. His cap hit this season becomes $8.9 million, which is $700,000 lower than backup Zach Wilson's. "I think it says a lot when the best player on your football team -- a Hall of Famer -- is willing to sacrifice something because he wants to win," said head coach Robert Saleh.
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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle
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July 26, 2023
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
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July 25, 2023
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS OWNER ROCKY WIRTZ PASSES AWAY AT 70: W. Rockwell 'Rocky' Wirtz, owner and chairman of the Chicago Blackhawks, has died at 70 years old, the team confirmed on Tuesday.
posted by tommybiden to hockey at 10:05 PM - 2 comments
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
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July 24, 2023
Nyheim Hines to miss 2023 season: Garner, NC legend and Wolfpack icon likely to miss the 2023 NFL season with a leg injury. He was struck in the knee by another jet skier as he was sitting on his jet ski. No word if any Bojangles Hard Ice Tea was involved in the accident. Wait! Who? Yeah, the guy that made all of Hollywood's writers take to the picket lines because his storybook kick off return was something that writers were in no way allowed to ever write.
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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
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July 23, 2023
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
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July 22, 2023
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
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July 21, 2023
Jaguars Assistant Becomes First Out Gay Coach in NFL History: Kevin Maxen, the strength and conditioning coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, has become the first male coach in U.S. major sports to come out as gay. "You have other coaches who have significant others, and they're talking about their significant others," Maxen said. "And I felt guilty that I couldn't do the same thing, that I was letting myself down," he told Outsports.
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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
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July 20, 2023
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle
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July 19, 2023
CFL Pickem Week 7: Mason Fine Edition: There are four games in Canadian football this week beginning tomorrow night when the winless Edmonton Elks visit the 4-2 Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The highlight of the week is when former Mean Green quarterback Mason Fine takes over the Jolly Green as Saskatchewan goes to British Columbia on Saturday. Tommybiden takes over first place with a 48-point week despite a blown lock -- probably because nobody expected that miracle last-minute Ottawa comeback over Winnipeg.
posted by rcade to football at 08:21 PM - 8 comments
Nike announces it will permanently end sponsorship of Hockey Canada: Nike announced Monday that it will permanently cease its sponsorship of Hockey Canada in the wake of its handling of a high-profile alleged group sexual assault case.
July 18, 2023
The NFL’s Running Back Market Has Bottomed Out: After two of the NFL's best young running backs - Saquon Barkley and Josh Jackson - failed to reach new deals with their respective teams and are going to be playing the season under the franchise tag, Danny Heifetz writes: "The running back market has been crashing for years. When it bottomed out on Monday, you could sense players finally beginning to grieve. While it’s noble for (Derrick) Henry to say he will fight for what running backs “deserve,” it’s also sad to think about how unwinnable that fight will be. Whether these individual players are deserving has nothing to do with it."
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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
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July 17, 2023
Wayne Rooney: Lionel Messi 'Won't Find it Easy' in MLS: "It's huge, especially with what's going on in Saudi, for the MLS to attract Messi. He won't find it easy here. It sounds mad, but players who come in find it's a tough league. The travelling, the different conditions in different cities, and there's a lot of energy and intensity on the pitch." -- Wayne Rooney
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
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July 16, 2023
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
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July 15, 2023
Declan Rice Joins Arsenal: Arsenal has paid its highest transfer fee ever of $137 million to acquire midfielder Declan Rice from West Ham. Rice, 24, helped the Hammers win the Europa League this summer and was expected to leave with just one year left on his contract. Man City and Man United also made efforts to snag him.
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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
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July 14, 2023
Peter Gammons: Diamond Vision: It went so far that [UNC coach, Dean] Smith gave Peter this firm career advice: “You’re a good listener. You could write for a living.” So, it's Dean's fault that we got Peter Gammons as a sports writer. And only one of the greatest ever.
posted by NoMich to baseball at 03:36 PM - 4 comments
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
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July 13, 2023
Rory Isn't Willing to LIV and Let LIV: "If LIV Golf was the last place to play golf on Earth, I would retire." -- Rory McIlroy
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle
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CFL Pickem Week 6: French Canadian Edition: For the third week in a row, the winless Edmonton Elks open the CFL slate, this time at home tonight against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In the pickem La Main Noire keeps first with 266, 10 ahead of La Biden Tommy. Scooby wins the week with 92. Faites vos choix.
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July 12, 2023
Bob Huggins Didn't Retire?: Former West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is doubling down on his claim that he never technically resigned from the school. WVU's lawyers insists that he did indeed retire.
posted by NoMich to basketball at 09:53 PM - 7 comments
How the Gruden Email Leak Sacked Dan Snyder: ESPN takes a deep dive into the emails that led to Jon Gruden's firing by the Las Vegas Raiders and the cast of characters who may have been involved in leaking them. They include exiting Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell,, NFL Players Association chief DeMaurice Smith and Jay-Z's entertainment agency Roc Nation. There are such vehement denials that maybe the emails were never leaked and Gruden is still the head coach.
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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle
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July 11, 2023
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
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Team Guides to the FIFA Women's World Cup: The Guardian are publishing these guides in the lead up to the opening matches on 20 July. One new national team is added each day. (And yes, I have tickets). :-)
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 01:08 AM - 4 comments
July 10, 2023
Hazing in Northwestern's Football Program: Investigation finds evidence of hazing in football program, Pat Fitzgerald suspended. Former NU football player details hazing allegations after coach suspension. University president Michael Schill says he "may have erred" in determining Pat Fitzgerald sanction.
All 3 of those links are from The Daily Northwestern located there in Evanston.
posted by NoMich to football at 08:17 AM - 5 comments
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
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July 09, 2023
In-season NBA tournament revealed: OK, but how does it work?
posted by NoMich to basketball at 10:27 AM - 0 comments
Elly De La Cruz: Not since 1919
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July 08, 2023
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
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July 07, 2023
"Let me make barbecue chicken out of you.": Following the departure of Shannon Sharpe, and the inability of FS1 to find anybody who wants to work with Skip Bayless, the enfant terrible of shock jock sports TV goes after his "dream partner," Charles Barkley, in the most public, most desperate way possible.
posted by The_Black_Hand to media at 08:49 AM - 5 comments
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
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July 06, 2023
CFL Pickem: Dutch Crunch Edition: The CFL returns to the normal four-game week tonight when the winless Edmonton Elks visit the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The game of the week occurs Sunday when the 2-1 Montreal Alouettes go to the 3-1 B.C. Lions. In our pickem, The_Black_Hand has climbed into first and leads by 26. Tommybiden wins the week with 72.
posted by rcade to football at 09:09 AM - 10 comments
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle
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July 05, 2023
NBA to test in-game flopping penalty at summer league: A flop, which will be determined by referees at the game, will be penalized by awarding the opposing team one free throw. The player who commits the flop will be assessed a non-unsportsmanlike technical foul, which won't count toward personal fouls or lead to an ejection. Officials won't be required to stop live play to call a flopping violation.
posted by NoMich to basketball at 04:58 PM - 6 comments
July 04, 2023
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
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July 03, 2023
July 02, 2023
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
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July 01, 2023
Mavericks Re-Sign Kyrie Irving for 3 Years, $126 Million: The Dallas Mavericks reached a three-year, $126 million deal to keep Kyrie Irving, avoiding the disaster of losing him for nothing after trading two starters and three draft picks to get him from the Brooklyn Nets in February. "Irving’s talent is universally acknowledged, but it comes with various serious reservations," writes Matt Moore for Action Network.
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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
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