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Mile End Kicks I never feel more old than when coming of age stories are set in a "nostalgic era" are from my peak High School and college years

The White Sox home opener (vs the Jays) has already been postponed today and will be played tomorrow (Friday) Chicago is expected to get smacked with some bad weather today so they aren't even gonna bother trying to play today

We had the first game end on a ABS challenge Now the game really wasnt close so there really wasn't any drama but the Os beat the Rangers 8-3 Basically the Os catcher challenged a pitch on a 1-2 count that was called a ball which was overturned to a strike thus ending the game It gave Albert Suarez his first save since 2017

The unfortunately named Gerry Sandusky - who has been involved in Baltimore sports since the beginning of time - announced his retirement

THAT'S MY GOALIE!!!!

The D-Backs Jose Fernandez becomes the 7th player ever - and first for Arizona - to hit 2 HRs in his debut The others Chase DeLauter (last week. Also DeLauter technically made his debut in the playoffs but that doesn't count for the stat) Trevor Story (2016) J.P. Arencibia (2010) Mark Quinn (1999) Bert Campaneris (1964) Bob Nieman (1951)

This appears to have been a lie

This was officially approved

Italy misses the World Cup for the THIRD straight WC

Jose Ramirez played his 1,614th game for Cleveland That ties him with Nap Lajoie for 2nd all time in franchise history He should move into 1st some time next week (Terry Turner - 1,619) When he does so - he becomes the only active player to be a franchises all time leader in games played

Must be fun now being his mom who - if you didn't see is - women's basketball coach Niele Ivey Let's just see where she is the Head Coach... oh.... (she is the head coach of Notre Dame)

I guess the NBA must go from date of last game played because Elena Delle Donne only retired a year ago (almost to the date) She absolutely should be in but it makes it seem like there is no waiting period

I didn't know/forgot that Rick Boogs is one of the Gladiators (The Bull to be specific) So that makes 5 Gladiators who are/were wrestlers

Yeah - so far there are reporters who have said Ivey would ask Chicago reporters if they had sex before marriage and in Detroit he was known for confronting people asking them if they were saved

Heck - that is an issue right now with the current Ref's PA In the graphic Dolfan posted - that is one of the hold ups. The NFL wants more accountability and more training for the refs who rank poorly and the PA is balking about that

Technically no since you are - again technically - not hiring the best people for the job. You are hire the "best people" to work at your salary (Again this is also subjective to your opinion on a referees job) Also - its not more reps. Until the NFL expands to 18 games - there aren't more things to do. Fake games and scrimmages aren't an NFL game The current refs know the rules - sitting around for 6 months isn't gonna change with how the apply the insane catch rule or make them better at spotting the ball.

Its not all on the NFL The NFL's #1 excuse is that since it runs a "shorter" season (roughly 6 months and around 300 total games for a season) so it really is only a "part time job". IE - officials only work about 20 days a season However - the NFLPA wants part time too because their refs don't want to give up their full time jobs (like how we always used to hear about Ed Hochuli was an attorney) Most NFL officials have high paying full time jobs so they don't "need" the money the NFL would given them for being full time

Wemby records the third fastest triple double since 1997-1998 (ie: the start of the play by play era) He did it in 8 minutes and 31 seconds and behind only Boban Marjanovic (8:13) in 2017 and Jonas Valanciunas (8:08) in 2025. He finished with 41 points and 16 rebounds

Its okay Horror thread - I still love you

Jerry West: The Logo Includes the last interviews West did before his passing

also a interesting little tidbit Nick Kypreos explaining that it basically is based on number of games played on who gets to fight Gudas

Just because the tweet didn't make it clear - Gudas is actually hurt and only dressed to get his ass kicked His quote was something like "stand behind my mistakes. I want to address it myself"

Newest version of Cape Fear Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, and Patrick Wilson It is a TV series with 10 episodes