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Braves Coach In Hot Water Over Battle Of Gestures

Braves Coach In Hot Water Over Battle Of Gestures

The thing that the New York Yankees are doing is not sign-stealing. For one thing, it is entirely independent of the communications of their opponents, which raises it entirely above the board, according to both the rules and the traditions of baseball. For another, professional baseball no longer has signs for the swiping. A team could theoretically hack the PitchCom—the …

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Steelers training camp preview: 6 players on the hot seat

Steelers training camp preview: 6 players on the hot seat

A look at six players who will be scrutinized and on the proverbial hot seat when training camp begins Thursday for the Pittsburgh Steelers: T.J. Watt Dissatisfaction with his contract caused Watt to skip mandatory minicamp, but he and the team agreed to a three-year contract extension Thursday that made him the highest paid non-quarterback in the NFL. That avoided …

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Influencer Gia Duddy Coming In Hot From The Bahamas On A Jet Ski

Influencer Gia Duddy Coming In Hot From The Bahamas On A Jet Ski

Instagram embeds are back It looks like the Instagram embeds issue has been resolved (fingers crossed). If you missed yesterday’s Screecaps, then you missed Joe running into the embeds issue. I can confirm that up until last night, when I started putting today’s Screencaps together, that the Instagram embeds were not working. I hopped on this morning to finish it …

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Mark Madden’s Hot Take: How is T.J. Watt worth more than Sauce Gardner?

Mark Madden’s Hot Take: How is T.J. Watt worth more than Sauce Gardner?

T.J. Watt signed a three-year, $123 million contract extension with $108 million guaranteed. The average annual value is $41 million. Watt will be the NFL’s highest-paid non-quarterback. Sauce Gardner of the New York Jets got a four-year, $120.4 million contract extension with $60 million guaranteed. The average annual value is $30.1 million. Gardner will be the NFL’s highest-paid cornerback. What …

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Eight SEC Coaches Enter Season on the Hot Seat

Eight SEC Coaches Enter Season on the Hot Seat

ATLANTA — There is only one rock-solid certainty in the Southeastern Conference: The football coaching lineup will change in the next six months. Perhaps massively. For just the third time in the last 45 years, there were no coaching changes last year in the most tumultuous league in America. Going a second straight year without a firing, a resignation or …

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Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Might as well add Brewers rookie to meaningless All-Star Game

Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Might as well add Brewers rookie to meaningless All-Star Game

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski has been named to Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game. The 23-year-old phenom has started just five games and thrown only 25⅔ innings. It’s exemplary of what the All-Star Game has become. It’s not Pete Rose turning Ray Fosse into roadkill while scoring the winning run for the National League in 1970. It’s not competitive. The All-Star …

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