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When the Big Ten was still waffling on whether or not to play football late in the pandemic summer of 2020, an idea was hatched on a series of Zooms. If the conference played a shortened slate of league-only games that season, how could they increase the broadcast inventory? The result was Champions Week.  The then-14-team league would hold its …

Maybe it’s from watching Moneyball too often. But the tendency is to look at drafts now and figure out a team’s strategy. In the case of the Rangers, it seems to be kind of a novel approach: Take the hurt pitchers. Well, that’s not quite the way they would put it, but they do seem to see some level of …