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    MESA, Ariz. — The breakup of ESPN and Major League Baseball was a shocker to those of us who looked at the partnership as a match made in heaven, or at least the baseball equivalent in Dyersville, Iowa. Since they presented their vows back in 1990, ESPN helped spread the gospel of baseball through the Steroids Era, the start of bat flipping and other showboating and with so many Yankees-Red ...

      MESA, Ariz. — The back of Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong’s jersey will look a little different this year. All thanks to a friendly hoops challenge. President of baseball operations Jed Hoyer likes fast-guy uniform numbers — the single digits that look sleek on the back of speedsters like Crow-Armstrong. So the football lineman-esque No. 52 Crow-Armstrong sported during his ...

        DALLAS — Johnny Manziel has been all over the map since Stephen Jones talked his dad out of drafting him in 2014, moving from College Station to Cleveland to Canada to Memphis to something called the Zappers. He’s employed these days with the Action Network and hosts a podcast. Just broke up with Jose Canseco’s daughter, but appears to have his life in order. Let’s hope so, because it’s been a ...

        President Donald Trump says the spirit of NASCAR will “fuel America's Golden Age.” In a presidential message released as he flew to Daytona Beach, Florida, to attend the Daytona 500, Trump says the opening race of the NASCAR series is a unifying event that brings together people from all walks of life. He called the Daytona 500 a “timeless tribute to the speed, strength and unyielding spirit that make America great” and said “that spirit is what will fuel America’s Golden Age.” Trump's appearance will be his second time attending the Daytona 500 as president.

        PHILADELPHIA — Quinyon Mitchell’s football career ended in 2019 when he graduated from high school and did not have a college to attend. He once planned to play at the Florida, but his grades dipped as a senior at Williston High School in Florida, and the Gators backed off. He tried to improve his academic standing that summer but fell short of qualifying for college. That could have been it. ...

        DALLAS — No matter what you hear these days, the Cowboys aren’t actually shopping Micah Parsons. Which is good, because North Texas couldn’t survive the loss of another civic icon so soon. Same as if the Cotton Bowl had suddenly imploded in 2012 before Big Tex stopped smoking. The image of him burning alive still gives me the shivers. Jerry Jones has done a lot of crazy stuff over the past ...

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