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Marlins are attempting to build on the success of 2023 World Baseball Classic, but a year too lateThe 2023 World Baseball Classic was fantastic. I was watching the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament at a bar in Los Angeles, when I noticed that most people there had gathered to watch Mexico take on Puerto Rico. The energy in the room was captivating, much of it because Loan Depot Park in Miami was ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here are some of the best HBCU athletes to make it in the prosWe’ve already highlighted some of the famous Black celebrities who are HBCU alumni, but what about the athletes?...

Royals having busy offseason signing lowest-tier free agentsIn the shock of the MLB offseason, the Kansas City Royals have been one of the league’s most active teams in free agency. While the Dodgers are locking up the biggest names, the Royals are dishing out deals to every player you forgot was still playing. In total, Kansas City has already committed $10...

Why is Juan Soto such a burden?

Juan Soto might be the best hitter of his generation. In the past 53 years, only six players have accumulated more fWAR than Soto has before hitting age 25. They are Mike Trout, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, Ken Griffey Jr, and Andruw Jones. All of them Hall of Famers except for Jones. And the othe...

Here's who we have winning the National League awards

Now we move on to the National League, where the MVP debate will have writers at each other’s throats for months. It’s Miggy vs. Trout all over again, where the shiny, identifiable accomplishment is pitted against the better overall season without some benchmark to point to. The Cy Young will come d...

The 15 Most Valuable Professional Sports Franchises

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With NFL players being allowed to wear 0, here are my favorite athletes to don the number

Look at the NFL trying to be looser as an organization. First, it relaxed restrictions on player numbers in 2021, and the league has decided that in 2023 a forbidden number will be allowed. Certain players will be allowed to wear the No. 0....

This is what it's all about

It’s not usually supposed to work like this in baseball. The quirk, some would say the beauty, of the game is that the big at-bats can fall to anyone. They don’t always fall to a team’s star player, and in fact, they rarely do. Opponents spell out a strategy most of the time to make sure they don’t....