Register here To get Inside the Nets delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. The NBA leans on its drama — and it’s hard to imagine a team surrounded by more drama and wild stories over the course of the proverbial second half of the season than the Nets. The Nets are in an almost unbelievable position with the best betting odds to win the championship and among the most question marks in the league entering the extended race: When can Kevin Durant return? Will you play Kyrie Irving at…
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How the Yankees are trying to get bowlers to shoot more forcefully
TAMPA – Pickway, a 22-year-old right-winger who finished last season with High-A Hudson Valley, casually mentioned this week while speaking to reporters at Steinbrenner Field that he hit 100 mph with a radar gun in 2021. About a year ago around this time, left-handed member Ken Waldichuk, who might find his way into the Yankees’ staff at some point this season, mentioned his notable speed increase. Throughout the Yankees’ minor league system, which is filled with triple-speed arms, there has been an increasing focus on a simple strategy: throwing harder.…
Read MoreMLB Lockdown could join these miserable chapters in sports history
The threat has been issued. The MLB has set a deadline for Monday to agree on a new collective bargaining agreement; A league spokesperson stated that opening day (March 31) will be postponed if no agreement is reached by then. Regular season matches will be canceled and will not be rescheduled. Although the MLB and the players’ union finally showed a slight sense of urgency to end the shutdown by meeting daily this week, the two sides are still far from agreeing on multiple fronts. I see no reason to…
Read MoreWhere Freddy Freeman and Carlos Correa could land
We are closer to Major League Baseball. This sentence does not contain much insight. The League and Players Association will negotiate a settlement in the coming days and the season will start on time on March 31, or the opening day will not be pushed back to mid-April or early May, or… Unless the league is dissolved, every second brings us closer to the return of the sport. And I may not have much faith in the negotiators, but I doubt this will lead to a breakup. Well, I’m sure…
Read MoreBen Simmons, Kyrie Irving, NBA players to watch in the second half
Register here To get beyond the back page delivered to your inbox every morning of the week. The NBA slate resumes Thursday night for the Nets and after one night for the Knicks with both home teams among the intriguing storylines for Hoops fans to watch over the extended run of the regular season. Individually, many of the big-name players have a lot at stake over the coming months as well, whether it has to do with the success of their teams or in terms of their personal future. With…
Read MoreGlobal DH likely to end 50 years of debate
Register here To get beyond the back page delivered to your inbox every morning of the week. Rob Manfred has shrugged it off, ending decades of shouting at what counts as a shrug. During a February 10 news conference, the Major League Baseball commissioner went point by point in updating the league’s position and players in talks to end the shutdown. After a minute and a half of publicity meant to show how much MLB was being sacrificed — agreeing to a draft lottery to help curb decline, and higher…
Read MoreHow Elliot Steinmetz Turned The Yeshiva Into The Power Of Hoops
Attorney by Commerce attorney Elliot Steinmetz took over a successful season seven years ago and turned Macs into a third-tier powerhouse with a multi-year winning streak, all in his spare time. Cross Island Parkway is behaving strangely. She is attractive and agreeable, as if meeting her future in-laws for the first time. Even Cross Bronx is an agreeable brother, more ferocious than a non-evil sister. The navigation system is a frill, oddly redundant during the rush hour drive from Long Island to Washington Heights. Elliot Steinmetz arrives in plenty of…
Read MoreWhat NBA team can get LeBron James and Bronny James in 2024?
Register here To get beyond the back page delivered to your inbox every morning of the week. The family reunion is generally not planned more than two years ahead of schedule, but LeBron James made sure to send out “save the date” cards to all 30 NBA teams over the weekend. If four-time player of the year and four-time champion is really serious about his plan to team up with his son Bruni once young James becomes eligible to enlist in 2024 – and there’s no reason to believe he’s…
Read MoreGoodbye to the Olympic Games that caught everyone cold
Register here To get beyond the back page delivered to your inbox every morning of the week. Of course, Olympians will remember these games completely differently. There will be no star signs in Erin Jackson’s mind when the first-ever black woman to win the women’s 500m speed skating race looks at her gold medal. When 76-year-old Lindsey Jacobless and Nick Baumgartner look at the evidence that the oldest duo to compete in mixed team skiing is back home, they’ll have no stopping. .
Read MoreESPN hopes stability will keep NFL studio performances going
Register here to get Andrew Marchand the mare athlete Delivered to your inbox every Monday morning. News: ESPN hopes to re-sign all free NFL TV studio agents, according to sources. Countdown chemistry: While the weekday show, “NFL Live” has overtaken “Sunday NFL Countdown” in several ways in terms of importance, ESPN has no plans to change the staff’s on-air arrangement for each show. The network hopes to re-sign the countdown Randy MossAnd the Matt Hasselbeck and the host Sam BonderAccording to the sources. Display 7 numbers: ESPN’s efforts may not…
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