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Right around the time the last good teams fielded by the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals were fading, baseball gifted them a rosier path forward. In rapid succession, the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros vaulted from 100-loss depths to the playoffs and then to World Series titles. Instead of having good teams and bad teams, MLB fans quickly found that they were watching either good teams, disappointing teams or “rebuilding” teams. These were franchises that had certainly experienced… Source link

Bad plays in baseball happen every day. But bad plays like this one absolutely do not happen every day. On Tuesday night, the Detroit Tigers handed the Minnesota Twins a walk-off win in the ugliest and most spectacular way possible: a thoroughly botched play. Let’s set the stage. It’s the bottom of the ninth at Target Field and the Tigers are up 4-3, but the Twins are threatening with runners on first and second and only one out. Miguel Sano, who was hitting .083 coming into Tuesday night’s… Source link

Despite the amount of talent the 2021 Clemson football team will possess, Yahoo Sports doesn’t like the Tigers’ chances of advancing past the CFB Playoff semifinal round for a second-straight season. Yahoo Sports posted bowl projections for the 2021 season and had Clemson making it to the CFB Playoff, but nothing more. The publication had Clemson in the Orange Bowl taking on the Oklahoma Sooners. On the other side of the bracket, it was Alabama and Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. The end… Source link

Auburn’s 2021-22 basketball season is still six month away from beginning but the people over at Yahoo Sports are already looking at where two Tigers might end up in the 2022 NBA draft. High up on the list is Jabari Smith Jr., the incoming freshman and highest-ranked recruit in program history. He is slotted at the No. 3 overall spot. “Smith Jr.’s dad, Jabari Smith, played four years in the NBA and five years overseas. Last fall, Smith Jr. went up against Holmgren at the Pangos West… Source link

The Telegraph Karen Carney deletes her Twitter account after receiving barrage of sexist abuse Former England international Karen Carney has deleted her Twitter account having received a barrage of sexist abuse from social media users following Leeds United’s criticism of her punditry via their official account. The Premier League club “completely condemned” the abuse on Wednesday, although they have not deleted their post, which was aimed in response to comments Carney made while… Source link