July 21: Brian Windhorst on Russ, LeBron, and Durant's Hidden Agenda So today, we celebrate the life and career of our favorite baseball nerd: the story of a short, skinny kid who took a love of baseball, and not much else, and made it all the way to Cooperstown. This weekend, as baseball inducts a new class into the Hall of Fame, Kurkjian will receive the Career Excellence Award from the Baseball Writers Association of America.
But as of tomorrow, there's another way to describe Tim Kurkjian: Hall of Famer. There are many ways to describe ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian: Brilliant. Mina Kimes takes us through all the QB shakeups and shares her complicated feelings on Seattle's QB battle between Geno Smith and Drew Lock, and addresses Russell Wilson's move to Denver. All eyes are on the quarterback competition in Carolina, between Baker Mayfield, who's gearing up for a revenge tour, and Sam Darnold, who started for the Panthers last season. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens have yet to work out a deal to extend his contract, making him the last big name left with his future up in the air, after Kyler Murray agreed to a massive extension with the Cardinals just last week. NFL training camps are open and the storm clouds of drama are swirling. July 25: Mina Kimes on NFL Training Camp-A-Palooza So with a week to go until the MLB's trade deadline, Jeff Passan tells us which teams are all-in on the Soto sweepstakes.and how his contract negotiations even got to this point. Several teams are interested, but only a few can even afford to give up players and prospects necessary to make it all work, let alone give him the contract he wants. But the Washington Nationals are seeking to do just that after Soto turned down a 15-year, $440 million contract extension a few weeks ago. July 26: Will Juan Soto be Baseball's Biggest Trade Ever?Īt 23 years old, Juan Soto is the type of generational talent that hasn't been available this early in his career since maybe Babe Ruth. Alan Shipnuck, the reporter who has followed this league from the start, tells us what all this means for the present and future of golf. However, this week's tournament not only adds the controversial brand of our former President, but it's all being held at the doorstep of New York City's hallowed Ground Zero, inciting even larger protests from families of 9/11 victims. The LIV Golf Tour makes its latest stop this week at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, bringing all the drama that this Saudi Arabian-funded venture has fostered since its inception. July 27: LIV Golf Arrives at Ground Zero's Doorstep Jarrod Kimber has been covering the sport for 15 years, and he explains how and why this scam happened.and why those who know cricket know this kind of thing is par for the course. But the target of the scam, according to police, were online bettors from countries like Russia, without a strong cricket tradition. To anyone with a passing familiarity with the game, it should have been obvious that something wasn't right - because the actual IPL had concluded their season weeks earlier. The fake league reportedly broadcast their matches on the internet, and purported to be legitimate matches from the Indian Premier League, the most lucrative cricket league in the world.
Several weeks ago, reports of a mysterious fake cricket league run out of a rural town in India captured worldwide attention. It's a story so crazy it seems destined for a Hollywood treatment. July 28: How a Fake Cricket League Scammed Online Bettors Depe nding on the day and time, recent episodes might only appear in the playlist above.
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