Subscribe to Baseball Bar-B-CastThe Chicago Cubs needed a big-time player to join their roster and improve their offense after a disappointing 2024 season. Late last week, they finally did it by landing one of the most coveted trade chips on the block: Kyle Tucker of the Houston Astros.Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the blockbuster trade that sent the three-time All-Star to the Windy City and why it doesn’t matter that the Cubs had to trade a few notable prospects to land the outfielder Gold Glove. They also wonder why the Astros ultimately traded Tucker and couldn’t get an extension…
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Jim Tunney, who spent three decades as an NFL official, has died at the age of 95.Tunney was the referee for Super Bowl VI, Super Bowl XI and Super Bowl XII, and participated in legendary games including the Ice Bowl in Green Bay, the Fog Bowl in Chicago and The Catch in San Francisco.Tunney was the youngest official in the NFL when he was hired in 1960, at the age of 30, and he continued to have a keen eye on the game well into his 90s, closely monitoring officials when he watched the matches.”I see a play on the…
The Colorado Avalanche announced Sunday that they have signed forward Tye Felhaber to a two-year, two-way contract. Felhaber signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Eagles, the Avalanche’s AHL affiliate, on August 12.The Pembroke, Ontario native went undrafted until signing an entry-level contract with the Dallas Stars organization in March 2019, where he was sent to their AHL affiliate , the Texas Stars, and made his team debut during the 2019-20 season. He played 86 games with the Stars until being traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning’s AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch, in February 2022, with whom he played three…
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What we learned when the Warriors failed in the shootout against the Mavs originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay AreaBOX SCORESAN FRANCISCO – Too much Luka Dončić, too little time for the Warriors Sunday night at Chase Center in a 143-133 loss to the Dallas Mavericks.What a difference in the styles of a game. A few days later an early exit 91-90 In the NBA Cup Quarterfinals, the Warriors trailed the Mavericks 81-74 in the first two quarters as defense was seemingly optional.Offense wasn’t a problem for the Warriors. For the first time all season, the Warriors had four players…
Review of the women’s tennis season: Aryna Sabalenka rises, Coco Gauff evolves, Zheng Qinwen breaks throughTennis is finally catching its breath. After four Grand Slam56 other WTA Tour tournaments and the small matter of Paris 2024 OlympicsTHE tennis calendar enters its off-season – during which players are mostly first in the Maldives and then on the training grounds before the new campaign begins in Australia and New Zealand at the end of December.In a review of the 2024 WTA season, the tennis team looks back at Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek’s battle for world number one; Zheng Qinwen’s breakthrough; The…
The baseball of Freddie FreemanThe World Series grand slam sold for $1.56 million at auction Saturday evening.The $1.56 million bid made this ball the third most expensive baseball game ever, according to SCP Auctions. Shohei Ohtani 50th home run of last season, when Ohtani became an MLB player first player 50-50, sold at auction for $4.4 million. Mark McGwire’s 70th home run in 1998 cost $3.005 million.Freeman raised the Los Angeles Dodgers to one 6–3 victory on the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the 2024 World Series with his 10th inning home run off Nestor Cortés. This dramatic…
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