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The World Series Is On, and Baseball Is Still on Course to Lock Itself Out on December 1

Scott — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:13:24 +0000

The best week of the baseball calendar is happening right now, and both sides of the sport’s labor fight picked it to announce they’re not budging. Before Game 1 of the World Series, commissioner Rob Manfred said the players’ union boss, Bruce Meyer, “is not prepared to do a status quo deal.” Meyer said anything’s ...

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The Commanders Tied a Game They Could Have Won With a Field Goal. Why Can’t NFL Coaches Manage the Clock?

Scott — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:14:35 +0000

On October 11, the Washington Commanders had the ball in overtime with 55 seconds left, a kicker on the roster, and a field goal about 41 yards away that would have won the game. They tied instead. Here’s how you do that. Washington ran Rachaad White for two yards at the 55-second mark, then the ...

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Every Time Lamar Jackson Gets Hurt, the Ravens Say It’s Nothing. Then He Disappears for Weeks.

Scott — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:14:47 +0000

Lamar Jackson is out again today at Cleveland, his second straight miss, and two weeks ago nobody in Baltimore made it sound like a big deal. After the Tennessee game, coach Jesse Minter described it as “a little bit of an ankle” issue, then tacked on “we hope.” He also said, “We don’t know enough ...

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Every Team Could Technically Bid on Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Here’s How Many Actually Had a Shot.

Scott — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:48:02 +0000

On paper, all 30 teams had a shot at Yoshinobu Yamamoto. On paper, I also had a shot at dunking on LeBron. Technically true, completely useless. When he came over from Japan, the Dodgers landed him for 12 years and $325 million, plus a posting fee of just over $50 million to his old team, ...

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MLB Wants 154 Games. Fine. But Winning Your Division Has to Mean Something.

Scott — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:11:32 +0000

Baseball wants to give back eight games a year and I’d take that deal before they finish the sentence. The playoff part of the pitch, though, is where they lose me. Here’s what MLB put in front of the players union today: a 154-game regular season starting in 2029, a best-of-seven Division Series, and a ...

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Presidents Cup Players Get a Quarter-Million Dollars Just to Show Up. The Crowd Still Wouldn’t Clap.

Inspired by Scott — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:14:38 +0000

Every player, captain, and assistant captain at this week’s Presidents Cup collected a $250,000 check before a single putt dropped. Add up both rosters and that’s $8.5 million handed out for an event that still bills itself as an exhibition played for pride, not pay. Nobody bothered updating the pitch. The money itself isn’t new. ...

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Netflix Paid $200 Million for the Women’s World Cup. The Real Cost Is Who Gets Locked Out.

Scott — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:13:27 +0000

In August 2023, the Women’s World Cup final aired for free on Fox, and it drew the biggest U.S. television audience a Women’s World Cup final has ever pulled in. Four years from now, watching the next one will cost you a Netflix subscription. FIFA and Netflix just made it official. Netflix is now the ...

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MLB Owners Want a Salary Cap. The Numbers Say They Might Be Right.

Scott — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:13:32 +0000

I never expected to write a sentence defending baseball’s owners. But here we are, six months into MLB’s ugliest labor fight in a generation, and I keep landing on the same uncomfortable conclusion: this time, they might actually have a point. Formal CBA talks between MLB and the players’ union started on May 12. The ...

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