Jayson Jenks
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RT @Ken_Rosenthal: Inside the high-tech hitting lab where the Braves’ Austin Riley and other stars test their bats. Story: .
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One baseball star after another has flocked to the lab the past two offseasons, for a high-tech determination of which bat suits them best.
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RT @CJMooreHoops: This story on KJ Adams and his mom was hard to write, but I’m honored they trusted me to tell it. No matter who you root….
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Kansas' KJ Adams has found his place, as a son, a brother, a student and a Jayhawk.
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RT @rustindodd: A quarter-century ago, some grad students on a Usenet discussion group came together to write a baseball book that was bare….
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This was fun: @SandoNFL and I popped a surprise trivia game on Geno Smith and the convo we had turned into a cool look at his growth, resolve and attitude.
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Smith went six seasons in between being an NFL starter, but that time prepared him for this year's star turn.
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RT @slmandel: Interesting and frankly maddening story by @AndyBitterVT on a Virginia Tech player who got suspended by the NCAA for half t….
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Hokies football player Alan Tisdale self-reported legal bets made on the NBA finals, resulting in a suspension for half of his senior year.
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RT @BruceFeldmanCFB: Entering 2021, Jim Harbaugh was on the hottest seat in the country. Since then @UMichFootball is 21-2 & getting better….
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In a high school coach who built a national powerhouse from scratch, the Wolverines found the man who helped right the ship in Ann Arbor.
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The WFL was a beautiful disaster. ✔️One owner borrowed $27K from his coach, then fired him the next day. ✔️ One coach told reporters after a game: "We are defunct or something.". ✔️Deputies confiscated the uniforms of the team that WON the TITLE.
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Stripped of every artificial incentive to play pro football, the little-knowns and has-beens of the WFL had the times of their lives.
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RT @TheAthleticCFB: 🗣 "CINCO Y CERO”. Undefeated @KU_Football has become a top storyline of the college football season. Meet Federico Mor….
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Kansas sophomore Federico Moreno's calls have gone viral as the Jayhawks have become an unexpected top storyline of the 2022 season.
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RT @jessetemple: “The biggest compliment you can give Paul happens to be his biggest flaw.”. Wisconsin was thought to be one of the most st….
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What led a Wisconsin football program not known for drastic actions to shockingly fire Paul Chryst and give Jim Leonhard an interim chance.
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RT @BrownieAthletic: An unexpected perk of this Dusty Baker story is that readers are chiming in with their own amazing encounters, includi….
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"And the thing is, most of the stories are true," says one former player. "It’s the Legend of Dusty."
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RT @Ken_Rosenthal: BREAKING: Dayton Moore out as Royals president of baseball operations. Story with @ByMcCullough:
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Dayton Moore has been relieved of his role as Royals president of baseball operations.
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RT @PJ_Mooney: Why do players love playing for Dusty Baker? Let them explain “The Legend of Dusty” through some of their favorite stories a….
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RT @skhanjr: We FOIA'd receipts and itineraries to see what it was like when Texas hosted Arch Manning and 8 others on an official visit.….
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Tomahawk steaks, Four Seasons and Lady Bird Lake tour part of the Longhorns' 48-hour, nearly $280,000 whirlwind weekend.
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RT @ByMcCullough: The Royals staked a second rebuild on a group of pitchers taken in the 2018 draft. As Year 5 of Process 2.0 concludes, he….
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The Royals took four college pitchers in the top 40 picks of the 2018 draft, but only Brady Singer has found major-league success so far.
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RT @stephenjnesbitt: The 1987 Salt Lake Trappers were a team of undrafted baseball rejects owned, in part, by . Bill Murray?. They won, a….
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RT @slmandel: What a list by @Andy_Staples. I remember watching every one of them (and was fortunate to cover quite a few). https://t.co/….
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Rule changes. Coaching contracts. The modernization of the SEC. These games changed the college football landscape as we know it.
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Keanu not only went out and did it, but the memory of what happened right after Keanu ran off the field still hit the stunt coordinator hard when he talked about it more than 20 years later.
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In the Replacements, Keanu pleaded to play himself in the climatic final drive of the movie. It was to be filmed in front of a full crowd, at halftime of a Ravens preseason game. Time was precious.
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On Hardball, he bummed cigarettes from the parents of child actors. On the Replacements, he brought dinner to his stunt doubles. And he apparently has a mean glove hand in net. Keanu Reeves is the best: .
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