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Mays’ NFT to feature diploma, benefit foundation

Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Has covered baseball since 1981 Seventy years after making his major league debut, Willie Mays is still one of the greatest baseball players of all time: the most spectacular combination of power, speed and defense the game has ever seen. And yet, when he graduated from Fairfield Industrial High School in Fairfield, Alabama, […]

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4A football: Big-play WR receiver Rashad Caldwell sparks Denver South to win over Aurora Central – The Denver Post

AURORA — Rashad Caldwell needed just one catch to prove why he’s the most electric high school wide receiver in Colorado. On Thursday night, with Denver South visiting Aurora Central, the Ravens junior lined up in the slot trailing early by a touchdown. But not for long. Caldwell broke on a shallow crossing route, snatched the football, and burst 70 […]

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How Alex Cora, the man, redefined Alex Cora, the manager

ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” HOUSTON — The manager needed to disappear for the man to reappear. Alex Cora didn’t realize it at the time, because survival tends to outweigh self-reflection when the world is collapsing around you, when everything you’ve built — respect, loyalty, acclaim — […]

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Finnish ’em! How a word with no English equivalent helped Astros get one win from World Series

Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. BOSTON — Sisu. It’s a Finnish word that, according to Finland’s tourism website, typifies the enduring spirit of all Finns: “stoic determination, hardiness, courage, bravery, willpower, tenacity and resilience.” It’s also the word Houston Astros pitching coach Brent Strom used with his pitchers in a meeting before Game […]

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How did Evan Phillips record a one-pitch strikeout in NLCS Game 5? Scoring rules aid Dodgers reliever

Dodgers reliever Evan Phillips made really quick work of the first batter he faced Thursday night: a one-pitch strikeout. How did that happen? Well, Phillips benefited from baseball’s official scoring rules, which include a lot of arcane things like one-pitch Ks. FAGAN: Dodgers on brink because circle of pitching trust too small Here’s the explanation: Phillips was called upon with […]

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