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THINGS TO CARE ABOUT
If you build it … The Yankees and White Sox are coming out of the cornfields next year, as MLB has scheduled them to play a game at the site of the classic baseball movie “Field of Dreams.” They’ll be building a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark for the game, which will be the first major league one ever played in Iowa. That’s one ticket any true baseball fan would love to have. Read More
How to name your fantasy squad … Look, we need to talk. Way too many of you have “Team [Your Last Name]” as your fantasy team name. That’s gotta stop. We have that there as a placeholder, not an excuse for you to abdicate your responsibilities! We get it, creativity is difficult. It took hours just to write this paragraph. To show you we’re willing to meet you halfway, we’ve got a list of our favorite fantasy team names — and a guide on how to make your own. Read More
Why is Pop coaching Team USA? He has absolutely nothing left to prove in the game of basketball, but here Gregg Popovich is, running around with a depleted Team USA in its run-up to the Olympics. What’s driving him? The answer, as is often the case, might come from Popovich’s distant past. Read More
WEEKEND BINGE READS
“Brutal, insufferable, and insane.” Conditions were so extreme at the first Jacksonville Jaguars training camp in the summer of 1995 that animals nearby fell dead on the spot. It was a camp in which players were pushed to their absolute limits by head coach Tom Coughlin, and though at the time they were absolutely miserable, some of them look back on the experience with a curious mixture of humor and pride. Here’s the story of the kind of training camp you’ll probably never see in the NFL again. Read More
The last of his kind … Matthew Slater has caught exactly one pass in his Patriots career, but he has the third-longest tenure on a team that’s notorious for its willingness to part with players. Slater is probably the best special-teams player in the game, a terrifying nemesis to opposing punt and kickoff returners, but as the rules change, he finds himself facing his football mortality. Fortunately for him, it’s not even close to the first time. Read More
Can you trust the robot umps? The Atlantic League’s decision to institute robot umpires was met with mixed emotions here at the Daily, although since we did bring up the possibility that said robots would turn “the whole of humanity into a rounding error in their immortal machine reign,” one would say that the main ingredient in that mixture was terror. Nonetheless, it’s our responsibility to actually find out about a thing before running to the hills, so we went to a game between the York Revolution and the Somerset Patriots to see what the future might portend. Also, the game allowed players to legally steal first base, which is super cool. Read More
THINGS TO WATCH
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De’Aaron Fox tosses the ball off the wall, then grabs it, puts it between his legs and dunks it down with his left hand.
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Zaire Wade and Bronny James Jr. have some fun in the gym as they both throw down two-handed dunks.
OVERHEARD
“It’s like wanting a Ferrari over a Camry. Those one-handed catches are cool and flashy and it gets your name out there. That Odell catch got him to be Odell.”
— Ohio State receiver K.J. Hill, on the prevalence of one-handed catches in college football Read more
REMEMBER WHEN?
On this date in 1988, the Edmonton Oilers traded Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings, in a move that caused at least one Canadian politician to demand that the government intervene. Watch the full story of the biggest trade in NHL history in “Kings Ransom,” streaming on ESPN+. Watch
WHAT’S ON THIS WEEKEND?
Little League World Series (all day Friday and Saturday, ESPN/Longhorn Network): The LLWS continues this weekend with regional matchups across the board. The main tournament takes place Aug. 15-25, with teams from across the world descending on Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to compete for the title.
UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2 (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN+): Valentina Shevchenko and Liz Carmouche haven’t fought since 2010, when Carmouche triumphed by TKO. Now, she looks to take Shevchenko’s flyweight title away in the main event. You can also catch the prelims at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
Rogers Cup final (Sunday, 1:30 p.m. ET/4 p.m. ET, ESPN2): For all the marbles. Some of the top tennis players in the world square off in Toronto in a women’s and men’s championship doubleheader.
Phillies at Giants (Sunday, 7:00 p.m. ET, ESPN): Jake Arrieta’s time with the Phillies hasn’t been quite up to his previous standards — he’s 18-19 with a 4.16 ERA with the team overall. He’ll try to reverse that trend on Sunday Night Baseball against the Giants.
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