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In addition, management increased its offer to increase the minimum salary for players with less than one year of major league service from $600,000 to $615,000, but with a provision teams couldn’t pay more than that amount. Players have proposed a $775,000 minimum next year, up from $570,500.
He missed the 2012 season when the NFL suspended Payton, assistant coach Joe Vitt, general manager Mickey Loomis and four players after an investigation found the Saints had a performance pool offering cash rewards for key plays, including big hits. The player suspensions eventually were overturned by former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, and Payton was reinstated early in 2013.
“In our line of work, it’s really important that we turn over every stone, and Ryan is outstanding when it comes to research and details,” Veach said. “He loves the game; you can tell by his attitude and the way he grinds. Beyond that, he’s a tremendous talent evaluator and plays a key role in our personnel department.”
Similarly, some Bears fans figure to feel a certain level of disappointment when they realize Rick Smith, the former Houston Texans GM and executive vice president of football operations, never interviewed here. Smith, according to one league source, privately expressed interest in learning more about the Bears’ future plans as early as December, before it was known what exactly the organization planned to do with then-GM Ryan Pace or team president/CEO Ted Phillips.
Colás, 23, played in the Serie Nacional, Cuba’s top-level league, from 2016-20, the Japan Western League from 2017-19 and the Japan Pacific League in 2019, where he combined to slash .282/.343/.483 with 38 doubles, five triples, 28 home runs, 116 RBIs and 102 runs in 187 career games.
There are 114 men, 108 women and one athlete who identifies as nonbinary — figure skater Timothy LeDuc — on the roster. The 223 athletes make up the second-biggest contingent the U.S. has ever sent to the Games. The opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics is Feb. 4, with some of the curling action beginning on Feb. 2.
“I feel like I’ve always been the guy where it’s like, oh, he’s a Midwest guy, we don’t know how good he actually is,” Priester said. “Being from the Midwest, you don’t get the same publicity as maybe some of the warmer-state players. And then once people started to talk about it, it got to me a little bit, so I just need to reel it back in and I feel in a much better place going into this spring training.”
“We had our opportunities,” King said. “That’s a really good hockey team. If we thought it was going to be easy — and I don’t think we thought it was going to be easy — there was times we competed the right way and other times we dropped our compete level a little lower than it should be, and they capitalized.
“Anytime you take that kind of scoring off the floor, you don’t want to necessarily feel like one person’s got to make it up, but you try to do it collectively as a unit,” Donovan said. “But (LaVine’s) ability to generate things both for himself and for others is always something he does an incredibly high level.”
Agent Joel Segal told ESPN in 2013: “In dealing with Omar, you always know what you are getting. He’s going to be prepared, he’s going to be forward, he’s going to be tough. He’s always going to be willing to listen to you even if he doesn’t agree with you. You better be prepared because he’s on top of his business.”