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“I wasn’t a very good hitter in the National League,” said Lynn, who pitched six seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals. “So I was like: ‘When you think you are going to be early, you are going to be really late. So think even ahead of that.’ He was like, ‘Really?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I promise.’ He was like, ‘You are right,’ after the game. At least I did one thing there.”
“We have no control of what those other teams are going to do, how their schedules are going to play out, who’s going to play, who’s going to sit,” coach Billy Donovan said before the game. “And to waste any time or energy on something we can’t control, to me, is a waste of time. We’ve got to focus on what we’ve got to do.”
Chase Stillman, an 18-year-old right winger and the younger brother of Hawks defenseman Riley Stillman, projects as a second- to fourth-round pick in the NHL draft, set for July 23 and 24. Riley, 23, was selected by the Florida Panthers in the fourth round in 2016, so he has been through the experience.
“I feel like we make a bomb move and it’s a travel (call), and in the NBA, you’ve got Giannis (Antetokounmpo) taking 97 steps and everybody’s like, ‘Wow, that’s amazing!’” Parker said. “I mean, it’s amazing, but can we get similar rules? I’m not saying the NBA can’t travel. I’m saying, just let the WNBA travel.”
Former Chicago Bears head coach Dick Jauron and his wife, Gail, are poised to sell their four-bedroom, 3,204-square-foot duplex town home in Lake Forest for $699,000. They have had the home on and off the market for more than a decade, and it is under contract to sell. – Original Credit: Lake County Assessor (HANDOUT)
Hamstring issues hampered Marisnick, 30, during last year’s shortened season with the New York Mets. He missed a month with a left hamstring strain, and three weeks after returning, he went back on the IL with right hamstring tightness, which ended his season.
The Chicago White Sox, who had fewer than 9,500 fans at each home game at 40,615-seat Guaranteed Rate Field through the first week in May, could be allowed to accommodate more than 24,000. (For what it’s worth, the last season in which average Sox attendance exceeded 24,000 was 2012.)
Streaming service ESPN+’s “Between the Lines: NFL Schedule Release” from 7-9 p.m. will feature the “Daily Wager” crew (Doug Kezirian, Joe Fortenbaugh, Tyler Fulghum, Steve Coughlin, and Anita Marks) and folks from “Fantasy Football Now,” such as Matthew Berry, Field Yates, Stephania Bell and Mike Clay to offer a wagering perspective on the schedule .
“While we do not know definitively that this was the source of the alleged 21 picograms found in Medina Spirit’s post-race blood sample, and our investigation is continuing, I have been told by equine pharmacology experts that this could explain the test results,” Baffert said in his statement.
“The thing that really stood out for me was after we won a World Series, the parade, when we turn that corner, man, it was just crazy,” Harris said. “Being a young kid from Cairo, Georgia, population of maybe 10,000, there were more than 10,000 people at our parade and I was just in awe.”