BY J.A. SCHWARTZ On Opening Day 2024, when the Padres and Dodgers kicked off the season in Seoul, South Korea, seven of the nine players on the field for San Diego had played shortstop at some point in their careers, and most had played more than 100 games as professionals …
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BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The 106th NFL season kicks off on Thursday when the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles host their long time NFC East rivals the Dallas Cowboys in a nationally televised contest. Philadelphia, led by head coach Nick Sirianni, will seek to achieve something the Eagles franchise hasn’t done in …
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BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The Kansas City Chiefs are the defending AFC Champions, having advanced to the Super Bowl for the fifth time in Patrick Mahomes’ young career following the 2024 season. Even though their quest to become the first team in league history to win three straight Super Bowls fell …
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By J.A. SCHWARTZ Padres General Manager A.J. Preller and the Major League Baseball trade deadline are clearly made for each other. Preller, who famously gets by on fewer hours sleep than most of his peers, made several high-impact trades that offloaded a plethora of minor league talent to bolster a …
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BY J.A SCHWARTZ The San Francisco Giants have been looking for an elite hitter for the better part of a decade. They’ve failed to secure such an asset via free agency over the past several off-seasons, missing out on the likes of Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Carlos Correa (due to …
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BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The Minnesota Twins won their eighth straight game in dramatic fashion on Sunday, sweeping the Giants by a score of 7-6 in 10 innings on a walk off single by DeShawn Keirsey Jr. to sweep the weekend series at Target Field. San Francisco took the lead in …
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BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The Yankees are the defending American League Champions, and currently have the second best odds to win the title in 2025. After losing the World Series to Los Angeles in five games, the Yankees had to endure some trash talk from Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly. On a …
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BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The Dodgers are the overwhelming favorite to repeat as the champions of Major League Baseball, having won their second title in five seasons with their domination of the New York Yankees in last year’s World Series. That team finished with 98 wins, the most in the game, …
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BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The NFL playoffs kick off Saturday and will culminate with Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans on February 9th. The 2024 regular season whittled the field of contenders from 32 down to the 14 who qualified for the playoffs, and each of those teams have survived the …
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BY J.A. SCHWARTZ The 49ers franchise has won five Super Bowls, with only Pittsburgh and New England eclipsing that mark, having won six each to set the standard of excellence that all other teams aspire to. They’ve appeared in the championship game twice in the past five seasons, losing both …
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