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  1. SoxJox

    Terry Francona Named Honorary Chair for this Year's U.S. Senior Open in Newport June 26-30

    I'm a volunteer for this year's event and just received this in the event's newsletter: There was also this accompanying article.
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    Jim Palmer Files Fraud Suit

    A sad story. The alleged sad twist (the stepson mentioned below apparently is autistic, and the defendant allegedly went to great pains to befriend him and provide tangible evidence to the Palmers of his commitment to the family friendship):
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    College Football - 2024 General News

    A number of things have already occurred in 2024, like it seems Alabama commits are dropping like flies, the US DOJ joinig an antitrust lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s transfer rules, final realization of upcoming conference realignments, changes in transfer and NIL, etc. but I'll start off with...
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    2024 NCAA Wrestling

    I know this is not a tremendously popular sport in these parts, but I also know there are some enthusiasts. Penn State is looking for its 3rd straight National Championship, and 11th of the last 13 (excluding the missed 2020 COVID championship). They look poised to retain the title, with...
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    Odds and Ends

    From The Athletic's The Pulse: Eight years of service: When a player reaches the threshold, he receives a literal gold card, which grants him and a guest free entry to any regular-season MLB game for life. 160 games: Players call this “posting,” shorthand for posting up every day. It’s a...
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    Oher...what he said

    The could get very, very ugly. From The Athletic: Blindsided - Michael Oher alleges Tuohy family never adopted him, didn’t share ‘The Blind Side’ profits
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    Dodgers [Finally] Retire 34

    ‘FernandoMania’ lives on: Dodgers retire Fernando Valenzuela’s number, a long time coming BaseballRef (that 1981 season, while shortened, remains a magical one. His first 8 games, leading to CYA and ROY: 4/9: 0 ER (CG) 4/14: 1 ER (CG) 4/18: 0 ER (CG) 422: 0 ER (CG) 4/27: 0 ER (CG) 5/3: 1 ER...
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    College Football - 2023-2024 Version

    The last "normal" (i.e., before all the conference realignments) season soon begins. The first pre-season poll is out. From the Coaches Poll. 1 Georgia 0-0 1643 61 NR — 1/1 2 Michigan 0-0 1510 0 NR — 2/2 3 Alabama 0-0 1489 4 NR — 3/3 4 Ohio State 0-0 1485 1 NR...
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    Ledecky Passes Phelps

    Shattering Michael Phelps' record, Katie Ledecky shows why she's the greatest. Now has the most individual world swimming titles in history A remarkable achievement. Stunning, even,
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    How far must a ball travel to be a home run? Depends on the MLB stadium.

    From Kevin Schaul at the Washington Post. By the by, of the world's major sports played on measured fields, is baseball the only one in which the entire filed is not formally defined? As John Updike once quipped, a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. The teams helped and hurt most by where...
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    NCAA Adds New Rule for LaCrosse.

    https://www.si.com/college/pennstate/olympic-sports/ncaa-expands-mens-lacrosse-replay-after-penn-states-loss-to-duke-ncaa-championships Penn State fell to Duke at the NCAA Championships on a play that wasn't reviewable. It will be next season. Nearly two months after Penn State's controversial...
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    Compressing Photos for Posting

    I sometimes like to post photos from news articles, but often get an error that the file is TOO big (I think RBYB might have something to do wit this). How can you compress a photo for posting (I tried compressing with iMac but all it does is convert it to a zip file). And what is the max file...
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    David Ortiz Didn't Know Dustin Pedroia's Name for 9 Years

    I wasn't sure where to put this and don't know that it's been posted before, but this is hilarious. Instagram video of Ortiz roast. View: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6l5cfc
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    Kristaps Porzingis to Celtics!!!!!

    Didn't see this elsewhere, but am seeing reports of a possible 3-way trade b/t the Celtics, Clippers, and Wizards that would bring Kristap to the C's and Malcom Brogdon to the Clippers. Anyone else seeing this?
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    The Ocean Race

    Not sure how many might follow sailing, but this year's round-the-world Ocean Race is in progress (on Leg 4 from Itajaí, Brazil to Newport, RI). The race consists of 7 legs that cover about 40,000 miles and takes about 8 months to complete. They boats arrive in Newport (est.) 5/13. Newport is...
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    Snoop Dogg joins Neko Sparks' bid to buy Ottawa Senators

    Story here.
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    QB Trace McSorley finds new NFL home with Pats

    Former Penn State QB Trace McSorley finds new NFL home, reunites with former teammate
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    Will the Real Chad Powers Please Stand Up

    This is hilarious. Eli Manning goes under cover as "Chad Powers" to participate in a [real] Penn State walk-on session. View: https://youtu.be/lLhsjH3IBPc
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    iMac / Outlook / zsh - for macOS Big Sur v11.6

    So I've got an issue with my iMac that is preventing me from logging into Outlook (for Mac) running macOS BigSur v11.6. I received an alert that said the new shell for Catalina macOS and later is "zsh" (old was "bash"), and to run the following command to change it: "chsh -s /bin/zsh" I ran...
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    College Name-Image-Likeness (NIL)

    I thought we had a thread discussing NIL, but couldn't find it. I know that there have at least been references to the new avenues being made available to student-athletes. This thread is intended to provide a venue for open discussion on the topic, however wide it may range In any case, I...