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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Nearly two months into MLB lockout, when is it time to worry about spring training and Opening Day? — The MLB lockout is about to enter its third month. — When it began back on Dec. 2, MLB and the MLBPA had 119 days before the start of a new season to figure things out.
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Forbes, Bleed Cubbie Blue, Bleacher Nation and baseballmusings.com
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MLB - The Athletic:
With spring training likely to be delayed, here's why MLB and the Players Association are still far apart — Anyone sensing momentum in baseball's collective bargaining negotiations needs to take a deep breath. League and player representatives continue to hold much different views of the game's economics.
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Spring training likely to be delayed after CBA meeting yields no progress between MLB, MLBPA, sources say — The collective bargaining meeting between the Major League Baseball Players Association and MLB on Tuesday afternoon led to no significant progress, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN …
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Sports Illustrated, Bless You Boys and baseballmusings.com
David Furones / Sun-Sentinel:
Brian Flores claims Dolphins owner Steve Ross offered him $100K to lose games in lawsuit alleging racist hiring practices in NFL — MOBILE, ALA. — Former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL and three teams — the Dolphins, New York Giants and Denver Broncos — on Tuesday.
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Denver Post, Associated Press, Shaw Media Local, CBS Boston, Touchdown Wire, Sportsnet.ca and Dolphins Wire
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Sun-Sentinel:
Read the lawsuit filed by Brian Flores against the Miami Dolphins, the NFL and other teams — Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three of its teams, including the Dolphins, on Feb. 1, 2022, saying racist hiring practices by the league have left it racially segregated and managed like a plantation.
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The Big Lead, Bleacher Nation, Dolphins Wire, ProFootballTalk, FanSided and Phin Phanatic
David Furones / Sun-Sentinel:
Dolphins, still without coach, to get up-close look at draft prospects during Senior Bowl week — The saying around the Senior Bowl is “The draft starts in Mobile.” — It's known as the unofficial start to NFL draft season when more than 100 senior prospects for the 2022 draft …
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Mercury News
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Sun-Sentinel:
Harbaugh gets second interview with Vikings as Dolphins look at other candidates — Don't pencil in Jim Harbaugh as the next coach of the Miami Dolphins just yet. — Harbaugh will meet for a second interview with the Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday, suggesting the University of Michigan coach is ready to return to the NFL.
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The Viking Age, Dolphins Wire, New York Post, Bleacher Nation and Vikings Wire
Keith Law / MLB - The Athletic:
Top 100 MLB prospects 2022: Keith Law's rankings, with Orioles' Adley Rutschman at No. 1 — Welcome to this year's ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I've been compiling and writing such rankings for 15 years now, and those of you who've read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past.
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Sports Illustrated, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Athletic, Factory of Sadness, BoSox Injection, Bleacher Nation, Steve Melewski, Talking Chop, Bluebird Banter, NBCSports.com, Yahoo! Sports, Over the Monster, Red Reporter, Lone Star Ball, True Blue LA, MLB Baseball News … and Covering the Corner
Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Bears hire Green Bay Packers assistant Luke Getsy as their new offensive coordinator after naming Ian Cunningham as assistant GM — If you can't beat them, steal them. Or something like that. — The Chicago Bears hired an offensive coordinator who was considered an important assistant …
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Orange County Register, Boston Herald and Mercury News
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Joon Lee / ESPN:
Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani on cover of MLB the Show 22 — The Show is going Sho Time. — Los Angeles Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani will grace the cover of Sony's MLB the Show 22 video game following his historic 2021 season. Ohtani made history in the process …
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Halos Heaven, DraftKings Nation, Sports Illustrated and Orange County Register
Jonas Shaffer / Baltimore Sun:
‘Change is inevitable and growth is required’: Ravens coach John Harbaugh discusses disappointing 2021 season, alterations for 2022 — After a season that turned his quarterback into a limping bystander, his defense into a turnstile and his injured reserve into a list of expensive absentees …
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Mercury News, Orange County Register and Ebony Bird
Pete Thamel / ESPN:
Former Oklahoma Sooners QB Caleb Williams transferring to USC — Star quarterback Caleb Williams is transferring to USC, he told ESPN. — The move reunites Williams with first-year USC head coach Lincoln Riley, for whom Williams played during his breakthrough true freshman year at Oklahoma in 2021.
