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Dave Hyde / Sun-Sentinel:
Understandable and unusual, Josh Boyer returns to Dolphins defense to protect Mike McDaniel's blindside — MIAMI GARDENS — If you want a nostalgic reunion, there was former Miami Dolphins cornerbacks Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain, together again, talking Wednesday about coaching with each other this time.
Buster Olney / ESPN:
A hurricane of activity: 8 things that will happen once the MLB lockout ends — When (and if) baseball resumes in 2022, general managers will work a lot like NFL coaches at the outset of games, with their first moves scripted. At the transaction kickoff, you can almost imagine Red Sox honcho Chaim Bloom …
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Daniel Jeremiah / NFL.com:
Daniel Jeremiah 2022 NFL mock draft 2.0: Bills land another playmaking WR for Josh Allen — Now that college all-star game season is complete, here's my updated forecast for Round 1 of the 2022 NFL Draft. — Pick — This offseason is all about supporting Trevor Lawrence.
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Little progress toward collective bargaining agreement as talks continue between MLB, MLBPA — JUPITER, Fla. — Day 2 of in-person meetings Tuesday between Major League Baseball and the MLBPA once again produced little progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement while the league actually viewed …
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Sources: MLB, players' union still far apart after latest meeting yields no game-changer in CBA negotiations — JUPITER, Fla. — Five hours in the boardroom on Monday — sometimes together, sometimes in their own caucus — didn't equate to major progress between MLB and the MLB Players Association …
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Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Tom Brady Makes Post-Football Moves, to Produce, Appear in Road Trip Comedy for Paramount, Endeavor Content (Exclusive) — Hollywood icons Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and Sally Field will star in ‘80 for Brady,’ which Kyle Marvin will direct and Brady will produce via his 199 Productions.
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Rick Stroud / Tampa Bay Times:
Are you sitting down? Blaine Gabbert may be QB the Bucs need — The 32-year-old veteran knows Bruce Arians' system, has size and pedigree, and taught Tom Brady the offense. He is behind Door No. 1. — TAMPA — Less than two weeks before the start of free agency, here's where the Bucs' quarterback search stands:
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Hall of Famer Goose Gossage wants to punch MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, stick Brian Cashman in a trash can … SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage is sitting in a booth in the breakfast eatery, a golf cap pulled down low, his traditional Fu Manchu mustache still covering …
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Evan Drellich / MLB - The Athletic:
Incremental moves in MLB bargaining won't save Opening Day, standard season — JUPITER, Fla. — If you're following baseball's negotiations to learn whether the season will start on time, then the meetings in Florida have been only one thing: futile. — Have two straight days of talks …
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John Romano / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Reading the tea leaves — and dollar signs — it's time to end MLB lockout — Here is a bold prediction that shouldn't be all that bold: — By this time next week, baseball's lockout will have ended. — Recent headlines do not support this, and the general mood does not reflect this.
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Craig Morgan / PHNX:
Coyotes waive then trade goalie Carter Hutton to Maple Leafs, but he's not going anywhere — The curious case of Coyotes goalie Carter Hutton got a little stranger on Monday. — One day after Arizona waived the injured veteran, he cleared waivers and everybody assumed that he would be assigned to Tucson.
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