According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the NBA Board of Governors have voted to approve a 22-team format to resume the 2019-2020 National Basketball Association season. He reports that it was a 29-1 vote in favor of the season returning. The NBAPA’s team representatives will hold a conference call on Friday to approve the 22-team plan to restart the season. There will be an eight-game...
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Steve Gelbs grew up around the sports world with his dad being a physical therapist for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. In addition, his grandfather owned a dry cleaning business that served a regular customer by the name of Tom Seaver. Gelbs would go onto the Newhouse School of Publications Communications at Syracuse University, where he would earn a bachelor’s degree....
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Per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, Major League Baseball has rejected the latest proposal from the MLBPA, citing concern over the number of games played. Joel Sherman of The New York Post corroborates Rosenthal’s tweet, adding the owners will pay full pro-rated salaries for a season of approximately 50 games. For an 82-game campaign, players would receive less than half of their original...
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It was one month before the country celebrated its Bicentennial, June 4, 1976 when Dave “King Kong” Kingman had his finest day of his career for the Mets. Playing right field and batting cleanup for the Mets at Dodger Stadium in a scoreless game, after John “The Hammer” Milner singled to center leading off the fourth, Kingman hit his first home run of the day off Dodger...
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By Marissa Credle Everyone in Major League Baseball dedicates April 15th as Jackie Robinson Day, a day where we celebrate the life of a man who broke the color barrier for baseball. While great strides have been made in increasing the amount of African-American baseball players, they only accounted for 7.7% of all major league players, according to USA Today. There are a multitude of reason...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Major League Baseball declined the proposal for an 114 game season by the players association as expected, per The Athletic. MLB Insider Ken Rosenthal went on to report that the MLB will not send a counter offer as the league has started talks with owners about playing a shortened season without fans, and are open to exploring new ideas with the union. As we await...
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