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Uconn Women’s Basketball; Undefeated, Again
On Tuesday Geno and the Uconn Women’s hoop team completed a 30-0 regular season. This is the fifth time Uconn has achieved a perfect record. That’s incredible. I suppose Geno doesn’t deserve the seven figures he makes either…
Packers and Brown; Zero meaningful Off-season moves
As of mid-week, neither the Green Bay Packers [...]

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Dodgers Look Dumb Again

Earlier this morning the LA Times was reporting that the Dodgers and Manny had closed on a deal. Now they are saying that was misrepored as they say, “a high-ranking Dodgers source says there is still work to do.”
What is apparent is that Manny is flying to LA as we speak. However Boras as has [...]

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Mets interested in Manny

After turning down a one-year, $25 million deal from the Dodgers for his client, agent Scott Boras hinted that his client is still generating interest from other teams, including the Washington Nationals, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets.
It is somewhat true that the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals are among [...]

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Varitek Signs with Sox; Still No Home for Manny

Jason Varitek signed a one-year deal today with the Boston Red Sox, for $5 million a year, with an option for a second year. Blame Scott Boras for the catcher to take this long to sign. In a rough economy, a 38 year old catcher is not going to be getting the big bucks Boras [...]

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Playing the Market; this MLB Free Agency thing is tricky

It has been an interesting offseason for many of Major League Baseball’s marquee free agents. And when I say interesting I mean, things aren’t going so well…
Some lofty expectations, sometimes brought on by agents and sometimes by the players themselves, seem to be leaving some people with some bruised egos.
Andy Pettitte
The 36-year-old hurler was perturbed [...]

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