Box Score 2/10: Football season ends just in time for baseball to begin
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Good morning and happy Friday to everyone. Welcome to YB's Box Score, what we're reading while waiting for John Wick to come get us.
Happy birthday to Greg Norman , Mark Spitz, John Calipari, Ty Law, Lance Berkman , Mike Ribeiro and Alex Gordon.
On this date in 1968, Peggy Fleming won the Olympic gold medal for figure skating.
Daily brain workout
Name the baseball movies in which the following characters appear.
YB ICYMI
- Time to put a bow on the 2016-2017 NFL season and prepare ourselves for what we should be tracking before training camps: NFL relaxing the rules on marijuana, and where the trio of Romo, Garoppolo and Culter end up. Maybe a little of the former will make decisions on the latter a little easier. (And just a reminder, it's already next season.)
- It's almost baseball season! Goodness, where does the time go. Catch up on the top ten pitchers heading into the 2017 season before they report to spring training next week.
- What were some of the best and worst offseason moves in baseball anyway?
- Plus, the biggest questions for each team heading into spring training.
Around the league
- Collis Temple opens up about what it was like to be the first black basketball player to play for LSU. [The Undefeated]
- How can science help a person select the perfect tennis racket for their own style of play. [NYT]
- For UFC 208 tomorrow, a look at why the new featherweight division will make women's fighting better. [Excelle Sports]
Congrats Sean Doolittle and Eireanne Dolan!
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