Box Score 4/18: Avoiding the Capital gains tax in OT
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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading between approximately 18 NHL postseason overtime games. At least we know the Capitals are avoid a gains tax.
(Sorry, not sorry for that one.)
Happy birthday today to Miguel Cabrera, Scott Hartnell and Nate Archibald. On this date in 1966 Bill Russell became the first black coach in NBA history when he joined the Boston Celtics.
Daily brain workout
QUIZ: Name the athletes who appeared in these movies.
YB ICYMI
- Getaway Day: Everything good (and bad) for each MLB team this week.
- NHL youth movement: How the 2016-17 rookie class fared.
- Who will take home the NHL's top regular season awards?
- The big-name college players who will go in the late rounds of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Around the league
- A long read for you this Tax Day: Sin City Or Bust: How Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis – with a little luck, his own brand of genius and an assist from Jerry Jones – outflanked power brokers to put the Raiders in Las Vegas. [ESPN]
- Bradley Beal and John Wall replace Bill Cosby on mural at Ben’s Chili Bowl [The Undefeated]
- An interview with the author behind The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human, Adam Piore. [Vice Sports]
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
Have a good Tuesday, everyone. Bye now.
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