August 13, 2015
Seattle’s Best: Hisashi Iwakuma No-Hits the Orioles to Breathe Life Into the Mariners’ Season
Iwakuma is like the contrapositive of Clayton Kershaw. Instead of “How does anyone hit this guy?” it’s “How does everyone not hit this guy?” But they often don’t, and they certainly didn’t on Wednesday.
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Stoke City Have the Most Exciting Team in Europe … From 2011
Stoke have three young players who were once among the most heralded in Europe. They have five former Champions League winners. Stoke! Xherdan Shaqiri is joining a Stoke team that already features former Barcelona starlets Bojan Krkic and Ibrahim Afellay. This is nuts. How did this happen?
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Welcome to the Rosen Bowl: Playoff Hopeful UCLA Looks to Shatter the True Freshman Quarterback Ceiling
Five-star prospect Josh Rosen is facing the perennial question: Just how good can a true freshman quarterback really be? But UCLA is facing a far more important and less common quandary: Just how good can a team be if it starts a true freshman quarterback?
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Who’s That Guy? The Colts’ Duron Carter, the Most Intriguing Rookie in Football
The most intriguing rookie in football might be a guy who wasn’t even drafted.
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AFC North: How the Ravens Will Regain the Throne
After a third-place finish in 2014, Baltimore has regrouped and recharged its way to being the favorite to win the toughest division in the NFL.
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Passing Judgment on Your Stanley Cup Title
A team is crowned NHL champion every year, but some years are harder to win. Which count more than the others?
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Impact Freshmen: Eight Newbies to Watch This College Football Season
On Monday, we named eight transfers to watch this college football season, and you’ve presumably spent the past 48 hours studying them extensively. Because we care deeply about your knowledge of ascendant FBS talent, we’re going to discuss impact freshmen today. And we’ll have none of this redshirt nonsense: We’re talking about real freshmen, the dudes who attended prom just a few months ago. There’s no way they should be able to handle the rigors of major conference football yet, but here they are. And as such, they deserve our utmost attention.
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Prospect Purgatory: How Seattle’s Inability to Develop Talent Doomed a Once-Promising Season
The past, the present, and the future all look bleak for the Mariners.
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: David Schoenfield on Underachieving Teams, and What Makes a Winner
Jonah Keri talks to ESPN.com writer David Schoenfield about the underachieving Mariners, Indians, and Marlins, and what makes a winning baseball team.
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Bake Shop Mailbag: NFL Training Camp, Proper Pregnancy Etiquette, and the Fate of the Mets
You have pressing questions? Katie Baker has the answers.
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