How did the MLB teams evolve in relation to their pre-season projections?

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🏀🏒 New York, Dallas by the edge: Tyrese Haliburton (triple-double) And the pacers beat the knicks, 130-121and the Oilers crossed a 4-1 victory Above the stars while Indiana and Edmonton have taken 3-1 control roles in the conference final.

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🏈 Cover athletes: Sophomore Wideouts Ryan Williams (Alabama) and Jeremiah Smith (Ohio State) are star From “EA Sports College Football 26”, which was released on July 10.

⚽️ Football movement: The Lamine Wunderkind, 17, has signed a six -year extension with Barcelona; Cristiano Ronaldo seems to be settled to leave Al Nassr. “This chapter is over,” he wrote. “History? Always written. Recorting to everyone.”

⛳️ More starting strokes: The PGA Tour is Eliminate the starting From the Fedex Cup championship from this fall, which means that the 30 golfers will start from the same score rather than the leader from 10 under 30th place from the same by.

🇷🇺 Always banished: IOC confirmed that Russia will be banished from the 2026 winter Olympic GamesAlthough individual Russian athletes can always compete under a neutral flag.

⚾️ MLB projected victories: now against pre-season

A third of the path through the MLB season, How did the 30 teams counted in relation to their pre-season projections?

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Overperformers: The first place tigers should win nine additional games now (92) that they were not before the start of the season (83), the largest positive differential of the majors, by Fangraphs. *

• The Yankees (+8), the Phillies (+6), the Giants (+6) and the Cubs (+6), all division leaders or contenders, complete the first five.

• Nine other teams are in the dark, led by the food (+5), the Guardians (+5) and the cardinals (+5).

Sub-performants: Rockies 9-46 tend to victories in MLB-12 below their pre-season projection while threatening to break the record for most of the defeats of a season.

• Orioles surprisingly without punching (-10) and the under500 hackers eternally (-8) are the only other teams more than five worse games than their projection.

• 13 other teams are in the red, “directed” by the Red Sox (-5), the Rangers (-5) and the Braves (-5), although it is said that Atlanta should always win 88 games and do the playoffs.

*Current victories projections Based on team records before the start of the game on Tuesday, May 27. Pre-season projections are from March 17, the day before the Tokyo series starts. All planned victories totals are rounded to the nearest whole number.

🧀 During this time, in England …

One of the most Zanal British traditions took place Monday in Gloucestershire, England, where dozens of intrepid competitors participated in the annual part Cooper’s hill cheese rolling.

The event has several races In which people continue a wheel of seven pounds of double glyen cheese on a steep hill of 200 meters. The injuries are so common (Not difficult to see why) that the officially sanctioned event stopped in 2008 before local volunteers resumed it in 2010.

The origins of the race are not clear, But he has results Dating from 1948 and written from the archives of 1826. The consensus is that it started long before, however, with some believing that it was a question of claiming the grazing rights and other believing that it was a ritual of fertility.

Tom Kopke in Germany, A popular youtuber won the first male race (from seven races in total) for the second consecutive year. “All the people at the top said they were going to steal my title, but it’s mine,” He said. “I risked my life for that. It’s my cheese. Back-to-back.”

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🏀 NBA Final Four: where were beginners written?

The Final Four of the NBA is proof that talent can come from anywhere in the project.

By figures: The choice of average recovery of the 20 runners in the final of the conference is the 19th, with almost as many players selected in the second round or not drafted (four) as in the top 10 (six).

Team team:

• Timberwolves: Anthony Edwards (n ° 1 in 2020), Mike Conley (n ° 4 in 2007), Julius Randle (n ° 7 in 2014), Rudy Gobert (n ° 27 in 2013), Jaden McDaniels (n ° 28 in 2020)

• Thunder: Chet Holmgren (n ° 2 in 2022), Shai Gilgeous-Aalexander (n ° 11 in 2018), Jalen Williams (n ° 12 in 2022), Isaiah Hartenstein (n ° 43 in 2017), Lu Dort (not recovered in 2019)

• Knicks: Karl-Anthony Towns (n ​​° 1 in 2015), Mikal Bridges (n ° 10 in 2018), OG Anunoby (n ° 23 in 2017), Josh Hart (n ° 30 in 2017), Jalen Brunson (n ° 33 in 2018)

• Pacers: Myles Turner (n ° 11 in 2015), Tyrese Haliburton (n ° 12 in 2020), Aaron Nesmith (n ° 14 in 2020), Pascal Siakam (n ° 27 in 2016), Andrew Nembhard (n ° 31 in 2022)

By figures: The best classified Thunder, which has spent years storing the Draft capital, ironically has the lowest average choice among their beginners, in the 26th (counting sleeps as choice n ° 61). The Knicks and the Pacers are tied in the 19th, and the Timberwolves have the highest, in the 13th.

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Construction of the list: new York did not write any of its beginnersAcquire four via trade and one via the free agency. Indiana, Oklahoma City and Minnesota have each wrote two of their starters, with a majority of others coming through trade.

⚽️ The FIFA scandal, 10 years later

10 years after the United States shakes world football With its dismantling of corruption, some wonder if the football director of football was really cleaning up.

From Yahoo Sports’ Henry Bushnell:

The “war room” inside the FBI Field Office at 26 Federal Plaza in New York filled the evening of May 26, 2015, with a nervous excitement. Lawyers and investigators trampled by security, then until the 23rd floor, to supervise a transatlantic withdrawal that would shake international football.

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Police in civilian lodge would hit the doors of the hotel in Zurich and stop the eminent officials of FIFA; And before a long time, an unprecedented American probe of “creeping, systemic and deep” corruption “afflicted the beautiful game would burst from the public.

Thus, after months of meticulous work, dozens of prosecutors and special sleeping agents met for their fundamental moment. And as they were waiting, with a 161 -page indictment under the seal, some thought of the scale of what they were going to unleash.

“This,” we remember thinking “, will change the history of world football.” But what were they wondering, the full impact would ultimately be? 10 years later, some are disappointed or embarrassed by the complicated response.

“FIFA,” wrote the non -profit Fairsquare in a recent report, “did not correct the structural defects which finally led the American authorities to intervene in the first place.”

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Their case quickly broke out in the greatest corruption scandal in the history of modern sport. This finally led to 31 guilty pleas and several trial convictions. He recovered hundreds of millions of dollars. He triggered a calculation at FIFA, the world director of football at the center of the storm, and led to a series of promised reforms.

But a decade later – according to interviews and conversations with dozens of current and former football officials, governance experts and lawyers, including some who investigated or pursued the case of the United States Ministry – some of these promises seem empty. Reforms have been canceled. “Everything is dressed in windows,” said Joseph Weiler, former member of the FIFA governance committee.

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📺 Surveillance list: Wednesday May 28

🏀 Timberwolves in Thunder, match 5 (8:30 p.m. he, ESPN)

OKC is a victory far from reaching the NBA final for the first time since 2012 behind the Young large three by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren. They are on average 71 points per match combined in this series, including 95 in the Monday 4 Monday victory.

🏒 Panthers in the Hurricanes, match 5 (8 p.m., TNT)

Florida is a victory to reach the final of the Stanley Cup for the third consecutive year, which would continue a remarkable race by The Sunshine State after the Lightning made the three previous finals (2020-22).

🎾 French open, second round (5h, TNT / TRUTV / MAX)

N ° 2 Carlos Alcaraz (7:25 am)N ° 5 IGA świątek (9:05 am) And n ° 1 Aryna Sabalenka (10:20 am) Title of the start of the second round.

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• ⚽️ MLS: 13 games (7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Apple) … Columbus vs nashville (8 p.m.) is on FS1.

• 🚴 Bike: Giro d’Italia (6:50 am, max) … Step 17 of 21.

• ⛳️ Male golf NCAA: Championship (6 p.m., golf) … Oklahoma State against Virginia.

Today’s complete slate.

🏀 Trivia NBA

The incredible performance of the match 4 of Tyrese Haliburton (32 points, 12 rebounds, 15 assists, 4 interceptions, 0 Reverses) was his 11th career match with 15+ assists and 0 turnover.

Question: Who are the only two players in the history of the NBA with more such games?

Hint: One is always active.

Answer at the bottom.

📸 Photo finish

The Monaco Grand Prix was rather boring (A legal surpassing in 78 laps!). But the photos? Spectacular.

Trivia’s response: John Stockton (15 games) and Chris Paul (13)

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