The Braves are still good, the Central Divisions are still open for the taking.
Three Things: Shōta Imanaga Continues to Get It
Also: Image consulting for Caleb Williams, and getting psyched for Bulls vs. Hawks.
Three Thoughts: Setting Expectations for Jackson Holliday
How good is good for this year’s biggest baseball debutant? Also: How many Sycamores can Josh Schertz bring to SLU? And would you rather play the Knicks or the Bucks?
Today’s Best Bets: Wednesday, April 10th
How to approach Jordan Hicks’s early-season performance.
Three Thoughts: Dan Hurley Has Brought UConn to a New Height
Jim Calhoun and Danny Hurley had to do different things. But this is the best UConn’s ever been. Also: Those worst affected by the pitcher injury problem, and what to think of the Cubs bullpen.
Today’s Best Bets: Tuesday, April 9th
It’s fully baseball season. (Until we start our NBA and NHL futures in a week or two.)
Today’s Best Bets: Monday, April 8th
Today’s MLB action.
Three Things: Kentucky’s Funniest Hires Might Also Be Its Best
For example: Dusty May. Also…Michael Busch might be Anthony Rizzo, and Brady Tkachuk had a Brady Tkachuk weekend.
Two Dog Special: John Calipari to Arkansas, South Carolina over Iowa, UConn vs. Purdue, and Seton Hall Is Our Champion
Plus a little baseball, a little airlines, and a little bit of the globe.
Today’s Best Bets: Sunday, April 7th
A baseball moneyline, and our last college basketball pick of the year.
Booing Shohei Ohtani: A Review
It is so fun you guys.
Today’s Best Bets: Saturday, April 6th
Today’s MLB moneyline, and rallying around the CBB futures flag.
Today’s Best Bets: Friday, April 5th
Only baseball today, as we lick our college basketball wounds.
Three Things: The NIT Should Make Hinkle Fieldhouse Its Permanent Home
Please do this, NCAA. Also: How to use the football stadium thing against the NCAA T*urnament, and how to spend the next seven months.
Three Things: Is Chris Beard the One Transferring?
Some clarity around Mississippi turning down the NIT. Also: The NIT’s planes worked, and Joe Kelly is still Joe Kelly.
Three Thoughts: John Fisher and College Football’s “Super League,” Both Very Dumb
John Fisher missed a layup, the college football “super league” is a terrible and doomed idea, and the Cubs’ grounds crew came through in the clutch.
Today’s Best Bets: Thursday, April 4th
A play on the NIT Championship, and today’s baseball action.
Three Thoughts: Is Free Agency Fun?
College basketball’s getting a taste. Do we like it? Also: This should be a season of Dodgers vs. Braves, and the Kansas City stadium vote was a mixed result.