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Chargers lose $30 million center for season after suffering ACL injury during joint practice
The Los Angeles Chargers announced on Sunday that a major part of their offense will not suit up this season due to a season-ending injury.
The team placed starting center Tyler Biadasz on season-ending injured reserve after he sustained an ACL injury during the team’s joint practice with the San Francisco 49ers last week.
The 28-year-old was the Chargers' prized offseason addition, as he signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the team after being released by the Washington Commanders. Biadasz was set to be an upgrade over Bradley Bozeman, who had started at center in each of the last two seasons for Los Angeles.
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Biadasz sustained the injury when Chargers guard Kayode Awosika threw 49ers defensive lineman Sebastian Valdez to the ground during an 11-on-11 drill. Valdez fell into the back of Biadasz’s legs, and the center immediately went to the ground and was eventually carted off the field.
Biadasz was entering his seventh season in the NFL. He spent his first four with the Dallas Cowboys after they drafted him in the fourth round out of Wisconsin, and then spent the last two with the Commanders. He made the Pro Bowl during his third season with Dallas.
Second-round rookie Jake Slaughter will replace Biadasz at center. Slaughter had initially been competing for the starting left guard job, but will now slide back to center.
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Slaughter played center during his college career at Florida and had taken snaps at center in training camp and the preseason.
It is the second straight season the Chargers have come out of training camp with a major injury to one of their offensive linemen. Last season, franchise left tackle Rashawn Slater tore his patellar tendon about a week after signing a four-year, $114 million contract extension.
In his absence, the team moved Joe Alt from right tackle to left tackle. However, Alt was limited to just six games after dealing with multiple ankle injuries, leaving the Chargers' offensive line in a weakened state.
Justin Herbert can only hope that Biadasz’s injury isn’t a precursor to more injuries on his offensive line this season.
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Massive garbage heap collapses onto homes, killing at least 30 as rescuers search for survivors
At least 30 people were killed in a massive landslide in Guinea on Sunday when a mountainous open-air landfill collapsed and buried nearby shacks, trapping numerous victims beneath a mass of garbage.
The incident happened at Dar Es Salam, the largest waste dump in the West African country's capital, Conakry, according to a report from The Associated Press (AP).
Guinea News reported that the weight of the waste caused a three-story building beneath it to cave in.
Authorities said heavy rainfall also washed over the refuse overnight, creating hazardous conditions at the landfill, according to the AP.
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Six people were seriously injured and several homes were destroyed in the incident, according to reports. Officials launched a search-and-rescue operation to find any survivors.
The AP reported that the landfill was originally scheduled to close Sunday after officials warned of hazardous conditions, citing Lt. Col. Baldé Mamadou Bailo, the sanitation officer for the military engineering battalion.
The decision followed reports of a similar incident at the landfill in recent years, raising concerns about its safety.
As a precautionary measure, residents who lived near the site had also been given eviction notices and were forced to vacate the area, the AP said.
However, many people remained nearby at the time of the disaster, according to reports.
"We will ensure that the remaining families are relocated elsewhere," Dienabou Touré, the minister of territorial administration and decentralization, said at the scene, according to the AP.
Reuters reported that the landfill suffered a similar incident in 2017, when torrential rains caused a mudslide that killed at least eight people.
Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Hayden Panettiere's 'Guiding Light' co-star Beth Chamberlin says she believed actress would overcome troubles
Hayden Panettiere’s former "Guiding Light" co-star Beth Chamberlin believed the actress would overcome the "troubled times" she faced and emerge as an even stronger performer before her sudden death at 36.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Chamberlin — who starred as Panettiere’s on-screen mom on the 90s soap opera — opened up about her "special bond" with the late child star and the resilience she saw in her through difficult times.
"When I would hear about some of the troubled times that she was going through, I would think to myself, ‘She’s gonna get through this, and watch out world,’" Chamberlin told Fox News Digital. "Because when she gets through this, you are going to see some work on screen. You’re going to see things like you’ve never seen. I know Viola Davis made a comment that she is waiting to see what Hayden was going to fully become. And I think that puts it best because I think, that's how I was feeling too."
The "Heroes" and "Nashville" star was found dead inside a Greenville, South Carolina residence on Aug. 16.
Panettiere’s on-and-off boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, and his brother, Zach, called 911 after finding the actress unresponsive, according to a police report obtained by Fox News Digital. Hickerson later gave authorities a bag containing medication Panettiere had allegedly been taking.
Panettiere’s mother, Lesley Vogel, publicly raised questions about Brian’s role in her daughter’s life and death.
"Although my daughter and I were estranged, it was not for lack of care or love," she said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight. "It was due to the involvement of a toxic individual who I believe led to her death."
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"Hayden was a beautiful and talented young woman who unfortunately became involved with the wrong person, and although her family tried to extricate him from her life, we were unable to be successful."
Preliminary autopsy results found no signs of trauma that contributed to Panettiere’s death, the Greenville County Coroner's Office confirmed to Fox News Digital. However, Panettiere's death remains under investigation.
Fox News has learned the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has also been contacted and is assisting with the investigation.
For Chamberlin, processing Panettiere’s death has been particularly difficult because she remembers her as the extraordinarily talented young girl she worked alongside on "Guiding Light."
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"She truly was just an amazing, amazing child actor," Chamberlin said. "You’ve never seen anything like it, actually."
"Acting requires a lot of work to create an emotional arc. Now in a soap opera, too, you have to remember everything's done in one take. It's a multi-camera shoot ... So you've got to get it right. And she was able to do that. With multiple pages, day after day."
Chamberlin says that while she has often discouraged children pursuing a career in acting, she strongly believed Panettiere was a special exception.
"I know there's so many people that will say, 'Oh, you shouldn't put children in the business' And I get that. And anybody that knows me, knows that when people in my life that have asked me, how about putting my kid in the businesses? I always say, 'Don't do it.' I didn't put my own kid in a business. But I've always maintained that Hayden was the exception to that. Because Hayden looked like she was in her element when she was there."
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Chamberlin said she hopes Panettiere will be remembered for her "extraordinary talent."
"I really want people to remember her for the extraordinary talent she was. Because she truly was," she said. "As I've said before, I think she was the most talented child actor that ever walked on a set ... She was doing this astounding stuff on a soap opera in one take. And she was maybe doing 20 pages or 30 pages, 40 pages worth of scenes a day. That's a whole different animal. And so. That's what I would, I really want people to remember that, because that deserves to be set aside and held up."
Freedom 250 Grand Prix attendees talk about American pride in the midst of historic event
The Freedom 250 Grand Prix in America's capital is a historic spectacle. It is a feat of American patriotism that can only be rivaled by UFC 250 earlier this year.
It featured the most scenic and picturesque views, flyovers from every branch of the military, President Donald Trump driving the race course in The Beast for a ceremonial lap, American flags and music all over the streets of Washington, D.C. I spoke with fans about their experience and it told me one thing: This is how sports should be.
"I think it's really unique," an IndyCar fan told me on the National Mall. "Being at the [United States] Captiol for the 250[th birthday] and racing, it doesn't get too much better than that."
Many of the fans attending felt the same thing: An overwhelming sense of pride in America.
"I feel like there's a lot of controversy on both [political] sides, but there's a lot of pride [in America]," that same fan told me.
If any of you readers have followed my work for OutKick or online, you know I cover a lot of political and cultural controversies. I've covered the WNBA heavily over the last month in the wake of Sophie Cunningham's comments on wanting women's sports to remain female, so it's refreshing to come to a sporting event that isn't pushing any sort of divisive politics. The fans I spoke to, echoed how refreshing that is.
A fan that traveled from out of town told me, "In motorsports, everyone comes together and they just enjoy the sport. You don't see that in other American sports."
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Almost every fan I spoke with told me they felt a sense of gratitude and patriotism attending an event that was in the heart of the nation's capitol, which celebrated our short, but rich history, as well as our military, without injecting uneccessary political divisiveness.
"It just makes you feel so proud [to be an American] and happy. I love this city... It's beautiful," a father attending the race with his adult son from Florida told me.
When I asked him about how President Trump and the city were able to put this race together in such a short amount of time, he said, "Americans can do anything."
Amen, my brother in stars and stripes.
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When asked about how the Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser showed support for this race, essentially laying down her arms and instead, linking arms with those on the other side of the political aisle, a fan told me, "I don't like to over politicize things. We should just enjoy what is cool and leave politics out of it."
Another fan said, "They (Democrats and Republicans) should come together for such an event. It's celebrating America's 250th anniversary, everyone should celebrate that when you're an American."
It's too bad other sports leagues, teams, media, and players use their games, broadcasts, and events to divide fans on political lines. Maybe they should take notes from the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, because it's refreshing to attend a sporting event that isn't politically preaching at you.
American Airlines flight lands safely after laptop battery catches fire on board; passenger injured
An American Airlines flight landed safely in Dallas after a laptop battery caught fire on board, prompting flight attendants to contain the fire and emergency personnel to meet the aircraft, officials confirmed to Fox News Digital.
American Airlines Flight 2398 was approaching Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) on Friday after departing Atlanta when the crew reported a laptop battery fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Flight attendants contained the fire with a thermal containment bag, the FAA said.
The Airbus A321 landed safely at DFW at about 6:55 p.m. local time, according to the agency. The FAA is investigating the incident.
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American Airlines separately confirmed to Fox News Digital that smoke was reported from a customer’s device during landing.
"American Airlines flight 2398 landed safely at DFW after reports of smoke from a customer’s device during landing. We thank our crew for their professionalism and swift response to quickly contain the device," a spokesperson said.
The aircraft taxied to the gate under its own power, where emergency personnel met the plane in accordance with procedure, the airline said.
One passenger received medical attention at the scene and was released, the spokesperson said. DFW separately confirmed to Fox News Digital that emergency crews met the flight and one patient was treated and released.
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The flight was carrying 133 people when the incident occurred, according to air traffic control audio obtained by CBS News.
Jessica Irgens, a passenger aboard the flight, told CBS News the fire began roughly 30 minutes before landing when another passenger’s laptop began smoking and caught fire.
Irgens said she was sitting two rows away and moved toward the back of the aircraft because of the heavy smoke. She told the outlet the laptop’s owner placed the device in the aisle and other passengers attempted to help.
The pilot reported to air traffic controllers that about four to five passengers may have suffered burns from the laptop, according to audio obtained by CBS News.
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Lithium batteries used in laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices can overheat through a process known as thermal runaway, according to the FAA.
The FAA said thermal runaway can occur without warning and can result from several factors, including a battery being damaged, overheated, exposed to water, overcharged or improperly packed.
Frustrated Bubba Watson confronts unruly fan at LIV Golf Indianapolis in intense scene
Bubba Watson had heard enough from a fan during the second round of LIV Golf Indianapolis and opted to confront them in what turned into quite the scene at The Club at Chatham Hills.
Watson, who was playing alongside Lee Westwood and Bryson DeChambeau on day two of the LIV season finale, was captured on video walking over to a fan who could be heard shouting something while Westwood was preparing to hit his approach shot.
The fan in question shouted, "Bryson, Bryson," before Westwood stepped off his golf ball and Watson made his way over to the fan. The two-time Masters champion challenged the rowdy fan to say something, and as expected, the spectator remained quiet.
"Oh, you don’t want to say anything now? Say something, I'm looking at ya, say it," Watson said towards the fan.
Watson carded a 2-under 68 on Friday to jump into contention, which hasn't exactly been familiar territory for the 47-year-old this season.
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Entering the week, Watson had secured just one top 10 finish in his 11 starts on the breakaway circuit in 2026. The lefty also missed the cut in his lone major championship start this season back in April at The Masters.
While a fan shouting at an inopportune time certainly warrants criticism, it's also the least of LIV Golf's concerns at the moment.
In April, the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced that it would no longer fund LIV Golf beyond the 2026 season. In the weeks following, LIV cancelled the LIV Team Championship in Michigan, moved the season finale up to this week's event in Indianapolis, and slashed the individual purse for the finale from $20 million to $10.1 million.
LIV Golf is also facing a lawsuit from Fresh Tape Media, with the company reportedly suing the circuit for $1.2 million in alleged unpaid dues and interest from its work producing LIV's preseason media days.
Earlier this month, LIV CEO Scott O'Neil shared news of an unnamed investor being secured to keep LIV Golf afloat into 2027. Specific details of the investor have not been shared.
The circuit has, however, announced that 'LIV 2.0' will include players holding a majority of equity and that the plan is to have 10 total tournaments, with five taking place in the United States and another five being held across the globe.
Kyle Kirkwood hangs on to win Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington
Kyle Kirkwood crossed the finish line in first place to win the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C., on Sunday afternoon.
Kirkwood, one of a few American drivers in the race, took the lead from Álex Palou early in the race and didn’t look back. He showed pace all weekend and was especially strong in the race, with only Palou able to keep up with him at times.
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However, some late cautions erased much of Kirkwood's work, and presented a golden opportunity to Arrow McLaren's Christian Lundgaard.
Lundgaard — who is currently without a drive for next season — was strong early in the final green flag run thanks to his red alternate tires, an advantage over Kirkwood's primary set, but it seemed like they started to fall off as the laps wound down.
Kirkwood was followed by Lundgaard in second, while Kirkwood's Andretti Global teammate Will Power took the last step of the podium.
The win was crucial for Kirkwood's championship hopes as it cut Palou's championship lead down to 91 points.
The Spaniard had a rough day at the office. He was dealt a drive-thru penalty on his first pit stop of the race and his team had an issue with his front left tire on another stop.
Then, on lap 122, Palou made a third uncharacteristic error and crashed, bringing out a late caution.
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It was Kirkwood’s second win of the season. His first came at the Grand Prix of Arlington earlier this season.
The 27-year-old now has seven career wins, six of which have come on street circuits.
It remains to be seen whether Kirkwood will get a chance to go back-to-back in the nation's capital. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix is expected to be a one-off event to mark the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania rode in the Beast as part of an honorary lap ahead of the race. The president also waved the green flag to start it, while Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy waved the checkered flag.
There are three races left in the IndyCar season, meaning the championship battle is still very much on.
Next weekend is a double-header at the Milwaukee Mile, while the season finale will take place at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on September 6.
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Video shows young female pilot, 23, swimming off after surviving emergency water landing
A young Florida pilot was able to swim away from a dramatic water landing in the Atlantic Ocean off Boca Raton on Saturday in a video captured by a beachgoer.
Faith Tenkley, 23, who has been a pilot for four years, maneuvered her family's twin-engine Piper around buildings as she approached the coast and avoided paddleboarders before finding an open stretch of water next to the beach, she told Gulf Coast News. The plane made a smooth water landing at about 9:40 a.m. local time.
A lifeguard reached Tenkley within about a minute after the plane went down near 250 South Ocean Blvd., followed closely by a Boca Raton Ocean Rescue fire boat, according to local authorities.
Video captured the dramatic moments of the water landing, the quick rescue and the aftermath of a shaken Tenkley sitting on the beach, looking out to the sinking plane fully intact.
Tenkley, who Fox News Digital has reached out to for comment, has declined media interviews outside of Gulf Coast News' Peter Busch. He reported she wanted to clear up misinformation that it was a male pilot rescued by a female surfer instead of vice versa.
"One of the reasons Faith wanted to talk to me was to clear up misinformation she saw online about the pilot being a guy and a 'surfer girl' rescuing him," Busch wrote on Facebook, detailing the conversation shortly after the water landing.
"Faith was wearing a long skirt over a bikini. She took off the skirt to swim to shore. People on the beach saw a woman in a bikini and assumed she was a surfer helping the male pilot."
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Tenkley, who was the only person on board, had departed Page Field in Fort Myers and was headed to Bimini in the Bahamas to pick up her parents, she told Gulf Coast News.
She was taken to a hospital as a precaution and no injuries were reported, according to Boca Raton police.
About 15 miles west of Boca Raton, Tenkley began experiencing mechanical issues and initially planned to divert to Boca Raton Airport. But the landing gear then malfunctioned, and she feared a hard runway landing could ignite the recently refueled aircraft.
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By that point, the plane’s right engine had also failed, leaving Tenkley to make a rapid decision to ditch the aircraft in the ocean rather than risk a landing on land.
Witnesses watched the low-flying plane descend over the busy beach before it landed in the water.
"One second I’m spraying sunscreen on my kid. The next I’m looking up and saying, ‘Is that supposed to be happening?’" beachgoer Maria Marks told WPBF.
Another witness, Alexis Arizzi, told the New York Post the aircraft made a slow descent and "delicately landed" on the water. A pilot at the beach praised Tenkley’s handling of the emergency, noting the plane remained in one piece.
FlightAware lost track of the flight over land, but the safe water landing was chronicled in the onlooker's video.
Los Angeles Dodgers ownership group shoots back at suggestions team is funded by fraud
The sports world was rocked this past week by accusations that Major League Baseball's richest team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, were funded primarily by fraud.
Those accusations were false, and based on a prolific misunderstanding of where the team gets most of its revenue, who owns the majority of the organization, as well as how much of their television income comes from cable company Spectrum.
It didn't matter though, because once accusations were made, baseball fan internet, already consumed by hatred and jealousy of the Dodgers money and success, ran wild. ESPN reporter Jeff Passan was the target of a days-long harassment campaign, demanding he speak out based on fans' complete and often purposeful misunderstanding.
But for some quick backstory, Mark Walter, the Dodgers' largest single owner, is currently under investigation for allegedly improperly handling of insurance company investments. Several companies used investor funds to make loans to businesses also under his control. While this is allowed by federal regulators, it's reportedly alleged that these loans far exceed the typical scale in such cases. Those investments also weren't properly disclosed to investors, meaning that the fact both businesses were owned or controlled by Walter wasn't made clear.
Most reports have suggested that there were at least $16 billion in loans that are under investigation. That's obviously a significant amount of money, which helped lead to the reality-defying outrage.
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This weekend though, Dodgers president and another member of the ownership group, Stan Kasten, addressed it, clearing up several misconceptions and pointing out that the story has little to do with the team.
While many have guessed or stated that Walter would have to sell the Dodgers or his stake in the team, Kasten told the media, and particularly the California Post in response to questions from Dylan Hernandez, that the team is not up for sale and will not be.
"I wanted to make sure everyone understood one thing very clearly: The Dodgers are not being sold," Kasten said. "They’re not gonna be sold. They’re not for sale. There’s no process that has been started to sell it, period," he continued. "We are planning only to win. That is what we are always doing. And we are still continuing to do that."
When questioned about Walter selling the Lakers after just a year in ownership, Kasten said it was a separate situation that has nothing to do with the Dodgers. An answer he said came directly from Walter.
"I just wanted this to be clear, because this question keeps coming up," Kasten said. "I understand the questions, I do. But as I said to you last time we met, the Lakers thing was what we lawyers call ‘sui generis.’ It was just one of those one-of-a-kind things that really has nothing to do with what’s happening with us."
"This comes from Mark," he added. "He’s gung-ho about continuing to try to win."
While the baseball fan community has been consumed by their righteous crusade that LA's payroll has been funded by fraud, Kasten said that while not "contending anything about the investigation," he wanted fans to "know nothing involving the Dodgers is part" of that investigation.
"I’m promising you, when it’s over, you’re going to realize [some things being reported] are being mischaracterized," he continued. "You don’t have to trust me, but I’m telling you."
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Again, Kasten is part of the ownership group himself. He works directly with Walter on the day-to-day operations for the Dodgers. He's reiterating that the investigation has nothing to do with the team, because it doesn't. Will this matter to anyone? Not likely, because the pitchforks are out, and if there's one thing the internet excels at, it's taking pitchforks out and never putting them away, regardless of facts that emerge later on.
But for more context, there are a few other elements to this that are worth highlighting. One of the supposed "controversies" is a reported loan from Delaware Life, a company Walter controls, to Dodgers Tickets LLC that was listed as "unaffiliated," though the two businesses both involve Walter. A smoking gun, right? The organization is built on fraud. Well, that loan was for $4.1 million. $4.1 million is a rounding error on LA's balance sheet. As just one example, they spent $4 million this year to buyout Chris Taylor's contract, who is no longer playing in Major League Baseball. This loan was also already paid off.
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Then there's the more logical reasoning part of it. If Walter was fraudulently sending money to the Dodgers to enrich himself, why would he then turn around and...spend a huge percentage of it on player payroll?
Estimates in 2025 suggested that the Dodgers spent nearly 75% of their total revenue on payroll, one of the highest such percentages in baseball. So the pitchfork community's contention is that Walter is running the Dodgers based on fraud and instead of pocketing those profits himself, he's spending money on players? That makes as little sense as acting as thought the 2020 World Series doesn't count.
Some of the "controversy" revolves around the Dodgers' TV deal. But again, LA reportedly has exceeded $1 billion in revenue. Even if their TV deal was cut in half, from $330 to $165 million, they would have reported at least $835 million in revenue. Likely more. Some fans are upset about the fact that some of this income is shielded from revenue sharing. But that again, would take away roughly $55-60 million in income. That's 5-6%, at best, of the team's income, that would be redistributed, and would represent an increase of $2 million per team for the other 29 organizations. It's essentially meaningless.
And in fact, if you apply that loss in revenue to losing say, Kyle Tucker and Edwin Diaz, that would actually have helped the Dodgers this season, given how poorly those free agent signings have played.
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Then there's the contract deferrals, which are a constant source of misinformation. Shohei Ohtani suggested that structure, not the Dodgers. Had he signed with Toronto or San Francisco, they too would have $680 million in deferred compensation on the books. That money also has to be accounted for, in specific investment accounts, within approximately two years of the salary being earned.
The reality of the Dodgers' dominance is that they are a wealthy organization located in the country's second-largest television market, with a massive, dedicated fan base that can support the highest ticket prices in baseball. Their track record of regular season success and commitment to winning convinced Shohei Ohtani, the game's biggest star, to choose them. He increased their revenue exponentially through even higher attendance, a massive new influx of Japanese corporate advertising and merchandise sales. They then reinvested that revenue into signing more players. Their front office is staffed with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry and their player development group is second to none.
That is the foundation of a sustained winning culture, which helps explain why the Mets, despite matching LA's spending, employing deferrals and awarding Juan Soto the largest contract in sports history, are on course to miss the playoffs for the second straight season and have yet to advance beyond the NLCS under owner Steve Cohen. It also helps explain why the Yankees have not won a World Series since 2009 and, in that same span, have accumulated fewer World Series victories than the Cleveland Guardians, to say nothing of the Royals, who claimed a championship in 2015.
Again, none of this matters to those who have made up their minds, but maybe it's worth waiting to see if Kasten's right. He probably is.
Olympic runner Alica Ѕchmidt continues to lead by example and respects summer internationally
I know, I know. You can save your emails about respecting summer starting at home. That is true. I'm not here to say that there isn't work to do on that front. There is, but it doesn’t mean the fight can't be fought abroad too.
It can. It is. It must.
We've had others in the sports world join the fight from elsewhere before. Most recently golfer Charley Hull, who calls England home, did so. On Sunday, it was Olympic runner Alica Schmidt's turn.
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It's been awhile since the 27-year-old made a blip on the content radar. Once referred to as the "World's Sexiest Athlete," I don't know where she ranks now.
I don't believe the advanced analytics have been reviewed lately. At least not in the past few months, possibly longer. I don't know where Schmidt currently stacks up on the track and field rankings either.
There's a lot I don't know. What I do know is the work and the content haven’t stopped. She's been busy, but she hasn't been too busy. She made sure there was time for showing summer the proper respect it deserves.
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Respecting summer didn't show up on her list of "6 things sport taught me," which she shared back in July, but the respect is there nonetheless.
Here's what did make the cut:
After reading through that list, I think you can agree that while Alica Schmidt doesn't specifically call for the respect of summer, each of her points makes respecting summer easier to do.
It's a step-by-step guide for staying focused on the task at hand and controlling what you can control. Things like refusing to take home anything pumpkin related. There's a time and place for that.
It's still sunny and hot outside. You're not going to cause the leaves to change by disrespecting summer and pulling out your fall decorations in late August or early September.
That's not how it works. Follow the lead of those who stay strong in the face of the gimmicks on display all around us this time of year, leaders like Alica Schmidt.