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Major League Baseball is in its All-Star break, but when the regular season resumes on Friday, July 18, we could be in for a fascinating two weeks. Between the tight race that has unfolded in the A.L. East, heightened by the red-hot Boston Red Sox, to the looming July 31 trade deadline, the baseball landscape should be popping with activity.

I break it all down in this edition of DAN ON SPORTS. Thanks for watching.

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We hear a lot about rivalries in baseball. Yankees-Red Sox, Dodgers-Giants, Cubs-Cardinals. But what are we to make with what transpired this past week at Dodger Stadium? You can make a strong case the best rivalry in baseball right now is Dodgers-Padres. I break it all down in my latest DAN ON SPORTS podcast.

So intense has this rivalry become that three were suspended because of the Thursday night brawl. By the w...

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There will be a Game 7 to decide the NBA championship. Thursday night Indiana dismantled OKC, 108-91, setting up a showdown Sunday night at eight. It is the first time the finals have gone to a Game 7 since 2016 and the 20th Game 7 in NBA history.

Meanwhile, OKC did not beat around the bush in explaining the defeat. “We sucked.”

It will take months to sell Rays

With word out and acknowledged by the Tampa Bay Rays tha...

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The American League defending champion New York Yankees may have lost slugger Juan Soto in a free agency battle to the crosstown rival Mets, but they are still rolling in the dough. According to a story in Sportico, ticket revenue for the Bombers enjoyed a healthy boost, as I detail in this edition of the DAN ON SPORTS PODCAST.

Remember, when you talk about ticket revenue for the Yankees, as with all clubs, this i...

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Stories emerged over the weekend about what led to the dismissal of New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau. And they were not pretty.

Thibodeau was the first coach to bring the Knicks to the conference finals in 25 years, but that did not stop the players from throwing him under the bus. Players apparently buried Thibodeau to Knicks owner James Dolan, during exit interviews. It was a reminder that in today’s spor...

Scottie Scheffler won the Memorial Tournament on Sunday, winning his third tournament since the Masters, which was won by Rory McIlroy. It’s as if Scheffler is out to prove a point, since coming up short at Augusta.

But is Scheffler really the best golfer? I explain in this edition of the DAN ON SPORTS podcast.

Here are some other DAN ON SPORTS top stories for Tuesday, June 3, 2025:

* Trout launches mammoth homer at Fenway

* Report: ...

It was a tough week for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell at the NFL owners meetings in Minneapolis. His defeat on two proposals he was favoring has led to speculation owners may not extend his contract, when it expires in March of 2027.

In this edition of the DAN ON SPORTS podcast, I break it all down, including how the commissioner has made hundreds of millions of dollars, during his 19-year tenure.

Here are some other DAN ON SPORTS t...

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Good for Boston Red Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks to speak out about the threats he and his family have received on social media, the result of his having a couple of poor relief outings. I break it all down here on the latest DAN ON SPORTS podcast.

To say some posts on social media have gotten out of hand is an understatement. The evil and hateful comments being spewed behind fake accounts or real accounts, for that ...

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Red Sox manager Alex Cora made the right move Monday night, despite some static on talk radio in Boston. I run it all down in the above commentary.

Incidentally, I know many people in Cora’s shoes who have done the same thing. And you would too.

Here are some other DAN ON SPORTS top stories for Thursday, May 22, 2025:

* Colts owner Jim Irsay dies

* NFL keeps the tush push on busy day at meetings

* Report: Tush push deb...

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The defending NBA champion Boston Celtics are playing the New York Knicks in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals this afternoon at 3:30 on ABC. The Knicks are up in the best-of-7 series, 2-0, and are the home team for the next two games. It is a must win for one team. I describe which team is on the hot seat in this DAN ON SPORTS commentary.

The Knicks, by the way, have not won an NBA title since the 1972-73 se...

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Is new Pope Leo IVX a Cubs fan? The first-ever Pope from the United States was born in Chicago and various media sites are proclaiming he was a Cubs fan, but his brother isn’t buying it.

But why would he chose Leo? Maybe it was after Leo Durocher, the Cubs manager, who brought the morbid franchise back into contention in the late 1960’s, at about the time the 69-year-old pope was a teenager.

If you ask me, it’s the ...

NFL executives are giddy over attendance figures for the first round of the players’ draft in Green Bay.

In fact, when you compare the turnout to the population of Green Bay, you could make a strong argument the numbers are off the charts. I break it all down on the latest Dan On Sports.

Here are some of the other DAN ON SPORTS top stories for Saturday, April 26, 2025:

* Goodell says Christmas day tripleheaders will become a regular ...

One of America’s most popular events starts tonight in Green Bay, when the NFL stages its 2025 draft. In this edition of Dan On Sports, I offer a preview of the draft’s first five picks and other draft minutiae.

Here are some other items you need to know about the draft:

* Draft runs from Thursday through Saturday

* Round 1 begins at 8 p.m. on Thursday

* Round 2-3 are Friday, starting at 7 p.m.

* Rounds 4-7 are Saturday, starting at no...

There have been a lot of feel good stories about the Washington Commanders moving from Maryland back to the District of Columbia and a new stadium on the site of their old haunts RFK Stadium, but opposition is growing. I break it all down in this edition of DAN ON SPORTS.

Here are some other DAN ON SPORTS top stories for Wednesday, April 23, 2025:

* Winning an NBA championship worth hundreds of thousands to each player

* Earlier star...

Legendary coach Bill Belichick has written a new book, Art of Winning. Something happened along the way, however, for the coach-turned-scribe. He left out the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft.

I break it all down on this edition of Dan On Sports, including why I am not a fan of Kraft.

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On April 11, 1966, the New York Yankees opened Yankee Stadium to the public, free-of-charge, to watch the Yankees workout. It was the day before Opening Day, when the Yankees would host the Detroit Tigers. What followed became a part of Yankees history not many people know about. Here is that story, which I ran on my You Tube channel: Baseball Discourse.

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