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(I know you're joking...) ...you just now figured it out that they care more about profits over "student athlete" well-being??

The years we choose to play, that is...

Nothing to add here, just making it easier to figure out who's left without thinking: Illinois Michigan Minnesota Nebraska Northwestern Ohio State Penn State

The KBO has those same rules in place. But, fully understanding the MLB players association is a whole lot stronger than KBO's.

Just about to get those tires warmed up in a minute.

Soccer without fans sounds a lot like a swim meet BVB's stadium certainly keeps the echos within the pitch, so you can hear just about everything, even the photographer's camera shutter go off. Nonetheless, just glad Bundesliga is back!

Bundesliga starts back up tomorrow morning!! For those new to the league:

If they decide to go with the spring baseball location model, then that takes care of it. MLS is facing the same thing with LAFC and LA Galaxy. They are proposing to move all games to Orlando to bypass this issue.

Matt Painter is not a happy camper: https://www.si.com/college/purdue/basketball/matt-painter-radio-interview-0513-dan-dakich — Painter on "getting the phone call'' "It's like the kiss of death when you get that text that says, 'hey coach, you got a minute?' You just know. He's going to transfer. It isn't hard to figure out. When you've been doing it for 30 years, it's not hard to figure out. — Painter's feelings on Haarms and Eastern "I love those guys, and I mean that about both of those guys. But when it's obviously not better for you academically or basketball-wise, I feel for them. Matt was going to do that, but he also got his degree from Purdue. Jelly is walking out of here without his degree. That's not smart, but I'm really biased. "Still, you might have gotten your degree from Purdue, but you're not a Boilermaker if you walk out the door in the end. — on players not seeing the big picture "Matt Haarms is a good guy. Nojel Eastern is a good guy. They want something else out there, and it's not magical. Sometimes it's effort and results. I don't doubt effort, but you've got to have results. If you can't, I feel you. Because I wasn't better than a lot of guards that I had to play against, but I didn't run around blaming Gene Keady because I couldn't guard Calbert Cheaney and Jim Jackson.

First Matt Haarms, transferring to BYU. Now Nojel Eastern. Entered the transfer portal Tuesday, already accepted an offer to Michigan on Thursday.

NASCAR starts up this Sunday. MLS is in talks to start up mid-June. NFL is still pushing forward on their schedule. And NBA is starting the conversations to resume.

I'm convinced the commentators are still going to talk about Yvan being 17 until he graduates from here.

For anyone who's interested, here's a listing of American soccer players in Germany: https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/american-soccer-players-in-germany-weekly-update-mckennie-steffen-adams-usa-5874 Weston McKennie: Schalke Gio Reyna: BVB Tyler Adams: Leipzig Zack Steffen: Fortuna Josh Sargent: Werder Bremen Josh Brooks: Wolfsburg Fabian Johnson: M'gladbach Timothy Chandler: Eintracht Alfredo Morales: Fortuna Brady Scott: Cologne Chris Richards: Bayern

Been watching Bundesliga for a long time. I'll give you this one. Top 5 stadium capacity, only relegated a handful of times, good supporters, rooting for the American kid. But more importantly, you're not supporting BVB or Bayern Munchen. Leipzig is even a bandwagon team at this point.

Speaking of which...is Grant Gibbs still playing for Creighton?

I just don't see schools forking over $1.2M for a scrimmage that doesn't count towards a 'W' in the win column. Especially when even some P5 schools are already getting PPP loans from the government.

I'm going to have to readjust the height/weight that pops into my head when I hear the word "Andre" from here on out. Good pickup over Auburn, Miss St, Illinois, Maryland, etc.

The only counterpoint to this is that: 1. I'm not sure what words would be coming out of my mouth at work at 4 in the morning. The announcers are getting paid just to fill air at this point. But, do give them credit for trying to learn the names, language and league with such short notice. 2. I'm pretty sure ESPN doesn't really care; this will be a short one-time contract with the KBO and then they'll move on to American sports. ...which is a shame. I've watched KBO before, in Korea nonetheless, and I would definitely watch it on a semi-recurring basis even if it was on ESPNEWS or ESPN3 or something.

Based on the current proposed format, teams like the Pirates and Braves wouldn't play in their traditional divisions. So that would be interesting nonetheless.

It looks like NASCAR is restarting this Sunday:

Maybe I'm off base (pun completely intended), but this probably is also in part to help speed up the game. Purists may think otherwise, but the length of the games are becoming an issue in American culture. I'm all for trying to prevent slowing down the game, without losing the core of what baseball is.

This season is already going to be an anomaly in MLB 162-game season statistical standards. This seems like a perfect year to test out some new things they've been wanting to try.