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Oliver Macklin / MLB.com:
Dutch walk off vs. Taipei, advance to Round 2 — Dutch center fielder Jurickson Profar drew a bases-loaded walk to help the Netherlands complete a wild late-inning comeback and punch a ticket to the second round of the World Baseball Classic with a 6-5 win over Chinese Taipei at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul …
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Israel reaches 2nd round of the WBC with Mensch power — TOKYO (AP) With a little help from “The Mensch on the Bench” mascot, Team Israel is into the second round of the World Baseball Classic. — Just 41st in the world rankings, Israel shocked third-ranked South Korea 2-1 in its opening game …
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KTVU-TV:
Oakland Raiders player Aldon Smith detained in San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) — Suspended Oakland Raiders player Aldon Smith was detained Thursday morning in San Francisco after a vehicle he was a passenger in collided with a San Francisco police car near police headquarters, authorities said.
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Niners Wire, FanRag Sports and East Bay Times
Jeff Wilson / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Rangers shut down Cashner after setback — SURPRISE, ARIZ. — Right-hander Andrew Cashner had a setback with the soreness in is right biceps and is becoming increasingly likely to open the season on the disabled list. — The former TCU star and native Texan was shut down by the Texas Rangers medical staff for at least a few days.
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MLB Trade Rumors, Yahoo Sports and Lone Star Ball
Mary Kay Cabot / Plain Dealer:
Browns will still try to trade for Jimmy Garoppolo, source says, and now have extra 2nd rounder — CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Browns will still try to trade for Patriots backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, league sources tell cleveland.com, and they now have an extra second-round pick in 2018 to pull it off.
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Niners Wire, The Big Lead, ProFootballTalk, NESN.com, USA Today and FanRag Sports
Jon Heyman / FanRag Sports:
World Series raise makes Cubs' Maddon highest-paid manager — Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon's $25-million, five-year contract got a little bit better with the World Series win. — Sources told FanRag Sports his salary escalated from $5 million to $6 million each of the last three years …
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Bleacher Nation and CBS Chicago
Marc Berman / New York Post:
Bucks intrigue free-agent-to-be Derrick Rose — More On: — MILWAUKEE — The Bucks need a starting point guard. Derrick Rose considers Milwaukee the closest thing to Chicago. And Rose grew up watching Bucks coach Jason Kidd dazzle. — Seems like a possible match come July when Rose …
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Hoops Rumors
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cardinals, Pirates set to play in the ‘MLB Little League Classic’ — JUPITER, Fla. • Depending on the way the rotation turns, Cardinals righthander Lance Lynn could become the first Little League World Series alum to return to Williamsport, Pa., and start a game as a big-leaguer.
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Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Fashion Statement: Matheny cracks wise on home wins & haberdashery — The front of the Cubs' spring training T-shirt shows a meditative bear, wearing Ernie Banks' No. 14. The slogan on the back — which is a mantra the team used during a January mini-camp — reads, “In Blue Out Red,” …
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Manny Machado made dad proud by picking Dominican Republic — SARASOTA, Fla. — The World Baseball Classic is billed as a fierce competition pitting country against country with national pride on the line. — However, the motivation to compete runs even deeper than that for Baltimore …
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Camden Chat, Baltimore Sun, Talking Chop and School of Roch
Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
Socrates Brito Undergoes Surgery On Dislocated Finger — Diamondbacks outfielder Socrates Brito required surgery to repair an “open dislocation of the fourth finger on his left hand” this evening, the Diamondbacks announced. A specific timetable for the 24-year-old's recovery has yet to be determined …
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Pirates Breakdown and AZ Snake Pit
Matt Gelb / Philly.com:
Why the Phillies built an analytics think tank with non-baseball brains — Around the corner from the general manager's office on the second floor of Citizens Bank Park, through the conference room where some of the franchise's most important decisions are made, is a place unlike any other at the ballpark.
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Phillies Nation
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Bill Webb, Tailor of TV Baseball Excitement, Dies at 70 — Bill Webb, whose direction of baseball broadcasts nationally for Fox Sports and locally for the Mets featured exceptional anticipation and rapid camera cuts to heighten tension, died Tuesday in Morristown, N.J. — He was 70.
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Faith and Fear in Flushing and baseballmusings.com
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