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  Houston Astros Are Still Good At Baseball, Place Eight in MLB Top 100

  February 20 at 4 a.m.

  If I had to guess, there won't be any point during the 2020 MLB season where the Astros' sign stealing scandal goes away. It might be placed on the shelf for random periods of a day or two, but it will hang over this team, in some form, all season...

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  Oddsmakers Place Odds On Most Frequent Astro Targets For Beanballs

  February 19 at 4 a.m.

  There's really no playbook for the processing of the Astros' sign stealing scandal by opposing teams and fan bases. The previous "biggest MLB scandal of our lives" was the overabundance of steroid abuse back in the late' 90s and early 2000s, but the targets of fan scorn in that case...

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  Translating Deshaun Watson's Twitter Shout Out To Roughnecks' QB P.J. Walker

  February 18 at 4 a.m.

  The second version of Vince McMahon's XFL is off to a pretty impressive start. The quality of football is decent enough, the television production is predictably top notch, and we all have one more thing to gamble on throughout the month of February, which is historically a painfully light gambling...

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  Four Worst Out of Market Responses To the Houston Astros' Cheating Scandal

  February 17 at 4 a.m.

  The 2017 Houston Astros cheated, a LOT, throughout the regular season and, seemingly less so, in the post season. This has been established, admitted to, and (to varying degrees of sincerity) apologized for. These are immutable facts that nobody in Houston is running away from. Most everyone associated with the...

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  Four Thoughts On the Houston Astros' Apology Fiasco

  February 14 at 4 a.m.

  Jim Crane promised us this day would come. Back on January 13, shortly after the Astros' owner got done terminating the Astro careers of manager A.J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow (which came shortly after the commissioner of baseball had suspended both men for failing to stop the Astros'...

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  Houston Texans Place Three Players In Pro Football Focus 101

  February 13 at 4 a.m.

  The time for NFL roster reshaping will be upon us very, very soon. The NFL Draft Combine begins at the end of the month, free agency starts on March 16, and the 2020 NFL Draft will come the following month. I love the upcoming time of year, because it's shopping...