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💔 F*ck cancer: Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo passed away at age 58 due to brain cancer. Rest in peace to a shot-blocking legend, a beloved teammate and “just a great human being.”
🏈 MNF doubleheader: Jared Goff set the NFL record for most pass attempts without an incompletion (18-for-18, 292 yards, 2 TD) and added a TD catch in the Lions’ 42-29 win over the Seahawks; the Titans cruised past the Dolphins, 31-12, for their first win.
⚾️ Back to the basics: MLB players will return to wearing team uniforms for the 2025 All-Star Game. The league is ditching the annual ASG-specific jerseys that debuted in 2021.
🏀 Expansion draft rules: WNBA teams will be limited to six protected players for the Golden State Valkyries expansion draft on Dec. 6. The rest of their rosters will be exposed for the Valkyries to choose from.
⚾️ President Posey: Giants icon Buster Posey is the team’s new president of baseball operations. He replaces Farhan Zaidi, who was fired after six years at the helm (403-506 record, one NL West title).
⚾️ How are we supposed to remember Pete Rose?
Pete Rose, MLB’s hit king who was banned from baseball for life in the wake of a gambling scandal, died Monday. He was 83.
From Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee:
How the hell are we supposed to remember Pete Rose?
Do we remember Rose as “Charlie Hustle,” the grittiest, hardest-skulled ballplayer in baseball history, a man who by sheer force of will claimed baseball’s all-time hits record?
Do we remember him as an unrepentant gambler, a man who compromised the integrity of himself and his sport by betting on his own team, refusing every effort at atonement?
Do we remember him as a Neanderthalic throwback, an often cruel man accused of crimes far worse than gambling on baseball?
Rose’s playing exploits deserve enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. So do his crimes against the game he loved.
Baseball fans of future eras, who won’t have memories of Rose in his playing days, who won’t have the same aversion to gambling, need to understand both the man’s inspiring talent and his ruinous, self-inflicted spiral.
His story — all of his story — is essential to understanding the game of baseball, a game that both tests and reveals character.
Pete Rose is gone now….