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Hacksaw’s Thursday Podcast…1pm
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Winter Meetings Recap..NFL Preview..Army-Navy and more
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…(Baseball)…

Padres…Battling Payroll limitations…may be forced to deal a key star:
..Padres-Red Sox..Discuss Dylan Cease trade-for OF-Will Abreu-1B-Tristan Casis
..Padres-Orioles..Discuss Cease-for-P-Cade Povich-John Means-prospects
..Padres..1-of-5 teams that talked to P-Jack Flaherty-ex Dodgers
..Padres..Confident they are a finalist for P-Roki Sasaki.
..Padres..Did not have right combo of top high minor leaguers for Garrett Crochet
..Padres..Internal discussions moving Adrian Morejon-Brian Hoeing to rotation

Dodgers..Head home ready to reopen contract talks with FA-P-Jack Flaherty-Walker Buehler…and wait to setup meeting with Roki Sasaki.

Angels..Open talks with FA-2B-Gleyber Torres-Yankees
Angels..Sign FA-3B-Carter Kieboom-ex Washington Nationals (.199) career
Angels..Continued to shop OF-Taylor Ward
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(Winter Meetings)

(Roster Moves)

White Sox-Red Sox..TRADE…Chicago deals P-Garrett Crochet to Boston for 4-minor leaguers..C-Kyle Teel (.299)..2B-Braden Montgomery (62HRs-.317) college..2B-Chase Meidroth (20HR) AAA…P-Wik Gonzales (21-15) minors

Miami-Texas..TRADE..Marlins ship 1B-Jake Burger (.250-29HR) for 3-prospects

Cleveland-Pittsburgh..TRADE..Guardians deal newly acquired OF-Spencer Horowitz for P-Luis Ortiz and 2-minor leaguers.

Houston-Yankees…Trade talks for OF-Kyle Tucker in deal for OF-Nelson Jones-P-Luis Gil
Houston-Cubs..Trade talks..Kyle Tucker for 3B-Luis Paredes-OF-Seiyu Suzuki
Houston-Phillies..Trade talks..Kyle Tucker for 3B-Alex Bohm..P-Andy Painter

Cardinals..Talk to Red Sox-Phillies-Mets-about Nolan Arenado trade
White Sox-Reds..Trade talks..OF Luis Robert for pitching

Toronto-Giants..Report both offer P-Corbin Burnes (7Y-210M) deal
Arizona..Open talks with FA-1B-Paul Goldschmidt-ex Cardinals
Red Sox..Meet with FA-C-James McCann-ex Orioles
Houston..Meet with FA-OF-Jorge Polanco-ex Seattle

Rangers..Sign FA-P-Mike Plassmeyer-ex Pirates
Pirates..Sign FA-OF-Nick Solak-ex Seattle
Pirates..Sign FA-P-Elvis Alvarado-ex Marlins
Tampa Bay..Sign FA-P-Jake Brentz-ex Royals
Texas..Sign FA-P-Jacob Webb-ex Seattle-Tigers
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MLB Notes

Rule 5-Draft
..1-White Sox..P-Shane Smith-ex Milwaukee (2.69-ERA)
..2-Rockies..Pass
..3-Miam..C-Liam Hicks-Detroit
..4-Angels..P-Garrett McDaniels-Dodgerts (3.22-ERA) Class A
..26-Padres..P-Juan Nunez-Orioles (2.45-ERA) Class A

Roki Sasaki..Flies to Los Angeles to meet with his agent…Could start meeting with teams as early as Monday.

Rocky Colavito…Legendary Cleveland Indians slugger passes away (91)..Hit 374HRs in career…Was traded to Detroit Tigers for SS-Harvey Kueen in very controversial deal
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…(Football)….

(Thursday Night Football)
..Rams-49ers..LA (7-6)…SF (6-7)..Battle of big throwers Matthew Stafford-Brock Purdy.
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(NFL Notes)

Bill Belichick…Signing (5Y-50M) deal to take head coaching job at North Carolina…Won (333) games and 6-Super Bowls with the New England Patriots…Is expected to bring in a near full staff of NFL-assistant coaches…and structure a UNC-NIL program for the ACC school..Hires longtime NFL exec Mike Lombardi to be GM of UNC-NIL program.

Joe Burrow…Emotional Bengals QB choked up talking about ransacking of his home while he was playing in Monday Night game..saying ‘his privacy was violated’..upset at media coverage also..refused to answer specifici questions

NFL..Announces it will play regular season game in Berlin next fall.
NFL..Union expects 2025 Salary Cap to go from (255M-to-275M).
49ers..WR-Deebo Samuel…’I am not struggling..not getting enough balls’
Bengals..QB-Joe Burrow-WR-J’Marr Chase want team re-sign WR-Tee Boyd
Chargers-Chiefs..TV Ratings for Sunday Night..13.4R-San Diego..only 6R-in LA

New England..Reports Owner Robert Kraft may fire Coach Jared Mayo
New England..Report that Patriots want to talk to ex Titans coach Mike Vrabel
Chicago..Report want to interview Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman
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(Roster Moves)

Jaguars..Sign FA-RB-Myles Gaskins-ex Eagles
Raiders..Sign FA-QB-Jake Luton-ex Saints
Chargers..Release OT-Alex Leatherwood
Patriots..Release DE-Keshawn Banks-ex Aztecs
Arizona..Release OC-Keith Ishmael-ex Aztecs
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(Injuries)

Chargers…9-players limited-did not practice on Wednesday::
..QB-Justin Herbert-thigh-ankle
..WR-Ladd McConkey-shoulder
..LB-Joey Bosa-hip
..WR-Derius Davis-hamstring
..TE-Will Dissly-shoulder
..LB-Denzel Perryman-groin

Steelers..WR-George Pickens-on going hamstring issues
Washington..IR-WR-Noah Brown-rib injury
Cleveland..IR-S-Greg Newsome-hamstring
Giants..QB-Drew Lock-heel injury

Chiefs..WR-Hollywood Brown meets with doctors-seek clearance practice
Chiefs..K-Harrison Butker-cleared to practice-activated from IR
Colts..Activate C-Ryan Kelly from IR
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(College Football)

West Virginia..Hires Rich Rodriguez back as head coach..Was Mountaineers coach and used job as springboard to go to Arizona State-and-Michigan before he flamed out…Was coaching at Jacksonville State

USC…Loses RB-Quinten Joyner..OT-Mason Murphy..WR-Duce Robinson ..DT-Bear Alexander to transfer portal…12-Trojans say they are transferring

UCLS..WR-JR Sturdivant to transfer…13-Bruins in portal.

Cal..QB-Fernando Mendoz (3,004Y-18TD) in transfer portal
Michigan..Star CB-Will Johnson to apply for draft

South Carolina..Promotes Mike Shula to Off Coord
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…(Basketball)…

Aztecs-W-Cal Baptist (81-75)…Wednesday game…SDSU (7-2)
..SDSU built 19-point lead..saw it cut to 4-points late in 2nd half
..Aztecs hit 9-3’s to take big lead in game..
..State shot 77% from floor to start 2nd half..used (14-2) run
..Lancers roared back with 3-point shots..triggering (13-2) spurt
..Miles Byrd led Aztecs with (19P)

USD-L-Long Beach (76-70)..Toreros fall to (3-7)

Clippers…Coach Tyronne Lue says F-Kawhi Leonard is at 75%-health as he begins full practice…Hope to have him to 100% by Christmas week and to pay.

Lakers-Portland..Report LA talking to Blazers about deal for 6’9-C-Robert Williams (7P-7R)

Clippers…Lose C-Derrick Jones-hamstring injury
Portland..C-Donovan Clinghan cleared to play-had bruised knee (5P-6R)

Miami..Talking Jimmy Butler trade with both Golden State-Houston

Nets..Coach Jordie Fernandez-furious a team says ‘you don’t play defense-you don’t have a spot on this roster’

Toronto..Sign FA-G-AJ Lawson-ex Dallas

BYU..Lands 6’9-F-AJ Dybantia..likely first round pick in NBA in 2026 draft
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…(Hockey)…

Ducks-L-Ottawa..(5-1)…Senators score 3-goals in opening period…2-power play goals against John Gibson in goal in Wednesday game..

Gulls-Henderson..San Diego led (5-3)-3rd period at Press Time…Rookie Yegor Sidorov 2-goals and assist for Gulls…AHL:-action-Wednesday…Gulls (6-12-3) heading into game.

Ducks-at-Toronto..Canadian road trip continues-Thursday
Kings-at-New Jersey…LA won 6-games in a row

Washington..F-Tom Wilson has fractured sinus cavity-hit by deflected puck
Ducks..C-Trevor Zegras to get 2nd opinion on severe knee injury
Nashville..D-Roman Josi-serious knee injury

Seattle..Team founder David Bonderman passes away (92Y)
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…(General)…

PGA Tour…Jack Nicklaus Award-Player of Year
..Scottie Scheffler wins it..7-wins including Masters-TPC-Fed X-Cup title
..Xander Schaufelle..send in balloting won 2-Grand Slam events-British Open

Boxing..Floyd Mayweather confronted by angry mob while shopping in London for his support of Israel and Jewish Faith…Shoppers say he supports Genocide and Netanyahu.

Soccer…MLS-Expansion Draft for San Diego FC

FIFA..Awards 2030-World Cup to 3-Country Hosts….Morocco-Portugal-Spain..will also stage 1st round games in Uruguay-Portugal-Argentina….Award 2034-World Cup to Saudi Arabia.

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