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Batting Around: If you caught Aaron Judge’s 62nd home run, what would you ask for in exchange for the ball?
USATSI Throughout the season the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the future of baseball, all sorts of stuff. Last week we discussed one of baseball’s newest rules. Now we’re going to break down what we’d do with a milestone baseball. If you caught Aaron Judge’s 62nd homer, what would you want in exchange for giving the ball back? Matt Snyder: Cold, hard cash. I have no issues with people who want memorabilia and it’s kind of cool to look at sometimes. I just feel like if I had something like…
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Minnesota is home to the best of the best in college sports
Minnesota may not have as many 5-star recruits in numerous high school sports as larger states like California, Florida and Texas, but no one can question the high-end talent coming from the Land of 10,000 Lakes. In fact, the argument can be made that the best of the best in college sports today are from Minnesota. Best wrestler? Gable Steveson Best women’s basketball player? Paige Bueckers Best men’s basketball player? Chet Holmgren Best track & field athlete? Joseph Fahnbulleh Best women’s swimmer? Regan Smith Best baseball player? Drew Gilbert Best gymnast? Sunisa Lee Best women’s hockey player: Taylor Heise Those seven standouts are all from Minnesota and among, if not…
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Coach K’s final home game: UNC turns Mike Krzyzewski’s Cameron Indoor Stadium finale into its own celebration
DURHAM, N.C. — This is what can happen when you try to plan a retirement ceremony with 9,000 of your closest friends, with the tricky caveat of including a basketball game. This was to be Mike Krzyzewski’s night. Duke staged one of the grandest send-offs college sports had ever seen. It was nostalgic. It was elaborate. It was quintessentially Duke. Which means a lot of people loved it and a lot of people hated it. Which means it was perfectly done. All of this created the biggest buildup, probably ever, to a regular-season college basketball game. And then the greatest rivalry in American sports added to its legend with one…
