SOURCE: Cal has fired head coach Justin Wilcox, @theathletic.com has learned. The Bears are 6-5 and lost 31-10 to Stanford. (ESPN first reported)

How do the financials work for the Rangers in that deal if they are supposedly in cost-cutting mode?

Marcus the Met? I dunno

Northwestern wins the Women's NCAA Field Hockey championship in 2OTs on this goal

Remember when Fridays were slow news days?

John Mabry played 14 years in the big leagues and only once put up a WAR of 1.0 or higher and that was his 1.8 WAR in 89 games with the A's in 2002, which pretty much means he had the perfect career.

Which one of these two will secure it first?

What a Baller!

I’m glad Ricky Tiedemann made the Jays 40-man roster because when I see his name I think of the Netflix series Dark, and Dark was a great series, so now I’ll probably get tot think about it more if he earns a regular role the big leagues.

We all know way too much about each other. I miss when dramas were mostly just on big screens or obliquely written gossip pages. Also when there was shame.

I hadn't thought about it until now, but given how the manager searches have trended, I'm kind of shocked Sean Doolittle wasn't one of the new manager hires this offseason. He'd be great at it.

I remember covering Gio in Triple A and a scout telling me he’d never make it as a starter because his extension wasn’t good enough. That memory makes me laugh and feel incredibly washed at the same time.

When you have a chance to lock up a prolific base-stealer for five years when he’s 28, you have to take it. In all seriousness, Josh Naylor is fun and I’m looking forward to seeing him play with Julio and Cal for the next few years.

With the rout on, seems like a good time for the Niners to see what they have in their backup QB.

lol this dude went to my high school. Life likely hasn’t been too unfair to him at any point.

Honestly I’m ready to be a bird

Bowyer, best known for taking sports bets from baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, who stole millions of dollars from Ohtani, gambled for years at Caesars Palace, despite the hotel’s knowledge that he lacked the income to support his gambling.

This growing trend of Niners fans traveling well was surprising to me until last year when I finally made it to Levi's for a game for the first time and it took me roughly the same amount of time to get home as it would have to fly to like four different NFL cities.

blogs.fangraphs.com/joey-bart-pl... -- this is interesting & well-written

Earthquake but not when it's sunny? Weird

The math behind what Emmanuel Clase's alleged actions cost the Guardians www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

Was not aware that monkey paw Nostradamus was playing centerfield.

cc: @grantbrisbee.bsky.social

My take on how old, rich people type is that they used to dictate everything to a person who would make their letters readable.

Too bad coffee costs $50 a cup now. Could probably use two or three to get through today.

What can’t he do?

Just the absolutely stupidest timeline.

A vote for Vogt is never the wrong call.

Blues Brothers

HUGE FIRST BSKY POST

I don’t know what has changed because I’m a Luddite with cable but live sports on my TV remains at least a play or two behind live and it sucks.

Every morning at 7am my son's high school sends out a newsletter. I've actually started using it as a gauge for how late or not I'm running in the morning. But despite the daily updates, I still have no idea if school ends at 3 or 3:30 today. The art of communication! 🙄

There is a huge rat who either is dying or sleeping next to my garbage cans (I’m too scared to find out, lol) and I think that might be the good news from today. 😞

😞 Garvin Alston should be a big league pitching coach.

i hate it when people have skin in the game. get that skin out of there!!!! it's gross and it's ruining the game!!!

Well, you can't say that DePodesta isn't familiar with being under 50 feet of crap, though I'd argue the Rockies are probably at at least 100 feet.

A letter from our Co-Founders Paul and Bryan: "If They Won’t, We Will: Building the Ballers’ Beat" https://dispatchesfromraimondi.com/stories/building-the-ballers-beat

Are you ready for the ultimate Let's Remember Some Guys? Every No. 1 Prospect For Every Organization In @baseballamerica.com History BA began ranking Top 10 Prospects in 1983, so that's more than 40 names for all franchises except the ’90s expansion teams www.baseballamerica.com/stories/ever...

I didn’t realize Craig Stammen had retired from pitching.

I admit it. I ruined the workplace. Sorry!

The draft for the 4-team Women's Professional Baseball League is drawing nigh. But it's not just about the players and coaches. Stay tuned for news about something huge about to happen in the world of women umpires, one of the most exciting and profoundly personal projects I've ever been a part of.

Why does this guy look like young Phil Collins?

It's Contract Projection Day: www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...

Kind of annoying that we aren't entering the top of the 8th inning in a wildly crazy postseason game right now.

It's kind of cool that the last two players selected in the first round by the Oakland A's are finalists for the Rookie of the Year award. Feels like this one should count towards the Oakland total (currently seven).

Only current MLB manager I invited to my Bat Mitzvah (he didn't respond). 😂

This is a fun chart! The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday) The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾