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Let’s talk moving in fences. With the 2023 Major League baseball season a month away, teams are looking to get an edge. For the Detroit Tigers, that included moving in the centerfield fence and lowering fence height.

Let’s talk playing through injury. Watching Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes gut out and play through his high ankle sprain in the AFC championship game against Cincinnati ...

Let’s talk the value of coaches. It is coach-firing season.

Let’s talk comebacks in sports. In sports, one of the shining examples of competition is the comeback.

Let’s talk winning and losing games. In team games, can any one person win or lose a game?

Let’s talk the best Christmas sports lists. It’s Christmas and Hanukkah time and we all have our wish lists. Sports fans generally have sports-specific items on their wish lists. It’s Christmas and Hanukkah time and we all have our wish lists. Sports fans generally have sports-specific items on their wish lists. Of course, at the top of most lists is something over which we have no control – championships.

We are in a social media world. We are at our phones or desktops and we can find anything we want to know about anything we want to know about. Good information is golden for teams, but does wrong info or misinformation hurt teams? And are followers real or not?

Let’s talk fierce rivalries. One of the great things about sports is the teams and players we love to hate. The ones with whom we have built up rivalries over many years of competition or many years of banter, debate, argument and wagering with fans on the other side. There is a difference between a regional, conference, or city rival and a team that you point to playing or whom you really have to beat to make your season.

Let’s talk sports analytics. Sports action. Moves and counter-moves by players or managers and coaches used to be driven by feel of the game, looking in the eyes of players and gut instinct. Now, a manager will look at predicted outcomes in a situation and make decisions based on sports analytics data.