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The champagne had barely dried in the visitors’ clubhouse after the Blue Jays’ 2025 American League pennant run, and yet the focus inside Toronto had already shifted. Not to free agency.Not to payroll.Not even to 2026 projections. It shifted to Addison Barger. Once labeled a “high-upside prospect,” Barger has quietly — and then suddenly — outgrown that description. By the end of 2025, he wasn’t knocking on the door ... Read more

The champagne had barely dried in the visitors’ clubhouse after the Blue Jays’ 2025 American League pennant run, and yet the focus inside Toronto had already shifted. Not to free agency.Not to payroll.Not even to 2026 projections. It shifted to Addison Barger. Once labeled a “high-upside prospect,” Barger has quietly — and then suddenly — outgrown that description. By the end of 2025, he wasn’t knocking on the door ... Read more

The Pro Bowl is supposed to be lighthearted.Loose.Low stakes. Kevin Byard didn’t treat it that way. Just moments into the 2026 Pro Bowl flag football game, the Chicago Bears safety delivered a reminder that habits don’t disappear just because the setting changes. On a tipped pass thrown by Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders, Byard read the play instantly, stepped in front of the receiver, and took the ball the ... Read more

Joe Thuney didn’t spend the 2025 season chasing recognition. In fact, he spent most of it doing the opposite—absorbing contact, erasing pressure, and quietly becoming one of the most important reasons the Chicago Bears surged from relevance into legitimacy. Now, the recognition has found him anyway. Thuney was recently named a finalist for the NFL’s first-ever Protector of the Year award, a newly created honor ... Read more

There was no escaping it. The question has hovered over every Seahawks–Patriots Super Bowl conversation for more than a decade, and with Super Bowl LX bringing the two franchises together once again, it was inevitable. Someone was going to ask Mike Macdonald about that play. The goal-line interception.The pass instead of a handoff.The moment that froze Seattle’s dynasty dreams in time. But when the current Seahawks ... Read more