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Jordan Love has been one of the more quietly compelling stories in the NFC North, and Matt LaFleur just turned up the volume. The Packers head coach called Love, quote, the best he's been around in terms of protections and adjustments — high praise that signals two thousand twenty six could be the year Green Bay fully unleashes its franchise quarterback.
Across the country in San Diego, the Padres made a move that stops you cold. Twenty-year-old catcher Ethan Salas was called up from Triple-A El Paso, making him the youngest active player in the major leagues. That is not a footnote — that is a kid stepping into one of the most demanding positions in professional baseball before most players his age have even finished their first full minor league season.
And the Angels just changed hands for a record four billion dollars, ending Arte Moreno's twenty-three year run as owner. Mike Trout, who has spent his entire career watching postseason baseball from his couch since two thousand fourteen, put it plainly — he said the sale was needed. For a franchise with that kind of talent and that kind of drought, a new era cannot come soon enough.
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