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Major League Baseball is moving toward expansion, and Jeff Passan reports the push accelerates once the next collective bargaining agreement gets signed. An expansion committee figures to form quickly after that, with several cities already positioning hard for a franchise. The race is on, and the competition is serious.
Shifting to the city of brotherly love, the Philadelphia seventy-sixers and Flyers have pulled back the curtain on renderings for their new privately funded arena in South Philadelphia. The design draws deliberate inspiration from the old Spectrum, and the building is targeted to open ahead of the twenty thirty WNBA season. Philly fans have waited a long time for something to call their own again.
And Mike Tomlin, nineteen seasons in Pittsburgh now behind him, is spending twenty twenty-six as an NFL analyst, but he's not done dropping quotable takes. Tomlin named Josh Allen as the quarterback he'd most want to coach, calling him quote built for it. That's the kind of statement that keeps the coaching rumor mill spinning whether Tomlin wants it to or not.
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