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The New York Knicks are doing something nobody saw coming — they're breaking the sportsbooks. The Knicks' playoff run has triggered the first ever net loss for New York's legal sportsbooks, meaning bettors across the state are collectively cashing in. That's a historic moment, and the city is absolutely eating it up.
Shifting to Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs are moving forward with what ownership is calling historic changes to one of baseball's most sacred addresses. Chairman Tom Ricketts has spent the better part of a decade threading the needle between modernization and preservation at that landmark, and now it sounds like the next chapter is officially underway. Details are still emerging, but the scope sounds significant.
And across the Atlantic, RB Leipzig have come calling for Everton striker Thierno Barry. The Bundesliga club has made a formal enquiry according to The Times, and at just twenty three years old, Barry represents real value. This puts Everton in a delicate spot — do they cash in or build around a forward who arrived with serious promise and hasn't yet shown his full ceiling?
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