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The New York Yankees made their biggest splash of the trade deadline, acquiring Luis Garcia Junior from Washington in exchange for four right-handed pitchers. Garcia is slashing two-eighty-three with twenty-three home runs on the season, giving New York a legitimate offensive weapon as they push hard for October baseball.
Shifting to the NFL, Saints wide receiver Ja'Lynn Polk has retired at just twenty-four years old, placed on the reserve-retired list by New Orleans on Sunday. The second-year receiver walked away from the game with significant upside still on the table, and the Saints now face unexpected depth questions heading into the season.
And in the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks locked up forward Naji Marshall on a three-year, fifty-two-point-two million dollar extension through the twenty twenty-nine to thirty season. Marshall has been a reliable two-way contributor in Dallas, and the organization moved quickly to keep him off the open market before his value climbed any further.
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