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Doc Rivers is heading to the Hall of Fame, and the speech he's preparing might surprise you. Rivers has said the process taught him something unexpected — that the words he delivers on that stage won't really be about him at all. It's a rare kind of self-awareness from a man who's spent decades in the spotlight, and it sounds like it'll be worth watching.
Meanwhile, baseball is pulling off something genuinely special this week. The Minnesota Twins and the Philadelphia Phillies are set to play in the Field of Dreams game on Thursday, August thirteenth, with first pitch at seven thirty Eastern. It's the first time MLB has returned to that iconic Iowa cornfield since two thousand twenty two, and the matchup has real intrigue on both sides.
And over in the power rankings, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been dethroned. For the first time in nearly two months, someone else has climbed to the top spot in baseball. The Dodgers had been sitting comfortably at number one, but the landscape has shifted, and there's a new team setting the standard heading into the stretch run.
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