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Tribune News Service

Sports budget of Monday, July 30, 2018

Updated at 11:00 pm. EDT (0300 UTC)

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^ FIRST STORIES <

^ Think Cowboys BY Randy Gregory is a pothead? Let him tell his version of the story.

^ FBN-COWBOYS-GREGORY-SPORTSPLUS: DA- <Randy Gregory's 6-foot-5, 242-pound frame was barely on the doorstep at Afters Ice Cream in Oxnard, California. Before announcing what he wanted

"You must have the Cookie Monster here," he insisted winking at the bright blue concoction like "all kinds of cookies and cream and caramel and yeah. " He ate it coated with fruity pebbles and inside a donut.

Now Gregory was ready for the first night of the training camp.

1450 by Jori Epstein in Oxnard, CAFÉ

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^ Sam Darnold finally signs a contract with NY Jets, ending a holdout <

^ FBN-JETS-DARNOLD: HK- <The Jets finally have their quarterback of the future.

Rookie Sam Darnold and the Jets agreed to a contract Monday, ending a dispute that prevented Darnold from exercising since the start of the training camp.

Darnold, the third overall pick in the April draft, should be on Jets' facilities Monday, but it is unclear whether he will participate in the practice. starts at 1:50 pm But when it does, the competition of the quarterback will become much more interesting.

350 by Andy Vasquez at Florham Park, NJ PROPOSED

^ It's official: Carmelo's surrender and renunciation to Anthony by Hawks [<19659002] ^ BKN-HAWKS-ANTHONY: AT- <L & # Carmelo Anthony's era in Atlanta is over - before the start

As expected when the Hawks acquired Anthony in a three-team exchange with the Thunder and 76ers, the striker was bought out and waived. The transaction was completed and the official announcement arrived on Monday.

Anthony had to pay $ 27.9 million for his expiring contract. He handed out $ 2.4 million, the minimum amount of the veteran that he can sign with another team when he becomes a free agent after passing the waivers.

200 by Chris Vivlamore. PROPOSED

^ BASEBALL <

^ Peter Schmuck: It becomes clear that Adam Jones wants to stay and the Orioles are not interested <

^ BBA-SCHMUCK-COLUMN: BZ- <It's starting to ring as if the Orioles and Adam Jones are playing a chicken game as the non-waiver deadline approaches.

Jones would only deliver a "we'll see" testy when he was asked on Sunday for the probability that he had played his last match An Oriole at Camden Yards.

Executive Vice President Dan Duquette also tensed up when he was asked about the likelihood that Jones would still be on the club when the deadline arrives.

500 by Peter Schmuck. PROPOSED

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^ Fan of Cubs carrying a bucket struck by debris from the dashboard: "It could have been fatal" <

^ BBN-CUBS-FAN-DEBRIS: TB- <The fan of Injured Bucket Falling out of the wreck of the Wrigley Field center dash last week, he was lucky to lose the Cubs at that time.

If he did not carry the plastic bucket on his head, Kyle McAleer thinks he could have been killed.

"Absolutely," he says. "It's purely speculative, but the way that it hit me: if the Cubs did not lose, I would not have carried that bucket, it could have fractured my skull, it could have to be fatal, I am extremely lucky.

650 by Paul Sullivan. PROPOSED

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^ David Haugh: Did Alex Rodriguez serve the Cubs with his comments on Yu Darvish?

^ BBN-HAUGH-COLUMN: TB- <Before someone on the north side rejects Alex Rodriguez As an introp of pot-stirring, remember that A-Rod has been prescient before considering Yu Darvish from Cubs Launcher.

In the middle of the Astros annihilating Darvish for four points earned in 1 2/3 innings against the Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series on Nov. 1, Rodriguez immediately tweeted that the body language of Houston's batters suggested "may -being that he was tipping ".

A month later, an unnamed hitter from Astros confirmed as much to Sports Illustrated

David Haugh. PROPOSED

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^ Nationals' Trea Turner apologizes for homophobic tweets <

^ BBN-NATIONALS-TURNER: RA- <The former NC baseball star and l & # 39; current national shortstop Trea Turner apologized for using homophobic and racially insults The insensitive speech on his Twitter account while he was playing for the Wolfpack in 2011 and 2012.

The old tweets appeared on social media Sunday night and highlighted the 25-year-old Washington Nationals' stop-short. Two other major league players, Milwaukee pitcher Josh Hader and Atlanta pitcher Sean Newcomb, have had similar offensive comments from their Twitter accounts resurfacing this month.

300 by Joe Giglio. PROPOSED

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^ GM Dayton Moore says he's embarrassed by Royals' performance this season <

^ BBA-ROYALS-MOORE: KC- <It's been less than three years since Kansas City closed for a day Get together and celebrate the title of the Royals World Championships.

The 2015 championship flag flies to Kauffman stadium, of course, but the team on the field this season could make a false history

He dropped the Royals' record to 32-73 and he's losing 113 games, which would break the club's previous home-water mark of 106 losses.

450 by Pete Grathoff. PROPOSED

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^ Ready to keep Zack Wheeler, who has made tremendous progress this season

BBN-METS-WHEELER: HK – The first Zack Wheeler pitch was launched in 2018 with the class AAA Las Vegas, having failed to bring out the rotation of the camp.

About four months later, teams with aspirations in the playoffs hope their next game will be with them rather than with the Mets.

Wheeler 's turned into a short period of time from a starter with an uncertain future to a desired commodity that could alter the trajectory of a team.

750 by Matt Ehalt in Pittsburgh. PROPOSED

^ With the imminent expiry of the exchanges, the Mariners reinforce the enclosure by exchanging against Zach Duke and Adam Warren [

^ BBA-MARINERS-DUKE-WARREN: SE- <About 23 1 / 2 hours before Major League Baseball The Mariners made a second exchange to strengthen their enclosure, especially a relief of the situation.

Seattle recruited veteran left-hander Zach Duke of the Minnesota Twins and exchanged points against two minor league players: Right-handed pitcher Chase De Jong, who was in the starting rotation for the AA Arkansas class, and the Ryan Costello, an infielder who has spent this season with the Clinton Class A.

400 by Ryan Divish. PROPOSED

^ Jon Lester's Advice to Young Players: Rub your Twitter Account <

^ BBN-CUBS-LESTER-BOARD: TB- <Cubs Pitcher Jon Lester took on Twitter on Monday to defend the recent eruption of players of which "Listen, I am far from the most pointed tool of the shed and there is certainly no halo above my head (forgive the rhyme) but I am know some of them. "

Sean Newcomb, debutant at the Braves, and Trea Turner, the Nationals shortstop, are the latest players to have broadcast racist and homophobic tweets from the past. Brewer

300 by Paul Sullivan. PROPOSED

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^ Joe Maddon extinguishes A-Rod's sharp comments about Yu Darvish causing flaw in the Cubs' club

^ BBN-CUBS-MADDON-DARVISH: TB- <Cubs Yu Darvish missed more than two He made a trip to Dallas last month to be examined by the Rangers team doctor, Keith Meister.

But Cubs manager Joe Maddon was yet to defuse comments made by ESPN analyst Alex Rodriguez that a few of Darvish's teammates are upset by Darvish's detoxification methods and they could cause a fault in the clubhouse.

250 by Mark Gonzales. PROPOSED

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^ Twins trade Lance Lynn to the Yankees, Zach Duke to the sailors <

^ BBA-TWINS-TRADES: MS- <The Twins distributed the Lance Lynn launcher to the New York Yankees and reliever Zach Duke On Monday, the Seattle Mariners took advantage of the deadline for Tuesday's free trade

. For Lynn, the Twins received minor league pitcher, 19-year-old Luis Rijo, and technician Tyler Austin. The Twins have included money considerations in the case.

Rijo was signed as a 16-year-old from Venezuela. He is in his third season in the Yankees system and has a combined 4-1 record in three minor league minor leagues

400 by Joe Christensen. MOVED

^ Tom Jones: Another day, the offensive tweets of another player catch him cue the excuses <

^ BBO-JONES-COLUMN: PT- <Sunday, the Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb is entered a non-hit shot. Losing the non-hitter was not the worst thing that happened to him that day.

After the match, it turned out that Newcomb, 25, used racist and gay insults on his Twitter account in 2011 and 2012. He was 18 years old. the time of the tweets.

Newcomb was not the only Sunday to have to explain past comments on Twitter. The national shortstop Trea Turner, 25, also had to apologize for the homophobic and insensitive tweets to the race.

800 by Tom Jones. PROPOSED

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^ Freeman, Acuna homer to help the Braves beat the Marlins <

BBN-MARLINS-BRAVES: AT – Julio Tehran played better against the Marlins this time around. Then, he could not be much worse.

Six days after being bombed for nine points (seven deserved) in Miami, Tehran held the Marlins at three of five frames. It was not a wonderful thing, but it was enough for the Braves' second consecutive victory

and they needed it: the Braves opened their seven home games and three consecutive defeats at home. Dodgers. Sean Newcomb got a win in the final, and the bats backed Tehran in a 5-3 win over the Marlins on Monday.

350 by Gabriel Burns in Atlanta. PROPOSED

Monday Games

TNS expects to be covered by the following games:

Philadelphia Boston, 7 pm. EDT

Cleveland Minnesota, 8:00 pm

Colorado at St. Louis, 8:10 pm

Texas at Arizona, 9:40 pm

Toronto at Oakland, 22:05

Houston at Seattle, 10:10 pm

Milwaukee at LA Dodgers , 22h10

San Francisco in San Diego, 22h10

^ NFL <

^ QB bears Mitch Trubisky makes mistakes, but he keeps the challenges in perspective <

^ FBN-BEARS-TRUBISKY: TB – <The Needle on the Mitch-O-Meter has wildly bounced from one end of the spectrum to the other during the first seven practices of the Bears' training camp at L & # 39; Olivet Nazarene University,

But as second-year quarterback Mitch Trubisky delves deeper into coach Matt Nagy's new attack, the Bears remain firm in their assessment that mistakes and triumphs are part of of the process

. Colleen Kane in Bourbonnais, Illinois. PROPOSED

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^ The NFL changes to a punt, and not everyone is happy about it <

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