Yahoo Sports AM: the NL has overthrown the script on the al

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🏀 Streak Snaps Strait: The pistons beat the Knicks, 100-94, for Remember their sequence of loss of 15 -game qualifying series (The longest in the history of the NBA) and record their first victory in the playoff series since 2008.

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🏒 OT Game-Winners: Alex Ovechkin marked his First working objective to raise the capitals in front of the Canadians; Colin Blackwell played the hero in Dallas While the stars beat the avalanche to link the series.

⏱️ Record time in Boston: Kenya Sharon Lokedi won the Boston marathon With a time of 2:17:20, breaking the record for the previous women's course of 2:19:59.

🏈 SWAP QB: Joey Aguilar, who was transferred to the UCLA a few months ago, is now Transfer again to Tennessee To replace QB Nico Iamaleava, who has just transferred to the UCLA.

🏒 Seattle cleans the house: Kraken The head coach drawn Dan bylsma After a season and plan to replace GM Ron Francis.

⚾️ The NL overturned the script on the al

The American league has historically been better that the national league. But the first indications this season are that the senior circuit overturned the script – importantly.

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The nl arrows its power: Five NL teams have already reached 14 victories this seasoncompared to only two in the al.

• The racing differential tells a similar story, with nine NL teams sporting a positive brand against only five in AL.

These are not only the teams either: NL players consist Nine of the first 12 strikers And Seven of the 11 best launchers By FWAR (victories above of the replacement calculated by the Fangraphs), which prompted “a lot of discussions between the frames of the enormous disparity between the two leagues, how the NL is much better”, ” tweeted ESPN OLNEY BUSTER.

Change of guard: Although this level of domination at the start of the season has been difficult to foresee, there have been signs in recent years that the NL has caught up its young brother.

• Al had a victories record In 17 of the first 21 years of interleague game, but the NL has come to the top in four of the last six non-shortened seasons, and leads 61-51 so far in 2025.

• The AL still has an advance of 68-52 each time in the World Series Tally (thank you, Yankees), but the NL has won four of the last six championships and nine of the last 15.

More money, more victories: The recent evolution towards the NL could be attributed to the cyclical nature of this interleague rivalry, which has been fueled by a back-and-and-back expenses in recent decades.

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• The Yankees unloaded their war trunk in the 90s to immense success and the Red Sox quickly followed suit, forcing the rest of the Al to align better teams in order to keep up with the pace.

• This balance has started to go to the last decade with the Dodgers, whose success has in turn forced other NL teams on the bet. Namely, the NL boasts Four of the five highest wages in sport – And dodgers, dishes, phillies and paadres all resemble early contenders.

In the future: For most of the history of baseball, the disparities between NL and Al were not exposed before the World Series. The advent of the Interligue Play has made these disparities more apparent, and they have more than ever in the era of the balanced calendar (2023-print), which includes 46 interleagis games per team and per year (against 20). To move forward, whatever the league in its bull cycle could really accumulate victories.

Conclusion: The MLB season is less than a month old, so the warning “Small sample size” is a must. But the eye test and the data have both been quite overwhelming: the NL is the upper league.

🏆 In the photos: the Korir brothers

Kenyan runners John and Wesley Koirir Now share a special obligation that no other brothers and sisters have: both are champions of the Boston marathon.

John crossed the finish line Monday at 2:04:45Recording the second time of the fastest victory in the history of the male race.

Wesley won the race in 2012 With a time of 2:12:40. It's almost eight minutes slower than his younger brother, but John did not have to Fight the heat of the record As Wesley did.

⚽️ Race to watch: five teams, three places

The Premier League The title race is almost over, Liverpool being planned to win his 20th record championship. Relegation is also almost a matter. But with five games to play, the race for the Champions League has only just begun.

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Where it is: After Liverpool (79 points) and Arsenal (66) is a crowd of Five teams separated by only three pointsAll fighting for the last three places in the Champions League.

• Forest of Nottingham (60 points)

What to look: Over the next five weeks, these clubs will engage in a live version of falls and ladders, moving or falling by the smallest of margins with each result. The pleasure begins today when Manchester City welcomes Aston Villa at the Etihad.

🏈 NFL draft: from New York to Green Bay

The NFL 2025 project This week will be held this week in Green Bay, Wisconsin – the ninth city to host the league out -of -season event since he started visiting the country in 2015.

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From Jay Busbee from Yahoo Sports:

The millions of NFL fans who have appreciated the program of the League draft roads in the last decade can thank an unusual and unexpected source: The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Yes, really.

For half a century, the NFL draft called New York City Home, and by 2014, the extravagance of the draft was a key element on the radio City Music Hall. But the only organization with more juice on Radio City than the NFL was the world renowned rockewer dance troupe, and in 2014, the Rocketes gave a play – the word game – the NFL out of its traditional draft date at the end of the row.

It did not go well with the powers in place in the NFL, and the news later that year, the Rockettes would probably no longer claim April and May at Radio City. The NFL could surely push its project to June …?

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No. The NFL has decided to take its show on the road, which has made all the difference during the 10 years since. What was once a television lounge is now an extravagance to compete with the Super Bowl, traveling in cities that may never have the chance to host their own game.

Previous judgment:

Dive in: While the NFL is preparing to head towards the tundra not so loaded with Green Bay, Let's go back to the biggest moments of the end of the project.

📺 Surveillance list: Tour 1 continues

Round 1 of the playoffs continues this evening with three NBA games and four NHL games.

• 🏀 NBA: Bucks (0-1) at Pacers (7 p.m. and NBA); Grizzlies (0-1) in Thunder (7:30 p.m., TNT); Timberwolves (1-0) at Lakers (10 p.m., TNT)

• 🏒 NHL: Devils (0-1) in hurricanes (6 p.m., ESPN); Senators (0-1) in Maple Leafs (7:30 p.m., ESPN2); Panthers in Lightning * (8:30 p.m., ESPN); Wild (0-1) in Golden Knights (11 p.m., ESPN)

More to look:

• ⚾️ MLB: PHILLIES Food (7:10 p.m., TBS) … First against second in the NL East.

• ⚽️ NWSL: Portland vs Gotham (10:30 p.m., CBSN) … Ninth place against fourth place.

• ⚽️ Premier League: Man City against Aston Villa (3 p.m., United States) … Fifth place against seventh place.

*We will meet again: the fourth playoff series “Battle of Florida” since 2021 begins this evening in Tampa.

👟 Trivia Marathon

The Boston marathon is one of the six annual majors of the world marathon *. Can you name the other five?

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Hint: Two in the United States, two in Europe, one in Asia.

* Without including the Sydney marathon, which was appointed the seventh major from this year.

Answer at the bottom.

📸 Photo finish

COOL.

Trivia's response: New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, Tokyo

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