Tom Mayenknecht: NBA, NHL, women's sports had good weeks

Opinion: Major League Baseball celebrated opening day, but still has work to do from a business perspective.
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- MLB
Crochet agrees to $170-million, 6-year deal with Red Sox: AP source
Garrett Crochet agreed to a $170-million, six-year contract with the Boston Red Sox, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
Players: - MLB
Blue Jays 5, Nationals 2: Bowden Francis is back and Andres Gimenez keeps cleaning up in Toronto win
Blue Jays 5, Nationals 2: Bowden Francis is back and Andres Gimenez keeps cleaning up in Toronto win.
- NCAA Football
Shower slip knocks Dodgers 1B Freddie Freeman out of lineup after hurting surgically repaired ankle
Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman is out of the lineup against his former team, the Atlanta Braves, after slipping in the shower and hurting his surgically repaired right ankle.
- MLB
Torpedo Away: From Yankees to Blue Jays new bats are a hot topic all around baseball
From Yankees to Blue Jays torpedo bats are a hot topic all around baseball.
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Mon, Mar 31
- MLB
Torpedo bat designer says it’s more about the players than the bat model
For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it's more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate.
- MLB
Braves’ Jurickson Profar gets 80-game PED ban, calls it ’most difficult day’ of his career
Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has been suspended for 80 games without pay for performance-enhancing drug use.
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