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Author name: Tom Scholes

Tom is a sports writer covering NBA, MLB and MLS for Franchise Sports, as well as writing his new book "Stateside Soccer: The Definitive History of soccer in the United States". Tom has been writing for 5 years and has experience in podcasting and video production to back up his writing chops.

Franchise Sports

Don’t laugh at the Knicks, their front office deserves praise for free agency moves

If you’re a Nets fan, you have the right to laugh and make fun of them – you pipped them to their top two targets – but for the rest of the NBA? They have no reason to laugh. If anything, the Knicks front office should be praised for what they did.

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Franchise Sports

Trading for Max Scherzer is the answer to the Yankees rotation issues

The Major League Baseball season continues on with the New York Yankees atop of the AL East and looking like strong contenders to finally make the World Series after a few years of near misses. It looks as if the Yankees, and Brian Cashman, have finally found the right balance of what they want. In

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Knicks

The Knicks must stick to their plan if they are to construct a contender

But for once in a blue moon, the Knicks actually seem like they have a plan and they seem like they’re going to stick to it. It’s like Doctor Strange from Infinity War. There are fourteen million six hundred and five outcomes for the next decade or so of the NBA, and there’s only one where the Knicks can win. By sticking to their plan.

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Manny Machado

It’s easy to see why the Yankees don’t want to sign Manny Machado and Bryce Harper

When the New York Yankees bounced out of the 2018 MLB playoffs to the Boston Red Sox, they went out with a whimper. To lose is one thing, to lose to your rivals is another, but to lose to your rivals in such a disappointing fashion and then sit at home, kissing your wounds while watching them coast to another championship – their second since your last.

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Porzingis Nowitzki

It’s impossible to make sense of the Kristaps Porzingis trade

The New York Knicks officially traded Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks for DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews and Dennis Smith Jr. as well as two future first round draft picks for the Latvian Porzingis alongside the hefty contracts of Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr and point guard Trey Burke.

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