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No Aaron Judge, No Excuses: The Yankees Have Enough to Beat Tampa Bay — But Gerrit Cole Has to Set the Tone Tonight

Here we go again. The Yankees took care of one AL East rival by absolutely dismantling the Boston Red Sox in the Wild Card round, and their reward is another AL East rival waiting for them in Tampa. The Yankees and Rays open the ALDS tonight at Tropicana Field, and this is where October really starts to get interesting. Best-of-five series. A Rays team that won the division. A Yankees team coming in hot after scoring 18 runs in two games against Boston. And now we officially

The Browns Are 3-1, Sitting Atop the AFC North and the Dawg Pound Is Officially Barking

It wasn't pretty. It wasn't comfortable. It definitely wasn't stress-free. But Browns-Steelers games aren't supposed to be any of those things. The Cleveland Browns are 3-1. Read that again. After beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-24 on Thursday Night Football, Cleveland is sitting atop the AFC North through four games, and the Dawg Pound has every reason to be barking right now. Was it a perfect football game? Absolutely not. The Browns committed 14 penalties, turned the ba

The Cubs Owned San Diego All Year — Then the Padres Absolutely Embarrassed Them When It Mattered

So much for the regular season. The Chicago Cubs came into this Wild Card Series having gone 5-1 against the San Diego Padres during the regular season. They knocked San Diego out of the playoffs in this exact round a year ago. They finished the season with the highest-scoring offense in baseball and had Pete Crow-Armstrong putting together an MVP-caliber year. On paper, there were plenty of reasons to believe Chicago could walk into Petco Park and do it to the Padres again.