In advance of Friday’s deadline that send the Cardinals and a handful of players to arbitration hearings throughout spring, the club finalized contracts with two members of the rotation and continued to negotiate others with players such as Gold Glove-winners Tommy Edman and Tyler O’Neill.

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As planning for the 2023 season accelerated and the start of spring training appeared on the next page of the calendar, it became clearer to Matt Holliday that the time required to start his future in the big-league dugout would mean missing too much with his family in the present.

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After a wild season, the NFL playoffs are finally here and if you like rematches, then you’re definitely going to love what the NFL has in store for Super Wild Card Weekend beginning on Saturday.

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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Bills safety Damar Hamlin was released from a Buffalo hospital on Wednesday, more than a week after he went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated during a game at Cincinnati, after his doctors said they completed a series of tests.

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The race to State Farm Stadium for Super Bowl LVII is underway. The regular season is complete and now we have Super Wild Card Weekend on the horizon that features several notable matchups. Interestingly enough, each one of these head-to-heads is a rematch from a game earlier this season, marking just the fifth time that’s happened during the opening round of the postseason since the 1970 merger. We have some of the NFL’s top defense and best quarterbacks set to take the playoff stage, so they’ll be no shortage of drama.

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SIU’s Javon Williams, one of the most decorated players in the football program’s history, announced via university news release Wednesday that he’s declared for the 2023 NFL Draft. He had a year of eligibility left

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We’re one week away from the unofficial first pitch of the 2023 Cardinals season.

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With the Chicago Bears’ season mercifully ending Sunday in a 29-13 loss to Minnesota, focus turns to the prospects for building a new stadium in Arlington Heights.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin was released from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center on Monday after spending almost a week in the hospital following his cardiac arrest on the field at Paycor Stadium.

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LOS ANGELES — The confetti had not finished falling inside SoFi Stadium at the College Football Playoff National Championship before the pivotal question began to emerge: Now that Georgia has won back-to-back national championships, and doing so with a team that beat its opponents by a greater margin than anyone else in the country, can the Bulldogs do it again in 2023?

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