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The lineup is missing a dominant slugger who is a constant threat to get on base and change the game with one swing.
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Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
This change will help all right-handed hitters at Camden Yards — and even a slight one to left-handed sluggers.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
These days, Phillips is able to observe the New York rivalry from a distance as the two teams battle for free agent slugger Juan Soto.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
By Opening Day 2025, one Major League Baseball team will have superstar slugger Juan Soto in tow, threatening to fill up box scores with home runs and RBIs — all while adding a series of zeros to his checking account.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
This change will help all right-handed hitters at Camden Yards — and even a slight one to left-handed sluggers.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
These days, Phillips is able to observe the New York rivalry from a distance as the two teams battle for free agent slugger Juan Soto.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
By Opening Day 2025, one Major League Baseball team will have superstar slugger Juan Soto in tow, threatening to fill up box scores with home runs and RBIs — all while adding a series of zeros to his checking account.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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After the Games, boxer and Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif brought a $4.4 million in echo MIV for her attendance of the Bottega Veneta spring 2025 show in Milan.Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
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In November, Jake Paul, the YouTuber and sometime boxer, staged a live boxing match with Mike Tyson, a media spectacle that drew more than a hundred million viewers and tested Netflix’s capacity for live streaming.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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Huston’s heart is certainly in the right place and the narrative corner he’s written for Mike to fight his way out of isn’t an untenable one for a pugilist melodrama.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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The pugilists completed all eight rounds, sparking some grumbling online that Paul was holding back against Tyson in some way.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
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The choice, as Huston pointed out, brought a sense of timelessness to the story of Mikey (Michael Pitt), a prizefighter freshly out of prison who spends the day before his last fight reconnecting with his past in 1989 New York City.Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
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Long assumed to be man-eaters, hammerhead sharks live in Florida, but very rarely bother humans. Sharks to watch out for in Florida (click for more): Bull Shark The prizefighter of the ocean: stout, surly and stubborn.Erik Vance, New York Times, 26 July 2024
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One year after the Academy bafflingly ignored his work in Sideways, Giamatti finally scored his first Oscar nomination for his purely entertaining performance as boxing manager Joe Gould in Ron Howard’s proudly old-fashioned Depression-era palooka drama.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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Sylvester Stallone's underdog tale about a struggling palooka given one shot at the heavyweight championship is a stirring sports movie with a level of charm and sweetness that dissipated in the rounds (and rounds) of sequels that followed.Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 July 2019
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Starring Paul Mescal as Lucius, a young prisoner turned gladiator, this sequel goes bigger and wilder than its predecessor, including monkeys, rhinos and even sharks within its grand action sequences.Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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However, to paraphrase a Mack 10 quote from an Unsung episode on DJ Quik, rap is also a gladiator sport.Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2024
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Vito is also the number one ranked pug in all show systems, and the number two toy dog in all of America.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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The pug, named Vito, is the No. 1 pug in all show systems and the No. 2 toy dog in the U.S, according to a release.Rob Wile, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Slugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slugger. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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