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Weekend winners
Nick Kurtz. The Baylor School grad had what ESPN baseball guru — and excellent Elmo impersonator — Jeff Passan said ranks as the single-best offensive performance — EVER — as Kurtz went 6-for-6 with six runs scored and eight RBIs and a MLB-record-tying 19 total bases. More on this in a moment.
Cooperstown. The MLB Hall of Fame inductions are always poignant for me, even in the years in which I don’t agree with all the inductees. Man, Ichiro was a different cat. You know it. Wish Dave Parker had lived to see the stage, though.
Bubba Wallace became the first Black driver to win at famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway when he won the Brickyard 400 over the weekend.