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What Cowboy seniors are returning in 2021?
Published: February 8, 2021
Safety Braden Smith #26 of the Wyoming Cowboys intercepts a pass intended for wide receiver Tyleek Collins #9 of the UNLV Rebels in the second half of their game at Allegiant Stadium on November 27, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Cowboys defeated the Rebels 45-14. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Logan Harris and
Alonzo Velazquez would be returning to the Cowboy football team in 2021. When you make a promise, you keep it, Wyoming s head coach said with a smile.
With that, pencil those two offensive lineman listed above in the two-deep. They were out there working out this morning really hard, Bohl said of Harris and Velazquez, two UW seniors who have the option to return to the program because of an NCAA eligibility mandate due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. I don t think either one of those guys are big social-media guys and making Tweets (about their return). I love them to death. They are
Remembering 16 Yankees who died in 2020, including Whitey Ford, Phil Niekro, Don Larsen, Horace Clarke
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Yankees alums that died in 2020 include (clockwise from top left) Whitey Ford, Don Larsen, Jay Johnstone, Bob Watson and Phil Niekro.AP
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Six weeks later, Tony Fernandez was gone just a quarter-century after his season-ending injury in spring training opened up the Yankees’ starting shortstop job for a 21-year-old rookie named Derek Jeter.
During this awful year of the pandemic, one that led to baseball having a 60-game season with no fans, the sport suffered loss after loss.
Seven Hall of Famers died in 2020, two of them Yankees, franchise great Whitey Ford and knuckleball phenom Phil Niekro.
December 30, 2020
Of the thousands of pitchers who have reached the majors, fewer than a hundred mastered the knuckleball that maddeningly erratic, spin-free butterfly well enough to rely upon it as their primary pitch. None of them succeeded to the extent that Phil Niekro did. “Knucksie” learned the pitch from his father, a coal miner and semiprofessional hurler, at the age of eight, and while he didn’t establish himself as a big league starter for another 20 years, he carved out a 24-year-career in the majors, winning 318 games, striking out 3,342 batters, starting more games than all but four pitchers, and earning a spot in the Hall of Fame.
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Phil Niekro delivers to home plate in this 1987 handout photo. Ernie Whitt remembers the excitement about getting a chance to catch for Phil Niekro during the knuckleballer s brief run with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1987. He d had such a long career and you just knew he was going to be a Hall of Famer, Whitt said. Just to have the opportunity to catch him, I was excited about it. I was thrilled. Niekro, who died Saturday at age 81, lasted just two-thirds of an inning in what would be his third and final appearance with Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Toronto Blue Jays