Twins Boone and Ford Casady are finding lots of time at Crossroads to play baseball and soccer for their school teams, then focus on their outside school sports love — pickleball.

Ford is a two-time Junior PPA Finals Champion (boys singles 16U and boys doubles 16U) and Boone was the 2024 Junior PPA Finals Champion (Boys doubles 16U).

Pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in the country. The only question is when high schools will start having teams.

The Casady twins are the sons of four-time Emmy Award winning producer Guymon Casady (executive producer for “Game of Thrones”.)

So they know all about dragons and pickleball…

The McDonald’s All-American games for boys and girls basketball will be played on Tuesday in New York. The girls game will be televised at 3:30 p.m. on ESPN2 followed by the boys game at 6 p.m. on ESPN…

Excitement is building for the Arcadia Invitational on April 12.

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The 2025 NFL Draft on-stage hats were released on Friday, and this year’s look features a couple of elements that could spark debate.

Embroidered on each cap is the team name, logo and city or nickname. Then on the bill is an olive branch design that gives it a sea captain vibe. (There’s also a generic NFL hat for Roger Goodell or Rob Lowe.)

Here is every team’s hat:

Each cap also has a team-specific pin attached to it that highlights a bit of local flavor, with some that are more recognizable than others…

 Carolina Panthers

This one is easy enough — the Carolina Panthers have a panther. Although it appears to have a severe underbite.

Chicago Bears

Following the logic of the Panthers’ pin, the Bears surely have a be— not so fast. The Bears have the flag of Chicago. Stay alert.

Cincinnati Bengals

The Bengals’ pin is a throne, “representing the Bengals as the ruler of the jungle,” according to New Era. The Bengals have a real-life throne that they use in a pregame ceremony called “The Ruler of the Jungle” where a notable person leads the team’s “Who Dey” chant.

Cleveland Browns

Since Cleveland is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, its pin is an electric guitar. Surely the only guitar pin in the collection, right? Just you wait.

Denver Broncos

The Broncos’ pin depicts the nearby Rocky Mountains. It also resembles, the Colorado Rockies’ logo, a team most locals try to forget about come football season.

Detroit Lions

The Lions’ pin is a car wheel, which is fitting given the hat identifies Detroit as the Motor City.

Arizona Cardinals

The Cardinals’ pin is several things. It’s shaped like the state of Arizona and includes design elements of the state flag, then sitting on the top right corner is a cardinal, which is also the state bird (UPDATE: Well, New Era claims the cardinal is Arizona’s state bird, but as many readers have pointed out in the comments below, it’s actually the cactus wren).

Atlanta Falcons

It’s a Georgia peach, the state fruit, for the Falcons. Fun fact: Actual Falcons don’t eat peaches, they eat other birds and small mammals.

Baltimore Ravens

The Ravens’ pin is a Maryland Blue Crab, a local delicacy. Someone just needs to make an Old Bay Seasoning pin to go with it.

Buffalo Bills

The Bills’ pin is a buffalo. Not a chicken wing or a folding table. Just a buffalo.

Green Bay Packers

A block of cheese would’ve been an obvious choice for the Packers, but New Era decided to go with a deeper cut: a bicycle, “referencing the team’s training camp tradition of riding kids’ bikes to and from practice.”

Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jaguars’ pin depicts the John T. Alsop Jr. Bridge, a bridge everyone outside of Jacksonville will learn about for the first time because of this pin.

Kansas City Chiefs

The Chiefs’ pin bears the number “142.2.” No, that’s not Andy Reid’s favorite radio station, it’s the decibel level Chiefs fans achieved at Arrowhead Stadium on Sept. 29, 2014, achieving a world record for the loudest crowd noise. It happened during a Monday night game against the New England Patriots. They beat Tom Brady and the Pats 41-14 that night.

Las Vegas Raiders

The Raiders’ pin is the silhouette of their home, Allegiant Stadium.  Of all the iconic imagery associated with the Raiders and Las Vegas, this choice is kind of surprising. Why not Al Davis’ sunglasses or a casino buffet?

Los Angeles Chargers

The Charger’s pin combines the California grizzly bear and star from the state flag with the franchise’s lightning bolt logo. The result is a symbol that looks like it’s teasing a sequel to The Flash where he has to defend California against a Kryptonian supervillain.

Los Angeles Rams

The Rams’ pin is a mariachi jacket representing the Mariachi Rams, a group that plays at SoFi Stadium during every home game.

Miami Dolphins

The Dolphins pin is a wind-blown palm tree, referencing “the team’s speed and home state.” If they wanted to more clearly convey speed they should have done Mike McDaniel sprinting off the field at halftime, though.

Houston Texans

The Texans’ pin reads “H-Town Made,” the team’s slogan. Why “H-Town” apparently it’s unclear who started it, but the ’90s R&B group with the same name might want to talk to a lawyer.

Indianapolis Colts

The Colts’ pin is a hammer and anvil, which are used in the team’s pregame tradition. They would sell way more hats if it was of Caitlin Clark though.

New York Jets

The Jets’ pin is the Statue of Liberty’s torch, which is perfect for this. But New York has so many iconic symbols. So which did the Giants get?

New York Giants

The Giants’ pin is a subway car. Oh.

Philadelphia Eagles

The Eagles’ pin is the Liberty Bell, because of course it is. And because I guess a tush push pin could be seen as inappropriate.

New Orleans Saints

The Saints pin is an umbrella — another one that most probably wouldn’t expect. The parasol umbrella is “a popular symbol of New Orleans culture,” according to New Era. Larry Holder informs me that in the ’80s, late Saints owner Tom Benson would dance on the field with a parasol after wins. Once someone explains to this year’s Saints draft picks what the 1980s were I’m sure they’ll find that fascinating.

Minnesota Vikings

The Vikings pin is, of course, a viking helmet. Very cool and very obvious.

New England Patriots

The Patriots’ pin is the 22-story lighthouse at Gillette Stadium, the tallest “lighthouse” in the country. It may or may not have been where Bill Belichick watched Tom Brady’s 2021 Super Bowl win.

Washington Commanders

The Commanders’ pin is a hog, referencing both the team’s mascot, Major Tuddy (who is a hog), and Washington’s famed offensive line from the ’80s, nicknamed “The Hogs.” Except, this looks a bit more like Babe: Pig in the City than a hog.

Tennesse Titans

And here’s another guitar. The Titans’ pin is an acoustic guitar, though. But country music can use electric guitars, too. And rock music can use acoustic guitars. Guitar stereotyping needs to stop.

Pittsburgh Steelers

The Steelers’ pin is of the Roberto Clemente Bridge, one of Pittsburgh’s many bridges. That makes two bridge-themed pins in this collection now. And up next we have the San Francisco 49ers. I bet we all know what their pin is gonna be, right?

San Francisco 49ers

The Niners’ pin is… a fog horn? So wait, the Jaguars have the John T. Alsop Jr. bridge, the Steelers have the Roberto Clemente Bridge, but the 49ers don’t have the Golden Gate Bridge? New Era’s out here throwing curveballs.

Seattle Seahawks

The Seahawks’ pin is a Sasquatch wearing a 12th man jersey. The team famously considers its fans to be their 12th man on the field, but why a Sasquatch? According to New Era, it represents “the fact that Big Foot lives in the Pacific North West.” A lot of cryptozoologists working at New Era, apparently.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Buccaneers’ pin is a skull, as in their logo.

Dallas Cowboys

The Cowboys’ pin conveys the long-standing claim that they are America’s team. This pin will likely annoy everyone who isn’t a Cowboys fan.

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Several New York Yankees used redesigned bats during the team’s season-opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers. 

The new design places the barrel closer to the hands instead of the more standard placement toward the end of the bat. Brewers closer Trevor Megill took issue with the use of the “torpedo” bats and shared his frustrations after New York scored 20 runs on Saturday en route to a blowout win over Milwaukee.

The Yankees hit a franchise-record nine home runs during the 20-9 win. Megill railed against the bats, arguing they were “terrible,” but also admitting they were a “genius” idea.

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“I think it’s terrible,’” the Brewers relief pitcher told The New York Post. “We’ll see what the data says. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I feel like it’s something used in slo-pitch softball. It’s genius: Put the mass all in one spot. It might be bush [league]. It might not be. But it’s the Yankees, so they’ll let it slide.”

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Trevor Megill throws in the bullpen during spring training workouts, February 15, 2025, in Phoenix. (Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The shape of the bat is within the scope of league rules, making it permissible. 

According to MLB Rule 3.02, “The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length. The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.” Furthermore, the “experimental” bats can’t be used “until the manufacturer has secured approval from Major League Baseball of his design and methods of manufacture.”

Anthony Volpe of the New York Yankees hits a solo home run in the second inning during the game between the Milwaukee Brewers, March 27, 2025, in New York. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Other players in the Brewers’ clubhouse countered Megill’s position, with first baseman Rhys Hoskins suggesting the design left him intrigued.

“I didn’t see it until after the game,’’ Hoskins said. “They figured out a way to make it work. Logically, it makes a lot of sense, but I’m not a physicist. But how could I not want to look into it more?”

“I’ve already talked to some bat companies since the game to see if I could get my model made like that, just to see what it’s like,” Hoskins added. “We’ll see. Just because it worked for somebody doesn’t mean it’ll work for everybody. Hitting is such a feel thing. But I’d try it.”

Nestor Cortes, who played for the Yankees from 2021-24 and gave up eight earned runs on Saturday, shrugged off the new bats.

“That’s nothing new to me,” Cortes said. “I know a few guys did it last year. I don’t think it matters to me. I get the science and technology behind it. I don’t know; it doesn’t really bother me.”

The Yankees cruised to a 12-3 victory on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep of the Brewers.

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