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Mellinger Minutes: Pearl-clutching, Royals winning, Chiefs defending, and much more

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Kyle Zimmer spoke with reporters after making his major-league debut in Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, March 31, 2019. The often-injured prospect had nearly given up on his dream before having a stellar spring. By

I don’t know if the national sports media machine has another round of hand-wringing in it, but if Bruce Pearl leading Auburn to the Final Four can’t squeeze the last bit of juice then nothing will.

There’s already been a run of these stories and TV segments about a bad look for the sport because Pearl was fired from Tennessee amid “scandal” and had an assistant at Auburn fired after being swept up in the FBI investigation.