Morning Sports Update: Bill Belichick hires his son as scouting assistant
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Bill Belichick hires another son onto the Patriots’ full-time staff, the Red Sox beat the Twins, and Clay Buchholz discuses being the odd man out.
Bill Belichick hires his son Brian as full-time scouting assistant: Now, in a reminder of how time has passed and how the football business is extending to the next generation of Belichicks, both sons are officially full-time staff members with the Patriots — Steve in his first year as safeties coach and Brian as a scouting assistant. (ESPN.com)
Clay Buchholz on potential trades: ‘I’m the odd man out’: “If this is the way the team is going to be as far as the rotation part of it … I feel like the guys they’re rolling out there, I don’t have a spot. I’m the odd man out,” said Buchholz when asked if he thought we was going to be traded. “I’m not sure. I don’t know. Not having pitched in a while I felt like something has be going on. I’m just trying to stay as sharp as I can and that’s why I’ve been throwing on the side. I have to stay somewhat stretched out. (WEEI.com)
Jae Crowder: Kevin Durant’s decision to join Warriors was a ‘slap in the face’: “I felt like afterward, I was talking to Isaiah, like maybe after you sit back, you shouldn’t have told him everything, but who the (expletive) thought he was going to Golden State, realistically? It was like a slap in the face for us, basically.” (Boston.com)
David Ortiz does damage to Pesky Pole during batting practice: David Ortiz has always been known for his power. (Boston.com)
NESN’s rating up from last season: Through the first half of this season, a period covering April 3-June 30, Red Sox ratings on NESN were 11 percent higher than they were over the same span at season ago, per Sports Business Journal. (The Boston Globe)
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