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Sports stopped making sense in 2017
This was indeed the year of the upside down. From NFL dominance to MLB bullpen management to the NCAA’s loose grip on reality to, gulp, the Ball family, we questioned everything we thought we knew about sports in 2017. Expectation vs. Reality is more than a just meme — it’s the sports world at a crossroads.