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Good Thursday Morning. Bringing you an abbreviated, “snack size” feast version of SBP this week. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Five Interesting, Funny, and Touching Things that Happened in Sports This Week

#1: The new F1 valuations have dropped, and they show a sport continuing a rapid rise, even with the dominance of one driver over the last four years

#2: NWSL 🚀 

#3: Former Cy Young award winner Blake Snell signs with the Dodgers, and it’s another deferred contract

🗯️ My thought bubble (refresher on deferred compensation here): The MLB needs to step in and do something about this loophole. The Dodgers now have $960 million in deferred compensation spread across five of their most impactful players:

• Shohei Ohtani: $680 million of $700m deferred

• Mookie Betts: $115m of $365m

• Blake Snell: $62m of $182m

• Freddie Freeman: $57m of $162m

• Will Smith: $50m of $140m

Other teams can — and should — start considering this loophole while it’s available, but this is a bad look for the game that is already splintering into the have’s and have not’s.

#4: JuJu starts her (predicted) ascent to the top of women’s basketball

#5: I cannot get enough of these VR breakdowns ESPN is doing. An incredible way to see and learn the game

Until next time, sports fans!

-Alex