Box Score 8/2: Austin Jackson says 'hang in there' this week

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while practicing our baseball hops.  

Happy birthday today to Grady Sizemore, Tim Wakefield, and Kristaps Porzingis. On this date in 1938 the Dodgers and Cardinals experimented with using a yellow baseball in a double-header. They went back to the white ball in the second game. 

Daily brain workout

Name the highest-paid player on every NFL team from the 2016 season in our 'Pay that man his money' quiz.

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• Trade deadline survivors who could still be moved this winter.
• Time for this week's BIG3 Referee Hotline Bling: A.I. goes M.I.A. as we look into where Iverson was this past weekend. 
• Morten Andersen turned kicking into performance art of the highest order as we look at this year's Hall of Fame class. 
• 25 NFL games you need to watch this 2017 season.

Around the league

• 'We got Darvish': How the Dodgers' dramatic trade played out. [LA Times] 
• Finding Darko - Everyone thinks of Darko Milicic as a bust, a recent visit with him shows why he's anything but. [ESPN]
• Want to know what it's like to hang around with 7,000 Packer team owners? Of course you do. [Vice Sports]

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