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Husband, father, lawyer, baseball writer: newbergreport.substack.com & @DMagazine, SMU adjunct prof. Rangers fan since well before Roger Moret's catatonic trance.

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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My new ranking of the Rangers' 72 best prospects is now out. The measure: Who would I least want to see in an Astros or Mariners uniform? newbergreport.substack.com/p/the-top-72...
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The Top 72 Rangers prospects: 2026 v.2.
A season-ending update of my semi-annual exercise.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In this week's Hops: some medical updates, a Rays-Rangers stat that defies reason, prospect accolades (and my own Top 72 update coming later today), COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 10-11-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let's go, Rays. Let's go, Brewers. newbergreport.substack.com/p/a-collisio...
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A collision course.
I wish for Tampa Bay, or Milwaukee, the one thing the Rangers have that they don’t.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In this week's Hops—free for all to read (no paywall): a shutdown that doesn't need to happen, thoughts on Skip Schumaker, a rundown of the Rangers' free agents and arb decisions, memories from the Trop, the "Trumbo play," my offseason plans, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 10-4-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Saying goodbye to one of the most grueling Rangers seasons in memory. newbergreport.substack.com/p/after-a-ra...
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After a Rangers season that didn’t deliver, one message clearly was.
Whether this winter becomes an inflection point . . . is an inflection point.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Rangers leave no doubt. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-162-t...
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Game 162: Three Up, Three Down.
The Rangers leave no doubt.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In this week's Hops: some MacKenzie Gore history and Dean Kremer history (and maybe the most unsung AB in Rangers history), a lousy Jonah Heim moment, a smattering of farm stuff, a little COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 9-27-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big Game Nate. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-161-t...
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Game 161: Three Up, Three Down.
Big Game Nate.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Broken. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-160-t...
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Game 160: Three Up, Three Down.
Broken.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two high school arms. Two lefties. Two clocks. newbergreport.substack.com/p/fall-instr...
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Fall Instructs, 2026: Day 4.
Two high school arms. Two lefties. Two clocks.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
September 24, 2026 is the new 2023. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-159-t...
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Game 159: Three Up, Three Down.
September 24, 2026 is the new 2023.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Rangers play defense tonight like a team that will go home after 162. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-157-t...
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Game 157: Three Up, Three Down.
The Rangers play defense tonight like a team that will go home after 162.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Neither Jacob deGrom nor Hunter Brown’s teammates could get it done today. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-156-t...
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Game 156: Three Up, Three Down.
Neither Jacob deGrom nor Hunter Brown’s teammates could get it done today.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In this week's Hops: a crazy bullpen run, some love for the coaching staff, leftover notes and observations from Fall Instructs, some new farm system rankings (and postseason awards), COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 9-20-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
(Master)ful Monty. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-155-t...
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Game 155: Three Up, Three Down.
(Master)ful Monty.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Aggie from Austin and the Longhorn from Massachusetts. Almost. newbergreport.substack.com/p/fall-instr...
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Fall Instructs, 2026: Day 3.
The Aggie from Austin and the Longhorn from Massachusetts. Almost.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Knock, knock. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-154-t...
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Game 154: Three Up, Three Down.
Knock, knock.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The six pitches that started Gio Rojas's and Connor Comeau's shared story. newbergreport.substack.com/p/fall-instr...
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Fall Instructs, 2026: Day 2.
Six pitches.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In Arlington, 2026 is not yet over. But in Arizona, 2027 has already begun. newbergreport.substack.com/p/fall-instr...
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Fall Instructs, 2026: Day 1.
In Arlington, 2026 is not yet over. But in Arizona, 2027 has already begun.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Rangers, at long last, are back at .500. So are the Astros. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-152-t...
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Game 152: Three Up, Three Down.
The Rangers, at long last, are back at .500. So are the Astros.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Rangers win their first road series in two and a half months. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-150-t...
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Game 150: Three Up, Three Down.
The Rangers win their first road series in two and a half months.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In this week's Hops: squeezing in a gamer from last night, Walcott in the field for the first time in 2026, the game-watching party is today, farm stuff, COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 9-13-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Circle this one. Maybe in Sharpie. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-147-t...
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Game 147: Three Up, Three Down.
Circle this one.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I almost stayed up to get this done last night, with Shelton-Alcaraz in the background. Couldn't make it. Big, big win. (For Shelton, too.) newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-145-t...
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Game 145: Three Up, Three Down.
Response time. Again.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What 139 songs apparently reveal about my 50 years of Rangers fandom. newbergreport.substack.com/p/patterns
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Patterns.
What 139 songs apparently reveal about my 50 years of Rangers fandom.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Texas has lost once this year when leading after six. Sure didn’t look like I was going to get to use that today. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-144-t...
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Game 144: Three Up, Three Down.
Texas has lost once this year when leading after six. Sure didn’t look like I was going to get to use that today.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In this week's Hops: some very important players are very much not helping the pennant chase right now, more first-inning woes, Zeke, farm things, COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 9-6-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tampa Bay gets Quantified. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-141-t...
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Game 141: Three Up, Three Down.
Tampa Bay gets Quantified.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A comfortable win. Comfort food. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-138-t...
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Game 138: Three Up, Three Down.
A comfortable win. Comfort food.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Duran. Duran. You know you’re something special, and you look like you’re the best. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-137-t...
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Game 137: Three Up, Three Down.
Duran. Duran. You know you’re something special, and you look like you’re the best.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In this week's Hops: a shocking trend on the road, the state of the Wild Card tiebreakers, an update (finally) on Wyatt Langford's throwing arm, predictions on roster expansion, farm superlatives, COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 8-30-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A really good baseball team plays really good baseball. Alas. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-136-t...
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Game 136: Three Up, Three Down.
A really good baseball team plays really good baseball. Alas.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A magical three-year-old memory, and the siren song it represents today. newbergreport.substack.com/p/the-lure-o...
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The lure of the drastic measure.
And the legitimate case against it.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The game started with one team in sole possession of first place. It ended with two. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-132-t...
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Game 132: Three Up, Three Down.
The game started with one team in sole possession of first place. It ended with two.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Score first. Score four. Revisit the top of the West. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-131-t...
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Game 131: Three Up, Three Down.
Score first. Score four. Revisit the top of the West.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In this week's Hops: the ridiculous AL West (and AL), the Brandon Nimmo Play, an expectation that Logan O'Hoppe will be up soon (and why), farm things, COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 8-23-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A subscriber suggested this is one I should unlock and let everyone read. I liked the idea. So here you go, from yesterday, free to read: A Rangers fan's personal catharsis. newbergreport.substack.com/p/baseball-m...
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Baseball matters. Because it’s baseball.
Maybe loving baseball instinctively as a kid wasn’t loving it before I knew better. Maybe that's when I knew best.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A Rangers fan's personal catharsis. newbergreport.substack.com/p/baseball-m...
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Baseball matters. Because it’s baseball.
Maybe loving baseball instinctively as a kid wasn’t loving it before I knew better. Maybe that's when I knew best.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In this week's Hops: a truly unbelievable AL West stat for Texas, some nearly-as-crazy MacKenzie Gore numbers, other rotation updates, farm stuff, COFFEY, and more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 8-16-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When even keel feels more like keeling over. newbergreport.substack.com/p/when-even-...
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In this week's Hops: imagining what might happen with both the pitching staff & the bench once Leiter & Jung are back, my once-every-10-years strategy brainstorm for the baseball thinkers out there, a busy roster move breakdown, farm stuff, COFFEY, more. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 8-9-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Welcome back, Superstars. newbergreport.substack.com/p/game-117-t...
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Game 117: Three Up, Three Down.
Welcome back, Superstars.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Did a no-trade clause turn out to be a No-Trade Clause? newbergreport.substack.com/p/much-ado-n...
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Much ado . . . nothing.
Did a no-trade clause turn out to be a No-Trade Clause?
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No. 4 for the day -- the Rangers make one trade, and might have been at the doorstep on another when the door was locked shut. newbergreport.substack.com/p/trot-coffe...
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TROT COFFEY: August 3, 2026, v.4.
A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the trade deadline bears in on us. The clock is ticking.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No. 3 of the day. newbergreport.substack.com/p/trot-coffe...
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TROT COFFEY: August 3, 2026, v.3.
A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the trade deadline bears in on us. The clock is ticking.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No. 2 of the day -- in which I spitball a trade idea I'd feel pretty good about. newbergreport.substack.com/p/trot-coffe...
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TROT COFFEY: August 3, 2026, v.2.
A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the trade deadline bears in on us. The clock is ticking.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No. 1 of the day. Some eye-opening Rangers speculation out there. newbergreport.substack.com/p/trot-coffe...
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TROT COFFEY: August 3, 2026, v.1
A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the trade deadline bears in on us. The clock is ticking.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No. 3 for the day. newbergreport.substack.com/p/trot-coffe...
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TROT COFFEY: August 2, 2026, v.3.
A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the trade deadline bears in on us. The clock is ticking.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
No. 2 for the day. newbergreport.substack.com/p/trot-coffe...
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TROT COFFEY: August 2, 2026, v.2.
A repository of responsibly reported rumors as the trade deadline bears in on us. The clock is ticking.
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Newberg Report @newbergreport.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In this week's Hops: what is reportedly (and shockingly) riding on today's game in Houston, the staggering difference between how Rangers hitters and Rangers pitchers fare with the bases loaded, some farm stuff, & maybe only the first COFFEY of the day. newbergreport.substack.com/p/sunday-hop...
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Sunday hops, 8-2-26.
A weekly compendium emptying the bench, with Rangers developments, rumors, and takes — and, as always, a little TROT COFFEY.
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