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Der neue Fragenpod blickt auf den Hass der Russell Westbrook entgegenschlägt, checkt, ob Steve Kerr die Warriors kaputt macht, blickt zurück auf den größten Trade aller Zeiten, macht Isaac Bonga Mut und vieles, vieles mehr! Hier geht es zum … (mehr …)

LeBron James could return to game action from his high ankle sprain next week.

James could debut either on Monday against the Denver Nuggets, on Thursday against the Los Angeles Clippers, or Friday against the Portland Trail Blazers.

James has missed the past 20 games.

“He’ll tell me when he’s ready,” Frank Vogel said. “He and the medical team will tell me when he’s ready. They’re having conversations about it each day. They’re monitoring his progression each day, seeing where he’s at and when he’s ready to play, he’ll play.”

Sloppy Joes are a regular favorite in our home. We know they will be in yours too. They are so easy to make, and everyone loves them!

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Easy Sloppy Joes recipe

Making Sloppy Joes from scratch is so quick and easy. In my opinion, this is a very basic recipe everyone should know how to make from scratch.

My husband’s favorite meal is Sloppy Joes. It always seems to make him smile when he sees it on my menu for the week! We have them about once a month because I know he loves them! They’re really simple to make – even without the canned sauce stuff!  

Sloppy Joes sauce

Depending on how “sloppy” you like your Joes, will determine how long you need to simmer the filling.

Personally, I don’t like them too sloppy, so I tend to cook the sauce for a longer period of time to help thicken it up. If you like yours more sloppy, then you’ll want to cook the sauce for less time.

Can you freeze Sloppy Joes

Specifically, you can freeze the meat mixture in an airtight, freezer-safe container or zip-top bag for 3-6 months. Allow it to thaw overnight in the fridge before reheating.

Sides for Sloppy Joes

This recipe is one that I feel like so many things go great with it! If you would eat it with a sandwich, then it would probably go great with this dish! Here are a few of my favorites:

• Macaroni Salad
• Old-Fashioned Potato Salad
• Creamy Pea Salad
• Homemade Potato Chips
• Creamy Stovetop Mac & Cheese
• Oven-Baked Sweet Potato Fries
• Refrigerator Pickles

Sloppy Joes recipe

• ground beef – you can also use ground pork, venison, chicken, or turkey
• small onion – use whatever variety you have on hand or prefer
• small green pepper – if you have red, yellow, or orange bell peppers on hand, you can use them instead
• light brown sugar – you can substitute golden monk fruit (or similar) if you are watching your sugar or carb intake
• yellow mustard – use what your family prefers
• distilled vinegar – sometimes also called distilled white vinegar
• salt – regular old table salt
• ketchup – feel free to use whatever your family uses. If you are looking for a lower sugar variety, you can use that also
• Hamburger buns, toasted if desired – or bread, slider buns, tortillas, or whatever method you would like to eat your meat mixture with

How to make Sloppy Joes

Recipe Tips

• The longer you allow the sauce to simmer, the thicker it will be. If you like a messier sauce, use the shorter time. If a less messy sauce is your thing, allow the sauce to cook a bit longer.
• For even more flavor, add a shake or two of Worcestershire sauce.
• Watching your sugar or carb intake? Use low-sugar ketchup and substitute golden monk fruit sweetener (or similar product) for the brown sugar.

Other recipes you may enjoy

• Cheesy Sloppy Joe Bake
• Garlic Bread Italian Sloppy Joes
• Sloppy José Sandwiches
• Make Dinner Easy with Manwich
• EASY Mac and Cheese

Sloppy Joe's

Yield:
6-8 servings

Prep Time:
10 minutes

Cook Time:
30 minutes

Total Time:
40 minutes

Sloppy Joes are a regular favorite in our home. We know they will be in yours too. They are so easy to make, and everyone loves them!

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Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 small green pepper, chopped
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed
• 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
• 1 tablespoon distilled vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup ketchup
• Hamburger buns, toasted if desired

Instructions

1. Brown and crumble the ground beef in a medium skillet. Drain.
2. Add the remaining ingredients except for the hamburger buns and simmer for 20-30 minutes. The sauce will thicken more the longer it cooks.
3. Serve on hamburger buns.

Notes

• The longer you allow the sauce to simmer, the thicker it will be. If you like a messier sauce, use the shorter time. If a less messy sauce is your thing, allow the sauce to cook a bit longer.
• For even more flavor, add a shake or two of Worcestershire sauce.
• Watching your sugar or carb intake? Use low-sugar ketchup and substitute golden monk fruit sweetener (or similar product) for the brown sugar.

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Nutrition Information:

Yield: 6

Serving Size: 1 sandwich

Amount Per Serving:

Calories: 283Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 67mgSodium: 585mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 1gSugar: 12gProtein: 22g

Please note that the nutritional information listed on this page is an estimation based on the products I used. Ingredients and nutritional information can vary greatly between brands. Always be sure to read labels.

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Originally published on November 23, 2012. Updated on April 26, 2021.

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Third-seeded Michigan will need to buck recent trends against top-seeded Villanova on Monday.

Nearly a third of brackets on ESPN.com picked Villanova to reach the championship game. Only 8 percent thought the same of Michigan.

A couple of months ago I presented individual defensive efficiency ratings for the 2008-09 regular season that I extracted from play-by-play data. In this post I will present a method for adjusting these ratings in an attempt to get a clearer picture of a player’s defensive abilities.

Adjusting the Defensive Ratings

To adjust these defensive ratings I fit a multilevel model that allows us to measure the individual offensive, individual defensive, and team defensive impacts on individual efficiency ratings. I fit this model for each of the 2006-07 through 2009-10 regular seasons, and I also fit a single model using all data from those seasons. The results of these fits can be found in the following spreadsheet:

Adjusted Individual Defensive Efficiency Ratings

In this spreadsheet you will find tabs for each of these model fits. The ratings are in terms of the player’s difference from the average defender. Standard errors are listed along with color coded confidence levels. These color codes give us an idea as to how much confidence we have in the estimate. In other words, green means we’re confident the player is not average, red means we have little confidence the player is not average, and yellow is the middle ground between the two confidence levels.

Interpreting the Ratings

To interpret these ratings, you have to think in terms of knowing the defensive player used the possession. For example, Dwight Howard’s 2009-10 rating suggests that when he uses a defensive possession the individual offensive efficiency rating of the player that used the offensive possession is 14.7 points lower than what it would be against an average defender.

It is important to note that because this model shrinks estimates to the mean, bad defenders that get little playing time will be considered average.

These ratings also adjust for the team the player plays for, as Dean Oliver shows in Basketball on Paper how some good defensive players can play on poor defensive teams. The general idea was to try and account for “Dumars-like” players while at the same time control for the idea that one individual doesn’t have complete control over how well a team does defensively.

I haven’t done anything scientific to fully study the impact of this team adjustment, but it seems to make sense after eyeballing the impact of this on players like Pau Gasol and Chris Bosh. Eyeballing something doesn’t give us a ton of confidence, so this adjustment is worth a deeper look in the future.

Players Still Underrated After Adjustment

These adjusted ratings do little to account for the fact that we don’t have a great way of giving credit to defenders when opponents make or miss shots. Guys like Shane Battier that defend the opponent’s best offensive player aren’t going to stand out in these ratings.

What Makes Sense? What Doesn’t?

I’m still trying to learn what makes a good defender, so I’d like to hear your thoughts on what ratings make sense, and which don’t. What players have reputations for being good defenders that this model isn’t estimating well?

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Amish Pea Salad with Ham & Cheese is a delicious side dish that comes together in minutes. It’s a fantastic way to use up leftover holiday ham.

If you’re anything like me, you still have some leftover Easter ham in your freezer.

Despite regularly having to cook for a crowd, I always make too much, regardless of the holiday.

It’s not Easter without ham, and I always purposely buy one that’s bigger than we need to feed our family, so we have some leftovers. After the holiday is over, we enjoy ham sandwiches, ham and cheese omelettes, and I tuck some ham away in the freezer for later.

One of my favorite ways to use up that leftover ham is alongside sweet green peas in this Amish Pea Salad with Ham & Cheese.

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The Denver Nuggets have signed Austin Rivers to a 10-day contract.

Rivers appeared in 21 games this season with the New York Knicks before he was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder and subsequently released.

Rivers gives Denver depth in the backcourt following the season-ending injury to Jamal Murray.

Baked chocolate donuts with a simple vanilla glaze, covered with crushed Oreo cookies. These gluten free vegan cookies n’ cream donuts are easy to make and oh so tasty!

Have you guys tried the new gluten free Oreo cookies? They are flying off the grocery store shelves and for good reason! Our family has tried the regular gluten free Oreos and the double stuf. We were all amazed at how similar they are to the original Oreo cookies, but they are actually better! The texture is spot on and the cream filling is perfection {go for the double stuf, trust me.}. If you can get your hands on them, try them ASAP!

I really wanted to use the new gluten free Oreo cookies in a recipe and my kids had been asking me to make them some homemade donuts. That was my inspiration for these gluten free vegan cookies n’ cream donuts. I decided to surprise my kids by making them while they were at school. When they got home, they were so excited to give them a try!

I love making donuts in my donut pan. It’s the best! If you don’t have one, you’ll need to pick one up for this recipe. They are inexpensive and great to have for making homemade gluten free donuts. Now for the Oreos, if you can’t find the new gluten free Oreos, you can use your favorite gluten free chocolate sandwich cookies. 

After the first bite of these gluten free vegan cookies n’ cream donuts, I knew I had a winning recipe. Moist chocolate cake donuts, topped with a simple vanilla glaze, then dipped in an abundance of crushed Oreo cookies. The crushed cookies give the donuts texture, which I’m all about! The recipe comes together in no time and you will have homemade {totally decadent} donuts for you and your family to enjoy. 

gluten free vegan cookies n’ cream donuts

 

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AUTHOR: Sarah Bakes Gluten Free

RECIPE TYPE: breakfast

SERVES: 10 donuts

INGREDIENTS

chocolate donuts

• 1 cup Sarah’s gluten free flour blend*
• 3/4 cup cane sugar
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 3/4 cup almond milk or oat milk
• 1/4 cup avocado oil or grape seed oil
• 2 teaspoons white vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

vanilla glaze

• 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon dairy free butter, melted
• 2-3 tablespoons almond milk or oat milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 8 gluten free Oreo cookies, crushed**

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray standard-size donut pan with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt in mixing bowl.
3. Add almond milk, oil, vinegar and vanilla to flour mixture. Stir batter until just combined.
4. Spoon batter into piping bag with large round tip or large ziplock bag, cutting tip. Pipe batter into prepared donut pan.
5. Bake donuts for 15-17 minutes, until baked through. Turn out onto cooling rack. Repeat with remaining batter if needed.
6. To make vanilla glaze, whisk together powdered sugar, melted dairy free butter, almond milk and vanilla. Stir until smooth. Add more almond milk if needed.
7. When donuts are cooled, spread tops with vanilla glaze. Immediately dip into crushed cookies. Place on cooling rack to allow glaze to set.

NOTES

*You can also use Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1-to-1 baking flour.
**To crush the cookies, place in ziplock bag and pound with rolling pin until crushed. You want small pieces of cookie to remain.

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You might also enjoy these gluten free vegan baked chocolate donuts. A delicious classic!

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