LONDON (AP) - Filmmaker Alan Parker, one of Britain's most successful directors whose movies included "Bugsy Malone," "Midnight Express" and "Evita," has died at 76, his family said.
Parker's diverse body of work includes "Fame," Mississippi Burning, "The Commitments and "Angela's Ashes." Together his movies won 10 Academy Awards and ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Friday's game between St. Louis and Milwaukee has been postponed after multiple Cardinals employees tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because the postponement in Milwaukee ...
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BRADENTON, Fla. - Ariel Atkins scored 22 points and led four scorers in double figures as the Washington Mystics beat the Seattle Storm 89-71 on Thursday night.
Myisha Hines-Allen scored 17, Leilani Mitchell added 12 and Emma Meesseman 10 as Washington (3-0) built a seven-point lead in the first quarter ...
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) - The last of three people charged in a deadly home invasion is due to be sentenced for murder on Friday.
A jury convicted Christopher Murray of North Carolina last year. Prosecutors charged that Murray, Tony Locklear and Alexis Locklear shot Wayne Lapierre and his wife at ...
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As a New York University medical researcher who works once a week in an emergency room, Dr. David Lee had the luxury of time to think like a scientist while also treating coronavirus patients whose lungs kept giving out. In every case, he saw the same thing: Their blood was ...
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LONDON (AP) - Spectators will no longer be allowed to attend sporting events in England after concerns about a rise in coronavirus infections forced the government to delay the partial reopening of venues until at least Aug. 15.
Small groups of fans were due to attend horse racing, cricket and ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Benedikt Höwedes, a defender who helped Germany win the World Cup title in 2014, retired from soccer on Friday citing family reasons.
The 32-year-old Höwedes left Lokomotiv Moscow by mutual consent last month while the Russian league was suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Höwedes told German magazine ...
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SILVERSTONE, England (AP) - Nico Hulkenberg made an unexpected return to Formula One on Friday, stepping in at Racing Point after Sergio Perez tested positive for the coronavirus ahead of the British Grand Prix on Sunday.
The 32-year-old Hulkenberg lost his seat at Renault for this season so was available ...
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Formula One driver Sergio Perez says he might have contracted the coronavirus during a trip to Mexico between races in Hungary and Britain.
The Racing Point driver tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and will ...
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LONDON (AP) - Twitter says the hackers responsible for a recent high-profile breach used the phone to fool the social media company's employees into giving them access.
The company revealed a few more details late Thursday about the hack earlier this month, which it said targeted "a small number of ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Bryan Cranston said he contracted and recovered from COVID-19 and has donated his plasma because it contains antibodies.
The actor best known for playing Walter White on AMC's "Breaking Bad" made the announcement in a video posted to Instagram on Thursday.
Cranston, 64, did ...
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CAIRO (AP) - For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling cemeteries in Egypt's capital, creating a unique historic city of the dead. Now in its campaign to reshape Cairo, the government is driving highways through the cemeteries, raising alarm from ...
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MILAN (AP) - Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis raised concerns Thursday about his club traveling to face Barcelona in the Champions League amid a recent spike in coronavirus cases in Spain.
"I hear a lot of perplexity and fear coming from Spain and they're acting like nothing is wrong," De ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - In the Fall 2012, as the willing subject of one of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory, Philip Roth joked that he had surrendered power over his own life to author Blake Bailey.
"I trust you have been getting all the windy emails I've ...
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ORWELL, N.Y. (AP) - A 24-year-old New York man has died after he jumped from the top of a 110-foot (34-meter) waterfall while swimming with friends, police said.
Brett Colvin jumped from the top of the Salmon River Falls in Oswego County on Tuesday and did not surface from the ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The top women's indoor volleyball players in the U.S. will be calling Nashville home for their new professional league.
Athletes Unlimited, in partnership with USA Volleyball, had been looking for a city where the new league can play. Jon Patricof, co-founder and CEO, told The Associated ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on Comcast in the second quarter as movie theaters closed, theme parks shut down and advertisers cut back.
The company reported Thursday that its NBCUniversal TV, film and theme park divisions, as well as its Sky unit in Europe, ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The Asian soccer confederation banned Laos national team player Thipphonexay Inthavongsa on Thursday for life for match-fixing.
The AFC said Inthavongsa was found guilty of conspiring to manipulate the result of an international match between the Hong Kong and Laos on Oct. 5, 2017.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Danish Grammy award-winning composer and pianist Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, known internationally as Bent Fabric, who had an international hit in 1962 with the tune "Alley Cat," has died. He was 95.
His family confirmed that Fabricius-Bjerre died on Tuesday after fighting cancer.
Fabricius-Bjerre penned and played ...
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LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) - Cumberland University baseball coach Woody Hunt has been given the Pat Summitt Lifetime Achievement Award by the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
Named for the longtime Tennessee women's basketball coach who died in 2016, the Summitt Award is given to coaches who have led their teams ...
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - The bright yellow Hotel Holiday in downtown Sarajevo has seen good times and bad times in its 37-year history. Mostly, it has been a symbol of survival in the once-turbulent Bosnian capital.
Now the boxy landmark is in danger once again, with the coronavirus pandemic ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Russian oligarchs have skirted U.S. sanctions through murky high-end art deals, according to a congressional report released Wednesday that urged lawmakers to rein in an unregulated industry favored by money launderers.
The secrecy of the art world - in which buyers often remain anonymous - gave ...
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BURKE, Va. (AP) - On a recent car ride, my sons, Billy and Jimmy, were discussing an interactive "Minecraft" show on Netflix that allowed them to choose the direction of the story. I said it sounded like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book, an artifact of my 1980s childhood.
Then ...
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - Authorities in South Carolina have arrested a man accused of shooting another man to death during an argument over a basketball game.
The Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office charged Rodney Rivers, 25, with murder in the death of Tashon S. Grant, 28, the agency said in ...
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BRADENTON, Fla. - Aerial Powers scored a career-high 27 points on 10-of-14 shooting and the Washington Mystics beat the Connecticut Sun 94-89 on Tuesday night in a rematch of the 2019 Finals.
Ariel Atkins and Myisha Hines-Allen each scored 16 points for the defending champion Mystics (2-0) and Emma Meesseman ...
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - The Mercedes cars in Formula E will go all-black for the remainder of the season as a statement against racism, the auto maker said Wednesday.
Mercedes earlier changed its Formula One livery from silver to black for the 2020 season.
"We stand against racism," the team ...
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GUIMARÃES, Portugal (AP) - Former Atlético Madrid midfielder Tiago has been appointed coach of Portuguese club Vitória Guimarães, the club said Wednesday.
Tiago, who retired in 2017, signed a two-year contract with the team, which finished this season in seventh place under coach Ivo Vieira.
The 39-year-old former Portugal international ...
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LONDON (AP) - A judge in London is hearing the latest stage on Wednesday of the Duchess of Sussex's privacy-infringement lawsuit against a British newspaper, as Meghan tries to keep the names of five of her friends out of the public eye.
The former Meghan Markle is suing the publisher ...
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The first two stops on the 2021 World Sevens Series rugby circuit have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
World Rugby says the joint events in Dubai from Nov. 26-28 and in Cape Town ...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Games were canceled. Practice facilities were shuttered. A season ended unceremoniously for eight teams. The draft process was delayed, as was free agency. Some players tested positive for the coronavirus. Many more took to the streets and used their voices to demand justice and ...
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Fans counted down the seconds to the final buzzer, "Brass Bonanza" played over the speakers at Hartford Civic Center and Whalers players Dave Tippett, Joel Quenneville and Dean Evason celebrated a three-game sweep of the Quebec Nordiques.
Wait, Hartford Whalers? Quebec Nordiques? Three-game sweep?
It was 1986 and one ...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's governor says he is "appalled" by videos showing crowds standing close together at a Hamptons concert featuring electronic music duo The Chainsmokers over the weekend.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state Department of Health will conduct an investigation into "egregious social distancing violations." ...
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LONDON (AP) - The auction house Sotheby's is holding an online sale featuring artwork that spans five centuries of art history, from Rembrandt to Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró to Banksy.
After months of disruption due to the coronavirus outbreak, the sale of 70 artworks - from the 17th century ...
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WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS-FEDEX ST. JUDE INVITATIONAL
Site: Memphis, Tenn.
Course: TPC Southwind. Yardage: 7,238. Par: 70.
Purse: $10.5 million. Winner's share: $1,787,560.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, noon to 2 p.m. (Golf Channel), 2-6 p.m. (CBS); Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-7 p.m. ...
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Silkroad, the acclaimed international musical collective with a social conscience, has a new face - and a fresh sense of purpose.
Grammy-winning folk singer and instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens is Silkroad's new artistic director, taking the baton from renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who founded the group two decades ago, Silkroad said ...
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MADRID (AP) - Real Madrid forward Mariano has tested positive for the coronavirus, the club said Tuesday.
The announcement came as the team returned to practice ahead of its Champions League match against Manchester City on Aug. 7. Real Madrid lost at home 2-1 in the first leg of the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, who played a key role in the Russia investigation but whose pejorative text messages about Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign made him a target of the president's wrath, is releasing a book on his concerns about the president.
"Compromised: Counterintelligence ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Prince Joachim, the younger son of Queen Margrethe of Denmark, who underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain won't suffer any long-term effects, the royal palace said Tuesday.
The 51-year-old prince, who had been on vacation in France, was admitted to the Toulouse ...
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LONDON (AP) - Johnny Depp's libel case against a British tabloid that accused him of abusing ex-wife Amber Heard wraps up Tuesday after three weeks of court hearings that dissected a toxic celebrity love affair.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A point of pride for Greece was touched by controversy Monday, as the country's prime minister was criticized by an opposition party for using a military helicopter during a trip to celebrate with Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, on being granted Greek citizenship.
...Fourteen members of the Miami Marlins have tested positive for COVID-19, forcing them to cancel Monday's game against the Baltimore Orioles, ESPN and The Athletic reported.
The Washington Nationals are scheduled to play a series at Miami this Friday through Sunday. That series — and possibly more — are now in doubt.
...BOSTON (AP) - The white Union Army commander sits rigid atop an imposing horse. His Black men, rifles to their shoulders, march resolutely alongside on their way to battle.
For L'Merchie Frazier, the towering bronze relief in downtown Boston captures the stirring call to arms answered by Black soldiers who ...
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GLENCOE, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was relocated about 800 feet down the road - a short move that's part of a local saga over the historic structure.
The one-story frame house known as the Booth Cottage was built in 1913 and designed ...
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TOKYO (AP) - Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, known for his avant-garde and colorful work that included flamboyant costumes of the late rock icon David Bowie, has died of leukemia, his company said Monday. He was 76.
Yamamoto developed leukemia in February and was determined to recover and come back ...
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Qatar is keen on on hosting the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The gas-rich Persian Gulf nation has expressed an interest in hosting the world's biggest sporting events in a letter to the International Olympic Committee.
Qatar is turning its focus to bringing the Summer Games to the Middle East ...
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LONDON (AP) - Lawyers began their closing arguments Monday at Johnny Depp's libel case against a British tabloid that accused him of abusing ex-wife Amber Heard - a high-stakes celebrity trial in which the reputations of both former spouses are at stake.
Depp is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of ...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Queen Margrethe of Denmark, has undergone emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain, the royal palace said.
The 51-year-old prince, who had been on vacation in France, was admitted to the Toulouse University Hospital late on Friday and ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - So you've probably read a lot about "cancel culture." Or know about a new poll that shows a plurality of Americans disapproving of it. Or you may have heard about a letter in Harper's Magazine condemning censorship and intolerance.
But can you say exactly what ...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Joel Embiid is hurting, and that's a cause for concern as the Philadelphia 76ers get set to restart their season this week.
The All-Star starting center sat out Philadelphia's scrimmage against Oklahoma City on Sunday with right calf tightness, something 76ers coach Brett Brown ...
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) - Actor John Saxon, whose good looks won him not only legions of female fans but also a wide array of roles, has died at his home in Tennessee, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 83.
The entertainment news outlet quotes Saxon's wife, Gloria, as confirming ...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - The NBA said Sunday that Lou Williams of the Los Angeles Clippers is being quarantined for 10 days because of his trip out of the league's bubble last week to attend a family member's funeral.
He will miss at least two of the Clippers' ...
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LONDON (AP) - Spectators were allowed into a sporting event in England for the first time since March when coronavirus prevention measures were tested at a cricket match between Surrey and Middlesex at The Oval ahead of a planned wider reopening of stadiums in October.
Alternate rows were used across ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indianapolis nonprofit group founded by a Latina welder is offering training workshops to help others long underrepresented in the filed venture into welding.
Consuelo Poland, 31, was the only woman and the only woman of color in her class when she got a welding certificate ...
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LONDON (AP) - Prince William infuriated Prince Harry when he told his younger brother he should move slowly in his relationship with the former Meghan Markle, fearing that he was being "blindsided by lust,'' a new book on the Windsors says.
The second installment of a serialized version of ...
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BRADENTON, Fla. - Myisha Hines-Allen scored a career-high 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and the defending champion Washington Mystics beat the Indiana Fever 101-76 on Saturday in the season opener for both teams.
The 2020 WNBA season, delayed and shortened by the coronavirus pandemic, will be played in a ...
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Wearing a red muscle shirt with a drawing of a gold trumpet - this year's answer to the "Baby Shark" phenomenon of 2019 - Washington Nationals center fielder Victor Robles sat down for his postgame video conference and announced, "Hi, guys!"
Filled with energy on and off a baseball field, ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Masked fans hopped, sang and shouted cheers in baseball stadiums in South Korea on Sunday as authorities began allowing spectators to return to professional sports amid the coronavirus pandemic.
After a weeks-long delay, South Korea's 2020 baseball season began in early May without fans in ...
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A look at what's happening around European soccer on Sunday:
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
It's the last day of the season and plenty is still at stake: Champions League and Europa League qualification, the final two relegation places, and the Golden Boot scoring trophy. Manchester United, Chelsea and Leicester are fighting ...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Zion Williamson will be out of quarantine by the time New Orleans plays in the first official game of the NBA restart at Walt Disney World.
Whether the Pelicans will play him that night or not remains anyone's guess.
The NBA said Saturday that ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management says will pay $312 million to buy newspaper publisher McClatchy out of bankruptcy protection.
Chatham said Friday that it plans to offer employees at the 30-newspaper chain their current jobs with the same pay and benefits, and it will honor ...
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A cardboard cutout of Tommy Lasorda at Dodger Stadium. The shouts of Tom Hanks hawking hot dogs at the Oakland Coliseum. A shot of Cubs pitcher Jon Lester sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley Field.
With every pitch, with every swing, with every inning in empty parks across the majors, ...
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - Olivier Glissant, an internationally renowned Brooklyn-based composer, is working on a new composition with an unexpected inspiration - a poem by 12-year-old Titus Beatty, who is collaborating with Glissant to create a work in response to COVID-19 and the social unrest that has overturned life across ...
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WEST SAND LAKE, N.Y. (AP) - Social distancing rules can make exercising a challenge for a blind runner who needs a volunteer tethered as a guide. But Thomas Panek has no problem because his running guide, Blaze, is a Labrador retriever.
"I'm doing all the things a person would normally ...
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Former Spain and Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez has tested positive for the coronavirus.
The 40-year-old Xavi, now the coach of Qatari club Al-Sadd, said Saturday that he was tested according to the Qatar league protocol and that the latest test showed he had contracted COVID-19.
"Fortunately, ...
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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) - Two teams will play at the same soccer ground in England's second-tier Championship next season.
Coventry has extended its ground-sharing arrangement at Birmingham's St. Andrew's stadium for the 2020-21 campaign after negotiations broke down with the operators of its own home stadium, Ricoh Arena.
That means ...
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NEW DELHI (AP) - The entertainment capital of India may be reeling under the coronavirus onslaught, but its celebrity inhabitants are being roiled by troubles of another kind.
The suicide last month of a young and popular movie actor in Mumbai has fueled a reckoning over the privileges of the ...
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Big league ball in Buffalo, New York?
Naturally.
Not long after the nomadic Toronto Blue Jays announced the Triple-A city as their temporary home Friday, Michael Billoni began to wonder who could be the club's Roy Hobbs.
"Hopefully, it's (Vladimir) Guerrero Jr. who will knock the ball on to ...
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A look at what's happening around the majors today:
ACES HIGH
There was a ton of great pitching Friday on the second day of this strange 60-game season: Shane Bieber struck out 14 in six innings for the Indians, Jacob deGrom threw five shutout innings for the Mets and Kyle ...
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - When you look around historic Floyd Fitzgerald Stadium at a Rapid City Post 22 American Legion baseball game, you don't just see people watching.
You see a community.
Fitzgerald Stadium, first home for the Basin League Rapid City Chiefs from 1957-1973 and a few years ...
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As Portland Thorns coach Mark Parsons got ready to head home after his team was eliminated from the Challenge Cup, he said he was honestly surprised the National Women's Soccer League pulled off the tournament.
"I was one who, when I first heard it, I was like, 'No chance. ...
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LONDON (AP) - The pandemic will make it "very difficult" for Premier League matches to be staged with full crowds for at least another year and capacities face being capped at 25% when stadiums eventually re-open, a leading government adviser told The Associated Press.
In his first interview as chair ...
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BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - It was a windy day in early June, and Cecelia Dardnella McGrath had spent much of the morning crying. She woke that day to police ordering her to pack up her belongings and leave the wooded area where she'd camped for more than three months.
It ...
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The longest season in the history of England's top soccer division comes to an end on Sunday.
After nearly 12 months, here's what is still at stake in the Premier League:
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Manchester United, Chelsea and Leicester are fighting for the remaining two Champions League qualification positions behind champion ...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Retired Dutch wheelchair tennis great Esther Vergeer said Friday she has successfully completed breast cancer treatment and will resume her work schedule.
The 39-year-old Vergeer, who had a winning streak of 470 matches during her record-breaking career, said she will return to work as the ...
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GERMANTOWN, Wis. (AP) - Two coaches were taken to the hospital after they were injured in a brawl at a suburban Milwaukee girls basketball game.
Officials said at least three men were causing problems at a Wisconsin Blizzard game against the Wisconsin Playground Elite at Germantown High School Wednesday. ...
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MADRID (AP) - The Spanish second-division club that had an outbreak of coronavirus on its team said Friday that one of its players has been hospitalized as a precaution.
Fuenlabrada said that the unnamed player had "felt unwell and was taken to a hospital" in La Coruña in northwest Spain.
...LONDON (AP) - Jordan Henderson was voted player of the year by soccer writers on Friday after captaining Liverpool to its first English league title in 30 years and also playing a leading role in raising money for Britain's health service during the coronavirus pandemic.
Henderson beat Manchester City midfielder ...
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BEIJING (AP) - Beijing partially reopened movie theaters Friday as the threat from the coronavirus continues to recede in China's capital.
Cinemas in parts of the city deemed at low risk of cross-infection began admitting moviegoers under social distancing rules. Tickets must be booked in advance, attendance is capped ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - The home of Liverpool midfielder Fabinho was burglarized while he and his teammates celebrated their Premier League title.
The burglary occurred in the town of Formby, north of the city, either late Wednesday or early Thursday while Liverpool hosted Chelsea, Merseyside police said.
Jewelry and an ...
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We all like bad movies when we're young and sometimes we like good movies for the wrong reasons. I can pretend my 11-year-old self loved "Clueless" when it came out in 1995 for its smart satire of teen movies in a modernized Jane Austen framework. But if I'm being honest, ...
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DETROIT (AP) - Brass Rail Pizza Bar is close enough to Comerica Park to hear the roar of the crowd when the Detroit Tigers play.
The proximity to the home of the Tigers, Lions, Red Wings and Pistons makes the establishment a convenient choice for people to get a slice ...
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The young Memphis Grizzlies want to finish what they started, and that's accelerating the rebuilding process by earning the franchise's first playoff berth since 2017.
The NBA started its hiatus March 11 with Memphis close to getting three key players back in the lineup. The Grizzlies had won four ...
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July 26
1928 - Bob Meusel of the New York Yankees hit for the cycle for the third time in his career. The Yankees scored 11 runs in the top of the 12th to beat the Detroit Tigers 12-1 in 12 innings.
1939 - The New York Yankees tied a ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press says it has reached a deal with Sony Electronics to exclusively equip its photojournalists with new video and still cameras over the next two years.
The AP sends some 3,000 photos and 200 videos a day to customers worldwide. Visual journalism is a ...
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Joel Embiid "hated the idea" of returning to play at Walt Disney World.
"All I want is to stay healthy, stay safe, keep the people around me safe," the Philadelphia 76ers' All-Star said. "I want to be sure that I can live for a long time and not have any ...
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Already a new mom, Michelle Wie West now has another new job. She was appointed Thursday to be one of Pat Hurst's assistant captains for the Solheim Cup next year in Ohio.
"Just ecstatic," Wie West said.
She married Golden State Warriors executive Jonnie West - son of NBA great ...
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MONACO (AP) - Former 1,500-meter world champion Elijah Manangoi was provisionally suspended Thursday for missing doping tests.
The Athletics Integrity Unit said the Kenyan runner has been charged with "whereabouts failures." No timetable for his disciplinary case was given.
Manangoi, who won the world title in 2017, is the latest ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fox will be taking viewers out to the ballgame by adding a virtual crowd in parks during its baseball telecasts this season.
The network revealed on Thursday that it will include computer-generated fans in the stands beginning with their three games on Saturday. Fox begins its ...
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VILLARREAL, Spain (AP) - Unai Emery has agreed to coach Villarreal for the next three seasons, the Spanish club said Thursday.
Emery last coached at Arsenal but he was fired in November, 18 months after replacing Arsene Wegner. Previously, he won the French league title with Paris Saint-Germain.
Emery's biggest ...
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LONDON (AP) - Amber Heard is wrapping up her evidence in Johnny Depp's libel case against a British tabloid over allegations of domestic violence, further accusing her ex-husband of abusing her when he was high on drugs or was drunk.
Taking the witness box Thursday for a fourth straight day ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert believes the measures that the league has taken to ensure the players are safe as they work toward their season have been effective.
Engelbert said on a conference call Wednesday that there were two positive tests for the coronavirus when the players ...
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It took some time, but the Houston Rockets finally have their two stars back and are focused on making a deep run in the playoffs.
The Rockets traveled to Florida on July 9 without James Harden and Russell Westbrook. Harden arrived five days later, citing "family issues." Westbrook revealed he ...
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CHICAGO (AP) - It looks as if Christian Yelich is going to get some help. Same for Aaron Judge and the rest of baseball's corner outfielders.
Major League Baseball has adjusted its policy for bat-and-ball kids this summer, clearing the way for ball boys and girls to return to the ...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Johnny Russell scored in the first minute, Gerso Fernandes added an insurance goal in the closing minutes and Sporting Kansas City secured its spot in the knockout round of the MLS is Back tournament with a 2-0 victory over Real Salt Lake on Wednesday.
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Houston Rockets star Russell Westbrook is set to practice with the team for the first time since revealing that he tested positive for the coronavirus.
Westbrook did not travel with the Rockets on July 9 ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Islanders have reached a 20-year naming rights deal for their new arena with wealth management service UBS.
The facility on the grounds of the Belmont Park racetrack will be called UBS Arena at Belmont Park, and it is projected to open in time ...
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HOMEWOOD, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama police officer was suspended and demoted after he posted a video of himself rapping a song with controversial lyrics.
Homewood police officer Jon Newland received a three-day suspension and was demoted from corporal to officer, news outlets reported Tuesday. Newland was also moved from ...
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TORONTO (AP) - The Toronto Blue Jays will play at PNC Park in Pittsburgh if the state of Pennsylvania approves it, two officials familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The agreement to share the stadium with the Pirates is pending state approval, according to the officials who spoke ...
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LONDON (AP) - Britain's Prince Philip has made a rare public appearance as he attended a military ceremony at Windsor Castle to transfer a long-held ceremonial role to his daughter-in-law Camilla.
The 99-year-old Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has been Colonel-in-Chief of The Rifles since 2007 and has served ...
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) - The Women's British Open is keeping its title sponsor and getting a slightly different name.
The R&A announced Wednesday that AIG, a New York-based finance and insurance group, has extended its title sponsorship of the women's major by two years through 2025.
And now that ...
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LONDON (AP) - Amber Heard alleged in a British court on Wednesday that her ex-husband Johnny Depp threw "30 or so bottles" at her as if they were "grenades or bombs" while they were in Australia in March 2015 and that he accidentally severed part of his finger during the ...
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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. (AP) - The Mountain East Conference is delaying the start of fall college sports competitions until at least Oct. 1 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The NCAA Division II conference announced Tuesday that the start of football practice has been pushed back to Sept. 7, while other fall ...
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PHOENIX (AP) - Major League Baseball hasn't always been at the forefront of the social justice movement in recent years, with leagues like the NBA and NFL usually taking center stage.
But in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis - and because of the quirks of a coronavirus-altered ...
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HAZARD, Ky. (AP) - A coronavirus outbreak at a southeastern Kentucky school has spread to 38 people, a health official said.
The outbreak among Hazard Independent High School football players had spread by Monday to 18 football players, three coaches and 17 family members and close contacts, Kentucky River District ...
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LONDON (AP) - Veteran fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood posed in a giant bird cage in London Tuesday to show her support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and call for his extradition to the U.S. to be stopped.
Dressed in a canary yellow outfit, the 79-year-old designer led protesters ...
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Defensive end Michael Bennett, who won Super Bowl XLVIII with the Seattle Seahawks and was selected to three Pro Bowls, is retiring from the NFL after 11 seasons.
Bennett, 34, was a free agent at the time of his decision after splitting the 2019 season between New England and Dallas.
...NEW YORK (AP) - The parent company of the Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and Coach fashion brands said Tuesday that its chairman and CEO Jide Zeitlin has resigned from the company and board for personal reasons, effective immediately.
Zeitlin, who had been chairman since November 2014 of Tapestry Inc. took ...
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MADRID (AP) - After a small outbreak of coronavirus cases threw Spain's second division into chaos, it could be up to the courts to decide who gets promoted or relegated.
Deportivo La Coruña was demoted to the third division on Monday even though it couldn't play its final-round match against ...
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Coca-Cola's revenue plunged 28% in the second quarter, but the company said sales had begun to improve last month as lockdowns eased globally.
Half of Coke's sales come from stadiums, movie theaters and other places where people gather in large numbers, venues that have blinked out in the pandemic. April ...
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LONDON (AP) - Amber Heard denied Tuesday that she fabricated injuries to show that her then-husband Johnny Depp had been violent toward her as she took to the witness box for her second day giving evidence in Depp's libel case against a British tabloid over allegations of domestic violence.
On ...
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. EU FINALLY REACHES SUMMIT DEAL To confront the biggest recession in its history, European Union leaders clinched an unprecedented $2.1 trillion budget and coronavirus recovery fund.
2. WHAT MAY BE A ...
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This season's Scottish Cup final will be played midway through next season.
The Scottish soccer federation says the pandemic-delayed competition will be completed on Dec. 20. That is more than seven months after the original ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A former high school star athlete suffered an apparent medical emergency and died while on duty with the Charleston fire department, the department said.
The fire department said in a news release that firefighter and medic Jason Cuffee died Monday. Cuffee was on duty when he ...
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Paul Rabil is on pins and needles as the Premier Lacrosse League gets set to decide its second champion amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"We've been pretty fortunate," Rabil said. "Guys are excited to get out and play, not only for themselves but for their teammates and all lacrosse fans and ...
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A 60,000-square foot museum that will include a first-of-its-kind tribute to the 1980 U.S. Olympic team is scheduled to open July 30 in Colorado Springs after a three-year construction project.
The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum will feature 12 galleries that include exhibits on athlete training, the Summer and Winter ...
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L'ESPLUGA DE FRANCOLI, Spain (AP) - Hundreds of Catalan independence supporters protested the visit of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia on Monday to the northeastern region as part of a royal tour across Spain that is meant to bolster spirits amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The visit came as a ...
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The prestigious Ballon d'Or will not be awarded this year because the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the soccer season.
Awarded by France Football magazine, the Ballon d'Or has been given out every year since Stanley Matthews won the ...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - Of all the events canceled because of the coronavirus, few are as lively and vibrant as Comic-Con.
Every year, tens of thousands of people – many in elaborate costumes – convene in San Diego for a pop culture extravaganza. Hollywood studios peddle their upcoming blockbusters, ...
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MADRID (AP) - With the Spanish league over, Real Madrid and Barcelona are ready to recharge and regroup as they turn their focus to the Champions League.
The teams responded differently following the stoppage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with Madrid thriving and winning the title and Barcelona struggling and ...
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - An Israeli court convicted top model Bar Refaeli on Monday on four counts of tax offenses, capping a prolonged tax evasion case against her and her family that sullied the image of a once beloved national icon.
Refaeli entered the Tel Aviv courthouse with a ...
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MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich's short vacation is over. Hansi Flick's team got back to work Monday to prepare for the postponed Champions League after 13 days off.
Bayern has already won the Bundesliga and German Cup and is bidding to repeat its 2013 treble-winning season. The Champions League is ...
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LONDON (AP) - Amber Heard entered the witness box Monday to give evidence during her ex-husband Johnny Depp's libel case against a British tabloid that accused him of assaulting her during their tempestuous relationship.
Heard's eagerly anticipated testimony is set to last for three days. The 34-year-old actor has been ...
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BEIJING (AP) - China is going back to the movies.
Following months of closure, limited numbers of movie goers were allowed back into cinemas Monday in cities such as Shanghai, Hanzhou and Guilin where the risk of virus infection is considered low. Customers wore masks, left open seats between ...
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Three or four hours before a National League game, they'd be cackling around the cage.
Madison Bumgarner and buddies - or pitchers from any home team, really - taking batting practice under an afternoon sun in an otherwise empty ballpark.
After all the bunting drills, when they finally got ...
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GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) - Organizers of what's billed as the nation's oldest fishing tournament say COVID-19 pandemic restrictions mean the contest won't be held this month but they hope to reschedule.
The Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo, which usually brings thousands of visitors to the town of 1,400 during ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-in movies have been making a comeback - now a company says a floating cinema allowing people to watch from mini-boats will be making appearances in a number of places around the country - including Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Beyond Cinema, an Australian production ...
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BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) - Southampton showed little mercy to south coast rival Bournemouth on Sunday with a 2-0 win in the Premier League after late VAR drama.
Deep into stoppage time Cherries academy graduate Sam Surridge thought he had canceled out Danny Ings' opener for the Saints but the strike ...
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ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (AP) - The last in a string of five whistleblower lawsuits brought against Northern New Mexico College this past decade was settled for $115,000, resulting in what amounts to more than $1 million of payouts stemming from complaints made against the administration of former college president Nancy "Rusty" ...
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JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, Spain (AP) - Six-time defending MotoGP champion Marc Márquez broke his right arm in a crash at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
His Honda team said Márquez "suffered a transverse diaphyseal fracture to his right humerus" and is expected to undergo surgery on Tuesday in ...
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - In a world without COVID-19, the Model City would have been bustling with activity this week, thanks to Fun Fest. But as everyone knows, things turned out differently this year.
Fun Fest organizers have been calling 2020 the year of "Un Fest" and even selling commemorative ...
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JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, Spain (AP) - Fabio Quartararo won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday as MotoGP got its season underway amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Six-time defending MotoGP champion Marc Márquez crashed hard with four laps to go and had to be carried off the track on a stretcher ...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Wanted: Poll workers willing to brave a global pandemic in November.
Governments across the country are scrambling to find people to staff polling places for the presidential election this fall as the coronavirus sows doubt about how safe it will be to cast a ballot ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Percibald Garcia recognized that confinement during the coronavirus lockdown is especially tedious for children. So the young architect decided to read them stories.
Almost every day since the beginning of May, the 27-year-old has gone out in an enormous Mexico City apartment complex with his ...
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TORONTO (AP) - The Blue Jays will find out Saturday whether the Canadian government allows them to play regular-season games in Toronto amid the coronavirus pandemic.
An official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press Saturday the federal government will make the announcement later Saturday. The official spoke on ...
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JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, Spain (AP) - MotoGP resumed under strict health controls and without any fans on Saturday following a four-month stoppage for the coronavirus pandemic.
Races have been limited to a total of 1,200 people within the venue, including drivers, team members, track crew, medics and local ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Calle 13's Eduardo Cabra is shedding his Visante persona in a graphic new video that serves as a launch for his solo career and new record label.
The artist who's won 28 Grammy and Latin Grammy trophies will now be known simply as Cabra. The debut ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty baseball teams from 28 cities, trying to play 60 games each amid a coronavirus pandemic that seemingly hasn't peaked in the United States.
Plausible? Worthwhile? Unconscionable?
Even among experts, it depends on who's talking:
"Baseball games can work," said Dr. David Hamer, professor ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - After his champagne-soaked suit finally dried and the last victory cigar burned out, Mike Sullivan had a decision: Where would the coach who turned around the Penguins' 2015-16 season spend his day with the Stanley Cup?
He began making a list of the people and places that ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) - Dorothy Parker just can't rest in peace.
The ashes of the wisecracking New York writer have been shelved in the obscurity of a lawyer's office. Then came proposals to sprinkle her remains in the Hudson River or paint them into art. Finally, her ashes were interred beneath ...
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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - After running a record 95 consecutive marathons, a local woman was forced to call it quits because of COVID-19-like symptoms.
For Alyssa Clark of Panama City Beach, it's now time for some much needed rest and recovery.
"I was having fevers for (the last) ...
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Rulon Gardner is living a quiet life, just the way he likes it.
He is 48 now, sells insurance and has a second job coaching wrestling at a Salt Lake City-area high school.
It's been 20 years since Gardner, a 2,000-to-1 underdog, beat three-time gold medalist Aleksandr Karelin in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City is on track to allow zoos to open at limited capacity and professional sports without spectators starting next week under the next phase of its reopening plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
While a formal approval from the state had yet to ...
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ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) - The restart of the Paraguayan soccer league was called off Friday after three teams came down with cases of the coronavirus.
The Paraguayan soccer association said Guarani, 12 de Octubre and San Lorenzo cannot play and train until another medical examination is held.
The soccer association ...
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BTS, "Map of the Soul: 7 - The Journey" (UMe)
There is no such thing as a world pandemic that can stop the BTS train.
The pop (no K needed) superstars managed to record a full-length Japanese album, "Map of the Soul: 7 - The Journey," in the few months ...
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TOKYO (AP) - The 42 venues for next year's delayed Tokyo Olympics have been secured and the competition schedule will remain almost identical to the one that would have been used this year.
The Athletes Village and the main press center have also been lined up for 2021.
That was ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, three major literary arts nonprofits have teamed to administer $3.5 million for organizations struggling during the coronavirus pandemic.
Along with the Mellon foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses and ...
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - Milwaukee Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe has tested positive for COVID-19, but has said he doesn't have any symptoms associated with the coronavirus.
Bledsoe hasn't been with the team since they reported to Orlando last week, the Journal Sentinel reported.
The Bucks began a second training camp ...
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LONDON (AP) - Spectators will be allowed back into some sports events in England from next week as coronavirus prevention measures are tested ahead of a planned wider reopening of stadiums in October.
Domestic cricket on July 26-27 is set to be the first sport that fans are allowed to ...
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Sporting events in England could be opened up to spectators starting in October.
No fans have been allowed at stadiums since sports resumed in the country in June after a three-month shutdown caused by the ...
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Leaders of a newly formed athletes group are calling for a change to the rule that bans certain protests at the Olympics, saying it "is in fact preventing athletes from displaying Olympism at the Olympic Games."
The board of The Athletics Association, a group of track and field athletes that ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Mary L. Trump's scathing memoir about her uncle, President Donald Trump, is nearly a million seller on preorders alone.
Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Mary Trump's "Too Much and Never Enough" had sold a company record 950,000 copies in combined print, digital and audio ...
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MONACO (AP) - Olympic finalist sprinter Deajah Stevens was banned for 18 months on Thursday for missing doping tests and will miss the Tokyo Games.
The Athletics Integrity Unit, which prosecutes cases in track and field, said Stevens was unavailable for three doping controls in 2019 in Oregon and West ...
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GRETNA, La. (AP) - An appeals court has granted the killer of NFL player Joe McKnight a new trial because his manslaughter conviction was delivered by a split jury.
Ronald Gasser's 30-year sentence and manslaughter conviction were vacated Wednesday by the Louisiana 5th Circuit Court of Appeal, news outlets ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Darrin Bell, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist acclaimed for his sharp takes on race, gender and President Donald Trump, has a two-book deal.
Henry Holt & Company announced Thursday that Bell will publish two graphic memoirs that explore racism and his personal background. The ...
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GENEVA (AP) - Another European soccer club banned from the Champions League for breaking financial monitoring rules challenged UEFA at sport's highest court on Thursday.
Three days after Court of Arbitration for Sport judges overturned Manchester City's two-year ban, Turkish title contender Trabzonspor had its hearing to appeal against ...
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LONDON (AP) - Johnny Depp's former partners Vanessa Paradis and Winona Ryder will no longer be appearing as witnesses in the star's libel suit against a British tabloid newspaper that accused him of assaulting ex-wife Amber Heard, a lawyer said Thursday.
Depp is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of The ...
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LONDON (AP) - Officials in the English city of Bristol on Thursday removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter activist that was installed on a plinth once occupied by a monument to a 17th-century slave trader.
Artist Marc Quinn created the resin and steel likeness of Jen Reid, a ...
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Jamal Crawford is coming off a 51-point game.
People may have forgotten. After all, it was more than 450 days ago. And for a while, it looked like that game might have been Crawford's last as a player - because for most of this ...
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CANBERRA, Australia - Australian authorities say a COVID-19 patient apparently became infectious within a day of contracting the coronavirus.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Michael Kidd gave no details of how the patient was infected in New South Wales state or whether that patient infected anyone else before COVID-19 was ...
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BRADETON, Fla. (AP) - I'm so glad the wait is finally over.
I hadn't been able to play basketball since March when the coronavirus pandemic hit, and now being in Florida with the New York Liberty at my first training camp has been great.
You never know how much ...
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - State lawmakers have voted to distribute $50 million in federal relief funds to Oregon arts and culture organizations still struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Legislators voted Tuesday to direct $24 million to individual organizations including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Oregon Symphony among others and ...
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) - Golf organizers fixed an oversight Wednesday by agreeing to move the pandemic-postponed Curtis Cup so that it doesn't conflict with the Solheim Cup.
The Curtis Cup was to be held this year at Conwy Golf Club in Wales until the COVID-19 pandemic led to a ...
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DORTMUND, Germany (AP) - Borussia Dortmund has released World Cup-winning forward André Schürrle from his contract a year early, the German club said Wednesday.
The 29-year-old Schürrle last played for Dortmund in May 2018 before loans at Fulham and Spartak Moscow. Dortmund said Schürrle and the club mutually agreed to ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The King of Pop is joining The Boss and Old Blue Eyes on SiriusXM satellite radio.
The month-long Michael Jackson channel was announced Wednesday by the singer's estate.
The channel will feature music from Jackson's albums and from live performances, including his 1988 concerts at ...
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LONDON (AP) - The Premier League transfer window will run for 10 weeks until Oct. 5.
The 2020-21 season is due to begin a month later than scheduled in September. The transfer window will open on July 27, the day after the pandemic-delayed season ends, the league said Wednesday following ...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) - Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will become the youngest person to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester for his work campaigning against child poverty.
The 22-year-old Rashford forced a government U-turn last month after he wrote an open letter to legislators asking for ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Germany's national railway operator is ordering 30 new high-speed trains from industrial conglomerate Siemens for some 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion).
State-owned Deutsche Bahn said Wednesday that the new ICE trains will go into service from 2022, initially between the populous western North Rhine-Westphalia region and Munich. ...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Two men were killed in separate motorcycle crashes in South Florida about two hours apart on Monday, authorities said.
The first crash occurred in Dania Beach, just south of Fort Lauderdale, around 4 p.m. and the second happened around 6 p.m. in Oakland Park, to ...
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LONDON (AP) - An artist has erected a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester atop the plinth in the English city of Bristol once occupied by the toppled statue of a slave trader.
Marc Quinn created the likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on the plinth after ...
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Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird know that they are on the tail end of their basketball careers.
After missing last season due to injuries, they had to make a decision about playing this year in a short WNBA season in Florida that was put on hold due to the coronavirus ...
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BOSTON (AP) - "Full House" actor Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli urged a judge to cut their bail from $1 million to $100,000, saying they will not flee ahead of their sentencing in the college admissions bribery case.
In a court filing on Monday, lawyers ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The dance has ended for "Dancing With the Stars" hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews.
ABC said in a statement that the show is looking to "embark on a new creative direction" and host Bergeron "departs the show with our sincerest thanks and gratitude for his ...
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TOKYO (AP) - The president of the Japanese Olympic Committee said Tuesday that if Tokyo can pull off next year's Summer Games, then the city of Sapporo could be in good standing to hold the 2030 Winter Olympics.
Yasuhiro Yamashita, a former Olympic gold medalist in judo, acknowledged in a ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A top member of the White House coronavirus task force said Tuesday that "none of us lie" to the public, an accusation President Donald Trump had retweeted, and that while kids need to be back in school as Trump insists, "we have to get the virus under ...
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MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) - A man charged in connection with a shooting at a high school football playoff game last year that led to the death of a 10-year-old spectator has pleaded guilty to a weapons count.
Tyrell Dorn, 28, of Atlantic City, entered his plea Monday, according to ...
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Monday was the first time in 123 days that the Washington Capitals practiced together in large groups at MedStar Capitals Iceplex because of the coronavirus pandemic.
That means, for example, it had been 123 days since coach Todd Reirden was allowed in-person access to his players under the NHL's rules ...
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Try and think of a more deserving guy in all of sports than Dan Snyder to get his name-change plans caught in a vise. Go ahead, we'll wait.
In the meantime, let's all savor this quote from the owner of the Washington NFL franchise formerly-known-as the … (which was ...
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Candace Parker and her 11-year-old daughter are braving the start of an unprecedented WNBA season together in Florida.
The Los Angeles Sparksl All-Star knows it's a calculated risk to stay in the coronavirus hot spot, where all 12 teams will play games in the WNBA "bubble" of Bradenton.
...The Minnesota Wild made Dean Evason their full-time head coach on Monday, signing him to a two-year contract extension at the commencement of training camp for the restarted NHL season.
Evason's deal will expire after the 2021-22 season. He was promoted to interim coach on Feb. 14 when Bruce Boudreau ...
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DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - Retired Alabama newspaper executive Barrett Shelton Jr., who helped promote the Tennessee Valley region during in time in journalism, has died.
The Decatur Daily, where Shelton worked as editor and publisher until his retirement about a decade ago, reported that Shelton died Sunday. He was ...
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