OAKLAND — Less than 3,000 fans attended an Oakland Athletic game on a quiet night earlier this month. The large, old coliseum was so empty and serene that visiting Tampa Bay Rays players could hear the clear expression of every taunt that came their way. Rays outfielder Brett Phillips said one of his teammates told …
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Premier League football team Chelsea, which went on sale days before the British government sanctioned its Russian owner for ties to the Kremlin, will be sold for more than $3 billion to a group led by an American billionaire. the highest amount paid for a sports team. Set announced On Friday night, terms were reached …
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TORONTO – The Yankees lost here on Wednesday and have an 11-game winning streak. It was a very close fight, as most of the competition between them and the Blue Jays is this season. Beating the ninth inning 2-1, the Yankees filled the bases with two outs, but were one step back to level the …
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GASTONIA, NC — The recruiting pitch to play baseball at Gaston College required a vivid imagination last spring. The community college just outside of Charlotte was reviving an athletic program that had been dormant since 1972, so there wasn’t much to sell. The team would play on a run-down municipal ballpark with parking a few …
The mission to stop a player like Giannis Antetokounmpo – has there ever been a player like Giannis Antetokounmpo? – represents a cooperative swamp. You need a player who is big, strong and agile enough to stand in front of him at the same time. You need others, preferably men with long sleeves, they distract …
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Comcast and Charter Communications, two of America’s largest cable companies, said Wednesday they will partner to offer customers set-top boxes for streaming video, using their combined access to better compete with established players like Roku and Amazon. Connected TVs, which allow users to watch movies and series over the internet, are booming. The growing adoption …
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Kichenok fled the country after the war started and needed 31 hours to get from Kiev to Moldova with his family. Her twin, Nadia, who is also part of the Ukrainian team, left Kiev just before invading Russia and went to California with her husband. “Two days were hell for me until I got to …
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“City of Hope convinced me that if my donations were made public I could encourage others to do the same,” he told the Los Angeles Business Journal. Dr. Riggs then developed the basics of monoclonal antibodies using recombinant DNA technology to trick bacteria into producing proteins that mimic human antibodies. This development has led to …
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On Friday, a retired NASA astronaut and three paying customers embarked on a journey to the International Space Station. The mission is the first to go to the space station where all passengers are private citizens, and the first time NASA has collaborated in organizing a space tourism visit. NASA officials said the flight was …
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On Friday, a retired NASA astronaut and three paying customers embarked on a journey to the International Space Station. The mission is the first to go to the space station where all passengers are private citizens, and the first time NASA has collaborated in organizing a space tourism visit. NASA officials said the flight was …
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SAN FRANCISCO — First San Francisco Giants Last year baseball’s best had 107 wins, ending the Los Angeles Dodgers’ eight-year National League West championship streak, and seemingly genius, a crazy idea that popped up a year ago. What if Principal Gabe Kapler asks his new boss we’re expanding the coaching staff? Did he really expand …
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It’s not for nothing that Darren Lemming, the fictional midfielder for a team called Empires, is also at the center of Richard Greenberg’s gay fantasy on national entertainment, “Take Me Out.” Said to be “a five-instrument player with incredible grace that makes you suspect a sixth instrument,” Lemming surpasses even Derek Jeter, whom he epitomizes …
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