There was mayhem outside the Magic Kingdom on Sunday when the Angels and Mariners had a benches-clearing throw down in Anaheim. The fun started in the second inning when Seattle’s Jesse Winker was plunked on the inning’s first pitch by Andrew Wantz. The game was delayed 18 minutes and the brawl led to the ejections…
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Gareth Bale has agreed to join the Los Angeles Football Club, making the decorated Welshman the second European player of significance to sign with the Black & Gold ahead of the upcoming MLS transfer window. Like Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini, whom LAFC officially unveiled last week, Bale will not occupy one of the club’s three…
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Presented the choice between the two highlight defensive plays he made Thursday night — a fourth-inning throw to the plate to prevent a run and his rally-killing diving catch across the right field line in the eighth — Orioles right fielder Austin Hays made his decision based on sound logic. “I’d probably say the throw…
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TAMPA, Fla. — Josh Manson still had his bags half-packed from the Colorado Avalanche’s last time on the road, when they returned home with the chance to win the Stanley Cup. That didn’t happen, and now he and his teammates are confronted with Game 6 on Sunday night against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the…
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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police officer who died of neck injuries suffered during training had been beaten by fellow officers in an exercise meant to “simulate a mob,” according to a wrongful-death claim filed against the city by his mother. Houston Tipping, 32, was hurt May 26 at the police academy and died…
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James McCann returned to his usual squat behind the plate on Saturday, catching for none other than the Mets starter with a six-pitch arsenal. With McCann’s left hamate fracture, ensuing surgery and rehab behind him, the Mets backstop played for the first time in six-plus weeks, batting ninth, in the Mets’ game against the Marlins…
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The 2022 Yankees, a galactic force, were brought back to this planet on Saturday. They didn’t just lose, they got no-hit, as Astros’ pitchers Cristian Javier, Hector Neris and Ryan Pressly turned in a historic performance, leading Houston to a 3-0 win in front of a stunned Yankee Stadium crowd. This is the 14th no-hitter…
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WIMBLEDON, England — Novak Djokovic knows that, as things stand now, Wimbledon will be his last Grand Slam tournament of 2022, because he will not be able to play in the U.S. Open — he has not received any COVID-19 shots and can’t enter the United States as an unvaccinated foreigner. “That,” the 35-year-old from…
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WIMBLEDON, England — Serena Williams joked – or was it a joke? – that she activated the “Out of office” message on her email account so anyone trying to reach her about her many non-tennis activities while she’s at Wimbledon would know why no response arrived immediately. Great as Williams is with a racket in…
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By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Associated Press MUNICH — President Joe Biden is out to sustain the global alliance punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as he embarks on a five-day trip to Europe as the 4-month-old war shows no sign of abating and its aftershocks to global food and energy supplies…
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