Whether it’s the Sultan of Swat, the Splendid Splitter or The Big Unit, baseball has a storied history of nicknames for its stars. Twins color commentator Jim Kaat tried to add a new chapter to that history on Thursday and failed miserably. While describing Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes’ incredible start to the season, Kaat dubbed…
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Matt Carpenter came into the game never having faced Shohei Ohtani before, but with a plan. A Yankee for just a week now, he was back in the leadoff spot for the first game of the split doubleheader against the Angels — and he made an immediate impact. Carpenter had an 11-pitch at-bat against the…
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José Abreu led off the seventh inning with a single Thursday, extending his hitting streak to 11 games. More importantly for the Chicago White Sox, the hit snapped a stretch of 16 straight batters retired by Toronto Blue Jays starter Alex Manoah. The right-hander was on cruise control for most of the afternoon at Rogers…
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Here’s hoping this grand experiment of Mike McDaniel works, and not just to show there’s another way of leading a football team besides the drill-sergeant dinosaur from an antiquated time before players painted fingernails and got pedicures. It’s also because football sounds fun with the new Miami Dolphins coach. That’s a word you rarely hear…
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LOS ANGELES—Forget thumbs. That was so last year. This season, Francisco Lindor’s middle finger is making headlines. Lindor was out of the Mets lineup for their series opener against the Dodgers on Thursday after an accident in his hotel room. “After I finished my massage I went to my room,” the shortstop explained at Chavez…
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NEW YORK — As the New York Yankees continued to get their bats on just about everything that Shohei Ohtani threw, Joe Maddon figured that something was wrong. After Ohtani gave up four runs in the Angels’ 6-1 loss to the Yankees in the first game of a doubleheader on Thursday, stretching their losing streak…
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The thinnest ice cracks dangerously when you tell people that a movie they love has been changed and that they might enjoy the new version as much or even more. With crushed ice on hand, here goes: the musical version of “Tootsie,” which opened Wednesday, June 1 in Costa Mesa, stacks up very well with…
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By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless |Associated Press LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II stepped gingerly onto the Buckingham Palace balcony Thursday, drawing wild cheers from the tens of thousands who came to join her at the start of four days of celebrations of her 70 years on the throne. Her fans sported Union Jack flags,…
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It’s ideal to see Tua Tagovailoa connect on a couple deep throws to Tyreek Hill. Touchdowns, like the two Hill caught from his new quarterback during Thursday’s final minicamp practice, sell tickets. That’s what the media wants to see during these pad-less practices, and what the fans want to hear about in the dog days…
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Pastor Rick Warren, who ministers weekly to a global audience of more than 40,000 people and has offered spiritual guidance to multiple American presidents, announced on Thursday, June 2, the successor who will lead the Saddleback Church he founded nearly 43 years ago. Taking the helm in September when Warren and his wife, Kay, expect…
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