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The Chicago White Sox inserted center fielder Luis Robert in the No. 2 slot of the batting order for Sunday’s series finale against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. But manager Tony La Russa anticipates having third baseman Yoán Moncada in that spot Monday against the Cleveland Guardians at Guaranteed Rate Field. “I told…
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If it weren’t for the lucrative compensation and travel perks, the job of an NBA referee is about as thankless as a parking enforcement officer. It feels like the zebra shirts have never been this scrutinized, and, contrary to popular belief, it’s not for their lack of aptitude or eyesight. There are a few factors…
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Seiya Suzuki was a man of few words late Saturday night when asked if he’d ever experienced anything like playing in unseasonably cold conditions at Wrigley Field. “No, never have,” Suzuki said through an interpreter. Was he freezing out there? “It’s really cold,” the outfielder replied. True enough, but naturally it’s expected to warm up…
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Older adults are taking center stage, not as members of a dance troupe, chorale or symphony, but to be the featured players for Older Americans Month. May is set aside to celebrate older Americans from the past and those alive today for their contribution to society. This formal recognition of older Americans began with President…
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The cry of “May Day! May Day!” is ringing out from Bunker Hill to Roxbury and all over New England at the sight of Red Sox crashing and burning barely a month into the season — at the same time the Evil Empire from the South Bronx is once again rearing its ugly head as…
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This is what we have had already in baseball in New York, in as rollicking a first month, on both sides of town, as we’ve had in a long time: We had the Mets down 2-0 and down to their last out one night in St. Louis, and score five runs after that. They topped…
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Soon after South Pasadena released a proposed new housing plan, Dr. Josh Albrektson jumped on his scooter and putted around town, checking out where his city planned to put 2,067 new housing units. He was disappointed by what he saw. In a Twitter feed published last year, the neural radiologist with a passion for urban planning…
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I was reading a book review the other day — an essay on poetry, by Elisa Gabbert, as it happens — and came across the name of someone I once knew, a fabulously eccentric cult figure of the old school. She writes of him: “The architect Christopher Alexander thought big plate glass windows were a…
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While the leak of the draft Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is not more impactful than the possible decision itself, its magnitude should not be minimized. To say the leaked draft opinion with five justices overturning the landmark decision was a breach of etiquette is a massive understatement. For a full draft on…
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This was where Duncan Robinson expected to be. On the court at Wells Fargo Center. In the heart of the NBA playoff schedule. In full sweat. Shooting, passing, scoring. And yet this also in no way could have been what the fourth-year Miami Heat guard could have possibly envisioned as his place in May 2022.…
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