BALTIMORE — The lights were flashing. The music was playing. Aaron Judge had hit 900 feet of home runs and the Yankees had bounced back after dropping a doubleheader to the Astros to hold on for a 7-6 win over the Orioles in Camden Yards Friday night. But the clubhouse was downbeat. Michael King, the…
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BALTIMORE — The Machine is learning. DJ LeMahieu, who is coming off a 2021 that was one of the worst of his career, is getting even better, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Friday. The 10-year veteran who is the only player in the modern era to win the batting title in both leagues is continuing…
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Before the Orioles began the second half of the season Friday night, manager Brandon Hyde said he felt no need to discuss with his players their playoff positioning. He had no interest in muddying the vibes they have created for themselves. “I don’t want anything to change,” Hyde said. But change, surely, is coming. The…
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Q: A guy like Harrison Barnes would make the Heat better than last year. – Juan, Miami Beach. A: And this again comes down to when, or if, you move on to Plan B (or even Plan C). The Heat have one prime salary chip to put into play in a trade, the contract of…
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“The Captain,” the ESPN documentary about Derek Jeter, isn’t going to have the impact that the one about Michael Jordan, “The Last Dance,” did when it dropped. We were in the thick of COVID at the time and we were starved for sports, and so over the length of that series we felt as if…
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Q: Ira, John Collins or Myles Turner and call it a day. We’re only a power forward away. –Eddie. A: The problem is that the Heat are a team with limited trade assets, so once they go out in one deal, any other deal is likely precluded. At this point, at this stage of July,…
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Miami Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones was placed on the active/physically unable to perform list on Friday ahead of the team’s Tuesday report date for training camp. The Dolphins announced Jones’ PUP designation along with placement of defensive back Elijah Campbell on the active/non-football injury list. Jones underwent a lower left leg surgery in March and…
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Three weeks into the process, the NBA free-agent list not only mostly has been picked clean, but the best of what remains comes with strings attached, from the felony domestic-violence charges against Miles Bridges, to the August court date for Montrezl Harrell regarding the three pounds of marijuana seized from his car, to Collin Sexton…
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By Steve Peoples and Mead Gruver | Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career, Liz Cheney was nowhere to be seen as thousands of voters gathered for a massive midsummer rodeo and cowboy festival in Wyoming’s largest city. Instead, the three-term Republican congresswoman was 1,600 miles…
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SpaceX launched 46 more Starlink satellites into orbit from California on Friday. The satellites were carried aboard a Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:39 a.m. The satellites were to be deployed later from the rocket’s second stage to join the Starlink constellation, a space-based broadband internet system with…
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