ATLANTA — Charlie Morton is a very good pitcher, sometimes even a great one. But when the 38-year-old Braves’ starter picked the Mets apart on Tuesday night, it seemed like there was something else plaguing the orange and blue besides Morton’s curveball. As Atlanta sailed to a 5-0 win, the Mets lost another starting pitcher…
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The scoring drought is over, but the Yankees are still looking for that “spark.” The Bombers scored a run for the first time in three games, but the Rays’ stable of pitchers held the Yankees’ struggling offense to just that and took a 3-1 win at the Stadium Tuesday night. The Yankees (72-45) have lost…
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About 45 minutes into Chicago Bears practice Tuesday at Halas Hall, linebacker Roquan Smith walked across Field 3 wearing a navy practice jersey and a white ballcap. Smith was present for the day’s activities, standing with the defense along the sideline while the rest of his team continued the training camp grind. But for the…
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Mets starter Carlos Carrasco was placed on the 15-day IL due to a low-grade strain in his left oblique. The Mets estimate his recovery timetable to be about three to four weeks. “Carlos got the test back, it’s actually pretty good news,” Buck Showalter offered optimistically. “Grade 1 (strain), that’s good news. We thought it…
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Eduardo Escobar is still not 100 percent, and the Mets kept him out of the starting lineup on Tuesday in favor of Deven Marrero. Escobar hurt his oblique in the team’s game on Friday night, was kept out of the starting nine on Saturday and Sunday, and likely wouldn’t have played on Monday if not…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The CIF-SS girls volleyball preseason watchlist, released Monday, Aug. 15. CIF-SS GIRLS VOLLEYBALL PRESEASON WATCH LIST (Alphabetical order) (Selected by the CIF-SS Girls Volleyball Advisory Committee) DIVISION 1 & 2 Aliso Niguel Beckman Cypress El Toro Etiwanda Harvard Westlake Huntington Beach La Salle…
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The Ravens could be without rookie outside linebacker David Ojabo for at least the first half of the season as he recovers from a torn Achilles tendon, but second-year player Odafe Oweh seems prepared to pick up the slack. Oweh, an outside linebacker and first-round selection out of Penn State in 2021, finished last season…
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Forty-five years ago, on Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley left the building for good. News of the singer’s death at age 42 was so unexpected and upsetting that, as with President Kennedy’s assassination, people tend to remember where they were or what they were doing when they heard. Then 13, I was with my family…
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THOUSAND OAKS — Andrew Whitworth, the Rams’ recently retired left tackle, made another visit Tuesday for the Rams’ intrasquad scrimmage, but Whitworth isn’t roaming the sidelines this summer to supervise his successor Joe Noteboom. Whitworth and the Rams likely aren’t worried about Noteboom being the full-time starter at left tackle because they have prepared for…
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By Devan Cole | CNN A federal appeals court said Tuesday that the Americans with Disabilities Act covers individuals with “gender dysphoria,” handing a win to trans people in a case concerning a former inmate who alleged discrimination at a Virginia prison. In a majority opinion issued by a three-judge panel with the US Court…
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