Oakland’s first baseman will undergo surgery Thursday in Colorado to repair a torn hip labrum, Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. MORE: The 15 best baseball movies ever, ranked | Mike Fiers tosses 134-pitch no-hitter “We took a while to get him back (from a quad injury),” Melvin told ESPN. “I thought once we got him back, he was over that hurdle. I guess it got progressively worse, and he wasn’t saying a whole lot about it....
The veteran shortstop has been traded to the Nationals for relief pitcher Tyler Clippard, according to CBSSports.com. Other reports say the deal is pending physicals. MORE: Top 10 available free agents | Understanding the A’s offseason Escobar was traded by the Rays to the A’s on Dec. 10 after Tampa Bay finalized a contract with free agent Asdurbal Cabrera. Escobar, 32, batted .258/.324/.340 with seven home runs and 39 RBIs for Tampa Bay last year....
The evidence also heightened suspicions that the Navy had tried to sweep the disaster under the rug, scapegoating its own dead crewman rather than admit to problems with its battleships. Last fall’s investigation had flatly ruled out an accident conjecturing that Gunner’s Mate Clayton M. Hartwig, “a loner, an introverted individual,” deliberately touched off the powder bags while loading a 16-inch gun in the recommissioned World War II warship. The blast ripped through the turret, killing Hartwig and 46 other crewmen....
It was a neat system, but life proved messier. In practice the rules produced the following anomaly: subscribers could file hate-filled messages that would, in the name of free speech, go up on the board. Responses that attacked the messengers of hate were deemed unfit to print because they were personal. Before too long, a few anti-Semitic remarks showed upon Prodigy. “Wherever Jews exercise influence and power,” one subscriber wrote, “misery, warfare and economic exploitation of the host people follow....
For example, a person with a penis may exist as a woman, while a person with a vagina may exist as a man. Additionally, someone may exist as a gender outside of the binary categories of man and woman altogether, regardless of their sex characteristics. Background In the past, mental health professionals referred to the condition using terms like “cross-gender identification,” suggesting people simply identified with the opposite sex....
In these cases, the conclusion reached by some is that people will poll differently than they vote in order to appear more enlightened or politically correct. In an America where Barack Obama polled ahead, and then won, two national elections right in line with pre–Election Day polling, the Bradley Effect holds perhaps less water today than it once did. Nevertheless, it makes some rational sense to think that in today’s culturally charged America, for a variety of reasons, people may be highly reticent to reveal their preferences to pollsters who are perfect strangers....
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The barren spell of silverware has coincided with a frugal approach to the transfer market following a move to the Emirates stadium but this term has shown that there is hope they will compete for the top honours once more, under the continued guidance of Arsene Wenger, who has confirmed he will sign a new contract. However, domestic cup victory may have masked problems that are still bubbling beneath the surface....
Six police officers form the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department responded to the scene, where a recreational vehicle (RV) later exploded around 6:30 a.m. on Friday, after they received a call about shots fired in the area. Although it’s unclear whether any bullets were actually fired, the blast—which is believed to have been “intentional”—damaged more than 40 buildings. Three people were hospitalized and released following treatment. At the press briefing Sunday, five of the six officers recounted what occurred in the minutes before and after the blast....
32% met their main squeeze through friends or relatives; 5% met at church and only 1% met through a dating service. Although 46% reported that personality was what first attracted them to their sweethearts, 33% said looks counted too. 20% of the female respondents thought their main squeeze looked like Tom Selleck, and 21% of the males thought their sweethearts looked like Sally Field. For 70% it was not love at first sight....
The long list of Bleach games began with the Playstation 2 fighting title Bleach: Blade Battlers in 2005, which spawned a sequel in 2007, both of which were Japan-only releases. Since that time, the franchise has released several more fighting games while also dipping into other genres like side-scrolling action and tactical RPGs. In 2018, it was announced that some of the most popular Bleach characters would be added to Jump Force, an anime crossover fighting game that would release the next year....
But for a tiny minority of Chinese, a chill wind of repression is blowing. After a perfunctory secret trial, Zhang Shanguang, 42, was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison for ““illegally providing intelligence to hostile foreign organizations.’’ His offense: he told a reporter for the U.S.-sponsored Radio Free Asia about a tax protest by a small group of farmers in Hunan province. ““Everyone knows about the event,’’ complained his wife, ““so how can this be considered a national secret?...
“#LongCovid demands urgent action to lessen the risk of further health loss and death among affected populations,” Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, co-author of the study wrote in a tweet. “These goals demand greater attention and a much needed, but so far absent, coordinated global response strategy.” Paxlovid is currently authorized for use only in people 12 or older who test positive for COVID and are at high risk of severe illness or death....
In many ways, Khodemuddin’s house is a lot like the Afghan war. A study in jarring contrasts, it’s a perfect illustration of a conflict where ambiguity is the order of the day. It was in this room, about ten days ago, that the flower-loving commander–who, like many Afghans, uses only one name–explained to me why the Northern Alliance shouldn’t even contemplate taking Kabul. The Alliance, he said, would have no way to supply the capital once it was captured....
Overholser’s work stands out in an industry that is still raising its consciousness. Like most newspapers, the Register has always reflected the interests of its mostly male editors. Overholser has not so much altered the paper as added to it. Topics such as child care, sexual harassment and the safety of contraceptives receive prominent, thoughtful coverage. Reporters and editors have come to view routine stories through new prisms: last week a homicide account noted that five other Des Moines women had died in recent domestic assaults....
“Debate prep” for Sen. John McCain was more like shore leave than basic training. He motored here and there in his “Straight Talk Express” bus, giving interviews between swigs of coffee or bottled water. He hosted a “town hall” (his 60th of the campaign) for an overflow crowd at Exeter Academy, fielding questions as he paced the stage with a wireless mike. At dinner afterward, he recalled with a laugh how he had once been blindsided on camera by CBS’s Mike Wallace–and kept his sailor’s temper in check....
It was initially supposed to release on March 20, 2020. But due to complications caused by the coronavirus, the movie was postponed indefinitely only a week before its initial release. RELATED: Sonic the Hedgehog Deleted Scene Reveals Original Baby Sonic Design John Krasinski, the movie’s director and star of the first film, made this decision so that everyone would have the chance to see it together when the corona pandemic passed, or at least, subsided....
U.S. commanders say that the Mahdi Army’s quiescence is a significant factor behind the recent drop in attacks in Baghdad—by a third compared with six months ago, according to one estimate. And they say they now share a common enemy: rogue Mahdi Army units, known as “special groups” and allegedly funded by Iran, who have declared they will not obey the ceasefire. Sadr loyalists have formed an elite unit called the “golden battalion” to go after these rebels; the Americans are hoping to encourage the more moderate leaders to distance the Mahdi Army even further from its “irreconcilable” wing....
Introducing the Billy Butler, aka Country Breakfast: MORE: How Butler fits A’s philosophy | Three-year, $30 million deal The nickname is a nod to Butler’s meaty stature and down-home ways. For those keeping track, that was hotcakes, ham, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns and wheat toast. A true breakfast of (American League) champions.
