Cumming Motors is bidding for its seventh consecutive AAABA Regional Tournament championship. But Leland Baer tossed a wrench into its opening plans Friday night. Baer turned a workhorse performance for Imler’s Poultry, throwing eight innings, tossing an unofficial 135 pitches, and ...
PHILADELPHIA — The social media pitch to bring LeBron James to Philadelphia was an almost naive one from Joel Embiid. “ @KingJames hey bro hope you’re having a good day...... Want to join us in philly?? Peace,” Embiid wrote. His recruitment skills were on point and James — the ...
PITTSBURGH — Dansby Swanson hit an RBI single and Seiya Suzuki drew a bases-loaded walk in the 10th inning as the Chicago Cubs held on for a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. Swanson’s single scored automatic runner Ian Happ, who barely beat center fielder Jake ...
CHICAGO — Bayou Barbie is back in Chicago. With her own Barbie, too. Angel Reese is playing in her third WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday at the United Center. This time, she is representing Atlanta in her first season with the Dream following a messy split with the Chicago Sky. "It's so ...
From the 1919 Black Sox World Series fix to Pete Rose’s gambling downfall in 1989 and NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s betting scandal in 2007, each generation has been convinced it had seen the gambling controversy that would permanently clean up sports. Yet a century later, the money is ...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they move in to capture them, one of the football-size birds, with bright-orange bills and long legs, scampers into a coastal salt pond. The other briefly takes to the air, sending the team running across the mile-and-a-half-long beach in pursuit. “There is a problem. They can fly,” Alan Kneidel, a senior conservation biologist with the environmental group Manomet Conservation Sciences, said as ...
