It was a total and complete effort from top to bottom with LA, who took an 8-3 Game 1 victory over the Rays on Tuesday night. Clayton Kershaw put the narrative to bed for at least one start, turning in a gem of a performance by going six innings, allowing two hits, one run and striking out eight batters. To sweeten the effort, Kershaw also surpassed 200 career postseason Ks, passing John Smoltz all-time....

By encrypting your data, anyone who gets ahold of your phone won’t be able to access your photos, data, downloads, etc. Your phone will ask you to confirm the reset a few times so you don’t accidentally reset your phone. It is possible for IT specialists who have sophisticated software to recover files unless you encrypted them before resetting the phone. If you’ve got data that you don’t want to lose, you can back up your phone and save the content to your Google Drive or Google Photos Library....

Who he is: It’s been no secret Justin Verlander’s Hall of Fame chances have suffered the past few years, with the former Tigers ace going 33-33 with a 3.93 ERA and 2.8 Wins Above Average since the beginning of the 2013 season. Verlander had surgery in the winter of 2014 to repair a core muscle injury, had a subsequent “18 month stretch in the wilderness,” as Tiger blog Bless You Boys put it, and then finished well enough last season that it was hard to make heads or tails of his chances going forward....

The main question before Giroud’s injury was who would replace him. Lucas Perez was an untried and untested formula in Premier League football while Theo Walcott decided before the season began that he wants to play on the right wing. Two months into the season and without Giroud leading Arsenal’s forward line, the only question being asked is how will he get back into the in-form Gunners side? The emergence of Alexis Sanchez playing through the middle will make it difficult for Giroud to get back into the Arsenal starting XI....

A Chinese study, published in journal Frontiers, investigated data, including self-reported alcohol consumption, on over 470,000 people held in the U.K. Biobank database. 16,559 of those people were confirmed to have tested positive for COVID. Overall, it found an increased risk of developing COVID along with increased alcohol consumption. Studies have shown that long-term alcohol abuse can make someone more susceptible to infections. But it also suggested that certain types of alcohol seemed to be associated with a protective role against COVID while others increased the risk....

Winning congressional approval of the NAFTA treaty should be a chip shot. Economically, the evidence is overwhelming that the pact to lower trade barriers with Mexico and Canada will have no great consequence for the United States; whether or not it passes, the boom in U.S.-Mexico trade is here to stay. Politically, the opposition, stretching from former Ronald Reagan aide Pat Buchanan to civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson, is badly disunited....

The incident occurred at Lincoln-Bassett Community School during morning recess, WFSB reported. School officials said a pit bull came onto school property while the children were outside and began chasing the youngsters. After spotting the dog, staff members responded by directing students to go inside or climb onto gym equipment where they would be safe. But one first grader was bitten by the dog and was taken to hospital for treatment....

To top it all off, the canine then coolly hopped off the cart and walked away from the wreckage as if nothing had happened. The bizarre collision was recorded on a nearby security camera, with the homeowner sharing the clip to TikTok under the handle livingthedriftlife. “When the kids all deny crashing the new car,” the accompanying caption reads. “Good job we’ve got CCTV.” The clip can be viewed here:...

Images shared on social media showed the dog sitting outside the Tijuana home of Lourdes Maldonado, a journalist who was murdered on Sunday. The sad dog was photographed lying down on the ground by the front door of the home, which was cordoned off. A photo of the pooch was shared on the 28.5 million-strong Reddit page r/pics by user u/throwawaynumber53 on Monday. The post titled “Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado was murdered yesterday....

Redditor u/JinxXedOmens shared their photo of the damage to the popular subreddit r/WellThatSucks and though they may be out a lot of cat food, they earned over 16,500 upvotes and 400 comments. In the caption, u/JinxXedOmens explains that they asked their neighbor to housesit, but said her dog couldn’t come into the house. When they returned, they discovered the pouches riddled with teeth marks, torn open with the contents devoured....

A TikTok shared by the account @alejandramamaof3 on January 8 has already amassed more than 11 million views. The clip shows the stroller being pushed along a long road that winds off in the distance. The end was clearly too far for the lazy pooch, who couldn’t bear to continue walking any longer. As the camera pans around to show us who is inside the two-seater stroller, we see a young toddler in one of the berths, with the family dog comfortably strapped into the other....

The viral clip shared on TikTok earlier this month by the dog’s owner, under the username Chubbs_waggs, shows the pit bull, who had a bad stomach ache, pressing his dog buttons, in a bid to wake his mom up so she could take him outside. It came with a caption that says: “Poor little guy. Chubbs had a bad belly. Apparently, I was fast asleep. He pushed so many buttons trying to wake us up....

Chapman spent 43 years of his life bounty hunting and has apprehended more than 8,000 suspects and now he’s bringing that experience to bare on the issue of police use of lethal force. He spoke to Newsweek about the need for better police training, alternative methods of taking down potentially dangerous suspects, and the possibility of further lawsuits if things don’t change. Chapman called for police to “take the lead out” and use non-lethal force in a Fox News interview on April 15....

In a tweet posted around 6:25am ET April 1, Musk wrote: “SpaceX is going to put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon.” Within four hours, the tweet had gained about 200,000 likes and 22,500 retweets. It is not yet clear whether Musk was being serious, since the tweet was posted on April Fools’ Day. It is also not immediately apparent what he means by a literal coin because cryptocurrencies are intangible....

Two pitbulls attacked Jayden Belle Henderson and her mother Heather Trevaskis in the town of Garner on Tuesday. The pair were in their neighbor’s yard looking after their dogs while they were out of town. Captain Lorie Smith of the Garner Police Department confirmed to Newsweek that both dogs were involved in the attack. Jayden died of her injuries, while her mother suffered serious wounds to her arm and hand....

Dolly announced that the singer-songwriter had died following a battle with cancer. “The family and I are grieving his loss but we know he is in a better place than we are at this time,” she said in a post shared to Facebook. “We are a family of faith and we believe that he is safe with God and that he is joined by members of the family that have gone on before and have welcomed him with joy and open arms....

Despite the trying season, Miami doesn’t need that much to go right to get into the playoffs. Although their AFC East hopes were dashed after losing to the Bills two weeks ago, the Dolphins really only have the Patriots standing in their way this week. The Patriots are the last team in in the AFC wild-card race at 8-8 and with the tiebreaker over Miami. Their Week 18 match-up will be no small task....

San Francisco bested the Saints 13-0 in Week 12, making a couple of key red-zone stops late in the second half to seal the shutout, but injuries to both McCaffrey (knee) and Elijah Mitchell (knee) made it a bittersweet victory. Meanwhile, the Dolphins beat the lowly Texans in dominant fashion — it was 30-0 at halftime, and Miami pulled most of its offensive starters early in the fourth quarter....

Back on Dec. 7, the Athletic’s Shams Charania and Bob Kravitz reported that the Pacers were “receptive in trade dialogue with rival teams regarding multiple veteran players” on their roster, including Sabonis. A few days later, Charania added that the two-time All-Star is “expected to generate strong interest” around the league and will be “among the attractive players who could be available in a trade.” However, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said on “The Hoop Collective” podcast in mid-December that he hadn’t heard Sabonis’ name much in the trade market....

This comes after Cuomo, who has his own CNN show Cuomo Prime Time, has been criticised for his role in supporting his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is facing allegations of sexual assault. Andrew Cuomo has been accused of forcibly touching a female aid and could face jail time if found guilty. On October 28 a criminal complaint was made in Albany City Court and this required Andrew Cuomo to appear for a hearing on November 17....