Big(gest) bats The Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera, the 8-to-1 co-favorite, is the best hitter in baseball and has two consecutive MVP awards to show for it. He won the Triple Crown in 2012 and proceeded to post better numbers in 2013. The Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton joins Cabrera at 8-to-1. Stanton plays in arguably the most pitcher-friendly park in baseball, but there isn't a stadium in America that can suppress his power....
The former NBA player partnered with the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to implore the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to take special measures and to be vigilant in preventing the spread of the disease. Mutombo, who turns 53 Tuesday, also recorded radio and video spots aimed at encouraging people to watch for symptoms of Ebola. He said he wants to use his platform to gain the trust of the Congolese people, since he’s a well-known figure in the country....
The sex-toy tosser was identified on Twitter after his brother uploaded a video and tagged him. He later appeared on the Trainwreck Sports podcast to explain a few details about the incident; details such as how he got it through security, where it came from and why he did it. PHOTOS: Sports fans gone bad “My goal was to pretty much get it as far as I could on the field because I was in row 18, so it was pretty far away,” he said....
That image of an unstoppable Japan, the stuff of scaremongering books, articles and movies like ““Rising Sun,’’ now looks almost as campy as Godzilla himself. Japanese real-estate purchases in the United States brought eye-popping losses, the ““invasion’’ of Hollywood earned Japanese firms more heartache than profit and the Japanese economy still struggles to crawl out of its longest slowdown since World War II. And the outlook for Japan’s version of HDTV is very dark indeed....
The Noto diocese in Sicily said in a Facebook post that Bishop Antonio Stagliano was telling a group of children about the true meaning of Christmas when he said that Santa Claus was not real. He also told the group that Santa’s red suit was a fictional creation made by the Coca-Cola Company to sell drinks. The parents of the children then complained to the diocese about the incident....
A late Patrick van Aanholt goal completed the Eagles’ fightback after James McArthur had equalised Xherdan Shaqiri’s deflected free-kick. Their inability to overtake 17th-placed Swansea City meant their ten-season stay in the English top-flight came to an end, having gained promotion back in 2007-08. This, however, comes as a reward to Wilfried Zaha - and Ghana’s Jeffrey Schlupp - who has been pivotal to Palace retaining their Premier League status....
When Secretary of State Colin Powell visits Syria this week, he will be straddling these bipolar views of President Bashar Al Assad’s regime. The Bush administration currently subscribes to the first view of Syria: a threat to the region and the world. The second–that the country is a modernizing, principled Arab state–is the self-styled view of the latest generation of Syrian officials. Whether Washington accepts the former or the latter, or ends up somewhere in between, will effectively set the course for its relations with Damascus....
The animal was found last month, having been impaled through the neck with two arrows and rope wrapped around its head and feet. PETA is offering the reward to anyone with tips that lead “to the arrest and conviction” of the person or people responsible for the crime. “Someone shot this alligator twice in the neck, tied the animal up, and left him or her to suffer and die,” PETA Vice President Colleen O’Brien said in a statement....
Now, Saddam Hussein, I concede, is the extreme case, and we will hear no more of him in this column. But the idea of his being rehabilitated with the American public fairly soon by the good agency of the American media and the international mull-and-babble industry is not farfetched. That’s the way it happens. As an op-ed editor myself, I have frequently contributed to the process. Not that the publication of some greater or lesser miscreant, piously holding forth on a subject other than his own recent, well-known moral depravities comprises the whole rehabilitation process....
The controversy began when TikTok user @Notthatkyle claimed in a January 18 video he posted that there were two different skin tones on one of the actors in the 2006 Disney Channel original movie Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior. The user alleged that the actor was painted to look Black. The film stars stars Brenda Song as Wendy Wu, and includes a character named Mr. Medina, played by James Gaylyn, who is Black....
Some visitors have spat on, pushed, yelled at and been drunkenly defiant towards workers when asked to comply with Disney World’s COVID-19 guidelines, according to reports from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office released to Florida’s Orlando Sentinel. There is no statewide mask mandate in place in Florida but local mask orders are in place in some areas such as Orange County. Disney World has implemented several COVID-19 safety measures, including a face covering requirement for all guests aged two years and older, including those who have been vaccinated....
That someone, peace monitors and Acehnese citizens suspect, is the Indonesian military. After being bogged down fighting the Free Aceh Movement, known by its Indonesian acronym GAM, for 26 years, Jakarta’s generals grudgingly agreed to an internationally brokered ceasefire in December. Despite some early signs that the peace might hold, locals now say the military, or TNI, is engaging in a dirty-tricks campaign to push out the monitors and scuttle the ceasefire....
According to NBC Bay Area, a U.S. Forest Service spokesperson told the network on Saturday that a fire fighter employed with the Lassen National Forest (LNF) had died. The network added the fire fighter had died from an illness unrelated to the ongoing Dixie Fire. No other details related to the first responder’s death had been released as of Sunday morning. Fire fighters continue to battle the Dixie Fire, which was first reported on July 14 and has since spread across five counties in northern California....
This article discusses possible causes of dizziness and nausea that are occurring together, as well as when you should see a healthcare provider. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a condition that can cause dizziness and nausea together. Tiny crystals in your inner ear, called otoconia, help you maintain your balance as your body changes positions. Sometimes, these crystals come loose and begin to float around in the inner ear....
NFL executives should’ve taken more notice. The duo of receivers that played on some mediocre Ole Miss teams have turned into two of the NFL’s rising stars at the wide receiver position in their second year in the league. Metcalf makes a “SportsCenter” Top 10-worthy play seemingly weekly for the Seahawks, while Brown is the no-questions-asked No. 1 receiver for the Titans. The pair have yet to match up in the NFL, but while mostly starring on opposite sides of the country, Brown and Metcalf are making a strong case that Brown’s photo caption before the 2019 NFL Draft was correct....
Olympic athletes train for years at a time, competing in various events ahead of the Winter Olympics. Additionally, they stay in the Olympic village for around a month. With of all this time designated to the Olympics, how do Olympic athletes make money? Here’s an insight into where their income comes from. Do Olympic athletes get paid? Olympic athletes do not get paid by just attending the Olympic Games....
The story itself is simple. GameStop’s business has not been doing well. Financial analysts predicted a bleak future. Several hedge funds—among America’s largest and most sophisticated financial players—“shorted” the stock, meaning that they sold shares they didn’t own. A short sale, however, is only half of a transaction. At some point the short-sellers must hand over the shares they sold. If they win their bet, they’ll be able to buy those shares later at a lower price and pocket the difference; if they lose, they’ll have to pay a higher price and absorb the loss....
Even if you’ve already had sex and been exposed to the virus, the HPV vaccine can protect against the HPV strains you haven’t been exposed to. Who Should Get the HPV Vaccine HPV vaccination is most effective in adolescents and young adults (ages 9 through 26). The HPV vaccine can help protect against disease-causing strains of HPV that can develop into cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancer cases. Because of its higher efficacy rates when administered earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-recommended target age to receive the vaccine is between 11 or 12 years of age—before most people become sexually active....
“My concern is, as the next week or two or three go by, we’re gonna see a lot more community-related cases, and that’s of great concern,” Fauci said. Fauci’s comments come one day after he detailed his definition of “community spread,” another term for community-related cases. “What we’re seeing right now is called community spread, namely we’re having people popping up who are infected with no known original source or index case,” Fauci said on Sunday while appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends....
