So it only makes sense that there was a “Seinfeld” moment on Monday during the first night of the MLB Draft. MORE: 15 best “Seinfeld” baseball moments That’s right. Two of the Pirates’ first three draft picks have the last names Kramer and Newman, with Ke’Bryan Hayes sandwiched between the two Seinfeldian picks. The irony of it all is that both player’s first names are Kevin, meaning they cancel each other out....
ACM 6/1 to win Europa League Montella is under pressure at San Siro, having already tasted three defeats in seven Serie A matches before the international break, while €42 million signing Bonucci has been criticised for some of his performances. It was an off-season filled with change and promise as Milan’s new owners overhauled the squad by signing Italy international defender Bonucci, Lucas Biglia, Andre Silva, Hakan Calhanoglu, Andrea Conti, Ricardo Rodriguez, Mateo Musacchio, Franck Kessie, Nikola Kalinic and Fabio Borini....
Although he will be released from the roster, Smith is set to make $12 million this season, and has another two years and $26 million left on his deal. MORE: Pistons asking first-rounder for Monroe | Best potential Kings coach replacements Detroit will use the stretch provision to release Smith from the roster and create cap relief, paying him $5.4 million per year and creating $8.1 million salary cap space for the next two years, as Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo!...
The pit bull, named after iconic movie character boxer Rocky Balboa, was left with cuts and bruises across his body after he chased the big cat that had entered the Padres family home in La Verne on Monday. Rocky’s owner Mary Padres noticed her two dogs barking in the backyard and went out to see what had caught his attention. Surveillance video obtained by CBSN Los Angeles showed the moment that Padres set eyes on the mountain lion and immediately raced to get back inside the house....
Maddon, a two-time AL Manager of the Year selection, today announced his decision to forego the final year of his contract to test other options. Maddon and the Rays were reportedly at an impasse in negotiations for a contract extension, and Maddon feels this is the right time for him to test a market that is rife with teams seeking an upgrade at manager, especially with someone of Maddon’s caliber available....
“Lesson learned, I guess,” said Krol, who left the door unlocked. “It was a mistake on my part but at the same time, what’s wrong with people?” Krol said that $6,000 worth of cash was missing, but everything else seemed to be there. He went back to his apartment to grab some of the cash to take his parents out to dinner when he discovered he had been burglarized....
Karma, meet Pittsburgh. After Mike Tomlin made headlines for getting in the way of Jacoby Jones' kickoff return, the Pittsburgh Steelers were handed a heavy dose of karma at the worst possible time. Trailing the Miami Dolphins 34-28 on the last play of the game, the Steelers executed the perfect hook-and-ladder play with Antonio Brown racing down the sideline into the end zone, tying the game at 34 before the extra point attempt....
He went to the city’s Reddit page and saw a posting from Jon Potter that said he had an extra $500, and asked if anyone needed some cash. Peters swallowed his pride and sent Potter a message, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “It was one of the more humbling moments of my life, because I’d never asked a stranger for money,” Peters said. He said in his message he needed $70 for groceries....
To add insult to injury for Islanders fans, Pittsburgh’s Twitter account went out of its way to mock a meme Islanders fans had been using throughout the streak. Fan account @IslesTerritory had been producing a graphic featuring the Grim Reaper — stylized with the Islanders’ logo over his face — moving through a row of doors in a hallway. Each opened door showed the teams New York had defeated in its last 10 games, complete with bloodstains marking the ground of past victories....
Cole insisted he didn’t know his win over Atlanta had clinched a playoff spot for Pittsburgh until he walked into the clubhouse and saw the lockers covered in plastic. The surging Pirates earned their second straight trip to the postseason with a 3-2 victory over the free-falling Braves on Tuesday night. Cole gave up two runs in the first two innings and then didn’t allow another baserunner. The Pirates’ win combined with Milwaukee’s loss to Cincinnati assured Pittsburgh of no worse than an NL wild card....
Automakers are beginning to think inside the Xbox. After all, games like GT3 and Need for Speed by Electronic Arts are turning millions of couch potatoes into living-room racers. Far from being a child’s plaything, videogames are becoming the new virtual showroom and design studio for automakers. Videogame-inspired models are hot sellers, and programmers have more street cred these days than car designers. That’s why car execs are treating programmers like royalty, turning over top-secret designs of future models and even inviting them into their styling studios to solicit advice....
Manchester City goalkeeper Bravo made his first appearance since sustaining an injury in the derby clash with Manchester United on April 27 and made several important saves as the South American champions came back to claim a 1-1 draw with Australia and book a last-four clash against Portugal. Donnarumma shuts Instagram after Raiola storm Bravo endured a miserable first season in the Premier League but his importance to the national team cannot be underestimated....
The Texas senator referred to birth control as such when discussing assumed threats on religious freedom, referencing the Supreme Court case of The Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania. “It also extends to religious liberty. The Little Sisters of the Poor, our Catholic Convent of nuns, who take oaths of poverty, who devote their lives to caring for the sick, caring for the needy, caring for the elderly, and the Obama administration litigated against the little sisters of the poor, seeking to fine them in order to force them to pay for abortion-inducing drugs among others,” he said during his lengthy address at the hearings....
This article outlines several common rash-causing plants you should avoid, along with the symptoms to look out for and when to see a healthcare provider. Plants to Avoid Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac Most people are allergic to the oil found in poison ivy plants called urushiol. When it comes into contact with the skin, it causes a rash. Other plants that also contain this oil include poison oak and poison sumac....
It’s Woods’ first tournament since the Masters and only his third of the season. Oh, yeah, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy are playing at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (That’s between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, by the way). McIlroy and Spieth start at 8:39 a.m. ET in company with Jason Day. MORE: Tournament preview | Spieth, McIlroy favorites | Looking back at 2014 | PGA Tour winners...
Identifying the source or the type of these explosions is more difficult. In fact, one of the most frequent topics of conversation in Iraq is trying to figure out exactly what an explosion means. Is it incoming? Outgoing? A car bomb? Mortar? Or maybe just a cooking canister that exploded? The answer, too often, is that no one knows. Sometimes, on an embed with the U.S. military, a tooth-rattling explosion will go off nearby and soldiers will simply shrug and say it’s too difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is....
That white-knuckle week in Chicago was only the latest in an alarming series of computer failures at the nation’s air-traffic control centers (chart). The problem, simply, is old age. The systems that run the radar screens at the five busiest regional facilities-Chicago, New York, Washington, Fort Worth and Cleveland-date to the 1960s, the technological equivalent of the Bronze Age. The big 9020E units break down unpredictably and aren’t easy to fix....
For millions of Americans, painkillers are a godsend. Cancer patients suffer the agony a little bit more easily. People battling severe arthritis can, for the first time, take walks and play with their grandchildren. Realizing that for years doctors neglected to include pain management in patient care, the medical establishment has, over the past decade, taken a new, more aggressive approach to treating pain. In January a national accrediting board issued new standards requiring doctors in hospitals and other facilities to treat pain as a vital sign, meaning that they must measure it and treat it as they would blood pressure or heart rate....
The Twins are in this position despite a divergence of thought between the front office and the clubhouse at the trade deadline. The organizational hierarchy performed a major pivot by turning its attention to the future after an initial decision to invest in 2017. However, that didn’t prevent the group of players from coming together behind their manager’s team-first approach to push for the present. MORE: Watch Twins players realize they’ve made the postseason...
