Both teams were warned after Pirates starter Jeff Locke’s fastball hit Cubs catcher Miguel Montero in the sixth inning. A couple of innings earlier, Cubs ace Jake Arrieta had hit Jung Ho Kang in the back with a 92 mph fastball. The Cubs won, 8-2, to run their record against the Bucs to 5-0 this season. But it was the second time in two series this season the two teams had been warned after batters were hit....
Vogelsong was tended to by Pirates trainer Todd Tomczyk, the Post-Gazette reports He eventually sat up and was carted off the field. MORE: Should fans worry about these struggling aces? Vogelsong is typically a reliever but got the start Monday because Sunday’s game was postponed due to rain. He was replaced by Wilfredo Boscan. Per MLB.com’s Adam Berry, Tomczyk said Vogelsong’s injury was to his “eye itself,” including the orbital bone around it....
The umpire was greeted with applause from the PNC Field crowd prior to Thursday’s Pirates-Rays game in Pittsburgh. Tumpane wanted nothing to do with the tribute, according to attendees in the stadium. Pirates manager Clint Hurdle also offered some thoughts on the situation earlier in the day, and heaped praise on the umpire. Tumpane stopped a woman from leaping off the bridge on Wednesday, and spoke with her until authorities arrived on the scene....
Detroit’s equipment staff apparently missed the memo when he showed up for Detroit’s game against the Chicago Bulls wearing someone else’s jersey. If you haven’t figured it out yet, the away kit Drummond was wearing on Monday night had his last name spelled out D-R-U-M-M-U-N-D. The last “O” got swapped for a “U” somewhere along in the process and nobody even bothered to check. An embarrassed equipment staff ought to fix this next time around....
While walking Star shortly before midnight on April 5, 30-year-old mother of one Amy Edmondson encountered a man and a woman who asked her for directions to the district of Southchurch. Happy to oblige, she turned around to show them the way. But when she did so, the man pulled out a knife, tackled her to the ground, and demanded money. “They kept saying, ‘Give me your money, where’s your money, we need your money,’” she told the community newspaper The Basildon Canvey Southend Echo....
The incident took place at about 6 p.m. on Sunday at the 7200 block of Royal Arms Drive in West El Paso, Texas, according to a statement from the El Paso Police Department on Monday. The woman’s body was discovered by her daughter, after she arrived back at the residence. The authorities were alerted and went to the scene. Crimes Against Persons detectives found that the pets had been generally well looked after with dog bowls full of water and food seen at the property....
The school announced Wednesday defensive end Ejuan Price was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA and will return to the field for the 2016 season. MORE: 20 impact players returning | SN early Top 20 Price played in only six games from 2012-2014 while battling a number of injuries. He was finally healthy this past season and produced in a big way. He led the Panthers with 11....
The shooting happened during a party at a short-term rental property in the city’s North Side, Pittsburgh Public Safety said in a news release. Officers responded to the 800 block of Suismon Street just after 12:30 a.m. following multiple ShotSpotter alerts, the release said. “As responding units arrived on scene, additional shots were being registered in the immediate vicinity and several young people were observed fleeing the area on foot and by vehicle from an AirBnB property that had been rented on Suismon Street at Madison Avenue,” it added....
A torn muscle will force midfielder Pjanic to miss fixtures against Belgium and Estonia, the Football Association of Bosnia-Herzegovina announced. Juventus 5/1 to win CL Group D Pjanic sustained the injury in the warm-up before Juve’s 2-0 win over Olympiacos in the Champions League on Wednesday. “We spoke to the Juventus doctor. Pjanic has a 2cm muscle tear above his knee and will have to rest for 3-4 weeks,” said Bosnian doctor Reuf Karabeg....
A rapid PKNP FC started like a house on fire and a blitz first half display was enough to get past Kuantan FA in the FA Cup third round tie at Perak Stadium on Friday night. There was drama at the end of the second half but PKNP just about did enough to get into the quarter finals of the competition, sending their co Premier League outfit out of the competition, despite their second half resurgence....
A no-go zone issued by China’s Maritime Safety Administration on Tuesday prohibited access to the Gulf of Tonkin, west of Leizhou Peninsula, which is part of southern Guangdong province. The exercise is to begin Wednesday and last through January 30, the government notice said, six hours before China’s state broadcaster CCTV released footage of Type 071 amphibious transport docks Wuzhishan, Changbaishan and Kunlunshan in the region. USS Theodore Roosevelt and vessels comprising its carrier strike group caused a stir in China when they transited the Bashi Channel south of Taiwan and entered the South China Sea on Saturday....
It all makes for quite a show. We have Amtrak running around trying to beat a few hundred million extra dollars out of Uncle Sam. Meanwhile the airlines–those folks who scarfed up $5 billion of taxpayer aid after 9-11–are back asking for yet another handout. The airlines say that security costs have put them on the brink of the financial abyss, and a war with Iraq will shove them into it–unless Uncle Sam comes across with major money....
The authors of the paper published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recruited 50 women and 50 women. The participants were asked to look at images of eight types of female breasts, and consider their aesthetics and symmetry. The computerized breasts were of varying cup sizes, and levels of sagging. An eye-tracking device was used to chart which part of the breast participants looked at most, and for how long....
Goalkeeper Tim Howard and center back Omar Gonzalez were particularly immense as the Americans earned a 1-1 result in Panama City, delivering the type of gritty effort on the road that’s necessary to secure World Cup qualification in CONCACAF. Dempsey nets in hard-fought draw It also was another impressive evening from 18-year-old star Christian Pulisic, whose status as the U.S. squad’s attacking talisman becomes more clear cut with every game....
Yet humans are far from recapitulating God’s handiwork. For one thing, these creation games yield only precursor molecules, not the complex genes and proteins that made up the first life on earth 3.8 billion years ago. The chain of events leading from gases to precursors to living cells is so improbable that British astronomer Fred Hoyle likened it to a tornado whipping up the contents of a junkyard into a Boeing 747....
“Better to be Apart,” Lee-Hom Wang “Run,” Snow Patrol “Your Guardian Angel,” Red Jumpsuit Apparatus “The Prayer,” Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion Celine Dion married her manager, Ren Angelil, in 1994. They first met when Dion was 12, and she announced ten years later that she had fallen in love with Angelil, 25 years her senior. “Don’t Wait,” Dashboard Confessional “Everything Changes,” Staind “Follow Through,” Gavin Degraw Gavin Degraw first received attention when his single “I Don’t Wanna Be” was chosen as the theme song for CW Teen Drama One Tree Hill....
I know that is a silly way to refer to speech, but I can’t think of a better way to describe what happened when you told Judge Aaron Persky in your statement at sentencing last week that you “wish(ed) (you) never (were) good at swimming or had the opportunity to attend Stanford, so maybe the newspapers wouldn’t want to write stories about (you).” MORE: Judge Persky’s verdict compounds victim’s suffering...
So began the inspired fictional correspondence between Griffin Moss, a London postcard artist, and Sabine Strohem, a South Seas postage-stamp creator. Published last fall with little fanfare, the book became a favorite among the nation’s booksellers, who voted it one of five books they’d most enjoyed selling in the past year. Word of mouth kept it alive (it stayed on the San Francisco Chronicle’s best-seller list for 47 weeks), and it has now sold a whopping 175,000 copies....
Professor Chris Hogan cast doubt on the effectiveness of using plexiglass in offices as it could offer limited protection from COVID-19 variants. Speaking to KVUE, Hogan said: “The dividers are…sneeze guards. A decent proxy for it is when we used to have smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants. There would be the occasional restaurant that would do this with a divider, and you knew that you could smell smoke in the non-smoking section if you were right next to it....
