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That’s why we reached out to Sporting News contributor TIm Hagerty, who not only serves as the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the El Paso Chihuahuas, but also is the author of “Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball’s Most Off-the-Wall Team Names.” MORE: Best MiLB states | Best MiLB teams on Twitter | Odd MiLB trades Over the next few days, we will ask readers to vote round-by-round, NCAA Tournament-style, until each bracket has just one team name left....

After reaching first base on an error, the Indianapolis Indians’ Gustav Nunez turned his back on the play to walk back to the base. It was at this moment the Clippers threw the ball to first baseman Jesus Aguilar, who played coy, walked over to Nunez and tagged him out when he momentarily stepped off the bag. MORE: MLB picks up pace of play | Orioles fan ignores A-Rod | Eye-catching outfield walls...

Peterson didn’t play in Sunday’s 30-7 loss to the New England Patriots in the Vikings’ Week 2 opener, an easy choice to be deactivated for this week and deservedly, possibly well beyond. That was on the heels of the Vikings recording the most impressive victory of Week 1 with Peterson. MORE: Scoreboard | Barkley: ‘We spank our kids in the South’ | Stats Without Peterson, it was expected their ship would hit some rocky water....

Chelsea at 3/1 odds to win PL Milan have been busy overhauling their squad but Vincenzo Montella’s men stunned the world when they managed to sign Serie A-winning defender Bonucci for €42 million last month. Mirabelli admitted Milan – bankrolled by new Chinese owners – did not plan to sign the 30-year-old centre-back. “Bonucci’s transfer wasn’t planned, but it was an opportunity we had to grab as it went past,” he Rai Sport....

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources said the black whale, also known as a right whale, and dubbed Snow Cone by the agency, was first spotted in March 2021 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. At the time, “several disentanglement attempts were made” and the rope trailing behind Snow Cone was “successfully shortened.” The footage with her calf was shot about 10 nautical miles off Cumberland Island, a barrier island on the state of Georgia’s southeastern coast on Dec....

For the first time in more than a decade, Madrid has gone three straight games without a goal after losing 1-0 at CSKA Moscow in an early setback to the Spanish club’s title defense in the Champions League. Madrid is running into some problems in the post-Ronaldo era, having won only two of its last six games in all competitions. They arrived at Luzhniki stadium — where Spain lost to Russia in the last 16 of the World Cup — having also failed to score in its last two Spanish league games....

Banned by Twitter and other social media outlets, QAnon adherents have flocked to Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, which bills itself as a free-speech haven. A NewsGuard review found that Trump and top executives working for the platform actively promote these QAnon accounts. QAnon supporters contend that Trump and an anonymous government operative who goes by the name “Q” are engaged in a struggle to take down a “deep state” network of child sex traffickers....

Willard “Bill” Hurley was recognized by a person who had seen media reports about him, the Leesburg (Va.) Police Department said in a Facebook post. MORE: PGA Tour winners in 2014-15 | Photos from the Open Championship at St. Andrews His son, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who grew up in Leesburg, is playing this week at the Quicken Loans National outside Washington, D.C. In a pre-tournament press conference Tuesday, Hurley announced his father had gone missing on July 19 after taking some clothes and money and driving away in his truck....

“And I’m like, OK, we got the next tournament,” coach Steve Pikiell told Sporting News. “We got a plane out of Indianapolis, and by the time we landed in New Jersey, of course all their phones already had the news: The NCAA Tournament is canceled. It was bizarre. “People say, ‘How did you meet with your team?’ You don’t even meet with your team. It’s on the internet. They find out stuff before I do....

The tiny capsule was lost somewhere on an 870-mile stretch of road between mining company Rio Tinto’s Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and Perth, a journey that a company vehicle made between January 12 and January 16. The capsule was only noticed missing on January 25. If the capsule remains missing, it could pose dangers both by direct exposure to the gamma rays emitted by the radioactive material, as well as by contamination of the skin or ingestion of the material inside, if the container is ruptured, possibly leading to cancer....

Freddie Mack, 57, was last seen by family members in Venus, Texas, on April 19. On Tuesday, officials concluded he had been eaten by his 18 dogs. Mack suffered from a number of serious medical conditions. “We will never know if the dogs killed Mr. Mack or consumed him after he died from a medical condition,” Johnson County Sheriff Adam King told the Cleburne Times-Review. “Either way, it is a very gruesome event and we extend our sympathy to Freddie Mack’s family....

Lincoln police Investigator Matt Hill said the woman, 42-year-old Theresa Benn of Calhoun County, was last seen in the predawn hours on Sunday near the track on Speedway Industrial Drive in Lincoln. MORE: Chase standings | Martinsville picks | With Earnhardt out, who will fans pull for now? He said it wasn’t known whether she made it the Geico 500 later Sunday. She was reported missing shortly before 7:30 p....

McConnell’s statement represents a difference of opinion with Trump, who said during a Fox News Radio interview in June that admitting Russian President Vladimir Putin to the next G7 meeting was “common sense.” Trump explained that having Putin present at the meetings would make discussions concerning Russia easier. “Half of the meeting is devoted to Putin,” Trump said, “and he’s not there.” When asked by reporters on Tuesday if he would support Russia retaking its place at the G7 table, McConnell said, “Absolutely not....

McConnell was speaking in Covington, Kentucky on Monday and appeared to dismiss criticism from former President Donald Trump, who had opposed passing the bill. The $1.2 trillion bipartisan package was passed by the Senate in August by a vote of 69-30 with McConnell joining 18 other Republican senators in supporting it. The bill passed the House late on Friday by a vote of 228 to 206. McConnell said on Monday: “I was delighted the House finally found a way to pass the infrastructure bill last week....

The Kentucky Republican told a Team Trump campaign broadcast on Monday night that lawmakers needed to “see what’s working” and what wasn’t working before committing to further coronavirus relief funds. He also argued that the U.S. could not “prop the economy up forever” with emergency spending bills, which have so far provided loans to businesses and checks for individual Americans. Speaking to Lara Trump on Monday night, McConnell said: “In the process of spending about $2....

The injury will not require surgery but will keep Clark sidelined for the next six to eight weeks. MORE: Anderson’s plane makes emergency landing | Tark’s 10 best players | Hilarious postgame interview “Heart goes out to Wes Clark. It’s moments like that, as a coach, makes you sick,” South Carolina coach Frank Martin said at a postgame press conference. “I know [first-year Missouri coach Kim Anderson], and in my conversations with him, he’s fighting to create a culture and I know Wes is one of the guys that’s bought into what he’s fighting for....

The signs that gamers are able to craft can be used to create labels for areas and chests in Minecraft. They help make the quality of life in the game better, removing some of the frustration that some players would encounter without them. While signs can be plain, one gamer decided to spice up the signs on their chests with unique drawings that help indicate what is in them....

Hardcore mode is a unique mode in Minecraft that acts as a sort of “hard mode” for the game’s standard Survival mode. What makes Hardcore mode different is that if the player dies, the world gets deleted as a result, and all of their progress will be lost instantly. Some players and streamers have lost Hardcore playthroughs lasting thousands of days due to small, fatal mistakes. Despite that, Reddit user Thecupoftea seems to have made themself comfortable in their current world by building their own unique home....

Redditor spacegame202 took on the task of making a working arcade game in Minecraft, eventually ending up with their debut cabinet, Billy. Mechanically, the game is fairly straightforward: it functions like a standard side-scrolling endless runner, with the only button making the eponymous Billy jump in the air to collect coins or avoid obstacles. Simplistic as the idea is, though, it’s still an impressive feat to pull off in another game’s engine, and testament to both the creator’s ingenuity and the flexibility of the game’s systems....