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Baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani's long-time interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, has been fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers after allegations of theft connected to illegal gambling. According to ESPN, at least $4.5m (£3.5m) was transferred from Ohtani's bank account to a bookmaker. Ohtani is not accused of wrongdoing. Mr Mizuhara spoke to the sports network about his gambling debts on Tuesday. The news comes as Ohtani made his regular season debut with the Dodgers. The team's senior communications director has told the BBC that they are gathering information and that they "can confirm that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara has been terminated".

Hi everyone. It may be already a fait accompli.. My brother in law, a former Buffalo Cop suffered a stroke last week and is going to be taken off his respirator this afternoon. He is a good guy who fought the good fight. He is a family man, and he could be funny as hell whenever there was a family get together. He is 64, and he is a good friend. If you have a second, perhaps you can remember him in your prayers.

Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Dixie Chicks, was killed in a head-on crash Saturday in El Paso, Texas, according to TMZ. The band, which changed its name in 2020 to The Chicks, said it was "shocked and saddened" by her death. "We hold a special place in our hearts for the time we spent playing music, laughing and traveling together," the band wrote in a statement.

In 1901, when the American League was founded, the Philadelphia Athletics were one of the eight charter franchises. The A’s moved to Kansas City in 1955 and to Oakland in 1968, and they are on the move again. No major league team has called four cities home, but the A’s are about to write a new and bittersweet page in baseball’s history book. Major league owners voted unanimously Thursday morning to approve the A’s move to Las Vegas, meaning a city that celebrated four World Series championships and nurtured Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Rickey Henderson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers...

World Series 2023 TV Schedule Game 1: Friday, Oct. 27, 8:03 p.m. ET, Fox (at Arlington, Texas)Game 2: Saturday, Oct. 28, 8:03 p.m. ET, Fox (at Arlington, Texas)Game 3: Monday, Oct. 30, 8:03 p.m. ET, Fox (at Phoenix)Game 4: Tuesday, Oct. 31, 8:03 p.m. ET, Fox (at Phoenix)Game 5 (if needed): Wednesday, Nov. 1, 8:03 p.m. ET, Fox (at Phoenix)Game 6 (if needed): Friday, Nov. 3, 8:03 p.m. ET, Fox (at Arlington, Texas)Game 7 (if needed): Saturday, Nov. 4, 8:03 p.m. ET, Fox (at Arlington, Texas)

Scott Winkler, who lives in the area, has been a loyal customer of the Rite Aid store for three years. He recently found out the pharmacy was closing, leaving him and other residents in the neighborhood without easy access to essential medications. "Somebody has to stand up for what's right, and that is a pharmacy that is an intricate part of this area," Winkler said. "Now it's gone, and the only thing we have left is Family Dollar — and hopefully they won't close." With the pharmacy closing, Winkler will no longer be able to walk over to get his...

March 20: Shohei Ohtani and Japan rallied beat Mexico 6-5 Monday night in Miami to advance to the World Baseball Classic championship against Team USA.The WBC title game is Tuesday at 6 p.m. CT at LoanDepot Park.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Live to be 100 and some things may not last. "Can you hear her OK, dad?" Bruce Kinyon asked his dad, Roy Kinyon. "Talk again," Roy Kinyon said. However, Roy Kinyon's love of baseball has always remained. It's all thanks to his older brother, Ralph. "He wanted to pitch for the Yankees, so everyday I was out catching them so he could pitch for the Yankees," Roy Kinyon said. Roy Kinyon, a 100-year-old from Lockport, spent so much time trying to make his brother better that he got better. His high school baseball team won the Niagara...

Rich Strike pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Kentucky Derby history with a win on Saturday. Rich Strike was an 80-1 shot coming into the event, according to the odds on the Kentucky Derby website.

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(CNN)Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a knee during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Ottawa on Friday. Trudeau's act of solidarity comes after he declined to comment earlier in the day about whether he would be attending the protest. Still, he arrived at Parliament Hill -- home to Canada's Parliament -- wearing a black cloth mask Friday afternoon and surrounded by security guards, according to CNN affiliate CTVnews. Trudeau did not speak at the event, though he clapped and nodded along with some of the other speakers, including a moment when a speaker asserted there is no middle ground...

For the second year running the pandemic has halted Shakespeare’s Birthday Parade – although see below for details of the virtual one. While we are missing the fun, Sylvia Morris looks back on the history of the parade which has been an annual feature of the town since 1826. SHAKESPEARE’S Birthday has been celebrated in Stratford-upon-Avon for very nearly two centuries. Over this period there have been many changes, but the floral procession from the centre of the town to Holy Trinity Church remains their central feature. It is headed by students from King Edward VI School because the school...

At 30,000, the Dow had risen 44% from its March 24 level and 61% from the March 23 low. NYSE That didn’t take long. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 30,002 eight months after tanking to around 20,000 as the pandemic hit, sending the global economy into a deep recession. The index hit the then-record-high level of 29,551 on Feb. 12, after having fallen below 20,000 on March 23, when stocks around the world hit bottom during the 2020 bear market. The Federal Reserve said it would provide unlimited stimulus and the Dow rose 11.2% to 20,704 the next day...

Sixty years old. Proud of this country all my life. Boy Scout. Fly the flag. It is getting wearisome. They are wearing me down. That is probably the idea. We have to fight for every inch. They are trying to make me hate this country. Then I will no longer care.

The Baseball Writers' Association of America overwhelmingly voted in favor of removing the name of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis from the MVP awards for both the American League and National League, it was announced Friday. Of the 313 votes, 89% were in favor of removing Landis' name from the awards. The MVP plaques will be nameless in 2020. Earlier this year, former NL MVPs Barry Larkin, Mike Schmidt and Terry Pendleton told The Associated Press they would favor removing Landis' name because of concerns over his handling of Black players.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols passed Willie Mays for fifth place on the career home run list, hitting No. 661 on Friday night against Texas. The 40-year-old Pujols connected for a solo homer with one out in the fifth inning. He sent Wes Benjamin's fastball on a 1-2 count over the wall in left field. Pujols has hit five homers this season. He tied Mays last Sunday at Colorado. It is only Pujols' second home run since Aug. 4. He now trails only Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755), Babe Ruth (714) and Alex Rodriguez (696)....

I tried. I love sports. I love football. I figured there would be virtue signalling. The slogans. The George Floyd tee shirts on the anthem singers. The commercials. On and on. Finally, I thought they were going to play a game and then Chris Collingworth started to get on his soapbox.... That was it. Enough already. I turned it off. I don't care anymore...

We get prayer threads on this site from time to time, and the people here are so gracious about it. I now am asking for prayers for my daughter. Now, she isn't sick or in danger, but I swear she could use some divine intervention. Her problem? She made the audacious decision to get married in the year 2020. Here's the rundown: The Catholic Church has limited the number of people who can be at the ceremony to 50. That is less than half the number of people who would want to come. The place where her reception was scheduled...burned...

Texas is a tossup, as Democrat Joe Biden tops President Donald Trump by a percentage point, 45-44 percent, in a new Fox News survey of Texas registered voters...blah de blah blah blah.

yngus Day is a Polish-American holiday celebrated after Easter Sunday in Buffalo, New York and elsewhere. To mark the end of Lent, the joyful celebration consists of delicious food, entertaining parades, and wonderful music. This year, due to the pandemic, organizers behind the city's Dyngus Day celebrations had to come up with creative ideas to keep the festivities alive. In 966 A.C.E., on Easter Monday, Prince Mieszko I of Poland was baptized. Mieszko converted to Christianity because of the marriage agreement he made with his wife, Princess Dobrawa of Bohemia. By accepting Christianity as his religion, the first king of...