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After listening all week to Chicago White Sox general manager Chris Getz, manager Grady Sizemore and players discussing their feelings about the inevitable modern-era record for losses the team finally broke Friday night in Detroit, one word seemed to be missing.Frustrating? Difficult? Disappointing? Painful? No, we heard those descriptions a few dozen times. The word I never heard uttered was “unacceptable,” as in “this loss was unacceptable.”Time and again we heard about the bad breaks, as if the Sox had a monopoly on bad luck. We get it. They were millimeters short of a win on Aug. 28 when Texas...

Ukraine's forces slammed against stiff Russian defenses in southern Ukraine this summer, and ultimately, the counteroffensive failed. Unable to get the US onboard earlier, the move in a critical sector of southern Ukraine came a year later than when the country's top general first wanted to make it, a new book reports. Had it come when he wanted, it might have reshaped the war, for better or worse. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Gen. Valery Zaluzhny pushed for a bold, and by some observations risky, counteroffensive in 2022 that never came to be, according to the new book...

LAS VEGAS – O.J. Simpson is headed to prison for at least nine years, but a prosecutor says the former football star could have spent less time behind bars if he had accepted a plea deal before he was convicted.