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In a 9-5 home win over the Brewers on Monday, Chicago committed three errors. However, the one by second baseman Starlin Castro wasn’t his fault, according to manager Joe Maddon. MORE: The best baseball movies of all time, ranked “That error today was not his fault. That was a bad hop,” Maddon said, via CSN Chicago. “Since the AC/DC concert, we’ve had a little bit of trouble. I don’t know if they were out there taking groundballs before the game or they had like nine-inch heels or spikes....

Said another way, the Cubs’ win in Game 7 is the greatest story in baseball history. After 108 years, the Lovable Losers finally won — and there’s never been a more compelling baseball tale. No, not even the 2004 Red Sox. MORE: The 10 most memorable Game 7s in World Series history, ranked Consider: — The Cubs, those Lovable Losers from Chicago, put together a 103-win season for the ages....

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Cubs’ front office had a goat roasted especially for them to celebrate the championship. “We were on the phone with Jed (Hoyer, Cubs executive VP and general manager). He was recapping the game, and in the background, Theo (Epstein, Cubs President of Baseball Operations) says he wanted roasted goat for lunch," restaurateur Kevin Boehm said. “I said we’d make it happen.” MORE: With World Series win, Epstein cements his Baseball Hall of Fame case...

He should know. The left-hander also pitched for the Red Sox, who for years labored against the so-called “curse of the Bambino.” MORE: Must-see photos from the NLDS Lester was asked before Tuesday’s series-clinching win in Game 4 about how this year’s team is working to end the stereotype of the Cubs as “lovable losers” and trying to overcome some sort of jinx. His answer: “I think the biggest thing is is nobody really cares in there about a curse or a goat or anything else, you know what I mean?...

But 2017 hasn’t been quite the same. The starting rotation struggled in the first half, posting a 4.66 ERA that was in no way reminiscent of their dominating 2016. The lineup was inconsistent. The Cubs weren’t playing the same brand of baseball, and their record reflected that early in the season. MORE: Projected 2017 playoff bracket On the final day of the first half, the Cubs looked dead in the water....

The team will sport a No. 14 patch on its home and away jerseys and will also wear No. 14 hats during split-squad spring training games on March 5. “There is no level of recognition that can properly acknowledge how much Ernie Banks meant to this franchise and fan base,” Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said in a statement. “Collectively, we must ensure Mr. Cub’s legacy rightfully lives on at the Friendly Confines and with future generations of baseball fans....

No sane person would try to fill in the last 300-odd pages of a book by a great novelist. But what should survivors do with a tantalizingly close-to-finished work whose creator has died? Withhold it? Put it out exactly as is, like Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”? That’s what Algonquin Books did this spring with the late novelist Larry Brown’s “A Miracle of Catfish”: its final page has Brown’s notes on how he planned to end it....

Melissa Tao shared a photo of the urine-filled cup on Instagram after a trip to Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz County. The photos showed that the words “f*** off Chinese”, “die China” and “kill China” were written on the plastic cup. Police told Newsweek on Thursday that they are investigating the “disgusting and disturbing incident,” as Asian Americans across the country face an uptick in anti-Asian hate crimes and racism....

Currently the vaccine, which is offered free of charge, is available for appointments at select stores in Indiana, Massachusetts, New York and Puerto Rico “based on local availability,” according to the CVS website. “As announced on November 12 [2020], CVS Health has entered into a partnership with HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] to provide access across the country to COVID-19 vaccines, once generally available,” the company has said....

Type “anonymous” at the login prompt and enter your full Internet address as the password. To get there from a Unix prompt, type the command before the colon (e.g. ftp, gopher or telnet) followed by a space. Do not include slashes when typing addresses, directories or names of files. Magazine typesetting sometimes adds inappropriate hyphens. When in doubt, try it both ways. Refers to ways to access the World-Wide Web, like Lynx....

This time, no dice. Suspicious police busted the would-be escapee as soon as he exited the lockup. He led them to Williamson, to a suspected accomplice on the outside and to an Apple Powerbook. A few weeks later Special Agent Jeffrey Herig of Florida’s state police powered up the Apple in his computer-evidence recovery lab. He popped in a seized disk, found a file called ““Letter,’’ opened it and voila: the Pennsylvania seal and Williamson’s ““release order....

Still stinging from the time LA players took a dip after clinching the NL West title there in 2013, Arizona brought in reinforcements to guard the pool area after the Dodgers completed an NLDS sweep in Game 3. Mounted police and other law enforcement personnel set up positions around the water. (The officers and the horses rode away minutes after that tweet.) MORE: Three takeaways from Dodgers’ Game 3 win...

The convoy is part of a larger movement of conservative truckers that began in Canada. Originally formed in protest of COVID-19-related mandates, the convoys soon spread to other countries, including the U.S., where they have caused traffic disruptions in cities around the world. A number of these convoys attempted to make their way to the nation’s capital in order to protest. The main group now remaining on the outskirts of the city is known as the “People’s Convoy,” which traveled to the East Coast in a cross-country journey from California, adding protesters along the way....

Metcalf enjoyed the best game of his career, the wide receiver finishing with 12 catches for 161 yards and two touchdowns in Seattle’s 37-27 win over the 49ers at CenturyLink Field on Sunday. It gave Metcalf – who showed incredible speed to chase down Budda Baker on his 90-yard interception return in Week 7 – new career bests in both receptions and yards as NFC West leaders the Seahawks (6-1) bounced back from their overtime loss to the Arizona Cardinals....

In a moving speech, Rogers seemed to expect her own elimination. So, she used the floor to advocate for more diversity on shows like Big Brother, and more acceptance from the players. Rogers began by naming a list of inspiring Black women who have appeared on the series already. One, Tamar Braxton, even won Celebrity Big Brother. But the regular seasons have never seen a Black person make it to the end....

The rapper sparked ire when video footage was shared of him saying at the show: “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cellphone light in the air.” “Ladies, if your p**** smell like water, put your cellphone light in the air. Fellas, if you ain’t suck a n**** d*** in the parking lot, put your cellphone lights in the air....

In terms of conferences, though, there are not many surprises to be had. All of the top-10 coach salaries come from the Power 5. USA Today publishes a database of coach salaries from most FBS schools (some private schools are exempt from providing contract data), offering a glimpse into the financials of the very lucrative college football industry, though of course, it’s not quite as lucrative for the players on the field....

Reddit user u/ParkingHalf181, a father of two, shared his dilemma on the popular r/AmITheA****** sub, where it has received more than 8,000 upvotes. In the post, he explained: “Six years ago my daughter caught my wife with another man. She told her brother who understood what she had witnessed then they both came and told me. I verified that it was true then I divorced my wife.” After the divorce, the dad was given primary custody, while their mom had the children for one week a month....

The demanding dad’s actions were detailed in a post shared to Mumsnet by his ex-wife. According to the post, her former husband, who pays for his daughter’s phone, recently got in touch to ask that she help facilitate the return of the handset and SIM card. He apparently told her that since his daughter “isn’t using her phone anymore” and the “contract is in his name and he pays for it, he expects the phone to go back to him with all the data…intact....

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