Oddly enough, an MLB commissioner had never visited the iconic site — until Thursday. Rob Manfred visited the field in Dyersville, Iowa, to announce the kickoff of the “We Are Baseball,” a multi-year North American mobile tour of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. MORE: Should fans worry about struggling aces? | History says believe in Philly “I have to tell you, I’ve been excited about this visit all week,” Manfred said, via MLB....

In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/narniais4lovers (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) said her neighbor—a mother of seven—has long used her children as justification for her brash behavior and revealed how a tiresome work day prompted her to stop that brazenness in its tracks. Titled, “[Am I the a**hole] for not taking the next elevator when a mom with 7 children demanded it of me?...

Ahead of Wednesday’s Game 5 of a first-round series with the Bucks, All-Star guard Zach LaVine was placed in COVID-19 health and safety protocols. Here is what we know about LaVine’s status moving forward. MORE: Watch the NBA playoffs on Sling TV (U.S. only) Will Zach LaVine play in Game 5 vs. the Bucks? According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, LaVine is expected to miss Game 5 as a result....

Crains Chicago Business reports the 28-year-old Noah will be featured in Adidas marketing campaigns and in development of footwear and apparel. Adidas' head of global basketball sports marketing Chris Grancio says Adidas is "excited to partner with him as he enters the prime of his career." Despite suffering from plantar fasciitis, Noah turned in the best season of his six-year professional career last year and was an NBA All-Star for the first time....

Learn more about what causes bumps on the head and how to treat them. Causes There are various causes for bumps on the head, which are outlined below. BleedingPainfulNot improving They will give you a proper diagnosis and treatment plan. Head Trauma When an individual has a head injury, it is considered trauma to the head. This can range from a minor bump to a serious injury. The injuries include:...

As the only side to win its first three Premier League games, the Reds are alone at the top of the table and would set a club record of 13 straight wins in the top-flight with a win at Turf Moor. It speaks volumes for the improvement this team has made under Jurgen Klopp that it could beat a record set in October 1990, an era when Liverpool not only routinely challenged for the title but won it too....

The plan was to time O’Neill’s resignation perfectly. It would be a mere blip in the holiday season, coming after the GOP’s big November election win, but before the Bush team starts selling its economic-stimulus plan when Congress reconvenes next year. It didn’t work out quite so smoothly. Initially, the administration had hoped to wait until after Saturday’s Senate runoff in Louisiana to announce the shake-up. But Cheney’s abrupt call, described as cordial, seems to have surprised the Treasury chief and sent him into a cold fury....

We met one of Vietnam’s cadre of rising executives on the outskirts of Hanoi at a factory of the apparel-manufacturing company Garco 10, a 61-year-old firm in which the government has a 51 percent stake. As we sat through an interview with General Director Nguyen Thi Thanh Hu, I wished New York Times columnist Tom Friedman was joining us—and not just because he could have used his massive pile of air miles to upgrade us all to business class....

If the Browns, Jets, Bills or Cardinals are worried about the implications of making Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Josh Allen and Josh Rosen, respectively, their starters for Week 1 or at any point during the 2018 season, they can relax. This is an art, not a science. Sporting News has compiled a list of quarterbacks who were drafted over the last 15 years under their teams’ intensions of grooming them into franchise passers....

Milosevic assured him he could force such an outcome. Holbrooke asked skeptically, “How do I know the Bosnian Serb leadership will agree?” That’s when Milosevic melodramatically ushered Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic-respectively, the Bosnian Serb political and military leaders, indicted war criminals both-into the villa. Holbrooke muffled his own surprise, and on principle pointedly ignored Mladic. Instead, he hammered at Milosevic until he wrested something from the marathon session, even if it was a Balkans-style accord: NATO would halt the air campaign if the Bosnian Serbs moved some of their heavy weapons out of a 12....

The good news is the recovery period should only be two weeks, which means Trip will be back in time for Butler’s season opener in basketball. MORE: 31 questions to answer in October “We’ve been down this road before when he was a pup,” Michael Kaltenmark, owner of Trip, told USA Today . “Hopefully with a little rest, he’ll be back to work for basketball season. He is to remain at home over the next two weeks with limited activity....

Line: Notre Dame -4.5, Total: 133.5 (current NCAA Tournament point spreads and totals) Butler Record: 23-10 ATS: 18-13 OVER/UNDER: 11-19 Overview: After beating favored Texas on Thursday, the Bulldogs are now a head-turning 13-2-1 ATS in NCAA Tournament play since 2010. The 56-48 win over the Longhorns stayed way UNDER the 123.5-point total, the ninth straight Butler game in which UNDER tickets have cashed. Team page: Butler Bulldogs Notre Dame Record: 30-5 ATS: 15-12 O/U: 12-12 Overview: The Irish were given all they could handle by a feisty Northeastern team and failed to cover as 12-point favorites on Thursday, but they advanced and are asked to lay fewer points in this spot....

Then, there are a few teams that fall in the middle. Teams that could justifiably go in either direction, both directions, or neither. Ones that could be a move or two away from reaching the playoffs, or a move or two away from ending their run at contention and dropping firmly into the bottom half of the league. With the expanded playoffs in 2022, there are more teams than ever in the playoff hunt as the Aug....

The $1.61 trillion in bank loans for home purchases last year surpassed the $1.51 trillion lent during the housing bubble in 2005, which was the highest figure on records back to 1990. The number of loans issued to home buyers actually decreased from 4.92 million in 2020 to 4.74 million in 2021, but the size of those loans increased in 2021, the MBA said. This was often because buyers paid more than the homes’ asking prices to beat out other offers in a market where demand outpaced supply....

His freshman year, the Orange started 18-0 before losing at Pittsburgh in mid-January. His sophomore year, 20-0 before losing in late January at Notre Dame. His junior year, Syracuse was “only” 10-0 before falling to Temple a few days before Christmas. This year, the Orange will wake up on the first day of February with a perfect record. That night, No. 2 Syracuse will host No. 17 Duke in an eagerly-anticipated Saturday night game....

According to figures from the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) website, this would mean the swimmer has earned nearly $188,000 in “Operation Gold Awards” payments allocated via the USOPC. The Team USA website explains the “Operation Gold Awards are designed to reward athletes for top-place finishes in a sport’s most competitive senior international competition of the year.” The competitions for which the Operation Gold Awards apply include the Olympic and Paralympic Games as well as World Championship and World Cup events in years when there are no Olympic Games....

Simmons again put his former employer on blast by tweeting he’s keeping track of the ideas that ESPN shamelessly “hijacked” from him or his now shuttered Grantland site. MORE: How ESPN personalities fared after they left the ‘worldwide leader’ Don’t forget: The Sports Guy only found out he was fired by ESPN boss John Skipper last May when he read about it on social media. He stewed silently for months while he played out his ESPN contract....

Showing images of children in cages with the words “Don’t look away,” the billboards are expected to be on display on Monday and on Tuesday at three locations across Massachusetts, California and Texas. “We want voters to remember that these things are still happening and…no one is talking about it,” Associate Vice President of Advocacy at RAICES Ana Maria Rea-Ventre told Newsweek. “This administration is really targeting immigrants and it’s a really big issue and a huge violation to human rights....

The “Bad Guy” singer threw a Christmas-themed bash for her milestone birthday with some big name guests, including Justin and Hailey Bieber. Eilish dressed in a figure-hugging red Santa dress, matching bolero and finished the look by styling her black hair in a vintage wave. Posting a series of photos from her big night to Instagram, one shot in particular caught the attention of fans. In the pic, Eilish is facing her older boyfriend and they are leaning into each other, smiling as though they’re about to kiss....

The Bills were in all red, and the Jets in all green. It was a hideous sight. MORE: NFL uniforms infused with color | Best NFL player at each jersey number | NFL jersey confidence index But not everyone could see the two hideous sets of uniforms. For people with color blindness, color-on-color combinations are especially difficult to see. Tim Burke adjusted the video to represent what it would look like for people with color blindness; the results weren’t good....