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Seven games in all were postponed Thursday, adding to the three that were called off Wednesday. The Jays and Sox released a joint statement saying they stood behind their players’ decision. The Red Sox were the drivers of the boycott: They voted not to play after center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr., the team’s lone Black player, took himself out of the lineup to make a personal statement. The Blue Jays followed their division rival’s lead after learning of Bradley’s withdrawal....

First baseman Rowdy Tellez took a 1-1 cutter from Red Sox starter Nate Eovaldi high and far over the right-field fence at Fenway Park for a home run. Tellez’s blast was his third of the season, the farthest of his brief MLB career and officially the longest homer in Fenway history. Baseball Savant projected that Tellez’s homer traveled 505 feet — 3 feet farther than Ted Williams’ previous stadium best of 502 feet....

With a dominating 9-3 win, the Blue Jays swept the Twins in a four-game series that put the red-hot Jays in sole possession of the second American League wild card spot and 4.5 games back of the Yankees in the AL East. Edwin Encarnacion homered, doubled twice and drove in four runs, while newly acquired Troy Tulowitzki went 2 for 5 with a run scored. The Jays moved to 8-0 with Tulo in starting lineup, with Tulowitzki becoming the first player in club history to win in his first eight starts....

In the ninth inning of Friday’s Tigers-Blue Jays game in Toronto, a fan dumped “what is believed to be cremated remains onto field level, near the Jays’ dugout,” according to the Toronto Star. The fan was not ejected, leaving on his own after speaking with security, the newspaper reports. If the idea was for the ashes to spend eternity with the Jays, well, that’s not going to happen. A hazardous materials team collected them shortly after the game ended....

After spending his first four seasons with the Athletics, Donaldson moved to Toronto last offseason after Oakland traded him for far less in return. Donaldson, aka “The Bringer of Rain,” received 23 first-place votes — 16 more than runner-up Angels outfielder Mike Trout. MORE: Worst MVP snubs in history | Sporting News names Donaldson MLB Player of the Year | Bryce Harper wins NL MVP Donaldson sported a .297/.371/.939 slash line with 41 home runs and 123 RBIs....

“I’ve picked up a lot of stuff on a lot of the power plays and what works, and what doesn’t," Savard told reporters via conference call. “I think I’ll be able to bring a lot of adjustments and new looks and help the Blues have a fresh look, different options. They have a lot of great pieces and if I’m able to work with them, I think we should be right up there in the league in power play next season....

Iger’s claims about Twitter are similar to those made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is trying to drop his $44 billion bid to buy the company based on what he said is a large presence of false accounts known as “bots.” Twitter is suing Musk to compel him to complete his acquisition, and a trial is set to begin in October on the matter. The revelations about Disney’s supposed plans for Twitter were revealed while Iger spoke at Vox Media’s 2022 Code Conference in Los Angeles....

Ryan has written a memoir about his career called, “Scribe: My Life in Sports," acknowledging throughout that, although he was a journalist to his core, there is plenty of sports fandom in his blood. “Scribe” reads very much like Ryan speaks. If you’ve seen him in his various television appearances, you can hear his voice in every sentence. One of his deepest loves is college basketball, so Sporting News decided to ask him about his career writing about the game....

Organ Transplants That Lead to an Increased Risk of Bone Disease Despite the kidneys’ role in bone formation, it is not just patients with kidney failure (who receive a kidney transplant) who are high-risk for bone disease and fractures. Most organ transplant patients (including recipients of kidney, heart, lung, liver, and bone marrow transplants) could develop complications including fractures, bone pain, osteoporosis, etc. However, the risks might vary based on the organ involved....

“You don’t have to shout at me like that,” complained Charlie, the older of the two. “All I asked was what time it was. That was all. And you shout four o’clock like that. Do you think I’m deaf?” Mma Makutsi stood her ground. “It’s because I know you so well,” she retorted. “When you ask the time, it’s because you can’t wait to stop working. You want me to say five o’clock, don’t you?...

Rocco Marchegiano spent the closing months of World War II, not in battle, not ferrying supplies to Allied troops in Normandy as was widely reported in later years, but in a military stockade in England. He was imprisoned after being arrested, court-martialed, and found guilty of robbery and assault. While an investigation of the incident was underway, Marchegiano’s commanding officer, Major Richard L. Powell, told investigators that Marchegiano was an “untrustworthy, unreliable and unsatisfactory soldier” and that “his derelictions have been consistent and numerous....

Through the Ruttledges we meet the rest: Jamesie and Mary, a kindly older couple across the lake; John Quinn, a womanizer; Patrick Ryan, a handyman and a brooding soul, one of those disagreeable people who see to the heart of things and then use what they know like a hammer. Mostly McGahern lets them introduce themselves according to what they talk about: the weather, the livestock, the coming of telephone poles to the neighborhood....

Knowing people sure can go a long way. Crosley’s book ain’t half bad, but plenty of books as good—and some better—never see the light of day. Crosley’s no amateur, of course—she knows that. And she doesn’t deny her public relations good luck. “It seems like cheating,” she told New York magazine recently. “And by all means, if cheating is promoting other people’s work, trying to get people to pay attention to a product that the entire world is slowly losing interest in, then yes, I cheated....

Will hypertext kill off narratives? The traditional view of narrative–a beginning, middle and end–is something we’ve been growing beyond. Instead what we have is a constellated, fragmented–but emergent–way of seeing things. It’s almost like a kaleidoscope: you shake it up and there’s another set of patterns. What does this mean for kids? With hypertext, they can lay out ideas like LEGOs or blocks–a set of concepts–and make connections among them as the connections themselves start to come to mind....

NFL analyst Boomer Esiason was on the Toucher & Rich radio show Wednesday morning to discuss a number of topics. One of the subjects he talked about was the Deflategate situation involving the Patriots. PHOTOS: Patriots Super Bowl victory parade | Vincent confirms Colts tipped of Deflate-gate Both the Colts and Ravens claimed the Patriots used deflated footballs against them in the playoffs. According to Esiason the two teams coordinated with one another to “embarrass Tom Brady....

Footage of the game between Texas Tech and West Virginia last weekend has baseball fans in awe on social media. As the player at bat swings, he fouls the ball. The university’s radio announcer Geoff Haxton notes it is “coming right back at us” in the broadcast booth, and without flinching, makes an impressive barehanded catch. Socially distanced ballgame viewers at the Monongalia County Ballpark in West Virginia holler in amazement....

Provost was on Capitol Hill to testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee regarding oversight of Customs and Border Protection. The agency has been under fire in recent weeks amid reports of squalid and inhumane conditions in several migrant detention centers. Main concerns include overcrowding, children going without hot meals for days, lack of hygiene products and migrants begging not to have to return to their holding cells. Provost, who has been leading CBP since August 2018, admitted to the committee that she doesn’t want migrant children to be held in border patrol facilities....

The rescue occurred on Wednesday as temperatures in the area exceeded 100 degrees, according to agents with the Border Patrol’s Laredo South Station. “Today, this new technology saved a life,” Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Carl Landrum said in a news release announcing the successful rescue. “The U.S. Border Patrol will always prioritize human life.” Border agents said the individual was a male but did not provide other identifying information. He was “in good health” when emergency medical officials arrived to examine him, unlike another migrant authorities found suffering in the heat earlier in the day....

CBP’s Laredo Sector Chief Agent Matthew Hudak told Newsweek that expansion of the sector has created the need to enlarge the workforce beyond the capacity of CBP facilities for training. The deal will allow the agency to train locally, rather than sending their officers to another center for training. The new relationship, based upon a one-year agreement, will serve a key role in preparing students enrolled in the college’s new homeland security studies program, Heriberto Hernandez, Dean of Workforce Education, told Newsweek....

Johnson’s most senior ethics adviser led an inquiry into Conservative minister Priti Patel’s behavior and found that she failed to meet the requirement of the Ministerial Code. Patel has always strongly denied allegations of bullying. In the assessment of his findings, ministerial adviser Sir Alex Allan concluded: “My advice is that the Home Secretary has not always met the high standards of the code in treating civil servants with respect....