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Brandon Belt suffered a broken left thumb in a 6-2 win against the Rockies on Sunday, with an X-ray on Monday confirming the injury, according to the team. The Giants said Belt will meet with doctors to determine a recovery plan, and a timetable for his return is unknown. FAGAN: Dodgers’ Max Scherzer could top list as best midseason pitching acquisition of all time The loss of Belt is a major one to a team that entered Tuesday just two games up on the Dodgers for the top spot in the NL West....

The death row inmate, who was in his teens when his crime was committed, died by lethal injection of phenobarbital at a U.S. prison in Indiana. “I wish I could take it all back, but I can’t,” he said, referring to his part in the 1999 kidnapping and killing of youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley. “I’m sorry,” he said as he lifted his head and turned to look towards the windows of the witness room....

The Saints cornerback leads the league with 21 penalties this season, and he continued his poor play against the Panthers in his team’s loss on Sunday. He even got into a shouting match with New Orleans defensive coordinator Dennis Allen. All of this evidence helped CBS analyst Shannon Sharpe make a ruling. The Saints need to let Browner go. MORE: Why Cam Newton is the MVP | Sean Payton on the move?...

Morrow has yet to pitch in a game this year as he has been recovering from November elbow surgery. His comeback has been stalled by multiple setbacks and his season is now officially over. The 35-year-old signed a two-year, $21 million deal with the Cubs before the 2018 season. He saved 22 games in his first year with Chicago but missed the final 2 1/2 months as he was dealing with his injury....

Your practitioner may also refer you to physical therapy to help manage the symptoms of BPPV. You may be prescribed balance exercises and habituation exercises to help treat your BPPV. The Brandt-Daroff exercises also can be a useful tool in the self-care program for vertigo. Brandt-Daroff exercises are used to help accommodate your brain to the changes that have occurred when your BPPV first started. These exercises are not used to return crystals to their proper place in your inner ear (that’s what the Epley maneuver is for)....

The golfer, who is playing in a group with Tiger Woods and Patton Kizzire, stood in the water for three shots on the par-3 17 (his second hole of the day) before he finally got his ball out of the hazard. PGA Tour leaderboard: Live scores from the Honda Classic Snedeker shared his excitement about playing in the tournament on Twitter, sharing that his wife went into labor during the opening round of the Honda Classic last year....

Varvaro still has a year to go before he is eligible for salary arbitration. He pitched 54 2/3 innings for the Braves this year, posting a 2.63 ERA with 50 strikeouts and 13 walks. Relief pitchers are notoriously inconsistent, but Varvaro also had a pretty good 2013, then improved both his walk and strikeout rates in 2014. He is a cheap, 30-year-old right-hander under team control. In exchange for Varvaro, the Braves got a pitcher in Kurcz who may turn out to be a new version of Varvaro down the road, if he makes it to the majors....

And yet, here we are, four games deep into the NL postseason, and the Braves are 4-0 with three shutout victories. Maybe those fears were unfounded? Let’s not jump to that conclusion just yet. Those first four games were started by the only two pitchers anyone in Atlanta would classify as “reliable” — Max Fried and Ian Anderson. Fried had a 2.25 ERA in his 11 starts during the regular season and Anderson had a 1....

Sean Newcomb, Luiz Gohara, Lucas Sims and Max Fried are trying build on their limited MLB experience, while other youngsters such as Kolby Allard are coming for them. Such a bevy of pitching talent gives the team and its fans reason for optimism as the team begins to pull out of a rebuild that has included three straight 90-loss seasons. MORE: Three things on Braves’ to-do list for 2018...

With Hart accepting the newly created title, the Braves no longer are looking for a general manager. Hart became interim general manager Sept. 22. The team had sought a full-time replacement for Frank Wren, who was fired last month after a disappointing finish this season. Team President John Schuerholz announced Thursday that the 66-year-old Hart has agreed to a three-year contract that will last through the team’s first season at its new stadium in Cobb County....

The Phillies were rewarded with facing one of baseball’s best second-half teams this year in No. 2-seed Atlanta, against whom they were 8-11 in the regular season. The Braves got Spencer Strider back after he missed the final few weeks of the season with an oblique injury. Strider was putting together a Rookie of the Year-caliber campaign before the injury, and he entered this series with a new long-term contract extension....

That’s the tell-all revelation for Braxton Miller after the first day of practice for Ohio State’s football team. Miller no longer wears a black No. 5 quarterback jersey at practice. He has switched to a scarlet No. 1. He ran routes against former Buckeyes receiver Joey Galloway on ESPN before practice. MORE: Preseason Top 25 | Top 15 programs since 2000 | Switch a boon to Miller’s draft stock...

Perhaps it was the fact that Calheiros was rescued by a less than convincing 40-to-35 vote margin, with six key abstentions, after a closed-door session. Or it might have been the army of heavies with stun guns deployed to safeguard the Senate chambers from prying eyes. Whatever the reason, the backlash suggests that Latin America’s biggest and perhaps unruliest country will no longer turn the other cheek to official misdeeds....

The WHO announced a “temporary pause” on Monday of its trial as safety data is reviewed, its Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, though he reiterated it was “generally safe for use in patients with autoimmune diseases or malaria.” Hydroxychloroquine is used to prevent malaria as well as in some cases to treat arthritis and lupus. Tests are being carried out to determine its ability to treat COVID-19. Questions have been raised over the risks of side effects, with suggestions it might even increase mortality rates in the treatment of coronavirus....

While BRCA2 mutations are often linked together with BRCA1 mutations, there are many important differences. The two mutations confer different risks for breast and ovarian cancer and are also associated with different cancers in other regions of the body, including pancreatic cancer. Understanding the differences in these mutations is important in understanding your family history as well. Your healthcare provider may be more concerned if you have one close relative who had breast cancer and one who had pancreatic cancer than if you had two with breast cancer....

Boomers Make 50 Their Own Like an early gift, your April 3 issue, with its Cover Story “The New Middle Age” (SPECIAL REPORT), arrived in my mailbox two days before I celebrated my 50th birthday. I am not thrilled with reaching the half-century mark, but your insightful piece on baby boomers’ reaching their middle years suggests that decrepitude is not necessarily around the corner. By heeding the advice of financial and medical experts, my generation has every reason to expect to enjoy an active, secure and healthy future, long after the middle years have become the golden years....

Tite’s side arrived at the 2022 World Cup as the top-ranked team and chasing a record sixth title. And after a strong Copa America tournament last year where they reached the final, they are being ranked by many as favourites to go all the way. Brazil won seven straight games ahead of their arrival in Qatar and as always boast a strong squad full of stars capable of lighting up the tournament....

A 9-7 record and a playoff victory were not enough to save head coach Mike Mularkey. Enter his replacement, Mike Vrabel, with Matt LaFleur succeeding Terry Robiskie as offensive coordinator and Dean Pees taking the reins of the 3-4 defense from Dick LeBeau. But even with a winning record, Tennessee limped to an AFC wild-card berth. That prompted general manager Jon Robinson to upgrade the veteran talent at key spots and draft more for immediate impact....

We’ll get into the details in a moment, but just know this: Goldschmidt has been a regular on MVP ballots his entire career, with a pair of second-place finishes in the MVP voting (2013 and 2015), a third-place finish (2017) and two sixth-place finishes (2018 and 2021). This very well could be the year — his Age 34 season — that he breaks through and wins the award. A formidable challenger has arisen from the field, though....

It may seem like the beginning of a Chinese media crackdown, but it’s actually the start of something good. For the past six months Chinese news junkies have witnessed a period of greater media freedom, which many have linked to the new generation of leaders who came to power at the 16th Party Congress last November. Early on, President Hu Jintao criticized state-run China Central Television for pandering to government officials....