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“We had just got done with the 2002 Southern League All-Star Game. I was scheduled to pitch the second game of the series. We were in Jackson, Tennessee. I got a call late at night. Most of the time when someone gets called up, they get called up right after the game at the ballpark. MORE: Best MiLB states | Odd MiLB trades | 17-inning no-hitter | Fenced in “This was a couple hours after the game, I’m laying in bed, it’s about 1:00 in the morning....

The author and satirist, known for such works as Don’t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards and How the Hell Did This Happen?, passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 74, according to the Associated Press. The Daily Beast has reported his death was due to complications from lung cancer. After word of his death spread and became widely known, many took to social media to pass along their condolences and share their thoughts and feelings about the longtime writer....

“Months ago in the offseason, Jalen notified me that he was expecting the birth of his second child in late September,” Marrone said in a statement. “We spoke about this recently and again (Wednesday) after practice and decided that it was best for Jalen to fly to Nashville tonight after meetings to be with his family during the birth of their daughter. “He will return to the team when he’s ready, and we will provide an update at that time....

According to CBS Sports, which cited an unidentified league source, the Jaguars could have secured two first-round draft picks for Ramsey, but the team turned the trade offer down. Apparently Jacksonville felt those selections would end up too close to 32nd overall, which it doesn’t want. The cornerback hasn’t been shy about letting the Jaguars know he wants a trade. While he played in Week 3 after he let the team know he wanted to be moved, he held out of Week 4 for multiple reasons....

That unlikely story spawned a Disney movie, 1993’s “Cool Runnings,” and marked the start of four consecutive Olympic appearances for the four-man team piloted by Dudley Stokes, highlighted by an impressive 14th-place finish at the 1994 Lillehammer Games. MORE: Olympics medal count 2022: Updated table of gold, silver, bronze medals for every country Though Jamaica has sent other bobsled teams to subsequent Olympics, the iconic four-man sled is back in action in Beijing for the first time since the 1998 Games in Nagano....

In an Instagram video posted over the weekend, someone had spotted the All Pro safety (and potential future former Jet) in his car, when the person asked Adams whether he was “coming to Dallas.” Adams’ response: “I’m trying, bro.” A move to Dallas won’t be easy, as the Cowboys are going to be up against the cap number. And with Dak Prescott and Dallas reportedly negotiating a long-term contract extension, it’s unclear where Adams is going to get his big payday....

The Good Place actress made friends with the Duchess of Sussex after appearing in a special edition of Vogue magazine which Meghan guest-edited last year. And Jamil has become an outspoken defender of Meghan on social media, this week attacking the media’s “colonizing spirit.” Her comments date back to a criticism of Meghan by British commentators in August over a video call for Michelle Obama-backed When We All Vote....

Jameis Winston is no longer a Tampa Bay Buccaneer. The No. 1 pick of the 2015 NFL Draft had a style of play that could best be described as mercurial (and, perhaps more accurately, painfully frustrating). But he also gifted several plays over the years that, one way or another, provided boundless entertainment for fans of the game. MORE: Best 2020 fits for Winston, the biggest QB mystery in NFL free agency...

Chris Kroeger and Barrett Sallee answer the question you’re probably wondering: These three rings are for the ACC, AP and BCS.

Caan died on Wednesday, July 6, at the age of 82. His passing was confirmed in a short statement shared to the star’s official Twitter account. A versatile actor remembered for films like Misery and The Gambler as well as modern favorites like Elf, along with the aforementioned mafia classic, news of Caan’s passing prompted a wave of tributes from fans and celebrities alike on social media. One of the most memorable came from Tilly, who starred alongside Caan in the 2003 thriller Jericho Mansions about an agoraphobic superintendent investigating a series of murders in his building....

The host of The Late Late Show With James Corden, 44, made headlines on Monday, when restaurateur Keith McNally revealed that he had banned Corden from his SoHo eatery Balthazar after staff complaints. In an Instagram post, McNally called fellow Briton Corden a “tiny Cretin of a man. And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago. I don’t often 86 a customer, [but] today I 86’d Corden....

This weekend, in his 10th year as a paid prizefighter, and a day after domestic rivals Callum Smith and George Groves decide divisional supremacy, DeGale will contest an eight-rounder in East Los Angeles, thousands of miles from home, and even further away from the lofty platform on which he is more accustomed to operating. MORE: Join DAZN and see more than 70 fight nights a year This is new territory for DeGale....

TMZ caught up with Harden outside a nightclub in Los Angeles and asked him about the curse. Here’s the exchange: MORE: A timeline of LeBron’s hairline | Lil B speaks to SN about Harden’s game Ouch. In case you need some catching up, Lil B was upset about Harden using his cooking dance. It started off as a threat, but eventually the rapper cursed the Rockets guard. He was even in attendance for Game 5 when Harden set a single-game playoff record for turnovers....

Thanks to the NBA’s tricky trade rules when it comes to matching dollar values, along with salary-cap implications for a Brooklyn team already paying Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving big money, it’s not as simple as the Rockets just sending Harden to the Nets and calling it a day. A potential trade might have to include a third team, or pay cuts for Durant or Irving, or both. That’s before even considering the matter of how KD, Irving and Harden would all share one basketball (but that’s a discussion for another day)....

Manchester United, Juventus and Chelsea are among the clubs reportedly interested in James, who has struggled for game time at Madrid this season. Mendes, who has said James will not be leaving the LaLiga leaders in January, said the Colombia international needed to work his way back into Zinedine Zidane’s plans. “He’s a top player. He can play anywhere. He doesn’t have to prove anything,” he told Sky Italia....

The younger Spears sibling has received much criticism over the release of her memoir amid an ongoing vicious public spat with her pop star sister. Fans of the beloved “Toxic” singer have spoken out against Jamie Lynn Spears releasing a book without Britney Spears getting to speak about her experiences with her conservatorship herself first. While the 40-year-old has accused her sister of selling “a book at my expense.”...

During a video put together by the House Select Committee, text messages were revealed tying Johnson to a plot to send a fake slate of electors to former Vice President Mike Pence minutes before the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. Sean Riley, Johnson’s chief of staff and former aide to Donald Trump, texted Pence’s Director of Legislative Affairs Chris Hodgson that “Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise....

Reno kept on trying; the Elian case has become something of a personal crusade. Friends say she sees the dilemma as a need to do the right thing in a crisis. Reno is haunted by the way she handled one of her first challenges, the 1993 standoff in Waco, Texas. Her decision to fire tear gas on the Branch Davidian compound, which culminated in a shootout and fire that killed 80 people, deeply shook her....

The panel urged the department—and in particular Attorney General Merrick General—to “do your job” and bring forward further charges against those who are not willingly cooperating with the inquiry into the events that lead up to the attack on the Capitol. The members of the committee hit out at the slow-moving judicial process while announcing that they will be referring two more members of Trump’s inner circle—former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and ex-Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino—to the full House to vote on whether they should be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the congressional investigation....

The Spanish outlet claims Kane would prefer to work under Mauricio Pochettino rather than Zinedine Zidane, with the latter looking likely to be replaced in the summer. Signing Pochettino would go a long way to getting Kane on board, but it is said that the England striker has no desire to play alongside Karim Benzema or Cristiano Ronaldo, and would ask that the Spanish capital club sell those players before his arrival....