By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer A growing number of college baseball teams are moving away from the tradition of catchers using their fingers and hands for pitch signs. The NCAA this year is allowing teams to have a coach in the dugout press into a keypad numbers corresponding to different pitch types and transmitting
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By Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN The South Carolina Gamecocks won their second national championship in five years Sunday after defeating the Connecticut Huskies 64-49. The name of the game Sunday was defense and offensive rebounds for the Gamecocks, who controlled the game from the start with a 13-2 lead in just the first
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Major League Baseball is stepping up its experimentation with an electronic communication channel for calling pitches. After trying out the PitchCom system at Low-A West in the second half of last season, big league clubs are tinkering with the technology during spring training. If the
Continue Reading By JACK MAGRUDER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Coming off a franchise-record 107 wins and a division crown, the San Francisco Giants will open the season with a bullpen stocked with experienced, proven relievers but without a designated closer. And that’s just fine with manager Gabe Kapler. He says things have a way of
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer North London rivals Tottenham and Arsenal are neck and neck in the fight for Champions League qualification in the English Premier League. It looks like being as hard fought as the title race between Manchester City and Liverpool. Tottenham’s superior attacking power might yet prove decisive in the final
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By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan professionals, students and even mothers with small children have defied an emergency decree and curfew to demand President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation, holding him responsible for the island nation’s worst economic crisis and shortages of food, fuel and medicines. Police fired
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Real Betis has routed Osasuna 4-1 to stay within range of the final Champions League place in the Spanish league. Juanmi scored twice and William Carvalho and Álex Moreno added a goal each for Betis’ second victory in the last nine matches in all competitions. The result left Betis one point behind
Continue Reading TAMPA, Fla, (AP) — There are plenty of things Carlos Beltran needs to do once he begins his job as a New York Yankees announcer on Monday. Becoming familiar with his role as an analyst on the YES Network is among them. One thing he doesn’t need to do, Yankees star slugger Aaron Judge says,
Continue Reading PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — The San Diego Padres have acquired left-hander Sean Manaea in a trade with the Oakland Athletics. San Diego got the 30-year-old Manaea and minor league right-hander Aaron Holiday from Oakland for pitching prospect Adrian Martinez and minor league infielder Euribiel Angeles. Manaea went 11-10 with a 3.91 ERA in 32 starts
Continue ReadingBy Nick Starling Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — After two years off due to the pandemic, the “It’s Cool To Fly American” program is back to help hundreds of families with children who have autism get real-life airport and airplane experience. According to the CDC, about one in 44 children
Continue ReadingBy CBS13 Staff Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A teenage boy is accused of making the fake bomb threat that closed a South Sacramento Sam’s Club for hours on Friday. The boy, 13, was issued a felony citation for reporting a false bomb threat, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN A week after Will Smith famously strode on stage and slapped Chris Rock as Rock was presenting at the Academy Awards, questions still remain about the incident and its aftermath. Here are just a few of them: Will Smith’s career From a family-friendly rapper to a sitcom star on “The
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN A week after Will Smith famously strode on stage and slapped Chris Rock as Rock was presenting at the Academy Awards, questions still remain about the incident and its aftermath. Here are just a few of them: Will Smith’s career From a family-friendly rapper to a sitcom star on “The
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Tina Burnside, CNN Police are searching for people involved in a shooting at a Virginia mall that left one person dead and two others injured Saturday. Officers responded to calls at the MacArthur Center in Norfolk around 6 p.m., the Norfolk Police Department said on Twitter. Roosevelt A. McKinney, 33, was
Continue ReadingBy Da Lin Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A group of mothers will unveil a new campaign on Monday that warns tourists to stay away from San Francisco amid the city’s drug crisis that is endangering both locals and visitors. The organization, Mothers Against Drug Deaths, is buying ads
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – El productor y compositor peruano Tony Succar llega a los premios Grammy 2022 con su disco “Live In Peru”, una producción grabada en el Teatro Nacional de Lima. La nominación la comparte con artistas de la talla de Rubén Blades, quien ganó el Latin Grammy al mejor álbum del
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN California is calling upon Native American tribes to bring back the once-prohibited practice of lighting controlled burns to help prevent devastating wildfires that have wreaked havoc on the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force has launched a new plan — “Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of
Continue ReadingBy CBSBoston.com Staff Click here for updates on this story COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (WBZ) — The nonprofit Wreaths Across America wants to put the tallest flagpole in the world in part of rural Maine. The “Flagpole of Freedom Park” site in Columbia Falls would become the only spot in the United States to honor all
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Natalia Lafourcade presentó el 28 de mayo de 2021 el segundo volumen de su proyecto “Un canto por México”. Lafourcade volvió a reunir a varios de sus amigos para presentar un álbum que contiene joyas de la música latinoamericana, traídas a la actualidad. Para esta producción, la cantautora reversionó
Continue ReadingBy Samiar Nefzi Click here for updates on this story SYLVA, North Carolina (WLOS) — The Jackson County community came together Saturday, April 2 to mourn the lives of two young brothers that died in an accidental shooting just under a week ago. The hour-long event was held at Bridge Park in Sylva. Family, friends
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