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I’ve written about all sorts of topics through the years, but the two that prompted the most reader return input by far were beer and baseball. Readers showed next to no interest in political, crime or governmental items that should have been of interest. About two years ago, I did an update concerning a fire at the old Schaefer brewery in Albany. In came many comments about how lousy the…

(The Sports Xchange) – Carlos Santana and Coco Crisp homered, rookie Ryan Merritt allowed two hits in 4 1/3 innings and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 on Wednesday afternoon to win the American League Championship Series in five games. The Indians will play with the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Chicago Cubs in the World Series, which opens Tuesday in Cleveland. Merritt was making his postseason…

Photo The Buffalo Beauts’ Harrison Browne, who played last season as Hailey Browne, scored in his team’s season opener in the National Women’s Hockey League. Credit Brendan Bannon for The New York Times BUFFALO — He changed his voice mail recording and created a new email address. He updated his LinkedIn profile, too, to reflect his new name. With those details settled, and the National Women’s Hockey League season about…

The NASCAR Mexico Series has a new title sponsor thanks to a multi-year deal with Old World Industries and its Peak brand. Following an exhibition race in Mexico City Dec. 3-4, the newly remained NASCAR Peak Mexico Series will resume racing in 2017 after a one-year hiatus. NASCAR officials said a schedule for the series will be released at a later date. From 2004 to 2015, the series ran 14…

Photo Javier Baez struck out for the Cubs in the ninth inning against the Dodgers in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. Credit Harry How/Getty Images LOS ANGELES — At a moment like this, as they face real adversity for the first time in their charmed season, the Chicago Cubs could reach for a trusty slogan from Joe Maddon, their wise and irreverent manager. They must not let…

How much longer can we pretend this is ok? How long can we keep ignoring that this is an embarrassment? You might have heard that Tim Tebow hit a single Tuesday afternoon in Arizona, where he’s playing in the prestigious Arizona Fall League. It was his first hit of the campaign — a “line drive” single to left field, breaking a 0-for-14 stretch to start his professional baseball career. Four…

A program that helps baseball players scored a $15,000 riding mower Wednesday about a month after thieves stole the one stored at the ballfields. A new Gravely Pro-Turn 400 was delivered to the Central Omaha Legion Baseball Association complex at Boyd Park, 4201 N. 16th St. It was donated by the Ariens Company manufacturing plant in Auburn, Nebraska. “We saw in The World-Herald what happened, and…

NYPD Assistant Chief Larry Nikunen briefs reporters on the fatal shooting of 66-year-old Deborah Danner. NBC New York A New York City police officer fatally shot a 66-year-old black woman who was wielding a baseball bat, police officials said Tuesday. The officer, who was white, was also armed with a Taser but did not deploy it, police said. The shooting occurred at the woman’s apartment in the Bronx on Tuesday evening…

After the final at-bat of the 2016 World Series, as T-shirts commemorating the winning team hit retailers’ shelves almost as soon as they’re on players’ backs, versions celebrating the losers start a journey to the shredder. It didn’t always work that way. In past years, retailers donated preprinted Major League Baseball championship merchandise for losing teams overseas. Each new round of the postseason comes with new commemorative merchandise retailers can…

It is not often that David Hockney and Dwayne Schintzius come up in the same conversation. The art of Jonas Wood, however, is one of the rare places that the British pop-art pioneer and the late N.B.A. journeyman can coexist. On the one hand, Wood’s brand of off-kilter realism is often compared to Hockney’s work, and Wood cites Hockney as one of his major influences. On the other hand, Wood’s…

IN A WAREHOUSE OUTSIDE Oakland, Calif., a massive chain saw is chewing through a washing machine, tearing and crumpling the white metal frame like paper, rattling the skid-steer loader to which it’s attached. For the next demonstration, we are advised to take cover. “I have high hopes for this one,” Matt Oehrlein, the 30-year-old co-founder of MegaBots, says with a grin. We crouch behind bulletproof plexiglass as a burly…

After the flawless success of last year’s forecast, once again, CBS Sports is ranking all of Division I men’s college basketball in advance of the start of the season. I may be out of my mind. So here it is, an all-encompassing, thoroughly engrossing, undeniably consummate echelon of the sport’s 351 teams, from Air Force to Youngstown State, Duke to …. well, you’ll have to scroll all the way to…

Jesse Hagopian, center, with his son and his son’s fourth-grade teacher in Seattle, Washington, on October 19, 2016. (Courtesy of Jesse Hagopian) For a city with a black population of just 8 percent, Seattle has always had a rich tradition of resistance to racism, stretching from the civil-rights movement to a particularly unique and effective chapter of the Black Panther Party to today’s movement for black lives.1 Ad Policy On…

Hayes perhaps first stole the affections of me and others during last year’s NCAA Tournament when he and several teammates became fascinated with the stenographers attached to the press pool who produce the “rush” transcripts of all postgame commentary. In a challenge to the stenographers’ skill, Hayes started his response to a question about how he’s improved his play by saying, “Well, before I answer that question, I’d like to…

With the 2016 presidential election less than three weeks away, the heat is on for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to make their final push for the White House. With that said, the truck of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Austin Wayne Self will carry the Trump Pence 2016 campaign logo and patriotic colors in Saturday’s Fred’s 250 at Talladega Superspeedway (1 p.m. ET, FOX). Maybe this wrap will…

As the manager of a Premier League soccer club, do you dump your non-British players in anticipation of a “hard Brexit” or do you take your chances with the best foreign talent, hoping for the best, work permit-wise, when the UK eventually quits the European Union? Those are some of the choices confronting players of the best-selling soccer simulation video game Football Manager, which announced yesterday that it had built…

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After the flawless success of last year’s forecast, once again, CBS Sports is ranking all of Division I men’s college basketball in advance of the start of the season. I may be out of my mind. So here it is, an all-encompassing, thoroughly engrossing, undeniably consummate echelon of the sport’s 351 teams, from Air Force to Youngstown State, Duke to …. well, you’ll have to scroll all the way to…

British wrestling is finally returning to mainstream television with a one-off ‘World of Sport’ special on ITV featuring legendary WWE commentator Jim Ross. World of Sport previously aired on the channel every Saturday in the UK between 1965 and 1985, running in competition with BBC’s Grandstand. It featured an array of sports, but was famous for the ring antics of legends like Kendo Nagasaki and the larger-than-life characters Big Daddy…

The New York Jets will name Geno Smith as the team’s starting quarterback for its Week 7 game against the Baltimore Ravens, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Jets are 11–11 with Ryan Fitzpatrick at starting quarterback, including 1–5 this season. He has thrown for 1,441 yards, five touchdowns and 11 interceptions on the year, but the team is apparently ready to turn to Smith after a poor start…