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Oshkosh — It’s been a while since Ruth McKone went for a bike ride. The retired school secretary figures it was about seven decades ago. But last week McKone, 94, tooled around Oshkosh sitting beside her neighbor, 90-year-old Dorothy Youngwirth, while a volunteer pilot pumped the pedals of a bicycle rickshaw. The Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh residents giggled and chatted as the wind whipped through their hair, waving…

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Sez Me … If Cole Porter wasn’t our greatest songwriter/lyricist, he was leaning at the treble clef. But being somewhat of an elitist snob and café society denizen, he probably didn’t have baseball in mind when he came up with “Don’t Fence Me In.” If he were writing it today, it would be something like “Please Fence Me Out.” I always have marveled how more fans sitting close to the…

Fresno City College baseball player Deondre Howard was killed in a shooting early Saturday morning in northwest Fresno. Howard, 21, was outside the home of a family member in the 4600 block of North Charles Avenue around 1:26 a.m. when he and his 16-year-old brother were approached by a black male who began shooting at them, Fresno police said. Howard and his brother were shot at the scene. Both were…

Kevin G. Gilbert/Chief Photographer Waynesborofest Spectators watch action on the basepaths Saturday in an 1860s-style baseball game. The event was a part of Waynesborofest. Kevin G. Gilbert/Chief Photographer Waynesborofest Shirley Ketrow of Hagerstown traveled to Waynesboro to observe an 1860s-style baseball game Saturday. The event was a part of Waynesborofest. Kevin G. Gilbert/Chief Photographer Waynesborofest Ben Pauwels of the Potomac Nine of Washington fields a bouncing groundball Saturday in an…

Usain Bolt completed the gold medal treble in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter run and 4×100-meter relay for the fifth time in his career as the Jamaican sprints squad finished in 37.36 seconds for gold at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing on Saturday. Bolt and Jamaica have won every global championship gold medal since the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bolt has won individual gold medals in the men’s 100-meters and 200-meters…

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series will race at Road America for the sixth consecutive year with Saturday’s Road America 180 Fired Up by Johnsonville. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Steve Johnson, vice president of Manufacturing Johnsonville will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 3:08 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is scheduled for 45 laps (182.16 miles) around the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road…

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The NASCAR Xfinity Series will race at Road America for the sixth consecutive year with Saturday’s Road America 180 Fired Up by Johnsonville. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Steve Johnson, vice president of Manufacturing Johnsonville will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 3:08 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is scheduled for 45 laps (182.16 miles) around the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road…

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

MORE HEYMAN >>> RANKING THE TOP 30 MLB DEALS OF 2015 With all their great young position stars, reasonable payroll and sky-high revenue, perhaps no one is more well-positioned for the future than the Cubs. But guess what? They are doing a lot better now than anyone could have imagined, very likely including them. The Cubs are 73-53, and while that’s the fourth-best record in baseball, it’s only the third-best…

Ryan Rhoads, who drove a Tacoma youth baseball league into a financial swamp, apologized in court Friday to those he’d harmed — but it wasn’t enough to keep him out of jail. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Jack Nevin sentenced Rhoads, 43, to six months in jail. The sentence came after Rhoads pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree theft and three counts of issuing bad checks. “I want to…

BASEBALL LOS ANGELES (AP) Vin Scully will be back for a record 67th season in the broadcast booth for the Dodgers, who revealed the news in the second inning of their game against the Chicago Cubs. Magic Johnson, a co-owner of the team, appeared on the Dodger Stadium video board to tell the crowd that Jimmy Kimmel had a major announcement. Late-night TV host Kimmel appeared and without a sound…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United will offer Real Madrid £65m plus goalkeeper David De Gea, 24, in exchange for Gareth Bale in a last-ditch bid to lure the 26-year-old Wales forward to Old Trafford. (Daily Star)  Chelsea will have to break the British transfer record and pay £72m to sign France…

Few days pass in which Blues broadcaster John Kelly isn’t reminded by fans about the role his father, Dan Kelly, played in them becoming attached to the organization. Dan Kelly arrived in St. Louis in 1968, at the start of the club’s second season in the NHL, and for the next two decades called every highlight: Red Berenson’s six-goal game, two Stanley Cup finals, the Monday Night Miracle and every…

MORE HEYMAN >>> RANKING THE TOP 30 MLB DEALS OF 2015 With all their great young position stars, reasonable payroll and sky-high revenue, perhaps no one is more well-positioned for the future than the Cubs. But guess what? They are doing a lot better now than anyone could have imagined, very likely including them. The Cubs are 73-53, and while that’s the fourth-best record in baseball, it’s only the third-best…