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A 90 percent blockage in the axillary artery in his shoulder essentially ended his career. McCullers Sr. was 26 years old and had pitched 301 games for San Diego, the Yankees and Detroit. He would pitch just five more, all before his first son was born. He was out of the game by 1996, when the Yankees opened a spring training ballpark near the family’s home in Tampa, Fla. McCullers…

Sunday night was quiet around the baseball world in anticipation of the World Series, but it was also quietly the end of a small era connected to the sport’s history. Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, which was previously home to the Nationals and the second iteration of the Washington Senators, bid farewell to its last tenant, Major League Soccer’s D.C. United club. We’re not crying, you’re crying. #LastCallatRFK | #DCU pic.twitter.com/ttsnFxQ071…

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has gone to great lengths in recent weeks to ensure his voice was heard publicly about his displeasure over any NFL player not standing for the national anthem, and while he slipped out of last week’s owner’s meetings in New York without speaking to the media, league sources said he was quite vocal during Wednesday’s session. Jones was the only owner to rail against the handful…

Apparently the Astros are immune to the Sports Illustrated curse. Three years before Houston won the AL pennant with a Game 7 win over the Yankees, SI predicted it would win the World Series in 2017. Sports Illustrated The cover story was on the Astros’ innovative front office, led by GM Jeff Luhnow, which had been stacking championship pieces like George Springer, Collin McHugh and Dallas Keuchel. At the time,…

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Houston’s Carlos Correa doesn’t want to go to L.A. and lose a second time 20 hours ago

The Furniture Row Racing team will be mourning the loss of a team member at Kansas Speedway Sunday. The team announced Sunday morning that James “Jim” Watson, a road-crew fabricator for Furniture Row Racing’s NASCAR Cup Series teams, passed away Saturday night at the age of 55 after suffering a heart attack. In the press release announcing the passing, the team said that Watson, a native of Greenfield,…

When Dale Earnhardt Jr. straps into his No. 88 Hendrick Chevrolet for the 627th time of his career on Sunday, it will be his last start at Kansas Speedway. Before the season Earnhardt announced his plans to retire from Cup racing at the conclusion of the 2017 season ending his 19-year career in NASCAR’s top series. While he has never won a Monster Energy Series Cup championship over his career,…

A 90 percent blockage in the axillary artery in his shoulder essentially ended his career. McCullers Sr. was 26 years old and had pitched 301 games for San Diego, the Yankees and Detroit. He would pitch just five more, all before his first son was born. He was out of the game by 1996, when the Yankees opened a spring training ballpark near the family’s home in Tampa, Fla. McCullers…

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has gone to great lengths in recent weeks to ensure his voice was heard publicly about his displeasure over any NFL player not standing for the national anthem, and while he slipped out of last week’s owner’s meetings in New York without speaking to the media, league sources said he was quite vocal during Wednesday’s session. Jones was the only owner to rail against the handful…

Houston’s Carlos Correa doesn’t want to go to L.A. and lose a second time 15 hours ago

With Week 8 in the books, it’s time to look back at the players who made the biggest differences in key games. Two of our selections this week had huge nights running the ball. Our national selection scored three touchdowns in a pivotal win to push his team into the playoff hunt, while our SEC selection had his best performance of the season. Meanwhile, our Freshman of the Week selection…

Whether they’re doing it for health, camaraderie, an activity that’s easy on the joints or simply to get outside, more older people than ever are turning to biking. In fact, recreational cycling among Americans over 50 jumped 62 percent between 2001 and 2009 and continues to climb, according to the latest statistics available from the National Household Travel Survey, conducted by the…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — James “Jim” Watson, a road-crew fabricator for Furniture Row Racing’s NASCAR Cup Series teams, passed away Saturday night at the age of 55 after suffering a heart attack. A native of Greenfield, Wisconsin (near Milwaukee), Jim had been a member of Furniture Row Racing since February 2017. He worked for Roush Fenway Racing from 2006-2015 and spent last season with HScott Motorsports. Jim was a longtime race car…

KABUL — The lights beamed on inside the Afghan Football Federation soccer stadium and 5,000 people, drawn to a spectacle unheard of for nearly four decades, came out to see. Security in Afghanistan’s capital is tenuous, proved earlier in the week by several attempted suicide bomb attacks around the city while, elsewhere in the country, dozens of Afghan police and soldiers had been killed by Taliban fighters in one of…

Guram Kashia with LGBT captain’s armband for Vitesse. I know its team decision more than a choice, but would’ve not imagined in past. Kudos pic.twitter.com/UNhsTeeRfr — Mac’Andrews (@MacAndrews) October 16, 2017 The rainbow-colored captain’s armband that SBV Vitesse star Guram Kashia wore last week was designed to call for unity among Dutch soccer fans. In Georgia, the small country located some 2,300 miles away from the Netherlands, that simple strip of…

Houston’s Carlos Correa doesn’t want to go to L.A. and lose a second time 9 hours ago

There will be a celebration Friday night in Port Allen. It’s not for things present, but to remember the glory of days past, and to pray sprigs of hope grow into something resembling those grand memories of now long-ago days. That’s not too much to expect from Friday’s Quail Forever afternoon and evening at the newly refurbished and newly named Bridgeview Gun Club (the old Hunters’…

The Bills‘ efforts to reshape their roster around players they expect to be there for the long haul — which includes trading recent top picks like Sammy Watkins and Ronald Darby — also included attempts to move highly-paid defensive tackle Marcell Dareus, league sources said, to no avail. Dareus, who drew the ire (rightfully so) of the new regime of coach Sean McDermott and general manager Brandon Beane for arriving late…