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What has the sitcom done for his English proficiency? “It’s near perfect,” said Flores’s teammate, Jerry Blevins, who is from Tennessee. “When he doesn’t know something, it’s surprising.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Flores, Peralta and Galvis built a rudimentary command of English in school in Venezuela. “But I always got bad grades because I didn’t like that way of learning,” Galvis said. Gonzalez, who was surrounded by Spanish,…

The focus of the baseball world over the previous two months of the season has been on two teams: the Dodgers, first as the second coming of the 1927 Yankees and then as the reincarnation of the 2003 Tigers; and the Indians, who spent three weeks laying waste to the league around them amid their 22-game win streak. Lost in the shuffle was the team that first laid claim to…

Former Los Angeles Dodgers catcher, Steve Yeager, visited with some baseball fans on Sunday at the Congregation Beth Shalom in Canyon Country. Over 50 fans were welcome to a meet and greet with the world champion, taking photos and asking very specific baseball questions about the Dodger’s during Yeager’s time. “We asked if we could do something to help the kids in the neighborhood….

If you are a sports fan on Twitter, you might have already seen it: Over the last 72 hours a number of prominent African-American sports journalists have changed their avatars to the face of Jemele Hill. It is, they say, their way of showing support for the ESPN commentator and her First Amendment rights. CSN New England Celtics reporter A. Sherrod Blakely, the Chair of the National Association of Black…

Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15 NFL games played so far have been settled by fewer than nine points, and of those…

Sanctuary City? I’d settle for a cot. Perhaps you saw that video, last week. At the London weigh-in for Saturday’s middleweight fight between champ Billy Joe Saunders and Willie Monroe, the boxers were muscle-posing for the cameras when Saunders’ son, roughly 8 years old, wandered in front of Monroe. Smiling, Monroe reached down to make nice, to greet the kid with a pat on his head, when the kid, also…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemson moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, jumping Oklahoma and closing in on Alabama after beating a team ranked in the Top 15 for the second straight week. The Tigers received 15 first-place votes, the most the defending national champions have received this season, and 1,446 points after beating Louisville 47-21 on the road. Alabama remains No. 1 with 45 first-place votes…

Bobby “The Brain” Heenan has died at the age of 73, according to a tweet by wrestling announcer Jim Ross. “The news of Bobby “The Brain” Heenan’s passing today gutted me,” Ross wrote on Twitter. “I loved our time together. No one ever did it better than the Wease.” The WWE confirmed Hennan’s death and issued the following statement: “WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Bobby Heenan, regarded…

Martin Truex Jr. may have won the first race of the NASCAR playoffs at Chicagoland on Sunday, but there are other implications from the results, too. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s race: 1. Truex still the man to beat Truex struggled at the start, as a pit road penalty meant he finished Stage 1 in 10th place. But as has been the case all season, Truex Jr….

Put sports, and athletes, at the forefront Photo Subway stations were decorated to celebrate the successful bid. Credit Lionel Bonaventure/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images After the failed 2012 Paris bid was deemed too political, the word went out that French athletes should take the lead for the 2024 campaign. “The main conclusion was that you had to put sports much more at the center of the bid,” said Mike Lee,…

Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15 NFL games played so far have been settled by fewer than nine points, and of those…

reader comments 41 We usually pay for our own travel expenses, but in this case Audi provided flights to New York City and two nights’ accommodation. While we have paused all sponsored travel opportunities at this time, this event took place in July before that moratorium began. SALISBURY, Conn.—Success on the racetrack doesn’t sell cars like it used to. That said, plenty of car companies still go racing. And it’s…

Sep 16, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment JOLIET, Ill. — Martin Truex Jr. had a choice just 42 laps into the 2016 playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway. As he coasted into the garage with a blown engine, he knew he still had a chance to make it into the semifinal round. He would have needed several other playoff drivers to drop out with issues or a…

The Major League Soccer single-game attendance record has been broken by a team in its first season. Atlanta United attracted 70,425 to the $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Saturday’s 3-3 draw with Orlando City. It was the best attended domestic game in the United States since the New York Cosmos sold over 77,000 tickets for a North American Soccer League playoff game at Giants Stadium in 1977. “It’s incredible,” MLS…

NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities have identified the second person killed in a Connecticut plane crash that claimed the life of NASCAR modified champion racer Ted Christopher. Police said Sunday that 81-year-old Charles Dundas, a resident of New York and Florida, was killed in the Saturday crash in woods near North Branford. Federal officials say the plane had left Plainville’s Robertson Airport headed for Long Island. Dundas and the…

reader comments 25 We usually pay for our own travel expenses, but in this case Audi provided flights to New York City and two nights’ accommodation. While we have paused all sponsored travel opportunities at this time, this event took place in July before that moratorium began. SALISBURY, Conn.—Success on the racetrack doesn’t sell cars like it used to. That said, plenty of car companies still go racing. And it’s…

Dean Blandino: Joey Bosa’s hair-pull tackle on Jay Ajayi is legal 15 mins ago

To the editor: Los Angeles did not win the bidding for the 2028 Summer Olympics; it lost the bidding for 2024. With all the other cities realizing fiscal prudence and withdrawing their bids, the International Olympic Committee was scared that no city would be foolish enough to bid for 2028. (“LA 2028 delegation returns from Peru, outlines next steps for 2028 Games,” Sept. 15) To make matters worse, the IOC…

Shane Miller sees a lot of kids come through his office with concussions. Miller is a pediatric sports medicine specialist at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, and in the past few years, he started noticing something that worried him. “We started to see a trend of athletes reporting to us that that they had continued to play in their particular sport after sustaining a concussion,” he says. “We wanted…

Modified championship racer Ted Christopher was one of two people killed when a small plane crashed in the woods in Connecticut on Saturday, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that two people were aboard a Mooney M20C plane that went down near the North Branford-Guilford border shortly before 2 p.m.  Brian France, NASCAR chairman and CEO, said Christopher, 59, and the plane’s pilot both died. A witness…