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The San Diego Padres made a series of stunning offseason acquisitions, including trades for Matt Kemp, Craig Kimbrel, Wil Myers and Justin Upton and the free-agent signing of starter James Shields. But one under-the-radar minor-league contract might be the team’s best move of all. At the O.C. Register, Steve Bisheff shares the sad story of…
At the American Copy Editors Society’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh today, updates to and new entries in the 2015 Associated Press Stylebook are being revealed. This news will not affect you at all. But I think it’s interesting, so go to hell. Tons of newspapers, magazines, and websites rely on the 62-year-old AP Stylebook. It’s…
Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY Sports Last week, the Disney Channel announced that it would be making a Mo’ne Davis movie called Throw Like Mo. This is awesome, because Mo’ne Davis is awesome. Some people don’t agree, however. That’s fine; you can not agree. But maybe don’t tweet about it. Especially not in an offensive manner and not…
Ashley Judd, like so many women on the Internet, has faced extreme harassment online. But over the weekend, the actress — who happens to be a well-known University of Kentucky Wildcats fan — was the victim of an even more radical brand of trolling than usual, because she dared to tweet about sports. On Sunday,…
(Nick Wass/Associated Press) The way George Mason’s 2014-15 season has transpired, it takes a hearty soul to spend two hours at Patriot Center. And Saturday’s snowstorm further dampened any lingering enthusiasm to see the struggling Patriots face Atlantic 10 co-leader Rhode Island. As a result, the players’ chatter and Coach Paul Hewitt’s objections about the…
A bunch of 12-year-old kids had their hearts broken this week. Jackie Robinson West, a team from Chicago’s South Side, won the U.S. title at the 2014 Little League World Series. They achieved their dream in dramatic fashion. I remember watching their pitcher give up the go-ahead homer against Nevada in the title game and…
A year ago, I wrote a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer about female runner harassment. I didn’t offer safety tips. Instead, I called for us to take the blame off women who were harassed and hoisting it on to the people doing the harassing. To prove that point, I wrote about what had happened to me…
(John McDonnell/The Washington Post) Jake McLernon began his undergraduate career at George Mason in 2008, two years after the men’s basketball team’s Cinderella run to the Final Four. On Wednesday, McLernon, who earned a Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Film and Video Studies in December, released his capstone project, “8 Years Past Midnight,”…
Nobody who lives in Boston actually wants the city to win its bid for the 2024 Olympic games. And yet, in a joinder agreement between the city and the United States Olympic Committee, mayor Marty Walsh has signed a contract that forbids city employees from speaking negatively about the big, the IOC, or the Olympic…
main NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Super Bowl tickets are cheaper than they were last year. You can thank the Patriots for that. On average, tickets were selling for $2,879 on Monday, according to SeatGeek, a search engine that tracks online sales. That’s down 20% compared to the same day last year. And it’s actually 18% cheaper…