Want real change, MLB? Bring the designated hitter to the National League. Stop trying to unnecessarily speed things up, and pull the trigger on the one change that could actually make games more entertaining. Besides that, it’s time. It’s time. It’s time. It’s time. MORE: Baseball’s great for multitasking, so pace of play is just fine Apart from the obvious benefit of having the American and National leagues play under the same set of rules for the first time since the 1972 season, a unified DH policy would have other positives....

Having held a 3-0 first leg lead, the forward’s goal was all the visitors required to advance on away goals despite the Scottish outfit comeback win at Petershill Park. The 20-year-old got her side the vital away goal in the 19th minute before her Kazakhstan side bowed to Abbi Grant’s hat-trick and Noelle Murray’s strike. It was the former Falconets star’s third goal in five matches of the competition since her strike led them to the round of 32 last year, and now the result will see them feature in the last 16....

The award, which is designed to recognise the long-standing achievements of players in terms of both their skills and personality, has been presented since 2003, when Roberto Baggio, then of Brescia, picked up the prize. Winners, who must be at least 28 and still playing, have the honour of leaving a permanent footprint - or in Casillas’ case handprint - on Monaco’s ‘Champions Promenade’ along the seafront. Reacting to his win, which came about after he was voted for by fans after being placed on a shortlist by journalists, Casillas tweeted: “Very happy with the #GoldenFoot2017....

It has become an annual tradition of the Orange Krush to go on the road and invade an opposing team's arena. They travel 150 strong, purchase tickets allocated to the home team, and attend the game disguised as supporters of the home team, only to reveal themselves in entertaining fashion. On Saturday, the Penn State website Onward State got word that the Orange Krush would be invading their home turf during the Sunday afternoon game at the Bryce Jordan Center....

The giant space rock—known as (52768) 1998 OR2—is the biggest asteroid to make a close approach to Earth in 2020, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS.) Data from the CNEOS indicates that the object could measure anywhere between 1.1 and just over 2.6 miles in diameter, based on its observed magnitude. The asteroid will make its close approach on April 29 at 9:56 a.m. Universal Time (5:56 a....

Although children 12 through 15 are just starting to be vaccinated across the nation, the sharp drop off in adult vaccination rates in some states worries public health experts. “There are hesitant pockets,” Kathleen Jordan, MD, infectious disease specialist and senior vice president of medical affairs at Tia Clinic, tells Verywell. “What is it that can get this population on board? Being unvaccinated is a risk to them personally because herd immunity doesn’t exist right now....

And, no, he would not be playing an All-Pro NFL running back. A committed Christian whose mother was a preacher, Tomlinson was offered the part of Pastor Williams by a friend who was an executive producer on the project. Pastor Williams is the leader of a church in a Kentucky military town whose choir director loses her husband — and then her faith — as a result of the enduring war in Afghanistan....

There was little reason for fans to be there on a night like that, but the announced attendance was well over 35,000. Even knowing that realistically there were quite a few who bought tickets and just didn’t come, that’s a remarkably large number of people who committed to spending a few hours in the cold to watch baseball. In a time when our attention is increasingly divided and algorithmed to death, and when large, high-definition TVs lure at home or at a sports bar, what are thousands of people still doing at a ballpark?...

— Play under the franchise tag, in exchange for about $12.1 million. — Don’t play at all, don’t get paid at all, then possibly go through the same dance next year. According to the NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero and Ian Rappaport, Bell was offered a five-year contract averaging more than $12 million annually, with the first three years averaging out to more than $14 million. The amount of the guaranteed signing bonus presented to him remains unknown — the Steelers traditionally guarantee only the signing bonus in contracts — but teammate Antonio Brown received a $19 million bonus when he accepted a four-year, $68 million extension on his contract prior to last season....

In the wake of Craig’s arrest, opinions about the senator are divided and often inflamed in his home state. With his third Senate term coming to a close, Craig reiterated Tuesday that he would decide whether to seek re-election by next month. Already, national Republicans appear to be abandoning him in droves. Party leaders in Washington called for an Ethics Committee review of his case, four GOP lawmakers (and counting) have called on him to resign and presidential candidate Mitt Romney—for whose campaign Craig served as a Senate liaison—severed ties to him....

“About two-thirds of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur in gay and bisexual men, which represents one of the largest disparities in existent public health,” Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention, said in a Tuesday CDC medical briefing about the report. Gay and bi men accounted for 66 percent of all new HIV infections in 2019. Despite that, the number of new HIV infections among gay and bi men actually decreased by 8 percent over the last decade, according to a newly released CDC Vital Signs report, which dives deeply into issues surrounding a single disease....

So far this cycle, Barack Obama’s political opponents have called him a lot of things: Muslim, elitist, unpatriotic and–least flattering of all–“Barry.” But during today’s John McCain townhall in the Sheraton’s Royal Poinciana Ballroom here in sunny Miami, a middle-aged Cuban-American woman–“trained,” she said, “as a psychologist”–stood up and compared Obama to (ahem) Cuba’s retired Communist dictator Fidel Castro. “I’m seeing the same dreamy-eyed look as I saw among the Cuban youth 50 years ago, unquestioning all of the things that Senator Obama is saying and isn’t saying,” she said....

It wasn’t so long ago that everyone in Muthare lived together in peace. Now Kenya is a nation divided along tribal lines. In the last week, some 300 people have been killed and 100,000 left homeless in a country that has been long considered a model of stability in violence-ridden East Africa. Many homes, shops and churches have been burned to the ground with crude Molotov cocktails made from Coke bottles....

Scrolling through Twitter, I felt the tangible rage of my fellow reproductive justice colleagues and thought about all the people (read: men) who told us for years that abortion would never be taken away from American women, and we were all just being “hysterical.” The irony of being dismissed because of alleged hysteria is not lost on me. In fact, it’s the core argument of my book, The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women, in which I urge women to redefine the term....

Harris, who was the first Black American, South Asian American and woman to be Vice President, entered the House chamber on Wednesday to applause before quickly taking the hand of the waiting Pelosi and then elbow-bumping her. House Speaker Pelosi is no stranger to breaking the glass ceiling, becoming in 2007 the first woman to sit on the same dais as a president, when former President George W. Bush addressed Congress....

To walk into an opera house is to defy both the hyperelitist strictures of Samuel Beckett (who called it “a hideous corruption” of music because it imposed the specificity of language on an abstract and “immaterial” flow of notes) and the Bronx cheers of Bugs Bunny (nobody who’s ever seen “What’s Opera, Doc?” will ever get rid of the image of Bugs with Brunnhilde’s braids). And last week it felt particularly distracting to walk across the plaza of Manhattan’s Lincoln Center and toward the Metropolitan Opera....

Here’s a comprehensive USA Today article on the mental health needs of women veterans: The overarching theme of the piece shows an increasing awareness of gender-specific issues women face both in the combat zone and on the home front. A look at the numbers presented: –More than 182,000 women have been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, or surrounding regions–about 11 percent of U.S. troops who have served there. –7,500 women (mostly nurses) served in Vietnam; 41,000 women deployed during the Gulf War....

“No one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment,” Hochul said in her first public appearance as the soon-to-be top official in the state. Hochul will officially become governor in 13 days when Cuomo’s resignation becomes effective. She will be the first woman to hold the position in the Empire State’s history and will serve out the remainder of Cuomo’s term, which expires in 2023. Cuomo praised his second-in-command as “smart and competent” in his resignation speech on Tuesday....

The Biden administration has already set ambitious goals for electrification, pursuing a half a million EV charging stations nationwide by 2030 despite having only a little over 50,000 currently installed. And while the federal government has allocated more than $7.5 billion to expand EV charging infrastructure, public investment and expansion alone just won’t cover the estimated $15 billion it will take to reach the president’s target. In order to best bridge this rather overwhelming gap, it is imperative that the U....

Umeclidinium is in the anticholinergic drug class. Anticholinergics relax the muscles in the lungs to help expand the airways. Allergens or irritants can cause receptors called muscarinic M3 receptors to turn on in the brain and release acetylcholine, a chemical found throughout the nervous system. Acetylcholine attaches to the muscarinic M3 receptors on multiple airways in the lungs, shrinking the airways and making it harder to breathe. Incruse Ellipta’s main job is to block acetylcholine from attaching to the muscarinic M3 receptors....