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Although Greg Vaughn hit 17 home runs in 1990, his first full season, the 25-year-old outfielder batted only .220 and then played poorly in training camp the following spring. When the Brewers signed veteran free agent Candy Maldonado and swapped Dave Parker to the California Angels for promising young slugger Dante Bichette, Vaughn appeared to be the odd man out in the Milwaukee outfield. There were reports that he was headed to the minor leagues or was being shopped around for a trade.

In the spirit of gratitude and celebration, beautiful Nigerian actress, Yetunde Bakare, has taken to social media to reveal how she was abandoned by her babydaddy and left alone to take care of their son .Read more.

Crystal Palace are not looking to sell Christian Benteke. Roy Hodgson has dismissed reports of Crystal Palace seeking to sell Christian Benteke and also insisted that they intend to keep Wilfried Zaha. Belgian striker Benteke has struggled throughout a season in which he has only scored twice despite being their club-record signing, contributing to suggestions Palace hope to offload him. Zaha has instead been their most influential player in what increasingly appears likely to be a successful battle against relegation... Читать дальше...

Wycombe Wanderers Accrington Stanley 2:00 PM UTC Game Details Live football odds with bet365. Bet Now » GameCast Lineups and Stats Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth has been handed a triple boost as he prepares to send his side into battle with League Two champions-elect Accrington.Ainsworth expects Adebayo Akinfenwa... Читать дальше...

VERNON HILLS, Ill. — A former suburban Chicago high school soccer coach has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing her of sexually assaulting two male students. Cori Beard of Vernon Hills faces a dozen counts of criminal sexual assault involving the boys. The 28-year-old entered the plea Wednesday in Lake County court. Defense attorney Barry...

Last week I quoted a long dispatch from a Harvard graduate now living in New Haven, on why he thought…

Eintracht Frankfurt beat Schalke in a match not without controversy and will meet Bayern Munich in the DFB Pokal final. Thomas Muller scores three as Bayern Munich hit Leverkusen for six in the DFB Pokal semifinals. The FC crew are split on whether Bayern Munich or Real Madrid is the likelier side to prevail in their Champions League semifinal tie. The FC crew are split on whether Bayern Munich or Real Madrid is the likelier side to prevail in their Champions League semifinal tie. Читать дальше...

It's good to pay attention to anniversaries. Terrorists sure do. And at least it shows they remember history, because not everyone does.

Montero will have a chance to win his second Taca de Portugal.

It’s been an interesting couple weeks for Fredy Montero. The Sporting CP forward was among a group of players who were threatened with suspension after they were eliminated by Atletico Madrid in the Europa League. He was also among the players who publicly pushed back against the plan, which the club president eventually backed off of.

To some degree rewarding the president for changing his mind, Montero scored the winning... Читать дальше...

White evangelicals have more faith in President Trump than ever before.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An effort to prohibit Louisiana public schools from embarrassing or penalizing students because they have unpaid lunch debts won't become state law. The Advocate reports the Senate Education Committee rejected the House-backed bill Thursday, voting 4-2 against it. Rep. Patricia Smith, the Baton Rouge Democrat who sponsored the proposal, says children shouldn't be held responsible or humiliated for debts of parents. Her legislation would have barred schools... Читать дальше...

Guillermo del Toro has signed a multi-year exclusive deal with DreamWorks Animation, the studio announced Thursday. Del Toro will write, produce and direct animated family films for the studio, and as part of the arrangement, he has taken up offices at the Glendale campus. Del Toro’s most recent collaborations with DreamWorks Animation Television was when he created and executive produced the Emmy Award-winning series “Trollhunters.” The series, part of del Toro’s “Tales of Arcadia” trilogy, will... Читать дальше...

The United States has joined media watchdogs in calling on Russian authorities to thoroughly investigate the death of Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin last week.

Flip through the hundreds of exclusive and limited-edition Record Store Day releases available at these Chicago stores Saturday.

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• On Wednesday, Bella Hadid posted two new pictures on Instagram in which her nipples are semi-visible.
• With these photos, Hadid joins a growing list of women who have either tested the limits of or outright defied Instagram's controversial policy on nudity.
• The platform has long maintained a strict ban on content in which women's nipples are clearly visible, despite vocal criticisms of the arguably archaic rule.
• Hadid's nipple-baring... Читать дальше...

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said he received a "great education" during an anti-drug trafficking briefing Thursday that underscored the need for the wall he has promised to build along the U.S.-Mexico border to help stop drug smuggling. "Drugs are flowing into our country," Trump said in the Florida Keys. "We need border protection. We need the wall. We have to have the wall." The president traveled from Palm Beach, where he is spending the week, to the tourist haven of Key West... Читать дальше...

The organization representing more than 15,000 striking nurses in Zimbabwe vowed a legal battle unless the government reverses its order to fire strikers from state-run hospitals. "We are forced to approach the courts to intervene," Enoch Dongo, secretary general of the Zimbabwe Nurses Association, said Thursday. Nurses went on strike Monday to demand better pay, better equipment for medical facilities and a bigger budget for the country's fragile health sector. Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino... Читать дальше...

Employees of the Russian Foreign Ministry are being evacuated from the building in the center of Moscow after an anonymous phone call alleging a threat of explosion.

Ah, the highs and lows we’ve already experienced in a mere few weeks of baseball action. So many players to be optimistic about, yet so many to be worried about. It’s still early, but I’m having trouble keeping myself from daydreaming about how a full season of numbers from my deep-league, off-to-a-great-start guys that I managed to draft late or on the cheap would look on my teams. For me, this group includes Nick Pivetta, Rick Porcello, Tim Anderson, and early-frontrunner-to-be-my-2018-imaginary-fantasy-baseball-boyfriend Josh Hader. Читать дальше...

The number of undocumented people taking refuge in places of worship across the United States has increased six-fold in the past 15 months. Nationwide, there are now at least 42 people trying to avoid deportation by living in sanctuary in 28 U.S. cities.  “We didn't see the numbers go up until after the [presidential] elections … when it was like seven people. Now you have over 40 people that are currently taking sanctuary,” Myrna Orozco, an associate with the Church World Service's Immigration and Refugee Program, told VOA. Читать дальше...

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• Each week on Business Insider's podcast "Success! How I Did It," I ask leaders to explain the lessons they learned from their most significant achievements and failures.
• These leaders range from the CEO of Vimeo to the president of Planned Parenthood to a NASA astronaut.
• I ask them to share a single piece of advice or insight they find especially significant.

Since taking over as host of Business Insider's podcast "Success! Читать дальше...

The final season of “Scandal” returns from its midseason hiatus on Thursday and Gladiators are sure to be excited to have a new episode to dissect on Twitter. Of course, the cast knows exactly what’s going to happen, and are just as excited to tweet about it with their fans on show night. After all, “Scandal” star Tony Goldwyn credits Kerry Washington with pretty much inventing the concept. TheWrap asked Goldwyn, who plays Fitz on the Shonda Rhimes series, about the “Scandal” gang’s obsession with... Читать дальше...