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Between Noah Syndergaard and Drew Gagnon on Friday night, the Mets played “Game of Flush it Down the Throne.” What could have been a celebratory night, with five home runs blasted by the Mets and resilience on display after Syndergaard buried them in an early hole, turned into disaster against the lowly Tigers. Gagnon’s implosion in the seventh inning all […]
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EVERYONE looks forward to the influx of bank holidays that arrive around Easter and May each year and 2019 is no different. But what exactly is May Day and when is our early long weekend? What is May Day and when is the UK bank holiday? May Day is a holiday celebrated on May 1 and is a day that […]
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As zoology student Helen Housby prepares for next Sunday’s Sydney derby between her NSW Swifts and the Giants, she knows the law of the jungle she’s read about in her university textbooks could quite easily be applied to Super Netball. The English superstar, who famously broke Australian hearts when her late goal won England the 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medal, […]
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It’s not just the fans’ eyes that are hurting during the start to this Red Sox season. Boston is entering Sunday’s game in Arizona at 2-8, winless its past three games and now without utilityman Brock Holt and lefty Brian Johnson, who were placed on the 10-day IL on Sunday. Johnson has put up a 12.71 ERA in four appearances, […]
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President Trump has said the US will “devastate Turkey economically” if Ankara decides to attack Kurdish groups in Syria. Mr Trump was referring to his plan to pull US forces out of Syria, where they have been fighting alongside a Kurdish militia against the group calling itself Islamic State (IS). Turkey regards the Kurdish group as terrorists. The US president’s […]
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New York Yankees’ Luke Voit hits a three-run homer during the first inning of an Opening Day baseball game Thursday against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium in New York. (Associated Press) New York Yankees designated hitter Luke Voit got off to an explosive start on Opening Day in the Bronx on Thursday, blasting a three-run homer his first at-bat. But […]
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THE world-famous Oxford vs Cambridge boat race has been an annual event since 1856, watched by the whole nation. Only the first and second world wars have prevented the two rivals going head-to-head down the River Thames – here's all you need to know about the history of the race with the 159th duel approaching. What is the history of […]
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Imperfect but still promising. That’s been the takeaway so far from observers noting the results of Apple’s massive study of irregular heartbeat, an analysis in which more than 419,000 Apple Watch users participated — and which detected signs of an irregular heartbeat, the kind of thing that could eventually lead to a stroke, in around 2,100 of those participants. Apple […]
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Idris Elba is at the top of his game these days. He’s an award-winning actor, a celebrity DJ and People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” — what else could he want? According to the 46-year-old British hunk, it’s not enough. “I want to be Donald Glover,” Elba told The Hollywood Reporter in a new interview. “He’s the man. He literally does it […]
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The Situation is making the best of an awful situation. According to Mrs. The Situation, that is. In the two days since Mike Sorrentino reported to prison – to begin an eight-month sentence after pleading guilty to tax evasion – the veteran Jersey Shore star has received an outpouring of support. So says his wife, Lauren, in a status update […]
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