Author: Emily Turner

Among the 25 World Series champions since 2000, how did the 2017 Astros land in this spot? It’s difficult to overstate how much the Astros lost before 2017. From 2011 through 2013, they lost 106, 107 and 111 games, then still dropped 92 in 2014. As those draft picks selected during those terrible seasons started to make it to the bigs, though, Houston’s fortunes changed: in 2015, they made the postseason for the first time since 2005, and then in 2017 they won 101 games and found themselves in the World Series against the 104-win Dodgers. Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George…

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Among the 25 World Series champions since 2000, how did the 2013 Red Sox land in this spot? The 2013 Red Sox were Ben Cherington’s first team as general manager. Not in the sense of it was the first year that he was Boston’s GM, but in that he had full control over who would even be part of the roster. The massive disappointments and payroll of 2011 and 2012, leftover from the Theo Epstein era, were no more once Cherington shipped a quarter-billion in future contracts to the Dodgers in August of 2012, freeing him up to bring in Mike…

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We are approaching the halfway mark of the NFL season, and we’re coming off a weekend that didn’t see too many upsets. The Bengals won Thursday night as 5-point underdogs against the Steelers, but all the heavily favored teams took care of business on Sunday with outright wins. What does this weekend have in store for us? Let’s take a look at a couple of potential upsets, one in college football and one in the NFL.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about Sports Betting on…

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Google AI Studio has gotten a giant vibe coding improve with a brand new interface, buttons, solutions and group options that permit anybody with an concept for an app — even full novices, laypeople, or non-developers like yours really — to carry it into existence and deploy it stay, on the internet, for anybody to make use of, inside minutes.The up to date Construct tab is offered now at ai.studio/build, and it’s free to start out. Customers can experiment with constructing purposes with no need to enter fee info upfront, although sure superior options like Veo 3.1 and Cloud Run…

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With the delicate ceasefire nonetheless holding, Gazans attempt to rebuild after two years of steady bombing. On the identical time, concern grows relating to the delicate US-brokered peace deal, following a flare f stress between Israel and Hamas. Stated issues have prompted a go to from US Vice President JD Vance.

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Among the 25 World Series champions since 2000, how did the 2002 Angels land in this spot? It’s easy to dismiss the excellence of the 2002 Angels based on their top two players. Darin Erstad hit just .283/.313/.389 at a time when the “Moneyball” Athletics were praised for a focus on on-base percentage. David Eckstein, all 5-foot-6 of him, hit just 8 homers in 2002: 26 players hit at least 30 that season, including Angels’ leader Troy Glaus. Power and patience were the rules of the day, but the Angels were built differently. Erstad was not an offensive force: he was…

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Nigerian-Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga selected a very poetic title for her newest exhibition on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in Paris: “I Dreamt of You in Colors.” This marks her largest present thus far in France. Otobong joins us to speak about how residing entities are in fixed dialogue with the surroundings in her multi-media installations, and why “bling” means a lot greater than the glint of low-cost jewellery in her art work. The award-winning sculptor additionally discusses how stone, textiles and even her personal voice might be formed to inform a narrative, and we talk about the seminal artworks…

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