And many who witnessed the two talking immediately thought back to that surreal moment during spring training camp in 1991 when Leyland chewed out Bonds in a profanity-filled tirade that has since become a hit on YouTube. First, ESPN’s Katie Strang caught the heartwarming moment of Sunday’s reunion. We are guessing that the topic of conversation did not include that epic 1991 rant, when Leyland ripped into the reigning NL MVP for what he called a lack of effort....

“I hope that people hear what is happening to our community,” Munn said during an MSNBC interview on Saturday. “I hope that they understand that. Right now there is an astronomical rise in hate crimes against the Asian community and that we need help to feel safe in our country we need help to be safe in our country and we need people to to amplify, what’s happening to us....

Kara Goucher is a distance runner who competed for Team USA at both the 2008 Beijing Summer Games and then again at the 2012 London Games—in different events. In Beijing, she ran the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races, finishing ninth and 10th overall, respectively. In 2012, she competed in the marathon, finishing 11th overall. In other words, she knows the importance of endurance and breathing. Just more than a week ago, Goucher tweeted that the grandfather that raised her after her father died had been tested positive for the coronavirus....

Hundreds were bussed in to the Eppley Airfield site, leaving their cars in parking lots, but were left wandering up to four miles in the cold after coaches failed to pick them up. “President Trump took off in Air Force One 1 hr 20 minutes ago, but thousands of his supporters remain stranded on a dark road outside the rally,” CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny tweeted at 10:21 p.m. CDT....

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that Delta, which has been the dominant variant in the country for several months, now accounts for just 26.6 percent of new cases. Omicron’s rise has been rapid. In the U.S., the variant is thought to have been around since the middle of November after the first U.S. case was confirmed in a Californian man on December 1. He had returned to the country from South Africa on November 22....

United enjoyed utter domination in the opening 20 minutes with 82% possession, taking eight shots on goal and completing 220 passes in comparison to Omonia’s 51. Yet for all their pressure in and around Omonia’s box they couldn’t find the back of the net with Ronaldo and Antony both coming the closest to scoring in the opening 45, only for goalkeeper Fabinho to deny them with impressive saves. Tyrell Malacia was taken off at half-time in the 6-3 defeat to Manchester City at the weekend and suffered the same fate tonight after he lost the ball in Omonia’s half that led to a brilliant counter-attacking goal from the home side....

A number of big names and faces won’t be returning with it, however — some of them not for opening weekend, some of them not for the 2014 season, and a handful never again (unless they follow the Brett Favre retirement blueprint). So before the action starts, pour a little out in tribute to these absent players: Suspended Ray Rice, RB, Ravens: Two games, for domestic violence charges involving his then-fiance in February in Atlantic City....

Most baseball people will tell you that it’s best not to bank on results you see during the seemingly endless six-week slag in Florida and Arizona. No matter how good a player looks, he’s probably not that good. No matter how bad a player looks, he’s probably not that bad. Hence the old baseball adage: Never trust what you see in March or September. MORE: Opening Day schedule for all 30 teams...

For Westerners, this was long terra incognita, hidden behind the Iron Curtain. When the borders opened in 1989, visitors largely stayed away. Hotels were lousy, roads poor and the food largely inedible. Restitution wrangles and other post-communist legal hassles all but paralyzed the housing market. But over the past decade, all that’s changed–most visibly along the newly discovered Baltic coast. On the German islands of Rügen and Usedom, immaculately restored 19th-century villas line the beaches like pearls on a string....

On the whole, it still beat the heck out of being on the midterm campaign trail. Like many of his predecessors, Clinton found in even the most arduous foreign travel a welcome respite from the assaults and indignities of domestic politics. He basked in the glow of peace as Israel and Jordan signed a treaty ending a 46-year state of war. In time for the morning news shows on American television, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin thanked Clinton for his “tremendous support,” while Jordan’s King Hussein called the president “our partner and our friend....

So why are Hong Kong’s bureaucrats so unhappy these days? In recent months several high-ranking civil servants have quietly jumped into the private sector–a move that government workers rarely entertained in the past–and executive recruiters say many others would be happy to join them. According to the Hong Kong Transition Project, an ongoing research effort, civil-service morale has reached a historical low. At a time when Hong Kong is facing a gloomy economic future and a crisis of identity, one of its fundamental pillars may be cracking....

@Cxeolinascherry thinks the number of artists who revealed new albums and music industry events on Friday must know there’s new One Direction music on the horizon, and don’t want to have to compete for the number one spot on the charts. Hum. Okay then. One Direction’s 10th anniversary came and went on Thursday, July 23 with little fanfare. Four of the members (ie, not Zayn Malik) emotionally remembered their time as a band on social media....

Totti has been a professional at Stadio Olimpico since 1992 and is second on the list of Serie A’s all-time leading goalscorers. Liverpool not looking at Manolas However, the 40-year-old’s contract is due to expire and club president James Pallotta stated this week that a six-year contract as a director awaits him. Totti, who has won Serie A once and the Coppa Italia twice with Roma, is still keeping his options open, though....

The poll, released Thursday by the Public Religion Research Institute, found that 26 percent of white evangelical Protestants agreed that there would be “a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.” The QAnon conspiracy claims that former President Donald Trump is fighting a secret war against a “deep state” of elites and Satanic Democrats involved in a child sex trafficking ring....

“I’ve stood in this end zone many times before, but never quite in a uniform this ridiculous,” the quarterback said from behind the podium. RANKING: 46 years of ‘Monday Night Football’ announcers He cracked jokes, including one about drinking “fishbowls” at Wanda’s that was met with silence. But all things considered, it was pretty good — although these days who really knows if these guys write their own speeches?...

There may finally be some light at the end of the tunnel on the contract situation for Datuk Ong Kim Swee with Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). President, HRH Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim provided a big hint that Ong’s time with FAM may not be quite over yet. Ong’s contract runs until December 2017 which also puts a question mark on who will take the Under-23 to the AFC finals in China in January....

During a recent interview with NY1 News, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said, “the number of employees sent home without pay has grown. I think yesterday we were at 34 uniformed officers. It’s up to 89.” “But when you take into account our size, that’s .25 of one percent,” Shea continued. “It’ll probably move again for maybe another day or so, but when you look at where we are, we’re in really good shape....