Baseball was back at Shea Stadium. The Mets were opening their home schedule against the Cardinals. Those were the only normal elements of April 28, 1995. There was finally another game in Flushing after baseball had tried its damnedest to destroy itself with: — An eight-month players’ strike over club owners’ demands for a salary cap. — The unprecedented cancellation of the 1994 World Series. — The owners’ union-busting move to use replacement players (aka “scabs”) the following spring training....

A warmer climate could prove to be more beneficial than the one we have now. Much of the alarm over climate change is based on ignorance of what is normal for weather and climate. There is no evidence, for instance, that extreme weather events are increasing in any systematic way, according to scientists at the U.S. National Hurricane Center, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which released the second part of this year’s report earlier this month)....

When it comes to celebrity endorsements, Republican media consultant and CNN commentator Alice Stewart said that they sometimes can go completely unnoticed. “I think celebrity and high-profile endorsements are kind of like the tree that falls in the forest,” Stewart told Newsweek. “Does anybody really hear it? But if they shake and rattle the other trees, they absolutely do hear it.” “If the celebrity really wants to make a difference, and many of them have, and I think that’s tremendous when they are so passionate and involved in politics, to really make a difference, you have to talk the talk and walk the walk and really follow through and motivate voters to get out,” Stewart said....

That phenomenon is known as an optical illusion, which tricks the eye into seeing something different to what has actually been captured. And a recent photo of a small dog standing in a window is one such example. The image, shared to Reddit by user PhatWalda on October 15, depicts a pet, framed in a window sill. Due to the lighting and material screen it appears as thought the animal is actually the subject of a detailed oil painting....

Researchers found an unexplained link between a positive attitude and good physical health, having looked at 15 existing studies examining the correlation between optimism, cardiovascular disease and the overall risk of dying. A total of 229,391 participants ranging from 19 to 93 took part in the studies, which measured their levels of optimism and pessimism, and also collated information on their health and their cause of death if applicable. Published between 2001 and 2017, eight of the studies were conducted in the U....

The pause comes one day after Oregon reached its highest-ever daily toll of new coronavirus cases, reporting 790 cases on Thursday, November 5. Overall, the state has reported 48,608 COVID-19 cases and 716 COVID-related deaths since March 20. The governor’s pause urges businesses to allow as many employees as possible to work from home and tells long-term care facilities like nursing homes to forbid outside visitors. It also asks all indoor dining, bars, and recreation facilities, like museums and gyms, to reduce their maximum capacity to 50 people....

That means Oregon is looking for its fourth different head coach since Chip Kelly left after the 2012 season. Cristobal compiled a 35-13 record with a pair of Pac-12 championships for the Ducks; a successful run that looked like it would take the next step after Oregon beat Ohio State on Sept. 11. The Ducks, however, finished 10-3 and fell short of a third Pac-12 championship in four seasons. Who will Oregon turn to?...

That’s what Orioles catcher Caleb Joseph did when he filed for $1 million in arbitration in the offseason following a season in which the backstop failed to record a single RBI in 141 plate appearnces, breaking an MLB record previously held by pitcher Wilbur Wood. MORE: When do pitchers and catchers report? Spring training reporting dates for all 30 teams It wasn’t just with runners on where Joseph struggled last season, as he slashed ....

The battered and bruised Orioles pitching staff allowed its 258th home run of the season Wednesday night, tying the MLB record. Footnote: There are more than five weeks remaining in a regular season “full of records the Orioles would rather not set,” the Baltimore Sun noted. The Royals’ Whit Merrifield went deep in the third inning off right-hander Aaron Brooks, moving the Orioles into a tie with the 2016 Reds — for now....

It’s a big night for the Orioles, with a chance to clinch the American League East for the first time since 1997, so it is a little bit strange that Gary Thorne is not in the booth. This series’ aim is to be complete, though, so a Thorne broadcast will be reviewed at a later date. In the meantime, Jim Hunter has the play-by-play duties, working alongside Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer....

Dier worth more than £50m The Brazilian kicked the ball violently and purposefully against two Guangzhou R&F players, resulting in a fight on the pitch between both sets of teams. Oscar will now not be eligible to play in the Chinese Super League until August 13 while also receiving an additional $5,000 fine from the governing body of Chinese football. “Oscar’s immoral foul, which sparked a massive bust-up on the pitch, has had a huge negative impact on China’s professional football leagues,” read a statement of CFA....

While presenting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair, which her husband Will Smith did not appreciate. He approached Rock onstage and slapped him across the face. When he returned to his seat, Smith shouted “Get my wife’s name out yo f****** mouth.” The internet came alive in the wake of the incident, with celebrities and other viewers tweeting their reactions and sharing memes....

If the reports about Wade and the Heat negotiations are accurate, Wade ought to be spending today tearing through his thesaurus. Somewhere, there’s a definition of “loyalty” that fits the only NBA home he’s ever had lowballing him at age 34, after he’s given up money to allow his team to add talent that’s kept them in contention. Talent like, oh, for example, LeBron James. “Legacy,” meanwhile, is something that becomes a factor when players like Wade are much closer to the end than the beginning, and it’s what he has to think about if he does find out that he’s got to leave Miami for some lesser franchise to make the money he believes he’s entitled to....

“The entire downtown core and Byward Market areas are in lockdown once more, except this time it isn’t health restrictions keeping doors closed,” the fundraiser reads. “Residents are afraid to leave their homes, delivery services face extreme difficulty picking up orders, and clients who are willing to make the trek into the Red Zone find that the protest outside is quite literally ‘horning-in’ on the intimacy of sharing a meal at a restaurant with a loved one,” it continues....

But Jose’s testimony didn’t go well. He left out critical information about why he’d fled, such as the police putting a gun to his head. He also answered many of the judge’s questions with a cursory “yes” or “no” and got several dates confused. Consequently, the judge questioned his credibility. José froze up because he was under extreme pressure. He’s a non-English speaker who relied on a translator to communicate....

Here is the parallel universe that has flourished while the more fortunate were rewarding themselves for the stock split with SUVs and home additions. There is a boom market in homelessness. But these are not the men on the streets of San Francisco holding out cardboard signs to the tourists. They are children, hundreds of thousands of them, twice as likely to repeat a grade or be hospitalized and four times as likely to go hungry as the kids with a roof over their heads....

whole basin was flooded, its waters kept warm, perhaps, by the volcanic fires of Apollinaris Patera, whose lava flows reach almost to its northern rim. Slowly the basin dried up; the waters sank to ever lower levels. Now they seem completely gone–unless, perhaps, their remnants form the icy cores of the strange rounded hills in the basin’s heart. But once the waters were there, sheltering under a Martian sky....

The seizure comes following an investigation initiated on February 7 after the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office’s Animal Enforcement Unit received a complaint of animal neglect, according to a statement. Animal Enforcement deputies visited the location—a home located in the city of Pickens—and attempted to make contact with the property owner. While at the residence, deputies spotted several well-fed dogs living in “poor conditions,” as well as some additional dogs living in kennels....

The analysis, published Tuesday in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine academic journal, was conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York’s Hunter College. The research estimated health insurance losses based on already reported unemployment claims, combined with the projected increase in jobless claims over the coming weeks. With about 1.5 million American workers already estimated to have lost coverage after becoming unemployed, an additional 5....