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Mets pitching options before 2023 trade deadline

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

Memorial Day marks the unofficial date when baseball fans can start checking the standings. The Mets survived a bumpy few weeks and have sparked a winning streak, reeling off five straight against the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Guardians. They head into a six-game road trip with a chance to make up more ground against the Chicago Cubs and the Colorado Rockies.However, the Mets have played 48 games and only three times has a pitcher gotten through seven innings. Justin Verlander has done it twice, throwing eight innings Sunday against the Guardians to give the bullpen a much-needed reprieve before a day off. The team’s most pressing issue is starting pitching, with the club having burned through all of the depth way back in April and a staff that routinely fails to go deep into games.Mets starters have posted a 5.09 ERA, which ranks 25th in the league. The 238 and 2/3 innings pitched is the 10th fewest in baseball. The bullpen has had to pick up a lot of work and it has p...

Oakland A’s broadcaster Glen Kuiper fired for using racial slur on air

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper was fired by NBC Sports California after using a racial slur on air before first pitch of a game between the A’s and Kansas City Royals on May 5.Kuiper was suspended after the incident, where he used a slur while talking about a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum alongside colleague Dallas Braden.“Following an internal review, the decision has been made for NBC Sports California to end its relationship with Glen Kuiper, effective immediately,” the network said in a statement Monday. “We thank Glen for his dedication to Bay Area baseball over the years.”A person familiar with the investigation said “the decision was based on a variety of factors, including information uncovered in the internal review,” according to the Associated Press.Bob Kendrick, the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, said Monday he was disappointed to see Kuiper get fired because he felt the slur was used by mi...

Ravens WR Odell Beckham Jr. not being charged; LA County district attorney finds insufficient evidence of battery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will not have charges brought against him after being accused last month of assaulting a woman at a club in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said on Monday.TMZ Sports reported last month that Beckham was being investigated after a woman alleged the 30-year-old put his hand around her neck at Delilah on Santa Monica Boulevard. Beckham denied the allegation.“A review of surveillance video from inside the nightclub contradicts the complaining witness’s account of events,” Christopher Baker, assistant head deputy for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office’s Charge Evaluation Division, wrote in a charge evaluation worksheet. “The video does not capture any battery.”Baker also noted that there was no other witness to corroborate the woman’s description of the incident and that no injury was observed on the complaining witness.He also wrote that the assig...

Chicago White Sox’s starting pitching depth could get its 1st test this year with Mike Clevinger on the IL

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

Mike Clevinger felt his wrist was “a little jammed up” during the fifth inning of Wednesday’s start against the Cleveland Guardians at Guaranteed Rate Field.“Around the sixth inning I noticed a little drop-off in (velocity), just the off-speed. Fastball felt good,” the Chicago White Sox pitcher said Monday. “In the seventh inning, it wasn’t really a lot of pain. I just couldn’t feel where the ball was coming out. So I knew something was going on, but adrenaline was obviously pretty high.”Clevinger was sore the next day, and the Sox on Sunday placed the right-hander on the 15-day injured list with right wrist inflammation. The move is retroactive to Thursday, and he anticipates being ready when he’s eligible to return June 2.Clevinger was in line to start again Monday against his former team, this time at Progressive Field. The Sox turned to reliever Jimmy Lambert as an opener, the first time someone other than Clevinger, La...

Archdiocese of Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is sued by 3 alleged sexual abuse victims who claim Arlington Catholic’s former vice principal assaulted them

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

Archdiocese of Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley has been sued by three alleged sexual abuse victims who claim that Arlington Catholic High School’s former vice principal assaulted the teens last decade.Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who has represented clergy sexual abuse victims for decades, on Monday said he filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the three alleged childhood sexual abuse victims against O’Malley, Bishop Robert Deeley, and Bishop Peter Uglietto.The three victims allege that they were sexually abused by Steven Biagioni while he was vice principal and an administrator at Arlington Catholic.The alleged sexual abuse took place at the high school from about 2011 to 2016, when the victims were between 15 and 17 years old.“Significantly, given that years of the alleged sexual abuse are recent, it is apparent that the Archdiocese of Boston and the Catholic Church are still allowing the sexual abuse of innocent children,” Garabedian said in a statement....

Venmo opens for teens, officially

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

NEW YORK — Teenagers will officially be allowed to open a Venmo account with their parent’s permission, the company said Monday, expanding the popular social payments app to an age demographic that is likely to embrace it almost immediately.Using Venmo won’t necessarily be new to a good number of teens — parents often set up accounts for their children through their own accounts, which is a violation of Venmo’s terms of service. There have been guides on the Internet for some time showing parents how to create a child’s account without Venmo penalizing them.Venmo has been a popular way to send money to individuals for years, and now has more than 90 million users. The product for teens comes at a time when other social apps are being watched closely by politicians and regulators. The state of Montana banned TikTok last week and other states are considering a ban as well.Opening up Venmo to teenagers will be a significant expansion of Venmo’s market. Com...

Ravens free agency tracker 2023: Veteran quarterback Josh Johnson returning to Baltimore for third time

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

Welcome to the Ravens’ free-agency tracker, which will be updated throughout the offseason.As of the start of the NFL’s new league year on March 15 at 4 p.m., teams can officially announce signings and trades. Here’s a rundown of who the Ravens have agreed to sign, who they’ve lost and who’s still on the open market:Free agent additionsQuarterback Josh Johnson: The 37-year-old free agent quarterback has signed with the Ravens, the team announced May 22. Johnson has played for an NFL-record 14 teams and this marks his third time with the Ravens.A fifth-round pick out of San Diego by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008, he played for Baltimore in 2021 and was on the roster during the 2016 offseason before being released that September. He also gives Baltimore a veteran presence in its quarterback room and will compete with Tyler Huntley, Anthony Brown and undrafted free agent Nolan Henderson for a backup role behind Lamar Jackson, who earlier this month sign...

Feds approve new overdose reversal drug

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators on Monday approved a new easy-to-use version of a medication to reverse overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids driving the nation’s drug crisis.Opvee is similar to naloxone, the life-saving drug that has been used for decades to quickly counter overdoses of heroin, fentanyl and prescription painkillers. Both work by blocking the effects of opioids in the brain, which can restore normal breathing and blood pressure in people who have recently overdosed.The Food and Drug Administration endorsed Opvee, a nasal spray update of the drug nalmefene, which was first approved as an injection in the mid-1990s but later removed from the market due to low sales. Naloxone comes as both a nasal spray and injection.It’s not immediately clear how the new drug will be used differently compared to naloxone, and some experts see potential downsides to its longer-acting effect. The drug will be available via prescription and is approved for patien...

E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict remarks to defamation case, seeks at least $10M

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

By LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump, is seeking at least $10 million more in a new court filing Monday that seeks to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict.An amended lawsuit seeking the $10 million in compensatory damages — and more in punitive damages — was filed in Manhattan by lawyers for Carroll, who say remarks by Trump in response to her rape allegations so spoiled her reputation that she lost her longtime job as an Elle magazine advice columnist.They said in the rewritten lawsuit that he “doubled down” on derogatory remarks about Carroll at a cable television appearance a day after the verdict.“Trump’s defamatory statements post-verdict show the depth of his malice toward Carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill w...

Patriots-Steelers regular-season game could change after new NFL rule

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:08 GMT

Come December, the Patriots will kick off at Pittsburgh on Thursday Night Football.Unless they don’t.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87 New England Patriots | Patriots sign UDFA DL Justus Tavai to fill vacant roster spot New England Patriots | Patriots waive backup O-lineman, clear $2.7 million in cap space New England Patriots | Patriots O-linemen high on new position coach Adrian Klemm New England Patriots | Patriots reportedly hire first woman scouting assistant from college ranks Among other rules passed by league owners Monday afternoon, the NFL can now flex Thursday Night Football games out in Weeks 13-17. The Patriots and Steelers are scheduled to play in Week 14 at 8:15 p.m. and could now be pushed back to a Sunday afternoon kickoff. If the game is flexed out, both teams will receive at least 28 days’ notice.The NFL can...