Bad plays in baseball happen every day. But bad plays like this one absolutely do not happen every day. On Tuesday night, the Detroit Tigers handed the Minnesota Twins a walk-off win in the ugliest and most spectacular way possible: a thoroughly botched play. Let’s set the stage. It’s the bottom of the ninth at Target Field and the Tigers are up 4-3, but the Twins are threatening with runners on first and second and only one out. Miguel Sano, who was hitting .083 coming into Tuesday night’s… Source link
Read More »Jazz win on Donovan Mitchell-Rudy Gobert alley-oop
Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert sometimes eat lunch together, and they sometimes save the Utah Jazz‘s season together. After a season marked by whispers of discord between the Jazz’s two stars, the pair connected for a game-winning alley-oop in a 100-99 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 of their first-round series. The series is now tied 2-2. The Jazz appeared on the verge of a 3-1 series hole in the final minute of the game when Mavericks star Luka Doncic, making a return from a calf… Source link
Read More »Analytics favor Celtics to win title
No matter which projection system you prefer, they’re in agreement on the most likely team to win the NBA championship. And it’s not the Phoenix Suns. The Boston Celtics have captured the hearts of the computers. The Celtics are favored to win the NBA title by three different projections sites, and by a wide margin in two of them. That’s a reason the odds at BetMGM have moved from Celtics +1000 to +750 since Monday. If the projections are right, even those new odds still hold some value. Celtics… Source link
Read More »Scottie Scheffler dominates to win first green jacket
Scottie Scheffler kisses his wife Meredith Scudder after winning the 86th Masters golf tournament on Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) AUGUSTA, Ga. – Ninety players combined for thousands of shots at this year’s Masters. But in the end, the entire tournament turned on just two. Scottie Scheffler holed a screamer of an approach on the third hole on Sunday. Nine holes later, Cam Smith dunked his tee shot on the 12th into Rae’s Creek. The first gave Scheffler… Source link
Read More »Rachel Balkovec makes MLB history with first managerial win
New York Yankees minor-league manager Rachel Balkovec made history the instant she took the field Friday. Then, she decided to break some more records. Balkovec won her managerial debut with the Tampa Tarpons — a minor-league affiliate of the Yankees — on Friday. In doing so, Balkovec became both the first woman to manage a game and win a game with a team affiliated with MLB. The Tarpons defeated the Lakeland Flying Tigers by a score of 9-6. The Tarpons fell behind early, but rallied in… Source link
Read More »Amazon workers’ union win could drive more activism in Silicon Valley
This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, April 6, 2022 The Amazon union win in Staten Island could spread to the rest of Big Tech Amazon (AMZN) is officially the first Big Tech company to face the threat of a union telling it what to do. And that could energize workers across other tech companies to seek the same kind of… Source link
Read More »Kansas beats North Carolina to win NCAA tournament
Kansas pulled off the biggest comeback in men’s national championship game history to beat North Carolina, 72-69, and win the 2022 NCAA tournament. The Jayhawks were down by 15 at halftime and trailed at 16 at one point in the first half. The 16-point deficit breaks a record held by Loyola Chicago after the Ramblers came back from a 15-point deficit to win the national title. And until Monday night, the biggest halftime deficit ever turned around in a national title game was 10 when… Source link
Read More »‘I can help you win games’
Colin Kaepernick made a direct pitch to NFL teams in need of a quarterback on Saturday: “I can help you win games.” The six-year NFL veteran who hasn’t played in the league since 2016 was invited by his old coach Jim Harbaugh to put on a throwing exhibition at Michigan Stadium. With NFL scouts in attendance, Kaepernick showcased his arm at halftime of Michigan’s spring game. Afterward, he and Harbaugh shared a hug. Kaepernick then spoke with local and network media and made a direct appeal for… Source link
Read More »Amazon NYC workers win first US union in company’s history
A labor drive at an Amazon (AMZN) warehouse on Staten Island narrowly won a historic union election on Friday, establishing the first U.S. union in the company’s 28-year history and intensifying a nationwide surge of organizing across major companies like Starbucks (SBUX) and Disney (DIS). As of early Friday afternoon, the union was poised for victory with a margin of nearly 500 votes. The National Labor Relations board said on Friday that the union and Amazon had challenged 66 ballots,… Source link
Read More »‘Your job is to find a way to win’
Kansas City Chiefs star QB — and new constant in the NFL playoffs — Patrick Mahomes says the league’s new overtime rules are just fine with him. “Your job is to find a way to win the game, no matter how long it takes,” Mahomes said in an interview with Yahoo Finance Presents. This week, the NFL’s 32 clubs passed a rule change that would allow both teams to get possession of the ball in overtime at least once. Under the prior rules, the first team that scored in overtime won the game. The… Source link
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