Giants’ Blake Snell no-hits Reds, fans 11

Aug 2, 2024; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Blake Snell (7) pitches against the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning at Great American Ball Park. Mandatory Credit: Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports Blake Snell hurled the first no-hitter of his career and the 18th in Giants franchise history as visiting San Francisco blanked…

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Yusei Kikuchi fans eight straight as Astros edge Rays

Aug 2, 2024; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Astros first baseman Jon Singleton (28) strikes out during the second inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at Minute Maid Park. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Yainer Diaz recorded his third consecutive multi-hit game and Yusei Kikuchi matched a franchise record in his debut with the Houston…

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Uruguayan players fight with fans after Copa defeat

Jul 10, 2024; Charlotte, NC, USA; Uruguay forward Darwin Nunez (19) brings the ball up field against the Columbia during the first half at the Copa Armerica Semifinal match at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports A scuffle on the field spilled into the stands after a Copa America semifinal match…

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Power Slap Finds Fans Amid Controversy

When the meaty palm of Vasil Kamotskii, a 360-pound, 34-year-old pig farmer from Siberia known as Dumpling, struck the tender cheek of the man who faced him, it sounded like a thunderclap. Dumpling didn’t appear to expend much effort — he swung lazily, the way you might bat a fly. But it was enough to…

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A Fantastic Borani Banjan Recipe for Eggplant Fans

It recently dawned on me that a significant portion of my favorite, most-repeated New York Times Cooking recipes rely on eggplant. There’s Kay Chun’s eggplant dal and eggplant adobo, Alexa Weibel’s eggplant caponata pasta and this trio of stunners from Eric Kim: gochujang-glazed eggplant, bulgogi eggplant, eggplant Parm. These recipes take this very dependable vegetable…

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Oxtail Is Gaining Fans. That’s Not Entirely Good.

When the chef Lerone Mullin opened the Jerk Grill, his fast-casual restaurant in Redlands, Calif., in 2021, customers told him they loved his Caribbean classics, like brown stew chicken, and his Caribbean-Mexican mash-ups, like a jerk chicken burrito. But they asked for one addition. “Everybody just wanted oxtail,” he said, adding, “I didn’t even know…

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Australia’s Watch Fans Are Invited to a Fair

Australia doesn’t have much of a homegrown watch industry, and what it does have primarily sells online — facts that spurred Domenic Italiano, founder and designer of Grip Auto Timepieces, to organize what he called the country’s first watch fair. After all, Mr. Italiano, 37, said, watchmakers there “don’t get an opportunity to have our…

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Fanatics and Nike Blamed by Fans for MLB Uniform Issues

Even though Nike was responsible for the uniform redesign and M.L.B. approved it, baseball fans have overwhelmingly blamed Fanatics. That is despite the fact that the league’s uniforms have been manufactured in the same factory since the early 2000s with no reported issues before this year. “We’re purely doing exactly as we’ve been told, and…

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