PHOTO USA Today Sports Images From opposite coasts and in dueling leagues comes a baseball clash that represents the best of the best and potentially the most vulnerable, all at once. The best divisions in baseball this season have been the American League East and the National League West, with as many as three possible…
PHOTO USA Today Sports Images Three things a man thinks he can do better than anyone: grill meat, drive a car and run a baseball team. So when you hear Mike from Marietta or Sammy from Schaumburg griping about the moves their Braves or Cubs made or didn’t make as the calendar advances later into…
Someone on X was posting MLB teams’ all-time lineups this spring. When discussing the Pittsburgh Pirates, he listed the starting nine and said, “Bad day to be a baseball.” Sure would be. Picture being a pitcher and facing the likes of Bonds, Clemente, Kiner, Stargell, Parker and Honus Wagner. Imagine the scouting report: “Throw your…
In case you haven’t heard, national parks in the United States have been busy in recent years. Record-breaking busy. But one way to enjoy the bounty of a national park without unwelcome company is to get into the backcountry on a day hike. “In the backcountry, you get away from the crowds and the infrastructure,”…
During the Lunar New Year of 1988, Selena Wong wanted to create a special dessert for her family in Kingston, Jamaica. Ms. Wong, whose ancestors came to the island from China in the 19th century, was a self-taught baker who occasionally sold goods from her home. Knowing the importance of lychees to the Chinese Jamaican…
In 2023, the seashores, lakeshores, battlefields, historic sites, monuments and more that make up the National Park Service had 325.5 million visits, an increase of 4 percent from the year before. The National Park Service director, Charles F. Sams III, praised the surge of interest in “learning our shared American story throughout the hidden gems…
The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, who controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family name from the endowment funds. The petition filed by the Academy in Superior Court in…
I had barely unbuckled my seatbelt and was already wondering if I had driven six hours across Texas for nothing. A once-in-a-lifetime river adventure had seemingly evaporated with some disappointing news. It was the promise of a four-day, 33-mile canoe journey in Big Bend National Park, snaking through awe-inspiring canyons on a mighty river, that…
A Chinese citizen who recently quit his job as a software engineer for Google in California has been charged with trying to transfer artificial intelligence technology to a Beijing-based company that paid him secretly, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, who was part of the team that designs and…
On a not-at-all red carpet inside Cipriani 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday night, Da’Vine Joy Randolph was glowing. “The fact that these people actually even seen my work is just mind-blowing,” said the actress, a star of “The Holdovers,” who was being honored with the National Board of Review’s best supporting actress prize…
