Below, we’ll list the updated World Series odds and break down a few notable risers who’ve seen their odds to win the 2023 Fall Classic shift. Odds to win 2023 World Series All odds courtesy of BetMGM Notable risers Houston Astros +600; opened +700 After opening with the second-shortest odds behind the Dodgers, Houston’s back atop BetMGM’s odds board as the favorite to win the 2023 World Series. Justin Verlander’s loss certainly stings, but Houston’s got a deep enough rotation, now headlined by Framber Valdez and Cristian Javier, to compensate for Verlanders’ loss....

The 27-year-old star belted three homers and drove in seven runs in the Brewers’ 10-7 win over the Cardinals at Miller Park. The seven RBIs tied the franchise record for the most in a single game. Yelich started his big game with a three-run shot in the second inning to help Milwaukee grab an early lead. He then followed with another three-run homer four innings later to put the Brewers in front again....

With San Francisco’s 11-8 win over the Rockies on Wednesday, the Giants swept a four-game series over Colorado and are now a half-game up on the Rockies for third in the West. Even more complicated, San Francisco is 2 1/2 games out of the second wild-card spot in the NL, and if it really wanted to, it could consider buying and getting into the race in Farhan Zaidi’s first year running the organization....

With Texas’ 4-1 win over the Tigers on Wednesday, the Rangers now trail Houston by 5 1/2 games in the American League West. As recently as June 4, the Astros held a 10-game lead on the Rangers for the division lead, but, thanks to a 14-8 run since that date for Texas and a recent seven-game losing streak for Houston, that lead keeps getting smaller and smaller. And, Mike Minor has been a huge part of the Rangers’ comeback attempt....

The Rays sit in the second spot, with a one-game lead over the Indians, after a 5-4 win over the Red Sox in 11 innings. Cleveland, meanwhile, fell to the Phillies, 9-4. Tampa Bay’s victory Saturday came from a Nate Lowe walk-off home run in the final frame. The two-run homer was his seventh of the season. The Rays took an early 2-1 lead but the Red Sox used a two-run home run in the eighth inning to send the game into extras....

Colorado won its eighth consecutive game when it completed a sweep of Toronto on Sunday. The Rockies topped the Blue Jays, 5-1, with the help of David Dahl and Nolan Arenado, who both finished 2 for 4 at the plate. “This is what I thought we could do, absolutely,” Arenado said, via the Denver Post. “The way [Antonio Senzatela] pitched today, and with [German] Marquez and [Jon] Gray pitching [well], we thought they would keep us in ballgames....

Then again, Real didn’t want to leave the United States with a fourth consecutive defeat on its exhibition tour, particularly not to a pickup team of Major League Soccer All-Stars. So when the two sides in the MLS All-Star Game were tied 1-1 after 90 minutes and a penalty shootout became necessary to declare a winner, Real rolled out an almost unfair quartet of superheroes to take its kicks: Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale, Mateo Kovacic and, to clinch, Marcelo....

The team has already been busy constructing its roster with sporting director Zoran Krneta and new coach Miguel Angel Ramirez scouring the continent — and the globe — for players to build out the squad (updated roster below). In the Expansion Draft they had the chance to pick five players from a pool of 258 players who were left unprotected by their MLS teams (see full list below). The new club opted to keep No....

Such is life for the youngest member of the Portland Timbers. On an average day, the 18-year-old begins with an hour-plus commute from his hometown of Gresham to the Timbers’ training facility in Beaverton. He spends the morning on the field battling with veterans of the World Cup, English Premier League and Argentine Primera Division. By the time the afternoon rolls around, Farfan is back in Gresham — planted at a desk for English class....

That may be the best storyline of MLS Week 9, but it’s definitely not the only one. The top two teams in MLS so far this season square off in a juicy Western Conference clash as unbeaten FC Dallas faces a dangerous Portland Timbers side that will still be a big threat even without injured playmaker Diego Valeri. McCarty ready for emotional return On the other end of the spectrum, we have the LA Galaxy taking on the Philadelphia Union in a clash of 2016 playoff teams mired in awful starts to the 2017 season....

Like a campfire song, there’s little variation in the final of the CONCACAF Champions League. After Andre-Pierre Gignac’s golazo put the Vancouver Whitecaps’ mini-comeback to bed, it was confirmed. For the seventh time in nine tournaments since the governing body adopted the current format, the final will pit two Mexican teams against each other. For the ninth time (every single one, for those running out of fingers to count on), the champion will be a Liga MX team....

“We did a morphology ultrasound last week and the doctor said I’m 24 weeks pregnant, almost six months, and my baby is healthy and strong,” Novaes told MMAFighting.com. “I was worried because I trained hard, fought, cut weight. I suffered a lot to make weight for my last fight, couldn’t dehydrate properly, and I was already training to fight again next week, but the doctor said everything is fine.”...

Let's just say the comment didn't sit well with folks on Twitter — at all. MORE: NBA scoreboard | Phil Jackson’s plan Whether he intended it or not, Garofalo's tweet was interpreted as a racial slight. According to a 2013 study of NBA rosters, 81% of NBA players are black. Garofalo missed the mark again when he responded to a Twitter user who pointed out that politicians aren't exactly innocent....

The Reds were pitched against the Stadio Olimpico outfit for a place in the final of the elite European competition while Real Madrid trade tackles with Bayern Munich in the other fixture. Jurgen Klopp’s side will welcome Eusebio Di Francesco’s men to Anfield for the first leg of the encounter on April 24 before travelling to the Italian capital a week later. And the Italian outfit are eager to meet their former attacker who has scored eight goals in the 10 appearances in the Champions League this campaign....

Until 2019, the company’s popular weekly planners simply used “Taiwan,” but in 2020 that changed to “Taiwan (Province of China).” This year, Moleskine journals don’t mention Taiwan at all, stripping it from the global holidays and dialing codes sections. For the final two years that Moleskine continued to display Taiwan’s public holidays among 44 countries and regions including Hong Kong, some dates were also misleading. In 2020, Taiwan’s holidays supposedly included October 1, the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing....

Assigning each child’s clothing (and other belongings) a particular color is one of the most popular ways that parents differentiate their twins for others. The topic is more pertinent than ever, as twins are believed to be more common right now than at any other point in history. In March, it was reported that one out of every 42 people is born a twin, translating to about 1.6 million children per year....

In the clip, Jill realizes that, much to her alarm and dismay, she is the “naked window neighbor.” This concept, of being the person in a given neighborhood who (accidentally or not) flashes their neighbors, is not a new one: the subject sparked a viral conversation late last year, after marketing strategist Molly Hale tweeted: “You either have a naked window neighbor or you are a naked window neighbor.”...

In a post shared on Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU) forum under the username Neverenoughchocolates, the mother said there were not enough helpers to organize the summer fair at the school, adding that “the handful of us on the pta [Parent Teacher Association] were all running ourselves ragged.” The mom said her friend “literally volunteers for everything” and both she and her husband “do loads” for their town and help out with several groups and charities locally....

When she was 9, Pillay was in a car accident in South Africa. The crash resulted in a head injury that was fixed up by a plastic surgeon. Pillay told Newsweek this was the first of multiple brain injuries or concussions that have resulted in her suffering memory loss over the years. “At the time, not a lot was known about traumatic brain injuries,” she told Newsweek. “But over the years I’ve had quite a few concussions and as time goes on, it takes less and less of a bump for you to get a concussion—and every time my symptoms are worse and worse....

Sharing the story with Reddit’s Am I the A******? (AITA) forum on September 6, user u/anonymoususer13q explained that her husband has “always been against” her 18-year-old son’s love of motorcycles, faking its theft to prove “it was a waste of money.” Although the poster and her son got the bike back, users warned the woman about her husband’s “controlling behavior”—and the impact it could have on the relationship with her child moving forward....