Minnesota completed a sweep of Chicago on Sunday with a 7-0 win. It is the first time the Twins (36-16) are 20 games over .500 since the end of the 2010 season. The win also gives Minnesota a 10-game lead in the American League Central. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Jake Odorizzi battled severe congestion in his start but still pitched 5 1/3 innings while allowing just one hit....

The 38-year-old goalkeeper has inked a new contract with Real Salt Lake that will keep him with the team for a 12th MLS season, the team announced Tuesday. Goal previously had reported Rimando, who was a free agent, would re-sign with the club. “I couldn’t be happier continuing my career with Real. This is home and I couldn’t fathom leaving this club that means so much to me,” Rimando said in a media release....

The 33-year-old signed with the Timbers as a free agent this past offseason, having previously played for the LA Galaxy, the Columbus Crew, the San Jose Earthquakes, Real Salt Lake and New York City FC. READ MORE: Bradley Wright-Phillips leads MLS Team of the Week Grabavoy, who has compiled 17 goals and 31 assists over 301 regular season matches, won MLS Cup titles with the Galaxy in 2005 and RSL in 2009....

Aside from the late drama on the pitch that earned the San Jose Earthquakes a playoff spot, records fell all around the league. Toronto FC set the most impressive mark, with the club’s 2-2 draw against Atlanta United running the team’s total haul for the season to 69 points, the most ever for an MLS team in a season. That same match saw a crowd of 71,874 pack the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, setting a new standalone game record for the league, though in this case Atlanta was merely replacing its own record set earlier this season against Orlando City....

MLS released the full schedule for the 2016 campaign, having already announced each team’s home opener, with the season running from March 6 to Oct. 23. The schedule will include a previously announced break June 3-17 for the Copa America Centenario, which will be hosted in the United States. MORE: Review: 2015 in American soccer | Will Ferrell a co-owner of new MLS franchise The 2016 season will feature an increased presence for the league on major networks, with nationally televised matches again set for Fridays on UniMas and Sundays on the Fox and ESPN families....

“He’s confident, but he’s not overconfident,” TFC defender Drew Moor told Goal when asked what makes Bono so good at such a young age. “He’s not cocky. He’s a very good shot-stopper. He talks a lot, his communication is great. He’s a lot better with his feet than he’s been given credit for up to this point of his career. He’s just a confident young goalkeeper.” Bono doesn’t generate the same headlines than the stars on his record-setting Toronto squad, but you can argue no player has had a bigger role in TFC’s current playoff run....

Jason Kreis returns to Yankee Stadium for the first time since being dismissed as New York City FC coach, and he returns with an Orlando City enjoying an excellent start to the season. Howard questions security in fan incident Familiar foes LA and Seattle square off for the first time this season and they enter in slightly unfamiliar positions. Traditionally among the top dogs in the Western Conference, they are both currently in the bottom half of the West standings as they look to shake off slow starts to the season....

Speaking with Newsweek as she made her way to the protest outside Victoria’s Secret in New York City’s Herald Square on Friday, model Madisyn Ritland, who helped organize the demonstration, said it is time for companies like the popular lingerie brand to step up and do more to address the “systemic” issue of harassment and sexual assault within the industry. For Ritland, the fight is personal, with the model having come forward in 2018 to accuse former Victoria’s Secret photographer David Bellemere of assaulting her....

Stéphane Bancel, CEO of the Massachusetts-based company, told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo today the firm applied for Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—and authorization could come next month. Earlier today, Moderna announced a study of the vaccine candidate involving 30,000 people found the treatment was over 94 percent effective against COVID. In a press release, Moderna said the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) was expected to review the findings on December 17....

Among the major potential vaccines in development is the mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate, co-developed by Massachusetts-based biotechnology firm Moderna, in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The phase three clinical trial of Moderna’s vaccine candidate, which began last month on July 27, is expecting to recruit around 30,000 adult volunteers. How can I enroll as a volunteer? Those interested in participating in the study should access the NIH’s COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) website where you’ll be directed to a CoVPN Volunteer Screening Registry....

Sweden’s Public Health Agency said in a statement that the shot was paused because of “signals of an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium.” However, the agency said the risk of being affected “is very small.” Health officials will “follow the situation closely and act quickly to ensure that vaccinations against COVID-19 are always as safe as possible and at the same time provide effective protection” against the disease, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said....

The 25-year-old’s effort in the first-half was enough for Paul Clement’s side to brush aside their visitors to provide some breathing space for the relegation-threatened side. Barrow made the only difference in the 12th minute with his header after benefitting from Jon Bodvarsson’s assist to register his 10th league goal of the season. The pacey winger and Nigeria’s Sone Aluko were on parade from start to finish as the Royals sealed their 10th league win this campaign....

The Liverpool star’s availability for the World Cup has been the subject of much speculation since he was injured in the Reds’ 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League final on May 26. Both Salah and Egypt had said he would be fit in time to feature for the Pharaohs, and he was named to the team’s final 23-man roster. However, while Salah was named to the bench for Egypt’s opener, a 1-0 loss to Uruguay, but did not make an appearance in the defeat....

One Mumsnet user turned to the parenting site’s “Talk” forum for advice, after reaching breaking point with her teenage daughter’s “awful personality” and “cruel behavior.” In her post shared on January 1, user Iwishitwasdifferent described her 17-year-old daughter as “spoilt, rude and downright unkind.” “She can ruin any occasion with her behavior and just doesn’t seem to care about me or the rest of her family,” she wrote. Iwishitwasdifferent said that she, her husband and their 10-year-old daughter “suffer every day” due to the teen’s attitude, with the family on “countdown until she leaves home” next year....

As reported by News.com.au, Barbara Bryan’s now-viral TikTok highlights the vast differences between children’s clothing gendered for girls versus boys. “What are we doing to our girls?” reads the video’s on-screen text. Bryan, known on TikTok as @letsgoaussie, films the store’s stacks of girls’ shirts, featuring phrases like “A Whole Lotta Love,” “Bright as Can Be,” and “Take it Easy.” “Why are we telling girls how to feel via their clothing?...

Talia Iracheta, from Chicago, told ABC 7 that she and her children became sick with COVID just days ago. And while she and her other children recovered, 13-year-old Sebastian did not, and he was hospitalized. Iracheta told the station: “I noticed he started coughing up blood and after two days of that, his breathing was getting progressively worse, so we decided to the emergency room.” She took her son to the John H....

In a post shared on Mumsnet last Sunday, the new mom, under the username Mylifeisamess9, said that while home on maternity leave with her six-month-old baby, she discovered her partner had been flirting with a co-worker, sending her private messages about how “good” she looks. “When asked did he have [the] intention to take things further he says ‘possibly, I don’t know’,” the mom wrote. “He blames the fact that you had PND [postnatal depression] and he ‘couldn’t talk to you’, and also says he ‘just wanted some attention’....

However, one woman has ended up with a little more than she bargained for this year after deciding to get herself in the festive spirit extra early. That’s according to Crimexnoir, a Twitter user who took to social media to reveal more about the massive mistake her mother made when shopping for decorations. Evidently eager to deck the halls already, despite December still being several weeks away, the merry mom decided to purchase a couple of decorative nutcrackers to tie the room together....

Millie Taplin, a carer from Southend in Essex, England, was hospitalized for around four hours after she began to feel unwell while out with her friends at the MooMoo nightclub following the lifting of COVID restrictions in England, according to Your Southend. Speaking to the local media organization, Taplin said that she was rushed to a hospital in the town after she became unable to walk or talk shortly after accepting a drink from a man who told her to “try this....