That’s why we reached out to Sporting News contributor TIm Hagerty, who not only serves as the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the El Paso Chihuahuas, but also is the author of “Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball’s Most Off-the-Wall Team Names.” MORE: Best MiLB states | Best MiLB teams on Twitter | Odd MiLB trades Over the next few days, we will ask readers to vote round-by-round, NCAA Tournament-style, until each bracket has just one team name left....

Chelsea at 3/1 odds to win PL Milan have been busy overhauling their squad but Vincenzo Montella’s men stunned the world when they managed to sign Serie A-winning defender Bonucci for €42 million last month. Mirabelli admitted Milan – bankrolled by new Chinese owners – did not plan to sign the 30-year-old centre-back. “Bonucci’s transfer wasn’t planned, but it was an opportunity we had to grab as it went past,” he Rai Sport....

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources said the black whale, also known as a right whale, and dubbed Snow Cone by the agency, was first spotted in March 2021 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. At the time, “several disentanglement attempts were made” and the rope trailing behind Snow Cone was “successfully shortened.” The footage with her calf was shot about 10 nautical miles off Cumberland Island, a barrier island on the state of Georgia’s southeastern coast on Dec....

Banned by Twitter and other social media outlets, QAnon adherents have flocked to Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, which bills itself as a free-speech haven. A NewsGuard review found that Trump and top executives working for the platform actively promote these QAnon accounts. QAnon supporters contend that Trump and an anonymous government operative who goes by the name “Q” are engaged in a struggle to take down a “deep state” network of child sex traffickers....

The fact that London has been targeted is no accident. The aim of this bomb, and those of the previous two weekends, was evident–to mount a challenge to the increasing confidence and integration of London’s minority communities. The city’s very openness provides the opportunity. Secret documents revealed last week showed that at least one far-right group advocated violence against minorities in the hope of provoking a violent race war in England....

But on Saturday, during Game 4 of the World Series, that wasn’t the case. Houston finished its 3-2 loss to the Braves with 11 runners left on base, the most by any team in the Fall Classic since the Nationals left 12 against the Astros in Game 3 in 2019. The struggles to come up with the clutch hit came in a game that seemed imperative for Houston to win....

Willard “Bill” Hurley was recognized by a person who had seen media reports about him, the Leesburg (Va.) Police Department said in a Facebook post. MORE: PGA Tour winners in 2014-15 | Photos from the Open Championship at St. Andrews His son, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who grew up in Leesburg, is playing this week at the Quicken Loans National outside Washington, D.C. In a pre-tournament press conference Tuesday, Hurley announced his father had gone missing on July 19 after taking some clothes and money and driving away in his truck....

“And I’m like, OK, we got the next tournament,” coach Steve Pikiell told Sporting News. “We got a plane out of Indianapolis, and by the time we landed in New Jersey, of course all their phones already had the news: The NCAA Tournament is canceled. It was bizarre. “People say, ‘How did you meet with your team?’ You don’t even meet with your team. It’s on the internet. They find out stuff before I do....

The tiny capsule was lost somewhere on an 870-mile stretch of road between mining company Rio Tinto’s Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and Perth, a journey that a company vehicle made between January 12 and January 16. The capsule was only noticed missing on January 25. If the capsule remains missing, it could pose dangers both by direct exposure to the gamma rays emitted by the radioactive material, as well as by contamination of the skin or ingestion of the material inside, if the container is ruptured, possibly leading to cancer....

The 15-year-old Queens native, whose identity has not been publicly disclosed, entered the 121st Precinct of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in Staten Island, claiming that she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by the alleged traffickers, local outlet PIX11 News reported. She had last been seen on October 13, when she was still 14. The NYPD confirmed the news to the outlet on Saturday. “She was being held with two other girls,” the girl’s mother told PIX11 News later on Friday....

Freddie Mack, 57, was last seen by family members in Venus, Texas, on April 19. On Tuesday, officials concluded he had been eaten by his 18 dogs. Mack suffered from a number of serious medical conditions. “We will never know if the dogs killed Mr. Mack or consumed him after he died from a medical condition,” Johnson County Sheriff Adam King told the Cleburne Times-Review. “Either way, it is a very gruesome event and we extend our sympathy to Freddie Mack’s family....

Lincoln police Investigator Matt Hill said the woman, 42-year-old Theresa Benn of Calhoun County, was last seen in the predawn hours on Sunday near the track on Speedway Industrial Drive in Lincoln. MORE: Chase standings | Martinsville picks | With Earnhardt out, who will fans pull for now? He said it wasn’t known whether she made it the Geico 500 later Sunday. She was reported missing shortly before 7:30 p....

Mississippi initially launched four kinds of scratch-offs, but now sell 12, with jackpots ranging from $2,000 to $200,000. Since launching in late November, the scratch-off sales have exceeded $80 million and players have claimed more than $44 million in prizes. The Mississippi Lottery Corporation (MLC) announced on Wednesday, January 22, that it had transferred its first payment to the state. MLC transferred $7,621,232.37 in net proceeds to the Lottery Proceeds Fund in the Mississippi State Treasury....

Jennifer Salfen-Tracy shared two photos of her eldest son Cody Bishop, which she said were taken just seven months apart. The first shows him looking healthy but the second image is a stark contrast, Bishop is almost unrecognizable, his face more gaunt and his body looking much thinner. “These pictures were taken 7 months apart,” Salfen-Tracy wrote in her post on Wednesday. The post has since been shared more than 40,000 times....

Franklin, who won four gold medals at the 2012 London Olympic Games, can now earn endorsements and be paid to race, unlike in college. MORE: Rory happy with Masters prep | Every wins again at Arnold Palmer | Djokovic edges Federer The 19-year-old told the Associated Press that she has chosen Mark Ervin, who has represented Olympians Lindsay Vonn and Shaun White, as her agent. “I am so confident in my choice,” she said, per the AP....

The machines had been delivered to the United Nations World Food Programme which planned to give the computers to Syrian refugees in the Azraq camp within the Jordanian desert. According to IEEE Spectrum, the PFCs were “an enclosed chamber the size of a dorm-room refrigerator loaded with LEDs, sensors, pumps, fans, control electronics and a hydroponic tray for growing plants. PFCs are programmed to control light, humidity, and other parameters within the chamber to create the perfect conditions for growing a variety of plants....

“I’m glad it passed,” McConnell told WHAS. But don’t expect to see him celebrating its passage at the White House. McConnell confirmed he has no plans to attend Biden’s signing ceremony Monday. “I’ve got other things I’ve got to do,” he said. McConnell’s praise of the bill, which received backing from 13 Republicans in the House, came after former President Donald Trump slammed the infrastructure package and Republicans who aided its passage....

McConnell’s statement represents a difference of opinion with Trump, who said during a Fox News Radio interview in June that admitting Russian President Vladimir Putin to the next G7 meeting was “common sense.” Trump explained that having Putin present at the meetings would make discussions concerning Russia easier. “Half of the meeting is devoted to Putin,” Trump said, “and he’s not there.” When asked by reporters on Tuesday if he would support Russia retaking its place at the G7 table, McConnell said, “Absolutely not....

McConnell was speaking in Covington, Kentucky on Monday and appeared to dismiss criticism from former President Donald Trump, who had opposed passing the bill. The $1.2 trillion bipartisan package was passed by the Senate in August by a vote of 69-30 with McConnell joining 18 other Republican senators in supporting it. The bill passed the House late on Friday by a vote of 228 to 206. McConnell said on Monday: “I was delighted the House finally found a way to pass the infrastructure bill last week....

The Kentucky Republican told a Team Trump campaign broadcast on Monday night that lawmakers needed to “see what’s working” and what wasn’t working before committing to further coronavirus relief funds. He also argued that the U.S. could not “prop the economy up forever” with emergency spending bills, which have so far provided loans to businesses and checks for individual Americans. Speaking to Lara Trump on Monday night, McConnell said: “In the process of spending about $2....