Minnesota turned a triple play for just the 13th time in club history in the first inning. Yankees designated hitter Edwin Encarnación hit a grounder to third baseman Luis Arráez, who threw to Jonathan Schoop covering second base before Schoop found first baseman Miguel Sanó to complete the play. The Twins ended up winning 8-6. The Twins hit five home runs to come away with the victory. Catcher Mitch Garver blasted two of those while going 3 for 4 at the plate....

Get the latest MLS odds Reigning MVP David Villa boasts the highest rating at 92, with Sebastian Giovinco at 91 and the duo of Michael Bradley and Bastian Schweinsteiger at 90. The Team of the Season starters mirror the All-Star Fan XI, voted on by the league’s supporters and unveiled last month. FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM OF THE SEASON - MLS Goalkeeper: Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids) Defenders: DaMarcus Beasley (Houston Dynamo), Greg Garza (Atlanta United), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)...

An 84th-minute goal from debutante Niko Hansen saw the Crew past the Timbers 3-2, ending Portland’s perfect start to the season and sending Columbus top of the Eastern Conference. Pulisic shines as playmaker Dairon Asprilla’s brilliant finish had put Portland ahead in the fourth minute away from home in Ohio on Saturday. But the home side struck twice in quick succession, Justin Meram scrambling in from a corner before Ola Kamara looped a finish over Timbers goalkeeper Jake Gleeson, who had come to collect a Federico Higuain pass....

High-flying Chicago defeated Atlanta United 2-0, while Portland beat FC Dallas by the same scoreline. WATCH: Drogba scores on USL debut Riding a six-game unbeaten streak, the Fire extended that run thanks to Luis Solignac and Nemanja Nikolic at Toyota Park. After Hector Villalba came close to opening the scoring for Atlanta, Solignac broke the deadlock just shy of the half-hour mark. David Accam showed great composure as he rounded the goalkeeper and teed up Solignac, who side-footed home....

Ibrahimovic has made an immediate impact in California following his arrival from Premier League giants United, scoring twice in his match-winning debut against neighbours Los Angeles FC March 31. And the 36-year-old Swede continued his inspired form for the Galaxy Saturday, scoring the winner in the first half at a sold-out Toyota Park in Chicago. After Ola Kamara had two goals ruled out for offside in the opening stages of the match, Ibrahimovic broke the deadlock on the stroke of halftime when he headed Ashley Cole’s cross past Fire goalkeeper Richard Sanchez....

MLS Week 28 offered a snapshot to one dynasty’s journey to rock bottom, while another dynasty in the making reached a significant milestone. The LA Galaxy’s embarrassing 4-0 loss to a shorthanded Toronto FC saw them suffer their 10th defeat in 13 matches, the worst current run in the league. It’s a stretch that has allowed the once-mighty Galaxy to drop to 21st out of 22 MLS teams, just one point ahead of the lowly Colorado Rapids....

Farah clinched his 5,000-10,000 meter double at the European Championships on Sunday, giving his troubled season a golden finish that now makes him the double long distance champion at continental, world and Olympic levels, all at the same time. While Usain Bolt can major in sprint triples, Farah has two races to excel at — but he does so with equal style. And with three doubles in the bag, Farah is looking at a new cycle that starts with the world championships in Beijing next year....

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington-based think tank, said the announcement on September 21 “reflected many problems Russia faces in its faltering invasion of Ukraine that Moscow is unlikely to be able to resolve in the coming months.” Over the space of a few days in early to mid-September, the Ukrainian armed forces inflicted a humiliating defeat on Moscow, reclaiming some 3,000 square miles of Russian-occupied territory in the south of the country....

Zinedine Zidane’s men made it 39 matches unbeaten – matching Barcelona’s all-time Spanish record in the process – as Isco hit a brace. Cristiano Ronaldo was also on target after a pre-match presentation to celebrate his fourth Ballon d’Or win, with Karim Benzema and Casemiro the other Madrid players among the goals to maintain the momentum from the 3-0 midweek win over Sevilla in the Copa del Rey. Happy New Year for Ronaldo & Real...

Since the Algeria international joined the Reds in the summer of 2017, he has put up eye-catching performances. The former Roma player boasts of 28 goals and seven assists in 34 appearances this season and only Harry Kane has more goals in the English Premier League than his 21. And the former England international is optimistic that the forward will score even more. “He’s been phenomenal,” Fowler told Daily Star....

Salah made four league appearances for the Anfield outfit during March, scoring six goals including a haul of four in a 5-0 humiliation of Watford before the international break. The feat was sandwiched by a strike against Newcastle United and last week’s late winner against Crystal Palace. Challenging the fleet-footed winger for the accolade are David Silva [Manchester City], Romelu Lukaku [Manchester United], Son Heung-min [Tottenham Hotspur], Cenk Tosun [Everton] and Chris Wood [Burnley]....

Several houses were damaged when one of the Russian missiles fired at Ukraine was shot down, the ministry said in a press release. “The missile, shot down by the Ukrainian air defense system, fell in the northern part of the village of Naslavcea of the Republic of Moldova, which is located on the border with Ukraine,” it said. The ministry said that at the moment, there are no casualties, but windows were broken in several houses in the village, which is located across the river from the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine....

Before we went to Hank and Shauna’s we went to the EMP, the Experience Music Project. The actual architecture on the outside is really unforgettable. Half of it is like a brushed steel bubble, and when you go inside, you see lots of totally bent three-ton iron beams. Awesome! Of course, it costs 20 bucks for an adult to get in, so (as cheap as we are) we just shopped around the gift shop....

In 2022, smartphones, tablets, game consoles, TVs, and computers quickly become a part of a child’s life, and research shows that children aged eight-to-12 in the U.S. spend an average of between four and six hours a day looking at, or using, screens. But one parent with a vigilant attitude to their child’s screen time habits has been told to “relax” online this week after sharing her annoyance that her sister broke the screen time rules while caring for her one-year-old son....

Posting to TikTok on Friday, user katelynpparkinson99 shared a video (which can be seen here) explaining how the Montessori method—a teaching technique based on self-directed learning and hands-on play—helped to create the amazing friendship between her 9-month-old twins. In the babycam footage, which has more than 2 million views and 14,000 comments, Parkinson explains how she initially used the method to help her children to fall asleep. She said: “We skipped cribs....

In a post to the Am I the A******? (AITA) subreddit on January 21, user u/Different_Tour_9932 said her 31-year-old daughter had recently moved back to the U.K. after spending four years living abroad. The daughter is currently staying with Different_Tour_9932 while she waits for her new flat to be ready in February. She offered to pay rent, but the poster declined. Although happy that her daughter is home, Different_Tour_9932 has developed a hatred of her adult child’s online shopping....

Posting to TikTok, Dakota Dudley (@babywearingmama) said her daughter’s body mass index (BMI) is “a little high” and her doctor is “very concerned” about her baby’s weight. The video has garnered over 620,000 views and thousands of comments encouraging the mom to find a new pediatrician. BMI and Babies Developed in 1832, body mass index is a person’s weight-to-height ratio used to determine the amount of body fat they have, according to the Cleveland Clinic....

Arguments over untidy rooms are nothing new when it comes to family dynamics. However, one mom appears to have responded to the problem in the most extreme way possible: by selling her son’s bed and other furniture in his room. In what is purported to be a Facebook marketplace post shared to Reddit, the young man’s double Ikea Malm bed is listed for sale. Writing alongside several photographs of the bed, his mother explains that the sale is an act of “tough love” on her part....

Essie McKenzie filed a civil lawsuit against Walmart in June, according to local station KSTP-TV. Around 7 a.m. on August 6, 2019, McKenzie left her two daughters napping in her parked car while she shopped at a Walmart in Fridley, Minnesota. The girls were tired after she had brought them along to drop off relatives at the airport early that morning, so she decided to let them keep sleeping while she shopped for groceries, McKenzie said in her lawsuit....