Doolittle:The name that leaps to mind is Dan Halem, who is to Manfred as Manfred was to Bud Selig. We'll know if that's Manfred's preference if Halem's public profile is pushed over the next few years. Thinking of this from the perspective of what's ideal for the game,...
Harbaugh looked into NFL jobs the last two years before deciding to stay at Michigan. It's possible he won't this time, especially with the school facing possible NCAA sanctions for recruiting violations and the sign-stealing scandal that hung...
McTaggart:Even though there were no fans in the stands for most of last year, it was clear the fallout from the sign-stealing scandal weighed on the Astros on the field. This year, I think they're feeding off of it. Altuve hit agame-winning homerat Yankee Stadium in the eighth inning...
Jan 11, 2025 ~ "The United Kingdom’s Long-Delayed Reckoning on ‘Grooming Gangs’" "In Telford, Lucy Lowe died at 16 alongside her mother and sister when her abuser set fire to her home in 2000. She had given birth to Azhar Ali Mahmood’s child when she was just 14, and was pre...
One of the most controversial episodes of the Watergate scandal, the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” came on October 20, 1973, when embattled President Richard Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney Gener...
Things have obviously changed since Opening Day 1962, the last time an offseason sign-stealing scandal rocked a league like this. Back then, the defending National League champion Reds were implicated by one of their pitchers in a scheme similar to the one the 2017 Astros used. When they ...
An infamous example of this occurred in the2003New York Timesplagiarism scandalinvolving former journalist Jayson Blair. It was discovered that Blair made up many of the facts in his stories and repeatedly plagiarized other newspapers. Blair resigned from the newspaper and would never work in journal...
Bankman-Fried was convicted in November 2023 on criminal charges for which he was extradited from The Bahamas to the U.S. Bankman-Fried was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $8 billion from customers. What Happened to FTX?
But as her family looked around, they saw testaments to a life Birchmore meant to go on living: the new stroller; a baby car seat, still in its box; the joyful sign she’d made to tell Matthew Farwell her news. There was the half-done wash, one load in the washer, ...
During the scandal, Ashcroft was among the loudest and shrillest voices for impeachment.There have been many calls to President-elect Bush to pardon his predecessor as a sign of peace, but he made a point of rejecting them.Ashcroft lost his Missouri Senate seat to the widow of the state's...