Here are more strange-but-true minor league swaps: MORE: Best MiLB states | 17-inning no-hitter | Fenced in | Identity theft MUSCLE FOR MUSSEL: The Dallas Submarines had an oceanic name, so it made sense when they traded for seafood. The Texas League club sent pitcher John Martina to New Orleans for two barrels of oysters in 1921. Martina pitched in the Major Leagues for Washington a few years later, where teammates called him “Oyster Joe....

Scully, who died Tuesday at 94, said: “Being Irish, being Catholic, from the first day I can remember, I was told about death. Death is a constant companion in our religion. You live with it easily; it is not a morbid thought. “That has given me the perspective that whatever I have can disappear in 30 seconds. And being out on the road as much as I am, I realize I am killing the most precious thing I have — time....

The board of directors retained its 10-player limit imposed on voters despite a proposal by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, whose veteran members cast the ballots, to raise the maximum to 12 players. MORE: Classic Sporting News covers of Baseball Hall of Famers “At some point, there has to be a line drawn,” Brad Horn, the Hall’s vice president of communications and education, told ESPN.com. “To retain the exclusivity of the Baseball Hall of Fame, entering the Hall of Fame should be difficult....

Griffey blasted 630 home runs while making 13 All-Star teams and earning 10 Gold Glove awards. He will no doubt become the first Mariner inducted into the Hall of Fame a year from now. MORE: The worst Hall of Fame selections ever But what about the rest of the BBWAA ballot? Here’s a partial list of those who will be eligible for the first time in 2016: Garret Anderson, Brad Ausmus, Luis Castillo, Jim Edmonds, Troy Glaus, Mark Grudzielanek, Jose Guillen, Mike Hampton, Trevor Hoffman, Jason Kendall, Mike Lowell, Russ Ortiz, Chan Ho Park, Mike Sweeney and Billy Wagner....

Syria’s leadership has remained in the Assad family for five decades. Citizens in government-controlled areas of the war-torn nation headed to polling stations on Wednesday to vote in the second presidential election since civil war broke out in 2011 after protests emerged against the Assad family’s rule. “The Assad regime’s so-called presidential election is neither free nor fair,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. “The U....

The six-year NFL veteran was charged with possession of less than 28 grams of marijuana or 10 grams of hash; driving with an open container of alcohol; driving without a license; and resisting arrest. He was held at the York County Jail. On Wednesday, Breeland explained the circumstances of his arrest, saying the drugs for which he was charged did not belong to him. In since-deleted tweets, he said two men approached his car at the gas station and, when police pulled up, they threw “something” in his car and he was the one who was detained....

Josh Scott's job that September day was to keep everybody working as a unit to accomplish the task — just in a different forum than usual for a group of young men accustomed to countless hours on the practice court. "Josh Scott, one of our best players, may have the best season out of all of us, but there was an exercise where he had to be on the bike trying to command the unit," Colorado junior guard Spencer Dinwiddie recalled....

Acoustic surveys were used to monitor the impact wildfire had on the region’s 17 species of bats from 2014 to 2017. This included testing the effects of burn severity and its effects on species diversity. By and large, populations appeared to benefit from the flames or, more specifically, the conditions they created, with burned forests of moderate to severe intensity hosting more species of bats than unburned forests (11 versus 8 species)....

The Belgian has been strongly linked with a loan move as the Premier League champions have been linked with several strikers to compliment Alvaro Morata. With Morata absent, Batshuayi struck a first-half brace to take his tally for the season to 10 in all competitions as Chelsea downed Newcastle United 3-0 in the FA Cup on Sunday. But the 24-year-old is unsure whether his double will be enough to keep him in manager Antonio Conte’s plans for the rest of the season....

Democratic State Assemblywoman Christy Smith is trailing her GOP incumbent opponent, Rep. Mike Garcia, by just one point—45 percent to 46 percent—in California’s 25th Congressional District. The poll was conducted by the Democratic firm Global Strategy Group from August 26-30 among 400 likely voters. It has a margin of error or plus or minus 4.9 percent. The seat is high on Democrats’ radar, having lost it in a special election in May after Rep....

Doctors aren’t sure why ibuprofen seems to work against Alzheimer’s, a disease afflicting an estimated 4 million Americans, the majority of them over 65. The uncertainty comes, in large part, because doctors still know so little about the disease itself. Alzheimer’s eats away at brain cells, causing disorientation, dementia and, eventually, death. Autopsies have revealed that Alzheimer’s victims frequent- ly experience inflammation in the folds of the brain, perhaps caused by gummy deposits of plaque....

‘Pep videos bore Man City squad’ A report in Germany has claimed that the European champions are interested in signing the 25-year-old as they look to bolster their goalkeeping options for next season. Madrid have been heavily linked with Manchester United’s David de Gea and Thibaut Courtois of Chelsea, but Leno has reportedly emerged as a more viable option as he is said to have a release clause in his Leverkusen contract of just €20million....

According to widespread reports in Austria, Dreesen suffered a serious injury to his hand when his rifle accidentally went off on his shoulder as he was walking to his car. Police in the country, which borders Germany, confirmed that a 50-year-old had shot himself by mistake on Thursday evening. “The hunter in question had his rifle over his shoulder, he walked over to his car, then a shot was released with his left hand over the barrel of the gun,” a police officer told SID....

Bayern 6/1 with dabblebet to win CL Bayern fans have become so accustomed to winning that even their pre-season friendly performances were seen as disastrous for Ancelotti. Having begun their summer campaign with four comfortable wins against fellow German clubs, they struggled to replicate those results when pitted against European sides, with their International Champions Cup performances leaving a lot to be desired. A win against Chelsea was a rare bright spot, but defeats to the likes of Milan, Napoli and Liverpool caused people around the club to question Ancelotti - even before the season had begun....

A two-time Bundesliga champion, the 27-year-old also boasts a World Cup winners’ medal. His efforts at Borussia Dortmund brought him to the attention of a global audience and saw him take up a standing as one of football’s finest centre-halves. Lewandowski MOCKS Ballon d’Or Bayern Munich, having allowed him to slip through their grasp once before, are not the type of club to pass up on such talent. They moved to bring him back to Bavaria over the summer, and Hummels has slipped seamlessly into the fold at the Allianz Arena....

McLane Stadium, a $266 million facility, opened last week, and among all its bells and whistles is a recruiting suite at field level in the corner of the northwest end zone. It’s reserved for recruits across all sports and their families to gather for Baylor home games. Those individuals have a view to pregame activities looking through a glass wall to the field. Per NCAA rules, those recruits must leave the suite before kickoff and watch the game from their designated seats, according to officials involved in the stadium project....

He’s the freakish, brute-like defensive end for the Baylor Bears. The guy who became an internet meme during the Cotton Bowl against Michigan State because of his Terminator-like build. MORE: Coach rankings, 1 to 128 | SN Top 25 | Bears’ new QB is an athletic freak Well, he’s back. instead of eating running backs for breakfast, lunch and dinner, he’s doing 40-inch box jumps while holding 70-pound dumbells....

The Wildcats likely would have been a No. 3 seed or a No. 4 at the lowest, meaning West Virginia might have been knocked down a line and perhaps Villanova dealing with the zone-defense complications of old rival Syracuse. Maybe they’d have wound up opposite Southern California in the West Region, and Kansas would not have absorbed a loss so profound it nearly sent them back to the pre-Naismith days....

The Proms, or the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, is an eight-week series of daily classical music concerts and other events held annually, typically inside London’s Royal Albert Hall. Two classic British anthems, “Rule, Britannia!” and “Land of Hope and Glory,” could be removed from the Last Night of the Proms, according to multiple reports. The news comes amid the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, a primary actor in recent protests around the world against systemic racism and police brutality following the May 25 police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis....

Max was left in the shelter’s parking lot by his owner, who simply walked him to the side of the building and left. But Max is now recovering, on medication from a stretched ligament, in a “loving home.” The location however has been kept secret, in fear of his previous owners discovering Max’s whereabouts. “Today I got an update on Max. Max was the beagle that was dumped in the parking lot of our shelter,” wrote the Humane Society of Wicomico County in a social media post....