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Alexa Jo arrived at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, carrying a small round bag with two shoulder straps. But as she explained in a video on her TikTok account, @alexajo64, officials said the bag fell foul of its security policy, which states that backpacks aren’t allowed. Alexa Jo, who shared the clip last week, said: “Security told me I couldn’t go into the Phillies game.” The video then shows Alexa Jo and the man with her attempting to “customize” the small black bag so it meets the rules....

Neither of these pitchers were among the 20 or 25 best starters in baseball in these seasons. In fact, they may not have even been top 50. But through the first three months, they had won a handful of games and had sub-3.00 ERAs. MORE: Baseball’s best comeback stories in 2015 | Your team doesn’t deserve Cole Hamels Oddsmakers never made any adjustments to these pitchers’ betting lines, because Simon and Locke found good fortune over the first half of the season and were due to regress....

The latest survey from CNBC and Change Research found that 60 percent of voters in the six swing states who tuned into the DNC had a “very positive” opinion of Biden’s address, while a further 11 percent said they had a “somewhat positive” reaction. Battleground state voters who took a poor view of the Democratic presidential nominee’s speech were in the minority, with a combined 29 percent taking a very or somewhat negative view of Biden’s 24-minute keynote....

The Brazil international has generated plenty of transfer talk of late after finding himself stuck behind Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery in the Allianz Arena pecking order. Bayern president Uli Hoeness has previously suggested that a sale could be sanctioned if any suitor met the required asking price, with talk of €40 million valuations doing the rounds. Hitzfeld: Ronaldo would cause Bayern rift Rummenigge, though, believes Costa’s services could be retained, with Juve said to be cooling on a deal and Bayern eager to keep strength in depth within their ranks....

Europe Team of the Season so far Brandt has developed into a key figure at Leverkusen since joining the club from Wolfsburg in 2013 and has been linked with a move to a bigger side on more than one occasion in recent months. The 20-year-old is in no rush to move on, though, even if he is keeping all his options open. “I do not have a set career plan....

The two champions of their domestic leagues have had similar results in the competition to date, easily seeing off Anderlecht but falling heavily against Paris Saint-Germain. Since the Germans were thumped at Parc des Princes last month, they have replaced Carlo Ancelotti with Jupp Heynckes and need an instant reaction in Europe, with this double header set to be crucial. TV CHANNEL & LIVE STREAM In the UK, the game will be available to watch live on television on BT Sport ESPN, as well as being available to stream live on the BT Sport app....

Three years ago, Baylor was without a home. Three years ago, Baylor’s best hope to stay relevant in the fluid and frenetic world of conference expansion was Conference USA. Or the now defunct Big East. Or going it alone as an independent. “Our summer of discontent,” says Baylor president Ken Starr. Now look: drive south down I-35, roll up one of those rare hills in Central Texas and see what Art Briles built rise before your eyes....

We see a game-winning kick after a last-minute drive, one that capped a 21-point comeback and produced enough jaw drops to last an offseason, and think at some point, maybe someone in the Big 12 should think about playing defense. Now let me introduce those you laugh at, those who week after week know they’re one play away from disaster. MORE: Baylor’s game-winning kick | Scouting Bryce Petty | Best of Week 7 | Top 25 roundup...

The opportunity to win a World Series in 2014 is as wide-open as we’ve seen in a long, long time. The A’s (59 wins) and the Angels (57 wins) have been baseball’s two best teams in the first half of the season, but there’s an amazing logjam behind those two squads. Check out this rampant parity: 10 teams have 51, 52, 53 or 54 wins, and another five have at least 47 wins and a ....

That is especially true when it comes to throwing punches. Late in the third quarter of the Buccaneers’ 38-3 blowout of the Bears on Sunday, Chicago defensive tackle Bilal Nichols threw a closed-fist punch at Buccaneers center Ryan Jensen. The result was an ejection for Nichols, a gain of 2 yards — half the distance to the goal — on the personal foul and a Tampa Bay first down....

Bears running back Jeremy Langford will miss some time because of a sprained ankle, Bears coach John Fox said Monday. While Fox wouldn’t specify how long Langford would be out, ESPN reported he would miss 4 to 6 weeks. MORE: Best images from Week 3 The second-year running back from Michigan State rushed for 116 yards and two touchdowns in three games before being carted off the field during the third quarter of Chicago’s 31-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night....

Chicago was called for a season-high 12 penalties in its game vs. the Steelers, costing them 115 yards in total. But there was one penalty in the fourth quarter that allowed the home team to extend the drive and kick a field goal in what was ultimately a 29-27 win for Pittsburgh. MORE: Will Matt Nagy be fired by the Bears? The Bears trailed the Steelers 23-20 with 3:40 left in the game....

Of course, with MisterBibiNetanyahu involved – this is often pronounced as one word, especially by his opponents – the campaign was bound to get personal. He is a different sort of Israeli politician: young (46), facile, hot-tempered, relatively inexperienced. He did not work his way up through the party ranks, or lead the nation in battle – the usual paths to power. He stormed the parapets of “Nightline” and CNN....

The report, Beaver Engineering: Tracking a New Disturbance in the Arctic, is part of the Arctic Report Card 2021, published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In it, scientists used satellite images to plot how beavers have entered the Arctic and taken over large areas. Their findings showed that in western Alaska, there are now over 12,000 beaver ponds. This is twice the number seen 20 years ago....

Residents of Tumbler Ridge, four hours northeast of Prince George, were in the middle of a two-day Telus outage over the weekend, due to beavers biting through a 4.5-inch thick tube that provides the internet connection, CTV News reported Sunday. On Saturday, just after 4 a.m. local time, internet services for around 900 homes and businesses, as well as cable service for 60 customers, were disrupted, and electricians were sent to investigate....

A 12-year-old Frazier dominated in leading Toms River, N.J., to a 12-9 victory over Japan for the Little League Championship. Frazier hit .600 for the tournament and belted a home run in the title game. MORE: LIVE Home Run Derby tracker | Best career All-Star Game performances | All-time Home Run Derby winners Frazier’s excellence as a youngster was just a sign of things to come.

The West epitomizes individualistic, do-your-own thing cultures, ones where the rights of the individual equal and often trump those of the group and where differences are valued. East Asian societies exalt the larger society: behavior is constrained by social roles, conformity is prized, outsiders shunned. “The individualist-collectivist split is one of the most powerful differences among cultures,” says Nisbett. But the reason a society falls where it does on the individualism-collectivism spectrum has been pretty much a mystery....

They got the wigs right, and Bening took care of the rest. She has been nominated for three Oscars–for best supporting actress in “The Grifters,” and for best actress in “American Beauty” and “Being Julia.” This year she’s almost certain to get another shot at the gold for her performance as a narcissistic, mentally ill mother in “Scissors,” based on Augusten Burroughs’s best-selling memoir. Her character, Deirdre, gives up teenage Augusten (Joseph Cross) for adoption to her quack psychiatrist (Brian Cox), while she dreams of becoming the next Anne Sexton....