Gleyber Torres helps power bounce-back Yankees effort in win over Blue Jays
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Gleyber Torres helps power bounce-back Yankees effort in win over Blue Jays

ByNews Polite

On two occasions Saturday, the Yankees’ hustle was rewarded. A sprinting Ben Rice made the Blue Jays pay when they literally dropped the ball. Gleyber Torres — yes, Gleyber Torres — dashed hard from first base to second to beat out what might have been a double play. Gleyber Torres…

Pellegrino Matarazzo emerges as top choice for USMNT job
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Pellegrino Matarazzo emerges as top choice for USMNT job

ByNews Polite

A top head-coaching choice has emerged for the United States Men’s National Team. The United States Soccer Federation is offering Pellegrino Matarazzo, an American who manages German club TSG Hoffenheim, its open job, according to German outlet Bild. Sky Sports reported that Matarazzo has been identified as the USSF’s top…

Dak Prescott is ‘confident’ agent, Cowboys will agree on contract extension
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Dak Prescott is ‘confident’ agent, Cowboys will agree on contract extension

ByNews Polite

Dak Prescott may not care about exactly where his contract extension lands, but that doesn’t mean he’s giving way in talks with the Cowboys and Jerry Jones. “I’m a guy that grew up with two older brothers,” Prescott told reporters in Oxnard, California on Friday. “You understand what a brotherhood…

Guram Tushishvili kicked out of Olympics after post-match groin kick
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Guram Tushishvili kicked out of Olympics after post-match groin kick

ByNews Polite

The Olympic 100 kg judo competition was marked by a bizarre incident in which a Georgian competitor was disqualified after unsportsmanlike behavior towards Frenchman and favorite Teddy Riner. Riner’s quarterfinal match against Guram Tushishvili ended in disqualification for Tushishvili after an apparent winning move for Riner. The Georgian drove his…

Ex-MLB player Todd Hollandsworth, wife scammed out of 5K from Florida man Lonnie Moss
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Ex-MLB player Todd Hollandsworth, wife scammed out of $325K from Florida man Lonnie Moss

ByNews Polite

A former MLB player and his wife were scammed out of $325,000 when they invested the money with a “friend” who promised them an eight-figure return in less than a year. Todd Hollandsworth, who played 12 seasons in the MLB, and his wife Marci gave the money to Lonni and…

Suni Lee’s two medals at Olympics go ‘deeper than gymnastics’ after scary health battle
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Suni Lee’s two medals at Olympics go ‘deeper than gymnastics’ after scary health battle

ByNews Polite

Suni Lee didn’t think she’d be back here. The star American gymnast, who returned to the Olympics this summer, is once again a multiple-time medalist, winning gold in the team all-around and a bronze in the individual all-around competition. But her achievement comes after a major health scare, where the…

Yankees’ Gleyber Torres opens up about getting benched after dogging it on basepaths
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Yankees’ Gleyber Torres opens up about getting benched after dogging it on basepaths

ByNews Polite

Gleyber Torres admitted the obvious: He didn’t run hard out of the batter’s box, and manager Aaron Boone made the correct decision by benching him for most of Friday night’s 8-5 loss to the Blue Jays in The Bronx.  “I think he did the right thing, especially in the moment,”…

Olympics triathlete steaming after seeing reports after Seine swim
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Olympics triathlete steaming after seeing reports after Seine swim

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Belgian triathlete Jolien Vermeylen is back in the headlines. This comes after she seemingly described swimming in the Seine as a “dirty experience” and that she “felt and saw things that we shouldn’t think about too much.” Vermeylen, according to multiple outlets added that: “We’ll know tomorrow if I’m sick…