By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) – Before Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez takes the mound Friday night seeking to make pitching history, his pre-game ritual will involve a trip to the barbershop. Fernandez will visit Hugo “Juice” Tandron, the heavily tattooed son of Cuban exiles who operates Major League Baseball’s only private stadium barbershop out of a converted storage room at Marlins Park. There is no set price to sit
By Patrick Johnston SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore will step in to stage a new $750,000 World Classic Championship on the Asian Tour in November after organizers of the Indonesia Open asked for their event to be postponed. The new 144-man tournament will be played at the Laguna National Golf and Country Club from Nov. 12-15, the Asian Tour said on Friday. The $750,000 Indonesia Open, won last year by triple
The New York Giants parlayed two Redskins turnovers into 14 points on Thursday en route to a 32-21 win over Washington that marked their first victory of the young NFL season. Quarterback Eli Manning completed 23 of 32 passes for 279 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions for the Giants, who opened the third week of 2015 with a much-needed victory over their NFC East division rivals. Wide receiver
The Kansas City Royals wrapped up their first division title in 30 years, clinching the American League central crown with a 10-4 win over Seattle. Mike Moustakas homered, drove in three runs and reached base five times for the Royals, who hadn’t won a division title since 1985 when they were in the AL West. Last year they made it to the Fall Classic as a wild card team, but
Filed under: Design, Home Improvement Shutterstock By Geoff Williams Even if you love where you live, if you own a home that you purchased from someone else, you’ve probably looked around your house before and wondered: “What was the builder thinking?” But not everyone goes that route. Plenty of people pay to have their home custom-built. In other words, some homeowners are the builder — or at least, they’re the
Islamic State militants have freed a Kurdish photographer they kidnapped last year in northeastern Syria as part of a prisoner swap with a Kurdish militia, the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Friday. The jihadists, who control large areas of Iraq and Syria, are still holding a Kurdish reporter they kidnapped at the same time, RSF said in a statement. Massoud Aqeel was released on Sep. 21 under
Egyptian security forces killed nine armed members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in a raid on a Cairo home on Friday, security officials said. “The Brotherhood members clashed with security forces,” said one of the officials, adding that they were meeting to plan what he called “terrorist attacks”. The Brotherhood, which was removed from power by the army in 2013, has accused authorities in the Arab world’s largest state of
PARIS (AP) — The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbing — but now the French government is trying to help their winter tourist towns adapt to a warming world.
Iran demanded Friday that it and other affected countries be represented in the Saudi investigation into the stampede that killed more than 700 pilgrims, including 131 Iranians, at this year’s hajj. “Countries such as Iran, which have suffered so much, should be represented in the inquiry to determine the causes of the catastrophe and to gain assurances that it will not be repeated in the future,” First Vice President Eshaq
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the country’s Shiite rebels as well as fighting on the ground between rebels and pro-government fighters in the southern province of Taiz have killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens, Yemen officials said Friday.