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Murphy, Mets beat Cubs 5-2 for commanding 3-0 lead in NLCS (Yahoo Sports)
Daniel Murphy is a contact hitter known for shaky fielding and occasionally getting lost on the bases. This playoff impersonation of Babe Ruth, Roberto Alomar and Derek Jeter all rolled into one, he can’t explain it. ”Question is, who is this guy?” skipper Terry Collins said.
Blue Jackets fire Todd Richards, hire John Tortorella (Yahoo Sports)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After an 0-7 start, the Columbus Blue Jackets have fired coach Todd Richards and replaced him with John Tortorella.
Royals rout Blue Jays 14-2, 1 win from World Series return (Yahoo Sports)
Whether it’s a long ball by Ben Zobrist, a slashing single from Lorenzo Cain or another exhilarating trip around the bases for Alcides Escobar, these Kansas City Royals are relentless – and one win from a return trip to the World Series. Zobrist hit a two-run homer on knuckleballer R.A. Dickey’s fourth pitch of the game, Alex Rios connected an inning later against his former team and the Royals romped
No. 1 Ohio State will start JT Barrett over Jones at QB (Yahoo Sports)
The starting quarterback job at Ohio State is J.T. Barrett’s now. Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer announced that Barrett would replace Cardale Jones as the starter when No. 1 Ohio State plays at Rutgers on Saturday. The move seemed inevitable after Barrett accounted for four touchdowns in relief of Jones against Penn State on Saturday.
Assad flies to Moscow to thank Putin for Syria air strikes
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow on Tuesday evening to thank Russia’s Vladimir Putin personally for his military support, in a surprise visit that underlined how Russia has become a major player in the Middle East. It was Assad’s first foreign visit since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, and came three weeks after Russia launched a campaign of air strikes
Iran's Khamenei conditionally approves nuclear deal with powers
By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday approved the Iranian government’s nuclear deal with world powers but said Tehran should not give up core elements of its atomic program until allegations of past military dimensions had been settled. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, whose pragmatist approach opened the door to nuclear diplomacy with the West, Khamenei ordered the July 14 agreement to
U.S. to raise Iran missile test at United Nations on Wednesday
The United States plans to raise Iran’s recent missile test in the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, U.N. diplomats said, after Washington declared that the launch had violated a U.N. ban on ballistic missile tests by Tehran. Iran said this month it had tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile.
Israel's Netanyahu stirs trouble by linking late Muslim leader to Holocaust
By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In a speech to the Zionist Congress late on Tuesday, Netanyahu referred to a series of Muslim attacks on Jews in Palestine during the 1920s that he said were
Pilot killed as US Navy jet crashes near UK base
A US F-18 fighter jet crashed near a British air base on Wednesday, killing the pilot, police and the US Embassy in London said. The single-seater US Navy plane came down near the town of Ely, around 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of London, after taking off from RAF Lakenheath airforce base in Suffolk. “We can confirm that the aircraft was a military aircraft,” a police spokesman said.