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Hernandez was at his worst Tuesday night while calling balls and strikes for the Diamondbacks-Brewers game in Milwaukee. In particular, the veteran arbiter badly missed a pitch in the ninth inning that turned a leadoff strikeout into a leadoff walk to Arizona’s Jake Lamb. Brewers catcher Manny Pina caught the ball somewhat awkwardly, but a major league ump, especially one who has been in the bigs since 1991, should not be fooled by that....

I also came to find Lawrence Formosa, who from this perch is trying to galvanize a revival of falconry in the archipelago nation after the practice disappeared for centuries. Dressed in traditional Maltese garb, he had a barn owl and sparrow hawk with him on nearby posts. But there were no falcons in sight. Soon, though, it may be possible for travelers to experience falconry with greater frequency. That’s because with amped-up falconry rules and more stringent bird conservation laws in Malta, falconry is seeing a revival in the country with clubs, activists, and sanctuaries supporting these famed birds of prey....

The show in Cleveland is especially dramatic. It’s installed in deep-blue, otherworldly galleries, punctuated by spotlights on the objects. Hardly anybody could fail to get tingly in front of 3,300-year-old art that was part of a stylistic tradition starting 50 centuries ago and lasting until well after the birth of Christ. “Amenhotep III” documents the reign of a New Kingdom pharaoh who ruled from 1391 to 1353 B.C., a relatively peaceful king who buttressed Egypt’s power not with conquest but with a stable agrarian economy....

Details of the discovery have been published in Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology. In the study, the team analyzed 100 coins that had been found trapped beneath the paving slabs that would have made up the walkway—which stretched between the Pool of Siloam and Temple Mount. The latest of the coins found dated to between 17 and 31 AD—a period when Pontius Pilate governed Judea—suggesting work was completed on the street around this time....

As the summer of 1957 came to an end, Arkansas had seemed an unlikely place for violent racial confrontation. With its relatively small percentage of blacks, it was like a border-state city, a place where race did not appear to be a hot political issue. A number of Arkansas school districts had already integrated without incident. Orval Faubus, the governor, was a hill-country populist seemingly devoid of racial prejudice. At first he had signaled his acquiescence to Brown and his support of the quite modest local plan to integrate Central....

AndaSeat Releases T-Pro 2 Gaming Chair Head over to andaseat.com and you’ll notice there are several fresh additions to the AndaSeat family. One being the T-Pro 2 Series premium gaming chair. If you think the AndaSeat Fnatic Edition is cool, then check out this almighty throne. This is a really formidable gaming chair. AndaSeat describe as “king size” by AndaSeat, and with good reason. Thanks to its oversized frame, it will gladly welcome anyone 210 cm (six foot ten inches) or under....

Maria Schiaro, CNN aviation analyst and attorney for families of victims of transportation accidents, was Cooper’s guest on the program. Schiaro noted that the plane had fine climb, good ground speed and good altitude before it was engulfed. Cooper noted there was no mayday call, and that the airport was a difficult for one to fly in and out. “The fact that there was military activity in Iran, and, you know, the missile attacks into Iraq, it’s obviously either a coincidence or there is some linkage there in some way,” Cooper said to the guest....

England’s leading wicket-taker in the longest form of the game became only the fourth man to achieve the feat when Liam Dawson took an excellent catch at backward point to get rid of Elgar early on the opening day of the second Test in Nottingham. Spinners Muttiah Muralitharan, Anil Kumble and Shane Warne are the other bowlers to have claimed 300 Test wickets in their respective homelands. Anderson is unsurprisingly the only player from any nation to reach that landmark in Tests played in England and Wales....

Broad, whose tally of 399 Test wickets puts him second on England’s all-time list behind Anderson, has not taken the new ball in either of his side’s warm-up games against a New Zealand XI this week. Instead, Mark Wood and Chris Woakes have opened the bowling with Anderson, who spoke to the media on Friday after England had taken 13 wickets on the opening day of their second practice match....

As expected, they were better off with their feet than their hands. They should consider themselves lucky not to be speared by one of the university’s 6+ feet 300 pound giants: 0 votes

The 13-year veteran is retiring, per Basketball Insiders’ David Pick. The Russian big man played a total of 19 years of pro ball, six of them overseas. Kirilenko spent ten years with the Jazz, earning three NBA All-Defensive nods and being named to one All-Star team. He spent one year with the Timberwolves and one and a half years with the Nets before being traded to the Sixers earlier this season, though he never actually played a game for Philadelphia....

According to the Boston Herald, the Red Sox will call up highly touted outfielder Andrew Benintendi on Tuesday. Benintendi will skip Triple-A Pawtucket outright and join Boston in Seattle. MORE: MLB trade deadline winners and losers Benintendi, 22, was a first-round draft pick, seventh overall, just a year ago. He has batted .312/.378/.532 with nine homers, 76 RBI and 16 steals over 97 games this season between High-A Salem and Double-A Portland....

But what he failed to mention was more pertinent than his philosophic musings about mortality. Because if anybody deserves some blame for what occurred in New York’s nursing homes, it is Andrew Cuomo. The pandemic turned the three-term governor into a media star. Cuomo’s ability to show empathy for victims while demonstrating that he was in charge during the crisis turned his daily pressers into must-see TV. The contrast between the governor’s sensitive performances and President Donald Trump’s press briefings—which provided a mix of boasts and hand-to-hand combat with a hostile press—was widely noted....

“It just felt like I was in a living hell," the 30-year-old Andrews told Sync Weekly, a website affiliated with the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Andrews, who last played in the NFL for the Giants in 2010, played collegiately for Arkansas. Andrews started at right guard for the Eagles from 2005-07, blocking for McNabb — and he said that the star who had his number retired by the franchise in September treated him worst of all....

Before updating your S2 to Android 4.2 update makes sure it is model no 19100. If you try to use these updates to upgrade firmware on other phones it may lead to damage. Caution: We are not responsible for updates from developers and if any damage it causes to your phone Make sure your phone has 80% battery and all your data is backed up before, initiating the update. Your phone should also be in USB debugging mode....

It wasn’t luck, either; Ruiz knocked down Joshua four times before the referee stopped the fight in the seventh round. Ruiz is now 33-1 and is the first heavyweight champion of Mexican descent, something one very famous Mexican boxer noted. Jarrell Miller “Big Baby” was supposed to be Joshua’s opponent but he failed multiple drug tests, which allowed Ruiz to sign for the fight on short notice. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year...

Victor Rojas provides a lot of information right from the start as the Angels open a series against the Twins. He ticks off Minnesota’s road record, how the Angels fared against the Twins last year, Danny Santana’s minor league stolen base totals, C.J. Wilson’s performance in his previous home start — it’s a good way to get into the series and the game. Mark Gubicza talks about Wilson’s pace, and seems content to make his points without beating you over the head with them....

The company eventually embraced Rafer Alston, nicknamed “Skip To My Lou,” as the embodiment of its brand. His prowess on New York City playgrounds spread throughout the country — forget that, the world — after And 1 featured him in several of its streetball mixtapes. Thursday, And 1 released a nine-plus-minute video of Alston’s greatest moments on the blacktop, and it’s a reminder why he’s the definitive streetball player of his era....

“Mo’ne Davis: Remember My Name” will be released next March by HarperCollins Children’s Books, the publisher told The Associated Press on Monday. The book’s cover. (AP Photo/Harper Collins) MORE: Mo’ne Davis in photos The honor roll student from Philadelphia became a sensation last summer after leading the Taney Dragons to a 4-0 victory over Nashville, when she was just 13. Known for her long braids and uncommon poise, she has since appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, thrown out the first pitch at a major league World Series game and starred in a car commercial directed by Spike Lee....

As long as En Vogue keeps singing, they can love or not love each other as much as they wish. They know what really matters: with “EV3,” they want to reassert themselves as preeminent divas of'90s R&B. “EV3” has all the right ingredients. There’s a sure-fire hit from Babyface, an already platinum single from the sound-track to “Set It Off’ plus lots more deep funk, sweet sass, old-fashioned romance and bedroom steam....