The Pittsburgh Pirates continued to stockpile starting pitching in the MLB Draft, selecting right-hander Angel Cervantes in the second round, but added a pair of college hitters to finish out the first day. A 6-foot-3, 195-pounder from Downey (Calif.) Warren High School, Cervantes is a UCLA commit who has a four-pitch repertoire with plus command and what has been described …
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Blockware Intelligence predicts that by the end of 2025, at least 36 more public companies will have added Bitcoin to their balance sheets. “This is just the beginning. In the next 6 months, we expect at least three dozen more public companies to add Bitcoin to their treasury,” Blockware said in its Q3 2025 market update report. This would represent …
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Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski has been named to Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game. The 23-year-old phenom has started just five games and thrown only 25⅔ innings. It’s exemplary of what the All-Star Game has become. It’s not Pete Rose turning Ray Fosse into roadkill while scoring the winning run for the National League in 1970. It’s not competitive. The All-Star …
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Simon Jack, Business editor, and Huw Thomas, Business correspondent for BBC Wales BBC Ryan Davies worked at the Port Talbot steelworks for 33 years and from his very first day, he heard rumours that the plant was on the verge of closing. Whispers would spread among his colleagues about new ownership and redundancies. Usually, they weren’t true. “You took it …
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We’ve all heard that ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’—and now a new study has found that the same can be said of potatoes, too. Researchers found that eating a diet rich in copper can help the body stave off dementia, and the mineral is naturally found in the patchy light brown skins of the pantry stalwart, which …
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The San Jose Sharks scratched off, perhaps, the last item on their offseason to-do list when they signed forward Jeff Skinner to a one-year, $3 million contract on Friday. Skinner was the latest veteran added to complement and help guide the Sharks’ promising young core through the pivotal next phase of their rebuild. After stripping down the roster and basically …
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