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OpenAI is releasing a new AI agent, creatively dubbed ChatGPT Agent — which is not to be confused with the two other AI agents it’s already released (did we mention that OpenAI has a bit of a branding problem?) In an announcement, the Sam-Altman-led company says the tool uses its own “virtual computer” to perform tasks on your behalf, like …

President Donald Trump wants Washington’s football franchise and Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to their former names. Trump said Sunday on his Truth Social site that “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with …

CLEVELAND (AP) — President Donald Trump wants Washington’s football franchise and Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to their former names. Trump said Sunday on his Truth Social site that “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original …

The Erie Moon Mammoths, a minor league baseball team rebranded by John Oliver and his Last Week Tonight staff, made their debut Saturday to a record-setting crowd that included Oliver in attendance. Back in May, during a segment about minor league baseball teams and their frequent crowd-drawing promotions, Oliver invited teams to send in proposals about why they deserved a …

A family in Dallas, Georgia, is grieving after their patriarch – a former pro baseball player turned police officer – died saving five others from drowning while they all recently vacationed, as authorities and an online page in his honor tell it. Chase Childers, 38, “displayed extraordinary courage and selflessness … ultimately paying the highest sacrifice with his life” in …

Just before 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, Mo’ne Davis entered the Marian Anderson Recreation Center in South Philadelphia. She walked past a couple photos of herself; her 2014 Sports Illustrated cover, a group shot of her team at the Little League World Series, and one of the pitcher in an Anderson Monarchs jersey, coming off the mound. This facility, at …

A former professional baseball player and father of three died while trying to save swimmers from a rip current off the coast of South Carolina on Sunday, authorities said.  Chase Childers, who was briefly signed by the Baltimore Orioles, entered the water around 4:45 p.m. to help a group of four or five swimmers as they struggled against the current …

ATLANTA — Henry Aaron’s statue at the old Turner Field lives a reasonably lonely existence. Behind the gates of Center Parc Credit Union Stadium, the statue dedicated to the man who broke Babe Ruth’s home run record just a quarter mile away is the only reminder to the public that this was once a ballpark of some accord. Now home …

MLBPA’s Tony Clark rips baseball salary cap idea as ‘institutionalized collusion’  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ‘Institutionalized collusion’: MLBPA fights cap talk  ESPN MLB is ‘thriving’ — but it may not be enough to thwart a potential lockout  New York Post Column | MLB’s 2027 work stoppage? Baseball folks already are talking about it.  The Washington Post MLBPA’s Tony Clark doesn’t want a baseball salary cap  NBC Sports …

Column | MLB’s 2027 work stoppage? Baseball folks already are talking about it.  The Washington Post ‘Institutionalized collusion’: MLBPA fights cap talk  ESPN MLB’s next labor war (and lockout?) coming in hot: ‘Institutionalized collusion’  USA Today MLBPA’s Tony Clark doesn’t want a baseball salary cap  NBC Sports A lockout is looming over MLB in December 2026, with a salary cap fight possibly at the …