Birders in Texas are used to seeing blue jays. Some are familiar with the flashier green jays that occasionally venture up from Mexico. But in May 2023, a backyard birder northeast of San Antonio spotted something no field guide could explain: a bird with a green jay’s crown, a blue jay’s tail, and a unique blue throat patch seen in …
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Credit: Nick Wosika-Imagn Images On Thursday, the Minnesota Wild opened their 2025 training camp at TRIA Rink, their state of the art practice facility, located on the fifth floor of the Treasure Island Center in St. Paul. Kirill Kaprizov was present, and spoke with media, as did president of hockey operations, Bill Guerin. The Wild’s 28-year-old superstar deflected all contract …
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Credit: Bruce Fedyck-Imagn Images The Minnesota Wild will start NHL training camp on Thursday, ahead of the most important season in recent memory. Not only do the Wild enter 2025-26 having failed to make it beyond the first round of the playoffs for 10 straight seasons, but at least for now, they’ve failed to re-sign the best player in franchise …
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It’s been a fittingly chaotic launch week for Borderlands 4. The cacophony of player feedback ranges from praise for the best new entry in the loot shooter series since Borderlands 2 to very loud and angry complaints about bugs, crashes, and performance stutters on PC. Even the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions have some weird issues. Gearbox Entertainment …
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EAGAN, Minn. — In late August, Zach Wentz received the news. His younger brother, Carson, had worked out with the Minnesota Vikings, and the team was going to sign him as a backup to quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Zach’s first order of business? Sending Carson a GIF of a purple-clad crowd doing the Vikings’ “Skol” chant. They had dreamed of this. …
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In the forests of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, chimps crowd into fig and plum trees, feasting on fruit that’s sweet, soft and just a little boozy. A new study shows those daily snacks quietly add up to the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic beverages for humans. A team of scientists at University of California Berkeley and other institutions tested the …
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There are a few great things to highlight on the Pixel 10 series. Google would be quick to tell you that all of the Gemini-powered features are the selling points, and we’ve already discussed our love for magnets, but we’d also like to argue that the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL’s Pro Res Zoom is really quite …
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It took just 3 weeks into the 2025 season for it to happen. That is, the Virginia Tech job opened up officially, and immediately, speculation began about whether Shane Beamer would return to the program that his dad, Frank Beamer, put on the map. The irony was that Beamer played a part in Brent Pry’s firing by leading South Carolina …
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ARLINGTON, Texas — After all the miserable defeats that the Giants have suffered to the Cowboys over the past nine years of a lopsided rivalry, there couldn’t be a new way to lose, right? Never say never. Not with the Giants. The Giants coughed up two separate 3-point leads in the final 52 seconds of regulation and wasted a vintage …
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7. “Corporate pilot here. Not every flight is all fun and glorious. Some passengers are absolutely great, and some passengers are absolutely terrible! They are conceited, entitled, rude, and disrespectful of the flight crew: pilots and flight attendants. Some passengers will take every snack from the plane like they bought it all. Some passengers will show up drunk, or proceed …
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