Author: Michael

Two women were injured by gunshots at Guaranteed Rate Field on Friday night during a game between the White Sox and Athletics, the Chicago Police Department announced. In a statement, police said they are investigating the incident but do not believe there ever was an active threat in the stadium.
One fan, a 42-year-old-woman, was shot in the leg and was transferred to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was listed in fair condition. The other fan, a 26-year-old woman, suffered a graze in the abdomen but refused medical help.

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College football season is here at last. So, cooler temperatures of fall can’t be far behind, right?
While the forecast is for temperatures over 100 degrees throughout the United States today, it will be in the 60s and 50s in Dublin, Ireland, where No. 13 Notre Dame kicks off the 2023 season against Navy in 51,711-seat Aviva Stadium (2:30 p.m. ET, NBC, 7:30 p.m. Dublin time).
A rugby and soccer stadium, Aviva is just four miles from where Mount Temple Comprehensive School, where the genesis of U2 took place in 1976, and just three miles from St.

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The AlphaTauri driver is headed to Spain to see a specialist for the broken bone in his hand
Daniel Ricciardo’s return to the Formula 1 grid received a difficult setback on Friday. The AlphaTauri driver hit the wall during the second practice session, and suffered a broken bone in his left hand. The injury cut short his Dutch Grand Prix, opening the door for Liam Lawson to make his F1 debut.

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High school football is in full swing around the country and one game in Tennessee ended under some wild circumstances. Alcoa and Bearden squared off on Friday night in a heated game that saw players sit in the dark, with just under a minute to play.
It all went down just outside of Knoxville on Friday evening in Alcoa, as both teams battled for four quarters, leading to a dramatic finish.
Bearden trailed 17-13 late in the fourth quarter of the rivalry game, with a chance to win it on the final drive. Both teams battled all night, leading to this intense finish.

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Who is Liam Lawson, who takes over for Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri?
Sports can be cruel.
Consider the case of former New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe. Once drafted first-overall by the Patriots, he led the team to an appearance in Super Bowl XXXI and signed a then-record ten-year, $103 million contract ahead of the 2001 campaign. It was expected that Bledsoe would play his entire career in New England, but in the second game of that 2001 season a hit near the end of a game against the New York Jets sent him to the sideline.

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Keeping tabs on qualifying ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix
After the extended summer shutdown, Formula 1 is back this weekend with the Dutch Grand Prix.
And all eyes will be on Max Verstappen.
That is certainly nothing new, but the Red Bull driver is staring down F1 history. Verstappen enters the weekend having won eight-straight races, one shy of the mark set by Sebastian Vettel back in 2013.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we officially made it to the start of the college football season.
On this glorious Saturday, millions of fans will unite to celebrate the start of the season with Week Zero. Yes, it’s Week Zero. That’s what it’s called. You can argue about it if you want, but there’s no changing it.
Week Zero is here and depending on when you’re reading this, I’m either a couple beers in or we might have put a hell of a dent into the first case of the season.
Either way, you can rest easy knowing the beers are flowing and the food is going to be going down all day.

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