TAMPA — Aaron Boone recently broached pitching the eighth inning on some occasions to Aroldis Chapman.
The scenarios won’t occur often, but the Yankee manager wanted to see if his closer would be amenable. Namely, if save situations do not arise for a stretch, Boone wants to avoid long layoffs for Chapman that tend to impair his sharpness. Boone sees getting him into the eighth inning of a tight game as preferable to using Chapman in low-adrenaline blowouts or having the lefty throw a postgame bullpen session just to get work. Read More...
Explore More This past September, influencer Myka Stauffer posted a photo on Instagram showing off her modern family — including the son she adopted in 2017. “I love this big crazy family!! Wouldn’t change a thing about it.”
The 32-year-old might have spoken too soon.
Stauffer and her husband, James, posted a YouTube video titled “An update to our family” to their channel Tuesday that caused outrage online: They’ve decided to “rehome” their adopted 4-year-old son, Huxley. Read More...
BULL HOLLOW, Okla. (AP) — Ryan Mackey quietly sang a sacred Cherokee verse as he pulled a handful of tobacco out of a zip-close bag. Reaching over a barbed wire fence, he scattered the leaves onto the pasture where a growing herd of bison — popularly known as American buffalo — grazed in northeastern Oklahoma.
The offering represented a reverent act of thanksgiving, the 45-year-old explained, and a desire to forge a divine connection with the animals, his ancestors and the Creator. Read More...
