TAMPA — Aaron Boone is not yet writing his lineup in pen, but it’s clear he has a preference for who hits leadoff ahead of Juan Soto and Aaron Judge.
After using 10 different leadoff hitters last season, Boone indicated that DJ LeMahieu would be his ideal solution for that spot this year to set the stage for some combination of Soto and Judge to follow.
“If we can solve that leadoff spot — look, I want it to be DJ and hopefully it is, but certainly Alex Verdugo up there is a possibility — if that leadoff spot gets settled, then we have a chance to be a really special offense,” Boone said Wednesday. Read More...
Patches of black mold on the ceiling. Water marks on the dingy walls. Toys, furniture and a baby grand piano tossed about and covered in a gray muck.
The busted flood wall behind the long-abandoned house in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood was mended over a decade ago but the house looks, again, as though head-high floodwaters had only just receded.
It’s just an illusion, however, created by volunteers and theater artists who’ve turned two rooms in the house next to the London Avenue Canal into a life-size diorama and the city’s latest monument to the disaster that struck on August 29, 2005, when levees and flood walls failed against the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina and 80 percent of New Orleans flooded. Read More...
By Monica Grady, The Open UniversityFeatures correspondent
Getty ImagesAbstract with silhouettes (Credit: Getty Images)If there is a God, would they be bound by the laws of physics?
I still believed in God (I am now an atheist) when I heard the following question at a seminar, first posed by Einstein, and was stunned by its elegance and depth: "If there is a God who created the entire universe and ALL of its laws of physics, does God follow God's own laws? Read More...
