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The Mets have scored the third-fewest runs in the National League this year, hitting .237/.308/.405 as a team. Bruce has hit .265/.316/.559 with 25 home runs and a league-leading 80 RBIs. That he has hit .360 with runners in scoring position is not an indicator of anything other than the fact that he has gotten a hit in 36% of his at-bats with runners on second and/or third base, but there’s an inherent upgrade that is difficult to ignore....

Cutler’s Instagram stories beginning on Wednesday explained the confusing situation. “We’ve got a chicken serial killer on the loose,” he started. “We’ve lost quite a few. Tonight, we’re gonna set up a trail camera—see if it’s a coyote, bobcat, I don’t know, raccoon. It could be anything.” The NFL player keeps a number of chickens in his backyard, he showed. Though the area appears to be fenced in, an unknown predator has been wreaking havoc....

His status for the start of the next NBA season is looking solid, however. As announced by the Celtics on Twitter, Brown had successful surgery to repair his injury. The team says he will be able to return to basketball activity in about three months. That’s good news for Brown and the Celtics. It puts him on track to return in early August ahead of training camp, so that should give him enough time to get back into basketball shape before the 2021-22 NBA season begins....

Ceres-Negros FC scored 16 goals in the six Group G matches in the 2017 AFC Cup to reach the ASEAN zone semi-final to play Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT). That’s an average of 2.7 goals per match and that is no small feat. JDT and Benjamin Mora will have to ensure that their concentration levels as well as preparations are done to the best of their capabilities to negate the threats that Ceres can pose....

The former governor of Florida and 2016 Republican presidential candidate shared a photo of a QAnon conspiracy post taken from Facebook, and said it was sent to him multiple times on Thursday evening. “I got this four times last evening. Very scary that this is spreading as though it is true.” The conspiracy theory—spread by QAnon supporters who believe Trump is waging a secret war against the “deep state” and elite Satan-worshipping pedophiles within government—falsely purports that Democrats issued unofficial ballots during the election....

He dominated the first half of the day and led a race-high 87 laps, only to get spun into a big crash on the final lap and finish 33rd. It should have been a bitter disappointment for Gordon in his final Daytona 500. Instead, he was smiling and laughing. Such is life for the four-time champion, who is soaking up every moment of his final Sprint Cup season. MORE: Logano wins | Results | Must-see photos | Earnhardt admits mistake | Latest video...

Irving joined UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma’s podcast last week and opened up about another reason for his move to the Celtics from the Cavaliers. Auriemma asked him about his experience being coached by Brad Stevens. “Brad fits perfectly in terms of that because he has an intellectual mind and is an intellectual human being,” Irving told Auriemma. “It was something I was unbelievably craving in terms of what I wanted for my career....

Murray’s got everything you look for in a young goaltender, Rutherford told Sporting News on Tuesday: size, fundamentals, mental toughness. He smiled at the opportunity to bring up his 21-year-old safety net. He glowed. MORE: Ranking the first-round series | Exclusive Q&A with Rutherford A bit before that — and it seemed shoehorned in at the time — Rutherford brought up Jeff Zatkoff, the backup goaltender Murray unseated, the assumption went, for good in March and April....

“It’s absolutely not the same thing,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told Meghan McCain in an interview Thursday on The View. More than 400 migrant children were reportedly referred to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shelters on Tuesday alone—a rate that’s higher than the 30-day average of children referred in 2019 under Trump. McCain then pressed Psaki, asking why a Texas facility that operated under Trump for only a month in September 2019 was reportedly reactivated temporarily by Joe Biden to hold as many as 700 children ages 13 to 17, especially given that the president and Vice President Kamala Harris have spoken against child separation policies....

The former adult film star, 47, shared in a January Instagram post that she had been diagnosed with rare autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Her partner, Lior Bitton, later stated that she had been misdiagnosed. And while Jameson had announced on February 7 that she was set for an imminent discharge from the hospital, the model revealed in an Instagram Story post on Monday that she was not yet home, but was “doing well....

Now, however, as Riley Collins sets her sights on becoming Mississippi’s first black and first woman attorney general, she’s wondering why one key Mississippian is refusing to throw their support behind her and other Democrats running across the state. With Mississippi’s November 5 election just weeks away, current Attorney General Jim Hood, who is running as the Democratic nominee to become Mississippi’s governor, has so far refused to endorse Riley Collins and other Democrats because he is too “focused” on his “own race for governor....

The rift between the famous siblings became apparent over the past year, as “Toxic” singer Britney Spears publicly criticized her sister—as well as both her parents—in numerous Instagram posts during her conservatorship battle. And as she promotes her new book, Things I Should Have Said, the younger Spears sister has sat down for an interview with ABC News journalist JuJu Chang, breaking down in tears as she finally discussed the state of their relationship....

Over five hearings so far this month, the panel has presented evidence about former president Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, culminating in the deadly storming of the Capitol by his followers on January 6, 2021. The hearings so far have attempted to make the case that Trump was responsible for the attack, presenting evidence that the former president continued to push the claims of fans that the election was stolen even as his advisers and allies repeatedly told him he had lost....

Sanders, the wife of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, told Fox News Saturday the “powers-that-be” in America are placing a shallow focus on her husband’s “Democratic socialist” label instead of what they’re really attacking – his campaign policies. Jane Sanders said “corporate socialism” has benefited billionaires like President Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg, while hard-working U.S. taxpayers end up paying for their business subsidies and bailouts. She rejected Joe Biden’s claims that Bernie Sanders can’t win by citing her husband’s back-to-back popular vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire....

Her six minute performance, which opened the ceremony, saw Monae pay tribute to the movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood as she performed her own version of the Mr. Rogers song “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” as that movie’s star Tom Hanks sat in the front row. This song led into a new version of her 2010 song “Come Alive (War of the Roses),” updated with lyrics about the 2020 Academy Awards....

Japanese police arrests 14-year-old ransomware maker Not a month later, comes another shocking case of the Ransomware menace. Japanese cops have have arrested a 14-year-old old boy in connection with Ransomware attacks. This is the first such arrest in Japan which involves a Ransomware-related crime. See Also: How To Be Safe From WannaCry and Other Ransomware Attacks The teenage boy from Osaka Prefecture in western Japan is a third year junior in high school....

Manager Alberto Zaccheroni said Thursday that he expects his team to give nothing less than 100 percent. But following a mediocre 0-1 victory Tuesday over a gritty Cyprus team at a friendly here in Saitama, Zaccheroni refused to make any predictions regarding the Samurai Blue’ s clashes in Group C, reports Xinhua. The group, which pundits describe as fairly even, will also see Zaccheroni’ s men face Greece June 19 and Colombia June 24....

Tokyo, June 22 (IANS) Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa is set to take a medical test for his move to English Premier League giants Manchester United. The 23-year-old, who previously played for Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund, left Tokyo’s Narita airport late Thursday. “It’s just a medical check. I hope it will end with no problem,” said Kagawa at the Japanese airport. The midfielder moved to Dortmund in 2010 from J-League side Cerezo Osaka and helped the German top-flight team to the Bundesliga title for two straight years....

The decision was announced by the Japan Football Association on Monday, with the news personally delivered to Halilhodzic on Saturday by president Kozo Tashima. The 65-year-old, who hails from Bosnia-Herzegovina, steered Japan to Russia as group winners in their AFC qualifying group, but is believed to have been under pressure following the 1-1 draw against Mali and 2-1 defeat versus Ukraine in the March international window. JFA technical director Akira Nishino has been chosen as Halilhodzic’s replacement with just 10 weeks to go until Japan kick off their World Cup campaign....

YouTube is shaking the staid world of Japanese broadcasters. When Japanese Internet ventures like Rakuten and Livedoor have tried to buy TV stations for their content, they’ve been swatted down by big media companies. But the popularity of YouTube, which limits videos to a few minutes, has caught broadcasters by surprise, and so far remains beyond their reach. “It’s just baffling,” says Internet consultant Satoshi Watanabe. “There’s this whole collection of Japanese television shows on the Web, convenient to watch but not supposed to be there....