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  • Shohei Ohtani becomes the first major league player to exceed 50 homers and 50 steals in a season

    ALANIS THAMES|Sep 20, 2024

    MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani became the first major league player to exceed 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season during the most spectacular game of a history-making career for the Los Angeles Dodgers star, going deep three times and swiping two bags on Thursday against the Miami Marlins. Ohtani hit is 49th homer in the sixth inning, his 50th in the seventh and his 51st in the ninth. He finished 6 for 6 with 10 RBIs while becoming the first big league player to hit three homers and steal two bases in a game. "It was something I wanted t...

  • Dolphins coaches, players react to 'emotional' and 'triggering' footage of Tyreek Hill traffic stop

    ALANIS THAMES|Sep 11, 2024

    MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyreek Hill's teammates and coaches used words like "triggering" and a "shame" to describe body camera footage showing a police officer yanking the Miami Dolphins receiver out of his sports car and forcing him face-first onto the ground during a traffic stop. The incident outside the Dolphins' stadium has drawn national attention. It has also led to conversations in the locker room among Hill's teammates, some of whom privately shared their own personal experiences with police, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said. "It w...

  • Rickwood Field, Willie Mays' first pro park and monument of opportunity and oppression, welcomes MLB

    ALANIS THAMES|Jun 19, 2024

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Gerald Watkins watched Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and other New York Yankees wade through stalks of corn onto an Iowa field in 2021, near the filming site for the 1989 baseball movie "Field of Dreams." Watkins thought about Rickwood Field, the 114-year-old ballpark in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, where Willie Mays got his start, and he called Major League Baseball with a pitch. "The Field of Dreams is really cool," Watkins, 68, said, "but we have a real Field of Dreams here. This is a place where Willie M...