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Things have gotten so bad at Wrigley Field that the biggest cheer of the night came in the bottom of the sixth inning when Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina misjudged a foul pop-up for an error. It didn’t matter, of course, and Molina got the biggest laugh when he was tagged out at second by Javier Báez on a force play in the seventh, then pretended to avoid the tag in Javy-esque fashion, inducing a smile from the Cubs shortstop and fans who appreciated the levity.
If there was any expectation of invincibility for the Americans heading into the Tokyo Olympics, it’s already gone after Nigeria shocked the U.S. on Saturday night. Nigeria beat the U.S. 90-87, pulling off an international shocker with a roster primarily filled of little-known NBA players that found a way to defeat a group of All-NBA, All-Star and max-contract performers.
“We come out and play our game, it doesn’t matter who’s across the line from us,” Goodwin said. “We don’t play down to our competition, we don’t have to play up to our competition. We feel like we’re the best team every time we step between the lines, and that’s how we approach the game. We come to win and we come to play hard.”
A tattoo of Rose, a Great Lakes piping plover, is inked on the leg of Dori Levine, a volunteer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as she observes Rose and her mate, Monty, with their four recently hatched chicks, at Montrose Beach on July 10, 2021, in Chicago. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)
Of course, Zaila could bring her talents to both Ogden Honors College and the Tigers’ women’s basketball program, which is hoping for improvement after missing the past two NCAA tournaments. The Tigers hired coach Kim Mulkey, a three-time national champion at Baylor, this summer.
The latest fatal attack happened about 3:10 p.m. Saturday in the 6100 block of South Ashland Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood. Two men, ages 20 and 33, were at a gas station parking lot when a dark vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots at them, striking the older man in the chest and the younger one in an “unknown” part of the body, police said.
The victim left the event and dropped off two people with his daughter riding along with him. At some point, the victim noticed he was being followed by Hood. Once he entered an intersection, prosecutors said, someone opened fire, wounding the victim, who is now paralyzed from the waist down.
Unfortunately for baseball fans, Guerrero plays for the Blue Jays, who relocated from Toronto to Dunedin, Fla., and Buffalo, N.Y., during the pandemic, playing home games in two minor-league ballparks. The Jays aren’t in a market ESPN cares about, so they rarely if ever are on “Sunday Night Baseball.” So try to catch Guerrero early in the All-Star Game before he disappears from view again.
“To be myself, always kept it 100, kept it real, I never switched, I always stayed me throughout it all,” Anderson said. “Just go out and work every day, bring what I got to the ballpark day in and day out. Couldn’t be in a better place right now.”
“Since the beginning, I felt good,” Céspedes said. “Comfortable. But now here in the game, I’m sometimes a little anxious. I’ve been trying to adjust as quickly as possible as part of the learning process. To have to make those adjustments during the game, that’s the part I’ve been working at overall. I usually feel pretty good at home plate. The learning part of making adjustments, that’s where I’m working right now.