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Pujols was in the final season of a 10-year, $240 million contract with the Angels, who didn’t win a playoff game during his tenure. The slugger is making $30 million this season, and the Dodgers will pay him only the prorated portion of the major-league-minimum salary for the rest of the season, roughly $420,000. The Angels will pay the rest.

What might sting most is that playoff spots were up for grabs in the Eastern Conference this season. The Atlanta Hawks fired their coach at the beginning of March and entered Saturday as the conference’s No. 4 seed. Former Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau has resurrected the New York Knicks, along with some key contributions from Derrick Rose and even Taj Gibson, to secure a top-six seed in the conference. At the very least, a berth in the play-in tournament, for the Nos. 7-10 seeds in each conference, was not a very high bar to clear.

On May 11, 2016, Cynthia Kroft was driving to her mom’s after leaving her 3-to-11 shift at a Chesterton, Indiana, hospital where she worked as an ICU nurse, and was stopped at a light near Gateway Boulevard and State Road 49 in Chesterton, said the Krofts’ lawyer, Kenneth Allen.

The bill came to $31,082.64, and Lester added a 34% tip (his uniform number) of $16,012.27 for a total of $47,094.90. The Cubs did not re-sign him, and Lester wound up with a one-year, $5 million deal with the Nationals, playing under manager Dave Martinez, his former coach with the Cubs.

The 35-year-old man exited a CTA Blue Line train shortly before 2:30 a.m. in the 200 block of South Dearborn Street in the Loop neighborhood and asked for water from a person waiting on the CTA platform, police said in a media notification. A witness noticed the man had been stabbed several times in the left arm, and called 911, police said.

It was former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell’s cross that looked to have been deflected into his own net by veteran captain Wes Morgan. But video replays detected an offside that ensured, after four losing finals, Leicester would finally win world football’s oldest cup competition by 1-0 in the 140th final.

“Our group doesn’t get very emotionally high or emotionally low, they stay pretty even keeled,” Dames said. “If we go there and get a result, that’d be great. But all that means is we get on a plane and come home and get ready for Gotham the next weekend. And if we go there and lose it’ll not be so great, but we’ll get on the plane and we’ll get ready for Gotham the next weekend.

The three gunshot victims were reported about 9:50 a.m. in the first block of West Grand Avenue, according to Chicago police and the Chicago Fire Department. Police spokesman Sally Bown said “apparently they were all shooting at each other,” citing preliminary information.

The numbers tell only part of the story, but they are staggering. In the state’s long-term care facilities, 25,445 COVID-19 cases and 3,498 deaths were recorded in Cook County. DuPage County had 5,355 cases and 743 deaths, and Lake County had 4,160 cases and 558 deaths, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

A 26-year-old man was shot in the head, and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. A 25-year-old man suffered a wound to the shoulder, and was taken in fair condition to the same hospital. A 23-year-old man was shot twice in the right arm, and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A 21-year-old man was shot in the head, and was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago. Another 21-year-old man suffered a wound to the shoulder, and was taken in fair condition to Advocate Christ in Oak Lawn. Police later said two people died in the Gresham shooting but did not immediately have information on who was the second deceased victim.