8 d. ago MLB bans Contreras for throwing bat during argument with umpire

First baseman also threw bubble gum and helmetBat hit player’s batting coach during incidentMajor League Baseball has suspended St Louis Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras for six games after he threw his bat while arguing with umpires on Monday night.Contreras’ bat hit his own coach, and the player also spiked his batting helmet and threw a bucket of bubble gum from the dugout on to the field. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Watch excruciating moment The Chase's Mark Labbett FALLS ASLEEP in middle of dinner date

He is known for being quick off the bat on The Chase. But Mark 'The Beast' Labbett's energy dipped in his very first date on the new series of Celebs Go Dating.

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2 w. ago The thong bikini boom: why the skimpiest swimwear is back – and suddenly mainstream

Once seen as controversial and the preserve of celebrities and Love Islanders, the style has become ubiquitous. Is this a sign of body positivity or something else entirely?There are plenty of places where no one would bat an eyelid at the sight of a thong bikini; on a beach in Brazil or around the Love Island fire pit, visible butt cheeks are practically de rigueur. But my first sighting this year was not while surfing in Australia or sunbathing in the Caribbean, but at an open-water swimming spot, on a rainy day in Scotland.I should not have been surprised. Tiny swimwear is huge news this summer. It is no longer confined to sunny climes, but cropping up everywhere from lidos to leisure centres – and lochs, apparently. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Edinburgh launch of new children’s book: Latest in popular series by award

Meet the award-winning author behind a popular children’s book series as she launches new Eamonn the Bat in Scotland.

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2 w. ago Kathryn Bryce excels with bat as Manchester Originals thrash Trent Rockets

Bryce scored 61 from 45 deliveries while captain Beth Mooney landed four boundaries and one six in her 47 runs.

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2 w. ago Photo highlights as Players' Weekend returns with custom bats and cleats supporting charities

Players’ Weekend returns this season, with hitters showcasing individuality through custom bat designs, while also supporting charities. Along with the bats, players can use personalized cleats and other creative flourishes.

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2 w. ago New clues in deadly marriage: Jason was bludgeoned to death by his wife and father

US prosecutors described Sharon Martens as the 'void' in the Martenses' story: a wife, mother and grandmother who saw her husband rush upstairs with a baseball bat... yet fell asleep.

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2 w. ago New evidence in a deadly marriage: Jason was bludgeoned to death by his second wife and father

US prosecutors described Sharon Martens as the 'void' in the Martenses' story: a wife, mother and grandmother who saw her husband rush upstairs with a baseball bat... yet fell asleep.

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2 w. ago Rabies horror as hundreds possibly exposed to deadly infection in bat

Wyoming health officials have warned that several hundred people may have been exposed to local bats - which are known to carry rabies - after they colonised a national park lodge

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2 w. ago Bid to track tourists amid fears hundreds could have been exposed to rabies at bat

Health officials estimated that up to 500 people had stayed in the cabins - some from outside America

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2 w. ago 'Leaving Trump alone with Putin is like sending a piñata to a baseball bat convention'

The world would do well to remember history - In Helsinki, 2018, Donald Trump emerged from his meeting with Putin looking like a man who’d just been hypnotised by a slippery snake oil salesman

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3 w. ago WWE legend rushed to hospital after getting 'bitten by a bat'

Charles Robinson revealed on social media that he'd somehow been bitten by the mammal in the dead of the night - thankfully he appears to be okay after a number of injections

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3 w. ago Tymal Mills not allowed to have OnlyFans logo on bat in Hundred

Mills announced he was joining OnlyFans last week

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3 w. ago From court to pin: How a Little Leaguer's bat flip became baseball memorabilia

A 12-year-old from Haddonfield, New Jersey, has turned a controversial bat flip into a piece of baseball memorabilia

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3 w. ago Inside £2M house Oasis made iconic album from Noel cricket bat attack to smashing Hitler

The Old Sawmills, in Cornwall, is a secluded studio where Oasis recorded their landmark 1994 release Definitely Maybe. The property is on sale for nearly £2m

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3 w. ago Woman ordered to go straight to hospital after terrifying discovery of creature in her bathroom

A woman from Montréal in Canada was told to rush to hospital for a rabies shots after finding a bat in her toilet.

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3 w. ago ‘The Welsh language has been aggressively oppressed’: Tristwch y Fenywod, the gothic trio communing with a mystical Wales

Inspired by the ‘enchanted, sapphic feeling’ of the coast and with bat sounds for drums, this Wales-obsessed band sound like no one else. They explain how queerness, neurodivergence and anti-colonialism guide what they do‘It’s often dealing with quite elemental things,” says the vocalist Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth of Tristwch y Fenywod’s music. “The sense of being in an ancient landscape; or the enchanted, sapphic feeling of being by the ocean. Our music addresses things that are simple and foundational, but very powerful.”Released last August – and now being performed live by the band across the summer festival circuit – the trio’s self-titled debut album is a lush, cathartic mix of gothic instrumentation and eldritch melody, like a lost Cocteau Twins masterpiece recorded in a cave in Eryri, stirring intense feelings even in those who can’t understand its Welsh lyrics. There’s a political dimension too. “The oppression of the Welsh language over the past 200 years was so aggressive,” ...

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4 w. ago I ‘never considered’ not attempting to bat with my arm in a sling – Chris Woakes

Woakes was suffering from a suspected dislocated shoulder sustained in trying to prevent a boundary on day one.

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4 w. ago England’s Chris Woakes: ‘It’s not the way you want to be front

The pace bowler says of risking his career by going out to bat against India after dislocating his shoulder: ‘You just know you’re part of something bigger’“I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I didn’t try,” says Chris Woakes, just 48 hours after he walked out to a standing ovation at the Oval, left arm in a sling, bat in hand, ready to push through the agony of a dislocated shoulder to get England the win.It may have been thwarted, with India victorious by a slim six runs to bring one of the most thrilling series in recent times to an end in a 2-2 draw. But the selfless act of crossing the boundary with a potentially career‑threatening injury meant Woakes entered cricketing folklore – echoing Colin Cowdrey in 1963, Paul Terry and Malcolm Marshall in 1984, and Rishabh Pant at Old Trafford just a week earlier. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Sh!t Theatre: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The fringe theatre duo share their list of nostalgic internet delights, including a bat, a mouse and a misbehaving puppet dogGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWe are Becca and Louise AKA UK theatre duo Sh!t Theatre, and as fringe theatre makers we are blessed with a life that does not have to be lived Chronically Online. There is no expectation that experimental performance artists must first build an audience on TikTok; everyone else in the arts is worried about AI taking their jobs, but we don’t have to worry – they’re only making AI of things people actually want, and nobody wants fringe theatre. They’re not coming for our “job” any time soon.We live a happy life as luddites and we engage with the internet in the same way as we engage with MDMA: remembering it as something we did in our 20s that was fun but probably killed some of our brain cells. So, considering all of this – plus the fact we literally remember YouTube being invented and were there even before that when...

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