Tony La Russa Returns at 76, Ready to Combine Old Wisdom and New Data
Baseball strategy has changed rapidly since La Russa last managed, in 2011. After being hired by the White Sox on Thursday, he said he would use both his own baseball experience and advanced analytics. Read more...
Missing The Nutcracker? How to Get Your Holiday Fix at Home
Many seasonal mainstays have been reimagined for online viewing this year. Here are some of our favorites, from A Christmas Carol to Handels Messiah. Read more...
HBO Documentary Has Competition. These Women Dont Seem Worried.
These days everybody wants a piece of the nonfiction game. HBOs documentary heads, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller, talked about how theyre navigating the evolving landscape. Read more...
Cho Joo-bin Gets 40 Years in South Korean Prison for Sexual Exploitation
Cho Joo-bin was convicted of blackmailing young women into making sexually explicit video clips that he sold online. Read more...
How African trucking firms are trying to make everything cheaper
Getting products from manufacturers to market can be a slow and expensive process in Africa. But a new generation of trucking companies believes internet technology can transform supply chains and bring down prices for shoppers. Read more...
Maradona was 'impossible' and 'unmanageable' and should have been in REHAB, says his surgeon
Leopoldo Luque said the footballing icon was a difficult person to control, and he would often kick the surgeon out of his house, and he has been made a 'scapegoat' for the Argentinian's death. Read more...
Patriotic Parry unites a nation
Everyone knows Sir Hubert Parrys Jerusalem, but how many know his unison song England, a setting of a paraphrase of John of Gaunts great patriotic speech from Shakespeares Richard II? Read more...
Can Cannabis Farms Weather Wildfire Season?
Many marijuana crops are uninsured, which means that in the wake of disaster, farmers can face financial ruin. Read more...
The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism
Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money. Read more...
Wildlife officials find mystery 12-ft monolith in Utah desert
A 12-foot monolith was spotted in the Utah desert by state workers flying overhead in a helicopter. Officials are puzzled by the object, saying it could be art or a reference to Space Odyssey. Read more...
CHRIS SUTTON Raul Jimenez and David Luiz clash of heads shows concussion subs need to come in
CHRIS SUTTON What a shambles. How uncomfortable was it watching Arsenal defender David Luiz play on after such a sickening clash of heads with Wolves' Raul Jimenez? Read more...
James Corden tells 60 minutes that the Trump administration 'isn't even politics'
James Corden slammed US President Trump in a 60 Minutes interview, describing the current state of politics as 'good versus evil' under the Trump administration. Read more...
How Maradona redefined football in less than five minutes
If the history of film was once described as before and after "Gone with the Wind," it could be argued that the history of the World Cup can be defined as before and after the game between England and Argentina 32 years ago -- with one Diego Armando Maradona as protagonist. Read more...
Fist-pumping her way to the top
Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova wins the biggest title of her career by claiming the WTA Finals crown in Singapore. Read more...
Black churches enlist mental health pros to support community
Wilma Mayfield used to visit a senior center in Durham, North Carolina, four days a week and attend Lincoln Memorial Baptist Church on Sundays, a ritual she has maintained for nearly half a century. But over the past 10 months, she's seen only the inside of her home, the grocery store and the pharmacy. Most of her days are spent worrying about Covid-19 and watching TV. Read more...
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bring in Peter Moore to work in an advisory role at Wrexham
Peter Moore, who spent three years at Liverpool to oversee them winning the Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup and the Premier League title, revealed he will act as an advisor at Wrexham. Read more...
Samantha Barks transforms into Frozen's Elsa for the Royal Variety Performance
Samantha Barks looked incredible as she transformed into Elsa from the musical for the Royal Variety Performance on Sunday. Read more...
Can shark liver, tree bark and piles of sand help deliver the Covid vaccine?
The jabs will have to be manufactured at an unprecedented scale and pace, transported to every corner of the globe and, ultimately, injected into arm after arm after arm. Read more...
This Mini Cooper is built to race. No, really
The Mini John Cooper Works GP doesn't come with back seats and only 3000 will be made, but that shouldn't stop you from taking a ride in one. Read more...
Greg Clarke Resigns as F.A. Chairman After Testimony
In comments to a parliamentary committee, the chairman of Englands soccer association spoke in stereotypes about Black and Asian people, girls and others. By the end of the day, he had resigned. Read more...