One witness told Baton Rouge TV station WAFB that the shootings — which were “something going on between gangs” — had started before police arrived. Regardless, athletes called for prayers, peace and, most prominently, an end to violence, in light of the shootings. STEELE: Sports is no escape | MORE: Activist athletes making their own rules Here are players’ reactions. PHOTOS: When politics meet sports Baton Rouge is the site of the Alton Sterling shooting death by police, which also caused numerous reactions from athletes across the country....

Martinez was substituted off in the 59th minute of Venezuela’s 2-2 World Cup qualifying draw Peru. He appeared to take a bad step on the turf, leading to an injury. Pulisic remains unfazed as spotlight grows Venezuela head coach Rafael Dudamel suggested Martinez will need 10 days to recover adding that it was not safe for the striker to travel at the current time. That would rule Martinez out of Venezuela’s next match against Chile on March 28....

SCOREBOARD: Live updates Who will be left standing on Sunday? Time will tell. MORE: Seniors we’ll miss | Live scoreboard | CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT SCHEDULES: ACC | American Athletic | Big 12 | Big Ten | Big East | Mountain West | Pac-12 | SEC | Master Tournament Schedule (All times ET) Wednesday, March 12 No. 13 Fordham 70, No. 12 George Mason 67 Thursday, March 13 No. 9 St. Bonaventure 82, No....

Home plate umpires will have ABS assistance after it was deemed successful during the league’s All-Star Game earlier this month. “This is a landmark day for the Atlantic League and professional baseball,” league president Rick White said in a statement. “After successfully unveiling the ABS at our All-Star Game in York, Pennsylvania, and following positive feedback from managers, players, umpires and fans, we are eager to implement the consistent strike zone accuracy offered by ABS technology....

WATCH: Man Utd target Dembele’s double The two sides went head-to-head on Sunday looking to make ground on League-leaders Real Madrid, with Messi scoring a late winner to give Barca a 2-1 win at the Vicente Calderon. Rather than discuss the future of manager Diego Simeone, who looks set to leave at the end of the season, or striker Fernando Torres, Cerezo jested his attention is on securing a deal for Messi....

Alves snub leaves Man City fuming Diego Simeone’s side, currently serving the final window of their FIFA signing ban, will register Vitolo from January 1, before which he will play for fellow La Liga side Las Palmas. The complex transfer comes two days after Sevilla president Jose Castro claimed the 27-year-old had in fact signed a new five-year deal with his club. “Atletico de Madrid has reached an agreement with Victor Machin Perez, Vitolo, for the next five years after the player rescinded his contract with Sevilla,” read Atletico’s statement on Wednesday....

Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky, Doctor of Engineering Sciences from the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Siberian Times the local woman had become interested in the unusual ground formation that had developed in the region and had been visiting the site daily. “But on the day of [the] explosion she felt some tremor, she described it as if the earth was breathing,” he is quoted as saying. “She quickly left the place just in time before it exploded....

New Orleans fans and fantasy football owners confused as to why the Saints running back is missing practice with unexcused absences — and prompting trade rumors in the process — need only look at his Twitter account to see what was on the horizon. Kamara hinted as much in a single, cryptic tweet on Aug. 17: MORE: Alvin Kamara trade rumors: Saints ‘open to trading’ their star running back...

When she arrived at the scene on Saturday afternoon, Vogel quickly pulled the tourniquet off her gun belt and applied it to the little girl’s leg. “After that, Officer Sparta and I started searching her for other gunshot wounds, to make sure that was the only one,” Vogel told Good Morning America on Monday. “When it was determined that was the only one, I had the instinct to pick her up and run her to the ambulance down that block, and that’s when I sprinted with her....

The 35-year-old said she saw that the package was being delivered imminently and heard a knock on her door a few minutes later. But as she was on her way to answer the door, she said she spotted the delivery driver turning her front door handle from outside. “I could see the driver through the glass go for the handle and he tried to open the door,” the mother-of-three told the Birmingham Mail....

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Ahead of a visit to one of the online retail giant’s distribution centers in Alabama on Friday by Senator Bernie Sanders, Clark took a jab at the Vermont senator, who has lobbied hard for a rise in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. But Clark defended his company’s working conditions, tweeting: “I often say we are the Bernie Sanders of employers, but that’s not quite right because we actually deliver a progressive workplace....

Cincinnati’s improved offensive line play is partially responsible for the team’s midseason surge to the top of the AFC standings, and Collins had been playing some of his best football during that stretch. Now, the Bengals will have to replace him. And while they have some internal options, at least one notable external option said he would consider returning to the team. That would be Andrew Whitworth. The 41-year-old retired from the NFL following the 2022 playoffs after winning Super Bowl 56 with the Rams....

In addition to taking legal action, Smalls said the union “will go full steam ahead on this issue,” adding “they f****d with the wrong uncle.” However, Cioffi told the magazine he changed his mind when he saw police arrest Smalls and other organizers for trespassing while out delivering food to workers. Cioffi is reported to have convinced hundreds of workers to back the union. Update 6/13/22, 4:20 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with comment from the NLRB....

Now that the trial of Derek Chauvin has resulted in the jury finding the former police officer guilty on three charges—including second-degree murder—we can see how far our nation has come since the Rodney King beating. Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies pulled over Mr. King following a pursuit on a California freeway. He was suspected of speeding, and possibly driving under the influence. Mr. King also had two African-American friends in the vehicle he was operating....

There are, however, several key indicators that have reliably warned us when the economy is about to experience a large crisis—and one of the most important just flashed red for the first time in decades. According to data from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the median sales price for houses sold in the United States in the second quarter of 2021 was $374,900, the highest figure ever recorded and a 4....

Stephen Downs, 60, became an international celebrity–and an unwitting symbol of America’s sporadic commitment to free speech–after officers in an upstate New York mall hauled him to jail for the crime of proclaiming an anti-war opinion in a public place. (The actual charge was for trespassing after he refused to leave the mall or to take off his shirt.) I assure you, this isn’t an Arlo Guthrie song. This really happened....

The pictures, of course, are the ones of all the dead American soldiers that the Pentagon didn’t want you to see. But you did see them last week, thanks to an Arizona man named Russ Kick, who runs a website called “The Memory Hole.” Kick had filed a “Freedom of Information Act” request for the pictures of the coffins of American GIs–and someone in the Pentagon screwed up and actually gave them to him....

The politician–New York’s Mayor Mike Bloomberg–handed out a status report of every single one of his campaign promises. You probably heard nothing about this. After all, the nation’s attention was diverted last week by such weighty matters as learning which woman Evan “Joe Millionaire” Marriott would choose (and then lie to); finding out which bachelor Trista Rehn would decide to spend the rest of her life (or at least the rest of the month) with, and determining whether someone could be considered “hot” if she (or he) had a chest smaller than 40 inches....

Saturday, American Pharoah finished second in the Travers Stakes to Keen Ice, who roared down the stretch to win by three-quarters of a length. Frosted was third. It was just the second loss of Pharoah’s career and his first since finishing fifth in his debut. He had won eight consecutive races. MORE: American Pharoah vs. other Triple Crown winners | What’s in Pharoah’s future? “He didn’t bring his A game,” trainer Bob Baffert said on NBC after the race....