Carl Erskine, one of the last surviving Dodgers from their days in Brooklyn, who spent his entire career with the team and who in 1958 started their first home game in Los Angeles, died Tuesday at age 97, the team announced. “The Los Angeles Dodgers express their condolences to the family of renowned pitcher Carl […]
Why is everyone so interested in Manor Lords? The game, an ambitious city builder/RTS hybrid, attempts to simulate how medieval towns were constructed by embracing organic layouts and doing away with the grid systems common in the genre. And, today, it hit 3 million wishlists on Steam – that's no mean feat. It's currently above even Hades 2. That's impressive. Its trailers have been attractive, interesting, and intriguing – but there's something else to the game's rampant success. It's 2022...
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OAKLAND — played more at shortstop than any player in history. He put his body through 1,617 games of diving, charging, throwing and taxing every fast-twitch muscle fiber. When you’ve logged 13,597 2/3 innings, even the compounding act of jogging on and off the field that many times can feel grueling. Advertisement It didn’t take Crawford long to discover the value of a “less is more” approach in his pregame work. And now, a few weeks into a unique backup and mentorship role with the , the...
I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible historyI don’t usually talk about my great-uncle Walter. Gen Walter Warlimont, as my grandfather’s brother was formally known, was head of the national defence department in the high command of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Only two people were between him and the Führer in the chain of command. Walter worked so closely with Hitler that the failed assassination attempt in July 1944 injured his arm. The orders he signed...
Kerr invokes Austin Reaves meme to praise Steph’s epic Game 7 vs. Kings originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area On the eve of another win-or-go-home matchup against the Sacramento Kings, Warriors coach Steve Kerr had plenty of praise for Steph Curry’s epic Game 7 performance in last season’s first-round NBA playoff series, even referencing
Saturday’s broadcast of the matchup between the San Francisco Giants and the Tampa Bay Rays on NBC Sports Bay Area featured a bizarre scorebug issue that resulted in a pitcher being misnamed in perhaps the weirdest way possible. The game itself wasn’t all that interesting. The Giants were easily able to cruise to a blowout
With her husband on trial over hush-money payments – and desperate for cash – the ex-first lady isn’t worried about opticsIf your husband was a legally adjudicated sexual predator who cheated on you with an adult film star shortly after you gave birth to his son, and then allegedly paid her hush money to cover it up in an attempt to illegally influence the 2016 election, and then went on trial for those hush-money payments, while also facing a litany of other criminal charges, what do you think...
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Inspired by the (frankly excellent) Fallout TV show, this week on VG247's Best Games Ever podcast I've tasked my colleagues with finding the best game where a family member ditches you. With the prerequisite understanding that none of them are allowed to pick Fallout 3, the quintessential "dad's buggered off" simulator.As it turns out, being forsaken by a family member is a fairly common scenario in video games, especially if you widen the concept of family out to any sort of fraternity or...