BATON ROUGE — This weekend marks the 43rd annual Baton Rouge Blues Fest. All weekend, there will be a variety of artists playing throughout the day starting Friday. This swamp blues celebration is held in the heart of Downtown Baton Rouge each year. It is one of the oldest festivals of its kind in America. To keep the momentum going, Lauren Lambert-Tompkins, the executive director for this year's festival, says that there are some new additions to this year's festivities. Urban...
The Toronto Blue Jays reinstated right-handed closer Jordan Romano and right-handed reliever Erik Swanson from the 15-day injured list and activated them for their game Tuesday against the New York Yankees.
The Blue Jays activated All-Star closer Jordan Romano and fellow right-hander Erik Swanson off the 15-day injured list before Tuesday night's game against the Yankees.
Ontario resident Carla Norris-Hutcheson says she never expected to be gifted a Blue Jays jersey for her ailing husband when she sat alone at the team’s home opener next to a couple of kind strangers. She said that one minute, she was chatting away with the group of young men, and the next they handed her a gift bag with a blue George Springer jersey, her husband’s favourite, saying it was a gift to help uplift him during this difficult time in hospital. “I just started crying,” Hutcheson...
Top Toronto Blue Jays pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann is off to a rough start with triple-A Buffalo, but you wouldn't know it these days by listening to him talk.
The Yankees played north of the border Monday but their offense appeared to have gotten stuck in customs.
Among the goodbyes that Graham Pauley issued as he packed his bags for Triple-A El Paso 11 days ago was something akin to a promise to Tom Cosgrove, his locker-mate in the home clubhouse at Petco Park. “I told him I was just going to rake and come back up here,” Pauley said. “I told him I was going to hit 15 bombs in a couple weeks and come back up here.” The Padres’ 23-year-old prospect was certainly trending in that direction. Pauley hit his fourth homer in nine games on Friday, packed his bag...
Kikuchi outduels Rodon early, and Garcia gets the key outs late in the game
Japanese-born pitcher Yusei Kikuchi has started an incredible tradition with his Toronto Blue Jays teammates involving a rare Japanese single malt whisky. The Blue Jays starting pitcher isn’t a big drinker, at least not during the season, according to his recent remarks to Jays commentator Hazel Mae who shared Yusei Kikuchi‘s tradition on Tuesday’s broadcast […]
Luis Gil walked seven batters while striking out six in Monday night's
The race for control of the White House and Congress in November are slated to be hotly contested elections, and both Republicans and Democrats face different challenges in those battles. While the presidential election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will be the marquee matchup, several other races will be affected by […]
As of writing, phase three of World of Warcraft Season of Discovery is well underway. Thousands of people are rushing into a remixed Sunken Temple raid, wiping to basic boss mechanics, not winning loot rolls, and getting rinsed for all their gold on enchants. It's all going rather well. In fact, the success of Season of Discover has eclipsed even Blizzards' expectations. Speaking to VG247 during a press preview of the upcoming World of Warcraft War Within expansion, executive producer Holly...