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This season may be the Year of the Pitcher in Major League Baseball. But it’s also the Year of the Freak Injury, with more strange happenings than you can throw a pie at.

Well, maybe keep the pie for the dessert table. Florida Marlin Chris Coghlan tore up the meniscus in his left knee while…

Dear Veronica,

I hope you don’t find this question boring, but I can’t reach an agreement with my coworkers, and since I’m working in Chicago for the summer (and I’m from Canada), I have nobody to talk to about this.  So I think we can all agree that it’s okay to go out on first dates with…

Enough hot and humid weekends in a row, and you take refuge at the movies. Global warming could actually help save the struggling movie theater business. They could run contextual ads on weather.com: “It’s <X> degrees! For $12, get 2 hours with Julia Roberts and free air conditioning.” …

There are few quotes that are able to capture the essence of Pakistan’s battle for a better education system. But, we may have just found it:

“A degree is a degree! Whether fake or genuine, it’s a degree! It makes no difference!” Baluchistan province chief minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, who…

There’s a scene in Haruki Murakami’s novel, Norwegian Wood, in which the main character Toru is watching an adult film with a friend, who says this about one of the actresses:

“Don’t you think her nipples are too dark for a high school girl — a virgin?”

“Absolutely,” he answers.

I wondered…

Out tomorrow, the memoir “Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark” (Crown/Random House), follows author Taylor Plimpton (and best friend Zoo, master of nightlife negotiations) through 24 hours of mayhem in the city that never sleeps. Below, an excerpt from the chapter “The Big Dream: Women in…

Argentina was losing — something it hates to do. Somewhere shortly before the third successful attempt at a goal by the Germans, out of the crowd of thousands gathered to watch the World Cup match on TV in the middle of the Avenida 9 de Julio, came Juan. He put his arms around me and smiled.

First there was Waxman-Markey, then there was Kerry-Lieberman. Pundits argued over whether there should be cap and trade or a carbon tax, or perhaps a carbon dividend, but they all pretty much agreed that there needed to be an official cost on carbon, and some sort of direction from the top on…

FOX broadcaster Tim McCarver went way too far during Saturday’s baseball broadcast in comparing the New York Yankees front office to Nazis and Communists for not doing enough to honor former Yankee manager Joe Torre.  But despite admitting that his analogy was “inappropriate,” he has yet to…

LeBron James isn’t Michael Jordan; And?

Michael Jordan has spoken, and His Airness told us what we already knew: He would not have wanted to play on a superteam like LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh formed in Miami.

Duh.

Competition drove Michael Jordan on and off the court….

Imagine that  nearly one in three children in your town gasps instead of breathing, and imagine that folks in your town explode sooty firecrackers at every birthday, baseball game or shopping mall. Odds are public leaders would get bold about attacking the public sickness. Yet obesity, which…