Major League Baseball saw its first manager firing of the season this week when the Pittsburgh Pirates axed Derek Shelton after a 12-26 start. It's been a rough go for the Pirates since their ...

And now, Team USA has itself a starting pitcher. Pittsburgh Pirates’ phenom Paul Skenes was announced by MLB as the latest player to commit to the international tournament. Skenes, who won’t ...

Maybe this isn’t exactly what the Mets envisioned when they drafted Brett Baty in the first round of the 2019 draft, and his timeline certainly ...

the South African immigrant Elon Musk, who has used it himself with his usual lack of inhibition. But they should both cut it out lest they empty the word of any meaning.

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

Supreme Court Wrestles With Judges’ Power to Freeze Government Actions Nationwide The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case with potentially major implications for the power of federal judges ...

Author, columnist, public speaker Irwin Cohen headed a national baseball publication for five years before accepting a front office position with the Detroit Tigers where he became the first ...

Is it the worst Pirates lineup of all-time? Good question. I could argue that the 2020 lineup was the worst in modern history, and the word “modern ... as it appears in print.

Captain Billy and his crew will sail into Fort Walton Beach for the four-day celebration featuring pirate skirmishes, music, ...

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