After opening the week with four straight losses to Joplin and Nevada, the Neosho Nightriders American Legion “AA” team bounced back nicely over the last few days.
On Thursday morning, Johnny Murtagh had breakfast with his wife, Orla, at the Runnymede Hotel near Egham in Surrey. The only certainty in a jockey’s breakfast is The Racing Post and Murtagh scanned the Gold Cup field for dangers. What could stop his horse, Yeats?
The Portland Beavers activated outfielder Justin Huber and sent right-handed pitcher Mauro Zarate to Class AA San Antonio on Saturday. Huber, who turns 26 on July 1, batted .246 (15 for 61) with three doubles, two home runs, eight RBIs and five runs scored in 33 games for the San Diego Padres
Tom Robinson pitched a complete-game shutout for Calloway's in the Major League of Upper Moreland Little League, sparking a 1-0 blanking of Dennis Long Construction.
I knew a woman who lived in a discreet mansion block in Maida Vale, north London, one of those red-brick variegated-laurel affairs that give you the impression the planners were unsure whether they needed a crematorium, an umbrella factory or serviced flats for middle-European Jews. Next door was an opera singer, a famous baritone.