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Yoshinobu Yamamoto was on the celebrity list for Thursday night’s Rams game, alongside Shohei Ohtani.The free-agent Japanese star never made it, however.He was busy finalizing a deal on the other side of town.Yamamoto agreed to a 12-year, $325 million deal with the big-spending Dodgers, according to a person with knowledge of the deal not authorized to discuss it publicly, beating out at least a dozen other teams to procure the most coveted starting pitcher on the free-agent market.The deal gives Yamamoto, a three-time…

Since Godzilla Minus One hit theaters earlier this month, it has already broken box office records for a live-action Japanese theatrical release in North America and been named one of the best movies of 2023. Amidst the latest kaiju movie finding success, Pacific Rim filmmaker Guillermo del Toro caught the movie and was inspired by its release to discuss his own experience trying to make a period genre film. One standout aspect of Godzilla Minus One is its post-World War II setting, as it offers a more in-depth…

The novelist Siddhartha Deb and I are at the Pret A Manger coffee shop and I am asking him for writing advice. Opposite us is New York’s best-loved bookstore, the Strand, with its distinctive red awning and red flags."I try to write 500 words a day, whether it is going well or whether it is going badly. I like to write in the morning, I drink coffee and I write. 4-5 hours is enough," he says.This evening he has elected to drink a ginger shot, packed in a tiny lemon-coloured bottle. I choose cocoa, and as we talk, we watch…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Women pursuing revolutionary business ventures are less likely to be funded because of investors' unconscious bias against female entrepreneurs, according to a study by Northeastern University researchers that included an examination of "Shark Tank" episodes. Novelty is vital to entrepreneurship.…

DENVER —  Clayton Kershaw said his shoulder got “a little cranky” in the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies and that he was diagnosed with inflammation. The Dodgers left-hander received a cortisone injection and remains hopeful that he’ll be able to make at least one more start before the All-Star break.“I’ve had some shoulder stuff in the past, like three or four years ago, and usually the shots help pretty good,” Kershaw said before Thursday night’s series finale against the Rockies. “So…

In their 66 years of playing baseball in Los Angeles, the Dodgers have never fielded a pitching staff with numbers this bad.Not in their early Southern California years, when their makeshift home at the Coliseum measured just 250 feet to straightaway left.Not in the doldrums of the 1990s and early 2000s, when the team failed to win a playoff game over a 15-year stretch.Even Frank McCourt’s cash-strapped squads were able to maintain the franchise’s long-established legacy of pitching excellence, always remaining at least…

If you want to be a Major League Baseball pitcher, you need to be able to throw a ball really fast—like 85 to 100 miles per hour. The faster the pitch, the less time a batter has to react and swing the bat, which means you have a greater chance of getting the ball past him for a strike. (For folks who aren’t baseball fans: A strike is when the batter swings and misses, or fails to swing at a ball that’s in the strike zone. Three strikes, of course, and you’re out.) This requirement has considerably dampened my dream of…

Dwayne Johnson Was All Set To Star In A Hobbs & Shaw Sequel, Once Revealed Pitching Its Plot That The Writer Loved, Saying “It Would Be The Antithesis Of What Fast & Furious Movies Generally Are”(Photo Credit –Imdb) Dwayne Johnson has many well-known roles, and Agent Luke Hobbs from the Fast & Furious franchise is one of them. While the franchise did make The Rock gain many more fans worldwide, it also saw him and the series’ lead actor ‘Dom’ Vin Diesel clash horns. This eventually led to the ‘Black Adam’…

ATLANTA —  In his major league debut Tuesday night, Bobby Miller’s triple-digit fastball came as advertised.Over the five strong innings against the Atlanta Braves, though, it was the rest of his arsenal that shined brighter than anticipated.In the Dodgers’ 8-1 win at Trust Park, Miller put the full evolution of his game on display, giving up just one run on four hits and a walk while striking out five.The club’s top pitching prospect began the evening pumping 100 mph heaters over the plate, flashing the pitch that made…

Handling controversy:  Embryo scores are still hotly debated, with some geneticists calling them unproven and even unethical. Carr notes that IVF itself once attracted similar concerns. “Not to draw a very, very, obvious conclusion from my own life, but it’s really no different, right?” she says. “If you have moral objections to the test or you don’t agree with it, don’t use it.” Meeting opposition: Recently, a group of experts writing in Science called on the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize Genomic Prediction’s…