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Yankees catcher Brian McCann drove in five runs Monday as the Yankees knocked off the Twins 8-7 in 10 innings. McCann hit a three-run home run in the first inning and a two-run single in the third. He finished the night 3 for 5. The Yankees, meanwhile, continued their feast-or-famine hitting. MORE: Why your contending team’s fans are freaking out | Sabathia start pushed back after near-brawl The win was huge for the Yankees, who now hold a one-game lead over the new-look Blue Jays in the AL East and may find it tough to keep them at bay with so many aging legs....

Manager Aaron Boone told reporters Wednesday that injuries in the rotation, a desire to give starters extra rest and shielding younger pitchers from facing top hitters would be the team’s reasons for using the strategy. “In a long stretch of games and you wanted to give a guy an extra day. [Or] you felt like it’s a little softer landing for some guys to let them start from the back end of the lineup and give them a time and a half through,” Boone said, per ESPN....

New York on Tuesday night agreed to a nine-year, $324 million deal with the ace right-hander, as first reported by Jon Heyman and later confirmed by others. Ken Rosenthal reported there a player option after the fifth year of Cole’s contract. Cole, the 2019 Cy Young runner-up, just turned 29 and will presumably spend the remainder of his career (or close to it) in pinstripes. He is the biggest name starting pitcher acquisition for the Yankees since they signed CC Sabathia more than a decade ago, and a signal of intent from a team to this point unable to get over the hump with its current core....

It was the third year in a row Americans walked off with the best picture. The oddsmakers had assumed that if any American film copped the Golden Palm, Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever,” about an interracial love affair, would be chosen-not least of all because two years ago Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” was snubbed in favor of “sex, lies, and videotape.” Just moments after the Coen brothers accepted their final award, the solitary Spike could be seen making a conspicuous exit from the auditorium....

MORE: MLB Mock Draft | 11 MLB stars who had strong final seasons The Dodgers trailed through five innings as starter Kenta Maeda allowed four runs for the fourth time in his last five starts, but they managed to take the lead in the eighth inning just to have the Padres tie it up in the bottom half. The 5-5 stalemate dragged on well into extra innings. The Dodgers had a chance with the bases loaded in the 14th but failed to score, and they used Clayton Kershaw as a pinch-hitter in the 15th, which failed to produce a run....

An underwhelming final chapter in a second spell at Olympaicos was not the ending Toure deserved, but it should not cloud judgment of one of African’s finest ever footballers. Toure’s £24million move to City from Barcelona in 2010 raised many eyebrows but he quickly proved a pivotal figure in Roberto Mancini’s side, inspiring City to the FA Cup and Premier League title in consecutive seasons. City bid for another top-flight crown this weekend, with Pep Guardiola’s side aiming to retain the trophy they won in Toure’s final campaign at the club....

[HTML1] November can’t get here soon enough for fans of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, with the core mechanics, enemies, and map types of the base game set to receive a serious upgrade. The improvements and additions come in the form of XCOM: Enemy Within, a sizable expansion once thought to be a sequel in hiding. We’ve already gotten a handful of details on Enemy Within’s changes, but a new mission walkthrough video from the developers at Firaxis Games points out how each new soldier will make their presence felt on the battlefield....

Now, following details that gamers who want to purchase Sony’s PS4 exclusive, Killzone: Shadow Fall as a digital title will face a 50GB download, we now know that Microsoft’s day one Xbox One update will take 15-20 minutes download. Microsoft’s Xbox One Chief Platform Architect, Marc Whitten, spilled some details about the update to IGN in the latest “Ask Microsoft Anything” Q&A. According to Whitten: The update is necessary due to the differences in manufacturing schedules versus the software development schedule - meaning that the hardware will have been sitting in a box waiting for deliver while the software was still being fine-tuned by Microsoft programmers....

The other gaming powerhouse releasing a console this fall is doubling down on what made the PS4 so great: premium games on a premium console with premium services. At least that’s the perception anyway, with the PS5’s whimsical design and expanded lineup of exclusives coming in the near future. PlayStation sells itself as “the best place to play” and “the future of gaming” for that reason, so PlayStation Plus could very well be a mainstay subscription on the platform moving forward....

That being said, there is one retailer that has yet to release its batch of limited edition Halo Infinite consoles, so there is still a glimmer of hope. Below is the latest restock information for the Xbox Series X and Series S. Best Buy Xbox Series X Restock Best Buy is the only major U.S retailer that has yet to release its batch of Halo Infinite Xbox Series X units....

Of course, DC Comics and Marvel have competed with one another for nearly as long as the two companies have existed. A similar rivalry has existed between Xbox and PlayStation, with both companies releasing their opposing consoles at around the same time every generation. The companies also have taken different approaches to their first-party titles and studios, with PlayStation being more selective in its acquisitions, and Xbox aiming to get a wider variety of studios that cover diverse genres....

On his program, The Dan Patrick Show, host Dan Patrick asked Oliver Luck Wednesday if his son was in need of a job following retirement. The elder Luck responded: “No he doesn’t, thank you for asking. He’s Mr. Mom right now, he and his wife had their first child about 3 months ago. So he’s doing a lot of babysitting.” A four-time Pro Bowl quarterback and former number one overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, Andrew retired at age 29 prior to the start of the 2019 season–a decision that shocked the football world at the time....

MORE: Get the latest XFL odds & betting trends at Sports Insider Although the XFL doesn’t have the talent of the NFL, it does have a good group of players who should be able to keep things entertaining. Early betting odds to win the league are a three-way tie between the Dallas Renegades, D.C. Defenders and Tampa Bay Vipers at +350. Following them is a three-way tie for second with the Houston Roughnecks, L....

New York and D.C. will be looking to move to 2-0 as their teams face each other in the first game of the day. Meanwhile the Vipers and Dragons will be looking to avoid an 0-2 start in a 10-game season. The Vipers were considered in Vegas as one of the betting favorites, but they scored just three points in Week 1 in a lousy effort. Tampa Bay QB Aaron Murray will be inactive today, which may turn out to be a good thing....

Pictures posted to Weibo tease a 24 September event where a phone with 100% screen to body ratio will apparently appear. This is the Mi Mix Alpha, which in another image is shown on a bookshelf with a wraparound spine design like the folding display on the Huawei Mate X. But the Mi Mix Alpha will not be a foldable phone and the display probably won’t wrap all the way round to the rear of the phone....

When Rhule was helping turn around the program at Temple, he already had many of his players outfitted with XTECH shoulder pads, a revolutionary protective device that is gaining traction on all levels of football. “I even wore the XTECH pads and went through bull-in-the-ring while I was at Temple,” he recalls, “and I can tell you that the next day I felt less sore than I should have felt....

Y: The Last Man has had an interesting road to even getting the first season on Hulu. There was a time when the series, based on the popular graphic novel, was slated for regular broadcast television but plans changed several different times before it was able to make its way to the streaming service. The show debuted earlier this fall but wasn’t even given a full season to prove itself before the execs at Hulu decided it was time to pull the plug, according to showrunner Eliza Clark....

The injury, sustained while making a game-saving tag in the eighth inning at Wrigley Field, comes only weeks before the playoffs. MORE: Greatest Cardinals players of all time | Cards’ fight for first place “It hurt,” Molina said after the game, his left wrist and thumb wrapped tightly in bright red tape. “It’s still hurting right now. We’ll see what the MRI says.” Manager Mike Matheny, who removed Molina in favor of backup Tony Cruz, offered his initial sense after the injury....

Monday’s win saw the Yankees sweep the Twins 3-0 in the MLB’s AL Division Series. Luis Severino and New York’s bullpen silenced the Twins thanks to some great defensive plays as the Yankees moved within one step of their first World Series since 2009. Now, the Yankees advance to face the winner of the ALDS clash between the Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays. On the other hand, the Twins extended their MLB-record postseason losing streak to 16 games, with 13 of those losses coming to the Yankees....