Salem Bible Methodist Church to host VBS
Salem Bible Methodist Church will host Vacation Bible School from 6:30 to 8 p.m. June 9 through 12, with the program at 10:30 a.m. June 14.
Poston handles the winds at Memorial
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — J.T. Poston stepped onto the putting green Friday at the Memorial just in time to feel the first gust of wind, knowing a tough course was about to get even harder. Part of him was eager to see how a new golf ball to help with the wind was going to perform. It's safe to say he was pleased. Poston had eight birdies in a round of 7-under 65, a score best measured by the fact he was nine shots better than the field average, enough for a one-shot lead over Ryan Gerard going into the weekend at Muirfield Village. Poston was at 9-under 135, a score not many saw ...
Pirates foiled by the long ball
ATLANTA (AP) — Mauricio Dubón homered for the third straight game and the Atlanta Braves opened another home series with a victory, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3 on Friday night. Dubón was 2 for 4 with three RBIs and two runs. It is the first time in his eight-year career he has homered in three consecutive games. Ronald Acuña Jr. was 2 for 4 with a walk and an RBI and Matt Olson had two hits and a run. Martín Pérez (4-3) went five innings and gave up three runs before giving way to the bullpen, which blanked MLB's fourth-highest scoring offense in the final four ...
Rangers edge Guardians on Seager homer
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Corey Seager hit a go-ahead homer to end a career-worst 0-for-29 slump in his first game for Texas in more than three weeks and Kyle Higashioka also went deep as the Rangers beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-2 on Friday night. Seager had missed 19 games since May 13 while on the injured list because of lower back inflammation. His two-run homer in the sixth inning made it 3-2 right after a double by Wyatt Langford, who missed 39 games since April 21 because of a right forearm strain before he was also activated from the IL before the game. Guardians rookie ...
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SEC SAYS NO SUPER LEAGUE Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said there's no talk of a merger with the Big Ten and called the notion that the SEC wants to form a super league — the specter of which is being leveraged by lawmakers as a central threat to the future of college sports — as "not consistent with the truth." Sankey, in an interview Friday on "The Paul Finebaum Show," outlined the reasons the SEC does not support a bipartisan bill introduced last week in Congress that would regulate a college sports landscape that has changed dramatically in the new era of ...