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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
Hensley “Bam-Bam” Meulens was the first native of Curacao to make it to the major leagues. He played for the New York Yankees from 1989-1993, and spent the next three years in Japan before joining the Montreal Expos in 1997 and the Arizona Diamondbacks, ...
The Dominicans insist they’re not motivated by revenge. The Dutch are adamant that the past is the past. Nevertheless, the memory of the 2009 World Baseball Classic refuses to dissipate ahead of Monday’s semifinal showdown between the two nations in the 2013 WBC. An ...
Depending on whom you ask, Jurickson Profar, an infielder in the Texas Rangers’ system, is either the best middle infield prospect in baseball, or simply the best prospect in baseball. What matters most at the moment is that the 20-year-old is one of the ...
Two-time defending WBC champion Japan beats the Netherlands 10-6 in the final second-round, Pool 1 game, scoring eight times in the second inning.
Team Japan sure put it all together Sunday night. But who would have thought it would earn the victory with a slugfest? A total of 17 hits, six of them home runs. That’s what Japan racked up during a 16-4 win over the Netherlands ...
It will take one more win to punch a ticket to San Francisco. But of course nothing’s secured yet for Team Japan. After a nail-biting 4-3 extra-inning victory over Taiwan in their first game of the World Baseball Classic’s second round on Friday, the ...
The calls began coming in August, and they didn't stop. Netherlands manager Hensley Meulens had a player who was excited about the upcoming World Baseball Classic, and he wanted the manager to hear all about it.