DETROIT (AP) — Bob Miller, a right-hander for the Philadelphia Phillies’ 1950 “Whiz Kids” National League pennant winner who went on to coach alma mater Detroit Mercy for 36 years, died Saturday. He was 94.

Miller’s family told Detroit Mercy the funeral will be limited to family, with a celebration of life to be held later.

Miller pitched two seasons for the Titans in 1947-48 before signing with Philadelphia. In 10 seasons with the Phillies,

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Two contenders for the championship of the Mountain West Conference will take the field Saturday in Week 9 action on CBS Sports Network — including No. 25 Boise State — as the league enters its second week of play. The Broncos travel to face Air Force in a critical tune-up before a nonconference showdown with No. 11 BYU on Nov. 6. Meanwhile, San Diego State will be looking to prove that it remains one

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A Deptford water sports charity is encouraging people to take to the sea for a “life-changing” fundraising challenge, rowing 23 miles along the English Channel.

Registration has now opened for the annual event, and organisers the AHOY Centre are looking for teams from all backgrounds, even those without rowing experience, to sign up for the 2020 Channel Row Challenge.

The sailing charity, located right next to the River Thames in Deptford, provides opportunities and training

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York Region says 11 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been linked to an indoor sports facility in Vaughan, and eight businesses were charged and fined Saturday for violating public health protocols.

In a public notice, York Region Public Health said the cases were traced back to two soccer games played on Nov. 11 and Nov. 15 at TRIO Sportsplex and Event Centre, in the area of Teston Road and Highway 400.

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The Xbox Series X and Series S launched this week, marking a new generation and a significant upgrade from the previous gen. But this brave new era also marks a fuzzier line than console generations past, thanks to plentiful next-gen upgrades and backwards compatibility. You’ll want to carry your game progress forward, which means transferring your saves. And to do this, you have a few options.

Importing Cloud Saves

The easiest by far is to

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With more than 110m PlayStation 4s sold, Sony is coming into the next console generation with nothing to prove. But the company has squandered goodwill before: it followed up the beloved PlayStation 2 with an awkward-looking, difficult-to-develop-for console that cost the equivalent of £600 in today’s money. It took PlayStation 3 almost a decade and several remodels to make up the ground it had lost. The PlayStation 5 certainly looks wild next to the

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A father whose family holiday-turned-nightmare left him paralysed for life has been awarded close to €1 million in damages. 

The phenomenal sum was awarded at the end of an 11-year long civil court case Christine Hannah Burns had filed on behalf of her husband John, a former carpenter from London. 

Burns ended up with a 100{066dbc63777e5ed549f406789d72fdeebd77a32711d57f7b38ff2b35c4ba2a42} disability as a result of a water sports accident during a family holiday in Malta back in 2007.

Their

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EXCLUSIVE: Sports streaming service DAZN is expanding to 200 countries and territories on December 1, with initial monthly pricing of £1.99 or less.

Launched in 2016 and backed by billionaire Len Blavatnik, DAZN has thus far reached the U.S., Brazil, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, Italy and Japan with a monthly price between $10 and $20. Boxing has been a calling card, and the global rollout is tied to two fights included in the regular

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Jon Rahm made an epic hole-in-one on Tuesday at the Augusta National Golf Club during a practice round ahead of the Masters Tournament — and the impressive shot came on his 26th birthday!



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During the warm-up round Tuesday, Rahm skipped his ball over the water on the 16th hole — marking his second hole-in-one in two days during practice play, according to CBS Sports.

In a

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