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Shohei Ohtani Is Reveling in Excellence on Baseball’s Biggest Stage

The Dodgers megastar is putting on quite a show this month. What will he do if L.A. reaches the World Series?

Sports Illustrated

‌Crypt Spot Next To Marilyn Monroe And Hugh Hefner Up For Auction‌

Bizarre auction offers chance to spend eternity next to iconic stars at Los Angeles cemetery.

Zenger

How baseball endured through World War II

History sometimes forgets that Pearl Harbor also triggered one of the most significant letters in presidential history: the Green Light Letter in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged baseball owners to keep playing.

Chicago Sun-Times

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The week in television: Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat; Reframed: Marilyn Monroe; Dreaming Whilst Black; Special Ops: Lioness – review

Gregg Wallace fronts a biting cost of living satire; a starry sorority reclaims Marilyn Monroe; and a fable of modern black Britishness leaves you wanting more

The Guardian - UK

10 Reasons Why You Should Visit San Francisco

Don’t let frightening headlines keep you from the City by the Bay and all it has to offer.

Kiplinger

Marilyn Monroe found dead 'clutching chilling White House note from her final phone call'

Some Like It Hot legend Marilyn Monroe was aged just 36 when she was found dead at her home on August 4, 1962

Daily Mirror

Bob Wojnowski: Jerry Green deeply respected the game and his craft, right to the end

The press box table was too high and the chair too low. He’d stand up and strain to see the field, sit back during the timeouts, then stand and strain again.

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This week’s baseball quiz is going streaking

Notorious Oscar incident has us thinking about other streaks that involved uniformed players

Chicago Sun-Times

Facts often are stranger than fiction

Let’s turn back the clock and see how well you can do on this true-or-false quiz.

Chicago Sun-Times

Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe did it their way: stars’ romance detailed in new book

“Frank & Marilyn: The Lives, the Loves and the Fascinating Relationship of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe” by Edward Z. Epstein; Post Hill Press (304 pages, $30)

Tribune News Service

Aaron Judge’s historic 62nd home run ball sells for $1.5M at auction

Major league ballplayers aren’t the only ones securing big paydays.

Tribune News Service

‘Make Me Laugh, Make Me Cry’: You Need to Know Joe Donnelly

Tom Verducci says goodbye to his friend and mentor, who died Sunday at 87.

Sports Illustrated

Joe DiMaggio is lovestruck, controlling and abusive in new Marilyn Monroe biopic

Does ‘Blonde’ offer a fair account of the troubled marriage of Monroe and DiMaggio, the baseball legend from Martinez and San Francisco?

Tribune News Service

Patrick Reusse: In Judge-vs.-Ohtani debate, team record proves a worthy tiebreaker

The 30 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America with votes to decide the AL MVP award have a wonderful decision to make.

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The Independent UK

Marilyn Monroe fascination comes to Netflix with 'Blonde'

Marilyn Monroe has been dead for almost 60 years, but there is still a kind of madness around her that remains

Chicago Sun-Times

Overwrought, overlong ‘Blonde’ depicts Marilyn Monroe’s life as a joyless nightmare

Netflix film has an arresting look, but too many visual and aural tricks fight for our attention.

The Guardian - UK

Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film

Glossy horror perpetuates the tradition of portraying the brilliant actor as an infantile, sacrificial sex-lamb on the altar of celebrity

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: Ana de Armas Digs Deep as Marilyn in Brutal ‘Blonde’

What a dream it must be to be Marilyn Monroe, a starstruck assistant tells her. “Everyone would give their right arm to be you!” And we cringe, as we’ll do many times during Andrew Dominik’s brutal, bruising and often beautiful “Blonde,” starring a heartbreaking Ana de Armas. This time, it’s…

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Evening Standard

Blonde movie review: Ana de Armas’s Marilyn Monroe drama does nothing to help reclaim its subject’s power

Ana de Armas embodies Monroe’s sexiness and vulnerability but is given frustratingly little chance to express her wit and intelligence

Evening Standard

The best of Marilyn Monroe's films from Some Like It Hot to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Choosing favourites becomes a bit of an embarrassment of riches

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | Serena’s Farewell Tour Begins

It’s win or go home—for good.

Daily Mirror

Ana de Armas looks just like Marilyn Monroe in new pictures released from film biopic

Blonde, starring Ana de Armas, is based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates and is a fictionalised narrative of Marilyn's life

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | Liz Cambage’s Messy Sparks Exit

The Sparks dumped one of their key players during the playoff chase, reportedly due to a variety of off-court issues.

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | The Lightning Win Game 3 Behind a Huge Second Period

Plus, the Nets-Kyrie Irving contact impasse was entirely predictable.

The Guardian - US

Yogi Berra: the man behind baseball’s greatest catchphrases

A new documentary, made with the help of the Yankees star’s family, aims to remind its audience that his skill was equal to his warmth

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