Jesse RogersJun 12, 2025, 11:57 PM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. CHICAGO — Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong thought it was “cool” to hit the farthest pitch outside the strike zone for a home run in the majors this season. The high fastball, from Pittsburgh Pirates…
Bruno Fernandes and Co. model the new kit. Manchester United With a fresh start comes a fresh kit for Manchester United, who have been quick to reveal their new home strip for the 2025-26 season. After suffering a disastrous campaign last time out, that included the club’s worst-ever Premier League finish (15th) — so bad that…
In order to keep time accurately, we have always had to set our clocks by the ticks of a better one. Until the 1950s, the best were those set by astronomers based on the position of the sun in the sky. Back then, the most reliable clock was the one at the Royal Observatory in…
AT THE START of the year dealmakers around the globe were sharpening their pencils. Donald Trump’s incoming administration was promising to slash corporate taxes and tear up red tape in the world’s mightiest economy. Political leaders in other large markets at last appeared to grasp that in order to keep up with America, they had…
Getty Images Women with very dense breasts should be offered additional scans as part of the UK’s NHS breast screening programme to help detect more cancers and save lives, researchers say. A Cambridge University-led study of more than 9,000 women found using different scans from traditional mammograms could treble the number of cancers detected in…
A new study from the University of Vienna reveals that sea anemones use a molecular mechanism known from bilaterian animals to form their back-to-belly body axis. This mechanism (“BMP shuttling”) enables cells to organize themselves during development by interpreting signaling gradients. The findings, published in Science Advances, suggest that this system evolved much earlier than…
Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto Getty Images Leaders of some of the world’s wealthiest countries have descended on a luxury mountain lodge nestled in Canada’s Rockies for this year’s G7 summit. The elite gathering comes as Western allies face numerous crises, from conflicts on three continents to global economic instability. Canada chairs the G7 this…
No defensive player for the San Francisco 49ers has a bigger spotlight on them this year than rookie first-round pick Mykel Williams. The No. 11 overall pick comes with lofty expectations given his draft status, but general manager John Lynch told Matt Maiocco on the 49ers Talk podcast why the team became so enamored with…
Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June 5 in Nature Methods, used imaging data from the Human Connectome Project to align neural activity with its underlying circuitry. Mapping how…
THE ROSE GARDEN is a bucolic place. On April 2nd it was the scene of a massacre. Just after 4 o’clock President Donald Trump walked out of the White House and swung a hammer at the global trading system. He announced sweeping reciprocal tariffs against all of America’s biggest trading partners. Companies around the world…
