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With just one week remaining in the 2024 Major League Baseball regular season, the MLB playoff picture is becoming clearer as five teams secured playoff berths this week. The New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Guardians and Milwaukee Brewers are the first five teams to qualify for the playoffs. As a reminder, MLB currently awards 12 playoff berths: six total for division winners and three wild card berths in each league. The top two division winners in each league based on overall record are awarded first-round byes, meaning they do not have to play in the best-of-three…

R.J. Young FOX Sports National College Football Analyst Connor Stallions is on record and has no regrets.”I don’t regret anything and I wouldn’t do it again,” Stallions said in “Untold: Sign Stealer,” a new Netflix documentary released Tuesday.Stallions, of course, is now at the center of the NCAA’s investigation into alleged in-person scouting and sign-stealing at the University of Michigan.The NCAA has sent the university a notice of charges, and sanctions could follow, but fans clamoring for the Stallions and UM to plead guilty aren’t going to get it.What was meant to be a story about the greatest Michigan team…

Big 12 Conference and TuneIn Launch “Big 12 Radio” to Provide College Sports Fans with Non-Stop Conference CoverageAugust 27, 2024 8:00:07 AM Starting today, fans can access 24/7 coverage of the Big 12 Conference on the new dedicated station, enjoying daily Big 12 sports talk, live games and exclusive interviews with coaches and players.DALLAS – August 27, 2024 – TuneIn, the global leader in live audio, and the Big 12 Conference today announced that Big 12 Radio, a new conference-branded 24/7 audio station, will stream to fans across the U.S. The station will feature Big 12 weekday sports talk,…

When and where will the Paralympics opening ceremony take place? How many athletes will compete? Al Jazeera has the answers.Less than two weeks after the Olympic Games ended, Paris will once again be buzzing with a major sporting event. The 2024 Paralympic Games get underway in the French capital from Wednesday, with thousands of athletes set to compete for coveted medals. Here’s what you need to know about the game in Paris. When are the 2024 Paralympics? The Paralympics will run from Wednesday 28 August to Sunday 8 September. When and where is the Opening Ceremony held? The Games will…

Hello, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell, and I’ll get straight to the news. Newsletter Beyond the scoreboard Stay up to date on LA teams with our daily Sports Report newsletter. Enter your Email Address sign up You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. From Bill Plaschke: He led this country to a gold medal.But maybe he can’t lead the Lakers to the playoffs?He was the leader of a team that beat the best team in the world.But maybe he can’t lead the Lakers to a win against the Memphis Grizzlies?The dilemma facing LeBron James and a…

Interference by insurers is driving mental health care providers to flee networks. It makes treatment hard to find. Some states are passing laws to protect patients. Javi Sanz/Getty Images/E+ hide caption toggle caption Javi Sanz/Getty Images/E+ Accessing mental health care can be a harrowing ordeal. Even if a patient finds a therapist in their network, their insurance company can overrule that therapist and decide the prescribed treatment isn’t medically necessary. This kind of interference is driving mental health professionals to flee networks, which makes treatment hard to find and puts patients in harm’s way. ProPublica sought to understand what legal…

Click here to subscribeWant today’s edition? Here’s a map of where to buy the bookSubscribe to our daily newsletter Sports editor Matt Daniels breaks down what’s happening in the region. A big thumbs up for Janet Rayfield and her University of Illinois soccer program for the start they’ve made so far heading into the 2024 season. Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette 3 reasons why we love sports now➜ 1. The Illinois football team continues to thrive offensively, with the latest example being a 4-0 home win over Illinois State on Sunday night. Illinois (3-0-1) has outscored opponents 13-2 heading into Saturday’s home…

Fred Schulte, KFF Health News A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to stop Medicare Advantage health insurers from overbilling the government by billions of dollars, but then abruptly rescinded it after an “uproar” from the industry, newly unsealed court documents show. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued proposed rules in January 2014 that would require health insurance plans to identify overpayments by CMS when reviewing patients’ medical records and reimburse the government. But in May 2014, CMS abandoned the idea without any public explanation. In newly unsealed court testimony, CMS officials repeatedly cited concerns about industry…

The first time Rob Minnick got into debt, he was 19 years old. Now 25, he was sitting in the back of a classroom during his freshman math class when he got in the red betting on the New York Yankees during an MLB spring training game. He promised his parents he’d never do it again. “Then it will happen five more times over the next five years,” he told Fortune magazine. Minnick gambled away the unemployment benefits he earned from working on a college campus while waiting out the COVID-19 lockdown at his parents’ home. When the stock market…

“Right now I’m not proud of myself, I’m just disgusted and disappointed,” said Romane Dicko after losing in the semifinals of the Paris Olympic judo tournament on August 2, 2024, despite ultimately winning the bronze medal. EUGENE HOSHKO/AP “This defeat will haunt me for the rest of my life,” “I am filled with shame,” “I have been through hell, a nightmare.” These words from athletes who failed at the Paris 2024 Olympics reveal how flaws in performance and post-performance management can have a serious impact on their mental health, a risk also faced by the 4,400 athletes competing in the…