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11:52 am ET Jeff passanESPN Near ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Star outfielder Mookie Betts and the Los Angeles Dodgers are finalizing a massive long-term contract extension that would prevent the former American League MVP from reaching free …

It’s best to wait until you’re 70 to start receiving Social Security retirement benefits, even if it means tapping your retirement assets deep in a bear market. Why? Because the guaranteed and risk-free increase of 8% per year in the Social Security benefit is an unbeatable deal. And yet, in …

The scientists increased the heat above the lethal threshold and waited for the corals to die. “We were heating the water one degree above the maximum summer temperature,” says Anders Meibom, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne. “At the Great Barrier Reef, after …

Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook said Wednesday he is “grateful and blessed” to be able to participate in practice again after recovering from the coronavirus. Westbrook spoke to the media ahead of Wednesday’s practice, his first with the team since he erased the NBA’s quarantine protocol on the league’s Walt …

The United Arab Emirates heads to Mars, claiming the title of the first Arab country to launch an interplanetary mission, which it designed and built in just six years and named hope. The orbiter Hope Mars launched into Mars on a Japanese rocket on Sunday (July 19). Its name was …