Rosie DiManno

1 week ago | thespec.com | Rosie DiManno

“About time!’’Thus was Vladimir Guerrero Jr. greeted by his Blue Jays teammates after he belted his first home run of the season — in his 72nd at-bat and his 19th game. Although the ribbing was equally self-directed. When the ball came off his bat, Guerrero knew it was going, going, gone. “I went, ‘Finally, I got one.’ ”A fat spinning slider from Atlanta starter Spencer Strider that hung fetchingly on the outside of the plate leading off the sixth inning, on a full count. Beauty swing.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Rosie DiManno

Forget “Ocean’s 11,” “The Usual Suspects,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “The Italian Job,” “The Taking of Pelham 123” and “Baby Driver.”Those cinematic heists may have made great movies but for the most part robbers — and killers — are dumber than a sack of hammers. That’s why they get caught. Like the guy who held up a bank in his small Nova Scotia town a few years ago and walked back to his house directly across the street — captured on surveillance video.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Rosie DiManno

He arrived looking like a titan of the universe, hip-hop style: bedazzling bling with a diamond necklace thicker than a bicycle chain and matching bracelet, more ice dangling from his earlobe, sartorially cool in a cherry blossom pink suit over a black polo shirt. For now and forever Blue Jay Vladimir Guerrero Jr., that haul checks in at half a billion U.S. greenbacks over 14 years. He’ll be 40 when the contract wheezes into the terminus station.

1 week ago | stcatharinesstandard.ca | Rosie DiManno

In the chaos of war, mistakes happen. In the fog of war, it’s difficult for the truth to emerge, sometimes deliberately misrepresented or obfuscated. But the facts of what happened March 23 in Gaza, on the outskirts of Rafah — 15 medics and rescue workers killed by Israel Defense Forces, then buried in a mass grave — are surfacing. And it looks very bad for the military, for the country, for a conflict where tens of thousands of Palestinian innocents have already lost their lives.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Rosie DiManno

Much ado about nothing-nothing. For 60 minutes and 36 seconds. But clutch in the overtime clinch, those homeboys. It was always going to be a consequential, emotionally torqued game for Toronto and Montreal — last regular-season Saturday tilt, “Hockey Night in Canada,” amidst a revitalized rivalry stretching back more than a century to the very dawn of the National Hockey League. “That’s what I watched growing up as a kid,’’ said bench boss Craig Berube.