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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Sam Blum |Chad Jennings
Baseball players are often superstitious when discussing things they hope to accomplish. Hit streaks, no-hitters, record chases -- they can all be taboo to mention until the feat is accomplished. That is, unless you are Kenley Jansen, the four-time All-Star, World Series champion and potential Hall of Famer. Before a game in San Diego this month, he spoke about what reaching 500 saves would mean to him.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Sam Blum
American Bitcoin, a crypto mining firm launched by Eric Trump, has plans to merge with a listed crypto company. Source link
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3 weeks ago | 
inc.com | Sam Blum
The Trump family’s crypto empire is making a jump to the public markets. On Monday, various outlets reported that American Bitcoin, a crypto mining outfit helmed by the president’s sons Eric and Donald Jr., is merging with Gryphon Digital Mining, a Las Vegas-based operator of mining computers and data centers. Gryphon Digital was founded in 2020 and has been listed on the Nasdaq since last February.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Sam Blum
And an additional letter from the DOL has left freelancers confused as to why the inquiry was halted. Source link
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1 month ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Sam Blum
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — If it were up to many Los Angeles Angels players, they’d enjoy a late afternoon plane ride after Thursday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, landing in Minnesota at a reasonable hour.They’d get dinner, a restful night’s sleep, and all the time needed to prepare for Friday’s game against the Twins.That’s what would have happened had the Angels followed a standard set across the league and played an early afternoon getaway day game against the Pirates.
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1 month ago | 
inc.com | Sam Blum
Cryptocurrency companies, which bankrolled Donald Trump’s return to the White House, also contributed handsomely to the lavish inauguration party of the self-proclaimed “crypto president.” The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, the Political Action Committee that raised funds for Trump’s celebrations after winning last November’s election, welcomed a record $239 million, according to a Federal Election Commission filing made public Sunday.
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1 month ago | 
dailyherald.com | Sam Blum
Chicago White Sox relief pitcher Bobby Jenks during a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) AP For his 44th birthday, just one month ago, Bobby Jenks asked his family to buy him a tent. It was a gift he knew he couldn’t use, not right now. It was more about what it represented. Someday, when his body allows, he wants to take his family on a road trip through Europe, stopping to camp along the way.
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1 month ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Sam Blum
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For his 44th birthday, just one month ago, Bobby Jenks asked his family to buy him a tent.It was a gift he knew he couldn’t use, not right now. It was more about what it represented. Someday, when his body allows, he wants to take his family on a road trip through Europe, stopping to camp along the way.“We understand that may not be possible,” said his mother-in-law, Kate Souglides.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Sam Blum
4 hours agoVideo captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos. In a video posted to X Wednesday (9 April), the president introduced NASCAR drivers to the founder and chairman of Charles Schwab Corporation, a multinational financial services company. “It’s not just a company, it’s actually an individual,” Trump told the racing drivers.
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2 months ago | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Sam Blum
By Sam Blum / The AthleticDuring a splendid 2023 season, Atlanta Braves first baseman Matt Olson, a two-time All-Star, led MLB with 54 homers and 139 runs batted in. He has had a successful baseball career by using a typical bat, with the barrel near the end. But even a hitter of his stature, one with little reason to experiment, took notice last weekend when the New York Yankees went viral for walloping the Milwaukee Brewers with a torrent of home runs.
