Sunday, October 1, 2023

Tim Wakefield, Red Sox knuckleball-throwing pitcher and 2-time World Series champ, dead at 57

A male baseball pitcher winds up to throw the ball with his right hand as fans watch from the stands.

Tim Wakefield, the knuckleballing workhorse of the Red Sox pitching staff who bounced back after giving up a season-ending home run to the Yankees in the 2003 playoffs to help Boston win its curse-busting World Series title the following year, has died. He was 57.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/tim-wakefield-obituary-1.6984120?cmp=rss

Fire at nightclub in Spain kills at least 13

A firefighter battles a blaze inside a building.

A fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring several others, authorities said.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spain-nightclub-fire-1.6984062?cmp=rss

Jimmy Carter celebrates 99th birthday with family as peers pay tribute to former U.S. president

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, left, and his wife, Rosalynn.

Jimmy Carter defied all odds again by celebrating his 99th birthday Sunday with family in Plains, Ga., as tributes to the former U.S. president poured in from world leaders and pop culture figures.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jimmy-carter-birthday-99-1.6984046?cmp=rss

Europe reclaims golf's Ryder Cup in Rome on play of McIlroy and Fleetwood

Two men's golfers hug following Team Europe's title win at the Ryder Cup in Italy.

Europe won back the Ryder Cup on Sunday, just like it always does before its raucous crowd, with Rory McIlroy leading the way and Tommy Fleetwood delivering the winner.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/golf/ryder-cup-europe-title-win-2023-recap-1.6984013?cmp=rss

Pro-Russia party wins Slovakia's parliamentary elections

A man speaks at a podium with two other men in the background.

A populist former prime minister and his left-wing party have won early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, staging a political comeback after campaigning on a pro-Russian and anti-American message, according to results announced Sunday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/slovakia-election-1.6983920?cmp=rss