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As closer Liam Hendriks walked toward the home dugout following his save, Christenson waited for him with his arm locked upward. Hendriks forcibly moved the coach’s arm down as he passed before Christenson again struck the position on his way off the field. Christenson told San Francisco Chronicle beat reporter Susan Slusser that general manager David Forst called him after the game to ask about the gesture. Christenson said he understood his motion “looks terrible....

Oakland’s first baseman will undergo surgery Thursday in Colorado to repair a torn hip labrum, Athletics manager Bob Melvin said. MORE: The 15 best baseball movies ever, ranked | Mike Fiers tosses 134-pitch no-hitter “We took a while to get him back (from a quad injury),” Melvin told ESPN. “I thought once we got him back, he was over that hurdle. I guess it got progressively worse, and he wasn’t saying a whole lot about it....

The veteran shortstop has been traded to the Nationals for relief pitcher Tyler Clippard, according to CBSSports.com. Other reports say the deal is pending physicals. MORE: Top 10 available free agents | Understanding the A’s offseason Escobar was traded by the Rays to the A’s on Dec. 10 after Tampa Bay finalized a contract with free agent Asdurbal Cabrera. Escobar, 32, batted .258/.324/.340 with seven home runs and 39 RBIs for Tampa Bay last year....

The evidence also heightened suspicions that the Navy had tried to sweep the disaster under the rug, scapegoating its own dead crewman rather than admit to problems with its battleships. Last fall’s investigation had flatly ruled out an accident conjecturing that Gunner’s Mate Clayton M. Hartwig, “a loner, an introverted individual,” deliberately touched off the powder bags while loading a 16-inch gun in the recommissioned World War II warship. The blast ripped through the turret, killing Hartwig and 46 other crewmen....

The entries are proof that a half century of dining regularly with important people—he was derided by his critics as a toadying schmoozer—can produce significant field research. Schlesinger somehow managed to turn out 18 trenchant works of history while enjoying his martini, his steak and everyone else’s finest gossip. He was a warm and generous man, but when he jotted down his observations, look out! The book contains not just his witty aperçus, but those of hundreds of A-list friends, some of whom are still alive and will blanch at seeing private lunches in print....

It was a neat system, but life proved messier. In practice the rules produced the following anomaly: subscribers could file hate-filled messages that would, in the name of free speech, go up on the board. Responses that attacked the messengers of hate were deemed unfit to print because they were personal. Before too long, a few anti-Semitic remarks showed upon Prodigy. “Wherever Jews exercise influence and power,” one subscriber wrote, “misery, warfare and economic exploitation of the host people follow....

It doesn’t take long to figure out that “Shrek” is not going to be your ordinary animated fairy tale. Was Pinocchio ever spied in an outhouse? Did Snow White ever pull cones of wax out of her ears and use them as dinner candles? Did Beauty–or even the Beast–let loose fish-killing farts? The hero and title character of “Shrek” does all these things in the first 10 minutes of DreamWorks’s hilarious and captivating computer-animated family movie....

In these cases, the conclusion reached by some is that people will poll differently than they vote in order to appear more enlightened or politically correct. In an America where Barack Obama polled ahead, and then won, two national elections right in line with pre–Election Day polling, the Bradley Effect holds perhaps less water today than it once did. Nevertheless, it makes some rational sense to think that in today’s culturally charged America, for a variety of reasons, people may be highly reticent to reveal their preferences to pollsters who are perfect strangers....

Now, when you’re done having fun with some Super Bowl prop bets, a few easy clicks can get in you in on some wall action. Here’s a little sports perspective as you examine whether to risk losing more than just your tax dollars to The Wall. Officially proposed height of The Wall Over 37.5 feet: -120 (bet $120 to win $100) Under 37.5 feet: -120 (bet $120 to win $100)...

But Helms had to swallow a mouthful last Friday morning. Right there in the Raleigh paper - and on the front page of The New York Times - was Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican who became the first senator to hit Helms hard over Weld. If Helms doesn’t grant a hearing on Weld’s nomination, Lugar told a gathering of Beltway reporters, he’d use his muscle as the Senate Agriculture chairman to take on Helms’s beloved tobacco programs....

After high school, they both took off drifting. Fitzpatrick stumbled through a life in political fringe groups, drug rehab, gold-coin peddling and the federal witness-protection program. Shabazz wandered in and out of bad relationships and dead-end jobs. Armed with what she says is a degree from the Sorbonne in Paris, she found hersself waitressing at Denny’s, when she wasn’t pitching telemarketing products. Some friends say she was haunted by her father’s legacv....

When Browns defensive end Myles Garrett ripped off Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph’s helmet and whipped it at Rudolph’s head, he only added to an already long list of brutal incidents. When the Bengals, Browns, Ravens and Steelers take the field for a divisional game, bad things tend to happen. MORE: “AFC North football” needs culture shift after Garrett suspension Old school football fans will surely remember a time when hits from AFC North battles in the 2000s were being celebrated on ESPN’s “Jacked Up,” but gradual changes to improve player safety have done little to decrease the violence....

That’s a prized combination in the collectibles market these days, as prices for everything from old books to Elvis plates have settled down at levels far below 1980s highs. Some of the green glow surrounding baskets is attributable to a Southwestern marketing fervor (Santa Fe, N.M., was the fastest-growing U.S. vacation spot last year). But the baskets also have a practical grace that seems to transform the ordinary vessels into sculpture....

The animal was first described in the early 1990s after several giant bones were found in Argentina and it was long considered to be the most massive member of Sauropoda, a group of four-legged, herbivorous dinosaurs with long tails and necks that were the largest terrestrial creatures ever to roam the Earth. However, in 2017, a team of scientists described another giant sauropod dubbed Patagotitan, also from Argentina, estimating that it had a body of mass of 69 tons, according to one method used in their study, although they also provided other figures....

Not that there will be a ton of rebuilding after freshman point guard A.J. Harris on Tuesday became the third Buckeyes freshman this week to leave the program, joining Daniel Giddens and Mickey Mitchell. MORE: Most shocking results in Final Four history | March Sadness Despite the string of departures, the top six scorers from this season are returning, and the 2016 recruiting class will help fill out a roster that as of now has only seven scholarship players....

Today, a closer look at the AAC, where the Houston Cougars finished 11-1 last season, including a blowout win in the team’s bowl game against Florida State. Houston adds a Texas transfer and the a top-10 incoming freshman recruit to the already top-ranked roster in the conference. Temple brings back most of it’s offensive centerpieces, but their losses on defense may be tough to overcome. MORE PREDICTIONS: Big 12 | SEC | Big Ten...

Hernandez was brought to St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford Saturday and was back at the Bristol County jail in Dartmouth about an hour later, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson said Sunday. Hodgson said he can’t disclose what happened because of medical privacy laws. Hernandez, a Bristol, Conn., native, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in connection with the killings of two men in Boston in 2012 and the killing of another man found near Hernandez’s home in North Attleborough, Mass....

And, after watching a video that recently went viral online, you won’t just want to settle for some lackluster beverage in a dingy dive bar. A woman on TikTok has recently shared her experience drinking margaritas in a sunny boozer with some very special mixologists. Catherine Curi, known online as @catherinecuri, posted a video of herself getting drinks made for her by the stars of the show Breaking Bad—Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston....

Throughout the pandemic, Paul has been spending his time with his wife of nearly 8 years, director Lauren Parsekian, his 3-year-old daughter, Story Annabelle, and in traveling to Finland to film his next movie, Dual. “That movie was the first time I boarded a plane during the pandemic,” he says, as he acknowledges that filming in the age of the coronavirus doesn’t exactly resemble the way film sets used to be....

Goodbye, “You like that!” Aaron Rodgers didn’t have to say it before, during or after Green Bay knocked Washington out of the NFC playoffs Sunday with a 35-18 win. He didn’t have to resurrect his advice from last year, when he and the Packers offense was looking as sideways as it did most of this season, and in the first quarter of this game. MORE: Packers alive and well | IYER: Eight teams, eight wild-card lessons...