"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." So this year is different, instead of more slippers (even though they really are a great gift), they’re ...

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Major League Baseball All-Star is a title you carry into the afterlife. It's an honor being bestowed upon about 75 of the game's greatest players in this 2025 season, even if "All-Star" is a bit ...

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C: Theo Ratliff, Philadelphia 76ers, 2001 (DNP*) Sadly, fittingly, Ratliff couldn’t play in his only All-Star Game, because he fractured his right wrist just a few days before it. Season-ending ...

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Controversial UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell looks set to switch things up. The once-undefeated and highly touted Mitchell has hit a rough patch in his career. Amid multiple controversies away from the ...

Tornadoes and high wind weather phenomenons can leave fields littered with debris and family belongings. But other field finds deep within the soil profile can tell a bigger story. We recently asked ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...