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In this edition, SN’s Dan Bernstein got two minutes with Brewers second baseman Keston Hiura, one of the best rookies in baseball this year. He’s batting .317 with 11 home runs and seven steals in 45 games. MORE: How to watch “ChangeUp,” an MLB whiparound show, for free on DAZN SPORTING NEWS: Is there a Brewers veteran who has taken you under his wing during your rookie breakout? KESTON HIURA: Everyone has kind of done their part to make me feel welcome up here....

What’s new Expected to compete in 2013, the Milwaukee Brewers instead were a total disappointment. Suspect pitching, injuries and a very notable Ryan Braun suspension did them in. But outside of Braun’s return, the Brewers will start ‘14 very similar to how they finished last season. On offense, the changes are marginal — a potential platoon at first base between Mark Reynolds, Lyle Overbay and Juan Francisco, and Khris Davis, who displayed power in his limited time last year, takes over for the traded Norichika Aoki in the outfield....

Carlos Gomez was placed on the disabled list Thursday, a day after he hurt his right hamstring. MORE: Indians’ Carrasco OK after being hit in face by liner Gomez left Wednesday’s game in the ninth inning while trying to beat out a ground ball on the back end of a potential double play. Gomez was safe and pinch runner Kyle Lohse scored in Milwaukee’s 4-2 loss to the Cardinals, but Gomez was held out of Thursday’s 4-0 loss....

While the judges couldn’t stop cheering for them, keyboard warriors went into overdrive on social media accusing the show of “cheating.” Why do fans think Brian Austin Green’s pairing with Sharna Burgess is unfair? The consensus is that the pair are in a relationship and that gives them an edge. While the rest of the contestants have to build a rapport from scratch. Brian Austin Green wants to ace DWTS for Burgess “I’m doing Dancing with the Stars because of my girlfriend Sharna,” the 90210 actor told the cameras, while Burgess said she was excited to work on something that is so close to her heart and that which she loves deeply....

In the end, neither boxer was able to accomplish his mission, but both were able to exit the ring at Barclays Center in Brooklyn with a mutual respect for each other. The fight was scored a split-decision draw. Judges had it 115-113 in favor of Castano, 115-113 in favor of Lara and 114-114. The fighters couldn’t do anything but smile as the result was announced. From the onset, Lara established his space and peppered Castano with jabs, moving exceptionally well around the ring....

Vickers, who had heart surgery in December after his heart began rejecting a surgical patch from a 2010 surgery, will be replaced by team co-owner Michael Waltrip for the Daytona 500. The team has not announced who will race for Vickers at Atlanta the following week. Vickers will return for the March 8 race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. MORE: NASCAR to scrap souvenir haulers | Harvick-Stewart pit crews | Reasons to be excited about 2015...

Vickers, who has missed the last two races because of a blood clot in his right calf, said he went to a doctor on Oct. 15 for a knot and pain in his right calf and was diagnosed with a blood clot. He was put on a blood thinner and cannot risk any sort of external or internal bleeding that could occur with a racecar crash. Having missed the majority of the 2010 season because of blood clots and heart surgery to prevent future clots from moving throughout his body to his brain, Vickers said he has met with several doctors and has decided he didn’t want to remain on blood thinners the rest of his life in order to race and do other extreme activities....

Officially designated the position of a Player Relations’ Manager, Wilbur’s passion for the beautiful game led him to this unconventional career path. And, today there is no one holding him back. Day-to-day activities of a typical football agent The job of a football agent in India is very tumultuous. While it has its own advantages of interacting with players on a regular basis, there are plenty of challenges in this industry....

Jurgen Locadia’s second Premier League goal of the season settled a cagey encounter at the Amex Stadium in Brighton’s favour and sent the Seagulls into the new year on the back of two unbeaten matches following a 1-1 draw against Arsenal in their previous outing. Hughton took over at Brighton in December 2014 and secured automatic promotion from the Championship in April 2017, before guiding the club to 15th place in the table the following season....

Steady breezes of 16-18 mph, gusting past 20 mph, were expected to blow through Royal Troon, with the temperature in the mid-60s, according to the AccuWeather forecast. MORE: Leaderboard | It’s Mickelson vs. Stenson | Best Open photos Henrik Stenson, left, and Phil Mickelson (Getty Images) “Scoring conditions certainly will not be as good as what they were on Thursday for the first round,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dan Baker said, alluding to the calm, mostly sunny that Mickelson took advantage of to shoot a 63....

Jamie Lynn Spears was just 16 when she fell pregnant with her daughter Maddie in 2007. The Zoey 101 star, who was in a relationship with Casey Aldridge, 18, at the time, revealed the pregnancy in a December 2007 cover story with OK! magazine. In her upcoming memoir, Things I Should Have Said, Jamie Lynn Spears has said her “team” decided after discussion with her parents, Jamie Spears and Lynne Spears, that her pop superstar sister should not be told about her pregnancy, deeming the move “risky....

British number two James Ward ended up in hospital following his marathon heroics during the Davis Cup at the weekend. The world number 214 played two gruelling five-setters in Britain’s shock 3-2 win over Russia in Coventry. Ward won a tough match against world number 67 Dmitry Tursunov 6-4 in the fifth set on Sunday but that success, one of his best ever results, came at a price. Ward ended up on a hospital drip....

The tourists started the day needing eight wickets to seal victory but they were frustrated by Pieter Malan (84) and Quinton de Kock (50) in Cape Town. England still needed five wickets in the final session, and their all-time leading wicket taker James Anderson bowled only two overs after lunch amid fears of another injury. However, De Kock holed out to a senseless shot off Joe Denly before Ben Stokes (3-53) finished off the tail as England won by 189 runs inside the final hour....

MORE: UFC 200 in photos “We’ll get to the bottom of this,” Lesnar said in a statement to The Associated Press. The former UFC heavyweight champion sent three letters to the AP from USADA telling him he had passed drug tests before his UFC 200 fight against Mark Hunt. The now-Canadian was given eight random drug tests prior to UFC 200, including five tests in a two-week period. USADA spokesperson Ryan Madden sent a statement to Sporting News....

The Broncos’ quarterback hasn’t been sacked yet in the playoffs. He’s yet to face a defensive front seven like Seattle’s, either. “The Seahawks are a totally different animal,” says Sporting News NFL analyst Ross Tucker. “Seattle, they’ve got six or seven guys there that are all very capable pass rushers.” Manning took one crushing blow in the preseason against Seattle. He said there was just one reason why he could deal with it: “It never hurts quite as bad when you’re able to complete the pass....

It’s hard to argue with the definition of Breathedge as Subnautica in space. After all, both games feature very similar gameplay loops and survival mechanics. However, the comparison isn’t entirely fair to either title. The question is, does Breathedge do enough to differentiate itself from Subnautica, ensuring a fresh experience even for veteran fans of Unknown Worlds Entertainment’s underwater survival sim? RELATED: Breathedge: Where to Find Glass What Makes Them Similar?...

Despite the recent lull in the fighting, Macedonia is unraveling. In many ways it’s a wonder it hasn’t happened sooner. Unlike Bosnia, where Muslims, Serbs and Croats lived and worked together and even intermarried, the Slavs and Albanians of Macedonia have always coexisted separately and uneasily. The Albanians, making up about a third of the country, are persecuted in myriad ways (their unemployment rate is a staggering 60 percent, twice that of the Slavs; the Army and police top brass are all Slavs; access to education is highly inequitable)....

Goals from Josh Dasilva, Ben Mee, Mathias Jensen and Bryan Mbeumo helped Brentford take all three points. Meanwhile, Manchester United registered their second Premier League defeat in succession after losing 2-1 in their opening match against Brighton & Hove Albion. Here are five talking points from Manchester United’s hapless defeat to Brentford: #1. Manchester United’s pre-season form has failed to translate to the Premier League Manchester United looked like a team that was on the mend under Erik ten Hag in pre-season....

Police shot Taylor five times after knocking down her apartment door with a battering ram after midnight on a no-knock search warrant in pursuit of two suspected drug dealers who weren’t in her apartment. While a Jefferson County coroner told The New York Times that Taylor had likely died within a minute of being shot and couldn’t have been saved, Walker claims that Taylor continued to cough and sputter as he talked on the phone with her parents shortly after her shooting....

“It’s essentially two loops that are running out of sync with each other and projected on the top of one another,” he says. “This is what I was doing in music at the time. [The score] was exactly like the film, where it was one loop superimposed on another, two loops not of commensurable length so they don’t fit together in the same way. They keep generating different clusters.” The music, sort of a fractured calliope tune, has most of the elements that have characterized Eno’s long career as a self-described “non-musician” ever since: simplicity, repetition, randomness and fascination with technology plus a willingness to try anything....