The Rockies’ eighth-inning rally on Monday will always be overshadowed by the Phillies’ comeback in the ninth , but that doesn’t mean we can’t marvel at its key moment. With one out in the inning and the Rockies trailing by one, rookie Dexter Fowler (notes) treated second baseman Chase Utley (notes) as a human hurdle, leaping clear of the Phillie as Todd Helton’s (notes) grounder drew near. Instead of getting the sure out at first, Utley flipped to second where Jimmy Rollins

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Even if you’re not a blogger yourself, chances are you read a few of them. It seems like everyone is blogging these days, including my mom on occasion (so ok, maybe not recently). Heck, even when you aren’t intending to read a blog, you may end up doing so after following a link from a search engine when you’re looking for something specific. Let’s face it – blogs are everywhere. Obviously, blogging is a central part of my life. The work I do here plays a large part in not only my work life,

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Memorial lanterns on the Motoyasu River below the Atomic DomeDaylife/Getty Images used by permissionHiroshima and Nagasaki are launching a joint bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s Tomihisa Taue are founding members of the Mayors for Peace 2020 Campaign, advocating for a global ban on nuclear arms, and they want to use that to springboard the world’s largest sporting event into their two cities.The Japanese cities were the site of the 1945 atom

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Here’s some local problems making the Chicago headlines really upsetting already pissed off and overstressed commuters, those poor Chicagoans who already suffer through some of the worst and most expensive daily rush hours coming and going as it is…..thankfully I now work at home and only see that stuff in my memory rear view mirror as a longtime Chicago Trib employee…… I paid my dues in that mess, believe me. So the news is it looks like Daley didn’t get the “Obama Hope and Chan

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