Nets GM Sean Marks Suspended 1 Game, Fined $25K for Entering Referee Locker Room

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Things got heated on the court Saturday in Game 4 between the Philadelphia 76ers and Brooklyn Nets, and some of that emotion apparently remained after the contest.

According to an NBA press release, Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks was suspended for a game and fined $25,000 for entering the referees’ locker room following the game:

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Nets GM Sean Marks has been suspended one game and fined by the NBA: https://t.co/5cUe0ELYbV

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Yankees’ Aaron Judge Placed on IL as Oblique Injury Is ‘Pretty Significant’

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 18: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees reacts against the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium on April 18, 2019 in New York City. The Royals defeated the Yankees 6-1. (Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images)

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The New York Yankees‘ injury woes worsened on Sunday when right fielder Aaron Judge was placed on the injury list with an oblique injury.

Manager Aaron Boone called the injury “pretty significant,” per the New York Post.

Judge exited the Yankees’ game against the Kansas City Royals on Saturday with what the team announced was a left oblique injury, for which he went to New York Presbyterian Hospital to get further evaluation and an MRI.

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Following the Yankees’ 9-2 victory, manager Aaron Boone admitted to MLB‘s Bryan Hoch that there was “probably not” a chance that Judge would avoid the injury list.

The 26-year-old has a history of sustaining injury against the Royals in particular, as he was hit by a pitch in the first inning on July 26, 2018, and suffered a chip fracture in his wrist. He ended up missing 45 games before returning on Sept. 14.

The Yankees are instantly worse without Judge in the lineup as he has already earned Rookie of the Year, Silver Slugger and two All-Star honors.

So far in 2019, Judge has jacked five home runs, knocked in 11 runs on a .288 batting average across 73 at-bats.

The Yankees are 10-10 despite 12 players already having spent time on the injured list one month into the season.

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Explosions in Tripoli suburb after air strike as death toll rises

Explosions have shaken Libya‘s capital Tripoli following an air strike, residents said, in an escalation of a two-week offensive by eastern forces on the city held by the internationally-recognised government.

Powerful explosions, believed to be caused by aerial bombing, were reported early on Sunday across Tripoli’s southern districts, with residents saying they saw an aircraft circling for more than 10 minutes over the city before opening fire on a southern district.

It is unclear whether an unmanned drone or aircraft was behind the air strike.

Heavy clashes near Libya’s Tripoli amid ‘new phase of attack’ (3:01)

Residents had reported drone strikes in the past days, but there has been no confirmation. They said explosions heard in the city centre this time were louder than in previous days.

Residents counted several missile strikes which apparently hit a military camp of forces loyal to Tripoli in the Sabaa district.

Libya has for years been split between the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) in its west, and a rival administration in the east allied to renegade General Khalifa Haftar.

Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) launched the offensive to seize Tripoli on April 4, but has been stopped in the city’s southern outskirts by forces allied to the GNA.

Haftar, 75, said the military campaign was aimed at cleansing Libya’s western region of the “remaining terrorist groups”.

This has raised fears of a full-blown civil war in the oil-rich country, which has been mired in chaos since the NATO-backed toppling of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

‘30,000 displaced’

Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday said more than 30,000 people have been displaced due to ongoing fighting in and around the city.

The UN agency wrote on Twitter on Sunday that at least 227 people have been killed and more than 1,125 injured in the violence.

The fighting resulted in the temporary closure of Tripoli’s Mitiga airport, the city’s only functioning airport after the main airport was destroyed in 2014.

Analysts said a phone call between President Donald Trump and Haftar earlier this week, in which the United States leader praised the commander’s “significant role in fighting terrorism”, was likely to have emboldened the LNA further.

The US and Russia declined on Thursday to support a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Libya. Moscow said it objected to the British-drafted resolution blaming Haftar for the latest flare-up in violence, and the US did not give a reason for its decision.

About 2,000 residents of Tripoli staged a protest in the city’s central Martyrs’ Square on Friday to condemn Haftar’s push on the city as well as world powers that back him, which they say include France, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Russia, and now the US.

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When the Washington Easter Egg Roll Was Chaos

The White House Easter Egg Roll is upon us again, with its usual light-hearted fanfare and wholesome traditions. There will be bunny costumes, live music performances and senior government officials reading from picture books. And most of all, there will be lots and lots of children, with crowds expected to number up to 30,000. According to Smithsonian, it’s the largest annual White House event.

While the modern tradition is closely associated with the presidency, Easter egg-rolling in Washington, D.C., actually started on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, beneath the shiny white shell of the Capitol dome. But the activity was once so scandalous, and spun so far out of control, that an angry Congress outlawed it on their turf. On Monday, if lawmakers look across the National Mall with envy of the president’s annual worry-free photo op, they have nobody to blame but their own predecessors.

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Egg-rolling originated hundreds of years ago in the United Kingdom, where, as an Easter tradition, children would take eggs, hard-boiled and decorated, to the top of an English hillside and compete to see whose would roll the farthest without cracking. Doing so on the U.S. government’s grass dates back to the 1870s, when extensions of the Capitol’s north and south wings were nearing completion and the western lawn was used for little more than construction staging. The building’s marble terrace did not yet exist, and Congress had just recently employed the consulting services of a young landscape architect by the name of Frederick Law Olmsted to beautify the area. It was a high-profile project, and the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Sen. Justin Morrill, admonished him “not to have it botched.”

It was onto this scene that hundreds and later thousands of children would annually descend in a demolition derby of egg-throwing chaos. While the modern White House egg roll is a tightly organized event, the early tradition was a much more informal affair. There were no permits, tickets or security to speak of. Newspapers would write of the hordes of unsupervised children that spontaneously converged on Capitol Hill, “racing, and tumbling and rolling, regardless alike of limbs and dress, or what nurses or mas’ said or thought. The sport was exhilarating, although the re-ascent and incidents of tumble and roll became so exciting that the shouts of laughter and the merry cries of comrade to comrade made a glad chorus which swelled along the line.”

The celebration of 1876 drew an unusually boisterous crowd, with a reporter for the National Republican describing the Capitol grounds as “thronged with lads and lassies, aye, and many older heads congregated to witness the pranks and capers of the boys and girls in rolling the eggs from the crest of the hill to the lawn below.” Poorly timed morning rainfall that year “had the effect of dampening the grass somewhat,” but could not deter the stampede of tiny feet sprinting across the soggy lawns.

The next day lawmakers arrived at the Capitol to a scene resembling an abandoned carnival ground. Little bits of eggshells covered everything. Spoiled hard-boiled eggs attracted opportunistic birds and bugs. But worst off was the grass: The thousands of tiny foot prints had torn up the muddy lawn more effectively than a tractor.

Morrill was incensed and began drafting legislation the very same day.

“I suppose the great pleasure of seeing ten thousand children here on Easter Monday has prevented the police from doing their duty,” Morrill lamented on the Senate floor. “Although it is a very great pleasure to see these children enjoying themselves here on Easter Monday, it is deemed important that we should protect the grounds.”

Some of Morrill’s colleagues spoke up in favor of the children, noting that “they are generally from a class of citizens who have little opportunity for enjoying themselves.” Indeed, the annual event was celebrated by newspapers as “the festival of the poor,” for being open to all races and classes. The chairman was adamant, however, about kicking the kids off the Congressional backyard. Urging passage of his bill, Morrill insisted, “I know that the Russian government in the winter season provide places for their citizens to slide; but I hardly think it is proper that here, in the spring of the year, at so large an expense both of money and of the appearance of the public grounds, we should allow these terraces to be entirely ruined by the process that was witnessed last Monday.”

Morrill got his votes the next week, and President Ulysses Grant promptly signed the following one-sentence-long Turf Protection Act into law.

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Capitol police hereafter to prevent any portion of the Capitol grounds and terraces to be used as play-grounds or otherwise, so far as may be necessary to protect the public property, turf and grass from destruction or injury.”

Frederick Law Olmsted had just the solution for what he deemed the “broken, confused and unsatisfactory” appearance of the then Capitol grounds. A huge wraparound marble terrace constructed over the muddy embankment would eliminate the eyesore and would act as a visual pedestal for the building’s shiny new dome. This stunning platform and stairway would go on to host presidential inaugural activities and form the backdrop for millions of modern photographs.

The Egg Roll in 1877 was precluded by heavy rainfall, so the Turf Protection Act went untested by District children its first year. However, the next year, a few days before Easter, President Rutherford B. Hayes reportedly encountered a young boy while he was out walking. “Say! Say!” the child is said to have asked, “Are you going to let us roll eggs in your yard?” Uninformed about the tradition, the former Ohio governor responded, “I don’t know. I’ll have to see about that.” But by the time flocks of children appeared at the White House gates, having been just turned away from the Capitol grounds by police on Easter Monday morning, the president had already “good-humoredly instructed the officer in charge of the grounds to make no objection,” according to the New York Evening Post.

The same paper reported that the subsequent year another boy asked Hayes if the children could make his backyard their playground that Easter Monday, to which he expressed no objection. And by 1880, the Evening Post wrote, “the little people seem to have taken executive clemency for granted, for no small spokesman has accosted the president.” While 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may not be as well-suited as the Hill to the original egg-rolling custom, the children did feel more welcome there, and successive presidents have continued the Easter tradition of playing host to the capital’s children on the South Lawn ever since—and probably will so as long as the now-142-year-old law remains in full force.

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What do refugees think of their Italian hosts?

Rome, Italy – In June 2018, two Italian populist parties formed a new government with an anti-immigration agenda.

Italy started turning away NGO rescue boats at sea, evicted refugees from a camp and an abandoned building in Rome, and introduced a decree that scrapped a whole category of humanitarian protection.

But the government’s far-right platform has also boosted solidarity initiatives.

NGOs that offer programmes for refugees to live with local families have reported an uptick in applications by Italians.

“Almost everyone cites the will to react to the political climate,” says Sara Consolato, spokesperson for Refugees Welcome Italy. “It seems to have had a mobilising effect.”

Participation is estimated at only a few hundred people across the country, but organisations contacted by Al Jazeera say numbers almost doubled in the second half of 2018.

Al Jazeera spoke to refugees who live or have lived with Italian families about their experiences and what they make of Italian culture.

‘I heard they were racist but I’ve only met nice people’

Blessing, 27, Nigerian refugee living near Ascoli Piceno

“I came to Italy in December 2016, and at first I stayed in a housing project in Macerata.

“I was pregnant, and I didn’t like the environment because it was kind of rough. There was no job … I needed a better life for myself.

“The Italian way of life is easy once you understand everything, but we stranieri [foreigners] often have to know someone to make it. When you look for a job, they’ll tell you ‘No, non c’è‘ [There is none] or ‘We’ll call you back’.

“I tried to reach Germany, but I was stopped and sent back.

“Then I met the family. They have helped me and my fidanzato [boyfriend] find jobs and a flat. They know Italy well, and it’s easier to hire you if the person knows who to contact if there’s a problem.

“Italians are nice people – they’re very nice people. I don’t know if I should say this, I had heard they were racist, but I’ve never come across anyone that has been bad to me. I’ve only met very nice people.

“I learned that family is very important to them: it’s dinner together, lunch together, spend time together … they always have time to stay with their families, come together, go out together to eat.

“Where I come from, when it’s time to eat, you get lunch and eat on your own. Here, you sit at this dining table and eat together as a family. I love that; it brings you closer to people.

“And I like how safe it is here. We live in a village outside town, and you can go out and come in any time you like.”

‘The way Italians eat really struck me’

Mohammed, aka “Kaba”, 21, Ivory Coast national living in Venice

Kaba in Florence. A native of Ivory Coast, he now lives with a family in Venice [Courtesy of Mohammed Kaba]

“The night I was told I could stay with an Italian family in Venice, I couldn’t believe it.

“I had come to Italy as an unaccompanied migrant through Libya, where I saw horrendous things. I celebrated being alive every day, waking up and feeling that I still breathed.

“Initially, I lived in a refugee centre. It was difficult because there are many bureaucratic things and papers you must wait for, and we couldn’t study nor work.

“When I obtained my leave to remain, I was given 24 hours to vacate the centre. I felt very anxious because I didn’t know what to do. So, when we arranged a video call with the family, I got really emotional.

“The way Italians eat struck me a lot at first. I wasn’t used to sitting all together around a table – where I come from, we eat separately. This really struck me.

“Staying with a family really made me love Italy. I love how busy my days are, with work and school. I love the culture of aperitivo in Venice, meeting at a bar with friends in the afternoon, even if I don’t drink alcohol.

“Walking through the streets of Venice seemed unreal for some time. I didn’t think it possible to have a city in the lagoon like this.

“When I told friends back home that I lived in Venice, they said, ‘Oh, nice!’, but they didn’t really understand what it means to live here. It took time even to learn to move around town, but now Venice is my favourite Italian city.”

‘Italians also have superstition. I thought that was an African thing!’

Sainey, 21, refugee from The Gambia living in Bologna

Sainey, from The Gambia, now lives in Bologna [Courtesy of Sainey]

“Italians are very friendly and open people, but most of them have this kind of lack of trust – they only trust someone when somebody else recommends that person.

“Somebody else has to come and say “Lui è bravo” [He’s good], and only then they start to interact with you and get to know you.

“When you’re in a community or in a refugee centre, you get out there, you see Italians, but you don’t interact with them a lot.

“You might think they don’t like people, or may even be racist, but once you get to know them you see a different side.

“After I started living in the family, wherever I went, everybody was friendly to me, everybody wanted to know about me and actually pressed on – they’re interested and even curious.

“I’ve spent Christmas with them and have been exposed to the jokes, the games, the food … Italians are traditional people, they really respect their culture, and I love that about them.

“And they have these beliefs that are very close to African beliefs. Sometimes when I sit with them someone will say: ‘Oh no, don’t do that!’ and they would explain a superstition – they have many.

“And I’m like, ‘Wow, you guys also have superstition? I thought that was an African thing!’

“I felt like I’ve just started living since I got here. Even my friends in the refugee centre noticed. When they see me, they say ‘Wow, everything has changed. You’re doing good!’.”

‘They respect me even if I’m Muslim and they’re atheists’

Ibrahim, 21, refugee from Guinea living in Palermo

Ibrahim, a Guinean national, now lives in Sicily [Courtesy: Lucile Corbeille]

“Especially in the first few months, I had a hard time integrating in Italy because I didn’t speak the language. I didn’t hang out with anyone after school.

“And when I was told that a family wanted to host me, I was afraid. I had doubts that some Italians could be intolerant.

“But they’ve been open, nice and direct from day one. They always respected me, even if I’m Muslim and they’re atheists. This taught me a lot.

“In the beginning, it was also hard not to have the freedom I had in refugee centres, where nobody checks if you come in or go out.

“But I always suspected that freedom to be a bad thing: It would lead me down a bad road. It only meant that I had no other option.

“In a family, there are rules. For example, I have to be home for lunch, unless I have very good reasons not to be.

“I had to adapt to lunches and dinners with the extended family – they were always very open, but I wasn’t used to it.

“I’ve learned I already had much in common with Sicilian culture – there is a lot of diversity here.

I really like Italy now: the climate and the nature are beautiful. Now I have a lot of friends, and they treat me like a brother.

“My experience removed any doubts I had about other peoples and cultures.”

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Rockets Win Game 3 vs. Donovan Mitchell, Jazz Despite James Harden’s Struggles

Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) defends against Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) as he drives up court in the first half during an NBA basketball game Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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The Houston Rockets overcame a historically rough shooting night by James Harden to grab a commanding 3-0 series lead over the Utah Jazz with a 104-101 victory in Game 3 on Saturday.

Harden (22 points and 10 assists) managed a double-double despite missing his first 15 shot attempts. Chris Paul contributed 18 points to the cause.

Donovan Mitchell had 34 points in a losing effort for the Jazz.

Rockets’ Supporting Cast Proves Value Through Harden’s Struggles

Harden played a key role in helping Houston cruise to a 2-0 series lead, but as he endured one of his toughest shooting nights, his supporting cast showed its worth.

The reigning league MVP entered the game averaging 30.5 points on 44 percent shooting through the first two games. He couldn’t buy a basket in the first half of Game 3, though, as he went 0-of-10 from the field and 0-of-5 from beyond the arc.

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1st half for Harden: 0-10, 6 PTS, 3 turnovers https://t.co/iwY0YzfOP7

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James Harden was 0-10 from the field in the first half.

The last player to go 0-10 or worse in the first half of a playoff game was Michael Jordan in the 1997 Eastern Conference Finals (0-11 FG). https://t.co/kTLVIBicEh

He still managed six points thanks to his ability to get to the free-throw line—but it was clear he was not his typical self from the start.

Despite a rough first half from their best player, the Rockets entered halftime down only five.

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What’s going to happen if Harden makes literally one (1) shot in the second half

Having a star struggle that mightily would figure to put a team in a big hole, especially on the road. But the Rockets’ role players kept the team afloat.

Houston players not named Harden shot 17-of-36 (47.2 percent) in the first half. Each of the eight other players to enter the game in the first half made at least one field goal, with a total of six players making at least one trey.

Most notably, Chris Paul picked up his All-Star teammate by going 5-of-9 while knocking down a pair of triples en route to 12 points in the first half.

Things would not go much better for Harden after the break, either. The two-time defending scoring champ did not make a shot until just more than seven minutes remained in the game, missing his first 15 attempts.

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James Harden has missed so many shots without a make, I’m kind of hoping he keeps missing for the majesty of it all. This is some legendary misfiring.

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Worst FG% in a playoff game, last 30 seasons
— Minimum: 20 shot attempts —
1. 1997 Karl Malone: 2-20 (10%)
2. 2003 Kenyon Martin: 2-23 (13%)
t-3. 2000 Vince Carter: 3-20 (15%)
t-3. 2002 Paul Pierce: 3-20 (15%)
t-3. 2019 James Harden: 3-20 (15%)

Meanwhile, he also had to deal with foul trouble, picking up his fourth foul early in the third.

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James Harden has four more fouls than field goals.

It was obviously an off night for Harden, but the Rockets found a way to stay in the game thanks to their supporting cast. In fact, they were winning when Harden finally broke his drought with a dunk early in the fourth.

Paul wasn’t the only one contributing, either. Clint Capela (11 points and 14 rebounds), PJ Tucker (10), Eric Gordon (12) and Austin Rivers (11) all found ways to put points on the board.

That team effort gave Harden time to try to shoot himself out of his slump. While he was ultimately unable to do so on this night (3-of-20), his teammates didn’t just throw in the towel.

Sure, Houston stands virtually no chance of dethroning the Golden State Warriors if Harden shoots the way he did Saturday night. But coach Mike D’Antoni has to be encouraged by what he saw out of the supporting cast.

Donovan Mitchell Hero Ball Can’t Save Jazz’s Season

Mitchell was able to shake off a rough Game 2 performance to propel the Jazz to an early lead in Game 3. However, he can’t take down the Rockets on his own.

That much was clear Saturday.

The second-year star ended the regular season on a strong note, shooting 46.1 percent from the field and 45.1 percent from three-point range since the All-Star break. He had been unable to carry that momentum into the postseason—until the start of Game 3.

Coming off a 5-of-19 performance that saw him put up just 11 points in a 20-point loss in Game 2, Mitchell wasted no time in showing he was ready to turn things around in the comforts of his home arena. He sparked the Jazz to an early lead by going off for 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting while playing 11 minutes in the opening quarter.

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Donovan Mitchell (13 PTS) and Rudy Gobert (5 PTS, 4 BLK) pace the @utahjazz’ 1st quarter of Game 3!

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#RunAsOne 28

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That strong start put everyone on notice:

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Donovan Mitchell in Game 2:
5-19 for 11 PTS

Spida in the first quarter of Game 3:
5-7 for 13 PTS https://t.co/OayVqCYqzy

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Spida’s awake.

He ended the first half with 21 points.

On a night where Derrick Favors was the only other Utah player in double figures through three quarters, having Mitchell carry the team early on proved to be key. It also exposed the Utah’s dependency on its star when he went cold.

Mitchell went through a stretch of missing 11 consecutive shots from the floor over the span of two full quarters. He managed to score seven points in the final 94 seconds to give his team a chance at a potential game-tying bucket.

However, he was unable to pull out the come-from-behind victory, essentially by himself.

Utah will need Joe Ingles (eight points, 2-of-8 from three-point range in Game 3), among others, to play better to truly have a chance of winning the series. Having Mitchell recapture his first-quarter magic would give the Jazz a chance to compete, but it will be tough for him to carry his team to four straight victories by playing hero ball.

What’s Next

Houston will have the opportunity to try to close out the series on Monday, with Game 4 tipping off at the Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City at 10:30 p.m. ET.

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Albert Pujols Passes Babe Ruth for 4th on MLB Career RBI List

Los Angeles Angels' Albert Pujols hits a an RBI double during the third inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners Saturday, April 20, 2019, in Anaheim, Calif. With that RBI, Pujols tied Babe Ruth for 5th place on the all-time RBI list with 1,992. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols has once again put his name among the greatest ever to play the sport.

With a third-inning double in Saturday’s game against the Seattle Mariners, Pujols tied Babe Ruth for the fifth-most RBI in baseball history, according to the Associated Press (via ESPN.com).

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Albert Pujols ties Babe Ruth for 5th all-time with 1,992 RBIs.

Legend.

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He would later hit a solo home run to pass Ruth:

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Pujols rides that fastball all the way OUTTA HERE

Albert Pujols passes Babe Ruth for career RBIs and now sits right behind Lou Gehrig on the all-time list with 1,993 RBIs. https://t.co/1YtQEZsFuj

The 39-year-old now has 1,993 RBI in his career, which just passes Ruth’s mark of 1,992 beginning in 1920 when the category became an official stat.

According to Baseball Reference, Ruth would have 2,214 RBI over the course of his career, which began in 1914. This would put him in second place behind only Hank Aaron with 2,297 RBI.

Still, Pujols has a chance to continue to climb the rest of the list in short order.

Lou Gehrig (1,995) and Barry Bonds (1,996) are next up, giving the Angels star a chance to move into third place within the next few days or weeks. As long as he stays healthy, he should become only the third person with 2,000 official RBI after Aaron and Alex Rodriguez.

Considering he has also climbed up to sixth on the all-time home run list with 635 in his career, it’s clear this is one of the best hitters in baseball history.

Pujols has had a relatively slow start to the 2019 season, entering Saturday hitting .224 and two home runs in 19 games. However, he is only two years removed from topping 100 RBI in 2017 and remains a big piece of the Angels offense this season.

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Game 3 Live: Jazz Start Strong vs. Rockets 💪

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Donovan Mitchell in Game 2:
5-19 for 11 PTS

Spida in the first quarter of Game 3:
5-7 for 13 PTS https://t.co/OayVqCYqzy
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NOT IN GOBERT’S HOUSE

Rudy has FOUR blocks in the first quarter! https://t.co/LgSiD9jK2u
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HALF-MAN, HALF-SPIDA

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Stage is set for Game 3 https://t.co/njxzSUCxzM
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Game 3 Live: Jazz Start Strong vs. Rockets 💪

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Donovan Mitchell in Game 2:
5-19 for 11 PTS

Spida in the first quarter of Game 3:
5-7 for 13 PTS https://t.co/OayVqCYqzy
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NOT IN GOBERT’S HOUSE

Rudy has FOUR blocks in the first quarter! https://t.co/LgSiD9jK2u
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HALF-MAN, HALF-SPIDA

(via @utahjazz)
https://t.co/4im8oP5Jjl
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Stage is set for Game 3 https://t.co/njxzSUCxzM
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Trump lashes out at Romney

Sen. Mitt Romney and President Donald Trump — Mitt Romney is one of the few GOP senators who has expressed disappointment in President Donald Trump following the release of the special counsel’s report. | Carolyn Kaster, File/AP Photo

President Donald Trump on Saturday ridiculed Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) for his loss to former President Barack Obama in the 2012 election — one day after Romney said he was “sickened” by Trump’s actions as detailed in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

“If @MittRomney spent the same energy fighting Barack Obama as he does fighting Donald Trump, he could have won the race (maybe)!” Trump tweeted.

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Attached to the president’s post was a 40-second video contrasting election night footage and CNN news coverage from Romney’s White House loss six-and-a-half years ago to Obama with Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. It was unclear whether the White House produced the brief clip, or if it was crafted by one of the president’s supporters.

Romney is one of the few Republican senators who has expressed disappointment in the president following the release of a redacted version of Mueller’s report by Attorney General William Barr on Thursday.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told a radio station that the special counsel’s findings offered “an unflattering portrayal of the president,” and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said in a statement that the 448-page report “documents a number of actions taken by the president or his associates that were inappropriate.”

But Romney was harsher in his criticism than his GOP Senate colleagues, saying in a statement Friday that he was “sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President.”

The Utah senator also said he was “appalled” that individuals associated with Trump’s 2016 campaign “welcomed help from Russia” — which Romney was roundly dismissed for naming as America’s greatest geopolitical foe during a 2012 debate with Obama.

Romney and Trump’s weekend swipes represent the latest in a years-long series of rhetorical barbs exchanged between the Republican Party’s two most recent presidential nominees.

Romney was critical of Trump’s candidacy throughout the 2016 White House race, prompting Trump to tweet in June of that year that Romney “choked like a dog” against Obama in 2012.

In January 2019, two days before Romney was set to be sworn in as Utah’s junior senator, he wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that Trump “has not risen to the mantle” of his office, and that the president’s “words and actions have caused dismay around the world.”

Trump responded less than 24 hours later on Twitter, writing online that he would “prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful. I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be a TEAM player & WIN!”

Despite the mutual enmity, Romney — a former governor of Massachusetts — was reportedly once on Trump’s shortlist to become secretary of state. He dined with the president-elect in November 2016.

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