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Justin Verlander is retiring. With a work stoppage on the horizon, how many others might join him?

Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer were together on some memorable Detroit teams before moving on and winning championships elsewhere. Will they eventually enter the Hall of Fame as part of the same class? The first question is whether both will retire after this season. The 43-year-old Verlander has already announced this is his final year. He's made only one start in a reunion season with the Tigers, although Detroit fans are hoping he can return for another this coming week. Scherzer's future is less clear. The 42-year-old right-hander is slated to start Tuesday at Baltimore as the ...

Aaron Rodgers blames himself after Steelers’ offense struggles again in loss to Patriots

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — A year ago, Aaron Rodgers engineered a drive at Gillette Stadium that helped the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the team that went on to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. That version of Rodgers wasn’t anywhere to be found in Sunday's 20-3 loss to the New England ...

Logano wins NASCAR race at Bristol

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Joey Logano won the Cup Series race Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway, while the driver he passed for the win stole the show with old-school NASCAR feuding and fisticuffs. Carson Hocevar, a brash 23-year-old who has earned the ire of veteranswith his aggressive ...

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Museum Day brings Mifflin County’s past into view

LEWISTOWN — At the Hoopes School, Sandy Deadmon has found a way to explain 19th-century classroom technology to children raised on touchscreens. She hands them a slate and tells them, “Here’s your iPad.” Then comes the chalk, which serves as the keyboard. The eraser, she explains, is the delete button. It usually takes only a moment for the comparison to work. Children begin writing. They look around the one-room schoolhouse, built in 1873, and start asking questions about a school with no cafeteria or auditorium, no indoor plumbing, and no bus waiting outside. “They like ...

College football picks: LSU defense will be difference against Ole Miss in weekend’s showcase game

Even beyond the storyline about Lane Kiffin's much-anticipated return to Oxford, it's easy to see why No. 7 LSU's game at No. 8 Mississippi is overshadowing everything else going on in college football Saturday. There is a shortage of compelling games involving Associated Press Top 25 ...