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The Rockies’ May resurgence rests on their starting pitching, and Ty Blach has been central to the revival. The Denver native began the season at Triple-A Albuquerque, got called up as a reliever, and was inserted into the starting rotation out of necessity. Now he’s pitching like he should have been in there all along. Wednesday night, the veteran left-hander pitched seven solid innings, setting the table for Colorado’s 7-4 win over Cleveland at Coors Field in front of an announced crowd of 21,374. “You can’t control so many things in this game,” Blach said when asked about his trip from the minors to the majors this season.

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By JIMMY GOLEN (AP Sports Writer) LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Kendall Coyne Schofield once showed off her speed racing against the men in an NHL skills competition at All-Star weekend. On Wednesday night, she made a mad dash into women’s hockey history. The three-time Olympian chased down a rolling puck and knocked it into an empty net to seal Minnesota’s 3-0 victory over Boston in the winner-take-all Game 5 to claim the inaugural championship of the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Liz Schepers scored to break a scoreless, second-period tie, Michela Cava made it 2-0 midway through the third period and Nicole Hensley stopped 17 shots for Minnesota.

It's difficult to remember all of the players in Trump's orbit who are paying the price for doing the former President's illegal bidding, but Jenna Ellis is the one who Rudy Giuliani Covid-farted on in her general direction. An agreement has been reached between Colorado legal officials and the Fart Lady, barring her from practicing law in the state for three years after she pleaded guilty to helping the twice-impeached former President try to overturn the 2020 election. Imagine giving everything up for that chud.

McDonald’s is fighting back against viral tweets and media reports that it says have exaggerated its price increases. In a post on the company’s website Wednesday, McDonald’s U. S. President Joe Erlinger said reports suggesting the price of the average Big Mac has doubled since 2019 were false. McDonald’s said the average U.

NEW YORK — Black passengers who were briefly ordered off an American Airlines plane in January sued the airline Wednesday, alleging that they were victims of racial discrimination. Three of the men filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York. They said they were told to leave a plane waiting to take off in Phoenix and noticed five other black men who also had been ordered off the flight. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The three, who did not know each other and had been sitting in different parts of the plane, said an airline employee told them they were removed because a flight attendant had complained about a passenger’s body odor.