By Jaylon Thompson / The Alliance ATLANTA – Atlanta Legends head coach Kevin Coyle knows a difficult challenge awaits his team on Saturday afternoon. The Alliance’s top team, the Orlando Apollos, come into town reeling from their first loss. The Apollos fell to the Arizona Hotshots last week and seek to rebound on the road.…… More
All of us have experienced that fear of price gouging when we book our flights on line. When you go to a major website such as Expedia, Priceline, or Kayak, you often wonder whether or not you are getting the best possible deal. Then, when you hesitate to book the flight when you go online,…… More
ATLANTA (AP) — Gabe Kapler keeps saying he loves the Phillies’ bullpen. The first-year manager proved it by again pulling his starter early. This time, the strategy worked. Carlos Santana drove in J.P. Crawford with a sacrifice fly in the 11th inning, and Kapler went through nine pitchers for his first win as the Phillies…… More
Just ahead of a torrential downpour, Nick Markakis made it an opening day to remember for the Atlanta Braves. Gabe Kapler would rather forget his managing debut. Markakis delivered a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning , capping the Atlanta Braves’ historic comeback from a five-run deficit that rocked the Philadelphia Phillies…… More
NEW YORK (AP) — Rusty Staub, the orange-haired outfielder who became a huge hit with baseball fans in two countries during an All-Star career that spanned 23 major league seasons, died Thursday. He was 73. He died after an illness in a hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, hours before the start of the baseball…… More
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University official who oversaw a clinic that employed Larry Nassar was charged Tuesday with sexually propositioning female medical students and compiling nude student “selfies” on his work computer, in the first charges to spring from an investigation into how complaints against the disgraced former sports doctor were…… More
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The national anthem is going to be a hot topic at the NFL owners meetings. Just don’t expect any far-ranging decisions to be made. Judging by the comments Sunday from the Texans’ Robert McNair and the Jets’ Christopher Johnson, the debate among the 32 owners could be confrontational. McNair, who last…… More
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The doors to the Virginia’s locker room opened, the last protection for a group of players sitting in a state of shocked quiet after the most improbable of losses. Some fought back tears. Some hung their heads or stared blankly down at their cellphones. Others could only shake their head. READ…… More
As the new tax law goes into effect, many people are starting to wonder how this will affect their overall paychecks. You should see some bump in your paychecks when the new tax tables go into effect somewhere in Mid-February or early March, but there are a host of financial decisions that you need to…… More
To itemize or not to itemize, that is the question? With all of the tax law changes recently passed by President Trump in the GOP tax bill, one of the considerations you’ll need to get your arms wrapped around quickly is whether you will want to itemize your deductions when you file your taxes in…… More
