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Houser tosses 7 solid innings as White Sox end Blue Jays' 10-game winning streak, 2-1

Houser tosses 7 solid innings as White Sox end Blue Jays' 10-game winning streak, 2-1

Associated Press16 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) — Adrian Houser tossed seven solid innings, and the Chicago White Sox stopped Toronto's 10-game winning streak, beating the Blue Jays 2-1 on Wednesday.
Houser (5-2) won his third straight start. Edgar Quero hit an RBI double and scored in a two-run fourth against Toronto starter Eric Lauer (4-2), and Chicago stopped the Blue Jays one win shy of their franchise record. Toronto has won 11 straight five times, most recently in August 2015.
Houser, who gave up one run and seven hits, has a 1.56 ERA through nine starts. The right-hander has allowed two earned runs in 26 innings over four outings at Rate Field.
Grant Taylor pitched around a two-out double by Bo Bichette in the eighth, getting Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to ground out.
Jordan Leasure struck out the first two batters in the ninth before Alejandro Kirk singled. The right-hander then retired Myles Straw on a fly to center for his second save in five chances, and the White Sox came away with the win after losing nine straight at home against Toronto.
Lauer struck out seven in four innings, allowing two runs and four hits.
Key moment
Chicago scored two in the fourth, after Austin Slater led off with a single. Quero drove him in with a one-out double and came around on a single by Lenyn Sosa, giving the White Sox a 2-1 lead.
Key stat
Both teams were 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position.
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Blue Jays: Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (0-0, 4.76 ERA) makes his fifth start of the season when Toronto opens a three-game series against the Athletics in Sacramento on Friday. RHP Luis Severino (2-10, 5.30) pitches for the Athletics.
White Sox: RHP Jonathan Cannon (3-7, 4.50) gets the ball as Chicago opens a four-game series against Cleveland on Thursday. LHP Logan Allen (5-7, 4.07) pitches for the Guardians.
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T-Mobile Brings 5G-Powered ABS, New Fan Experiences to MLB All-Star Week — Backed by America's Best Network

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New York Cosmos revived as USL expansion club in New Jersey
New York Cosmos revived as USL expansion club in New Jersey

New York Times

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New York Cosmos revived as USL expansion club in New Jersey

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In his previous role with the New York Red Bulls, he played a crucial role in both signing Thierry Henry and the building of Red Bull Arena (now Sports Illustrated Stadium), winning MLS executive of the year in 2010. With the Cosmos, Stover kept the club at or near the top of the NASL for each of its five seasons, working with Giovanni Savarese on the sporting side to bring in aging icons (like Raúl and Marcos Senna) as well as a strong domestic core. But first, to link two previous points: these New York Cosmos will play their games in New Jersey. As such, the team will revisit one of its crest variations that was donned by Pelé and Beckenbauer at the height of the club's buzziest heyday. 'The Cosmos have told a very winding story over the decades,' Stover told The Athletic on Wednesday, 'including in that, at its very peak in 1977, when the Cosmos came to Giants Stadium, they took New York out of the crest and it became just 'Cosmos.' So that's the logo that most people recognize with the heyday of the Cosmos: 1977, '78, Pelé and Beckenbauer, packed stadiums. That's really part of our history; we're sort of reliving it again. Advertisement 'It's funny: I was talking to (former Cosmo and U.S. international) Werner Roth last night. For the first time ever, the Cosmos will have their own stadium that they call home — both men's and women's. For the first time, we're not nomadic. We're not wondering where we're playing next year.' The Cosmos will play at Hinchliffe Stadium, a 7,800-seat arena located in Paterson, N.J. The venue itself is in the midst of a revival. Hinchliffe Stadium originally opened in 1932 and hosted the Negro Leagues' New York Black Yankees and the American Soccer League's New Jersey Eagles in the late 1980s before shuttering in 1996 after many neglectful years without maintenance and upkeep. In 2023, it reopened to become the home of the New Jersey Jackals, an independent league baseball team. As for the aesthetics, while the above crest explainer retcons aspects of the club's identity, especially in rationalizing its original color palette, it's a mark that will instantly have a place in the wardrobes and on the walls of diehard fans of soccer around the world. Despite the stops, starts and various iterations, the Cosmos remain a singularly recognizable brand in American soccer. Their one-time heights have now become part of the sport's oral tradition, when the game's original 'GOAT' came stateside to face other luminaries including Johan Cruyff, George Best, Gerd Müller and Gordon Banks. Stover won't be working on the club's rebuild alone; in vintage Cosmos fashion, he's recruited a storied ex-international to play a central role. Earlier this week, the group announced that it added retired striker Giuseppe Rossi as the club's vice chairman and head of soccer. A former Italy international, Rossi was born in Teaneck, less than 14 miles from Hinchliffe Stadium. 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In 2025, MLS launched its 30th active club in San Diego — a large number of teams for a first-division league, but one that can only provide a fraction of the requisite opportunities needed to keep up with the number of youth soccer players in the country. Most non-MLS programs charge fees to participate (the 'pay-to-play system' referenced by Stover), a significant barrier to entry for many. There's significant geographic scarcity, too. Seattle Sounders midfielder Obed Vargas, a breakout talent in recent years, had to relocate from Alaska as a teenager to chase his professional dreams. U.S. international and Crystal Palace defender Chris Richards left Birmingham, Ala., to join FC Dallas' academy before the USL set up a club in the area. Even the more populated hotbeds like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York/New Jersey are left with very few opportunities for burgeoning pipelines of rising talent. 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In March, the USL's boards of governors (comprising all owners in the Championship and League One) voted to adopt a promotion and relegation model. Owners see it as a way to go beyond the current local, community-driven iteration and gain a greater national and international following. The narrative potential will only get richer as neutrals can monitor the Cosmos' hopes to rise the ranks to join a newly proposed and first-division sanctioned league to operate above the Championship. Throughout the 2010s, and especially under Commisso, the Cosmos' became synonymous with the NASL's opposition to the MLS model, a single-entity structure which is a closed system with no other pathway into the league but nine-figure expansion fees. The years following the NASL's final season in 2017 saw the NASL and U.S. Soccer clash in painfully slow-moving litigation. In February, the antitrust lawsuit was dismissed by a jury. Still, Stover feels the legal push did help the USL set up its more ambitious trajectory. 'My personal opinion is that the USL Super League would not be first division if it wasn't for all the lawsuits against U.S. Soccer, and how U.S. Soccer was operating back then,' Stover said. (The USL Super League is a first-division sanctioned women's league that debuted last summer and provided the women's landscape with a second professional league at the highest level, joining the NWSL.) 'I think it's also paved the way for promotion and relegation,' he continued. 'When you're operating a club, it is so wonderful to have hope as part of your club's identity, and we haven't really had that in the past. Now, what it's going to look like and how it unfolds, I don't know. But we know it's coming, and so a whole bunch of things have come together to make this a really unique moment in time for us.' There's still a lot of work left to do, both for the Cosmos' impending relaunch as well as the USL's aims to kick off pro-rel. The former pursuit will happen far quicker, with USL League One historically kicking its seasons off in March. Advertisement So while the name and identity are familiar and the history is indelible, the months to come are all about refining the modern iteration's DNA with a clearer focus on being as valuable for Northern New Jersey as it is for merchandise collectors. 'We've been hyper focused on really defining who we are,' Stover said. 'The Cosmos' legacy is clear. The cosmopolitan nature of the club has been clear. But for us, it's how do we apply it in a way that really works here in North Jersey, and then taking those concepts and putting them into practical use. Those ideas have informed every decision we've made with staffing. So many of the people we've hired, if not all, are from New Jersey. Several are from Paterson, grew up in the neighborhoods here, and our entire goal needs to be about building a community around the club. 'It's really great to look around the room and see a very diverse set of people in so many different ways, but that everybody's unified on building this club back up in a way that is community-driven.'

MLB Pundit Believes Phillies Could Acquire $81 Million Cardinals Pitcher For This Return
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