Day: January 23, 2017

Family, fans mourn for Dominican pitcher Yordano Ventura (Sports Betting News)Family, fans mourn for Dominican pitcher Yordano Ventura (Sports Betting News)

Signs and flowers make up a memorial for Kansas City Royals baseball pitcher Yordano Ventura outside Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Ventura died Sunday in a car crash on a stretch of highway near the town of San Adrian in his native Dominican Republic. He was 25. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Dozens of children wearing blue T-shirts with the name ”Ventura” emblazoned on the back gathered around a coastal home on Monday to pay their respects to their idol: Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura. ”He was an inspiration to every kid,” Santos told Sports Betting News, recalling how Ventura took time to meet with members of the Kelly youth team that he once played for and gave them gifts, including uniform T-shirts. The children talked quietly among themselves as they sat in the patio of the house Ventura bought after signing with the Royals.

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Patriots fan charged with pulling alarm at Steelers’ hotel (Sports Betting News)Patriots fan charged with pulling alarm at Steelers’ hotel (Sports Betting News)

Dennis Harrison is arraigned Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in East Boston district court. He is alleged to have pulled the fire alarm in the middle of the night that roused the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers ahead of their playoff with the New England Patriots. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

A Boston man described by his lawyer as a ”die-hard Patriots fan” has pleaded not guilty to pulling a fire alarm that roused the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers from their hotel beds ahead of their playoff game against New England. Dennis Harrison was released on personal recognizance at his arraignment Monday on charges including disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. Police say the 25-year-old East Boston resident pulled the alarm at the Logan Airport Hilton at about 3:40 a.m. Sunday.

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