These days, MLB pitchers are more talented and dominant than they’ve ever been. Strikeout rates and average pitch velocities ...

The Milwaukee Brewers have been surging in the right direction. Over the past two years, they achieved consecutive first-place finishes for the first time since joining the National League in 1998.

About November: Seven Illinois counties voted in favor of exploring secession. The rural counties of Iroquois, Calhoun, Clinton, Green, Jersey, Madison and Perry all voted to examine “the possibility ...