Author: Overcoming Adversity | Buteau’s Odyssey

This baseball season will have one more game. Behind another Yoshinobu Yamamoto gem and a crazy ending, the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays, 3-1, on Friday night and push the World Series to a Game 7 on Saturday. The Blue Jays, who put two on and nobody out in the bottom of the ninth inning, failed to score after the Dodgers turned a wild, game-ending double play. No. 9 hitter Andres Gimenez hit a hard liner to left, but Enrique Hernandez made the catch and threw back to second to double off Addison Barger for the final out. Yamamoto held…

Derek Jeter’s method of breaking a slump during his playing days was golden. During the Fox’s coverage ahead of Game 6 of the World Series on Friday night, the Yankees icon reluctantly recalled his infamous gold thong story for the broadcast. Fellow commentator Kevin Burkhardt slyly asked Jeter what he did to get out of his slumps, prompting the Hall of Famer to retell the story. “You had a couple of slumps in your career, what’d you do?” Burkhardt asked in which Jeter initially responded with laughter. Jeter then shared the story of how wearing former teammate Jason Giambi’s gold…

When a rival lies or cheats, we demand justice. But when a friend does, we offer excuses. Equally, we believe our team plays by the rules while others bend them. Yet honesty depends on the messenger. When someone from our in-group bends the truth, we call it strategic, but when the out-group does it, we call it deceit. In a modern era of algorithmic bubbles, deep fakes, and partisan feeds, the cost of this bias grows. When we assume the “other side” lies more, we stop fact-checking ourselves. This fuels misinformation and distrust. A recent study of over 5,000 participants…

Austin Wells and his partner are expecting a child together. Wells and Caroline Nielson took to Instagram on Friday to announce in a joint post that they are having a baby. “Our biggest blessing & sweetest surprise,” Nielson said in the post’s caption. “We can’t wait to meet our lil bug.” The post — the first public Instagram photos of them together — featured multiple pictures of the two posing together on the field at Yankee Stadium, with Wells holding a mini Yankees jersey bearing his last name and Nielson showing sonograms. The announcement comes weeks after Wells, 26, wrapped…

Robert England just got his star inlaid on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The fact that it’s taken this long to get it is a travesty.  Englund is a classically trained actor, but his fame didn’t come from doing Shakespeare. In 1984, he starred in a little movie directed by Wes Craven called A Nightmare […]

The Dodgers were considering starting Shohei Ohtani in Game 7 as an opener — if there’s a Game 7. Due to a quirk in rules, they’d lose the DH if Ohtani came in as a reliever but not as a starter. That’s what makes him a better option to start. But of course, that depended on them winning Friday’s Game 6 first. If Ohtani starts on three days’ rest, he’d probably pitch a couple of innings before Tyler Glasnow gets the call. Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers looks on prior to game six of the 2025 World Series…

Is the end near for a Giants draft bust?  Though the once-benched Deonte Banks has clawed his way back into the starting lineup in an injury-ravaged secondary, receiver Jalin Hyatt and guard Evan Neal both were healthy scratches last week against the Eagles. It is likely the Giants won’t need a healthy scratch Sunday against the 49ers.  But the NFL trade deadline is looming Tuesday, and it might be the moment to call time of death on salvaging the careers of the 2023 third-round pick (Hyatt) and 2022 first-round pick (Neal) in New York if another team offers a late-round…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top advisor praised President Trump for courting China to “help” end the Russia-Ukraine war — as some experts and European officials urged caution in taking Beijing at its word. Andriy Yermak, the head of the presidential office in Ukraine, told The Post he supported Trump’s efforts to bring in Chinese President Xi Jinping to lean on Moscow. “First of all, it’s great that this meeting has happened,” Yermak said.  “… Maybe with this, starting this dialog, we will see China give Russia a strong push to end the war.” “Volodya, enough. Everybody is tired of you,”…

In addition to thrilling viewers with his intriguing performances on screen (including the recent Late Night with the Devil and the morbidly delightful talk show Grave Conversations, in which he interviews guests while lying in a coffin), David Dastmalchian has also been enthralling readers as an insightful writer of must-read comic book series such as Count Crowley and Creature Commandos. When it comes to conjuring captivating stories on the paneled page, Dastmalchian is just getting started, as readers can look forward to diving into his fantastical tale of self-discovery when his new graphic novel Through (illustrated by Cat Staggs with…

ALBANY – New York Republicans are making a last-ditch bid to stop Democrats from moving most local elections outside New York City to even years, when voters turn out en masse to pick the president. The State Republican Committee, along with GOP representatives and party committees from Nassau, Suffolk and Orange Counties, sued Gov. Kathy Hochul in federal court in another attempt to undo the 2023 law. “The Even-Year Election Law is unconstitutional and undemocratic,” said William Brewer III, lead counsel for the plaintiffs. New York Republicans are making one last effort to prevent state Democrats from moving most local elections…