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During his Hall of Fame pitching career, Jim Palmer wore a cap only on the days he pitched. Palmer, 77, figures his time in the sun has caught up to him later in life. Earlier this week, Palmer, who spent the entirety of his 19-season career with the Orioles and now serves as a broadcaster for the team’s games on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, revealed on Twitter that he recently had melanoma, a form of skin cancer, near his right eye. Palmer said he had “three little freckles” underneath his bottom eyelid, prompting surgery April 8 that left scars underneath and next to his eye. In the procedure, known as Mohs surgery , thin layers of skin are removed until no cancerous tissue remains. The three-time World Series champion said he undergoes checks every three or so months, having also experienced skin cancer on his left shoulder and right arm over the past decade. He said he’s healthy now, but he wanted others to learn from his experience. Beyond his own scares, Palmer said … [Read more...] about After melanoma procedure, Orioles Hall of Famer Jim Palmer urges fans to get checked, wear sunscreen

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Before the Milwaukee Bucks labored through a stretch of basketball that could wind up altering their future, Giannis Antetokounmpo did something that he tends to do well: He elevated for a dunk, a brief burst of explosiveness that gave the Bucks a fourth-quarter lead against the Miami Heat in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. But upon landing, Antetokounmpo grimaced. He had rolled his right ankle in the first quarter, and perhaps it was bothering him even if he would later refuse to admit it. But in that moment, his expression — his face contorted in pain as he turned to get back on defense — was, in its own way, a sign of so much more misery to come. The Bucks went the rest of the game without making a field goal, and their 115-100 loss to the Heat on Friday night put them in the deepest hole imaginable. Miami will have a chance to sweep the top-seeded Milwaukee in the best-of-seven of series on Sunday afternoon, while thorny questions … [Read more...] about With Bucks Facing Elimination, Uncertainty Grows Around Giannis Antetokounmpo

The presidential thing not looking so easy anymore. Photo: Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images When Ron DeSantis formally enters the 2024 presidential race later today, he will already be a diminished White House aspirant. The Florida governor’s pre-candidacy got off to a roaring start last autumn. His landslide reelection as leader of a party that had quickly turned Florida red gave him reams of admiring press in the conservative-media world, particularly in contrast to his presumed chief rival, Donald Trump , who got a lot of blame for Republican under-performance nationally and then spent weeks sulking in his tent . Very soon there was talk of Republican and conservative-movement elites consolidating behind a DeSantis candidacy to put Trump out to pasture once and for all without sacrificing the base-pleasing appeal of MAGA culture-war politics. Indeed, it looked like DeSantis could offer Republicans a steadier 2.0 version of Trumpism on the … [Read more...] about DeSantis Squandered His Best Chance Against Trump

The Miami Heat stunned the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals on Monday night, clinching a roller-coaster, hold-your-breath, best-of-seven series in Game 7, 103-84, to extend their remarkable postseason run. “I had so much belief in myself and this group of guys,” said Heat forward Jimmy Butler, who was named the most valuable player of the series. He scored 28 points in Game 7. The Heat, whose resurgence as the East’s No. 8 seed has seemingly surprised everyone but them, will face the Denver Nuggets in the N.B.A. finals beginning Thursday. The Nuggets secured their first trip to the championship round by completing a sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals a week ago. The Heat are just the second eighth seed, after the 1998-99 Knicks, to reach the N.B.A. finals under the current playoff format. Not that it was easy. “Sometimes you have to suffer for the things you really want,” Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra said during the postgame trophy … [Read more...] about Heat to Face Nuggets in N.B.A. Finals After Beating Celtics in Game 7

On the brink of voting for a bipartisan deal to avert a devastating economic collapse, Democrats appear to have a deliberate strategy: Keep it cool. Don’t gloat. Don’t brand the compromise legislation as a win. Don’t brag about the spending cuts and policy changes Republicans failed to squeeze in, even as they held the U.S. economy hostage in order to succeed. For Democratic lawmakers, that essential task isn’t hard. Very few, if any, view the bill—which raises the government’s debt limit in exchange for spending cuts and other GOP priorities—as a complete win. Plenty are still steaming about the fact that President Joe Biden negotiated in the first place. But many Democrats—even those who have been most vocally upset about the process and might still vote no on the bill—are having a hard time resisting the urge to stick it to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). After making lofty promises to his party to secure deep spending cuts and claw back Biden’s legislative … [Read more...] about Dems Try Not to Rub Debt Deal in GOP Colleagues’ Faces—Yet

The author, whose new essay collection is “Make It Scream, Make It Burn,” says that a boyfriend once gave her a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel with a secret message inside. “I don’t think I fully appreciated this gesture at the time; now I do!” What books are on your nightstand? My nightstand is a disaster zone — a perpetually toppling tower — in part because it holds a mixture of books I’m excited to read (Andre Perry’s forthcoming essay collection, “Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now”), already beloved books I’m excited to re read (Jamie Quatro’s glorious “Fire Sermon,” Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey,” Shirley Hazzard’s “The Transit of Venus”), and books I’ve recently read but keep coming back to because I can’t shake them and don’t want to: Lynn Steger Strong’s brilliant upcoming novel, “Want,” about friendship and bankruptcy and hunger of all kinds; Mishka Shubaly’s achingly felt and darkly funny and strangely luminous memoir, “I Swear I’ll Make It Up to You”; … [Read more...] about Leslie Jamison on the Best Book She Ever Got as a Present