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The Chicago Cubs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals last night. The defending world champs, got their first win on the season. The game was saved by Wade Davis the former Royals closer.

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Apr 5, 2017

Jesse RogersESPN Staff Writer

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Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers the Chicago Cubs for ESPNChicago.com and ESPN Radio 1000.

ST. LOUIS -- Although he promised her he would, Albert Almora Jr. wasn't able to hit a home run for his mother's birthday. Instead, the Chicago Cubs center fielder robbed someone else of one, helping preserve a one-run lead in his team's 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday.

It was the Cubs' first victory since Game 7 of the World Series, and in some ways, it was just as thrilling. That game they won with their bats; this one they earned with their gloves.

"It was all about defense tonight," manager Joe Maddon said postgame. "That's why we won the game."

It's important to understand something about these Cubs: Of all the things they did well in winning their first World Series in 108 years, defense was at the top of the list. The metrics said they were the best, and so did the eye test.

But they could be even better this season, thanks to Almora. As beloved as Dexter Fowler was before he moved to St. Louis, scouts have been claiming for years that Almora is a Gold Glove outfielder-in-waiting.

"I love playing defense," he said at his locker, sporting a big smile. "I love helping my team. The moment of the night is when I came in, and Jake [Arrieta] gave me a big hug."

The hug came moments after Almora leapt at the center-field wall in the bottom of the seventh to snare a Matt Adams blast that looked destined to tie the game. Earlier in the evening, a Cardinals infielder unwittingly gave Almora a tip.

" Matt Carpenter and I were talking, and he said, 'You have to square it up to hit it out' in that area [at this time of year]," Almora said. "I took that to the field, and it worked out."

The temperature dropped throughout the night, so when Adams squared up the pitch from reliever Koji Uehara, Almora went to work. The ball died in his glove as he jumped at the wall. There are few in the game who have the first-step instincts Almora possesses.

"I saw Jim Edmonds before the game, and I said 'Almora reminds me of you,'" Maddon said. "Jimmy wasn't the fastest guy. Albert's not the fastest guy. They both ran great routes, and both had great instincts for the ball."

Almora might have made the play of the night, but he wasn't the only hero on defense -- far from it. Despite starting the season 0-for-9 at the plate, Kris Bryant was flawless at third base, and Gold Glove right fielder Jason Heyward made his own running catch. Not to be overshadowed, all-world defender Javier Baez made a diving stop on the final play of the game to cap a championship-caliber defensive night for the defending champions.

"It's just fun to watch everybody," Heyward said. "We all take pride in it ... I have a front-row seat from right field."

Pride in their defense might sound like a cliché, but the Cubs practice what they preach. Heyward is a pretty good authority on the subject, as the most decorated defender on the team. When he first got to camp with the Cubs last season, he immediately saw something special in Almora.

"Right away in spring training in 2016," Heyward said. "He's not thinking too much -- in a good way ... He'll run into the wall."

Almora added: "We love defense. We base our organization off defense."

The Cubs won a championship thanks to their defense and could go far again because of it. If Tuesday was any indication, their pitching staff will once again reap the benefits.

"Really great defense," winning pitcher Jake Arrieta said. "The catch to rob the homer was a game-saver. I owe Almora something for that."

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Apr 5, 2017 Jesse RogersESPN Staff Writer Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers the Chicago Cubs for ESPNChicago.com and ESPN Radio 1000. ST. LOUIS -- Although he promised her he would, Albert Almora Jr. wasn't able to hit a home run for his mother's birthday.

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Navy instructor pilots refusing to fly over safety concerns.The boycott started late last week and has effectively grounded hundreds of training flights. "The pilots don’t feel safe flying this aircraft."

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EXCLUSIVE: More than 100 U.S. Navy instructor pilots are refusing to fly in protest of what they say is the refusal of top brass to adequately address an urgent problem with training jets' oxygen system, multiple instructor pilots tell Fox News.

The boycott started late last week and has effectively grounded hundreds of training flights.

"The pilots don't feel safe flying this aircraft," one instructor pilot told Fox News.

Among the hundreds of student pilots affected is Marine 1 st Lt. Michael Pence, son of Vice President Pence - a factor that could putadded pressure on the Pentagon to resolve the dispute.

Vice Adm. Mike Shoemaker, head of naval aviation, told Fox News in an exclusive interview that the training jet issue is the "number one safety priority" across naval aviation right now.

"Right now we don't have the smoking gun," he cautioned.

In the last five years, physiological episodes, caused in part by problems with the oxygen system, have nearly quadrupled on the T-45 training jet, according to Capitol Hill testimony last week by senior naval aviators.

The Navy is now looking at grounding the entire fleet of T-45s for the next few days, according to multiple pilots.

"There is no question that there are problems that are being covered up," House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said. "I am very concerned about the issue. It's been getting worse over time and if you look at the statistics, the older airplanes are having bigger problems than newer airplanes."

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in a statement that the Navy "must address these safety concerns swiftly and decisively."

Fox News interviewed multiple Navy flight instructors who say incidents of oxygen poisoning in the 30-year old T-45 Goshawk have "skyrocketed."

"Histotoxic hypoxia" is the medical term associated with the disorientating disorder which can put pilots' lives at risk, as well as those of civilians on the ground below. Two instructor pilots say the training jets are now averaging three incidents a week, as the Navy struggles to get to the bottom of the contamination.

"It can happen without warning," one pilot said. "The system doesn't detect contaminants."

A number of instructors cited recent episodes as reasons for the abrupt work stoppage.

Last week, a student from training squadron VT-86 in Pensacola, Fla., had to be "dragged out" of his jet because he became "incapacitated" from the faulty oxygen system, according to two flight instructors.

In March, a British exchange instructor pilot with thousands of hours in the cockpit had to conduct an emergency landing during a training flight near Meridian, Miss., after both he and his student experienced hypoxic symptoms.

In August, a flight instructor and his student were forced to eject near Kingsville, Texas, when they felt symptoms of hypoxia, crashing the multi-million dollar jet. Both pilots ejected safely and were not seriously injured.

Last month, there were 10 episodes in T-45s, according to Shoemaker.

Anticipating the pilot protest, the Navy sent a team of engineers and other specialists this week to its T-45 training bases in Kingsville, Meridian and Pensacola for talks with the pilots.

A meeting Tuesday in Meridian "got heated," Fox News is told. The pilots told the civilians from Navy Air Systems Command their complaints about the oxygen system were being ignored. When a senior Navy pilot showed photos of a faulty oxygen system he claimed had been sent up to NAVAIR's headquarters in Maryland, the engineers said they never received the photos.

Asked about the protest, Navy spokeswoman Cmdr. Jeannie Groeneveld acknowledged that 40 percent of instructor pilots refused to fly their training flights Friday. A flight instructor said the number was closer to 75 percent, because the Navy reduced the flight schedule knowing more than half the pilots would refuse to fly.

Shoemaker said following a meeting in Kingsville, flights there had resumed.

Just last week, the vice president's wife Karen Pence visited her son at Naval Air Station Meridian, where her son is in flight training. A source told Fox News she told the commodore in charge of flight training, "Take care of my son" - and a day later the senior Navy officer told a group of instructor pilots he feared he was unable to do that because of the danger posed by the faulty oxygen system.

Across the Navy, training squadron skippers and commodores are telling their instructors to follow their instincts -- and not forcing them to fly -- much to the appreciation of those boycotting until they feel the issue is resolved, Fox News is told.

"There is not a, you know, 'Fly or else,'" Shoemaker said.

Some instructor pilots point to Rear Adm. Dell D. Bull, chief of naval air training, as the culprit in ignoring the unsafe conditions.

"He is telling us to just, 'shut up and color,'" one pilot said.

Some instructor pilots have refused to go along with the boycott and continue flying, but remove the oxygen masks as soon as they take off.

"Most pilots think [Bull] is just dragging his feet and doesn't want to look bad," said one pilot, who like the others declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

"It's the admirals ... the people that have the power to fix it that aren't doing a damn thing," one frustrated instructor pilot said.

Bull is planning to speak to the instructor pilots in Meridian on Wednesday. Shoemaker is preparing a video message to present to all instructors.

Two senior Navy officials interviewed by Fox News say the Navy is doing its best to tackle the problem.

"We have been working this for five, six years now to try to get to the bottom of this," one official said.

Both officials acknowledged "communication problems" between the upper echelon of the Navy and the instructors.

Six months ago, the Navy sent the T-45 and other jet squadrons Sorbent tubes to measure the air the pilots were breathing. After each flight, the tubes were sent to a lab in Maryland for analysis. After 1,500 flights worth of air samples, the results remain inconclusive.

"We haven't come up with anything conclusive ... showing a contaminant or something like that," a senior official said.

The instructor pilots see it differently.

"They sent our squadron six tubes," one pilot said. "That's part of the frustration. They are doing the absolute minimum."

The senior Navy officials say they understand the pilots' frustration and will soon issue more advanced hydrocarbon sensors which can be analyzed on-site, speeding up the investigation.

The dangers with the oxygen system are not limited to the T-45 training jets either. U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornets have been known to suffer similar problems.
Lucas Tomlinson is the Pentagon and State Department producer for Fox News Channel. You can follow him on Twitter: @LucasFoxNews

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Mr. Kohl- Amazon announced that the company struck a $50 million deal with the NFL to livestream football games this year. This comes as people continue to cut that TV cord in favor of options like Netflix and Hulu.  Amazon Prime members can get in on the game action too.

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Mr. Kohl- Amazon announced that the company struck a $50 million deal with the NFL to livestream football games this year. This comes as people continue to cut that TV cord in favor of options like Netflix and Hulu.  Amazon Prime members can get in on the game action too.

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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is ready for some football.

The National Football League has reached a deal to stream 10 Thursday night games with Amazon.com Inc., the online retailer that is aggressively trying to position itself as a premier source of entertainment content.

The one-year agreement is valued at around $50 million, according to people familiar with the matter. That is price tag represents a fivefold increase over the NFL's agreement with Twitter Inc. for the same number of games last season.

While Twitter streamed the games on its free social network site, Amazon's games will be available only to its Amazon Prime members, who pay $99 a year for free, two-day shipping and access to music, movies and TV shows. Amazon has more than 60 million Prime members world-wide, according to analyst estimates.

The games will continue to be available on television as well. The Thursday night package is split between CBS and NBC. The NFL Network also carries Thursday night football.

Other bidders for the Thursday night streaming package included Google, Twitter and Facebook, according to a person familiar with the matter. A Twitter representative didn't return a request for comment, while spokesmen for Google and Facebook declined to comment.

For Amazon, the push into sports distinguishes its programming ambitions from Netflix Inc. and Hulu, the online streaming service co-owned by Walt Disney Co., 21st Century Fox, Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Inc. Both Netflix and Hulu have steered clear of sports and other live content.

"We're focused on bringing our customers what they want to watch, Prime members want the NFL," said Amazon Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn. The large audience that the NFL attracts will also give Amazon a promotional platform for its other content, he added.

Amazon has also sought live game rights from various other right holders, from the NBA to soccer and surfing leagues. With some, it has even raised the idea of creating a premium sports package that would be offered as an add-on for Prime members, The Wall Street Journal reported in November.

Amazon's interest hasn't been limited to the U.S.: In India, it threw its hat in the ring last year to bid on rights for the popular Indian Premier League cricket games.

Amazon executives believe the e-commerce giant can uniquely target fans with sports gear, a way that the company could potentially justify forking over high fees for big-ticket sports. Mr. Blackburn declined to talk specifically about how Amazon might use the NFL to sell merchandise.

For the NFL, the Amazon deal continues its eagerness to experiment with new distribution platforms as viewing patterns continue to shift away from traditional media. Brian Rolapp, the NFL's executive vice president of media said Amazon's "deep and rich streaming experience really caught our eye."

The NFL already had a relationship with Amazon through the program "All or Nothing" a documentary series that follows one team through an entire season. Mr. Blackburn said it was one of Amazon's most popular shows.

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NFL and Amazon Reach One-Year Streaming Deal for About $50M

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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is ready for some football. The National Football League has reached a deal to stream 10 Thursday night games with Amazon.com Inc., the online retailer that is aggressively trying to position itself as a premier source of entertainment content. The one-year agreement is valued at around $50 million, according to people familiar with the matter.