Today's Updates, 9/13/2017

Today's UPDATES

There's so much talk about today and not much time to cover it all, so I will have to find a way to make it all work for the rest of the week. My York College program is this Saturday and I have to prepare for that, meanwhile, some of your favorite MLB teams are preparing for postseason action. Max Sports has been fast tracking the standings, with just a couple of weeks left in the MLB season, what else has progressed. The Cleveland Indians have now won twenty games in a row, tying the longest winning streak for an American League team with the 2002 Oakland Athletics. Plus, the Los Angeles Dodgers finally clinched a playoff berth after losing eleven straight games, well that's just wow, they still have a greater chance at clinching the National League West Division if they can go on a hot win streak of their own again. In other news, female Japanese Kairi Sane overcame all the odds against Shayna Baszler to win the WWE Mae Young Classic last night in Las Vegas. I've been following this tournament and I must say it speaks the same volume as the Cruiserweight Classic from last year and now big tings could be ahead for Kairi Sane and I'm sure we'll see her again real soon.

MLB
Yesterday
Royals 4, White Sox 3
Braves 8, Nationals 0
Phillies 9, Marlins 8 in 15 Innings
Blue Jays 3, Orioles 2
Red Sox 11, Athletics 1

Indians 2, Tigers 0

Rays 2, Yankees 1 at Citifield in Queens, New York due to Hurricane Irma

Brewers 5, Pirates 2

Mariners 10, Rangers 3
Cubs 8, Mets 2
Twins 16, Padres 0
Cardinals 13, Reds 4

Rockies 4, Diamondbacks 2
Astros 1, Angels 0

Dodgers 5, Giants 3
Today
Tigers vs Indians at 12:10PM
Yankees vs Rays at 1:10PM at Citifield in Queens, New York due to Hurricane Irma
White Sox vs Rays at 2:15PM
Athletics vs Red Sox at 7PM on ESPN
Braves vs Nationals at 7:05PM
Marlins vs Phillies at 7:05PM
Orioles vs Blue Jays at 7:07PM
Mets vs Cubs at 8:05PM
Mariners vs Rangers at 8:05PM
Pirates vs Brewers at 8:10PM
Padres vs Twins at 8:10PM
Reds vs Cardinals at 8:15PM
Rockies vs Diamondbacks at 9:40PM
Dodgers vs Giants at 10PM on ESPN
Astros vs Angels at 10:07PM

Playoff Standings
AL Division Leaders:
Central: Indians, 89-56
West: Astros, 87-57
East: Red Sox, 82-62
AL Wild Card
1. Yankees, 78-66, +3 GA
2. Twins, 75-69
3. Angels, 73-71, 2 GB
4. Rangers, 72-72, 3 GB
NL Division Leaders:
West: Dodgers, 93-52, Clinched Playoff Berth
East: Nationals, 88-56, Clinched Division
Central: Cubs, 78-66
NL Wild Card
1. Diamondbacks, 83-62, +3 GA
2. Rockies, 80-65
3. Brewers, 76-68, 3 1/2 GB
4. Cardinals, 76-69, 4 GB

NFL
Tomorrow
Houston Texans vs Cincinnati Bengals at 8:25PM on NFL Network
Sunday
Cleveland Browns vs Baltimore Ravens at 1PM on CBS
Buffalo Bills vs Carolina Panthers at 1PM on CBS
Arizona Cardinals vs Indianapolis Colts at 1PM on FOX
Philadelphia Eagles vs Kansas City Chiefs at 1PM on FOX
Tennessee Titans vs Jacksonville Jaguars 1PM on CBS
New England Patriots vs New Orleans Saints at 1PM on CBS
Minnesota Vikings vs Pittsburgh Steelers at 1PM on FOX
Chicago Bears vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 1PM on FOX
Miami Dolphins vs Los Angeles Chargers at 4:05PM on CBS
New York Jets vs Oakland Raiders at 4:05PM on CBS
Dallas Cowboys vs Denver Broncos at 4:25PM on FOX
Washington Redskins vs Los Angeles Rams at 4:25PM on FOX
San Francisco 49ers vs Seattle Seahawks at 4:25PM on FOX
Green Bay Packers vs Atlanta Falcons at 8:30PM on NBC
Monday
Detroit Lions vs New York Giants at 8:30PM on ESPN

WWE
SmackDown Live results
- AJ Styles defeated Tye Dillinger to retain the WWE United States Championship
- The New Day defeated The Usos in a Sin City Street Fight to win the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship
- Natalya defeated Naomi to retain the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
- Shelton Benjamin and Chad Gable defeated The Hype Bros
205 Live results
- Rich Swann defeated TJP
- Cedric Alexander defeated The Brian Kendrick by disqualification
No Mercy match card

- Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman for the WWE Universal Championship

- John Cena vs Roman Reigns

- Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs Cesaro and Sheamus for the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship

- Alexa Bliss vs Sasha Banks vs Nia Jax vs Emma in a Fatal 4-Way match for the WWE Raw Women's Championship

- Finn Bálor vs Bray Wyatt

- Neville vs Enzo Amore for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship

Tell me, does anyone know who Bernie Sanders is? I hear he's really famous these days. Mr. Sanders is a politician who has been the United States Senator from Vermont since 2007, so his tenure is ten years old. He ran for US President last year and was in a heated battle with then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton only to come up a little short. Berine Sanders has been a fan favorite Democrat and he's the subject to Today's #TwitterTrend, early this morning, the Vermont Senator announced that he was planning to introduced a new health care legislation that proposes moving the United States to a single-payer health care system. Now this idea comes for the Democratic Party not the Republicans, who as usual failed to repeal and and replace Obamacare this past summer. The bill has been backed by fifteen Democratic Senate co-sponsors, some of which could run against Trump for President in 2020, the senators backing up the bill are Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Al Franken, Jeff Merkley, Tammy Baldwin and Brian Schatz. According to the Huffington Post: "The plan calls for an overhaul of American health insurance with a souped-up, more generous version of Medicare replacing nearly all private health insurance ― and government exerting far more control over the cost of medical care." I wonder if they could get this bill into office and shut up all the talk about health care once and for all, because that's what the bill is called "The Medicare for All Act". For more we turn to a couple of tweets from people who seemed to have their own opinions to this.

Alexandra Halaby @iskandrah

Bernie Sanders: Medicare For All is a "rational alternative" to #Obamacare that all can support #MedicareForAll http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59b87dc1e4b02da0e13d465f/amp

The Hill @thehill

Sanders: Opponents of universal healthcare "are on the wrong side of history" http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/350400-bernie-sanders-now-is-the-time-to-extend-medicare-to-everyone

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

I'm very proud to be introducing the Medicare for All Act today, which has 15 co-sponsors in the Senate, a record level of support.

Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

Now is the time for Congress to stand with the people and take on the special interests that dominate health care. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/bernie-sanders-medicare-single-payer.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Dave Weigel @daveweigel

FIRST LOOK at @SenSanders Medicare for All bill. 4-year phase in, no co-pays, private market only for supplemental https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/sanders-will-introduce-universal-health-care-backed-by-15-democrats/2017/09/12/d590ef26-97b7-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9_story.html?utm_term=.9714aacc1d76

Gideon Resnick @GideonResnick

Sanders will introduce his Medicare for All bill today with a quarter of Senate Democrats supporting. http://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-is-still-not-a-democrat-hes-just-the-partys-maestro

Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn

The list of 15 co-sponsors on the new Sanders bill reads like a who's who in Democratic politics. W @danielmarans http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-single-payer-bill-major-support-senate_us_59b87dc1e4b02da0e13d465f

Mark Murray @mmurraypolitics

Only 1 of the 15 co-sponsors of Sanders' bill is from a state Trump won in '16 -- WI's Baldwin. And she's up for re-election in 2018

There's a topic that I'm most interested in and I need to talk about it now before it's to late. For Web Choice, I want to discuss are the Emmys, this past weekend was the Creative Arts Award ceremony and these are for Emmy awards that are not on the main primetime show for this sunday hosted by Stephen Colbert on CBS. The Creative Arts awards are in a class in recognition of technical and other similar achievements in American television programming and includes awards for outstanding animated programs, outstanding commercial, and guest acting. The ceremony was held for two straight nights on September 9th and 10th and will be broadcast this Saturday on FXX network, that is where you will see people like Dave Chappelle, Melissa McCarthy, Seth MacFarlane and Jane Lynch received awards in acting, plus The Daily Show with Trevor Noah won Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for its Between the Scenes videos, so I am very proud that The Daily Show could get an award in the only category it was nominated in. Plus, James Corden's Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special won Outstanding Variety Special, Samantha Bee's Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner won Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and Last Week Tonight is the winner for Outstanding Interactive Program. So now we move to this Sunday where all bets are off and the stars come out for a LIVE event unlike any other, here is bit of recap of some of the awards set to be given out.