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MLB fans who tuned into the World Baseball Classic were expecting big-time performances from superstars Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and Juan Soto. They came away learning more about Venezuela’s title-winning squad and one espresso-loving Italy slugger. Ahead of the 2026 MLB season, some players have already boosted their profile by thriving on the worldwide stage. Here are six standouts whose stock is rising following their performances in the World Baseball Classic. 6. 2B Brice Turang, USA/Milwaukee Brewers The 2024 National League Platinum Glove Award winner was primarily on the U.S. roster for his sensational defense at second base, but Turang provided much more than that for a star-studded team whose top sluggers failed to consistently produce at the plate. Turang ended up being one of the most consistent hitters of the group, tying for the team lead in hits (eight), leading the team in doubles (four) and finishing second in batting average (.364) and third in OPS (.936). He also had the only hit USA mustered against Venezuela starter Eduardo Rodriguez in the final. 5. 1B Vinnie Pasquantino, Italy/Kansas City Royals Sometimes, numbers don’t paint the full picture of a player’s impact. Beyond Venezuela capturing its first ever WBC title, the story of the tournament was Italy. And you can’t tell that story without Pasquantino, who was the heart and soul of the most surprising team in the competition. Italy’s group full of unrelenting prospects and novice big-leaguers raved about the leadership of Pasquantino, who played a vital role in recruiting the team over the past year. The team captain only had four hits in the WBC, but he walked seven times, played spectacular defense, finished with a .970 OPS and became the first player in tournament history to hit three home runs in a game. 4. RP Daniel Palencia, Venezuela/Chicago Cubs Palencia was almost unhittable in the first half of a breakout 2025 season while emerging as the Cubs’ primary ninth-inning option. He started the year in Triple-A and finished it as the team leader in saves, but injury and poor performance in the second half led to Brad Keller closing games by season’s end. After an offseason of bullpen turnover, manager Craig Counsell expressed his confidence in Palencia by naming him the Cubs’ closer right when camp opened. And in the WBC, the flamethrowing 26-year-old right-hander spent the tournament backing up the Cubs’ belief. Palencia faced 17 batters in the WBC, struck out nine of them, and didn’t allow a hit or a run in five appearances. The only two hitters to reach base against him came on a hit by pitch and a walk. He shut the door on Japan in the quarterfinal, striking out Sosuke Genda and Kensuke Kondoh before getting Shohei Ohtani to pop out to end an 8-5 win. Two days later, he closed out Italy in the semifinal with another two strikeouts in a scoreless ninth. Then, pitching on back-to-back nights in the final against the U.S., Palencia struck out Kyle Schwarber, induced a pop out from Gunnar Henderson, then overpowered Roman Anthony on a 99.7 mph fastball to win the tournament. 3. OF Wilyer Abreu, Venezuela/Boston Red Sox If you’re a Red Sox outfielder, chances are you boosted your stock in this tournament. Jarren Duran hit three home runs in four games for Mexico. Roman Anthony hit two home runs for Team USA, including what ended up being the deciding blasts against Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Masataka Yoshida also swatted two homers and was the best Japanese hitter not named Shohei Ohtani. But two of the biggest swings of the tournament belonged to Abreu, who came up clutch in Venezuela’s two biggest upset wins of the WBC. The 26-year-old put Venezuela ahead for good over Japan in the quarterfinal with a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth and padded Venezuela’s lead over USA in the final with a solo shot off Nolan McLean in the fifth. 2. 3B Junior Caminero, Dominican Republic/Tampa Bay Rays Last year alone, Caminero won the Dominican Winter League championship for Leones del Escogido with an epic home run, started at third base in the MLB All-Star Game, finished second in the Home Run Derby and ended the 2025 season with 45 home runs, a number that trailed only Eugenio Suárez for the most among all MLB third basemen. So it’s not like the World Baseball Classic put Caminero on the map. But even late last year, the 22-year-old wasn’t sure if he’d make the Dominican Republic’s superstar roster. If he hadn’t, he still planned to show up and cheer his team on as a fan. As it turned out, he would do much more than that. Alongside a group of players he grew up idolizing, as one of the most dangerous hitters in one of the greatest lineups ever assembled, Caminero shined. Caminero led the star-studded group with three home runs in the tournament and scored the Dominican Republic’s lone run in the semifinals with a solo homer off reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes. On a Tampa Bay roster without much offensive firepower, Caminero looks like a linchpin. And if the Rays get back to playing postseason baseball, they know Caminero will be able to handle the spotlight. 1. 3B Maikel Garcia, Venezuela/Kansas City Royals If Garcia was still flying under the radar following his breakout season last year in Kansas City, he shouldn’t be anymore. In a tournament that featured multiple MVPs and Cy Young Award winners, it was the 26-year-old Royals third baseman who took home WBC MVP honors after hitting .385 and leading all players in the competition with 10 hits. Garcia, who was an All-Star and Gold Glove Award winner for the first time last season with the Royals, knocked in runs in all three of Venezuela’s elimination games. He hit a two-run homer against Japan that helped spark a comeback in the quarterfinals, a go-ahead RBI single against Italy in the semifinals and a sac fly that started the scoring in the finals against the United States. “I didn’t believe in my talent until 2025,” Garcia said after being named tournament MVP. “What I achieved last year made me understand the player that I am.”Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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The Daniel Dye suspension shows, once again, that NASCAR drivers need to be aware of what they say on social media, how their actions and words can be harmful and that NASCAR is willing to act when it determines a line has been crossed. As Dye was going through trading cars with fellow driver Brent Crews while watching an INDYCAR telecast on the streaming platform Whatnot, Dye mocked the voice of INDYCAR driver David Malukas. Dye, a driver for Kaulig Racing in the truck series, made inferences about Malukas’ sexuality, apparently not rooted in fact, and raised his voice octaves, seemingly mocking stereotypes of gay men. The stream took place Monday night, and after a clip appeared online Tuesday, NASCAR and Kaulig Racing both announced indefinite suspensions of Dye by the early evening. NASCAR will require Dye to undergo sensitivity training, which is tailored to the individual and does not have a specific length. NASCAR’s code of conduct rules include the following: “NASCAR Members shall not make or cause to be made a public statement or communication that criticizes, ridicules, or otherwise disparages another person based upon that person’s race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, or handicapping condition.” Dye posted a lengthy statement on social media, apologizing to Malukas, a driver now for Team Penske who finished second in the Indianapolis 500 last year driving for A.J. Foyt Racing. “I chose my words poorly, and I understand why it upset people,” Dye said in his statement. “I’m sorry to anyone who was offended. … I didn’t think enough before I spoke, and in no way meant any harm. “I know that intention does not erase impact and I need to do better.” The damage Dye has done to his career remains to be seen. Dye was 13th in the series standings after three races, not great but on par with teammates Butterbean Queen and Justin Haley. When Dye returns after completing the sensitivity training likely will be up to Kaulig — and more than likely up to Ram, which sponsors the five-car Kaulig operation as part of the manufacturer’s entry into the series this year. He likely will get another chance — virtually everyone suspended under this policy has returned to the sport — whether that is at Kaulig or with another team. Dye vowed that he is “taking meaning steps to ensure my actions reflect respect and inclusivity going forward.” NASCAR will need to make sure that he is sincere. That is why the sensitivity training is tailored to the individual and how they respond to the assignments. As the saying goes, there is freedom of speech, but that doesn’t mean freedom from consequences — and is specifically about government infringement. NASCAR (and the teams and the companies that sponsor them) rely on the drivers to help build their brands. Actions and words matter. Daniel Dye just learned that the hard way.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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We have tragic news to report from the world of social media.
Rachel Tussey — the beloved TikTok star who gained fame with her “midlifeunmuted” account — has passed away.
She was just 47 years old.
News of Rachel’s death comes courtesy of an announcement from her grieving widower, Jeremy Tussey.
On March 3, Jeremy took to his wife’s page to reveal that she had been left brain dead after being deprived of oxygen during surgery.
Rachel had previously informed her followers that she would soon be undergoing a tummy tuck as part of her larger “mommy makeover” image overhaul.
“She was without oxygen for over six minutes,” Jeremy said in the March 3 video. “I was told last night that she’s brain dead.”
The procedure went horribly awry, and Jeremy now claims that his wife was a victim of medical malpractice.
Rachel’s loved ones offered additional information on a GoFundMe page that was set up to help the family cover medical expenses.
“On Wednesday, February 25th, Rachel underwent a surgery that tragically resulted in an unfortunate situation of medical neglect. Following the procedure, she suffered severe brain damage after extended loss of oxygen and was placed on a ventilator under sedation,” Jeremy wrote, adding:
“Rachel fought bravely with her family by her side, but the extent of the damage left her with very minimal brain activity.
“On March 5th, her husband Jeremy faced the unimaginable and heartbreaking decision to remove her from life support.”
The surgeon who performed the procedure, Dr. Shahryar Tork, has offered his condolences to the Tusseys in a statement issued to TMZ.
“I am heartbroken for Rachel Tussey and her family. My thoughts remain with her loved ones during this devastating time. Like them, I am struggling to understand how this could have occurred,” he said, adding:
“Rachel’s surgery was completed successfully and without complications. When I last saw her in the recovery room as she prepared for her planned overnight stay, she was awake and in excellent condition with her husband by her side.
“Out of respect for Rachel and her family, and due to patient privacy laws, I will not comment further.”
“On February 25th, Rachel Tussey suffered a permanent anoxic brain injury, from which she will never recover, after undergoing a surgical procedure at a private surgical center in Cincinnati, Ohio,” says Bernard Layne, an attorney retained by the Tussey family.
“I have been retained to represent the Tussey family and to conduct a full and thorough investigation surrounding the facts and circumstances of this tragedy,” Layne continued.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Rachel’s loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
Rachel Tussey Cause of Death: TikTok Star Passes Away at 47 Following ‘Mommy … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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The latest round of Dirty Rotten Scandals exposure delves into the world of The Price Is Right.
No, the wholesome daytime game show doesn’t seem like a scandal-ridden house of horrors.
But model Holley Hallstrom, who spent nearly 20 years on the show, was left shaken by her experience — and by her firing.
She says that the shocking weight gain story behind her firing — which Bob Barker denied — was only a cover story.
‘The Price Is Right’ went wrong for her
From 1977 until 1995, Hallstrom appeared as one of “Barker’s Beauties” on The Price Is Right.
She says that her firing in 1995 was blamed on weight gain caused by medication.
That is horrible — but, sadly, she says that it was the cover story, not the actual scandal.
In the new episode of E!’s docuseries, Dirty Rotten Scandals, Hallstrom explains why she really left the show.
She says that it was retaliation — related to fellow model Dian Parkinson’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Barker.
In 1994, Parkinson filed a suit against Barker, accusing him of asking her to perform oral sex upon him.
She explained that she only agreed to the sex act because she feared losing her job.
Hallstrom had already faced issues — like pressure to get breast implants when she was first hired.
But the tension on set grew worse after Barker, with his wholesome family image, faced these sexual misconduct allegations.
“When Dian filed her suit, oh boy, that was the beginning of when everything got really bad,” Hallstrom said, according to Fox News Digital.
‘I was not present for those conversations’
“I didn’t want to be involved in it at all,” Hallstrom emphasized. “Barker wanted us to go on all these talk shows and say he was the victim and that Dian was lying.”
She explained: “I didn’t participate because I didn’t want to, and I thought it was tacky.”
Hallstrom added: “And also because I could not honestly say, ‘Oh yes, Dian is lying,’ or ‘Oh no, Dian is not lying.’ I was not present for those conversations.”
She shared: “I just avoided doing all of Bob’s PR tour. Finally, I was told I would be appearing on ‘The Suzanne Somers Show,’ period. And I did.”
Hallstrom recalled: “Of course, all they wanted was for me to say that Dian was lying. When Suzanne asked me if I thought Dian was lying, I just babbled some answer, and that was that.” But the story did not end there.
“But then that week, I read in the tabloids, ‘Holly says, ‘Dian is lying.’ I never said that,” Hallstrom described.
“I called the tabloid and demanded a retraction,” she shared. “They printed a retraction.”
Hallstrom continued grimly: “But that was the beginning of the big rift between Bob and me. That’s when I got on his s–t list.”
In 1995, Parkinson dropped her lawsuit, citing that it was emotionally and financially draining. Barker, who insisted that any sexual relationship had been consensual, took a victory lap.
“Barker went all over television saying, ‘Her case was dismissed, and I’m totally vindicated,’” Hallstrom described. “I said, ‘That’s not true.’”
‘It only got worse from there’
“I would not comment on that. I did not participate in those interviews,” Hallstrom shared. “I would not change my testimony to suit Barker. That’s when I was told my weight was a problem. I was off the show.”
“That was, well, probably the worst thing in my life at that point that had ever happened,” she went on. “It only got worse from there.”
What followed was a nearly decade-long legal battle, in which Barker sued her for defamation. According to Hallstrom, she turned down lucrative settlement offers because she did not want to surrender her right to speak on the topic.
“As soon as I said I was fired because of my weight, for the first time in his career, Bob Barker was bombarded with hate mail,” Hallstrom reported. “They would bring boxes, bags of letters to the network by the truckload.”
This chilling story of power and allegations plays out in more detail on Dirty Rotten Scandals: The Price Is Right, starting on March 18.
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Every major escalation in the Middle East sends shock waves far beyond the region. In the United States, those shock waves arrive not as distant tremors but as catalysts for domestic radicalization and violence, particularly against Jewish communities.
The data is unambiguous.
Following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which led to the deaths of more than 1,200 Israelis and taking of more than 200 hostages, Israel’s military responded in a campaign that intensified the following year, killing more than 70,000 Gazans.
At the same time, in 2024 the Anti-Defamation League recorded 9,354 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. – averaging more than 25 acts per day – the highest figure in the audit’s 46-year history.
FBI hate-crime statistics documented 1,938 anti-Jewish offenses in 2024, constituting 69% of all religion-based hate crimes. Jews comprise roughly 2% of the population.
The Secure Community Network, which provides Jewish communities in North America security services, tracked over 10,000 threat incidents and suspicious-activity reports since Oct. 7, 2023, including more than 500 credible threats to life in 2024.
Research shows similar trends following past military escalations in the Middle East.
Geopolitical violence abroad translates, with alarming efficiency, into homegrown threats in the U.S. and Canada. For the first time in the ADL audit’s history, a majority of incidents in 2024, 58%, contained elements explicitly related to Israel or Zionism. As someone who has studied domestic terrorism and hate for over 20 years, such dynamics are not surprising. They illustrate what my own research and that of others calls “imported conflict.”
The recent attacks against Jewish targets in Toronto, Michigan and possibly the one in San Jose underscore that the threat is neither abstract nor hypothetical.
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Radicalization of strange bedfellows
Foreign conflict can become domestic violence via multiple pathways.
Left-wing extremists, Jihadi-inspired militants and far-right white supremacists occupy distinct spaces along the ideological spectrum, yet they converge on a shared target: Jews.
Each escalatory cycle in the Middle East energizes their exposure to and gradual adoption of extremist views. Online ecosystems accelerate the process dramatically.
Encrypted Telegram channels circulate operational guidance from jihadist media wings within hours of a Middle East strike, encouraging attacks against Jews wherever they can be found. On platforms like 4chan and Gab, white-supremacist accelerationists seize on the same events to amplify “great replacement” narratives casting Jews as orchestrators of unwanted demographic change.
Meanwhile, TikTok and Instagram accounts repackage eliminationist slogans, advocating the end of the state of Israel – “from the river to the sea,” “glory to the resistance” – as mainstream progressive content, reaching millions of young users whose algorithmic feeds reward outrage over nuance.
What once required years of indoctrination within a closed network can now unfold in weeks of passive scrolling.
On university campuses, the atmosphere has grown particularly volatile. Campus Jewish organization Hillel International documented 2,334 antisemitic incidents during the 2024–25 academic year, the highest since tracking began.
These confrontations involve physical intimidation, exclusion from student organizations and what the organization describes as the normalization of eliminationist language cloaked in social justice vocabulary.
Antisemitism as anti-racism
To understand the increasing ease with which geopolitical violence abroad turns into antisemitic violence in the U.S. requires understanding the ideological developments in recent progressive thinking.
One observation that our research demonstrates is that today’s antisemitism may not come from the political fringes but from within progressive movements themselves. Much of progressive ideological frameworks tend to divide the world into oppressors and oppressed. Because Jews are often seen as white, wealthy and well connected, they can get placed on the oppressor side of that line.
Intersectionality – a concept originally designed to show how different forms of disadvantage overlap – is now regularly used to justify shutting Jews out of progressive coalitions and solidarity campaigns.
According to ADL survey data, Americans who agreed with the belief that problems in the world “come down to the oppressor vs. the oppressed” were 2.6 times more likely to hold negative or stereotypical views about Jewish people compared to those who disagreed with the statement.
I believe this is not a fringe problem. Among some parts of the intellectual and cultural elite, such as parts of academia, nonprofits and political parties, hostility toward Jews has become more apparent, with some suggesting that Jews simply do not deserve the same moral sympathy extended to other minorities. In some of these circles, if you do not accept that Jewish collective life is inherently oppressive, you are labeled a bad progressive and exiled.
A coalition of progressive California Democratic delegates pushed a resolution that opponents described as a Zionism “litmus test,” effectively requiring that delegates reject Zionism to be considered legitimate progressives. The D.C. chapter of the Sunrise Movement, an influential progressive climate group, boycotted a voting rights rally because of “the participation of a number of Zionist organizations.”
Such dynamics reflect that there is little room in this framework for the complexity of Jewish history, people who have been both persecuted and resilient.
Furthermore, they can facilitate the rebranding of antisemitism as anti-racism. Some writers have noted that attacking Jewish influence can become a moral duty rather than a bigoted act. Antisemitism is renovated with concepts such as equity, decolonization and liberation, despite promoting the same traditional antisemitic tropes.
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Strange alliance
I assert that multiple ideological movements targeting Jews reflect a deeper structural alignment between political Islam and segments of the progressive left.
Superficially, the two camps could hardly appear more different. Contemporary left-wing activism champions LGBTQ rights, environmentalism, social and economic equality, human rights and government transparency. Radical Islamist movements reject most of these commitments outright.
Beneath these contradictions appears to exist a shared ideological architecture powerful enough to sustain cooperation: anti-globalization, anti-imperialism, rejection of the Western nation-state, the primacy of collective identity over individual rights, a revolutionary vision and, most critically, a common set of enemies.
This alliance is visible in the protest movements that have erupted on American streets and campuses since the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Marches under the banner of Palestinian liberation routinely feature Islamist slogans such as “From the water to the water, Palestine is Arab” alongside progressive placards, or Hezbollah iconography beside “Queers for Palestine” signs. What binds this coalition is opposition to Israel, to American power, and, increasingly, to Jews as symbols of both.
For domestic security, this Red-Green alliance matters because it creates a shared radicalization experience in which grievances originating in very different worldviews are fused into a single call to action.
And as a scholar of political violence and extremism, I believe that when a progressive activist and an Islamist militant attend the same rally, share the same social media space and chant the same slogans, the boundary between political protest and operational violence becomes dangerously thin. Consider two recent cases.
In May 2025, Elias Rodriguez − steeped in anti-Zionist rhetoric and whom the ADL has called a far-left activist − shot and killed Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, two young Israeli Embassy staffers, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., pulling out a keffiyeh and chanting “Free Palestine” as he was subdued. Weeks later in Boulder, Colorado, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, allegedly yelling “Free Palestine,” hurled Molotov cocktails at a weekly vigil for hostages held by Hamas, killing 82-year-old Karen Diamond.
These attackers occupied different positions on the spectrum between ideological radicalism and organized militancy, but they drew from the same well of dehumanizing language that circulates freely in spaces where political protest and incitement to violence have become indistinguishable.
Foreign crises, domestic failures
The structures governing how security agencies carry out their work in the U.S. are inadequate to this challenge.
Counterterrorism agencies seem to continue to treat Islamist militancy, far-right extremism and far-left radicalism as separate, unrelated threats. But the examples above point in a different direction: Ideologically distinct movements are converging on the same target − Jewish communities.
Meanwhile, civil rights agencies and nonprofit advocacy groups struggle to name progressive antisemitism for what it is, caught between legitimate commitments to anti-racism and the uncomfortable recognition that some anti-racist discourse has itself become bigotry.
Addressing the feedback loop between Middle East escalation and domestic antisemitic violence requires an honest reckoning with all of its sources – not only the familiar threats from jihadist networks and white supremacist cells, but also the ideological currents within progressive spaces that make hatred of Jews newly respectable.
Until policymakers, educators and leaders of civil society confront this threat’s full topology, Jewish Americans will continue to face a reality in which more than half report experiencing antisemitism in the past year and nearly half doubt that their neighbors would stand with them if the worst were to come.
Arie Perliger receives funding from Federal grants affiliated with DHS and DOJ.
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