Austin lawyer Scott Wilson had made it to 1,564 straight Texas Longhorns home or away baseball games and was on its way to his 595th straight football game. He died Friday at age 74.

Country superstar Brad Paisley has made history. And Monday night, it wasn’t for platinum records. The singer performed the national anthem during a landmark World Series game.

The Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays will play for the World Series championship in Game 7, this Fall Classic knotted at three games apiece after the Dodgers’ 3-1 victory in Game 6. That's the extremely simplified version.

This World Series absolutely deserved a Game 7, which might be the only explanation for what transpired in the bottom of the ninth inning last night. Six innings of one-run baseball from Yoshinobu Yamamoto and a clutch two-RBI single from Mookie Betts had set up the Dodgers with a 3-1 lead heading into the final frame of Game 6.

In a six-inning outing on Friday, Yamamoto struck out six batters and allowed just five hits and one run. While the numbers aren't as eye-popping as his complete game in Game 2 of