Day: December 8, 2024

The Yankees came up short in their bid for Juan Soto.

Soto is headed to New York on a 15-year, $765 million deal

Juan Soto and the Mets are in agreement on a 15-year, $765 million contract, sources told ESPN, the largest deal in professional sports history.

Juan Soto and the Mets agreed to a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million deal on Sunday night at the start of the Winter Meetings in Dallas, sources told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. The club has not confirmed the deal.

Move over Shohei Ohtani. Juan Soto has the new biggest contract in the history of sports.

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma started as a couple that could have broken the country’s tyrant regime, though the opposite happened.

Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, ending a 13-year civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule.

Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, ending a 13-year civil war and more than 50 years of his family’s brutal rule. The lightning advance of a militia alliance spearheaded by Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate, marked one of the biggest turning points for the Middle East in generations. Assad’s fall wiped out a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world.