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New York City arena latest place abandoning plastic straws
A New York City arena is the latest place making plastic straws a thing of the past.
Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the home of the NBA’s Nets and NHL’s Islanders, said this week it’ll switch to strawless lids or straws made from compostable alternative materials by next year.
The affiliated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, on Long Island, will also drop plastic straws.
They’re the latest entities in a movement to eliminate plastic straws because of harmful environmental impacts.
Seattle banned them this month and is believed to be the first major U.S. city to do so. Starbucks, Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and American Airlines followed with plans to abandon straws too.
The Milwaukee Brewers have acquired third baseman Mike Moustakas from the Kansas City Royals, making their second deal in as many days as the club makes a push for its first playoff appearance since 2011.
The Brewers sent outfielder Brett Phillips and pitcher Jorge Lopez late Friday night to the Royals, who are in last place in the AL Central.
Milwaukee announced the trade late Friday night, when they beat San Francisco Giants on the road 3-1. Reliever Joakim Soria, who was acquired Thursday from the Chicago White Sox, made his Brewers debut by pitching a scoreless seventh inning.
The left-handed hitting Moustakas was hitting .249 with 20 homers and 62 RBIs for the Royals.
Australian becomes 1st woman to skipper Clipper race winner
Australian sailor Wendy Tuck has become the first woman to skipper the winning vessel in the Clipper Round The World Yacht Race.
Tuck, 52, from Sydney, led the Sanya Serenity Coast team to victory in the race that finished in Liverpool on Saturday. Her team beat 25-year-old British skipper Nikki Henderson’s Visit Seattle yacht by four points.
The brainchild of Robin KnoxJohnston, the first person to sail solo non-stop around the world, the race encompasses 40,000 nautical miles. Competitors sail on identical 70-foot (21-meter) ocean racing yachts around the world.
The endurance challenge, in its 11th edition, is taken by ordinary people captained by qualified skippers.
Tuck says she got into racing “rather late,” at 30. She says “I’m just an old lady that likes sailing around the world.”