THIS WILL BE A BIG WEEK...for me, and maybe for the rest of humanity, too.  Why? To begin, the Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies for the baseball World Series Championship.  For them, this was redemption, for their  previous triumph in 2017 turned out to be scandalous .   Astros manager Dusty Baker woke up yesterday morning as the one who had coached the most games, never having won a world series.  He did it yesterday at the age of 73.   I also did well in fantasy baseball this year. The  New York Marathon  this morning was won by two Kenyans, Sharon Lokedi and Evans Chebet.   There were around 50,000 runners.   This was 28-year old Lokedi's first marathon in her life.   Chebet earlier this year won the Boston Marathon.  Kenyan men have won all six major city marathons this year:  also Eliud Kipchoge in Tokyo and Berlin, Amos Kipruto in London and Benson Kipruto in Chicago. Chebet's time was 2 hours, 8 minutes and 41 seconds, but Swiss Marcel Hug won the wheelchai

Yesterday I brought you up to date on our current COVID-19 pandemic.  As much as this virus is waning, what about the combined impact this Fall and Winter when you add the seasonal flu and that Respiratory Syncytial Virus ( RSV ) that infects mostly children and infants?  Is a  TRIPLEDEMIC  coming? About world news, from the  New York Times  this morning: Boris Johnson   pulled out of the race   to become Britain’s prime minister, making his former finance minister, Rishi Sunak, the next PM. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, appointed loyalists to top government jobs,   giving him nearly absolute power .  Will he be president for life? A   solar eclipse will be visible tomorrow   across Europe and Asia. U.S. students recorded   deep declines in math and a dip in reading   on a national exam, the clearest picture yet of the pandemic’s impact on education. The World Series is set to begin on Friday:   Both the   Astros   and   Phillies   clinched spots yesterday, setting up a battle between ju