Only 2 Other U.S. Olympians Have Accomplished Eddy Alvarez’s Feat

ACROSS AMERICA — Miami baseball player Eddy Alvarez made history Saturday after the United States took the silver medal in the rescheduled 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.

With his silver medal, Alvarez is now only the third American athlete to medal in both the summer and winter Games.

Alvarez represented the United States as a speed skater in the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, winning the silver medal in the 5,000-meter relay.

The other two Americans to accomplish the feat were Eddie Eagan, who won gold medals in boxing in the 1920 Summer Olympics and on the four-man U.S. bobsled team in the 1932 Winter Olympics. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, runner Lauryn Williams won a silver medal. She also won silver as part of a two-woman bobsled team in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Read the full story on Miami Patch

‘I’m From New Jersey.’ What Of It?

New Jerseyans are a proud lot. They can also take the jokes some people have at their expense — their accents and the over-pronunciation “Joisey” for sure, but also acronyms with a twist that leave non-natives shaking their heads over SMH, which in Jersey means “Springsteen my hero.”

And the tolls — always the tolls — and the Garden State’s drivers: Those were among the answers when Patch asked readers what people’s first reactions are when they’re told, “I’m from New Jersey.” Read the full story on Jersey City, New Jersey, Patch

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"So, I would like to walk out of here standing, versus being carried out. I am 66 years old; so is my wife. I think it's time."

— Guy Gagliano, on closing his Swan Bakery, via Patchogue, New York, Patch

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