Chinese New Year celebrations, also known as the Spring Festival, in China start on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The festival lasts for about 23 days, ending on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the following year in the Chinese calendar.

What Do People Do?

Many people clean their homes to welcome the Spring Festival. They put up the red posters with poetic verses on it to their doors, Chinese New Year pictures on their walls, and decorate their homes with red lanterns. It is also a time to reunite with relatives so many people visit their families at this time of the year.

In the evening of the Spring Festival Eve, many people set off fireworks and firecrackers, hoping to cast away any bad luck and bring forth good luck. Children often receive “luck” money. Many people wear new clothes and send Chinese New Year greetings to each other. Various activities such as beating drums and striking gongs, as well as dragon and lion dances, are all part of the Spring Festival festivities.

Public Life

The Spring Festival is a national holiday in China. Government offices, schools, universities and many companies are closed during the period from the Spring Festival Eve to the seventh day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar. However, some enterprises such as banks often arrange for workers to be on shift duty. Public transport is available during the Chinese New Year period.

Background

According to historical documents, on the day when Shun, who was one of ancient China’s mythological emperors, came to the throne more than 4000 years ago, he led his ministers to worship heaven and earth. From then on, that day was regarded as the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar. This is the basic origin of Chinese New Year. China adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1911, so Chinese New Year was renamed the Spring Festival.

Symbols

The red posters with poetic verses on it were initially a type of amulet, but now it simply means good fortune and joy. Various Chinese New Year symbols express different meanings. For example, an image of a fish symbolizes “having more than one needs every year”. A firecracker symbolizes “good luck in the coming year”. The festival lanterns symbolize “pursuing the bright and the beautiful”.

ATLANTA — The most memorable sound in the final

football game at the Georgia Dome was

a chant, reverberating through every square inch of this old stadium.

“MVP! MVP! MVP!” chanted Falcons fans, from the first moment Matt Ryan jogged through the tunnel one last time, through the last seconds of the fourth quarter as the Atlanta Falcons quarterback helped make the last game here the most memorable.

Ryan threw for four touchdowns and rushed for another touchdown in a 44-21 win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game, sending the Falcons to Houston for Super Bowl LVI. It is their first trip to the Super Bowl since the 1998 season.

“We’ll be ready,” said Ryan.

This sort of offensive explosion from the Falcons offense wasn’t exactly unexpected, not after Ryan and the Falcons dismantled the vaunted Seattle Seahawks defense last week in the divisional round and after averaging nearly 34 points per game in the regular season.

“We played great today in all three phases,” Ryan said. “We knew going against Green Bay and Aaron (Rodgers) that it’s never over.”

What was a surprise was the way the Falcons defense made sure the game never turned into the anticipated shootout.

The Falcons shut out the Packers in the first half Sunday, forced two turnovers and flustered Aaron Rodgers with well-timed blitzes. Even with the return of No.1 receiver Jordy Nelson, the hottest quarterback in the NFL was still no match for what looks like the NFL’s complete team.

“A good defense,” Rodgers said. “We hurt ourselves early…hurt the momentum for us. Playing a team like that have to start better than that. We had zero points at halftime. Not going to win games like that.”

Much of that is a credit to Ryan, the favorite to win the NFL’s MVP award which will be announced on the eve of the Super Bowl. Voting was completed weeks ago, but his performance in the NFC Championship Game only bolstered his case.

Ryan’s most emphatic throw might have come after his 14-yard touchdown run, as Ryan celebrated by drilling the ball off the Falcons’ logo on the wall behind the end zone as he was swarmed by his teammates.

Yes, this game clearly meant something for Ryan, who had been plagued by questions about his play in big games throughout his career, including four years ago, when the Falcons squandered a 17-point lead after Ryan through two second-half interceptions in a NFC Championship Game loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

But what makes Ryan a real threat to lead the Falcons to their first Super Bowl title in two weeks is the cast of offensive players around him. Few offenses in recent memory have had such diversity – with a scary pair of running backs in Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman, who combined for a modest 71 rushing yards against the Packers – and a deep stable of receivers. Julio Jones is certainly and deservedly the star, which he emphasized Sunday with 180 yards and two jaw-dropping touchdowns, but Ryan connected with seven other Falcons for at least one pass.

The Falcons’ offensive diversity should be a model for the Packers, whose eight-game winning streak is over after the team became too one-dimensional around Rodgers.

The Packers rushed just 13 times – including four scrambles by Rodgers, who was the leading rusher with 46 yards. Rodgers threw three touchdowns, even while playing behind an offensive line that lost three players by the fourth quarter and had to use a defensive tackle at guard, but those scores were too late to make the game competitive.

It’s Saturday on CNN, which usually means Jake Tapper, Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and many other Monday-thru-Friday anchors have the day off. That’s not the case this weekend.

The Time Warner-owned cable-news outlet is maintaining nearly all of its weekday schedule today as it seeks to cover an array of protests taking place across the nation today as well as President Donald Trump’s post-inaugural schedule. Jon Berman and Kate Bolduan hosted their regular late-morning hour earlier today, and Brooke Baldwin is expected to take viewers through the late afternoon.  Except for a few tweaks – a Wolf Blitzer-hosted hour this morning and a broadcast of “Smerconish” at 6 p.m. this evening – CNN viewers who don’t take a few minutes to look outside might think it’s just another weekday. Nearly of the hours are based in Washington, D.C., even though several hours are typically broadcast New York.

A CNN spokeswoman confirmed that the network had changed its schedule for the day.

The scheduling shift appears to have been planned in advance, as all the programs were listed in one on-screen programming guide provided on a Cablevision cable system. But it suggests how nimble the cable-news networks will have to become in covering what is expected to be a frenzied news cycle over the next several months. Several TV-news executives have said they expect to cover many initiatives by the Trump administration, as well as reaction to them by Democrats and grass-roots organizations. And all the networks – backed by big media giants like NBCUniversal, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS Corp. and Walt Disney  – are eager to snare heightened audience interest in events, as well as the ad dollars that often follow it.

CNN isn’t the only news outlet trying to keep pace. Fox News Channel on Saturday had planned late-afternoon and early evening broadcasts of its panel show “The Five,” as well as Bret Baier’s weekday hour, “Special Report.

The shifts don’t come, presumably, without some logistical hiccups. Saturday, for example, is usually Jake Tapper’s one day off during the week. He anchors both “The Lead” weekdays and Sunday’s “State of the Union.”

But CNN anchors have in recent months become accustomed to impositions on their personal time. Don Lemon, the regular anchor at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., this summer arranged to come in to the newsroom later in the afternoon after it became evident the lead-up to last year’s election would not allow for vacation time.

On Saturday, a constellation of woman-centered, anti-Trump protest lit up across all seven continents. (A group on an expedition ship in Antarctica adopted the unofficial slogan “Penguins for Peace.”) At the center of the action was the Women’s March on Washington, which drew an estimated half a million participants. There were men and women of all origins and orientations, a teeming parade of pink hats and protest signs that brightened against a pale silver fog blanketing the sky. There were sensible moms and crust punks, bros in Patagonia and toddlers on shoulders. A group of Gen Xers from Pittsburgh kept yelling, “Go Steelers!” A great-grandmother leaned on a walker, ambling gamely down the National Mall with clouds of cotton in her ears.

Before Saturday, there had been some fuss about the conceptual nature of a “women’s march.” Inside

the movement, some women worried that other women would be given unfair priority; outside of it, some men sulked, apparently desiring to be addressed directly at all times. But it made sense to organize the first major post-Inauguration protest march around women, who are almost fifty-one per cent of the American population, who have been maligned and attacked by the new President, and who make up a group within which every other vulnerable population exists. The Women’s March protesters took an obvious, gentle pleasure in sharing space with people of divergent interests and appearances. There must have been a thousand shared apple slices at the demonstration, and, remarkably, not a single arrest by D.C. police. (At a Black Lives Matter demonstration, you probably would have seen many police officers, but on Saturday the presence of law enforcement felt minimal, which likely helped to keep the protest as peaceful as it was.)

There was, naturally, some raunch at the march against the pussy-grabbing President: one young woman, for instance, wore a fully articulated stuffed vulva on her back, complete with a plush clitoris and the label “Can’t Touch This.” But the heavy presence of first-time protesters insured a certain softness. A nine-year-old girl with hair the color of gingerbread carried a sign that read, “I’m a Kid and This Cannot Be My Future.” Her name was Frankie, and she thought the protest was “just sort of amazing—all these people, from all around the world, coming together to help women.” A few feet away from her stood Betsy and Nancy, resplendent in Rosie the Riveter gear. They were on either side of age sixty, and had taken an eleven-hour bus the previous day from the small town of Canton, in upstate New York. A D.C. church had welcomed their delegation of Unitarians; it was Betsy and Nancy’s first protest, too. “Trump is the antithesis of everything I believe in,” Betsy said. “Wilderness, women’s freedom, public schools.”

Someone who’d been looking at Twitter announced that Gloria Steinem was speaking—then Scarlett Johansson, then Janelle Monáe. There was a long procession of A-list speakers, but no one anywhere near me could hear or see them. It wasn’t noon yet, but the crowd was already large beyond reckoning, and there was no loudspeaker system or signage to suggest where else people might go.

So I wandered the mall, taking a running sign taxonomy. There were the signs that announced the carrier’s identity: “Fornicating Homosexual Abortionist,” “Now You’ve Gone and Pissed Off Grandma,” “Proud Louisiana Liberal—Send Help!” (Plenty of people carried torches for others: white and Asian women holding Black Lives Matter signs, men with signs about reproductive rights.) Others roasted Donald Trump lightheartedly: “The Devil Wears Bronzer,” “Urine For a Long Four Years.” Some were as frank as possible: “I’m Too Worried to Be Funny,” “I Can’t Believe I Left the Soviet Union for This Shit.” There were pleas for police accountability and grace toward immigrants; innumerable signs protested Trump’s Cabinet, his unreleased tax returns, his “Access Hollywood” gloating descriptions of sexual assault. Coat-hanger cutouts were everywhere.

In an area bounded by port-a-potties, a group of protesters clustered under the trees. Four women in their late fifties carried signs for the United Steelworkers; they worked in paper mills in New England. “We’re afraid of losing everything the labor movement stands for,” Wanda, fifty-five, with dark skin and shoulder-length twists, said. “Benefits, safety, health. Wages going up for everyone, not just people in the union.”

Marilyn, sixty-seven, wore a pastel sweater. She was from York, Pennsylvania. She told me that she’d been depressed since the election. “But you have to stand up for what you believe in! I was teargassed in Dupont Circle protesting the Vietnam War!” Her husband, Keith, who’s active in the climate-change movement, carried a sign that said, “I’m Marching for My Grandchildren.” Around the message, there were nine names, written in colorful lettering, for kids aged eight months to ten.

Near them, a man with gray hair and crooked teeth held a sign that said, “Try Grabbing These Pussies, Motherfucker!” His name was Martin, and he was seventy-four. “Look at this turnout,” he said. “At the antiwar protests in the last decade, there were so many old farts like me. This is something else—like being in the sixties again.” On cue, a man wearing a poncho and a sign that said “Criminalize Toxic Masculinity” breezed by us, smoking weed.

The march itself was supposed to begin at 1 p.m., and the crowd packed in close, awaiting orders. A midday lull set in, and lasted for more than an hour. Cell-phone service flickered in and out; people hummed “This Land Is Your Land” and checked the Women’s March Twitter account for instructions. A chant kept erupting and dying: “Let’s march now! Let’s march now!” The news arrived first from the Associated Press: the enormous crowd had choked the planned route to a standstill.

I went over to talk to a tough-looking man wearing mirrored aviators and a bucket hat. He carried an American-flag sign that said, “Protest Is Patriotic.” His hot-pink shirt read, “Walked Point in Vietnam to Defend Democracy in 1970, Walked the Mall in Washington to Defend Democracy in 2017.” It was his first-ever protest. “The thing I’m here for is that a lot of people have died for the right to do what we have done today,” he said. At that, a sudden crush of people yanked me backward into the crowd.

The mass was herding itself across the Mall, toward Pennsylvania Avenue and the White House. Women kept yelling out things that felt overly symbolic: “Can someone just please give us some instructions? Can someone just tell us what to do?” As the crowd crept past the Trump International Hotel, booing loudly, the most gleefully disrespectful chants of the day broke out on repeat: “We need a leader, not a creepy tweeter” and “He’s orange, he’s gross, he lost the popular vote.” A woman named Edythe from Detroit yelled, “We tried going high, baby, but we’ll get dirty if we have to!” A mother tossed her giggling baby in the air, and a woman behind me said what I was thinking: that she couldn’t look at the whole mass of people without tears welling behind her eyes.

Beneath the thrill of the broad-minded demonstration, there was a nagging thought that I couldn’t shake, and that some protesters made a point of noting: if a majority of white women had not voted for Trump in November, he would not currently be President—and millions of people would not be protesting. There’s a corollary to this that also tugged at me: if Trump weren’t President—if we had, on Friday, inaugurated President Hillary Clinton—how many of the white women who protested on Saturday would feel as if there weren’t much about America that needed protesting at all?

The radical possibility of the Women’s March, the hope that hasn’t been squashed, is a broad alignment of straight, middle-class white women with all the people who were glad to stand beside them and march: the black and queer and disabled women, the minimum-wage workers and undocumented immigrants, all the people whose rights to self-determination are constantly under threat. The crowds on Saturday were so enormous, so radiant with love and dissent, that this larger coming together seemed possible. As Trump’s Administration proves itself unkind to all but the wealthy, perhaps there is a coalition ready to speak their hearts, to listen, to welcome anyone in.

Road teams finally found the success they were missing in this season’s playoffs, with Green Bay and Pittsburgh advancing to the conference championships. Both will have to repeat that road success if either team wants to make it to Super Bowl LI in Houston, as the Packers will travel to Atlanta and the Steelers will be on their way to New England.

Here’s a quick preview of the conference championships:

N.F.C.

No. 4 Green Bay Packers (10-6) at No. 2 Atlanta Falcons (11-5)

Time: 3:05 p.m. Eastern, Fox

Spread: Falcons are favored by 4.

They say “defense wins championships,” but the N.F.C. will almost assuredly be decided by which team’s superstar quarterbacks is able to do more damage. Aaron Rodgers has led the Green Bay Packers to eight consecutive wins, repeatedly delivering under intense late-game pressure, and Matt Ryan looks like a completely different player than the one who struggled in recent seasons. Green Bay will be trying to win a a second consecutive playoff game on the road, and Atlanta, after an easy win over Seattle in the divisional round, will be trying to reach the Super Bowl for the first time since the 1998 season.

A.F.C.

No. 3 Pittsburgh Steelers (11-5) at No. 1 New England Patriots (14-2)

Time: 6:40 p.m. Eastern, CBS

Spread: Patriots are favored by 6.

At one point during the season the Patriots seemed nearly unbeatable, but they have had to work far harder in recent weeks to keep things going. The Steelers, meanwhile, have hit their stride defensively, with an offense led by the usual suspects of Ben Roethlisberger, Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown. It will be New England’s 11th appearance in the A.F.C. championship game in the 16 seasons of the Tom Brady Era, and the team will be trying to reach the Super Bowl for the seventh time in that span. The Steelers, who have won two Super Bowls with Roethlisberger, are hoping to make an appearance in the game for the fourth time in 12 seasons.

Here’s how all four teams got here:

Steelers Win Ugly Game in Kansas City

It may not have been the type of game the Pittsburgh Steelers prefer to play, with all of the team’s scoring coming from their kicker’s foot, but in the playoffs a win is a win. And the Steelers’ ugly 18-16 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs was just enough to earn the team a trip to New England to face the Patriots in the A.F.C. championship game.

It was a game largely defined by Pittsburgh’s inability to punch the ball into the end zone after moving the ball well between the 20-yard lines. The game’s biggest moment came near the end when Sean Davis, the Steelers’ defensive back whose helmet-to-helmet hit helped set up a late touchdown for Kansas City, was able to help break up the Chiefs’ 2-point conversion attempt that would have tied the game.

The Steelers wasted a tremendous effort by running back Le’Veon Bell, who broke his own franchise postseason record by gaining 170 yards on 30 carries. Despite Bell’s success, Pittsburgh was forced to turn to Chris Boswell, the team’s kicker, for a postseason record six field goals, breaking the previous record of five that been accomplished eight times.

In an on-field interview after the game, Boswell rejected the notion that he was the team’s newest “Killer B” along with Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown and Bell.

“It was just about doing my job,” Boswell said. “Come out here and put it through the yellow pipes and don’t really think too much, don’t think ‘I’m the guy’ or anything.”

The Chiefs had started the game well, becoming the first team this season to score against Pittsburgh on an opening drive, but the offense went quiet after that, managing one field goal and one late touchdown which was too little, too late.

Pittsburgh’s defense largely eliminated Tyreek Hill, the Chiefs’ versatile offensive weapon. He was limited to 18 rushing yards and 27 receiving yards, serving as a decoy on many of Kansas City’s plays.

The Steelers will now go on the road against New England trying to earn its fourth trip to the Super Bowl in the Ben Roethlisberger era.

“I think it’s going to be a showdown,” Bell said in a televised interview. “Obviously, two great quarterbacks going head-to-head, two of the best teams in the A.F.C., so it’s time to settle it next week.”

Packers Knock Off Cowboys on Last-Second Field Goal

The Green Bay Packers could not hold on to a huge early lead, but in the game’s final seconds Aaron Rodgers was given one more chance to score, and his long completion to Jared Cook set up Mason Crosby’s game-winning 51-yard field goal in a 34-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys that earned the Packers a trip to the N.F.C. championship game next week against Atlanta.

After a string of boring playoff blowouts this season, all won by home teams, Green Bay bucked the trend in a thrilling game in which the Packers raced to a 21-3 lead only to slowly let Dallas back into the game. The Cowboys tied it up at 28-28 before the teams traded long field goals, with Crosby’s 56- and 51-yard makes beating out the 52-yarder from Dan Bailey that nearly resulted in overtime.

There were offensive fireworks on both sides, as Rodgers threw for 356 yards and 2 touchdowns while Dak Prescott, the Cowboys’ Cinderella story at quarterback, threw for 302 yards and 3 touchdowns. While Rodgers walked away with the win, Prescott showed exactly why the team confidently kept him as the team’s starter even after longtime starter Tony Romo was declared healthy.

In the end, however, Rodgers had just enough to overcome Dallas’ furious comeback. He rattled the Cowboys’ defense all game, catching them moving too slowly on substitutions, taking advantage of penalties, and deftly avoiding the rush to set up passing plays. And on the final drive, when his team needed him most, he found Cook downfield for a shocking 35-yard gain that set up Crosby’s game-winner. Cook just barely got his feet down before going out of bounds, with the play requiring a review after officials disagreed about whether or not he made the catch.

Rodgers was all smiles in an on-field interview after the game, saying the game was fun. But when asked about what he was thinking as his long pass to Cook was reeled in, he gave all the credit to Cook.

“It was a great catch by Jared,” Rodgers said, adding “It’s just kind of schoolyard at times late in the game like that.”

Rodgers was forced to play the entire game without his top wide receiver, Jordy Nelson, but he was able to succeed thanks to strong games from Cook, Davante Adams and Randall Cobb. Ty Montgomery, the wide receiver-turned-running back, chipped in with 11 carries for 47 yards and 2 touchdowns, while also catching 6 passes for 34 yards.

That the game was left to Crosby’s strong right leg may have worried some Packers fans, but the veteran kicker had an incredible final four minutes of the game. His 56-yard make set a franchise playoff record, and he had to make the 51-yard attempt twice as Dallas used a timeout to erase his first attempt. While the game-winner was a fairly low kick, it easily made it over the crossbar, completing the Green Bay victory.

Green Bay has now won eight consecutive games after Rodgers vowed to “run the table” following the team’s loss to Washington in Week 11. While the quarterback’s long streak without an interception finally ended in the second half, he continued to show off the M.V.P. form that had eluded him in the first half of the season.

The loss ended what had been a remarkable season for Dallas, a team that captured the No. 1 seed in the N.F.C. despite losing Romo during the preseason and being forced to hand over the offense to Prescott, a fourth-round draft pick who few expected to play, let alone start. But Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott, along with some tremendous play by the team’s offensive line, formed an offense that few could keep up with.

As the No. 4 seed in the conference, Green Bay will travel to face the No. 2-seeded Falcons in Atlanta next Sunday.

Here’s What Happened Saturday

■ Matt Ryan led the Atlanta Falcons to a 36-20 win over the Seattle Seahawks and heard choruses of “M.V.P.! M.V.P.!” which seemed justified by his 338-yard, three-touchdown performance. That his return to the playoffs was a huge success against Seattle’s Legion of Boom secondary was quite an accomplishment, though it comes with the asterisk of Earl Thomas having missed the game. Thomas, the All-Pro safety, was sorely missed, especially on a 53-yard catch-and-run by running back Devonta Freeman, who executed a fake that left Thomas’s replacement, Steven Terrell, grasping at air as he fell to the turf.

■ The Houston Texans’ defense was the only thing keeping the team together all season, and the unit did its best in a lopsided loss to the New England Patriots in which the team intercepted Tom Brady twice but also saw Dion Lewis become the first player in the Super Bowl era to score touchdowns on a run, a pass and a kickoff return in a playoff game. The top-ranked Houston defense got little help from Brock Osweiler, the team’s quarterback who seemed to change a few minds last week, then reminded everyone of his flaws with three interceptions on Saturday. Even with a 34-16 victory for the Patriots, the game showed a great number of flaws for New England going forward. Pretty or not, the Patriots are headed to the team’s 11th conference championship game in the last 16 seasons.

Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura was killed in a car accident in his native Dominican Republic on Sunday, authorities said.

Dominican police confirmed the 25-year-old's death, which occurred in the town of Juan Adrian and was first reported by ESPN.

"Our prayers right now are with Yordano's family as we mourn this young man's passing," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said in a statement. "He was so young and so talented, full of youthful exuberance and always brought a smile to everyone he interacted with. We will get through this as an organization, but right now is a time to mourn and celebrate the life of Yordano."

The tragedy came hours after the death of 33-year-old Andy Marte, a one-time top prospect and former third baseman for the Indians, Braves and Diamondbacks who was killed in a separate car crash in the Dominican Republic.

Royals lower flag to half-mast in memory of Yordano Ventura

Marte, also a Dominican native, played parts of seven seasons at the hot corner and at first base in the majors, hitting 21 home runs with 99 RBIs and a .218 average over 308 career games. He was playing winter league baseball for Las Aguilas Cibaenas, according to Baseball America.

Ventura, a righthanded flame-thrower, played his entire four-year MLB career in Kansas City after signing with the team as an amatuer free agent in 2008. Ventura helped the Royals to their latest World Series championship against the Mets in 2015, going 13-8 during that regular season and 11-12 in 2016.

Ventura first blossomed as a major-league starter in 2014, using his 100 mph fastball to earn him the five-year, $24 million contract he signed before the 2015 season.

On Sunday, the Royals lowered their flag outside Kauffman Stadium to half-mast in Ventura's memory.

The most memorable moment of Ventura's career came in Game 6 of the 2014 World Series against the Giants. The rookie pitcher took the mound and dedicated his outing to his late friend and fellow Dominican Oscar Taveras, the Cardinals outfielder who died in a car accident two days before the game. Ventura, who had the words "R.I.P OT #18" written on the front of his hat along with tributes on his spikes and glove, tossed seven shutout innings of three-hit ball in the 10-0 win.

The Royals lost Game 7 but stormed back to the Fall Classic the following year and beat the Mets in five games. Ventura struggled in his one 2015 World Series start, picking up the loss in Game 3 at Citi Field.

Ventura is the second promising young starter to die in the last six months after 24-year-old Marlins ace Jose Fernandez died in September in a boating accident. Ventura also honored Fernandez during a game, adding "R.I.P. JF #16" next to his written tribute for Taveras on his cap.

The promising pitcher recorded a 38-31 record with a 3.89 ERA in 94 career regular-season games, but his fiery demeanor will also be remembered as part of the young talent's legacy.

Ventura was involved in several on-field incidents in April 2015 involving Angels star Mike Trout, then-A's infielder Brett Lawrie and then-White Sox outfielder Adam Eaton, which helped contribute to Ventura's reputation as a passionate and combative player. Ventura received a seven-game suspension in the latter incident after Ventura snagged a comebacker and exchanged words with Eaton as the batter jogged down the first-base line. Eaton turned around to confront Ventura, which escalated into a benches-clearing brawl.

In June 2016, Orioles star Manny Machado prompted the benches to clear when he charged Ventura after his inside pitches during Machado's earlier at-bat continued with a hit-by-pitch.

Several Royals players and other MLB players shared their condolences on Twitter after hearing of the deaths of Ventura and Marte.

NASHVILLE — Actress Ashley Judd recited a poem by a Tennessee teen Saturday at the Women's March on Washington.

Judd, a Franklin resident, read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan, also of Franklin.

The "Nasty Woman" poem criticizes President Trump and points out inequalities in the United States.

Trump called former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a "nasty woman" at a presidential debate.

"The second (Trump) called Hillary a nasty woman, I said, ‘Oh man, I've got to write a nasty woman piece,’ " Donovan said. "I reclaimed it."

The most memorable quotes from the Women's March on Washington

Donovan, a student at Columbia State Community College, attended the Women's March on Nashville Saturday. At least 15,000 people marched for women's rights and social justice issues.

"I was seeing the physical form of everything I was saying in my poem," Donovan said. "If we keep fighting, we can all be equal one day. It just shows so much hope in this city and this nation."

Judd attended a show where Donovan performed the original "Nasty Woman" piece. Donovan later gave Judd permission to recite the poem at the march.

"I am a nasty woman," the poem begins.

"Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto dust, a man whose words are a dis to America, Electoral College-sanctioned hate speech contaminating this national anthem," Judd said. "I'm not as nasty as Confederate flags being tattooed across my city. Maybe the South actually is going to rise again, maybe for some, it never really fell," Judd said."Blacks are still in shackles and graves just for being black. Slavery has been reinterpreted as the prison system, in front of people who see melanin as animal skin. "I am not as nasty as a swastika painted on a pride flag," she said. "And I didn't know devils could be resurrected. But I feel Hitler in these streets. A mustache traded for a toupee. "I am not as nasty as racism, fraud, conflict of interest, homophobia, sexual assault, transphobia, white supremacy, misogyny, ignorance and white privilege," she said. Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Photos: Thousands attend Knoxville's Women's March Fullscreen d A woman gives a thumbs up to a vehicle which beeped in support of the marchers during the Women's March in downtown Knoxville Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Over 2,000 participated in the march around downtown despite the rain.