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Hirscher said he was looking forward to warmer weather and home cooking when he returned to Austria. “Right now I can feel that I’m getting tired a little bit because we are more than two-and-a-half weeks here and it’s always very cold,” he said, wrapped up in a thick jacket and woolly hat inside the media room. “Sorry... |
Wed., June 20, 2018, 10:32 a.m. |
The Stanley Cup Final run of the expansion Golden Knights contributed to what is expected to be a healthy increase for the salary cap, giving NHL teams more freedom to make deals. With elite center John Tavares, top defenseman John Carlson and a strong group of free agents available soon, the ceiling for player spendin... |
Gentlemen, open your wallets – players like Tavares, Carlson and forwards James van Riemsdyk and Paul Stastny won’t come cheap. |
With GMs meeting Thursday in Dallas ahead of this weekend’s draft, trade talk is percolating before free agency opens July 1. Ottawa has already traded winger Mike Hoffman, and Buffalo center Ryan O’Reilly, Pittsburgh forward Phil Kessel, Montreal captain Max Pacioretty and Washington backup goaltender Philipp Grubauer... |
Ottawa captain Erik Karlsson is the star who will go to the highest bidder if the Senators are willing to trade the Norris Trophy-winning defenseman with one year remaining on his contract. GM Pierre Dorion seemed to be in a tough spot after it was revealed last week that Karlsson’s wife had filed an order of protectio... |
San Jose flipped Hoffman to Florida soon thereafter, freeing up salary-cap space to pursue Tavares or Russian standout Ilya Kovalchuk. The Panthers got a 20-goal scorer in Hoffman, who’s just 28. |
More immediate decisions await the Islanders and Capitals. New York could make a move to re-sign Tavares before he can begin speaking with other teams on Monday, and recently hired president of hockey operations Lou Lamoriello has to hire a new coach. |
The Islanders might’ve gotten a fortunate bounce when Barry Trotz resigned from his job with Washington less than two weeks after lifting the Cup. Re-signing Tavares and hiring a replacement for fired coach Doug Weight go hand-in-hand. |
If it doesn’t work out and Tavares hits the open market, a contract with an annual salary approaching Connor McDavid’s $12.5 million isn’t out of the question. Nashville GM David Poile said cap situations put five or six teams in position for top-end free agents – and knock about half the league out of the running. |
Big-revenue teams with money to spend include the retooling New York Rangers and the rising Toronto Maple Leafs. The Rangers are among several teams linked to Kovalchuk, the 35-year-old winger who’s looking to return to the NHL after five seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League. |
Former Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov, who won an Olympic gold medal with Kovalchuk, is back in the U.S. and could be on the way to returning. Voynov was convicted of domestic abuse and is suspended indefinitely by the NHL, which makes it unclear how a team will pave the way for him to play. |
Dozens of current free agents don’t know where they’ll be playing next season. Beyond Tavares, Carlson is the most in-demand pending free agent after leading all defensemen in regular-season and playoff points. |
Carlson plans to have his day with the Stanley Cup in Washington, but because of the uncertainty of the offseason, there’s no guarantee he’ll be there this fall. |
Published: June 20, 2018, 10:32 a.m. |
His school-record 117 3-pointers (hitting 44.8 percent) this season are a key part of Florida’s 30-game win streak and its status as the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. |
Frazier is poised to deliver big shots again Saturday. |
With a reputation as one of Florida’s hardest workers, there is no doubt Frazier will do whatever he can to have his shooting touch for the Final Four. |
He has been known to go to the gym early on game day, putting up as many 400 shots by himself while his teammates are sleeping. |
Florida coach Billy Donovan has no worries and believes Frazier’s stroke will be there when needed this weekend. |
Donovan ranks Frazier among the purest shooters he’s ever coached. And that list includes former Florida guard Lee Humphrey, who made an NCAA career record 47 3-pointers in leading the Gators to back-to-back NCAA titles in 2006 and 2007. |
“Humphrey and Frazier know their shots better than I know their shots,” Donovan said. “They know why they missed, why they make, what they need to do. They know their routine. Those guys just have an incredible will to go in there and work and work and work and work. Would I like Michael Frazier to knock down five, six... |
Frazier credits a routine that dates to middle school and is rooted in growing up with a preacher father from a military background. He says his father instilled a work ethic into him and his entire family at an early age. |
Frazier said his teammates have done a good job keeping him focused and confident when his shot hasn’t gone in. |
In the NCAA Tournament, Frazier has gone 1 of 4 against Albany, 2 of 9 against Pittsburgh, 5 of 8 against UCLA and 2 of 5 against Dayton. He was 10 of 15 in the SEC tournament. |
He has the green light to shoot at any time. |
Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie certainly considers Frazier as one to stop. |
“He’s an outstanding weapon,” Ollie said. “He creates so many spacing challenges for us on the defensive end where we have to guard him. |
View full sizeSaginaw Sting's quarterback Tommy Jones receives the ball during the championship game Saturday at The Dow Center in Saginaw. |
Sting quarterback Tommy Jones was named the league MVP, after leading the team to an undefeated season. Jones was also named the league's offensive player of the year. |
Season statistics were not available. |
Jones missed out on the UIFL MVP award in 2011 to Northern Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen. He was named Ultimate Bowl MVP. |
Sting wideout and returner Charles Tarver was named the league's special teams player of the year. |
Dayton coach James Scott was named CIFL Coach fo the Year, and Dayton's Melvin Thomas was named the defensive player of the year. |
Even since before the dramatic finale of its first season, Survivor has been a show about heroes and villains—or at least people you root for and people you wouldn’t give water to if they were dying from thirst (plus one season was literally called Heroes Vs. Villains). For its next season, though, Survivor has come up... |
Alright, that might not be the official premise for season 33 of Survivor, but it might as well be. It’s actually Survivor: Millennials Vs. Gen-X, with (relatively) young people taking on (relatively) old people in a battle to see who will be a worse representation of their age bracket. It seems like it should be easy ... |
CBS hasn’t announced a premiere date for Survivor: Millennials Vs. Gen-X, but you can see the trailer for it below. |
Is it worth making pita at home? Absolutely. Store-bought pita (like store-bought sandwich bread) is often several days old. Warm, fragrant home-baked pita is obviously superior, and there’s a bit of a thrill when the breads puff up in the oven. And once you get the hang of it, it’s not difficult. For the best flavor, ... |
Featured in: First Time’s The Charm With Fresh Pita. |
Make sponge: Put 1 cup lukewarm water in a large mixing bowl. Add yeast and sugar. Stir to dissolve. Add the whole-wheat flour and 1/4 cup all-purpose flour and whisk together. Put bowl in a warm (not hot) place, uncovered, until mixture is frothy and bubbling, about 15 minutes. |
Add salt, olive oil and nearly all remaining all-purpose flour (reserve 1/2 cup). With a wooden spoon or a pair of chopsticks, stir until mixture forms a shaggy mass. Dust with a little reserved flour, then knead in bowl for 1 minute, incorporating any stray bits of dry dough. |
Clean the mixing bowl and put dough back in it. Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap, then cover with a towel. Put bowl in a warm (not hot) place. Leave until dough has doubled in size, about 1 hour. |
Heat oven to 475 degrees. On bottom shelf of oven, place a heavy-duty baking sheet, large cast-iron pan or ceramic baking tile. Punch down dough and divide into 8 pieces of equal size. Form each piece into a little ball. Place dough balls on work surface, cover with a damp towel and leave for 10 minutes. |
Carefully lift the dough circle and place quickly on hot baking sheet. After 2 minutes the dough should be nicely puffed. Turn over with tongs or spatula and bake 1 minute more. The pita should be pale, with only a few brown speckles. Transfer warm pita to a napkin-lined basket and cover so bread stays soft. Repeat wit... |
Some measurements for dry ingredients are given by weight for greater accuracy. The equivalent measurements by volume are approximate. |
INDIANAPOLIS -- Lance Stephenson admits that 19-year-old Lance Stephenson probably got carried away a time or two, but he says he never got that carried away. |
When the former Cincinnati Bearcat was asked if he remembers calling Xavier coach Chris Mack the n-word during a 2009-10 game -- which the coach accused him of after an NCAA game Saturday -- Stephenson denied it. |
"I probably said something else negative," the Indiana Pacers forward said,"but I definitely didn’t call him that." |
Why in the world would Mack bring up that interaction for the first time nearly a decade later? Let's rewind a little bit. |
Mack's accusation came after a contentious game Saturday between his Xavier Musketeers and their rival Cincinnati Bearcats. |
The craziness began when Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin reportedly needed to be restrained from going after Xavier player JP Macura as he screamed, "You want a piece of me, (expletive)?" |
Cronin said after the game that Macura told him to "Eff off" three times during the game and that, "He wouldn't play for me." |
When Mack learned what happened between his player and the Cincinnati coach, he was upset and began his postgame news conference with a rant that included a story about an exchange he had with Stephenson during a Xavier-Cincinnati game nearly a decade ago. |
In that game, Mack said, Stephenson "called me the n-word three times and said, 'Eff you.' After the game guess what I did? I shook his hand. I shook his hand. That's it. There's no narrative." |
On Sunday, Stephenson added: "I don’t know what made him bring me up (during the press conference) but, you know, it was a rivalry game. |
"You know, heat of the moment, having fun, I probably said a couple things. I’m the type of player who tries to get under guys’ (skin), tries to get everyone frustrated, so I might have said (something), I don’t know. But I don’t think I called him that. I probably said something else negative, but I definitely didn’t ... |
When asked what a 19-year Stephenson was like, the Pacers forward laughed before saying, "Oh man. You think I’m bad now, 19-year old Lance was crazy. I probably said something crazy, but I don’t think I said what he said I said." |
Rachid Taha blew into Las Palmas from his native Algeria like a desert storm from the Sahara on the neighbouring mainland. |
There can't have been a pair of feet at the Womad Canarias festival that weren't at least tapping to his seductive mixture of traditional North African, rock, techno and dance music. |
He was one of Saturday's highlights at the seventh Womad festival on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. |
Earlier on the same stage, the veteran Cuban pianist Pepesito Reyes also had the public dancing to his tunes. |
You can't get much more authentic than his Cuban son and when he invited fellow Cuban Beatriz Marquez to sing with his band we could easily have been in Havana and not Las Palmas. |
Pepesito is credited with writing the piano riff to Guantanamera and several thousand people sang along as he proved that at 84 he's still got what it takes. |
The World of Music Arts and Dance festival takes place in Santa Catalina park on a narrow strip of land in the north of Las Palmas, with the main beach on one side and the port on the other. |
It is much smaller than its British sister festival in Reading, but it is free and those who have been to a Womad elsewhere will find the familiar flags, workshops, cabaret and stands. |
Friday's highlights included Los de Abajo. |
Like a Mexican version of the Pogues, they served up radical politics and "salsa punk", spiced with merengue, rap and reggae. |
At one point, three members of the group donned balaclavas, in the style of the Mexican Indian rights leader Sub-commandante Marcos, and voiced their support for the local students fighting a law to privatise university education. |
Edwin Starr may not be your typical Womad performer, but the veteran soul man went down a storm on Friday. |
His most famous hit, War, could have been even more poignant in the current circumstances had he not then blitzed the audience with a medley of virtually every Motown number they knew. |
Fittingly, Los Gofiones opened the festival on Friday with a musical welcome to their home. |
With at least 25 of them on stage, the mixture of acoustic strings and percussion took us on a journey that so many of their fellow Canary islanders have made in search of a better life to Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico. |
Abdullah Chhadeh and Nara mix sounds from throughout the Middle East and Europe and Abdullah proved that the zither can be just as cool as an electric guitar. |
In their black head-dresses and white robes designed for the Sahara desert, Tinariwen were visually and musically stunning. |
They have adopted the electric guitar for their version of "African blues", accompanied by female voices. |
They were joined on stage by France's Lo'Jo, whose mixture of chants, violin and clarinet blended perfectly. |
Also mixing French and African influences Julien Jacobs brought African rhythms from his native Benin via his adopted Brittany. |
Britain's Justin Adams has produced for Lo'Jo and he produced his guitar to pay tribute to Howlin Wolf and then he and his group, the Wayward Sheikhs, played traditional African instruments. |
N'Java, from Madagascar, mixed home-grown sounds with dance and funk, while the voices of the two sisters were backed up by the music of three brothers, who also showed that the Afro hairstyle is not a thing of the past. |
Spain's Radio Tarifa mixed flamenco with salsa and music from around the Mediterranean, while Los Ojos de Brujo, also from Spain, mixed funk with the Spanish guitar, flamenco and son. |
Joe Strummer and his band are set to headline at Sunday's finale. |
The Trump administration is proposing rules for investors in a new program that it says could have a big impact on economically depressed areas around the country. About 8,700 so-called "opportunity zones" have been set up in all 50 states to lure investors and developers with tax breaks. |
The Treasury Department issued new rules Wednesday on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national security grounds. |
The Trump administration has renewed its threat to place 25-percent tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what it says are China's unfair trade practices. |
A court in Zimbabwe on Wednesday acquitted a United States and a British journalist of covering the country’s March 29 elections without accreditation, saying the state had failed to prove the offence and ordered them to be released. |
Magistrate Gloria Takundwa said the state’s evidence against New York Times correspondent Barry Bearak and Britain’s Stephen Bevan, a freelance journalist with the Sunday Telegraph, was “inconsistent and unreliable” and that the two should be released from remand. |
Takundwa also reprimanded police for the “unlawful detention” of the two journalists after the Attorney General’s office had ordered their release. |
Bearak and Bevan were arrested on April 3 during a police raid on a tourist lodge in Harare aimed at rooting out foreign journalists who were covering the elections without accreditation. |
The Attorney General found no case against the pair but police initially refused to release them and brought new charges. The two spent four nights in jail before being released on bail with conditions. |
Under Zimbabwe’s draconian media laws, working without official accreditation is an offence carrying penalties of up to two years in prison. |
Only a handful of foreign journalists from “friendly” countries were given permission to cover the polls. |
Amazon.com Inc's Japanese unit raised the membership fee for its Prime service by 26 percent on Friday, the first such hike since it was launched in the country 11 years ago. |
The new annual Prime membership fee is 4,900 yen versus 3,900 yen previously, Amazon said in a statement. The e-commerce giant did not provide a reason, but pointed to the growing number of services available to members. |
Prime membership fees in Japan are far below the $119 annual fee in the United States, helping attract Japan's thrifty consumers. The e-commerce giant has grown rapidly in Japan, exerting pressure on home-grown players like Rakuten. |
While some companies are moving to hike prices in low inflation Japan due to rising labor and shipping costs, they risk being shunned by frugal consumers. |
Content might be a little lacking on the video side but for the overall service it's still not a bad deal even with the price increase. |
I only wish Amazon Prime fees were that low in the US. You're getting two years worth of Prime in Japan for one year's worth in America. |
But why no subtitles? I'm not even talking about English subtitles.... most things I want to watch on Amazon don't even have Japanese subtitles! |
I hope this doesn't become a trend. It's only one of the best deals around if the price stays low. |
Prime video is useless, but the regular free shipping is quite good. |
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