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Reds vs. Dodgers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Luke Weaver will start for the Cincinnati Reds looking to slow down Freddie Freeman and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday at 9:10 PM ET.
The favored Dodgers have -200 moneyline odds to win against the underdog Reds, who are listed at +165. The contest's over/under has been listed at 10.5 runs.
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Reds vs. Dodgers Odds & Info
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 9:10 PM ET
- TV: SportsNet LA
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Reds Recent Betting Performance
- In seven games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Reds have posted a mark of 4-3.
- When it comes to the total, the Reds and their opponents are 3-7-0 in their last 10 games.
- The Reds' previous 10 games have not had a runline set by sportsbooks.
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Reds Betting Records & Stats
- The Reds have been chosen as underdogs in 74 games this year and have walked away with the win 36 times (48.6%) in those games.
- Cincinnati has entered 10 games this season as the underdog by +165 or more and is 3-7 in those contests.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Reds have a 37.7% chance of walking away with the win.
- Cincinnati's games have gone over the total in 56 of its 104 chances.
- The Reds are 6-6-0 against the spread in their 12 games with a line set by sportsbooks this season.
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TOKYO — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.
On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: "It's a miracle."
The flag, known as "Yosegaki Hinomaru," or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier's name, Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, and the signatures of his relatives, friends and neighbors wishing him luck. It was given to him before he was drafted by the Army. His family was later told he died in Saipan, but his remains were never returned.
The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Its meaning was not known until it was identified by the family earlier this year, said the museum director Steve Banta, who brought the flag to Tokyo.
Banta said he learned the story behind the flag earlier this year when he was contacted by the Obon Society, a nonprofit organization that has returned about 500 similar flags as non-biological remains, to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.
The search for the flag's original owner started in April when a museum visitor took a photo and asked an expert about the description that it had belonged to a "kamikaze" suicide pilot. When Shigeyoshi Mutsuda's grandson saw the photo, he sought help from the Obon Society, group co-founder Keiko Ziak said.
"When we learned all of this, and that the family would like to have the flag, we knew immediately that the flag did not belong to us," Banta said at the handover ceremony. "We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family."
The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when Banta, wearing white gloves, gently placed the neatly folded flag into his hands. Two of his younger siblings, both in their 80s, stood by and looked on silently. The three children, all wearing cotton gloves so they wouldn't damage the decades-old flag, carefully unfolded it to show to the audience.
The soldier's daughter, Misako Matsukuchi, touched the flag with both hands and prayed. "After nearly 80 years, the spirit of our father returned to us. I hope he can finally rest in peace," Matsukuchi said later.
Toshihiro Mutsuda said his memory of his father was foggy. However, he clearly remembers his mother, Masae Mutsuda, who died five years ago at age 102, used to make the long-distance bus trip almost every year from the farming town in Gifu, central Japan, to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are enshrined, to pay tribute to her husband's spirit.
The shrine is controversial, as it includes convicted war criminals among those commemorated. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japanese militarism. However, for the Mutsuda family, it's a place to remember the loss of a father and husband.
"It's like an old love story across the ages coming together ... It doesn't matter where," Banta said, referring to the Yasukuni controversy. "The important thing is this flag goes to the family."
That's why Toshihiro Mutsuda and his siblings chose to receive the flag at Yasukuni and brought the framed photos of their parents.
"My mother missed him and wanted to see him so much and that's why she used to pray here," Toshihiro Mutsuda said. "Today her wish finally came true, and she was able to be reunited."
Keeping the flag on his lap, he said, "I feel the weight of the flag."
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford's F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
The company says in documents posted by government safety regulators Friday that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the rear axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake without action from the driver, increasing the risk of a crash.
Drivers may see a parking brake warning light and a warning message on the dashboard.
Ford says in documents that it has 918 warranty claims and three field reports of wire chafing in North America. Of these, 299 indicated unexpected parking brake activation, and 19 of these happened while the trucks were being driven.
The company says it doesn't know of any crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
Dealers will inspect the rear wiring harness. If protective tape is worn through, the harness will be replaced. If the tape isn't worn, dealers will install a protective tie strap and tape wrap.
Owners will be notified by letter starting Sept. 11.
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Are your herbs friends or foes? A beginner's guide to 'companion gardening' | At Home with Marni
If your homegrown herbs are fizzling failures, the problem might their friend group. You think I’m joking. Turns out, and this was news to me, herbs are like people. Just as we have friends who bring out the best in us and foes who bring out the worst, just as we know people who make us sweeter and keep pests away, as well as those who hog all the resources and zap our energy, the same is true for herbs.
This explains the mixed success I’ve had with the two 24-inch-round herb planters in my yard. I now have some insight into why my basil grew like gangbusters this summer but crushed the sage. So, per my usual learning style – fail first, then find out what went wrong – I sought help.
“Herbs have friends and foes,” said Bri Murray, a horticulturist at Lukas Nursery, in Oviedo, Fla., whom I cornered in the herb aisle this week. “Some hog water and root space, and push others away. Some want dry soil and have no tolerance for their soggy neighbors. Some will even change the flavor of their neighbors.”
Does everyone know this but me?
“Knowing which herbs get along and which ones don’t is important when planting your container garden,” she said, “because herbs that are friends can enhance each other’s performance, while enemies zap one another.”
Despite their playground antics, herbs are among the easiest plants to grow for beginner gardeners, and Murray is a big fan of the effort. “An herb garden taps so many of the senses,” she said. “You touch them, watch them grow, and, of course, smell and taste them.”
“If you don’t kill them first,” I say, as I peruse the unsuspecting baby herb plants for sale.
“It’s also a confidence booster,” she added, “because it’s gratifying, easy and cost effective.”
Cost effective? I don’t tell her about the time I spent $40 on the container, $20 on potting soil, and $30 on young promising herb plants, and netted three basil leaves.
“We paid how much for that caprese garnish?” my husband asked.
“I never promised you an herb garden,” I told him.
But when all does go right, growing and harvesting your own homegrown herbs is good for your soul, for your cooking, and for your ego. You get to say, “Oh, yes, the basil in my pesto came from the garden.” Pish, posh. “The mint in your iced tea? I grew that, thank you for asking.”
Before I left the nursery, Murray helped me select some compatible herbs to reboot my home herb garden. I think they are becoming friends.
Because a search on “companion gardening” (the term professional gardeners use to refer to this friend-foe phenomenon) will send you down a botanical worm hole from which you might never emerge, Murray offered these beginner tips for those who want to get their herb gardens off the ground:
· Get the dirt. Start with a container that is at least six-inches deep with a drainage hole in the bottom. Fill it with good quality indoor-outdoor potting mix. You can create your herb garden from seed or from starter plants, but in summer starting with young plants is best, Murray said. Spring is a good time to start herbs from seed.
· Indoors or out? The beauty of an herb container garden is that it’s portable. You can put it outdoors, indoors, or on the patio, so long as it gets sunlight. When the weather turns cold, move the container indoors by a window.
· Know the friend groups. A search online will help you determine which herbs to pair, and which to split up. One guideline is water preference. Oregano, rosemary, thyme, and sage live well together because they like dry soil. Basil, parsley, and dill like a wetter environment, which is why my basil grew at the expense of my sage.
· Seek out positive influences. Like good friends, basil makes parsley sweeter, while parsley brings out basil’s flavor, Murray said. Oregano can act like the pest police because its peppery scent keeps harmful insects away.
· Some don’t play well with others.Mint tends to take over, so does better in a pot of its own. “It gets aggressive, and makes other plants stress out,” she said. The same is true of fennel, which is so overpowering it can actually change the flavor of nearby herbs.
· Cut the flowers. For more flavor and fuller plant growth, nip flowers in the bud. If you let flowers blossom and go to seed, the plant will spend its energy on reproducing and not on producing flavorful leaves.
· Up your game. If you want your herb garden to both thrive and look pretty, plant not just according to personality but also according to shape. For instance, when creating a dry-loving garden, put a tall herb like rosemary in the center, surround it with a lower lying filler like sage, then plant a cascading herb like oregano or thyme around the edges.
· Savor the flavor. As any chef knows, herbs fresh from the garden taste better than those packaged in the store. Plus, you can’t beat the flavor of those bragging rights.
Marni Jameson is the author of six home and lifestyle books, including “What to Do With Everything You Own to Leave the Legacy You Want,” “Downsizing the Family Home – What to Save, What to Let Go,” and “Downsizing the Blended Home – When Two Households Become One.” You may reach her atmarnijameson.com. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/lifestyle/real-estate/2023/07/29/marni-jameson-how-do-herb-gardens-grow-by-making-friends-of-course/70419541007/ | 2023-07-29T15:35:12 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/lifestyle/real-estate/2023/07/29/marni-jameson-how-do-herb-gardens-grow-by-making-friends-of-course/70419541007/ |
Spencer Steer Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:37 AM EDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds and Spencer Steer (.410 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, including one homer), take on starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Saturday at 9:10 PM ET.
He notched a home run while going 2-for-4 in his last game against the Dodgers.
Spencer Steer Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 9:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Emmet Sheehan
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Spencer Steer At The Plate
- Steer leads Cincinnati in OBP (.362), slugging percentage (.463) and total hits (102) this season.
- Among the qualifying hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 37th, his on-base percentage ranks 26th, and he is 46th in the league in slugging.
- Steer has picked up a hit in 64 of 100 games this year, with multiple hits 29 times.
- In 15 games this year, he has gone deep (15.0%, and 3.5% of his trips to the plate).
- In 38 games this season (38.0%), Steer has picked up an RBI, and in 15 of those games (15.0%) he had two or more. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored in 44 games this season, with multiple runs six times.
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Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Dodgers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Dodgers have the 21st-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.51).
- The Dodgers allow the eighth-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- Sheehan (3-1 with a 6.75 ERA and 22 strikeouts in 29 1/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Dodgers, his seventh of the season.
- In his last time out on Sunday, the right-hander went 3 2/3 innings against the Texas Rangers, giving up eight earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 23-year-old has put up an ERA of 6.75, with 6.8 strikeouts per nine innings, in six games this season. Opponents are batting .243 against him.
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(AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.05 billion Friday night, only the fifth time in the history of the game that the grand prize has reached into the billions.
No one managed to beat the massive odds and match all six numbers for Friday's estimated $940 million jackpot. The numbers drawn were: 5, 10, 28, 52, 63 and the gold ball 18.
There have been 29 straight draws without a Mega Millions jackpot winner since the last grand prize ticket on April 18.
The $1.05 billion prize up for grabs in the next drawing Tuesday night would be for a sole winner choosing to be paid through an annuity, with annual payments over 30 years. Jackpot winners almost always opt for a lump sum payment, which for Tuesday’s drawing would be an estimated $527.9 million.
The potential jackpot is the fourth-largest in the game and the fifth over $1 billion, Mega Millions said in a statement early Saturday.
Although there were no jackpot winners, one ticket in Pennsylvania was worth $5 million and another in the state connected for $1 million. There also were $1 million winners in Arizona, California and New York, Mega Millions said.
It has been less than two weeks since someone in Los Angeles won a $1.08 billion Powerball prize that ranked as the sixth-largest in U.S. history. The winner of the prize is still a mystery.
Lottery jackpots grow so large because the odds of winning are so small. For Mega Millions, the odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million.
Winners also would be subject to federal taxes, and many states also tax lottery winnings.
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Jury finds Sarasota man, 20, guilty of murder, attempted murder in 2019 shooting
Arteaya Howard spoke quietly from the stand, tears flowing down her cheeks as she answered questions about her son who died a month after he was shot in November 2019 during a trial this week for the 20-year-old man accused of shooting a former classmate and killing Howard's son.
Howard recalled the moment she learned from her sister that her son, Le’Quavious Claridy, had been shot while she was driving home from work in Palmetto.
She remembered running up to the scene on Carver Street on Nov. 10, 2019, after parking her car nearby and heading straight to her son who she spotted lying near a speed bump and his red bicycle.
“I don’t want to die,” Howard said her son told her.
Claridy was rushed to Sarasota Memorial Hospital where he remained for a month, his condition improving and deteriorating several times before he died on Dec. 10.
Following three hours of deliberation, a six-person jury found Darion Lee, 20, guilty Friday for murder in the second degree with a firearm and attempted murder in the first degree in connection to the 2019 shooting that killed Claridy and wounded then 17-year-old Sas Young.
He will be sentenced at a later date and the maximum punishment Lee faces is life in prison.
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"I'm really glad that after four years, we're able to bring this case to a close for Mr. Claridy and Mr. Young," Assistant State Attorney Kennedy Legler said Friday afternoon.
Assistant Public Defender Jamie Pasquali, who was a co-counsel on the case, said the defense would be filing an appeal on behalf of Lee. Pasquali added she will continue to defend Lee in two other cases against him, including a 2019 aggravated assault with a deadly weapon case and a 2022 battery of an officer case.
Previous Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporting states Lee, who was 16 at the time, was arrested after he turned himself in following the shooting. An affidavit in the case states the shooting was over an ongoing dispute over a dirt bike between Lee and Young, both students at Triad Sarasota alternative school.
When police arrived on the scene, two victims were on the ground near pools of blood, reports stated at the time.
Sarasota Police Department officers and firefighter-paramedics who testified said that when they arrived, they saw Young lying on the speed bump in the middle of the road while Claridy was lying on his back a little further away next to his overturned bicycle.
Claridy’s aunt testified she was driving home and on the phone with Howard when she received a call from her nephew. When she picked up, Claridy told her that he and Young had been shot. In the background of the 911 call, Young could be heard saying, "Titi come quick Darion got us," prosecutors highlighted throughout the trial.
Claridy was in a coma following the shooting, but when he awoke, he told his aunt it had been Lee who had shot him and repeated the name to detectives who came to interview him at the hospital.
At least four witnesses said when they asked Claridy who had shot him both at the scene and in the hospital, he had told them it had been “Darion Lee” and described Lee as being heavy set with short dreads.
Defense attorney Kathleen Kirwin, who represented Lee, asked one Sarasota Police Department lieutenant if Claridy could have said “Davion Lee,” but the lieutenant said with certainty that Claridy had said “Darion Lee.”
Code of silence complicates investigation
During the second day of the trial, prosecutors called SPD Sgt. Dominic Harris, who grew up in the Newtown community, to explain the code of silence.
Harris said people fear speaking or being seen with law enforcement after something happens because they’re scared of being labeled a snitch and of someone retaliating against them or their families. Harris added the code of silence can hinder investigations, especially when someone stops cooperating or outright refuses to speak with police.
Harris said when the police went to speak with Young at the hospital, he was hesitant and told the detectives he didn’t know who shot him, although he confirmed he’d been in an argument with Lee previously.
When detectives spoke with Young again at his home after he was discharged from the hospital, Harris and Detective Adam Morningstar said Young appeared to be upset that they’d come, throwing his crutches and refusing to speak.
Kirwin’s questions towards Harris seemingly pointed out that the investigation by Sarasota police focused only on Lee without looking into anyone else, despite Young supposedly trying to tell them it wasn’t Lee. However, Harris said law enforcement focused their investigation on Lee because Claridy never wavered from saying it had been Lee who shot at him and Young.
While Young was subpoenaed to testify during the week-long trial, he did not appear in court.
Kirwin questioned why blood samples taken from the scene and two bicycles weren’t tested for DNA or dusted for fingerprints. Kirwin also questioned detectives why they didn't get a search warrant for Lee's car the night of the shooting if they were so sure that Lee was the suspect, and his car was potentially involved, even despite eyewitnesses not being able to identify the car hours after the shooting.
Teacher testifies why she didn’t report outburst prior to shooting
Days before the shooting, both Lee and Young were suspended from Triad Sarasota alternative school following a verbal argument on Nov. 4, Principal Melanie Ritter said. Ritter added Lee was suspended for two days as he wouldn’t calm down when she was speaking with him.
After Lee returned to school, another outburst seemingly ensued in one of his classes, according to Vivian Heggs, one of Lee's teachers.
Heggs said Lee started to make a commotion in her class, raising his voice and allegedly saying he would shoot Young. When Heggs pointed out that Lee didn’t have a gun, he responded he did. Heggs said she continued to attempt to get Lee to calm down and return his attention to his work.
Previous reporting:Sarasota teacher knew of threats days before shooting that left teen wounded, man dead
When Kirwin asked why Heggs hadn’t reported Lee’s statements at the time, she explained she didn't think they held merit, and since Lee wasn’t saying he planned to come to school with a gun and shoot anyone, she didn’t take the threat seriously.
It wasn’t until after she’d heard about the shooting that she immediately informed Ritter about Lee’s threats, writing a statement about what she’d heard.
Following an internal investigation, Heggs was cleared and retired in 2020.
Ritter later visited Young in the hospital as he was recovering and after speaking with him, she alerted detectives that he had mentioned the name Tyderious Washington. Detectives re-interviewed Young, and in March 2023, interviewed Washington and found he had an alibi the night of the shooting.
Forensic data maps where Lee’s phone was night of shooting
Legler called on SPD forensic data specialist Brian Yang to break down information pulled from Lee’s phone which police had found during a search of his mother’s home in December 2019.
Yang said from the GPS location data pulled from the phone, he was able to plot out the device’s location using Google Maps, indicating that the phone had been in the area of Gregg Street during the time of the shooting, which is in close proximity to Carver Street.
The phone returned back to Lee’s mother’s home shortly after the shooting before heading north to Old Bradenton Road before midnight on Nov. 10. In the early morning hours of Nov. 11, the phone made its way to Bradenton Beach where it remained for some time, until returning to Sarasota by mid-day.
Kirwin pointed out that Lee's phone data didn't list a GPS location ping on either the speed bump on Carver Street where the shooting happened or heading north on Orange Avenue, which was the direction a Chevy Malibu seen by witnesses and on video following the shooting had gone. Police in their investigation found that Lee's mother owned a Chevy Malibu and that Lee often drove it.
When Kirwin called her digital expert James Klay, a retired Sarasota County Sheriff's Office detective, and owner of a forensic consulting firm, he said he plotted out over 18,000 location pings from the phone, establishing a pattern of places the phone had visited. In the data points, it appeared the phone frequented the area of Maple Avenue and 23rd Street many times prior to the shooting, which is just a few blocks from the shooting.
Klay also said the Sprint cell tower data placed the phone three blocks north of where the GPS location data placed Lee.
Legler pointed out in his questioning that according to the GPS location data, Lee's phone had only traveled to the area of Gregg Street near Carver Avenue once: the evening of the shooting on Nov. 10, 2019.
Gabriela Szymanowska covers the legal system for the Herald-Tribune in partnership with Report for America. You can support her work with a tax-deductible donation to Report for America. Contact Gabriela Szymanowska at gszymanowska@gannett.com, or on Twitter. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/courts/2023/07/29/sarasota-man-20-found-guilty-of-second-degree-murder-attempted-murder/70445513007/ | 2023-07-29T15:35:18 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/courts/2023/07/29/sarasota-man-20-found-guilty-of-second-degree-murder-attempted-murder/70445513007/ |
TJ Friedl Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:32 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
TJ Friedl -- with an on-base percentage of .282 in his past 10 games, 69 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Cincinnati Reds against the Los Angeles Dodgers, with Emmet Sheehan on the hill, on July 29 at 9:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his last game (0-for-4 with two RBI) against the Dodgers.
TJ Friedl Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 9:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Emmet Sheehan
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +675)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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TJ Friedl At The Plate
- Friedl is batting .281 with 16 doubles, three triples, seven home runs and 26 walks.
- Among qualified batters, he ranks 25th in batting average, while his on-base percentage ranks 37th and he is 77th in slugging.
- In 51 of 82 games this season (62.2%) Friedl has picked up a hit, and in 26 of those games he had more than one (31.7%).
- He has homered in seven games this year (8.5%), homering in 2.1% of his chances at the plate.
- In 26.8% of his games this year, Friedl has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 8.5% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- In 35.4% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had eight games with multiple runs (9.8%).
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Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Dodgers pitching staff ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers have a 4.51 team ERA that ranks 21st among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Dodgers pitchers combine to give up the eighth-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- Sheehan (3-1) gets the starting nod for the Dodgers in his seventh start of the season. He has a 6.75 ERA in 29 1/3 innings pitched, with 22 strikeouts.
- In his last time out on Sunday, the righty went 3 2/3 innings against the Texas Rangers, allowing eight earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- In six games this season, the 23-year-old has an ERA of 6.75, with 6.8 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .243 against him.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly said he is “fine” since he froze up midsentence during a press conference on Wednesday. And now his office is trying to tamp down speculation that he might not fill out his term as leader because of his health.
In a statement, his office said McConnell appreciates the continued support of his colleagues and “plans to serve his full term in the job they overwhelmingly elected him to do.”
The statement, first reported by Politico, comes after McConnell, 81, has suffered health problems in recent months. At his weekly press conference this week, he froze and stared vacantly for about 20 seconds before his GOP colleagues standing behind him grabbed his elbows and asked if he wanted to go back to his office. He later returned to the news conference and answered questions as if nothing had happened.
When asked about the episode, he said he was “fine,” a statement he repeated in a hallway to reporters later that day. Neither McConnell nor his office would answer questions about whether he got medical help afterward.
Even as McConnell tried to brush off the concerns, the episode raised new questions among his colleagues about his health and also whether McConnell, who was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and has served as Republican leader since 2007, might soon step aside from his leadership post.
He was elected to a two-year term as leader in January by a large majority of his conference, despite an insurgent challenge from Florida Sen. Rick Scott. He would be up for re-election as leader again after the 2024 elections.
By then, he will have to decide also if he wants to run again for another Senate term. He is up for re-election in 2026.
In March, McConnell suffered a concussion and a broken rib after falling and hitting his head after a dinner event at a hotel. He didn’t return to the Senate for almost six weeks. He has been using a wheelchair in the airport while commuting back and forth to Kentucky. And his speech has recently sounded more halting.
But McConnell, famously reticent and often private about his personal life and health, has said very little about what is going on.
Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said after Wednesday’s episode that McConnell’s job as leader calls for more transparency than it would for others.
“We should find out, you know, fairly soon what happened and how serious it is," Cramer said. “But I don’t have to tell you, Mitch is also, as an individual, a pretty private guy. So we’ll see.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he talked to McConnell on Wednesday night and he seemed “strong and alert.” But he said what happened at the news conference on Wednesday was disturbing to watch.
“Mitch is strong, he’s stubborn as a mule,” Cruz said. “My prayers are with them. I hope that — we’re going into the August recess — I hope he has time to fully recuperate.”
GOP senators who are seen as potential successors have been cautious in their reaction.
“He’s fine, he’s back to work,” said South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican and one of the senators standing behind McConnell when he froze up.
“I support Senator McConnell as long as he wants to serve as leader,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, another potential replacement.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 3 Senate Republican and a former orthopedic surgeon, guided McConnell back to his office to rest during the news conference. Afterwards, he told reporters that he has been concerned since McConnell was injured earlier this year, “and I continue to be concerned.”
Barrasso then added: “I said I was concerned when he fell and hit his head a number of months ago and was hospitalized. And I think he’s made a remarkable recovery, he’s doing a great job leading our conference and was able to answer every question the press asked him today.”
Several other GOP senators projected confidence in the Republican leader.
“I do have confidence in his leadership,” said Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis. “At lunch yesterday, he spoke. He was completely on his game using numbers that were pulled out of his head and he was completely with it. So I don’t know what precipitated the freeze, but he’ll be careful to evaluate his own capabilities.”
Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall said he was “a little concerned” after the news conference.
“He said that he got a little overheated, a little dehydrated,” said Marshall, who is also a doctor. “That’s what it looks like to me. I can tell you, he’s got a strong, strong voice in our conference. He’s providing steady leadership. And I think he’s doing a great job as leader.”
McConnell had polio in his early childhood and he has long acknowledged some difficulty as an adult in climbing stairs. In addition to his fall in March, he also tripped and fell four years ago at his home in Kentucky, causing a shoulder fracture that required surgery.
The Republican leader carried on with his full schedule after the episode on Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he spoke with his Republican counterpart at an event Wednesday evening for Major League Baseball owners.
"I said I’m so glad you’re here,” Schumer said. “And he made a very good speech.”
The Republican leader is one of several senators who have been absent due to health issues this year. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, 90, was out of the Senate for more than two months as she recovered from a bout of shingles. And Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., 53, took leave for several weeks to get treatment for clinical depression. | https://www.lex18.com/news/sen-mcconnell-plans-to-serve-his-full-term-as-republican-leader-despite-questions-about-his-health | 2023-07-29T15:35:24 | 0 | https://www.lex18.com/news/sen-mcconnell-plans-to-serve-his-full-term-as-republican-leader-despite-questions-about-his-health |
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens names environmental entrepreneur as Research Associate
Selby Botanical Gardens names Research Associate from Haiti
William Cinéa, founder and director of Jardin Botanique des Cayes (Botanical Garden of Les Cayes) in Haiti, has been appointed Research Associate at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.
Cinéa, a botanist, conservationist, and environmental entrepreneur, created and developed Haiti’s first botanical garden with no public funding. In addition to welcoming visitors, the institution carries out research, guides conservation and restoration in Haiti, provides education, and promotes horticulture.
“[Cinéa's] research and conservation work are vital to understanding and protecting Haiti’s rich biodiversity," said Bruce Holst, vice president for botany at Selby Gardens. "Many plant species in Haiti are threatened, and the data that William and his team are collecting can inform sustainable environmental decisions and conserve flora essential to the health, food, and natural heritage of Haiti.”
Selby Gardens Research Associates are helping Selby Gardens advance its botanical research and grow its collections. Appointments last for three years and are renewable. Cinéa has worked with Selby Gardens botanist John Clark for nearly a decade, including a 2015 expedition to western Haiti, funded by the National Geographic Society, that resulted in the publication of three new species.
“This appointment holds great significance for me and for botanical science in Haiti,” Cinéa said. “The collaboration and support of Selby Gardens will strengthen research, preservation, and enhancement of the unique flora in the Caribbean. I am excited to be part of an institution that echoes these values.”
Suncoast Waterkeeper expands stewardship with patrol boat
Suncoast Waterkeeper is launching a boat patrol program in coordination with its community pollution monitoring program, Eyes on the Suncoast.
The boat, purchased with a grant from the Selby Foundation, will be featured today during a family friendly festival at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron featuring standup paddle board lessons, dip-netting, casting, sun printing, and food trucks.
“A consistent presence on the water is a vital tool adopted by Waterkeepers across the globe," Suncoast Waterkeeper executive director Abbey Tyrna said. "A patrol boat is the hallmark of the Waterkeeper, providing access and opportunity to expand our efforts and engage the community on clean water issues.”
Patrolling waters allows Suncoast Waterkeeper to spot pollution and act quickly to mobilize solutions leading to water quality protection. It also allows for an expansion of the group’s water quality monitoring and youth education programs, made possible through grants from the Selby Foundation and the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation. For more information and how to join Suncoast Waterkeeper’s Clean Water Mission, visit suncoastwaterkeeper.org.
Manatee Sarasota Sierra Club hosts 'Healthy Waters' advocate
The Manatee Sarasota Sierra Club is resuming monthly general meetings via Zoom starting Aug. 10 at 7 p.m. with speaker Joseph Bonsasia, who serves as chair of the Florida Rights of Nature Network and as communications director for FloridaRightToCleanWater.org.
Both organizations are campaigning for an amendment to the Florida Constitution that guarantees a “Right to Clean and Healthy Waters.” Bonsasia, a retired teacher and Sierra Club member for more than 40 years, will explain how a “Right to Clean and Healthy Waters” will work, provide examples of how it will remedy water quality problems, and what Sierra Club members can do to help qualify it for the 2024 ballot. The Zoom link is sierraclub.zoom.us/j/93287367050. Visit florida.sierraclub.org/sarasota.
Tech group seeks digital devices to restore and donate to charity
The Sarasota Technology Users Group is seeking donations of digital devices, including computers, laptops, cellphones, tablets, and peripherals on the Windows or Apple platforms, to refurbish and ultimately donate to underserved youth and low-income families, seniors, and veterans in Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties.
Since the launch of the STUG Refurb Project in 2004, more than 20,000 digital devices have been repurposed. “We can wipe your computer, remove all your personal files, or you can do it yourself,” said Mark Sharff, a Guardian ad Litem volunteer in Manatee County and STUG member.
The group partners with more than 25 nonprofits to assist in distribution, including The Children’s Guardian Fund, Goodwill, Women’s Resource Center, Career Source, SPARCC, and Take Stock in Children. To donate, call 941-374-1107 or email msharff@gmail.com. Visit thestug.org/refurb_files/refurb.html for more information.
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Operation Warrior Resolution, a Sarasota-based nonprofit providing holistic healing services to veterans and their families, will hold an orientation event on Aug. 26 to introduce volunteers to OWR's mission and prepare them to serve the local veteran community. For information and to participate, use the volunteer link at operationwarriorresolution.org.
· The Barbershop Men of Prayer and Greatness Beyond Measure will present a Back-to-School Day of Fun and backpack giveaway with school supplies is Sunday from noon-3 p.m. at the Alfred R. Goldstein Library at Ringling College of Art and Design. Free haircuts and hair braids, video game tournaments, and pizza. Info: 941-962-6789.
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Tyler Stephenson Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:33 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Cincinnati Reds, including Tyler Stephenson (.241 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including zero home run), take on starter Emmet Sheehan and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Saturday at 9:10 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his previous game (1-for-3) against the Dodgers.
Tyler Stephenson Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 9:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Emmet Sheehan
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +675)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +230)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +170)
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Tyler Stephenson At The Plate
- Stephenson is batting .253 with 14 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 37 walks.
- In 59 of 95 games this season (62.1%) Stephenson has picked up a hit, and in 22 of those games he had more than one (23.2%).
- He has gone deep in 7.4% of his games in 2023, and 1.9% of his trips to the dish.
- Stephenson has an RBI in 30 of 95 games this year, with multiple RBI in seven of them.
- He has scored in 38 games this year (40.0%), including seven multi-run games (7.4%).
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Tyler Stephenson Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Dodgers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers' 4.51 team ERA ranks 21st across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Dodgers allow the eighth-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- Sheehan (3-1) gets the starting nod for the Dodgers in his seventh start of the season. He's put together a 6.75 ERA in 29 1/3 innings pitched, with 22 strikeouts.
- In his most recent time out on Sunday, the right-hander went 3 2/3 innings against the Texas Rangers, allowing eight earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- The 23-year-old has put together a 6.75 ERA and 6.8 strikeouts per nine innings in six games this season, while allowing a batting average of .243 to his opponents.
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Sarasota County to close Midnight Pass Road walkway July 31-Aug. 4
Sarasota County plans to close the timber walkway attached to the Midnight Pass Road bridge over Grand Canal from July 31 through Aug. 4 for repairs.
The sidewalk leading to the bridge will also be closed, according to Sarasota County. The county encourages pedestrians to find an alternative route while Public Works crews make the repairs.
Motorists will still be able to traverse the Midnight Pass bridge, but traffic may be delayed because Florida Department of Transportation paving crews will be working on Midnight Pass Road. The county encourages motorists to use caution when driving through the area.
Crews will also be inspecting the timber walkway from a boat in Grand Canal from Aug. 7 through Aug. 11. Vessels will be granted passage under the bridge, but boat traffic could be delayed by inspection activities. Vehicle and pedestrian traffic will not be affected by the work.
Other news:Sarasota man arrested on felony fraud charge related to June Classic Car Museum burglary
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Will Benson Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:37 AM EDT|Updated: 58 minutes ago
The Cincinnati Reds, including Will Benson and his .655 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, battle starting pitcher Emmet Sheehan and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium, Saturday at 9:10 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless performance (0-for-2) against the Dodgers.
Will Benson Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 9:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Emmet Sheehan
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -111)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +150)
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Will Benson At The Plate
- Benson is hitting .278 with seven doubles, four triples, seven home runs and 26 walks.
- In 28 of 55 games this season (50.9%) Benson has had a hit, and in nine of those games he had more than one (16.4%).
- In 12.7% of his games this year, he has gone deep, and 4% of his trips to the plate.
- Benson has had at least one RBI in 21.8% of his games this year (12 of 55), with more than one RBI six times (10.9%). He has also accounted for three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- In 38.2% of his games this season (21 of 55), he has scored, and in four of those games (7.3%) he has scored more than once.
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Will Benson Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Dodgers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers' 4.51 team ERA ranks 21st among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Dodgers surrender the eighth-fewest home runs in baseball (114 total, 1.1 per game).
- Sheehan (3-1) gets the starting nod for the Dodgers in his seventh start of the season. He's put together a 6.75 ERA in 29 1/3 innings pitched, with 22 strikeouts.
- The right-hander's most recent time out was on Sunday against the Texas Rangers, when he tossed 3 2/3 innings, surrendering eight earned runs while giving up eight hits.
- In six games this season, the 23-year-old has a 6.75 ERA and 6.8 strikeouts per nine innings, while giving up a batting average of .243 to opposing batters.
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Germany vs. Colombia: Women’s World Cup Group H Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 30
In the second round of Group H matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Germany (coming off a 6-0 win over Morocco) plays Colombia (off a 2-0 win against South Korea) at 5:30 AM ET on Sunday, July 30.
Germany is -431 to win this group-stage game, Colombia is +1067, and the draw is +504. This match has an over/under of 2.5 goals. The under is currently +104, and the over is -138.
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Germany vs. Colombia Game Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 5:30 AM ET
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Venue: Sydney Football Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Germany Moneyline: -431
- Colombia Moneyline: +1067
Germany vs. Colombia World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams score a combined eight goals per game, 5.5 more than this match's total.
- These two teams allow a combined zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Germany has been listed as a moneyline favorite only one other time so far this tournament, and won.
- Germany has played as a moneyline favorite of -431 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Colombia won the only game it has played as an underdog this tournament.
- Colombia has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +1067 moneyline set for this game.
Germany World Cup Stats
Colombia World Cup Stats
- In one Women's World Cup match for Colombia, Catalina Usme has tallied one goal (10th in Women's World Cup play).
- Linda Caicedo has scored one goal for Colombia in Women's World Cup.
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Germany vs. Colombia Recent Performance
- So far this year, Germany is 3-1-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup participants, with a goal differential of +6. In 2022, it was 6-1-4 in such matches (+11 goal differential).
- Germany took on Morocco in its last match and earned a win by a final score of 6-0. The victorious Germany side took 15 shots, outshooting by 10.
- Popp scored two of her club's goals to lead the team against .
- So far this year, Colombia is 3-2-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup teams, with a goal differential of +1. In 2022, it was 5-2-3 in such matches (0 goal differential).
- Colombia claimed a 2-0 victory versus South Korea on July 24 in its last match. Colombia outshot South Korea 15 to four.
- Caicedo and Usme each registered a goal for Colombia.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Saturday that Sri Lanka is a key partner in a Tokyo-led initiative aimed at building security and economic cooperation around the Indo-Pacific but also at countering an increasingly assertive China.
Sri Lanka, strategically located in the Indian Ocean, is integral to realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific, Hayashi said. He was speaking after a meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart, Ali Sabry, in the capital, Colombo.
The initiative, announced by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in March includes Japan’s assistance to emerging economies, support for maritime security, a provision of coast guard patrol boats and equipment and other infrastructure cooperation.
Last year Sri Lanka, which owed $51 billion in foreign debt, became the first Asia-Pacific country since the late 1990s to default, sparking an economic crisis.
While Japan is Sri Lanka’s largest creditor, about 10% of its debt is held by China, which lent Colombo billions to build sea ports, airports and power plants as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. In March, China agreed to offer Sri Lanka a two-year moratorium on loan repayments.
Hayashi said that he conveyed expectations for further progress in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring process. He welcomed Sri Lanka’s efforts under an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, which includes anti-corruption measures and transparency in the policy-making process.
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Sabry said that he, along with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, invited Japan to resume investment projects already in the pipeline and to consider fresh investments in sectors such as power generation, ports and highways, and dedicated investment zones, as well as in the green and digital economy.
Over many decades, Japan became one of Sri Lanka’s key donors, carrying out key projects under concessionary terms. However, relations between the two countries came under strain after Wickremesinghe’s predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa unilaterally scrapped a Japan-funded light railway project following his election in 2019.
Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has already approved a proposal to restart the railway project.
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ATLANTA (AP) — “Excuse me, are you a city of Atlanta voter? Do you know about ‘Cop City?’”
Clipboards in hand, canvassers Sienna Giraldi and Gabriel Sanchez approached shopper after shopper at a Kroger supermarket lot on a recent evening collecting signatures for a referendum over whether to cancel the city’s lease of a proposed police and firefighter training center that’s become a national rallying cry for environmentalists and anti-police protesters.
Most people kept on walking. Others said they weren’t registered to vote or didn’t live within the city limits, both of which are required. Many seemed to have no idea what “Cop City” was and weren’t interested in finding out. The fact that it began raining certainly didn’t help. By the end of a 90-minute shift, 21 people had signed.
“We definitely need to come back here,” Sanchez said. “I was on a roll before the rain started.”
Over the past month, hundreds of people like them — many volunteers, some paid — have spread out across the city of about 500,000, in hopes of persuading more than 70,000 registered voters to sign on to the petition drive. The deadline had been mid-August, but the effort got a boost Thursday when a federal judge extended it to late September, though significant logistical and legal hurdles remain.
Technically, organizers say, they need just 58,203 signatures by Aug. 14 to qualify for the November ballot — the equivalent of 15% of registered voters as of the last city election — but they set the higher goal knowing some will be disqualified. If that’s not reached until late August or September, the referendum wouldn’t happen until March, when a competitive GOP presidential primary could turn out conservative voters and hurt its chances. The city also could move forward with construction in the meantime, unless a judge intervenes.
As of July 25, the drive had collected more than 30,000 signatures, according to Paul Glaze, a spokesperson for the Vote to Stop Cop City Coalition. And with the paid canvassing effort still ramping up, he expects the pace to pick up significantly.
“We’re confident of hitting our number,” Glaze said. “How much extra padding we’re able to get is still a question. … Our experience is that when you talk about this with people, when they hear the price tag, when you ask them if they would choose this or something else to spend the money on, the vast majority are against it.”
Organizers of the drive say Mayor Andre Dickens and the City Council have failed to listen to a groundswell of opposition to the $90 million, 85-acre (34-hectare) training center, which they fear will lead to greater militarization of the police and exacerbate environmental damage in the South River Forest in a poor, predominantly Black area.
Officials counter that the campus would replace outdated, far-flung facilities and boost police morale, which is beset by hiring and retention struggles, especially in the wake of 2020 protests over racial injustice. Dickens has said that the facility will teach the “most progressive training and curriculum in the country” and that officials have repeatedly revised their plans to address concerns about noise pollution and environmental impact.
In June, after hearing about 14 hours of public testimony that was overwhelmingly against the training center, council members voted 11-4 to approve $67 million toward the project. Outraged but not surprised, organizers of the petition drive announced it the next day.
Outside the Kroger, located in a majority-Black neighborhood a few miles south of a Wendy’s parking lot where officers fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in 2020, Giraldi chatted with Lee Little, a Black construction worker who stopped to talk despite the rain, his hands full of bagged groceries.
Little was working near the proposed training center in March and saw the helicopters and mass of armed officers that descended on the area after about 150 masked activists stormed the site and torched construction equipment. He hadn’t thought about it much since, but he signed the petition after hearing Giraldi’s pitch.
“She was just saying that City Council approved 60-something million dollars without listening to the taxpayers. Does that sound fair to you? That should be for the voters to decide,” Little said afterward.
Another who signed was Makela Atchison, who was wearing a “Black Voters Matter” T-shirt as she left the store with her two children.
“I’m not saying I’m for it or against it,” Atchison said, “but I want to be able to have my input.”
The signature drive is the most ambitious in terms of numbers that has ever been launched in a Georgia city, but it has precedent from last year in Camden County, where voters overwhelmingly rejected a planned launchpad for blasting commercial rockets into space. The Georgia Supreme Court in February unanimously upheld the legality of that referendum, though it remains an open question whether citizens can veto decisions of city governments.
In a recent court filing seeking to quash the Atlanta referendum, attorneys for the city said residents can’t force officials to retroactively revoke the lease agreement, which was made in 2021. They called organizers’ efforts “futile” and “invalid.” The state agreed with the city in a separate filing, though that dispute is on hold for now.
Still, activists see the referendum as the best remaining option to block the project. They’ve gotten support from numerous groups, including the Working Families Party and the New Georgia Project Action Fund, which pledged to get 15,000 signatures over the next few weeks.
Activist Hannah Riley tries to collect a handful of them whenever she is out in public, including on a recent afternoon as she worked remotely from Muchacho, a popular taco restaurant in the ultra-liberal Reynoldstown neighborhood. At the end of her table, she taped a sign that read: “Voter? Sign Stop Cop City Petition Here.”
“This is a bit of a Hail Mary, but it’s a Hail Mary that makes a lot of sense,” Riley said. “They’ve begun to clear-cut the trees. They’re getting close to pouring concrete. … Our options are quite limited right now, so this does feel like the most practical, effective next step.”
At the same time, a small number of activists have continued taking a more violent tack, including torching eight police motorcycles over the Fourth of July weekend, actions that canvass organizers have not condemned.
Curtis Duncan, 40, said the first day he went out canvassing, a man approached and accused him of being one of the vandals.
“I said, ‘Well, sir, respectfully, I wasn’t burning cars, and the majority of people within this movement have not been engaging in any type of violent actions,’” Duncan said. He added that troopers fatally shot an activist in the forest and that authorities have brought dozens of “very flimsy” domestic terrorism charges against “Stop Cop City” protesters this year — actions he considers far worse.
Sanchez, who works for a voting rights nonprofit, said that even if the signature drive falls short, it will have made an important impact.
“I feel like we’ve exhausted all the other options, aside from full-on revolution, which I don’t think we need for this,” he said. “There’s a lot of obstacles in our way. … If we only get to 50,000, I think that still shows a real warning sign for these politicians for the 2025 election.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-atlanta-cop-city-activists-say-theyre-confident-of-getting-70k-signatures-but-big-hurdles-remain/ | 2023-07-29T15:35:59 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-atlanta-cop-city-activists-say-theyre-confident-of-getting-70k-signatures-but-big-hurdles-remain/ |
Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America.
Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies.
In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
“People are yearning for something greater than themselves — beyond their own understanding,” said Jack Grogger, a chaplain for the Los Angeles Angels and a longtime Southern California fire captain who has aided many people in their gravest moments.
That search for something bigger, he said, can take on many forms, from following a religion to crafting a self-driven purpose to believing in, of course, angels.
“For a lot of people, angels are a lot safer to worship,” said Grogger, who also pastors a nondenominational church in Orange, California, and is a chaplain for the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks.
People turn to angels for comfort, he said. They are familiar, regularly showing up in pop culture as well as in the Bible. Comparably, worshipping Jesus is far more involved; when Grogger preaches about angels it is with the context that they are part of God’s kingdom.
American’s belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79%). Fewer U.S. adults believe in the devil or Satan (56%), astrology (34%), reincarnation (34%), and that physical things can have spiritual energies, such as plants, rivers or crystals (42%).
The widespread acceptance of angels shown in the AP-NORC poll makes sense to Susan Garrett, an angel expert and New Testament professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky. It tracks with historical surveys, she said, adding that the U.S. remains a faith-filled country even as more Americans reject organized religion.
But if the devil is in the details, so are people’s understandings of angels.
“They’re very malleable,” Garrett said of angels. “You can have any one of a number of quite different worldviews in terms of your understanding of how the cosmos is arranged, whether there’s spirit beings, whether there’s life after death, whether there’s a God … and still find a place for angels in that worldview.”
Talk of angels, Garrett said, is often also about something else, like the ways God interacts with the world and other hard-to-articulate ideas.
The large number of U.S. adults who say they believe in angels includes 84% of those with a religious affiliation — 94% of evangelical Protestants, 81% of mainline Protestants and 82% of Catholics — and 33% of those without one. And of those angel-believing religiously unaffiliated, that includes 2% of atheists, 25% of agnostics and 50% of those identified as “nothing in particular.”
The broad acceptance is what fascinates San Francisco-based witch and author Devin Hunter: Angels show up independently in different religions and traditions, making them part of the fabric that unites humanity.
“We’re all getting to the same conclusion,” said Hunter, who spent 16 years as a professional medium, and started communicating as a child with what he believed were angels.
Hunter estimates that a belief in angels applies to about half of those practicing modern witchcraft today, and for some who don’t believe, their rejection is often rooted in the religious trauma they experienced growing up.
“Angels become a very big deal” for long-time practitioners who’ve made occultism their primary focus, said Hunter, an angel-loving occultist. “We cannot escape them in any way, shape or form.”
Jennifer Goodwin of Oviedo, Florida, also is among the roughly seven in 10 U.S. adults who say they believe in angels. She isn’t sure if God exists and rejects the afterlife dichotomy of heaven and hell, but the recent deaths of her parents solidified her views on these celestial beings.
Goodwin believes her parents are still keeping an eye on the family — not in any physical way or as a supernatural apparition, but that they manifest in those moments when she feels a general sense of comfort.
“I think that they are around us, but it’s in a way that we can’t understand,” Goodwin said. “I don’t know what else to call it except an angel.”
Angels mean different things to different people, and the idea of loved ones becoming heavenly angels after death is neither an unusual belief nor a universally held one.
In his reading of Scripture as an evangelical Protestant, Grogger said he believes angels are something else entirely — they have never been human and are on another level in heaven’s hierarchy. “We are higher than angels,” he said. “We do not become an angel.”
Angels do interact with humans though, said Grogger, but what “that looks like we’re not 100% sure.” They worship God who created this angelic legion of unknown numbers, he said, adding that evangelicals often attribute the demonic forces in the world to the angels who fell from heaven when the devil rebelled.
The Western ideas about angels can be traced through the Bible — and to the worldviews of its monotheistic authors, Garrett said. Those beliefs have changed and developed for millennia, influenced by cultures, theologians and even the ancient polytheistic beliefs that came before the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, she said.
“There are sort of lines of continuity from the Bible that you can trace all the way up to the New Age movement,” said Susan Garrett, who wrote “No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus.”
The angels in the Bible do God’s bidding, and angelic violence is one part of their job description, said Esther Hamori, author of the upcoming book, “God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible.”
“The angels of the Bible are just as likely to assassinate individuals and slaughter entire populations as they are to offer help and protect and deliver,” said Hamori. She doesn’t believe in these angels, but studies them as a Hebrew Bible professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York where she teaches a popular “Monster Heaven” class.
“They’re just God’s obedient soldiers doing the task at hand, and sometimes that task is in human beings’ best interests, and sometimes it’s not,” she said.
The perception that angels act angelic and look like the idyllic, winged figurines atop Christmas trees could be attributed to an early centuries belief that people are assigned one good angel and one bad — or have a good and bad spirit to guide them, Garrett said.
This idea shows up on the shoulders of cartoon characters and is likely what Abraham Lincoln was alluding to in his famous appeal for unity when he referenced “the better angels of our nature” in his first inaugural address, she said.
“It’s also tied in with ideas about guardian angels, which again, very ancient views that got developed over the centuries,” Garrett said.
For Sheila Avery of Chicago, angels are protectors, capable of keeping someone from harm. Avery, who belongs to a nondenominational church, credits them with those moments like when a person’s plans fall through, but ultimately it saves them from being in the thick of an unexpected disaster.
“They turn on the news and a terrible tragedy happened at that particular place,” Avery said, suggesting it was an “angel that was probably watching over them.”
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Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening’s supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this ... hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Right now, there are three active meteor showers. Their peak viewing times are approaching in the next few weeks, and they are, conveniently, all going to be on Saturday and Sunday.
For optimal meteor shower viewing, it’s best to be in an area with little or no light pollution.
Perseids
According to NASA, the Perseid Meteor Shower is the best one happening this year, and viewers can see up to 100 meteors per hour. The shower became visible in the northern hemisphere on July 14 and will be around until Sept. 1.
If you want to see the Perseids at its peak, plan a night of stargazing for Aug. 12 or 13, according to NASA. For best viewing, NASA says to look during the pre-dawn hours, although meteors and fireballs could be visible as early as 10 p.m. The meteors will originate near the Perseid constellation and will be more easily-found constellation Cassiopeia.
The Perseids shower is expected to be very visible this year because the moon will not be as bright. This means the sky will be darker, making meteors more visible.
Delta Aquariids
The Delta Aquariids are not usually as impressive as the Perseids, but without a noticeable peak, you have a longer window for possibly seeing meteors from this shower. According to the American Meteor Society, the shower will be visible primarily in the southern tropics between July 18 and Aug. 21, with an estimated peak around Sunday, July 30. The northern hemisphere is less likely to see the Delta Aquariids than the southern.
July 30 is also a full moon, making 2023 less favorable for seeing the Delta Aquariids. Those who want to look for them should look toward the Delta Aquarii constellation from around 2 a.m. to dawn.
Alpha Capricornids
If you want a double chance to see more fireballs, July 30 might be your night, because in addition to the Delta Aquariids, the Alpha Capricornids are also expected to peak that night in 2023. The Alpha Capricornids are visible from July 7 to Aug. 15 but are considered much weaker than the other showers listed above, with only about five meteors visible per hour, but according to the AMS, the shower can have some pretty impressive fireballs in lower quantities.
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BALTIMORE, Md, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Lupin) is voluntarily recalling two (2) lots of Tydemy (Drospirenone, Ethinyl Estradiol and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 3mg/0.03mg/0.451 mg and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 0.451 mg) to the patient (consumer/user) level due to out of specification (OOS) test results at the 12-month stability time point. Specifically, one lot (L200183) tested low for ascorbic acid (an inactive ingredient) and high for a known impurity.
To date, Lupin has received no reports of adverse events related to either recalled lots. Regardless, Lupin is recalling two lots because if there were a significant reduction in the amount of inactive content (ascorbic acid), this could potentially impact the effectiveness of the product which could potentially result in unexpected pregnancy.
Tydemy is estrogen/progestin oral contraceptive (COC) indicated for use by women to prevent pregnancy and to raise folate levels in women who choose to use an oral contraceptive for contraception. Tydemy is packaged in 28's blister. One such blister was then packed in a pouch along with one printed sleeve, one pack insert (with day label) and one oxygen absorber (Stabilox) sachet. The three pouches were packed in one carton.
The lots were distributed nationwide in the US to wholesalers, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets. The recalled lots are included in the table below:
Lupin is notifying its wholesalers, distributors, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets by phone and through recall notification and is arranging for the return of all the recalled product lots.
Patients taking, Tydemy are advised to continue taking their medication and immediately contact their pharmacist, physician, or medical provider for advice regarding an alternative treatment.
Wholesalers, distributors and retailers that have Tydemy that is being recalled should discontinue distribution of the recalled product lots immediately.
Consumers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers with questions regarding this recall should contact Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc. at (866) 480-8206 Monday – Friday 09:00 am to 05:00 pm EST. For reimbursement, please have the recalled lots returned to Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc.; the lot number can be found on the side of the carton. Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to taking or using this drug product.
Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm
- Regular Mail or Fax: Download form www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178.
This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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About Lupin Pharmaceuticals
Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is the U.S. based wholly-owned subsidiary of Lupin Limited and is the 3rd largest pharmaceutical company in the U.S. based on total prescriptions. Together, all Lupin-owned entities combine to make up the 8th largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world by revenue size. Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is dedicated to delivering high-quality medications across many treatment areas. Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s branded pharmaceuticals division, is the provider of products designed to help prevent and manage women's health conditions with serious health consequences.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The United States will expand its military industrial base by helping Australia manufacture guided missiles and rockets for both countries within two years, the allies announced on Saturday as they ramped up defense cooperation to counter China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific.
The new cooperation on guided weapon production follows a trilateral partnership announcement in March that will see Britain provide Australia with a fleet of eight submarines powered by U.S. nuclear technology.
The greater integration of U.S. and Australian militaries was announced after annual talks between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their Australian counterparts, Defense Minister Richard Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
They agreed to cooperate on Australia producing Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems by 2025, a communique said.
U.S. companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin only established an Australian enterprise to build such weapons last year. That followed the drain on Western countries’ munitions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Austin said the move on missiles would strengthen the two allies’ defense industrial base and technological edge.
“We’re racing to accelerate Australia’s priority access to munitions through a streamlined acquisition process,” Austin told reporters in Brisbane, Australia.
Marles welcomed U.S. support to achieve Australian missile production within two years.
“We are really pleased with the steps that we are taking in respect of establishing a guided weapons and explosive ordnance enterprise in this country,” Marles said.
The two governments also agreed to upgrade joint military facilities in Australia and to increase U.S. nuclear submarine visits as the United States increases its focus on the South Pacific.
The region came to the forefront of the U.S. competition with China for influence last year, when Beijing signed a security pact with Solomon Islands and raised the prospect of a Chinese naval base being established there.
Austin became the first U.S. defense secretary to visit Papua New Guinea and Blinken visited New Zealand and Tonga before they arrived in Australia.
Saturday’s meeting was overshadowed by the loss of an Australian Army helicopter with four air crew late Friday, during military exercises with the U.S. off the northeastern coast of Australia.
U.S., Australian and Canadian militaries are taking part in the search for potential survivors near Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland state coast.
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Bryan De La Cruz Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Saturday, Bryan De La Cruz (.625 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including four home runs) and the Miami Marlins face the Detroit Tigers, whose starting pitcher will be Beau Brieske. First pitch is at 4:10 PM ET.
He racked up two extra-base hits in his previous appearance (2-for-4 with a double, a home run and three RBI) against the Tigers.
Bryan De La Cruz Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +185)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +155)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +110)
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Bryan De La Cruz At The Plate
- De La Cruz is batting .273 with 22 doubles, 14 home runs and 27 walks.
- He ranks 40th in batting average, 97th in on base percentage, and 63rd in slugging among the qualified hitters in MLB.
- De La Cruz has gotten a hit in 64 of 98 games this season (65.3%), with at least two hits on 26 occasions (26.5%).
- He has gone deep in 14.3% of his games in 2023, and 3.4% of his trips to the plate.
- In 36.7% of his games this year, De La Cruz has notched at least one RBI. In 16 of those games (16.3%) he recorded more than one RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in five contests.
- In 35.7% of his games this year (35 of 98), he has scored, and in eight of those games (8.2%) he has scored more than once.
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Bryan De La Cruz Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The Tigers pitching staff is 21st in the league with a collective 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Tigers have the 22nd-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (4.53).
- The Tigers rank 18th in baseball in home runs allowed (125 total, 1.2 per game).
- Brieske will make his first start of the season for the Tigers.
- The 25-year-old right-hander pitched in relief in his most recent outing this season, one of five appearances so far.
- Over his five games this season, opposing hitters have compiled a batting average of .261 against him. He has a 4.76 ERA and averages 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pamela Smith’s voice soared and quivered like a preacher in midsermon as she recalled her troubled childhood and how it helped prepare her for the challenges she faces as the new police chief in the nation’s capital.
“I stand before you as a child who had no hopes, who had no dreams — they were far beyond my reach. But I believe that all things are possible,” she said at her introductory news conference in Washington, in cadences honed by years as an ordained Baptist minister. “I believe I bring a fresh perspective, a different kind of energy, a different level of passion to what I’m going to do.”
Smith takes on the job at a precarious time.
Violent crime is rising sharply, fueled by more homicides and carjackings. The District of Columbia’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, and the D.C. Council have, at times, been at odds about crime legislation. On Capitol Hill, the Republican-led House has begun citing the city’s crime statistics while aggressively reviewing local public safety laws.
On July 24, the Mexican Consulate posted a tweet urging its nationals to “take precautions” in the city due to “a significant increase in crime in areas previously considered safe.”
Smith, 55, now becomes one of the public faces of this long-term fight even before the Council votes on her nomination as chief. She brings an inspirational story to her new role leading the Metropolitan Police Department. Raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, by a single mother who battled substance abuse, Smith and her siblings were at one point removed from their home and spent time in foster care. Smith emerged as a track star and went on to a 24-year career in the U.S. Park Police, where she served as the agency’s first Black female chief before retiring in 2022 to take up a senior leadership position at the MPD.
Law enforcement and government officials repeatedly point out that overall crime numbers in Washington have stayed relatively stable. But the crimes that have increased the most — murders and carjackings — are the ones most likely to damage public confidence.
“The scariest crimes are going up and regardless of what’s happening with other crimes, that’s what’s going to fuel the overall perception,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves told The Associated Press.
Graves’ office prosecutes most felonies in Washington, in a unique arrangement due to the district’s status as a nonstate. The city’s attorney general’s office prosecutes misdemeanors and juvenile crime, which is also on the rise.
This intricate dynamic among two separate sets of prosecutors, the city’s police force, Bowser’s administration and the Council has been publicly tested as the crime numbers have stayed high — all with Congress taking an increasing interest in the district’s affairs. Public safety was a primary topic of debate last year when Bowser, 50, successfully ran for a third term in office. She has spent this term sparring with both the Council and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee over how best to address crime.
July has been a particular bloody month, with 22 homicides as of Friday, including murders on the campuses of both Howard and Catholic universities. The victims include an Afghan man who survived years of working as a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan only to be murdered in America while driving for Lyft. Nine people, including two children, were shot at a July Fourth party, when an assailant in an SUV opened fire on the crowd. A 12-year old girl remains hospitalized after being shot in the back Tuesday night by a bullet that penetrated the walls of her home.
Although the local murder rate is well below the levels in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Washington regularly led the nation in murders per capita, it has climbed steadily in recent years. In 2022, there was a roughly 10% drop in homicides, but now, homicides are up 15 percent compared with this time a year ago and the city is on pace to surpass 200 for the third year in a row. Police also reported 140 carjacking incidents in the month of June — the highest monthly total in more than five years.
Crime in Washington is now a national headline issue in Congress. In the spring, Bowser and Council members were summoned before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee for a heated session on local crime rates.
Congress voted to completely overturn the Council’s comprehensive rewrite of the district’s criminal code. Bowser was caught in the middle of the dispute. She had vetoed the overhaul, saying the reduction of maximum penalties for certain violent crimes “sent the wrong message,” but was overridden by the Council.
The mayor opposes congressional intervention in local affairs as part of Washington’s long push for statehood, but her initial veto was frequently cited by Republican lawmakers as proof that the rewrite was soft on crime. In an embarrassment for the heavily Democratic city, the move to cancel the criminal code revision drew support from dozens of congressional Democratic and was signed into law by President Joe Biden.
Earlier this month, the Council, with Bowser’s support, passed emergency public safety legislation meant to serve as a temporary fix. The bill makes it a felony to fire a gun in public and makes it easier for judges, in cases where people are charged with a violent crime, to detain them before trial. As an emergency bill, the changes will only last 90 days and will not be subject to congressional review; plans to make the changes permanent in the fall will face scrutiny by lawmakers.
“It is no secret … to the public that we are in a state of emergency right now,” said Brooke Pinto, the D.C. Council member who was the bill’s architect. “Like in any emergency, we have to act like it and we have to act urgently to address the problem we’re seeing.”
But some pushing for a criminal justice overhaul said city lawmakers were reverting to mass incarceration policies that had long ago been discredited.
“We’re way beyond thinking that we can just incarcerate more people,” said Patrice Sulton, executive director of the D.C. Justice Lab, who helped draft the now-canceled criminal code revision. “I think everybody who voted for it knows that it will not have an impact.”
The local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement on Twitter that the new bill “essentially flips due process on its head — treating people as guilty and detaining them.”
All sides point to one primary factor fueling the violence: a flood to firearms entering Washington.
Graves, the district’s federal prosecutor, said the number of guns being used in crimes has skyrocketed, turning petty disputes into deadly battles. This includes a new wave of “ghost guns” — firearms that can be ordered in kits and assembled at home. Other kits can easily turn a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic, enabling a rapid-fire and generally less accurate spray of dozens of bullets. In 2018, authorities recovered three such guns; in 2022, the number was 461.
Graves compared the illegal guns to “a virus” in the neighborhood.
“The more virus there is in the community, the more people are going to get sick,” he said. “The more illegal firearms are in the community, the more likelihood those illegal firearms are going to be used.” | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-violent-crime-is-rising-in-the-nations-capital-dc-seeks-solutions-as-congress-keeps-close-watch/ | 2023-07-29T15:36:24 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-violent-crime-is-rising-in-the-nations-capital-dc-seeks-solutions-as-congress-keeps-close-watch/ |
Jacob Stallings Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:27 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Miami Marlins, including Jacob Stallings and his .393 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including two extra-base hits but no home run), battle starting pitcher Beau Brieske and the Detroit Tigers at LoanDepot park, Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
He had two hits (going 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI) in his last appearance against the Rays.
Jacob Stallings Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -143)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +900)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +225)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +180)
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Jacob Stallings At The Plate
- Stallings has seven doubles, a home run and 15 walks while hitting .201.
- Stallings has reached base via a hit in 24 games this season (of 50 played), and had multiple hits in four of those games.
- He has hit a home run in one of 50 games, and in 0.6% of his plate appearances.
- Stallings has driven in a run in nine games this season (18.0%), including two games with multiple runs batted in.
- In 12 of 50 games this year, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Jacob Stallings Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Tigers pitching staff ranks 21st in MLB.
- The Tigers' 4.53 team ERA ranks 22nd among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Tigers pitchers combine to give up 125 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 18th in baseball).
- Brieske starts for the first time this season for the Tigers.
- The 25-year-old right-hander came out of the bullpen in his last outing this season, one of five appearances so far.
- In five games this season, he has put up a 4.76 ERA and averages 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings while opposing batters are hitting .261 against him.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Four air crew members were missing after an Australian army helicopter ditched into waters off the Queensland state coast during joint military exercises with the United States, officials said Saturday.
The MRH-90 Taipan helicopter went down near Lindeman Island, a Great Barrier Reef tourist resort, at about 11 p.m. Friday, exercise director Australian Army Brigadier Damian Hill said.
A search involving U.S., Canadian and Australian personnel was underway to find the crew who are all Australian men, officials said.
Debris that appeared to be from a helicopter had been recovered, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Douglas McDonald said.
The Taipan was taking part in Talisman Sabre, a biennial joint U.S.-Australian military exercise that is largely based in Queensland. This year’s exercise involves 13 nations and more than 30,000 military personnel.
Defense Minister Richard Marles said the helicopter ditched, which refers to an emergency landing on water.
“Defense exercises, which are so necessary for the readiness of our defense force, are serious. They carry risk,” Marles told reporters in Brisbane. “As we desperately hope for better news during the course of this day we are reminded about the gravity of the act which comes with wearing our nation’s uniform.”
Hill said the exercise was postponed on Saturday morning but had restarted limited activity later in the day. Australia had grounded its Taipan fleet as a precaution, Hill said.
It was the second emergency involving an Australian Taipan this year, after one ditched into the sea off the New South Wales state coast in March. That helicopter was taking part in a nighttime counterterrorism training exercise when it ran into trouble. All 10 passengers and crew members were rescued.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in Brisbane for a meeting on Saturday and is due to travel with Marles to north Queensland on Sunday to see the exercise.
Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid tribute to the missing air crew at the outset of a meeting with their Australian counterparts, Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
“It’s always tough when you have accidents in training, but … the reason that we train to such high standards is so that we can be successful and we can protect lives when we are called to answer any kind of crisis,” Austin said.
“Our guys tend to make this look easy and they make it look easy because they’re so well exercised and rehearsed and trained, and this is unfortunately a part of that, what it takes to get them to where we need them to be,” Austin added.
Blinken said, “We’re so grateful to them for their dedication, for their service, for everything they’ve been doing to stand up for the freedom that we share and that is what unites us more than anything else.”
Marles thanked the United States for their contribution to the search and rescue effort.
The missing helicopter had just dropped off two Australian commandos before it hit the water, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Australia announced in January that its army and navy would stop flying the European-built Taipans by December 2024, 13 years earlier than originally planned, because they had proven unreliable. They will be replaced by 40 U.S. Black Hawks. Marles said at the time the Lockheed Martin-designed Black Hawks “have a really good proven track record in terms of their reliability.”
Australia’s Taipans had been plagued by problems since the first helicopter arrived in the country in 2007.
Australia’s entire fleet of 47 Taipans was grounded in 2019 to fix a problem with their tail rotor blades. A year later, 27 Taipans were grounded because of a problem with doors.
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Jean Segura Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:27 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Jean Segura -- 1-for-4 with an RBI in his most recent game -- will be in action for the Miami Marlins versus the Detroit Tigers, with Beau Brieske on the hill, on July 29 at 4:10 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his most recent game (1-for-4) against the Tigers.
Jean Segura Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +950)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +145)
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Jean Segura At The Plate
- Segura is batting .218 with five doubles, two triples, two home runs and 22 walks.
- In 54.3% of his games this year (44 of 81), Segura has picked up at least one hit, and in 18 of those games (22.2%) he recorded multiple hits.
- In 81 games played this season, he has gone deep in just two of them.
- In 19.8% of his games this year, Segura has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 4.9%.
- He has scored in 23 of 81 games so far this season.
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Jean Segura Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The Tigers pitching staff ranks 21st in MLB with a collective 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Tigers have the 22nd-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.53).
- The Tigers rank 18th in baseball in home runs given up (125 total, 1.2 per game).
- Brieske will make his first start of the season for the Tigers.
- The 25-year-old right-hander has five appearances in relief this season.
- He has a 4.76 ERA and 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings while opponents are batting .261 against him over his five appearances this season.
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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government just as the coup leaders met with senior civil servants to discuss how they would run the country and as the U.S. and the European Union threatened sanctions against the regime.
Brig. Gen. Mohamed Toumba, one of the soldiers who ousted President Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday, told state television that the junta met with civil servants on Friday and asked them to continue their work as usual following the suspension of the constitution. “The message given was not to stop the processes underway, to keep on with things,” said Brig. Gen. Toumba.
“Everything that must be done will be done,” he said, signaling the intention of the regime led by Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who also goes by Omar, to remain in power.
After its meeting on Friday, the African Union Peace and Security Council said it was concerned by the “alarming resurgence” of coups that undermine democracy and stability on the continent. It asked the soldiers to “return immediately and unconditionally to their barracks and restore constitutional authority, within a maximum of fifteen (15) days.”
Bazoum, whose condition and that of his officials remains unknown since the government was overthrown, should also be released immediately and unconditionally, the AU said. Failure to do so would compel the bloc to take “necessary action, including punitive measures against the perpetrators.”
On the streets of the Nigerien capital Niamey on Saturday, things appeared to be returning to normal, though many in the international community were still on lockdown with hotels full of foreigners, many given instructions not to leave.
Locals say they’re waiting to see what unfolds, with many still in support of Bazoum who has not yet resigned. “I’m with him, he does a good work. (But) what can we do?” said Mohamed Cisse, a street seller. “This is (the new leader’s) time, Bazoum’s time is over,” he said.
Tchiani, the junta leader and commander of Niger’s presidential guard, is close to former Nigerien president Mahamadou Issoufou, who stepped down in 2021 after a decade in office. Tchiani’s takeover of power will reinforce speculation that Issoufou is behind the coup, said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German think tank and consultancy.
The U.S. threatened to halt its economic support to Niger while the European Union announced the immediate indefinite suspension of budgetary support and security assistance.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is in Australia as part of a Pacific tour, estimated America’s economic and security partnership with Niger at hundreds of millions of dollars and said its continuity depends on “the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order.”
“So that assistance, that support, is in clear jeopardy as a result of these actions, which is another reason why they need to be immediately reversed,” Blinken said.
While there are no signs of the junta backing down amid growing international pressure, analysts called for synergy in the interventions of the international community and continental organizations such as the AU and the regional bloc of ECOWAS, which is scheduled to meet over the coup on Sunday.
A successful coup in Niger and the sanctions in the aftermath could cause more hardship for millions of poor and hungry people in West Africa and could further threaten international relations with the region, which is seeing a resurgence of coups in recent years, according to Idayat Hassan, senior Africa program fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“A non-reversal of the coup also means that we are defining a new world order in West Africa in particular as you are pitching the west and other countries against few military regimes which may be backed by Russia,” said Hassan.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews were preparing Saturday to tow a car-carrying cargo ship that has been burning for days to an anchor point in the North Sea after flames and smoke on board subsided, the Dutch government said.
Fire erupted in the Fremantle Highway late Tuesday night near a chain of islands in the northern Netherlands and has been blazing ever since. The ship is carrying 3,783 new vehicles, including 498 electric vehicles, the company that chartered the vessel said.
One crew member died and others were injured after the fire broke out on the ship that was heading from Bremerhaven in Germany to Singapore. The crew was evacuated in the early hours of Wednesday. The cause of the fire has not been established.
Measurements Friday showed that heat, flames and smoke had subsided enough for salvage experts to board the ship for the first time and establish a strong towing connection with a tugboat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said.
It will be towed, likely over the weekend, to a new position 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the island of Schiermonnikoog , the ministry said in a statement. The timing of the operation that is expected to take 12-14 hours depends on smoke development and weather, the ministry added. The aim is ultimately “once conditions on board allow,” to tow the ship to a port, though the destination has not yet been decided.
The ministry said the ship is stable and intact below the waterline.
The burning vessel is close to the shallow Wadden Sea, a World Heritage-listed area that is considered one of the world’s most significant habitats for migratory birds. It’s also near the Netherlands’ border with Germany, whose environment minister, Steffi Lemke, has warned of “an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions,” if the ship were to sink. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ | 2023-07-29T15:36:44 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-burning-cargo-ship-off-dutch-coast-will-be-towed-to-a-new-location-after-flames-and-smoke-subsided/ |
Joey Wendle Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:26 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Saturday, Joey Wendle (batting .148 in his past 10 games) and the Miami Marlins face the Detroit Tigers, whose starting pitcher will be Beau Brieske. First pitch is at 4:10 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-3 with an RBI) against the Tigers.
Joey Wendle Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1050)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +160)
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Joey Wendle At The Plate
- Wendle has 13 doubles, two triples, a home run and 10 walks while batting .258.
- In 60.3% of his 63 games this season, Wendle has picked up at least one hit. He's also had 10 multi-hit games.
- He has hit a home run in just one game this year.
- In 11 games this year, Wendle has picked up an RBI, with more than one RBI once.
- He has scored in 20 games this year (31.7%), including four multi-run games (6.3%).
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Joey Wendle Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Tigers pitching staff ranks 21st in MLB.
- The Tigers have the 22nd-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.53).
- Tigers pitchers combine to give up 125 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 18th in baseball).
- Brieske will take the mound to start for the Tigers, his first of the season.
- The 25-year-old right-hander has appeared out of the bullpen five times this season.
- Opposing hitters have compiled a batting average of .261 against him this season. He has a 4.76 ERA and 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings over his five games.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah said Saturday that if governments of Muslim-majority nations do not act against countries that allow the desecration of the Quran, Muslims should “punish” those who facilitate attacks on Islam’s holy book.
The comments by Hassan Nasrallah came in a video address to tens of thousands gathered in Beirut’s southern suburbs to mark Ashoura, a Shiite holy day commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein.
Nasrallah often uses religious occasions to send political messages to followers, and on Saturday slammed recent incidents in which the Quran was burned or otherwise desecrated at authorized demonstrations in Sweden and Denmark.
He said Muslims should watch for the outcome of an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, scheduled to take place in Baghdad on Monday to discuss the organization’s response to the Quran burnings.
The organization and its member states should “send a firm, decisive and unequivocal message to these governments that any repeat of the attacks will be met with a boycott,” Nasrallah said. If they do not, he said, Muslim youth should “punish the desecrators.”
He did not elaborate what such a boycott and punishment should entail.
Members of the crowd, who carried banners with religious slogans alongside the flags of Hezbollah, Lebanon and Palestine, chanted, “Oh, Quran, we are at your service; Oh, Hussein, we are at your service.”
Shiites represent over 10% of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims and view Hussein as the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein’s death in battle at the hands of Sunnis at Karbala, south of Baghdad, ingrained a deep rift in Islam and continues to this day to play a key role in shaping Shiite identity.
Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world on Friday commemorated Ashoura, while Saturday marked the culmination of the observances in countries such as Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered in the Iraqi city of Karbala, where Hussein is entombed in a gold-domed shrine. In the streets of the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, mourners gathered to watch reenactments of the Battle of Karbala and Hussein’s death.
In the streets, young men clad in black and white slashed their heads with swords and knives to demonstrate their grief. Friends swabbed each other’s heads with tissues and handed each other water.
In Syria’s capital, Damascus, the crowds were mourning not only the death of Hussein but a deadly attack in the suburb of Sayida Zeinab, home to a shrine to Zeinab, the daughter of the first Shiite imam, Ali, and granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad.
A bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded there on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more. On Tuesday, another bomb in a motorcycle had wounded two people.
On Friday, the Islamic State group — a Sunni militant group that often targets Shiites — claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying Thursday’s bombing came “during their annual polytheistic rituals.” The group’s extreme interpretation of Islam holds Shiite Muslims to be apostates.
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Jon Berti Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:28 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Saturday, Jon Berti (batting .536 in his past 10 games) and the Miami Marlins play the Detroit Tigers, whose starting pitcher will be Beau Brieske. First pitch is at 4:10 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he racked up two hits (going 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI) against the Tigers.
Jon Berti Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +950)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +220)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Jon Berti At The Plate
- Berti is hitting .300 with 12 doubles, two triples, two home runs and 17 walks.
- Berti enters this game on a nine-game hitting streak. During his last outings, he's hitting .438.
- Berti has had a hit in 52 of 79 games this season (65.8%), including multiple hits 20 times (25.3%).
- In 79 games played this season, he has gone deep in only two of them.
- Berti has an RBI in 16 of 79 games this season, with multiple RBI in four of them.
- He has scored in 27 games this season (34.2%), including seven multi-run games (8.9%).
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Jon Berti Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The Tigers pitching staff ranks 21st in the league with a collective 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Tigers have the 22nd-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.53).
- Tigers pitchers combine to allow 125 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 18th in the league).
- Brieske will start for the Tigers, his first of the season.
- The 25-year-old right-hander has five appearances in relief this season.
- Opposing hitters have a collective batting average of .261 against him this season. He has a 4.76 ERA and 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings over his five appearances.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) —
A 9-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother have been called as witnesses in a criminal case against their mother after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army.
Lidia Prudovskaya and her two children were summoned by investigators in the northern Russian region of Arkhangelsk on Friday to give testimony in the case, Russian news outlet Sota reported.
Prudovskaya previously faced administrative charges on similar allegations after sharing anti-war posts on Russian social media platform VKontakte in September 2022.
Discrediting the Russian military is a criminal offense under a law adopted after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. The law is regularly used against Kremlin critics.
In April, Russian authorities petitioned to restrict the parental rights of a single father convicted of discrediting the army following an anti-war sketch drawn by his daughter at school.
Alexei Moskalyov, 54, was sentenced to two years in prison for social media comments he had made criticizing Moscow’s war in Ukraine, while his daughter Maria was placed in an orphanage.
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Jorge Soler Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Miami Marlins, including Jorge Soler (.171 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including no homers), battle starter Beau Brieske and the Detroit Tigers at LoanDepot park, Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he went 1-for-4 against the Tigers.
Jorge Soler Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +350)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Jorge Soler At The Plate
- Soler leads Miami with 88 hits, batting .240 this season with 43 extra-base hits.
- Among the qualifying hitters in MLB play, he ranks 111th in batting average, 67th in on-base percentage, and 30th in slugging.
- In 61 of 100 games this season (61.0%) Soler has had a hit, and in 18 of those games he had more than one (18.0%).
- He has gone deep in 21.0% of his games this season, and 5.7% of his chances at the plate.
- In 32 games this season (32.0%), Soler has picked up an RBI, and in 14 of those games (14.0%) he had two or more. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in five contests.
- He has scored in 43 games this season, with multiple runs 11 times.
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Jorge Soler Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Tigers has a collective 8.4 K/9, which ranks 21st in the league.
- The Tigers have a 4.53 team ERA that ranks 22nd across all league pitching staffs.
- Tigers pitchers combine to give up 125 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 18th in baseball).
- Brieske will start for the Tigers, his first this season.
- The 25-year-old righty pitched in relief in his most recent outing this season, one of five appearances so far.
- In five appearances this season, he has put up a 4.76 ERA and averages 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings while opposing batters are hitting .261 against him.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police arrested the president’s son Saturday as part of a high-profile money laundering probe into funds he allegedly collected from convicted drug traffickers during last year’s presidential campaign.
President Gustavo Petro, a former rebel who rose through Colombia’s political ranks as an anti-corruption crusader, said he wouldn’t interfere with the investigation.
“As an individual and father, it pains me to see so much self destruction and one of my sons going to jail,” Petro said in an early morning message on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “As president of the republic, I’ve assured the chief prosecutor’s office that it will have all of the guarantees so it can proceed according to the law.”
The arrest of Nicolas Petro is a major blow to the government, which has been buffeted by conservative attacks from day one at the same time it has struggled to maintain bipartisan support for Colombia in the U.S., a longtime ally in the war on drugs and fight against illegal armed groups.
The investigation stems from shocking declarations made by Nicolas Petro’s ex-wife, Daysuris del Carmen Vasquez, to local media outlet Semana earlier this year.
In the extended interview, Vasquez detailed how she was present at meetings when her husband arranged a donation of more than 600 million pesos (around $150,000) from a politician once convicted in Washington of drug trafficking and who was seeking the Petro campaign’s support to resume his political career.
She said President Petro was unaware of her son’s dealings and the money he collected in his campaign’s name was kept inside a safe inside the couple’s home in the coastal city of Barranquilla.
Nicolas Petro has denied his ex wife’s claims as unfounded.
The chief prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Nicolas Petro and his ex-wife were taken into custody on orders of a court in Bogota around 6 a.m. local time Saturday. It said that once brought before a judge, prosecutors would seek their provisional detention as it investigates the two for money laundering. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-son-of-colombias-president-arrested-as-part-of-money-laundering-probe/ | 2023-07-29T15:37:03 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-son-of-colombias-president-arrested-as-part-of-money-laundering-probe/ |
Thanasis Antetokounmpo had options, including playing for the Knicks.
Instead, for the fifth straight season, he will be back by his brother’s side with the Milwaukee Bucks, signing a one-year, minimum contract deal, something the team announced.
Welcome back, Thanasty! 💚 pic.twitter.com/cqpbxcPI2T
— Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) July 28, 2023
Thanasis, a deep bench forward, got into 37 games for the Bucks last season and has played 162 games in the previous four years with the team (starting 11).
Of course, part of signing Thanasis is keeping his brother Giannis Antetokounmpo happy, which is a good use of a deep roster spot. Giannis is up for an extension this fall but nobody expects him to sign it — partly because it keeps pressure on the organization to ensure they have a contender around the former MVP and that he is happy. The Bucks have a contender, which is why they re-signed Brook Lopez and Khris Middleton this summer. Next July, Giannis Antetokounmpo can sign a five-year, $334 million contract to stay with the Bucks (it would be the largest contract in NBA history). The Bucks need him in the right frame of mind to do that, and bringing back Thanasis can be part of that. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/thanasis-antetokounmpo-signs-with-bucks-rejoins-brother-giannis | 2023-07-29T15:37:03 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/thanasis-antetokounmpo-signs-with-bucks-rejoins-brother-giannis |
Luis Arraez Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:27 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Luis Arraez -- with an on-base percentage of .356 in his past 10 games, 72 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Miami Marlins versus the Detroit Tigers, with Beau Brieske on the mound, on July 29 at 4:10 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he racked up three hits (going 3-for-4 with a double) against the Tigers.
Luis Arraez Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +145)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1000)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +110)
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Luis Arraez At The Plate
- Arraez leads Miami with an OBP of .428, plus a team-best slugging percentage of .478.
- He ranks first in batting average, first in on base percentage, and 33rd in slugging among qualified hitters in MLB.
- Arraez has gotten a hit in 79 of 98 games this season (80.6%), including 41 multi-hit games (41.8%).
- He has gone deep in three games this season (3.1%), homering in 0.7% of his chances at the plate.
- Arraez has driven in a run in 35 games this season (35.7%), including 12 games with more than one RBI (12.2%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 35.7% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had seven games with multiple runs (7.1%).
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Luis Arraez Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The Tigers pitching staff is 21st in MLB with a collective 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Tigers have a 4.53 team ERA that ranks 22nd among all league pitching staffs.
- Tigers pitchers combine to rank 18th in baseball in home runs given up (125 total, 1.2 per game).
- Brieske starts for the first time this season for the Tigers.
- The 25-year-old right-hander has appeared out of the bullpen five times this season.
- He has a 4.76 ERA and 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings while opponents are hitting .261 against him over his five games this season.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday pushed back against Australian demands for an end to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s prosecution, saying the Australian citizen was accused of “very serious criminal conduct” in publishing a trove of classified documents more than a decade ago.
Australia’s center-left Labor Party government has been arguing since winning the elections last year that the United States should end its pursuit of the 52-year-old, who has spent four years in a British prison fighting extradition to the United States.
Assange’s freedom is widely seen as a test of Australia’s leverage with President Joe Biden’s administration.
Blinken confirmed on Saturday that Assange had been discussed in annual talks with Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane, Australia.
“I understand the concerns and views of Australians. I think it’s very important that our friends here understand our concerns about this matter,” Blinken told reporters.
“Mr. Assange was charged with very serious criminal conduct in the United States in connection with his alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of our country,” he added.
Wong said Assange’s prosecution had “dragged for too long” and that Australia wanted the charges “brought to a conclusion.”
Australia remains ambiguous about whether the United States should drop the prosecution or strike a plea bargain.
Assange faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents in 2010.
American prosecutors allege he helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.
Australia argues there is a “disconnect” between the U.S. treatment of Assange and Manning. Then-U.S. President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-us-secretary-of-state-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime/ | 2023-07-29T15:37:09 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-us-secretary-of-state-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime/ |
Things are going to feel a little different in Miami next season.
For the first time in 20 years, Udonis Haslem will not be on the Miami Heat bench. He said before last season started it would be his last, and he has now made it official with a post on social media walking away from the game.
Forever a #HEATLegend ⚓️ pic.twitter.com/zb79Rm4bG4
— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) July 28, 2023
20 years… it’s impossible to put into words what these past 20 years have meant, but y’all know me. I’m damn sure gonna try…
I consider myself extremely blessed to say I can leave this game with no regrets. The championships, the accolades, the brotherhood, man it’s hard not to be at peace. Undrafted to a 3x Champion, All-Rookie 2nd Team, Teammate Of The Year, the oldest player to play in an NBA finals game, Miami Heat’s all-time leading rebounder and longest-tenured player, the list goes on…
Shout out to my Real #OGs, the teammates that let me be their #OG, and to my family for staying ten toes down through it all…🙏🏾 Although this journey has had its ups and downs, I am truly thankful and have no complaints at all… All the way down to leaving money on the table to stay in my city!! You, Miami, made it all worth it!! #three0five4life
I will always be the #OG, but now it’s time for the family man and the businessman to get to work…#realonesshineinthedark
#40, see you in the rafters soon. Until then, #OG out
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Love and numerous other teammates throughout the years congratulated Haslem and thanked him for everything he did for them.
Pat Riley has already said the Heat will retire Udonis Haslem’s #40 in the rafters. Haslem was the embodiment of Heat culture, and Miami will miss having that presence in the locker room and on the bench. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/undonis-haslem-officially-retires-from-nba-after-20-seasons-with-heat | 2023-07-29T15:37:14 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/undonis-haslem-officially-retires-from-nba-after-20-seasons-with-heat |
Marlins vs. Tigers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's game at LoanDepot park has the Miami Marlins (56-48) matching up with the Detroit Tigers (46-58) at 4:10 PM (on July 29). Our computer prediction projects a 6-5 victory for the Marlins, who is a small favorite based on our model.
The Marlins will give the nod to Johnny Cueto (0-1) versus the Tigers and Beau Brieske.
Marlins vs. Tigers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: LoanDepot park in Miami, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
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Marlins vs. Tigers Score Prediction
Our prediction for this contest is Marlins 6, Tigers 5.
Total Prediction for Marlins vs. Tigers
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Marlins Performance Insights
- In six games over the last 10 matchups when favored by sportsbooks, the Marlins have a record of 2-4.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Miami and its opponents have failed to hit the over five times.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Marlins' last 10 games.
- The Marlins have entered the game as favorites 47 times this season and won 31, or 66%, of those games.
- Miami is 21-4 this season when entering a game favored by -155 or more on the moneyline.
- The Marlins have a 60.8% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Miami has scored 428 runs (just 4.1 per game) this season, which ranks 26th in MLB.
- The Marlins have the 13th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.11).
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FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Here’s why Katie Ledecky is one of the greatest freestyle swimmers in the history of the sport. She’s never quite satisfied.
The 26-year-old American won the 800-freestyle on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships to become the first swimmer to win six golds in the same event at the worlds. It was also her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with legendary Michael Phelps for the most golds at the worlds.
She’s also a seven-time Olympic gold medalist and the record holder in both the 800 and 1,500.
But that winning time — 8 minutes, 08.87 seconds, which is the seventh quickest she’d even swum — wasn’t quite good enough in her favorite event.
“I’m just always trying to think of new ways to improve. I mean I’ve already got everything turning in my head right now. I kind of wanted to be better than I was tonight,” she said, twirling her right hand beside her right ear, trying to stir up ideas.
“I’m pretty tough on myself,” she said. “But I think I have found the balance of being tough on myself but also having that grace.”
The 800 was Ledecky’s second individual gold following her win in the 1,500 free on Tuesday. She also took silver in the 400 free. Li Bingjie of China took silver in 8:13.31, and Ariarne Titmus of Australia got the bronze in 8:13.59.
“It’s fun to leave a meet with your favorite event, and I just wanted to leave it all in the pool,” Ledecky said.
It was only the fourth gold for the United States in the seventh of eight days in the pool. Meanwhile, Australia has been piling it on with 13 golds, matching its best in the worlds. Australia also won three more golds on Saturday.
The Americans lead the overall table with 31 medals (16 silver), Australia has 20 and China 13.
Kaylee McKeown of Australia made history of her own with gold in the women’s 200 backstroke. McKeown’s victory gave her a sweep of all three backstroke events after earlier wins in the 50 and 100. She became the first swimmer ever to sweep all three backstrokes at the worlds.
It all made up for disqualification earlier in the meet in the 200 IM.
“You can’t change the rules,” she said. “I got ruled out. It’s just the cards I was dealt with and I couldn’t do much more than that. So I just had to carry myself the best I could and channel all my anger and turn a huge negative into a positive.”
Regan Smith of the United States picked up the silver in 2:04.94, while Peng Xuwei of China got the bronze in 2:06.74.
Sarah Sjoestroem of Sweden continued her dominance with gold in the women’s 50-meter butterfly. The 29-year-old won in 24.77 and has now won the event five consecutive times at the worlds. The win brought Sjoestroem’s individual medals at the worlds to 20, equaling Phelps’ mark.
Sjoestroem also broke her own record in the 50 freestyle, going 23.61 in a semifinal heat. Her old record was 23.67 set in 2017.
“There are not too many secrets,” Sjoestroem said to her longevity. “Just do the work every day, go to practice, and stay humble.”
Zhang Yufei of China, who took gold in the 100 fly, claimed the silver in 25.05, while American Gretchen Walsh got the bronze in 25.46.
Japanese fan favorite Rikako Ikee finished seventh (25.78) in the 50 fly but was greeted warmly by the home crowd.
The 23-year-old Ikee won six gold medals at the 2018 Asian Games and was to be a favorite in the Tokyo Olympics. But she was diagnosed with leukemia in February of 2019. Her comeback continues to resonate with both the Japanese public and her fellow competitors.
Cameron McEvoy of Australia led all the way to capture the gold in the men’s 50 free in 21.06. It was his first individual gold in the worlds or Olympics.
American Jack Alexy collected his second silver of the worlds in 21.57 to go with his silver in the 100 free. Benjamin Proud of Britian, last year’s world champion, took the bronze in 21.58.
Dressell won the event in Tokyo but did not qualify for the American team, taking a little break from the sport. McEvoy’s time was quicker than Dressell’s winning time in Tokyo — 21.07
Maxime Grousset of France won gold in the men’s 100 fly in 50.14. The 24-year-old took the early lead and held on for the victory. Josh Liendo of Canada earned the silver in 50.34, while American Dare Rose made the podium with the bronze (50.46).
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania equaled the world record of 29.30 in her semifinal in the women’s 50 breaststroke.
Australia won the 4×100 mixed freestyle relay in a world record of 3:18.83. The Americans took the silver in 3:20.82, with Britain getting the bronze in 3:21.68. The relay is not an Olympic event.
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How to Watch the Marlins vs. Tigers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
The Detroit Tigers and Riley Greene hit the field in the second game of a three-game series against Luis Arraez and the Miami Marlins, on Saturday at LoanDepot park.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
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Marlins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Marlins have hit 93 home runs this season, the third-lowest total in MLB play.
- Miami's .398 slugging percentage is 20th in MLB.
- The Marlins' .264 batting average is fourth-best in the majors.
- Miami scores the fifth-fewest runs in baseball (428 total, 4.1 per game).
- The Marlins rank 13th in MLB with an on-base percentage of .320.
- The Marlins strike out 8 times per game, the seventh-best average in baseball.
- Miami's pitching staff is third in the majors with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Miami has the 13th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.11).
- Pitchers for the Marlins combine for the 12th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.267).
Marlins Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Marlins will look to Johnny Cueto (0-1) in his third start of the season.
- The righty last pitched on Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, when he tossed six innings, allowing one earned run while giving up two hits.
Marlins Schedule
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BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Eugénie Le Sommer and Wendie Renard revived France’s Women’s World Cup ambitions with a goal each in a 2-1 win over Brazil on Saturday to give Les Bleues the lead in Group F.
After missing with a diving header in the 13th minute, Le Sommer scored her 90th international goal to extend her French record four minutes later with an emphatic header that gave Brazilian goalkeeper Leticia little chance.
Debinha equalized for Brazil as the hour approached and the game opened up as both teams pressed for a winner, the Brazilians desperate to end an 11-match winless streak against France.
But it was the set piece where French captain Renard clinched it, capitalizing on some poor defense.
Renard, who had been in doubt for the match with a calf injury she picked up in the lackluster 0-0 draw against Jamaica, was perfectly placed for a back-post header as the towering defender drifted to the edge of the box to meet a corner with a powerful header in the 83rd.
Hervé Renard has reassembled the French squad since taking over as coach, recalling veterans including Le Sommer and restoring the confidence of others like 33-year-old Renard.
After criticism of France’s opening performance for its lack of adventure and flair, his veterans clicked when it counted against Brazil.
“She’s a leader of the team. She’s efficient at scoring goals like today,” the French coach said of his captain. “If she wasn’t able to play today, I’m sure it wouldn’t be the same. We were lucky to have her today, congratulations to her to give us the victory for this game.”
Brazil had opened with a thumping 4-0 win over Panama, with Ary Borges scoring three goals and providing the back-heel assist for one of the goals of the tournament.
Against a more disciplined defense, the Brazilians were mostly unable to finish despite creating ample opportunities.
Brazil coach Pia Sundhage said she was disappointed with her team’s first half and inability to stick with the gameplan and not contesting quickly enough for possession. She said the failure to build cohesion in the first half was more of a problem for the team than the set-piece defense that conceded France’s second goal.
“I’m more disappointed we couldn’t make this a game where we play like the Brazilian style,” she said.
Veteran forward Marta, returning from injury for her sixth World Cup, went on in the 86th minute but wasn’t able to inspire a winner for Brazil.
Le Sommer, who was among the veterans who missed selection for the European Championship last year under former coach Corinne Diacre, was in the thick of the early action for France.
The French started with high tempo and had three chances before Sakina Karchaoui’s long floating ball into the area found Kadidiatou Diani, who headed square for Le Sommer to finish off from directly in front.
But the Brazilians started to meet them for energy, helped by the majority of an almost 50,000-strong crowd.
Debinha equalized in the 58th, finishing off a quick passing movement into the area, controlling the ball with the outside of her leg before firing in a right-foot shot.
Le Sommer was replaced in the 66th Vicki Becho to add some fresh legs to the French attack.
Leticia pushed a hard strike over the crossbar to keep Brazil level and Selma Bacha hit the side netting with her shot from the right in the 75th, unable to break the deadlock for France.
Renard’s late winner lifted France to four competition points, one more than Brazil ahead of the last group games on Wednesday. The French will play Panama in Sydney, and Brazil will take on Jamaica in Melbourne.
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Orlando weather: Decent chances of afternoon storms
Today's high: 92 degrees
Tonight's low: 76 degrees
Main weather concerns:
A steady diet of tropical moisture remains overhead this weekend which will allow for decent chances of afternoon storms. For Saturday, expect storms to begin developing early in the afternoon (especially along I-4). Heavy t-storms and showers will be most likely from I-4 towards the Space Coast. Main hazards will be frequent lightning, gusty winds, and torrential rain. Temperatures ahead of rain chances will be plenty hot and humid with highs in the low to mid 90s and triple digit head index values. Keep cool!
BEACHES:
Rip current risk remains moderate through this weekend. Highs seaside will reach near 90. Storm chances will be likely by mid-afternoon with lightning and heavy downpours possible. Surf remains around 2 feet. High tide is around 6pm, low tide settles in around 11am.
THEME PARKS:
Hot temps and lots of humidity at the attractions today. Showers and storms appear likely by 1pm (60% coverage) and should continue through late afternoon. Highs will reach the low 90s before the rain arrives, then cooler with temperatures in the 80s under cloudier conditions the rest of the day. Heavy rain and lightning are both likely.
OUTLOOK:
High levels of humidity remain in place through this weekend which will keep likely rain chances going. Highs will remain in the low to mid 90s with triple digit heat index values. No major changes to this forecast as we head into August.
TRACKING THE TROPICS:
The FOX 35 STORM TEAM is monitoring a distant, Eastern Atlantic tropical wave. This feature now has a 70% chance of development over the next 7 days. It is expected to become a tropical depression next week and stay out at sea. The team will continue tracking, keeping you updated along the way. The remainder of the tropics remains quiet for now. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/weather/orlando-weather-decent-chances-of-afternoon-storms | 2023-07-29T15:37:23 | 0 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/weather/orlando-weather-decent-chances-of-afternoon-storms |
Once upon a time, the Colts traded Marshall Faulk, after four 1,000-yard rushing performances in five seasons. Could history sort of repeat itself?
Stephen Holder, who covers the Colts for ESPN.com, has mentioned the possibility of running back Jonathan Taylor being traded by the team.
It would have been inconceivable a year ago, when Taylor entered the year as everyone’s first overall fantasy football pick. And for good reason. He had 1,811 rushing yards and 20 total touchdowns in 2021, his second NDL season.
Last year came the regression, thanks to an ankle injury and dysfunction that enveloped the entire franchise.
Now, with owner Jim Irsay admitting that no offer has been made to Taylor, who is entering the fourth and final year of his rookie contract, Holder won’t rule out a trade.
Appearing on SportsCenter, Holder mentioned a comment Taylor made about the running back position earlier this year: “You see why guys start to demand trades.”
Of course, a trade doesn’t mean Taylor will get the contract he wants. That’s part of the reality of the position. Typically, the great ones get their financial rewards from the teams for which they have played great, since there’s a certain amount of fan equity that comes from, say, 1,811 rushing yards and 20 touchdowns in a single season. In a new city and with a new team, Taylor would be starting from scratch, which means the new team would have to believe he’s truly ready to claw out multiple special seasons.
And even if he demands a trade, there’s nothing he can do to force it. The rigging of the system against running backs includes one very important factor: teams know that football players desperately want to play football.
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Marlins vs. Tigers: Odds, spread, over/under - July 29
The Miami Marlins (56-48) will look to Luis Arraez when they host Spencer Torkelson and the Detroit Tigers (46-58) at LoanDepot park on Saturday, July 29. The first pitch will be thrown at 4:10 PM ET.
Oddsmakers list the Marlins as -155 favorites on the moneyline, while giving the underdog Tigers +130 moneyline odds. The contest's over/under is set at 8 runs.
Marlins vs. Tigers Time and TV Channel
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Probable Pitchers: Johnny Cueto - MIA (0-1, 4.50 ERA) vs Beau Brieske - DET (0-0, 4.76 ERA)
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Marlins vs. Tigers Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
Here's a look at the odds, run line and over/under for this matchup available at several sportsbooks.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Betting Trends and Insights
- The Marlins have entered the game as favorites 47 times this season and won 31, or 66%, of those games.
- The Marlins have gone 21-4 (winning 84% of their games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -155 or shorter.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 60.8% chance of a victory for Miami.
- The Marlins have a 2-4 record over the six games they were a moneyline favorite in their last 10 matchups.
- Over its last 10 outings (all 10 of them had set totals), Miami and its opponents combined to hit the over five times.
- The Tigers have come away with 33 wins in the 83 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This year, the Tigers have won 22 of 48 games when listed as at least +130 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have played as underdogs in six of their past 10 games and won one of those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Detroit and its opponents have combined to hit the over four times.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Political instability in Niger resulting from a military takeover that deposed the president this week threatens the economic support provided by Washington to the African nation, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Saturday.
Members of the Niger military announced on Wednesday they had deposed democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum and on Friday named Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani as the country’s new leader, adding Niger to a growing list of military regimes in West Africa’s Sahel region.
Blinken, who is in Australia as part of a Pacific tour, said the continued security and economic arrangements that Niger has with the U.S. hinged on the release of Bazoum and “the immediate restoration of the democratic order in Niger.”
“Our economic and security partnership with Niger — which is significant, hundreds of millions of dollars — depends on the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order that has been disrupted by the actions in the last few days,” Blinken said. “So that assistance, that support, is in clear jeopardy as a result of these actions, which is another reason why they need to be immediately reversed.”
Blinken stopped short of calling the military actions in Niger a coup, a designation that could result in the African country losing millions of dollars of military aid and assistance.
Speaking in Brisbane, Blinken said he had spoken with President Bazoum on Saturday but did not provide details. He cited the support of the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States and other regional entities in trying to bring an end to the unrest.
“The very significant assistance that we have in place that’s making a material difference in the lives of the people of Niger is clearly in jeopardy and we’ve communicated that as clearly as we possibly can to those responsible for disrupting the constitutional order and Niger’s democracy,” Blinken said.
Blinken said the U.S. Embassy in Niger had accounted for the safety of all staff members and their families, while issuing a security alert advising U.S. citizens in the country to limit unnecessary movements and avoid areas impacted by the coup.
The military group that conducted the coup, calling itself the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, said its members remained committed to engaging with the international and national community.
“This is as a result of the continuing degradation of the security situation, the bad economic and social governance,” air force Col. Major Amadou Abdramane said in the video released by the coup leaders Wednesday. He said aerial and land borders were closed and a curfew was in place until the situation stabilized.
Bazoum was elected two years ago in Niger’s first peaceful, democratic transfer of power since independence from France.
Niger is seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Africa’s Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence in the fight against extremism.
France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with Niger’s military, while the U.S. and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
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TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.
On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: “It’s a miracle.”
The flag, known as “Yosegaki Hinomaru,” or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier’s name, Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, and the signatures of his relatives, friends and neighbors wishing him luck. It was given to him before he was drafted by the Army. His family was later told he died in Saipan, but his remains were never returned.
The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Its meaning was not known until it was identified by the family earlier this year, said the museum director Steve Banta, who brought the flag to Tokyo.
Banta said he learned the story behind the flag earlier this year when he was contacted by the Obon Society, a nonprofit organization that has returned about 500 similar flags as non-biological remains, to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.
The search for the flag’s original owner started in April when a museum visitor took a photo and asked an expert about the description that it had belonged to a “kamikaze” suicide pilot. When Shigeyoshi Mutsuda’s grandson saw the photo, he sought help from the Obon Society, group co-founder Keiko Ziak said.
“When we learned all of this, and that the family would like to have the flag, we knew immediately that the flag did not belong to us,” Banta said at the handover ceremony. “We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.”
The soldier’s eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when Banta, wearing white gloves, gently placed the neatly folded flag into his hands. Two of his younger siblings, both in their 80s, stood by and looked on silently. The three children, all wearing cotton gloves so they wouldn’t damage the decades-old flag, carefully unfolded it to show to the audience.
The soldier’s daughter, Misako Matsukuchi, touched the flag with both hands and prayed. “After nearly 80 years, the spirit of our father returned to us. I hope he can finally rest in peace,” Matsukuchi said later.
Toshihiro Mutsuda said his memory of his father was foggy. However, he clearly remembers his mother, Masae Mutsuda, who died five years ago at age 102, used to make the long-distance bus trip almost every year from the farming town in Gifu, central Japan, to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are enshrined, to pay tribute to her husband’s spirit.
The shrine is controversial, as it includes convicted war criminals among those commemorated. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japanese militarism. However, for the Mutsuda family, it’s a place to remember the loss of a father and husband.
“It’s like an old love story across the ages coming together … It doesn’t matter where,” Banta said, referring to the Yasukuni controversy. “The important thing is this flag goes to the family.”
That’s why Toshihiro Mutsuda and his siblings chose to receive the flag at Yasukuni and brought the framed photos of their parents.
“My mother missed him and wanted to see him so much and that’s why she used to pray here,” Toshihiro Mutsuda said. “Today her wish finally came true, and she was able to be reunited.”
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Marlins vs. Tigers Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 29
The Detroit Tigers (46-58) will aim to stop a four-game losing streak when visiting the Miami Marlins (56-48) at 4:10 PM ET on Saturday.
The Marlins will give the nod to Johnny Cueto (0-1) versus the Tigers and Beau Brieske.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
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- Probable Pitchers: Cueto - MIA (0-1, 4.50 ERA) vs Brieske - DET (0-0, 4.76 ERA)
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Marlins Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Johnny Cueto
- Cueto will get the start for the Marlins, his third of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, throwing six innings and giving up one earned run.
- He has pitched in three games this season with an ERA of 4.50, a 3 strikeout to walk ratio and a WHIP of .900.
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Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Beau Brieske
- Brieske gets the call to start for the Tigers, his first of the season.
- The 25-year-old righty has appeared out of the bullpen five times this season.
- In five appearances this season, he has a 4.76 ERA and 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings while opponents are batting .261 against him.
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The Falcons announced the addition of two veteran defensive players on Saturday.
Defensive lineman Justin Ellis and linebacker Kemoko Turay are both now members of the 90-man roster in Atlanta. No terms of their contracts were announced and the team did not part ways with any players.
Ellis was a 2014 fourth-round pick by the Raiders and he spent five seasons with the AFC West team before moving on to three years in Baltimore. He appeared in every game for the Giants last season.
Over 117 career appearances, Ellis has 182 tackles, 1.5 sacks, and three passes defensed.
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Saturday, July 29
As we approach Saturday's MLB slate, let's take a look at the probable starters for each contest. One of the day's most anticipated matchups pits the Yankees (Clarke Schmidt) against the Orioles (Tyler Wells).
Keep reading to find the pitching matchups for every game on the schedule for July 29.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Angels at Blue Jays Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Reid Detmers (2-7) to the mound as they play the Blue Jays, who will counter with Alek Manoah (2-8) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Angels at Blue Jays
- TOR Odds to Win: -125
- LAA Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Tigers at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The Detroit Tigers will send Beau Brieske (0-0) to the bump as they face the Marlins, who will look to Johnny Cueto (0-1) for the matchup between the teams Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Tigers at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -155
- DET Odds to Win: +130
- Total: 8 runs
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Phillies at Pirates Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Aaron Nola (9-6) to the bump as they play the Pirates, who will hand the ball to Quinn Priester (1-1) when the teams meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Pirates
- PHI Odds to Win: -185
- PIT Odds to Win: +150
- Total: 9 runs
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Twins at Royals Probable Pitchers
The Minnesota Twins will send Bailey Ober (6-4) to the mound as they take on the Royals, who will give the start to Jordan Lyles (1-12) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Twins at Royals
- MIN Odds to Win: -190
- KC Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Guardians at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The Cleveland Guardians will send Logan Allen (4-3) to the hill as they take on the White Sox, who will give the start to Touki Toussaint (1-3) when the teams meet on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Guardians at White Sox
- CHW Odds to Win: -
- CLE Odds to Win: -
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Nationals at Mets Probable Pitchers
The Washington Nationals will send Patrick Corbin (6-11) to the mound as they play the Mets, who will counter with Carlos Carrasco (3-4) when the teams play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Nationals at Mets
- NYM Odds to Win: -175
- WSH Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Red Sox at Giants Probable Pitchers
The Boston Red Sox will send James Paxton (6-2) to the mound as they face the Giants, who will counter with Ryan Walker (3-0) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Red Sox at Giants
- BOS Odds to Win: -115
- SF Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 8 runs
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- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
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Cubs at Cardinals Probable Pitchers
The Chicago Cubs will send Jameson Taillon (4-6) to the hill as they play the Cardinals, who will look to Adam Wainwright (3-4) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Cubs at Cardinals
- STL Odds to Win: -115
- CHC Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 10 runs
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Rays at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send Taj Bradley (5-6) to the mound as they take on the Astros, who will give the start to Hunter Brown (6-7) when the teams play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -140
- TB Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Yankees at Orioles Probable Pitchers
The New York Yankees will send Schmidt (6-6) to the mound as they play the Orioles, who will counter with Wells (7-5) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Yankees at Orioles
- BAL Odds to Win: -125
- NYY Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9 runs
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Brewers at Braves Probable Pitchers
The Milwaukee Brewers will send Julio Teheran (2-4) to the hill as they play the Braves, who will hand the ball to Bryce Elder (7-2) when the clubs play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Brewers at Braves
- ATL Odds to Win: -200
- MIL Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 10 runs
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- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
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Mariners at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The Seattle Mariners will send Bryan Woo (1-3) to the bump as they play the Diamondbacks, who will give the start to Brandon Pfaadt (0-4) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Mariners at Diamondbacks
- SEA Odds to Win: -125
- ARI Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Athletics at Rockies Probable Pitchers
The Oakland Athletics will send Paul Blackburn (1-2) to the hill as they face the Rockies, who will counter with Chris Flexen (0-0) when the teams meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Athletics at Rockies
- COL Odds to Win: -115
- OAK Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 12 runs
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Rangers at Padres Probable Pitchers
The Texas Rangers will send Martin Perez (8-3) to the hill as they take on the Padres, who will hand the ball to Yu Darvish (7-7) for the matchup between the teams Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rangers at Padres
- SD Odds to Win: -160
- TEX Odds to Win: +135
- Total: 9 runs
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Reds at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Luke Weaver (2-2) to the hill as they play the Dodgers, who will look to Emmet Sheehan (3-1) for the game between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Dodgers
- LAD Odds to Win: -200
- CIN Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 10.5 runs
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson has helped create two milestones at the Women’s World Cup.
With her 48th-minute goal in the tournament opener against Norway, she led the co-host Football Ferns to their first win in six trips to the Women’s World Cup. She’s also one of at least 95 out members of the LGBTQ+ community competing in this year’s tournament, according to a count being kept by Outsports, a website that covers the LGBTQ+ sports.
The Ferns were greeted with a fan-made sign at their next match in Wellington: “Gay for soccer, gay for Wilkie,” it read.
The 95 out participants make up roughly 13% of the 736 total players at the Women’s World Cup, more than doubling the 40 players and coaches Outsports counted in 2019.
The 2023 tournament also is hosting the first openly trans and non-binary player in either a men’s or Women’s World Cup, Quinn of Canada.
“Last World Cup was so big, especially with the visibility of the U.S. women’s national team winning and (Megan Rapinoe) fighting with (Donald) Trump. So I think that was a huge year for LGBTQ+ visibility,” said Lindsey Freeman, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
“It’s just the ad hoc, fun culture of women’s soccer that you’re seeing in this World Cup,” said Freeman, who is in New Zealand conducting research on the topic.
Jim Buzinski, co-founder of Outsports, agreed. “In the Western world, it’s such a non-issue that it really just doesn’t get talked about,” he said. “And I think that’s in a good way.”
VISIBILITY
Prior to the start of the tournament, FIFA designated eight socially conscious armbands team captains could wear throughout the Women’s World Cup. The decision came after “One Love” armbands were denied to men’s teams in Qatar in 2022.
The armbands being used this year include anti-discriminatory sayings and multiple colors, but the rainbow version Germany wanted to use is not allowed. None of the available options explicitly mention LGBTQ+ rights.
The decision has led many players to express their support in more creative ways across Australia and New Zealand.
New Zealand midfielder Ali Riley was interviewed on the official Women’s World Cup broadcast after her team’s upset of Norway. Her painted fingernails, left hand in the colors of the pride flag and right hand as the trans flag, were clearly visible as she held her head and fought back tears.
“She’s such an advocate and she’s definitely someone who uses her platform in such a positive way. We are all so proud of her and the way she represents the LGBTQ+ community,” teammate CJ Bott said. “Good on her. We’re all backing her, and we all back the community as well.”
The Philippines, making its Women’s World Cup debut, took home its own historic win over New Zealand 1-0 thanks to the foot of Sarina Bolden. Bolden’s Instagram bio reads, “i just wanna have fun n b gay.”
Irish star Katie McCabe wowed fans with a goal directly from a corner kick. She’s also made tabloid news for her relationships with other players.
Thembi Kgatlana, who has scored in the tournament for South Africa, has a patch of her hair dyed rainbow colors.
“My personality is very big for me, and my hair has become a part of my personality,” Kgatlana said. “And I did this rainbow because I want to represent all the people that are part of the LGBTQ and cannot talk while in countries where they’re oppressed.”
FAN EXPERIENCE
Kristen Pariseau and her wife started a U.S. women’s national team supporters group on Facebook ahead of traveling to this year’s Women’s World Cup. Aside from some hateful users she blocked, it’s been “super LGBT friendly.”
She and her wife did not go to Qatar for the 2022 men’s World Cup to avoid referencing each other as friends and receiving questions on their sexuality. In New Zealand, she said she’s met many same-sex couples at games and while traveling around the country.
“Everywhere you turn, it’s like, ‘Oh, my wife, my girlfriend.’ It’s been so welcoming and open,” Pariseau said. “In a way, it is kind of cool to be where there’s a lot of other people like you.”
Kelsie Bozart took her own pride flag armband to the United States’ second match in Wellington, along with a pride scarf.
“If you look back a couple years, I feel like it just wasn’t really talked about or there just wasn’t much of a presence,” Bozart said. “But moving forward I feel like, especially for the U.S., they’ve done an amazing job of just incorporating pride and LGBTQ.”
NOT UNIVERSAL
Though this year’s tournament has highlighted vast gains for the LGBTQ+ community in women’s soccer, advocates feel there is still work to be done.
According to Buzinski and Outsports, there were at least 186 LGBTQ+ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics. Women outnumbered men by a 9:1 ratio. There also were no confirmed out players at the 2022 men’s World Cup.
“I think women’s sports have always been open,” Denmark striker Pernille Harder said, adding that there are many role models for women who want to come out.
Freeman said it would be good to see men feel the same level of comfort.
“What can happen in the women’s game, I would love to spill over to the men’s game,” she said. “Because obviously, there’s way more queer players in the men’s game and it’s just not safe for them to come out.
“If you want to say that you’re in an inclusive space, you really have to be an inclusive space,” Freeman added. “And I think that that includes also holding the World Cup in places where it’s fine to be a queer person.”
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Max Ralph is a student in John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.
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Contributing reporters included Joe Lister in Wellington and Rafaela Pontes in Auckland, students in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State, and Clay Witt in Sydney, Australia, a student at the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.
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An AFC East tug-o-war for running back Dalvin Cook remains possible.
With Cook visiting the Jets on Sunday, the Dolphins remain interested in signing him. But they say they’re willing to proceed without him, presumably in an effort to get him at the best possible price.
“First and foremost, I’m extremely happy with our running back group,” coach Mike McDaniel told reporters on Friday when asked about the team’s interest level in Cook. “Extremely happy. I have great relationships with some very talented players. However, Dalvin Cook is a great player. I look at it like if it works on both sides, it makes sense for somebody. You’re adding a player to a team and an organization, and all the things they both need need to be met for it to work. He’s a free agent and he’s visiting the Jets. And that’s what I have to say.”
Cook is a great player at a position at which the Dolphins are stacked, at a time when it has become more clear than ever that the running back market ain’t what she used to be.
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Yuli Gurriel Player Prop Bets: Marlins vs. Tigers - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:26 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Miami Marlins, including Yuli Gurriel (.290 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including no homers), battle starter Beau Brieske and the Detroit Tigers at LoanDepot park, Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he went 1-for-4 against the Tigers.
Yuli Gurriel Game Info & Props vs. the Tigers
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Tigers Starter: Beau Brieske
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +800)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +180)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Yuli Gurriel At The Plate
- Gurriel is hitting .265 with 11 doubles, three triples, three home runs and 21 walks.
- Gurriel has gotten a hit in 38 of 66 games this season (57.6%), with multiple hits on 17 occasions (25.8%).
- In 4.5% of his games this season, he has gone deep, and 1.2% of his trips to the plate.
- In 18 games this season, Gurriel has picked up an RBI, with more than one RBI once.
- He has scored in 22 games this season, with multiple runs three times.
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Yuli Gurriel Home/Away Batting Splits
Tigers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Tigers pitching staff ranks 21st in MLB.
- The Tigers have a 4.53 team ERA that ranks 22nd among all league pitching staffs.
- Tigers pitchers combine to rank 18th in baseball in home runs given up (125 total, 1.2 per game).
- Brieske will make his first start of the season for the Tigers.
- The 25-year-old righty has pitched in relief five times this season.
- Over his five games this season, opposing hitters have a collective batting average of .261 against him. He has a 4.76 ERA and averages 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening’s supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this … hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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SANTA CLARA — At some point, logic suggests Trent Williams will need to rely on his experience and know-how to compensate for a declining skill set in terms of power and explosion.
Yet Williams turned 35 this month and is somehow getting better with age.
When coaches and analysts crunch film and numbers and fellow players gather and ponder who can really play the most violent of games, Williams makes everyone sit up and take notice. He has the respect of his peers and and his credibility is off the charts.
Going into his fourth year as the 49ers’ left tackle, Williams is coming off the first two All-Pro seasons of his career, which seems odd since he’s been named to 10 Pro Bowls.
When Pro Football Focus’ analysts pored over the film and graded ever play and every player in naming the Top 50 in the NFL, Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes was No. 1, Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald was No. 2 and Williams was No. 3.
NFL.com names a Top 100 each year and Williams checked in at No. 14 last year based on a player vote (The 2023 list is in a countdown phase and hasn’t gotten to Williams yet).
At 6-foot-5, 320 pounds, Williams can toy with even the most twitchy edge rushers with footwork and agility, while at the same time stone a bull rush with pure power. Tight end George Kittle has said on more than one occasion Williams is the best football player he’s ever seen.
When Williams was the No. 4 selection by Washington in the 2010 NFL Draft his line coach was Chris Foerster. Foerster coached Williams for four seasons before a reunion upon joining the 49ers in 2021.
With Williams in a dispute with Washington over medical care relating to treatment of a cancerous growth on his head that was surgically removed, the 49ers were able to get the left tackle for third- and fifth-round draft picks in 2020 after Joe Staley retired.
What Foerster saw was startling.
“It is amazing. He’s just one of those physical specimens,” Foerster said. “As time has gone on he doesn’t look any different. It just shocks me. He moves as well as he always has.”
How does Williams do it? By never paying for the same real estate twice. Keep moving forward like a road grader, be a beast in the weight room and never stop adding to the tool box of blocking fundamentals.
“You make 10 straight Pro Bowls, a lot of people would say you’ve put together a good resume,” Williams said. “I never really look at it past one year. I look at last year and my whole goal is to be a better player than I was last year. Next year I’m going to look at this year and want to be better.”
Williams understands one wrong step can leave his quarterback flat on his back and No. 71 will be singled out on instant replay as the culprit.
“It’s so easy to feel like you know it all and you’ve got it all and that’s when you get humbled in this game,” Williams said. “For me it’s always been about going forward and not about the rear-view mirror or what I’ve done in the past. It’s a simple blueprint to keep yourself motivated and staying in the now.”
One of Williams’ strategies to keep his mind right is taking young players under his wing, inviting them for offseason sessions where they can pick is brain and inject some 20-something enthusiasm.
“(I like) the hunger. Seeing how hungry they are to learn how hungry they are to get better,” Williams said. “It rubs off on me. I like it because it allows me to stay locked in and it holds me to a higher standard.”
Williams may be even more important to the offensive line than Nick Bosa is to the defensive line. While defensive coaches can scheme up rush, there are no such shortcuts on the offensive line. A weak link at left tackle will break the chain, but having a potential Hall of Fame candidate protecting the quarterback’s blind side makes everybody better.
Which is a good thing where the 49ers are concerned, because the rest of their offensive front remains a work in progress. Colton McKivitz takes over for the departed Mike McGlinchey at right tackle, Spencer Burford is the right guard after splitting time with Daniel Brunskill as a rookie, Jeff Brendel is in his second season as the full-time center and Aaron Banks goes into his second year as a starter after a promising sophomore season.
They will get everything Williams has to offer not only physically, but mentally as well. Although far more accomplished than his line mates, Williams never carries it that way because he understands the difficulties and complexities of life as a blocker.
“When you’re playing o-line, it’s like a roller coaster sometimes because one play can define how people look at you for an entire season,” Williams said. “It’s a very peculiar position to be in. You’re skating on thin ice every play.”
Williams has heard all the talk of the 49ers running out of time in terms of remaining a contender. Not surprisingly, given his own longevity at an advanced age, he disregards it.
“Worrying about when the window closes really does nothing for me right now,” Williams said. “It’s like worrying about when you’re going to die, right? It’s going to close eventually but what’s the point of looking forward to it? Come in every day to get 1 percent better and eventually you want to hold up that trophy. Then you reset, recalibrate and approach it the next year.” | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/49ers-all-pro-trent-williams-still-ascending-at-age-35/ | 2023-07-29T15:37:47 | 0 | https://www.chicoer.com/2023/07/29/49ers-all-pro-trent-williams-still-ascending-at-age-35/ |
Nearly 70% of U.S. adults believe in angels and heaven, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
About 8 in 10 Americans agree that some things cannot be explained by science or natural causes.
In addition, 72% believe in the power of prayer.
"People are yearning for something greater than themselves — beyond their own understanding," said Jack Grogger, a chaplain for the Los Angeles Angels and a longtime fire captain who has helped people in some of their darkest moments, according to the Associated Press.
Grogger, who also pastors a nondenominational church in Orange, California, said people find comfort in angels.
But the belief in heaven and angels is greater than those who believe in hell, 58%, and those who think the devil exists, 56%.
Half of U.S. adults believe that the spirits of those who have crossed over can interact with the living.
AP-NORC's poll also found that 42% of people in the U.S. believe that spiritual energy can be rooted in physical objects.
About a third of Americans believe in reincarnation, astrology, and yoga as a spiritual practice.
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Emmett Till would have turned 82 today. Till was tortured and murdered in Mississippi after a white woman accused the Black 14-year-old of whistling and grabbing at her. Till and his mother's willingness to share the brutality Till suffered marked a pivotal moment in the early Civil Rights Movement. Mamie Till Mobley described her decision in a 2003 interview with The Chicago Project.
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MAMIE TILL MOBLEY: Let the people see what I've seen. And I want open casket viewing from now until the time we take Emmett for burial.
KELLY: Now, almost 70 years after Till was beaten, shot, had a cotton gin tied around his body and was thrown in the Tallahatchie River, Till and his mother are being memorialized in the form of three monuments in Chicago and Mississippi. President Biden signed the proclamation designating the sites earlier today. Patrick Weems is the executive director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Miss. He was at the White House when President Biden put pen to paper. We spoke before he headed to that event.
Patrick Weems, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
PATRICK WEEMS: Thank you, Mary Louise.
KELLY: You've come to D.C. for this event at the White House, and you picked up the Till family en route.
WEEMS: We drove from Chicago to D.C. to be here today, and I couldn't think of a more memorable trip to be here with Wheeler Parker, who's one of the most gracious, forgiving human beings and probably one of the most important people alive.
KELLY: So tell me about the three locations. There are two in Mississippi, one in Illinois. Start with the one that marks the site where Till's body was believed to have been pulled from the Tallahatchie River. What will visitors see there?
WEEMS: Yeah, well, hopefully what they won't see is a bullet-riddled sign. You know, we've had a lot of history of this site being desecrated, being shot up. We were able to put a bulletproof marker there recently in the last couple of years. But more significant is that the site where Till's body came out of the Tallahatchie River will now be a part of the National Park Service system. And to know that it will be federally protected - to make sure that if someone does vandalize our signs, it won't be a local sheriff. It will be the federal government that will get involved. But this is the big bang of the Civil Rights Movement, as Jesse Jackson talked about. This is a site where so many Black bodies were thrown into rivers. But Emmett's miraculously emerged. An 18-year-old fisherman found the body and brought it to the banks of the Tallahatchie River, where his body was initially identified because he had his father's ring on his finger. But then later, Mamie Till made sure the body came to Chicago, where she said, this is my son. I know my son.
KELLY: Yeah. And that's - the site in Illinois is the site where she insisted on an open casket. Describe what we'll see there.
WEEMS: Yeah. So, I mean, public officials wanted to bury Emmett in Mississippi. The sheriff had a directive to make sure the body was buried in Money, Miss. Mamie refused. She wanted to have a very private mourning for her son, first and foremost. But she also took that moment to remember and kind of resist white supremacy, resist the Jim Crow system by having a public funeral, having an open casket to show the world what they did to her son.
KELLY: And then the last location is also in Mississippi, back in Tallahatchie County.
WEEMS: That's right. So the site of the injustice - right? - so the miscarriage of justice took place in our courtroom in 1955. And it's also the site where people like Willie Reed, an 18-year-old sharecropper who witnessed the murder. He testified at the trial, and he whispered his testimony because he was scared to death. He later had a nervous breakdown, changed his name and moved to Chicago and didn't talk about this until 30 years later. And so, you know, it's a low point in American history, the fact that these men get off without any penalty. But it also is a testimony to people like Medgar Evers, Willie Reed, Mose Wright, Mamie Till, Dr. T.R.M. Howard - people who did the right thing that day and had the courage to at least try to get some attempt at justice.
KELLY: You know, I'm thinking about how this monument designation comes as a national conversation is underway about how to teach Black history in our schools. Do you think these monuments might help inform that conversation?
WEEMS: They already are. I mean, this is American history. We have young people visit these sites already. This will only amplify and make it easier for young people to come. It takes the best of us to talk about the worst of us. And if we're going to have a true democracy and multicultural democracy, we have to understand where we've stumbled. And we stumbled badly in 1955. And no matter party affiliation, I think we should all agree that what took place in 1955 was wrong. The system was wrong. Mississippi was wrong. The United States was wrong. But we can be better. It's our hope that this memorial marks a line in the sand that says, never again, and that if we want to hold and cherish our democracy, we need to learn about Mose Wright and Mamie Till.
KELLY: Patrick Weems. Thank you.
WEEMS: Thank you, Mary Louise. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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BALTIMORE, Md, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Lupin) is voluntarily recalling two (2) lots of Tydemy (Drospirenone, Ethinyl Estradiol and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 3mg/0.03mg/0.451 mg and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 0.451 mg) to the patient (consumer/user) level due to out of specification (OOS) test results at the 12-month stability time point. Specifically, one lot (L200183) tested low for ascorbic acid (an inactive ingredient) and high for a known impurity.
To date, Lupin has received no reports of adverse events related to either recalled lots. Regardless, Lupin is recalling two lots because if there were a significant reduction in the amount of inactive content (ascorbic acid), this could potentially impact the effectiveness of the product which could potentially result in unexpected pregnancy.
Tydemy is estrogen/progestin oral contraceptive (COC) indicated for use by women to prevent pregnancy and to raise folate levels in women who choose to use an oral contraceptive for contraception. Tydemy is packaged in 28's blister. One such blister was then packed in a pouch along with one printed sleeve, one pack insert (with day label) and one oxygen absorber (Stabilox) sachet. The three pouches were packed in one carton.
The lots were distributed nationwide in the US to wholesalers, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets. The recalled lots are included in the table below:
Lupin is notifying its wholesalers, distributors, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets by phone and through recall notification and is arranging for the return of all the recalled product lots.
Patients taking, Tydemy are advised to continue taking their medication and immediately contact their pharmacist, physician, or medical provider for advice regarding an alternative treatment.
Wholesalers, distributors and retailers that have Tydemy that is being recalled should discontinue distribution of the recalled product lots immediately.
Consumers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers with questions regarding this recall should contact Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc. at (866) 480-8206 Monday – Friday 09:00 am to 05:00 pm EST. For reimbursement, please have the recalled lots returned to Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc.; the lot number can be found on the side of the carton. Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to taking or using this drug product.
Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm
- Regular Mail or Fax: Download form www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178.
This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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About Lupin Pharmaceuticals
Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is the U.S. based wholly-owned subsidiary of Lupin Limited and is the 3rd largest pharmaceutical company in the U.S. based on total prescriptions. Together, all Lupin-owned entities combine to make up the 8th largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world by revenue size. Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is dedicated to delivering high-quality medications across many treatment areas. Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s branded pharmaceuticals division, is the provider of products designed to help prevent and manage women's health conditions with serious health consequences.
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If you have a bare patch in your yard that needs some color and life — and bees and butterflies to boot — you may want to consider planting a wildflower garden. Wildflowers come in a range of colors and sizes, and add textural and visual appeal to any green space.
For those who don’t consider themselves to be expert gardeners, wildflowers can be a low-maintenance alternative to other flower varieties. However, while they are easier to care for than other flowers, they do require some legwork to get up and running.
Before you start your new garden, here’s what you need to know about wildflowers and how to plant and care for them.
What Are Wildflowers?
As the name suggests, wildflowers are flowers that can be found naturally in the wild. Unlike commercial flowers, wildflowers have not been cultivated or bred to have certain characteristics. In fact, all commercial flower varieties originate from wildflowers, and only after years of breeding and genetic manipulation have become what we cultivate in home gardens today.
Wildflowers can be found in woodlands, prairies and wetlands, and some states have even designated special refuges and reserves where you can observe them. They tend to be native species, ideally suited for the ecosystems where they live, and have been around as long as 100 million years, according to some fossil records.
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In the U.S., the best time to see wildflowers can vary widely from state to state. In climates that are warmer year-round, you may find them blooming all year. In those that have cooler winters, wildflowers will typically surface in the springtime — and even then bloom time may still vary depending on the variety.
Because by definition wildflowers are native to their regions, they have co-evolved with other local plant species, allowing a symbiotic relationship between other native, non-invasive plants and animals such as pollinators.
Benefits Of Planting a Wildflower Garden
While many may consider planting a wildflower garden solely for visual appeal, the truth is that wildflowers serve a much more altruistic purpose. The World Wildlife Federation shares that one healthy wildflower field may contain a minimum of 100 different types of wildflowers, which can attract insects — then birds who prey on those insects — as well as other mammals that contribute to the overall biodiversity of an area.
Wildflowers are also a key food source for pollinators such as bees and butterflies, which are critical to our food supply chain. As bee populations have declined considerably over the years, wildflower gardens can become a safe haven for them to feed, which assists in boosting their numbers.
While a backyard wildflower garden is a considerably smaller scale, it can still attract pollinators and may even help keep garden pests at bay.
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Planting wildflowers, which have extensive root systems, in a rain garden can also help reduce flooding and erosion in your yard while improving water quality.
On top of that, they require less water and fertilizer, are less likely to get disease and are more tolerant of pests. Experts at The Spruce say that because local wildflowers are native to your region, they’re already adapted to the soil and other growing conditions, and can thrive with minimal intervention.
Make Sure to Choose A Diverse Variety of Plants
Clay Bolt, a natural history photographer and communications lead for World Wildlife Fund’s Northern Great Plains program, explained to National Geographic how important it is to make sure you are planting a wide variety of different plants in your garden.
“The greater diversity of plants that you have, the more robust the habitat is for a variety of pollinators and wildlife,” he said. “All of these plants are also connected through fungi in the soil. Their roots create a network where they share resources, strengthening one another.”
Furthermore, if you plant a wider variety of flowers, they’ll bloom at different times over a couple of months, extending your wildflower season considerably.
One of the first things to consider before selecting your wildflower seeds is whether or not the flowers are native to your region. If they are not native, they may have a harder time thriving, and may even be considered an invasive species. As with anything you plant in your garden, know your USDA Hardiness zone before planting to make sure the plants are a good match for your area.
To find which varieties of flowers work best near you, you can contact local extension experts or nonprofit organizations.
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Which Wildflowers Will Attract Pollinators?
If one of your goals in planting a wildflower garden is to attract specific pollinators, it’ll help to know which plants work best for which pollinators. If you want to attract butterflies, some examples of flowers to plant include black-eyed Susans, cornflower and yarrow. If you want to attract hummingbirds, you can plant zinnia, nasturtium and cleome. And lastly, if you want to attract beneficial insects, be sure to add fennel, bishop’s weed and aromatic aster to your list.
How To Plant and Care For Wildflowers
To thrive, wildflowers prefer to be planted in an area where they can receive full to partial sun. If you must plant in an area that doesn’t receive enough light, some flowers can tolerate more shade than others, such as black-eyed Susans, common foxglove and Shasta daisies. Otherwise, you’ll need to make sure your flowers are getting between six to eight hours of sun a day.
It’s best to plant your wildflower garden in the spring; this will ensure they have enough time to set. If you decide to plant later, they’ll need a minimum of 10 weeks before the first frost to self-sow.
Before you plant your seeds, you’ll want to make sure that your garden is free of prior vegetation to create the best growing conditions. Next, you’ll want to till your soil at approximately 3 inches deep, and then rake and level out the soil.
Now it’s time to plant. If you decide to buy a seed mixture, be sure to follow the instructions on the back of the package that say how much space you’ll need to distribute the seeds. You may also want to add sand to your mixture to make it easier to spread out. After you’ve spread the seed, rake the ground once more, and then generously water the soil. After 10 to 21 days, you’ll begin to see your first plants.
The great thing about wildflower gardens is that they require a very small amount of care. With that said, experts do suggest watering during dry spells, staying on top of weeds and being sure to mow down the area to 4 to 6 inches in the late fall. Then, enjoy your profusion of dreamy flowers!
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Germany vs. Colombia: Women’s World Cup Group H Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 30
In the second round of Group H matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Germany (coming off a 6-0 win over Morocco) plays Colombia (off a 2-0 win against South Korea) at 5:30 AM ET on Sunday, July 30.
Germany is -431 to win this group-stage game, Colombia is +1067, and the draw is +504. This match has an over/under of 2.5 goals. The under is currently +104, and the over is -138.
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Germany vs. Colombia Game Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 5:30 AM ET
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Venue: Sydney Football Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Germany Moneyline: -431
- Colombia Moneyline: +1067
Germany vs. Colombia World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams score a combined eight goals per game, 5.5 more than this match's total.
- These two teams allow a combined zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Germany has been listed as a moneyline favorite only one other time so far this tournament, and won.
- Germany has played as a moneyline favorite of -431 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Colombia won the only game it has played as an underdog this tournament.
- Colombia has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +1067 moneyline set for this game.
Germany World Cup Stats
Colombia World Cup Stats
- In one Women's World Cup match for Colombia, Catalina Usme has tallied one goal (10th in Women's World Cup play).
- Linda Caicedo has scored one goal for Colombia in Women's World Cup.
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Germany vs. Colombia Recent Performance
- So far this year, Germany is 3-1-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup participants, with a goal differential of +6. In 2022, it was 6-1-4 in such matches (+11 goal differential).
- Germany took on Morocco in its last match and earned a win by a final score of 6-0. The victorious Germany side took 15 shots, outshooting by 10.
- Popp scored two of her club's goals to lead the team against .
- So far this year, Colombia is 3-2-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup teams, with a goal differential of +1. In 2022, it was 5-2-3 in such matches (0 goal differential).
- Colombia claimed a 2-0 victory versus South Korea on July 24 in its last match. Colombia outshot South Korea 15 to four.
- Caicedo and Usme each registered a goal for Colombia.
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The Panthers have a fourth quarterback on the roster.
The team announced the signing of Jake Luton on Saturday morning. He joins Bryce Young, Andy Dalton, and Matt Corral in the team’s quarterback room.
Luton was a 2020 sixth-round pick by the Jaguars and he made three starts during his rookie season. He was 60-of-110 for 473 yards, two touchdowns, and six interceptions in those appearances.
Luton moved on to the Seahawks and Dolphins before returning to Jacksonville last offseason. He spent time on the Saints practice squad during the regular season, but has not played in any games since those three starts. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/panthers-sign-jake-luton | 2023-07-29T15:37:54 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/panthers-sign-jake-luton |
The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.05 billion Friday night, only the fifth time in the history of the game that the grand prize has reached into the billions.
No one managed to beat the massive odds and match all six numbers for Friday's estimated $940 million jackpot. The numbers drawn were: 5, 10, 28, 52, 63 and the gold ball 18.
There have been 29 straight draws without a Mega Millions jackpot winner since the last grand prize ticket on April 18.
The $1.05 billion prize up for grabs in the next drawing Tuesday night would be for a sole winner choosing to be paid through an annuity, with annual payments over 30 years. Jackpot winners almost always opt for a lump sum payment, which for Tuesday’s drawing would be an estimated $527.9 million.
The potential jackpot is the fourth-largest in the game and the fifth over $1 billion, Mega Millions said in a statement early Saturday.
Although there were no jackpot winners, one ticket in Pennsylvania was worth $5 million and another in the state connected for $1 million. There also were $1 million winners in Arizona, California and New York, Mega Millions said.
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Someone won Wednesday's $1 billion Powerball, ending a winless streak
It has been less than two weeks since someone in Los Angeles won a $1.08 billion Powerball prize that ranked as the sixth-largest in U.S. history. The winner of the prize is still a mystery.
Lottery jackpots grow so large because the odds of winning are so small. For Mega Millions, the odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 302.6 million.
Winners also would be subject to federal taxes, and many states also tax lottery winnings.
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Free agent running back Ezekiel Elliott is meeting with a team on Saturday.
According to multiple reports, Elliott is visiting with the Patriots. It’s the first known visit that Elliott has had with a team since being released by the Cowboys in March.
There was talk of the Cowboys bringing Elliott back at a lower salary after he was initially released, but there’s been less chatter on that front in recent months. Elliott was also said to have a three-team wish list that included the Jets, Bengals, and Eagles, although none of those teams appeared to have mutual interest in a working relationship.
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Two people died within one day in separate crashes in Belle Glade and near West Palm Beach/Royal Palm Beach, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Saturday morning.
Casondra D. Johnson-Downing, no age listed, of Belle Glade, died at 10:07 p.m. Thursday after a crash at 2925 State Road 25 in Belle Glade.
Then Tanner Badgley, 22, of West Palm Beach, died at 12:43 p.m. Friday after a crash at Royal Palm Beach Boulevard at 57th Road North.
In the first crash, authorities responded at 8:56 p.m. Johnson-Dowling was driving a 1990 Kia Soul southbound on State Road 15, within the inside lane of of travel, just south of the intersection of State Road 80, PBSO said in a crash report.
A 2021 Chevrolet Blazer driven by a West Palm Beach woman was traveling northbound on State Road 15 within the inside southbound travel lane, approaching the intersection of State Road, 80.
The Chevrolet, as it continued traveling northbound within the southbound inside lane, collided with the Kia head-on.
Johnson-Dowling was taken to Lakeside Medical Center in Belle Glade where she died. The driver of the Chevrolet was taken to HCA Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee with serious injuries.
Two passengers in Johnson-Dowling's vehicle, both from Belle Glade, were taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center, a 6-year-old girl with critical injuries and a 5-year-old girl with serious injuries.
In the second crash, authorities responded at 12:24 p.m. Friday.
Badgley was stationary inside a 2017 F250 Ford in the northbound travel lane of Royal Palm Beach Boulevard at the intersection of 57th Road North.
A 2019 Honda Accord driven by a 43-year-old Loxahatchee man was traveling northbound on Royal Palm Beach Boulevard approaching the intersection of 57th Road North.
The Honda driver failed to identify that the Ford was stopped within the travel lane, PBSO said. During the collision, the front of the Honda hit the back of the truck.
Badgley was ejected, landing within the roadway, and was pronounced dead on the scene by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The driver in the Honda was uninjured but two passengers, a man and woman, both 43 with the same birthdate, had serious injuries. | https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/2-die-in-separate-crashes-in-palm-beach-county | 2023-07-29T15:38:05 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/2-die-in-separate-crashes-in-palm-beach-county |
Marlins vs. Tigers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Miami Marlins (56-48) and Detroit Tigers (46-58) matching up at LoanDepot park has a projected final score of 6-5 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Marlins, who is listed as a slight favorite by our model. The game will start at 4:10 PM ET on July 29.
The Marlins will give the ball to Johnny Cueto (0-1, 4.50 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 1 on the season, and the Tigers will counter with Beau Brieske.
Marlins vs. Tigers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: LoanDepot park in Miami, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Marlins vs. Tigers Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Marlins 6, Tigers 5.
Total Prediction for Marlins vs. Tigers
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Marlins Performance Insights
- The Marlins have played as the favorite in six of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Miami and its opponents are 5-5-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Marlins' last 10 games.
- The Marlins have won 31, or 66%, of the 47 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Miami has entered 25 games this season favored by -155 or more and is 21-4 in those contests.
- The Marlins have a 60.8% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Miami is among the lowest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking 26th with just 428 total runs (4.1 per game) this season.
- The Marlins have a 4.11 team ERA that ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
Tigers Performance Insights
- The Tigers have played as the underdog in six of their past 10 games and have gone 1-5 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, Detroit and its foes are 4-5-1 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Tigers' previous 10 contests have not had a runline posted by bookmakers.
- The Tigers have been victorious in 33, or 39.8%, of the 83 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- This season, Detroit has come away with a win 22 times in 48 chances when named as an underdog of at least +130 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have an implied victory probability of 43.5% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- Detroit is the third-lowest scoring team in MLB play averaging 3.9 runs per game (406 total).
- Tigers pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.53 ERA this year, which ranks 22nd in MLB.
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These five players are most likely to leave New York as college football's most outstanding player.
Caleb Williams, QB, Southern California
Can Caleb Williams repeat the feat? Williams passed for 4,537 yards (third nationally) and 42 touchdowns (which led the nation) with five interceptions in his first season at Southern California after following head coach Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma. Eleven other Heisman Trophy winners have failed to take home another since Archie Griffin did it in 1975. He remains the only two-time winner.
Jordan Travis, QB, Florida State
Jordan Travis certainly has elevated his profile since transferring from Louisville in 2019. He is one of only four active players with at least 5,500 career passing yards and at least 1,700 career rushing yards. He's also the only active player to score at least seven rushing touchdowns in three straight seasons. His 1,784 career rushing yards and 24 rushing touchdowns are a nice complement to his 5,959 passing yards and 46 passing touchdowns.
Drake Maye, QB, North Carolina
Somewhat by surprise, Drake Maye became one of the nation's best quarterbacks as a redshirt freshman last season. His 4,321 passing yards in 2022 broke the single-season school record, and his 698 rushing yards led the Tar Heels. Although his team fizzled down the stretch (North Carolina lost its final four games after a 9-1 start), Maye still earned Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year honors. North Carolina isn't a place where Heisman winners grow on trees, so Maye will need to continue to impress to gain favor from voters.
Blake Corum, RB, Michigan
Blake Corum was a Heisman contender in 2022 before a late-season knee injury. Despite missing the Big Ten Conference title game and College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl, Corum still finished with 1,463 rushing yards, 18 rushing touchdowns and a receiving touchdown.
Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio State
Marvin Harrison Jr. is arguably the best receiver in college football entering the 2023 season. His performance alone against Georgia in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Peach Bowl (five catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns in the first half) left an impression on Heisman voters. If Ohio State finds a quarterback who can pick up where C.J. Stroud left off, Harrison should have no problem besting his 1,263 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns from last season. | https://www.wptv.com/sports/college-sports/5-heisman-hopefuls-for-2023-college-football-season | 2023-07-29T15:38:11 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/sports/college-sports/5-heisman-hopefuls-for-2023-college-football-season |
Germany vs. Colombia: Women’s World Cup Group H Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 30
In the second round of Group H matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Germany (coming off a 6-0 win over Morocco) plays Colombia (off a 2-0 win against South Korea) at 5:30 AM ET on Sunday, July 30.
Germany is -431 to win this group-stage game, Colombia is +1067, and the draw is +504. This match has an over/under of 2.5 goals. The under is currently +104, and the over is -138.
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Germany vs. Colombia Game Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 5:30 AM ET
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Venue: Sydney Football Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Germany Moneyline: -431
- Colombia Moneyline: +1067
Germany vs. Colombia World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams score a combined eight goals per game, 5.5 more than this match's total.
- These two teams allow a combined zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Germany has been listed as a moneyline favorite only one other time so far this tournament, and won.
- Germany has played as a moneyline favorite of -431 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Colombia won the only game it has played as an underdog this tournament.
- Colombia has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +1067 moneyline set for this game.
Germany World Cup Stats
Colombia World Cup Stats
- In one Women's World Cup match for Colombia, Catalina Usme has tallied one goal (10th in Women's World Cup play).
- Linda Caicedo has scored one goal for Colombia in Women's World Cup.
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Germany vs. Colombia Recent Performance
- So far this year, Germany is 3-1-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup participants, with a goal differential of +6. In 2022, it was 6-1-4 in such matches (+11 goal differential).
- Germany took on Morocco in its last match and earned a win by a final score of 6-0. The victorious Germany side took 15 shots, outshooting by 10.
- Popp scored two of her club's goals to lead the team against .
- So far this year, Colombia is 3-2-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup teams, with a goal differential of +1. In 2022, it was 5-2-3 in such matches (0 goal differential).
- Colombia claimed a 2-0 victory versus South Korea on July 24 in its last match. Colombia outshot South Korea 15 to four.
- Caicedo and Usme each registered a goal for Colombia.
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Quarterback Joe Burrow is out for several weeks with a calf injury. And, as coach Zac Taylor made it clear on Friday, several weeks means (drum roll) several weeks.
With only two healthy quarterbacks in camp and plenty of throws to be made in practice and plenty of reps to be taken during the preseason, the Bengals will work out a pair of former XFL quarterbacks.
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, the Bengals will work out Reid Sinnett and Drew Plitt.
Sinnett, who played college football at the University of San Diego, has spent time with the Buccaneers, Dolphins, and Eagles. He played for the San Antonio Brahmas of the XFL.
Plitt, from Ball State, spent time last year with the Bengals and played for the Arlington Renegades of the XFL.
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BALTIMORE, Md, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Lupin) is voluntarily recalling two (2) lots of Tydemy (Drospirenone, Ethinyl Estradiol and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 3mg/0.03mg/0.451 mg and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 0.451 mg) to the patient (consumer/user) level due to out of specification (OOS) test results at the 12-month stability time point. Specifically, one lot (L200183) tested low for ascorbic acid (an inactive ingredient) and high for a known impurity.
To date, Lupin has received no reports of adverse events related to either recalled lots. Regardless, Lupin is recalling two lots because if there were a significant reduction in the amount of inactive content (ascorbic acid), this could potentially impact the effectiveness of the product which could potentially result in unexpected pregnancy.
Tydemy is estrogen/progestin oral contraceptive (COC) indicated for use by women to prevent pregnancy and to raise folate levels in women who choose to use an oral contraceptive for contraception. Tydemy is packaged in 28's blister. One such blister was then packed in a pouch along with one printed sleeve, one pack insert (with day label) and one oxygen absorber (Stabilox) sachet. The three pouches were packed in one carton.
The lots were distributed nationwide in the US to wholesalers, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets. The recalled lots are included in the table below:
Lupin is notifying its wholesalers, distributors, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets by phone and through recall notification and is arranging for the return of all the recalled product lots.
Patients taking, Tydemy are advised to continue taking their medication and immediately contact their pharmacist, physician, or medical provider for advice regarding an alternative treatment.
Wholesalers, distributors and retailers that have Tydemy that is being recalled should discontinue distribution of the recalled product lots immediately.
Consumers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers with questions regarding this recall should contact Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc. at (866) 480-8206 Monday – Friday 09:00 am to 05:00 pm EST. For reimbursement, please have the recalled lots returned to Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc.; the lot number can be found on the side of the carton. Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to taking or using this drug product.
Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm
- Regular Mail or Fax: Download form www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178.
This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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About Lupin Pharmaceuticals
Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is the U.S. based wholly-owned subsidiary of Lupin Limited and is the 3rd largest pharmaceutical company in the U.S. based on total prescriptions. Together, all Lupin-owned entities combine to make up the 8th largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world by revenue size. Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is dedicated to delivering high-quality medications across many treatment areas. Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s branded pharmaceuticals division, is the provider of products designed to help prevent and manage women's health conditions with serious health consequences.
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McDonald's to debut new spinoff restaurant concept called CosMc's next year
McDonald's is working on a spinoff restaurant. It's called CosMc's.
CEO Chris Kempczinski told analysts on an earnings call Thursday that the small-format concept restaurant will have "all the DNA of McDonald's, but its own unique personality."
The name of the new restaurant stems from a six-armed alien character that appeared in the company's advertisements from the 1980s.
The fast food giant will debut the new concept in a "small handful of sites in a limited geography beginning early next year," a McDonald's spokesperson told FOX Business.
MCDONALD'S GETS SALES BOOST FROM GRIMACE, HIGHER MENU PRICES
Kempczinski didn't elaborate on the company's plans. However, McDonald's will have more information about development plans and new format innovations at its investor day in December.
A car is seen leaving a McDonalds restaurant in San Leandro, California, on April 28, 2022. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The company appears to be riding off of the strong momentum it's seeing in the U.S., where consumers have remained largely resilient.
Kempczinski said the company is gaining a share of higher-income customers who are trading down from sit-down restaurants. Customers with incomes of $45,000 or lower are spending less on each order, but are coming in more often, he said.
"There is certainly concern with the US consumer that shows up in their sentiment, but our business and our value positioning in the market has put us into a good position to be able to weather that and continue to drive the share gains that you’re seeing," Kempczinski said.
A tray with a Big Mac, french fries and a drink is seen on a table in a McDonald's restaurant on Nov. 9, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Same-store sales in the U.S. more than doubled, rising 10.3% in the quarter compared with a 3.7% rise a year earlier.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Miami Marlins (56-48) and Detroit Tigers (46-58) matching up at LoanDepot park has a projected final score of 6-5 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Marlins, who is listed as a slight favorite by our model. The game will start at 4:10 PM ET on July 29.
The Marlins will give the ball to Johnny Cueto (0-1, 4.50 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 1 on the season, and the Tigers will counter with Beau Brieske.
Marlins vs. Tigers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: LoanDepot park in Miami, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
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Marlins vs. Tigers Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Marlins 6, Tigers 5.
Total Prediction for Marlins vs. Tigers
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Marlins Performance Insights
- The Marlins have played as the favorite in six of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Miami and its opponents are 5-5-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Marlins' last 10 games.
- The Marlins have won 31, or 66%, of the 47 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Miami has entered 25 games this season favored by -155 or more and is 21-4 in those contests.
- The Marlins have a 60.8% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Miami is among the lowest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking 26th with just 428 total runs (4.1 per game) this season.
- The Marlins have a 4.11 team ERA that ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
Tigers Performance Insights
- The Tigers have played as the underdog in six of their past 10 games and have gone 1-5 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, Detroit and its foes are 4-5-1 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Tigers' previous 10 contests have not had a runline posted by bookmakers.
- The Tigers have been victorious in 33, or 39.8%, of the 83 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- This season, Detroit has come away with a win 22 times in 48 chances when named as an underdog of at least +130 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have an implied victory probability of 43.5% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- Detroit is the third-lowest scoring team in MLB play averaging 3.9 runs per game (406 total).
- Tigers pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.53 ERA this year, which ranks 22nd in MLB.
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Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years following conviction for trafficking heroin
Singapore executed a woman for the first time in 19 years on Friday, marking the city-state's second death by hanging this week for convicted drug traffickers.
Saridewi Djamani, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly 31 grams of pure heroin, according to the Central Narcotics Bureau. The agency described the amount as "sufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week."
Despite calls from activists to end capital punishment for drug-related crimes, Singapore mandates the death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis and 15 grams of heroin.
Two days before Djamani's execution, 56-year-old Mohammed Aziz Hussain was executed by hanging for trafficking approximately 50 grams of heroin, and another drug trafficker is set to be executed next week, the Associated Press reported.
SINGAPORE EXECUTES MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY CONSPIRED TO TRAFFIC 2 POUNDS OF CANNABIS
Buildings in Singapore, on Monday, June 5, 2023. Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Both Djamani and Hussain were given due process, according to the Central Narcotics Bureau, which allegedly includes appeals of their conviction and sentence, and petition for clemency.
The last known time a woman was hanged in Singapore was in 2004 when 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen was executed for drug trafficking.
The city-state has been asked to do away with executions for drug offenses by human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations, all of whom say evidence shows that capital punishment does not deter illegal drug activity.
Singapore authorities disagree with those findings and insist the death sentences are important in slowing drug demand and supply, according to the AP.
WORLDWIDE EXECUTIONS INCREASED BY 53% IN 2022
Singapore authorities have ignored pleas from human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations to put a halt on executions for drug-related offenses. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The execution set for Aug. 3 is for a former delivery driver convicted in 2019 of trafficking around 50 grams of heroin, according to Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore group that advocates to abolish capital punishment.
The man maintained in his trial that he thought he was delivering contraband cigarettes for a friend he owed money to, adding that he trusted his friend, so he didn't check the bag's contents. Though the court determined him to be a courier, he still had to be given the death penalty under Singapore's laws, the group said.
If his execution takes place as scheduled, it would be the city-state's fifth this year.
Human rights groups say 15 people have been executed in Singapore for drug offenses since hangings resumed in March 2022, an average of one a month.
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How to Watch the Marlins vs. Tigers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Luis Arraez and the Miami Marlins will see Beau Brieske starting for the Detroit Tigers on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
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Marlins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Marlins are third-worst in MLB play with 93 home runs.
- Miami ranks 20th in MLB, slugging .398.
- The Marlins' .264 batting average is fourth-best in the majors.
- Miami is the fifth-lowest scoring team in MLB action, averaging 4.1 runs per game (428 total).
- The Marlins rank 13th in baseball with an on-base percentage of .320.
- The Marlins strike out eight times per game to rank seventh in baseball.
- Miami's pitching staff ranks third in MLB with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Miami's 4.11 team ERA ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Marlins average MLB's 12th-ranked WHIP (1.267).
Tigers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Tigers rank 26th in Major League Baseball with just 96 home runs as a team.
- Detroit is 29th in MLB with a slugging percentage of only .365 this season.
- The Tigers have a team batting average of just .231 this season, which ranks 28th among MLB teams.
- Detroit is among the lowest scoring teams in baseball, ranking 28th with just 406 total runs (3.9 per game) this season.
- The Tigers have an on-base percentage of .299 this season, which ranks 28th in the league.
- The Tigers rank 18th in strikeouts per game (8.9) among MLB offenses.
- Detroit strikes out 8.4 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 21st in MLB.
- Detroit has pitched to a 4.53 ERA this season, which ranks 22nd in baseball.
- Tigers pitchers have a 1.253 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
Marlins Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Marlins are sending Johnny Cueto (0-1) to make his third start of the season.
- His most recent appearance was on Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, when the righty tossed six innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing two hits.
Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Tigers will send Brieske to the mound for his first start this season.
- The 25-year-old righty has pitched in relief five times already this season, but will make his first start.
Marlins Schedule
Tigers Schedule
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Lubbock entertainment in brief
Queen tribute coming to Cactus
One Night of Queen will be in the Hub City for one performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1, at the Cactus Theater.
Gary Mullen & The Works (featuring Mullen on vocals, David Brockett on guitar, Billy Moffat on bass, Malcolm Gentles on keyboards and Jon Halliwell on drums) will have you dancing in the aisles during their two-hour show, while the band pays tribute to the stage theatrics, showmanship and music of Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees, Queen.
For more than two decades, Gary Mullen & The Works have performed to sold-out audiences around the world, playing more than 2,500 live shows to audiences in over 20 countries around the globe.
Reserved seat tickets for this show include $49 for floor rows A-F; $45 for remaining floor rows G-M and ADA; $39 for standard balcony; and $90 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
High Noon Concert Series continues
Lubbock County presents its annual High Noon Summer Concert series 2023 every Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. at the courthouse gazebo and lawn.
This free event includes $50 cash drawings. It is free to enter, but you must be present to win. Only one ticket is allowed per person.
Performance schedule includes:
Aug. 2: D.G. Flewellyn
Aug. 9: Jenni Dale Lord
In addition, there will be various food trucks available including Chilly Lily's, J&D Bar-B-Que and Catering, Mi Cocina, and Grub Gauntlet.
For more information, email commissionerscourt@lubbockcounty.gov or call (806) 775-1335.
Buddy Holly Center hosting Summer Showcase
The Buddy Holly Center, 1801 Crickets Ave., is hosting its Summer Showcase at 5:30 p.m. every Thursday through Aug. 17.
In addition to viewing the concerts, guests are encouraged to visit Buddy Holly exhibitions and the Fine Arts Gallery during Summer Showcase hours with free admission.
This week's entertainment will feature Jeremy Coture and his band.
Upcoming performances include:
Aug. 3: Marco's Crew
Aug. 10: Mouse Shadow
Aug. 17: Phlip Coggins
For more information, visit https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/departments/buddy-holly-center/summer-showcase-2023
Moonlight Musicals presents 'Oklahoma!'
Moonlight Musicals presents "Oklahoma!" Aug. 3-5, 10-12, and 17-19, at the Moonlight Musicals Amphitheater, 413 E. Broadway. Performances begin at 8 p.m.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre.
In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story.
Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination and the promise of a new land.
General admission tickets are $21 and available online at selectaseatlubbock.com or https://moonlightmusicals.com/
Van Halen tribute to perform at Cactus
Fan Halen, one of the world's most authentic tributes to Van Halen, is set to rock the Cactus Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4.
Fan Halen sets the stage for a night with Dave, Eddie, Alex and Michael with a true-to-life tribute to not only the band but the spirit of an era.
Based in Southern California, Fan Halen has been together more than 10 years playing to enthusiastic crowds all over the US as well as the globe including Europe, Japan, South and Central America, Canada and Mexico.
Reserved seat tickets include $27.50 for floor rows A-F; $25 for remaining floor rows G-M; $22.50 for standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Ranching Heritage Center to host inaugural Ranch Verse
Join cowboy songster Andy Hedges and special guests, Boots O’Neal, Randy Rieman, Dave Stamey, Red Steagall, and Andy Wilkinson, for a day of Western storytelling, song and poetry at the inaugural Ranch Verse on Saturday, Aug. 5.
"Ranch Verse will feature a variety of programming that will include working cowboy stories, cowboy poetry, western music, and discussions of ranch culture,” host Andy Hedges shared.
Daytime events will be free to the public and take place from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) in Lubbock. A special welcome performance of cowboy poetry, range ballads, and storytelling by Red Steagall, Andy Wilkinson, Randy Rieman, and Dave Stamey will kick off the day from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
From 1 to 2 p.m., visitors will have the opportunity to hear a live, onstage interview with Four Sixes Ranch cowboy and Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award recipient Boots O’Neal for broadcast on the Cowboy Crossroads podcast with Andy Hedges.
Randy Reiman will take the stage from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. to present the illustrated letters of cowboy artist Charles M. Russell through slides, commentary, and the spoken word.
Daytime events will conclude with a discussion from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. featuring Red Steagall, Andy Hedges and Dave Stamey on the poetry, music, and art emerging out of Western culture.
To learn more about Ranch Verse, visit bit.ly/ranchverse. For questions, contact (806) 742-0498.
Annual Hub City Beach Party set for Aug. 5
The 18th annual Hub City Beach Party is set for 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Depot Padio.
The event is a fundraiser for FosterALife, which provides services and opportunities to foster children as well as any abused or neglected child who has been involved with Texas DFPS in Lubbock County and the 17 surrounding counties.
Beach Party includes festive, beach related activities such as live music, a hula hoop competition, a treasure hunt (The Lost Shaker of Salt), a live auction and more. Food and souvenirs will be available for purchase.
By popular demand, the Florida band named "The Landsharks" is returning. This band is identified as a Jimmy Buffett tribute band, but they have a varied play list. They play with Jimmy Buffett as well as open for some of his shows. The Landsharks have also opened for acts such as Patti LaBelle, Three Dog Night, War and The Beach Boys. Jimmy Buffett was quoted as saying,
General admission tickets are $20 and may be purchased by calling the Select-a-Seat Box Office at (806) 770-2000 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets may also be purchased online at selectaseatlubbock.com
Cactus hosts Ranch Verse concert
The National Ranching Heritage Center, in association with Cactus Theater, present an evening concert to cap an exciting day of activities celebrating western culture.
The concert features Red Steagall, Dave Stamey and Andy Hedges. The trio is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Cactus Theater.
Steagall has held celebrity status since the 1970s as a Western entertainer who emphasizes ranch life, Western heritage and cowboy values. He has spent a lifetime telling the story of ranching through his music, poetry and syndicated radio and television shows.
Hedges is a songster, reciter, storyteller, guitarist, and collector of cowboy songs and poems.
In the past two decades, Stamey has recorded eleven albums of original music, travelled literally hundreds of thousands of miles and performed thousands of shows doing just that.
Reserved seat tickets for this show include $35 for the first six floor rows, A-F; $30 for remaining floor rows G-M; $25 for standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Latin Breed to perform at Buddy Holly Hall
Latin Breed brings a Tejano Night to Remember to the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 11.
Considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the most important and influential bands in the history of Tejano music, the Latin Breed is one of the most distinctive Tejano bands to survive the Chicano/Tejano renaissance.
Born on the south side of San Antonio, the group was formed in 1969.
“A Tejano Night to Remember” features Bobby G. and the Galaxy Band with special guest Arturo Sedeno.
Presented by Tony Jaramillo and the Garcia Familia Reunion, this is a bi-lingual performance.
Tickets for this performance range from $35 to $100 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Bannister to perform at Cactus
Will Bannister brings his full band to the Cactus Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 11.
From New Mexico, but raised about 20 miles from the Texas line, Bannister grew up with the sounds of Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, George Strait and Brooks and Dunn.
Bannister has performed all over the country, in addition to multiple tours in the UK and Europe. His latest album, “Everything Burns”, consists of 11 songs, 10 of which were either written or co-written by Bannister.
Tickets for this concert are $20 for all floor and standard balcony; and $40 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Caldwell pays tribute to Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Chicago
Caldwell Entertainment presents a tribute to Journey, Fleetwood Mac and Chicago at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, at the Cactus Theater.
Caldwell Collective singers Jason Fellers, Brandon Gwinn, Jeff McCrieght, Sheena Fadeyi and Kassidy King will be joined by musicians Ross Raedeke, Devin Collins, Jay Saldana and West Texas legend John Sprott.
It’s not Chicago unless there are horns. Featured will be Grady Alberts and Brian Felty in the brass section to bring the house down.
Reserved seat tickets are $25 for all floor and standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
'Liberty Valance' on stage at Buddy Holly Hall
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15 and 16, in the Crickets Theater of Buddy Holly Hall.
Produced and performed by an independent cast of Lubbockites, the production was written by Jethro Compton and based on the short story by Dorothy M. Johnson.
Journey into the Wild West, 1890 in this classic story of good versus evil, law versus the gun, one man versus Liberty Valance. A stage play telling of love, hope and revenge set against the vicious backdrop of a lawless society.
This production is for mature audiences as it contains strong language, simulated gunshots, alcohol and tobacco consumption and racially motivated violence.
Reserved seat tickets for this production are $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors (plus taxes and fees).For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Robison to perform at Buddy Holly Hall
Buddy Holly Hall hosts Charlie Robison in concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, in the Helen Devitt Jones Theater.
It was a natural fit for the Bandera native to take the stage as the 44th artist to record for the Live at Billy Bob’s Texas music series. Recorded in August of 2012, Robison delighted his fans at the world’s largest honky tonk with their favorites, including “El Cerrito Place,” “My Hometown,” “Barlight,” southern rock anthem, “They Call Me the Breeze” and even a special rendition of Elton John’s “Rocket Man.”
Throughout his career and eight albums later, Charlie Robison has forged his own path within the country music world as well as the Lone Star music scene.
Reserved seat tickets for this show range form $35 to $69 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Del Castillo returns to Cactus
Del Castillo returns to the Cactus Theater at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19.
The cross-cultural power unites music lovers of all ages, creeds and colors.
Their original music blends rock, Latin, blues and world music into a cinematic celebration of sound that lifts your soul.
The group has been honored with multiple Austin Music Awards and the Austin Latin Music Association.
Reserved seat tickets include $27.50 for first four floor rows A-D; $25 for remaining floor seats; $22.50 for standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which includes concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Rocker Cooper coming to Buddy Holly Hall
Classic rocker Alice Cooper brings his Too Close for Comfort tour to the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly Hall at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20.
Cooper brings his own brand of rock psychodrama to fans both old and new, enjoying it as much as his audiences. Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock.
Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors. Cooper was discovered in 1969 by Frank Zappa in Los Angeles, where he signed them to his record label.
Some of Cooper's hits include "Schools Out", "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and "Poison".
Reserved seat tickets range from $46.50 to $99.50 (plus taxes and fees) depending on seating.
There are also several VIP package options available that include front-row seating, autographed memorabilia and more.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.buddyhollyhall.com/
Bruno Mars tribute to perform at Cactus
24 Magic, a touring tribute to Bruno Mars, will rock the Cactus Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug 25.
Their high-energy show will have you singing and dancing to all the hits you know and love, like “Uptown Funk”, “Locked Out of Heaven” - and, of course - “24K Magic.”
Tickets for this show are $27.50 for the first four floor rows, A-D; $25 for remaining floor rows; $22.50 for standard balcony; and $50 for balcony box seats, which includes concessions.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit cactustheater.com
Jelly Roll coming to USA
Jelly Roll has announced a 44-date headlining tour and will be taking the stage at the United Supermarkets Arena at 7 p.m. on Aug. 29, with his Backroad Baptism Tour 2023.
Jason Bradley DeFord, known professionally as Jelly Roll, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter known for his collaborations with Lil Wyte, Struggle Jennings, and Tech N9ne In 2023, he won three CMT Music Awards for the song "Son of a Sinner".
Before his transition into country music with 2023's Whitsitt Chapel album, Jelly Roll launched his career in hip hop.
Tickets for this show range from $21 to $650 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating and VIP package features.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit selectaseatlubbock.com
LSO pays tribute to Queen of Soul
The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra opens its 2023-24 season with a tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.The performance is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, in the Helen Devitt Jones Theater of Buddy Holly Hall.
From “Respect” to “Chain of Fools” and “Amazing Grace,” the powerhouse vocals of Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw will lead us to reminisce over Aretha Franklin’s greatest hits. This high-energy performance will have you dancing in your seat and singing along.
Vocalists will be Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw.
Tickets for this show range from $22.50 to $67.50 (plus taxes and fees), depending on seating. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.buddyhollyhall.com
Tesh brings Big Band Live to Cactus
John Tesh brings his Big Band Live tour to the Cactus Theater at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9.
Over the course of 50 recordings and numerous popular PBS specials spread over a quarter-century, Tesh has never failed to inspire masses of fans with his always-evolving musical muses.
Launching with his Emmy-winning, synth-driven sports music, he conquered the emerging smooth jazz genre in the ’90s with his saxophone series and later became a force in the CCM/Worship world with best-selling recordings that found inventive musical ways to share his deep faith.
Reserved seat tickets are $59 for floor rows A-F; $49 for remaining floor rows G-M; $39 for standard balcony; and $98 for balcony box seats, which include concessions.
There are also 50 meet-and-greet option tickets available for an additional $50 charge to the ticket price. The VIP patrons will meet in the lobby at 6:15 p.m. for the pre-show meet and greet with Tesh.
Note: This is the same date as the Texas Tech vs. Oregon football game.
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Germany vs. Colombia: Women’s World Cup Group H Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 30
In the second round of Group H matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Germany (coming off a 6-0 win over Morocco) plays Colombia (off a 2-0 win against South Korea) at 5:30 AM ET on Sunday, July 30.
Germany is -431 to win this group-stage game, Colombia is +1067, and the draw is +504. This match has an over/under of 2.5 goals. The under is currently +104, and the over is -138.
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Germany vs. Colombia Game Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 5:30 AM ET
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Venue: Sydney Football Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Germany Moneyline: -431
- Colombia Moneyline: +1067
Germany vs. Colombia World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams score a combined eight goals per game, 5.5 more than this match's total.
- These two teams allow a combined zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Germany has been listed as a moneyline favorite only one other time so far this tournament, and won.
- Germany has played as a moneyline favorite of -431 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Colombia won the only game it has played as an underdog this tournament.
- Colombia has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +1067 moneyline set for this game.
Germany World Cup Stats
Colombia World Cup Stats
- In one Women's World Cup match for Colombia, Catalina Usme has tallied one goal (10th in Women's World Cup play).
- Linda Caicedo has scored one goal for Colombia in Women's World Cup.
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Germany vs. Colombia Recent Performance
- So far this year, Germany is 3-1-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup participants, with a goal differential of +6. In 2022, it was 6-1-4 in such matches (+11 goal differential).
- Germany took on Morocco in its last match and earned a win by a final score of 6-0. The victorious Germany side took 15 shots, outshooting by 10.
- Popp scored two of her club's goals to lead the team against .
- So far this year, Colombia is 3-2-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup teams, with a goal differential of +1. In 2022, it was 5-2-3 in such matches (0 goal differential).
- Colombia claimed a 2-0 victory versus South Korea on July 24 in its last match. Colombia outshot South Korea 15 to four.
- Caicedo and Usme each registered a goal for Colombia.
Germany Roster
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. (KTVI) – A rideshare driver in Illinois was supposed to take Kristina Caruso home early on Saturday morning. Instead, Caruso said the driver ordered her out at a gas station at about 2:30 a.m.
Things only got stranger after that.
Caruso had earlier ordered an Uber to pick her up outside a friend’s home in Belleville, Illinois. Being a “very cautious person,” she took a screengrab from her Uber app before going outside to meet a driver named “Sara” who pulled up in a black Dodge Avenger.
“I always snapshot my driver before they pick me up to send to who I’m with,” Caruso said.
Caruso’s friend Katie walked her outside to the car.
“It was dark, but the car looked like what was supposed to be picking me up,” Caruso said. “It took me a second to realize we were going the wrong way because it was dark out. I was in the back seat not really paying attention, and then we pulled into a gas station. She pulled up, and she said, ‘Your payment didn’t go through. Get out!’”
Caruso said she knew her payment went through because it showed up on her account as an Uber charge that she also screengrabbed. She said the driver was adamant that she get out.
“There were two men to my right and one man to my left,” Caruso said. “As soon as I got out of the car, they were asking me if needed a ride. They were asking me to get in their car.”
Thankfully, her friend Katie Davis was tracking her on her iPhone. When Davis walked out of her house to go pick up Caruso, she found another Uber parked outside.
“He asked if I was Kristina, and I explained to him, no, that another Uber picked her up and then dropped her off at this location,” Davis said. “He said, ‘That was very strange — that it doesn’t show she was ever picked up and that she was still needing a ride.’”
“I’m wondering who the hell picked me up,” Caruso said.
Uber refunded her payment, and when Nexstar’s KTVI called for a comment, the company gave her an additional $15 to use later. But Caruso wants more answers about rider safety.
KTVI found a recent case in Kansas City over which attorney Andy Smith, of Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, is suing. He alleges an Uber left his client on the side of Interstate 35 back in November.
“[She was stranded] in a manner that really left her with no options but to walk along the highway to try to get somewhere,” Smith said. “She was trying to do that and was struck by another party and killed.
“It sent chills down my spine,” Caruso said, “because I got lucky.”
Caruso hopes video surveillance at the gas station can reveal who the mysterious driver was. The screenshot she took offers one of the few clues, but it shows a plate number with at least one too many digits to be legitimate. And that trip, she said, no longer shows up in her history.
“It completely disappeared from the Uber app after I was dropped off,” Caruso said. “There’s zero evidence of it other than I always screenshot my rides. The actual Uber driver who came — not knowing somebody else had grabbed me — that trip is still in the app, available, and it looks like a canceled ride because I wasn’t there to be picked up.”
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Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening’s supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this ... hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening’s supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this ... hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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TOKYO – Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.
On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: “It's a miracle."
The flag, known as “Yosegaki Hinomaru,” or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier's name, Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, and the signatures of his relatives, friends and neighbors wishing him luck. It was given to him before he was drafted by the Army. His family was later told he died in Saipan, but his remains were never returned.
The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Its meaning was not known until it was identified by the family earlier this year, said the museum director Steve Banta, who brought the flag to Tokyo.
Banta said he learned the story behind the flag earlier this year when he was contacted by the Obon Society, a nonprofit organization that has returned about 500 similar flags as non-biological remains, to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.
The search for the flag's original owner started in April when a museum visitor took a photo and asked an expert about the description that it had belonged to a “kamikaze” suicide pilot. When Shigeyoshi Mutsuda's grandson saw the photo, he sought help from the Obon Society, group co-founder Keiko Ziak said.
“When we learned all of this, and that the family would like to have the flag, we knew immediately that the flag did not belong to us,” Banta said at the handover ceremony. “We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.”
The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when Banta, wearing white gloves, gently placed the neatly folded flag into his hands. Two of his younger siblings, both in their 80s, stood by and looked on silently. The three children, all wearing cotton gloves so they wouldn't damage the decades-old flag, carefully unfolded it to show to the audience.
The soldier's daughter, Misako Matsukuchi, touched the flag with both hands and prayed. “After nearly 80 years, the spirit of our father returned to us. I hope he can finally rest in peace," Matsukuchi said later.
Toshihiro Mutsuda said his memory of his father was foggy. However, he clearly remembers his mother, Masae Mutsuda, who died five years ago at age 102, used to make the long-distance bus trip almost every year from the farming town in Gifu, central Japan, to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are enshrined, to pay tribute to her husband's spirit.
The shrine is controversial, as it includes convicted war criminals among those commemorated. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japanese militarism. However, for the Mutsuda family, it's a place to remember the loss of a father and husband.
“It’s like an old love story across the ages coming together ... It doesn’t matter where,” Banta said, referring to the Yasukuni controversy. “The important thing is this flag goes to the family.”
That’s why Toshihiro Mutsuda and his siblings chose to receive the flag at Yasukuni and brought the framed photos of their parents.
“My mother missed him and wanted to see him so much and that's why she used to pray here," Toshihiro Mutsuda said. “Today her wish finally came true, and she was able to be reunited.”
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BALTIMORE, Md, July 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Lupin) is voluntarily recalling two (2) lots of Tydemy (Drospirenone, Ethinyl Estradiol and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 3mg/0.03mg/0.451 mg and Levomefolate Calcium Tablets 0.451 mg) to the patient (consumer/user) level due to out of specification (OOS) test results at the 12-month stability time point. Specifically, one lot (L200183) tested low for ascorbic acid (an inactive ingredient) and high for a known impurity.
To date, Lupin has received no reports of adverse events related to either recalled lots. Regardless, Lupin is recalling two lots because if there were a significant reduction in the amount of inactive content (ascorbic acid), this could potentially impact the effectiveness of the product which could potentially result in unexpected pregnancy.
Tydemy is estrogen/progestin oral contraceptive (COC) indicated for use by women to prevent pregnancy and to raise folate levels in women who choose to use an oral contraceptive for contraception. Tydemy is packaged in 28's blister. One such blister was then packed in a pouch along with one printed sleeve, one pack insert (with day label) and one oxygen absorber (Stabilox) sachet. The three pouches were packed in one carton.
The lots were distributed nationwide in the US to wholesalers, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets. The recalled lots are included in the table below:
Lupin is notifying its wholesalers, distributors, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets by phone and through recall notification and is arranging for the return of all the recalled product lots.
Patients taking, Tydemy are advised to continue taking their medication and immediately contact their pharmacist, physician, or medical provider for advice regarding an alternative treatment.
Wholesalers, distributors and retailers that have Tydemy that is being recalled should discontinue distribution of the recalled product lots immediately.
Consumers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers with questions regarding this recall should contact Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc. at (866) 480-8206 Monday – Friday 09:00 am to 05:00 pm EST. For reimbursement, please have the recalled lots returned to Inmar Rx Solutions, Inc.; the lot number can be found on the side of the carton. Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to taking or using this drug product.
Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm
- Regular Mail or Fax: Download form www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178.
This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is the U.S. based wholly-owned subsidiary of Lupin Limited and is the 3rd largest pharmaceutical company in the U.S. based on total prescriptions. Together, all Lupin-owned entities combine to make up the 8th largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world by revenue size. Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is dedicated to delivering high-quality medications across many treatment areas. Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s branded pharmaceuticals division, is the provider of products designed to help prevent and manage women's health conditions with serious health consequences.
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WASHINGTON – Pamela Smith’s voice soared and quivered like a preacher in midsermon as she recalled her troubled childhood and how it helped prepare her for the challenges she faces as the new police chief in the nation's capital.
“I stand before you as a child who had no hopes, who had no dreams — they were far beyond my reach. But I believe that all things are possible,” she said at her introductory news conference in Washington, in cadences honed by years as an ordained Baptist minister. “I believe I bring a fresh perspective, a different kind of energy, a different level of passion to what I’m going to do.”
Smith takes on the job at a precarious time.
Violent crime is rising sharply, fueled by more homicides and carjackings. The District of Columbia's mayor, Muriel Bowser, and the D.C. Council have, at times, been at odds about crime legislation. On Capitol Hill, the Republican-led House has begun citing the city's crime statistics while aggressively reviewing local public safety laws.
On July 24, the Mexican Consulate posted a tweet urging its nationals to "take precautions” in the city due to “a significant increase in crime in areas previously considered safe.”
Smith, 55, now becomes one of the public faces of this long-term fight even before the Council votes on her nomination as chief. She brings an inspirational story to her new role leading the Metropolitan Police Department. Raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, by a single mother who battled substance abuse, Smith and her siblings were at one point removed from their home and spent time in foster care. Smith emerged as a track star and went on to a 24-year career in the U.S. Park Police, where she served as the agency's first Black female chief before retiring in 2022 to take up a senior leadership position at the MPD.
Law enforcement and government officials repeatedly point out that overall crime numbers in Washington have stayed relatively stable. But the crimes that have increased the most — murders and carjackings — are the ones most likely to damage public confidence.
“The scariest crimes are going up and regardless of what’s happening with other crimes, that’s what’s going to fuel the overall perception,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves told The Associated Press.
Graves' office prosecutes most felonies in Washington, in a unique arrangement due to the district's status as a nonstate. The city's attorney general’s office prosecutes misdemeanors and juvenile crime, which is also on the rise.
This intricate dynamic among two separate sets of prosecutors, the city's police force, Bowser's administration and the Council has been publicly tested as the crime numbers have stayed high — all with Congress taking an increasing interest in the district's affairs. Public safety was a primary topic of debate last year when Bowser, 50, successfully ran for a third term in office. She has spent this term sparring with both the Council and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee over how best to address crime.
July has been a particular bloody month, with 22 homicides as of Friday, including murders on the campuses of both Howard and Catholic universities. The victims include an Afghan man who survived years of working as a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan only to be murdered in America while driving for Lyft. Nine people, including two children, were shot at a July Fourth party, when an assailant in an SUV opened fire on the crowd. A 12-year old girl remains hospitalized after being shot in the back Tuesday night by a bullet that penetrated the walls of her home.
Although the local murder rate is well below the levels in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Washington regularly led the nation in murders per capita, it has climbed steadily in recent years. In 2022, there was a roughly 10% drop in homicides, but now, homicides are up 15 percent compared with this time a year ago and the city is on pace to surpass 200 for the third year in a row. Police also reported 140 carjacking incidents in the month of June — the highest monthly total in more than five years.
Crime in Washington is now a national headline issue in Congress. In the spring, Bowser and Council members were summoned before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee for a heated session on local crime rates.
Congress voted to completely overturn the Council’s comprehensive rewrite of the district's criminal code. Bowser was caught in the middle of the dispute. She had vetoed the overhaul, saying the reduction of maximum penalties for certain violent crimes “sent the wrong message,” but was overridden by the Council.
The mayor opposes congressional intervention in local affairs as part of Washington's long push for statehood, but her initial veto was frequently cited by Republican lawmakers as proof that the rewrite was soft on crime. In an embarrassment for the heavily Democratic city, the move to cancel the criminal code revision drew support from dozens of congressional Democratic and was signed into law by President Joe Biden.
Earlier this month, the Council, with Bowser's support, passed emergency public safety legislation meant to serve as a temporary fix. The bill makes it a felony to fire a gun in public and makes it easier for judges, in cases where people are charged with a violent crime, to detain them before trial. As an emergency bill, the changes will only last 90 days and will not be subject to congressional review; plans to make the changes permanent in the fall will face scrutiny by lawmakers.
“It is no secret … to the public that we are in a state of emergency right now,” said Brooke Pinto, the D.C. Council member who was the bill's architect. “Like in any emergency, we have to act like it and we have to act urgently to address the problem we’re seeing.”
But some pushing for a criminal justice overhaul said city lawmakers were reverting to mass incarceration policies that had long ago been discredited.
“We're way beyond thinking that we can just incarcerate more people,” said Patrice Sulton, executive director of the D.C. Justice Lab, who helped draft the now-canceled criminal code revision. “I think everybody who voted for it knows that it will not have an impact.”
The local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement on Twitter that the new bill "essentially flips due process on its head — treating people as guilty and detaining them.”
All sides point to one primary factor fueling the violence: a flood to firearms entering Washington.
Graves, the district's federal prosecutor, said the number of guns being used in crimes has skyrocketed, turning petty disputes into deadly battles. This includes a new wave of “ghost guns” — firearms that can be ordered in kits and assembled at home. Other kits can easily turn a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic, enabling a rapid-fire and generally less accurate spray of dozens of bullets. In 2018, authorities recovered three such guns; in 2022, the number was 461.
Graves compared the illegal guns to “a virus" in the neighborhood.
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NIAMEY – The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government just as the coup leaders met with senior civil servants to discuss how they would run the country and as the U.S. and the European Union threatened sanctions against the regime.
Brig. Gen. Mohamed Toumba, one of the soldiers who ousted President Mohamed Bazoum on Wednesday, told state television that the junta met with civil servants on Friday and asked them to continue their work as usual following the suspension of the constitution. “The message given was not to stop the processes underway, to keep on with things,” said Brig. Gen. Toumba.
“Everything that must be done will be done,” he said, signaling the intention of the regime led by Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who also goes by Omar, to remain in power.
After its meeting on Friday, the African Union Peace and Security Council said it was concerned by the “alarming resurgence” of coups that undermine democracy and stability on the continent. It asked the soldiers to “return immediately and unconditionally to their barracks and restore constitutional authority, within a maximum of fifteen (15) days.”
Bazoum, whose condition and that of his officials remains unknown since the government was overthrown, should also be released immediately and unconditionally, the AU said. Failure to do so would compel the bloc to take “necessary action, including punitive measures against the perpetrators.”
On the streets of the Nigerien capital Niamey on Saturday, things appeared to be returning to normal, though many in the international community were still on lockdown with hotels full of foreigners, many given instructions not to leave.
Locals say they're waiting to see what unfolds, with many still in support of Bazoum who has not yet resigned. “I’m with him, he does a good work. (But) what can we do?” said Mohamed Cisse, a street seller. “This is (the new leader's) time, Bazoum’s time is over,” he said.
Tchiani, the junta leader and commander of Niger's presidential guard, is close to former Nigerien president Mahamadou Issoufou, who stepped down in 2021 after a decade in office. Tchiani's takeover of power will reinforce speculation that Issoufou is behind the coup, said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a German think tank and consultancy.
The U.S. threatened to halt its economic support to Niger while the European Union announced the immediate indefinite suspension of budgetary support and security assistance.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is in Australia as part of a Pacific tour, estimated America's economic and security partnership with Niger at hundreds of millions of dollars and said its continuity depends on “the continuation of the democratic governance and constitutional order.”
“So that assistance, that support, is in clear jeopardy as a result of these actions, which is another reason why they need to be immediately reversed," Blinken said.
While there are no signs of the junta backing down amid growing international pressure, analysts called for synergy in the interventions of the international community and continental organizations such as the AU and the regional bloc of ECOWAS, which is scheduled to meet over the coup on Sunday.
A successful coup in Niger and the sanctions in the aftermath could cause more hardship for millions of poor and hungry people in West Africa and could further threaten international relations with the region, which is seeing a resurgence of coups in recent years, according to Idayat Hassan, senior Africa program fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“A non-reversal of the coup also means that we are defining a new world order in West Africa in particular as you are pitching the west and other countries against few military regimes which may be backed by Russia,” said Hassan.
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Brandon Lowe Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Astros - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:31 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Tampa Bay Rays, including Brandon Lowe and his .571 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, battle starter Hunter Brown and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, Saturday at 7:15 PM ET.
He racked up three RBI (going 2-for-3 with a home run) in his last game against the Astros.
Brandon Lowe Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Brandon Lowe At The Plate
- Lowe is hitting .221 with 10 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs and 31 walks.
- Lowe has gotten a hit in 38 of 67 games this year (56.7%), including 11 multi-hit games (16.4%).
- He has gone deep in 17.9% of his games this season, and 4.5% of his chances at the plate.
- Lowe has picked up an RBI in 20 games this season (29.9%), with more than one RBI in 12 of those contests (17.9%).
- In 32.8% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had seven games with multiple runs (10.4%).
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Astros Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Astros has a collective 9.3 K/9, the sixth-best in the league.
- The Astros' 3.81 team ERA ranks third across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to allow 122 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 16th in the league).
- Brown makes the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts through 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, the righty went six innings, allowing two earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- The 24-year-old's 4.27 ERA ranks 46th, 1.320 WHIP ranks 48th, and 10.4 K/9 ranks 12th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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CANBERRA – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday pushed back against Australian demands for an end to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s prosecution, saying the Australian citizen was accused of “very serious criminal conduct” in publishing a trove of classified documents more than a decade ago.
Australia’s center-left Labor Party government has been arguing since winning the elections last year that the United States should end its pursuit of the 52-year-old, who has spent four years in a British prison fighting extradition to the United States.
Assange’s freedom is widely seen as a test of Australia’s leverage with President Joe Biden’s administration.
Blinken confirmed on Saturday that Assange had been discussed in annual talks with Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Brisbane, Australia.
“I understand the concerns and views of Australians. I think it’s very important that our friends here understand our concerns about this matter,” Blinken told reporters.
“Mr. Assange was charged with very serious criminal conduct in the United States in connection with his alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of our country,” he added.
Wong said Assange’s prosecution had “dragged for too long” and that Australia wanted the charges “brought to a conclusion.”
Australia remains ambiguous about whether the United States should drop the prosecution or strike a plea bargain.
Assange faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents in 2010.
American prosecutors allege he helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.
Australia argues there is a “disconnect” between the U.S. treatment of Assange and Manning. Then-U.S. President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017. | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/29/us-secretary-of-state-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime/ | 2023-07-29T15:42:14 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/07/29/us-secretary-of-state-tells-australia-that-wikileaks-founder-is-accused-of-very-serious-crime/ |
BRISBANE – Eugénie Le Sommer and Wendie Renard revived France’s Women’s World Cup ambitions with a goal each in a 2-1 win over Brazil on Saturday to give Les Bleues the lead in Group F.
After missing with a diving header in the 13th minute, Le Sommer scored her 90th international goal to extend her French record four minutes later with an emphatic header that gave Brazilian goalkeeper Leticia little chance.
Debinha equalized for Brazil as the hour approached and the game opened up as both teams pressed for a winner, the Brazilians desperate to end an 11-match winless streak against France.
But it was the set piece where French captain Renard clinched it, capitalizing on some poor defense.
Renard, who had been in doubt for the match with a calf injury she picked up in the lackluster 0-0 draw against Jamaica, was perfectly placed for a back-post header as the towering defender drifted to the edge of the box to meet a corner with a powerful header in the 83rd.
Hervé Renard has reassembled the French squad since taking over as coach, recalling veterans including Le Sommer and restoring the confidence of others like 33-year-old Renard.
After criticism of France's opening performance for its lack of adventure and flair, his veterans clicked when it counted against Brazil.
“She’s a leader of the team. She’s efficient at scoring goals like today,” the French coach said of his captain. “If she wasn’t able to play today, I’m sure it wouldn’t be the same. We were lucky to have her today, congratulations to her to give us the victory for this game.”
Brazil had opened with a thumping 4-0 win over Panama, with Ary Borges scoring three goals and providing the back-heel assist for one of the goals of the tournament.
Against a more disciplined defense, the Brazilians were mostly unable to finish despite creating ample opportunities.
Brazil coach Pia Sundhage said she was disappointed with her team's first half and inability to stick with the gameplan and not contesting quickly enough for possession. She said the failure to build cohesion in the first half was more of a problem for the team than the set-piece defense that conceded France's second goal.
“I'm more disappointed we couldn’t make this a game where we play like the Brazilian style,” she said.
Veteran forward Marta, returning from injury for her sixth World Cup, went on in the 86th minute but wasn’t able to inspire a winner for Brazil.
Le Sommer, who was among the veterans who missed selection for the European Championship last year under former coach Corinne Diacre, was in the thick of the early action for France.
The French started with high tempo and had three chances before Sakina Karchaoui’s long floating ball into the area found Kadidiatou Diani, who headed square for Le Sommer to finish off from directly in front.
But the Brazilians started to meet them for energy, helped by the majority of an almost 50,000-strong crowd.
Debinha equalized in the 58th, finishing off a quick passing movement into the area, controlling the ball with the outside of her leg before firing in a right-foot shot.
Le Sommer was replaced in the 66th Vicki Becho to add some fresh legs to the French attack.
Leticia pushed a hard strike over the crossbar to keep Brazil level and Selma Bacha hit the side netting with her shot from the right in the 75th, unable to break the deadlock for France.
Renard's late winner lifted France to four competition points, one more than Brazil ahead of the last group games on Wednesday. The French will play Panama in Sydney, and Brazil will take on Jamaica in Melbourne.
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You don't expect to walk into one of the world's great art museums and hear car horns honking.
It's a soundtrack for New Photography 2023, an ambitious new exhibit of 151 works at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) that seeks to capture the essence of Lagos, Nigeria, the bustling home to upward of 17 million people.
The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 16, is notable for other reasons. With seven photographers represented, the exhibit marks the first time MoMA has presented a group show by living West African photographers. And it's the launch of an ongoing series of exhibits that MoMa says will focus on "specific art scenes across the globe."
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, associate curator of MoMA's department of photography, who organized the show with the assistance of curatorial fellow Kaitlin Booher, welcomes the shift to international perspectives. "Lagos until now hasn't had a home at MoMA. Why not let this be the moment of encounter?"
What you'll encounter is a compelling collage of a massive cityscape whose clogged congestive sprawl co-exists with serene waterscapes and beaches, where ultra-modern skyscrapers tower over the abandoned buildings and artifacts of the colonial past — and where as many protesters as pedestrians sometimes fill the streets.
These contrasting photos create a conversation in the three galleries. In the first gallery, for instance, the gritty, vibrant black-and-white photos of Logo Oluwamuyiwa lining one wall are pitted against Amanda Iheme's colorful photos of colonial-era buildings in decay.
Oluwamuyiwa's "Monochrome Lagos" series shows how vibrant Lagos is – and how cameras and cellphones are everywhere. One of the first images a visitor sees is iPhone, in which a stylishly dressed young woman reluctantly raises her eyes from her cell phone to meet the gaze of the photographer.
Like the sounds of honking horns that boom through the gallery, many of the photos display a cacophony of heavily trafficked streets and bridges, flowing water, hazy smoke from a nearby fire, people of all ages and classes.
There are two stacks of large-sized prints for visitors to take home as souvenirs: one a wide-angle shot of a highway bridge so uncharacteristically empty one wonders if it has been abandoned, the other a super-close-up of the back of a bus bearing a poster declaring "Lagos Hosts the World."
By contrast to Oluwamjhkwa's bustling modern urban scenes, Iheme in her series "The Way of Life explores the past that remains embedded in the present. Her large color photos portray older buildings that have fallen into states of decay and abandonment. In addition to her focus on their current neglect, the buildings she depicts share a common origin, dating to Nigeria's years under British rule, from 1851 to the country's independence in 1960.
"She is attuned to how the houses hold the traces of history and the impact of history on our beings," Onanbanjo comments. The most intriguing photo focuses on a single brownish-red brick, which Iheme, who is a psychotherapist in addition to a photograher, herself recovered from an 1846 house as it was being torn down. It had been built for an Afro-Brazilian slave-trading family and was later refitted for use as a post office, restaurant and bar.
Another photo captures shadowy stairs inside an abandoned building, a scene that evokes shadows lurking from the past. In yet another, pedestrians in Western and traditional African dress walk side by side down a street whose pavement is in visible disrepair. She also shows a sense of humor in her depiction of a grand pink building with no evidence of anyone living there 00 but with laundry drying on the outside hedges.
The next gallery emphasizes the sensual beauty of the city. In his finely detailed black-and-white series, "Sea Never Dry," Akinbode Akinbiyi conjures the sense of an unending ebb and flow of life in Lagos, which is located on a lagoon and consists of several islands famed for their beaches. Onabanjo describes this series as "photographic constellations of people, animals, and objects" found at Bar Beach on Victoria Island in Lagos. Among the most striking is a woman dressed all in white, holding a book (perhaps a Bible) as she strides alone by the surf's edge, a place where the foam from the sea and the gritty grains of sand blend one into the other.
On display nearby is what Onabanjo calls "the spectral spine of the exhibit," a series of collages that artist Abraham Oghobase, calls "Constructed Realities." The photographer juxtaposes blurrily reconfigured archival images of local African and colonial figures with legal documents and lawbook pages that spell out the racist basis of imperial rule.
The second work in the set, shows Ọba Ọvonramwen, the last king who ruled the independent Benin Kingdom, in 1897, as the British rulers to whom he has just surrendered prepare to send him into exile. "He was humiliated. You could see the leg chains, you could see the security guards," the photographer notes on the MoMA website. Oghobase uses the same historic image of Ọba Ọvonramwen in another piece in the series, but here, he says, "I've scaled it down to the point that you can't even see the leg chains ... I cut things up, scan them, digitally crop them" in order to tell the story from an African point of view.
The exhibit's final gallery further illuminates the interplay between the city's fading past and vibrant political present. Nostalgia and memory from the early decades of Nigerian independence are the dominant themes of "Casing History" by Kelani Abass and "The Archive of Becoming" by Karl Ohiri.
Abass repurposes the tools of his late father's printing trade: Thin wooden letter press cases, whose compartments were commonly used to sort out printers' letters. Abass transforms them into display cases for snapshots from the 1960s and 1970s documenting all manner of life, work and educational celebrations and milestones of people of different ages and generations. Time itself has aged the photos, giving them different shades and tints of yellow and sepia. Mixed together this way, the cases and images form a kaleidoscopic landscape of the early years of Nigerian independence, notes Onanbanjo.
Ohiri call his collage of old negatives and prints, collected from commercial photographers, "The Archive of Becoming" — a reference to the often psychedelic colors and transformations wrought by heat, humidity and time. "They are also unbelievably striking, strange, beautiful, swirling, unexpected pictures," says Onabanjo.
Ohiri's two-pronged video, "Rolling Footage" also offers a social critique, in its depiction of a Lagos community of the homeless and the disabled who are forced to construct their own makeshift vehicles — in this case, a skateboar, which is also on display — to navigate the congested streets of an indifferent-seeming city.
The exhibit closes with the photos of photojournalist Yagazie Emezi documenting Nigeria's October 2020 country-wide protest of the police brutality of the country's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). These photos document her own participation in the protests and contain "extraordinary power. They show the anger, joy and celebration inside a political movement feels like," says Onanbanjo.
In these photos, Emezi has said, "It's like the crowd breathes in and out." In the same way, visitors to the show can see, feel and hear the breath and pulse of the city of Lagos.
Diane Cole writes for many publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and is book columnist for The Psychotherapy Networker. She is the author of the memoir After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges. Her website is DianeJoyceCole.com.
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Christian Bethancourt Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Astros - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:28 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Christian Bethancourt -- .130 average over his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Tampa Bay Rays versus the Houston Astros, with Hunter Brown on the mound, on July 29 at 7:15 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless performance (0-for-1) against the Astros.
Christian Bethancourt Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -149)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +240)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
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Christian Bethancourt At The Plate
- Bethancourt has 12 doubles, seven home runs and nine walks while hitting .219.
- Bethancourt has picked up a hit in 35 of 66 games this season, with multiple hits 10 times.
- He has hit a long ball in seven games this season (10.6%), homering in 3.1% of his trips to the dish.
- In 24.2% of his games this year, Bethancourt has driven in at least one run. In four of those games (6.1%) he recorded more than one RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 25 of 66 games this season, he has scored, and six of those games included multiple runs.
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Christian Bethancourt Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The Astros pitching staff ranks sixth in the league with a collective 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Astros' 3.81 team ERA ranks third among all league pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to give up 122 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 16th in baseball).
- The Astros will send Brown (6-7) to the mound to make his 20th start of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts through 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty's last appearance came on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he went six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- This season, the 24-year-old ranks 46th in ERA (4.27), 48th in WHIP (1.320), and 12th in K/9 (10.4) among qualifying pitchers.
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Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon.
Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. That’s because it will be closer than usual, just 222,159 miles (357,530 kilometers) away, thus the supermoon label.
The moon will be even closer the night of Aug. 30 — a scant 222,043 miles (357,344 kilometers) distant. Because it’s the second full moon in the same month, it will be what’s called a blue moon.
“Warm summer nights are the ideal time to watch the full moon rise in the eastern sky within minutes of sunset. And it happens twice in August,” said retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, dubbed Mr. Eclipse for his eclipse-chasing expertise.
The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project.
Masi will provide a live webcast of Tuesday evening’s supermoon, as it rises over the Coliseum in Rome.
“My plans are to capture the beauty of this ... hopefully bringing the emotion of the show to our viewers,” Masi said in an email.
“The supermoon offers us a great opportunity to look up and discover the sky,” he added.
This year’s first supermoon was in July. The fourth and last will be in September. The two in August will be closer than either of those.
Provided clear skies, binoculars or backyard telescopes can enhance the experience, Espenak said, revealing such features as lunar maria — the dark plains formed by ancient volcanic lava flows — and rays emanating from lunar craters.
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the August full moon is traditionally known as the sturgeon moon. That’s because of the abundance of that fish in the Great Lakes in August, hundreds of years ago.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Miami Marlins (56-48) and Detroit Tigers (46-58) matching up at LoanDepot park has a projected final score of 6-5 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Marlins, who is listed as a slight favorite by our model. The game will start at 4:10 PM ET on July 29.
The Marlins will give the ball to Johnny Cueto (0-1, 4.50 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 1 on the season, and the Tigers will counter with Beau Brieske.
Marlins vs. Tigers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: LoanDepot park in Miami, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
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Marlins vs. Tigers Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Marlins 6, Tigers 5.
Total Prediction for Marlins vs. Tigers
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Marlins Performance Insights
- The Marlins have played as the favorite in six of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Miami and its opponents are 5-5-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Marlins' last 10 games.
- The Marlins have won 31, or 66%, of the 47 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Miami has entered 25 games this season favored by -155 or more and is 21-4 in those contests.
- The Marlins have a 60.8% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Miami is among the lowest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking 26th with just 428 total runs (4.1 per game) this season.
- The Marlins have a 4.11 team ERA that ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
Tigers Performance Insights
- The Tigers have played as the underdog in six of their past 10 games and have gone 1-5 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, Detroit and its foes are 4-5-1 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Tigers' previous 10 contests have not had a runline posted by bookmakers.
- The Tigers have been victorious in 33, or 39.8%, of the 83 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- This season, Detroit has come away with a win 22 times in 48 chances when named as an underdog of at least +130 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have an implied victory probability of 43.5% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- Detroit is the third-lowest scoring team in MLB play averaging 3.9 runs per game (406 total).
- Tigers pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.53 ERA this year, which ranks 22nd in MLB.
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Marlins Schedule
Tigers Schedule
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How to Watch the Marlins vs. Tigers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Luis Arraez and the Miami Marlins will see Beau Brieske starting for the Detroit Tigers on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
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Marlins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Marlins are third-worst in MLB play with 93 home runs.
- Miami ranks 20th in MLB, slugging .398.
- The Marlins' .264 batting average is fourth-best in the majors.
- Miami is the fifth-lowest scoring team in MLB action, averaging 4.1 runs per game (428 total).
- The Marlins rank 13th in baseball with an on-base percentage of .320.
- The Marlins strike out eight times per game to rank seventh in baseball.
- Miami's pitching staff ranks third in MLB with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Miami's 4.11 team ERA ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Marlins average MLB's 12th-ranked WHIP (1.267).
Tigers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Tigers rank 26th in Major League Baseball with just 96 home runs as a team.
- Detroit is 29th in MLB with a slugging percentage of only .365 this season.
- The Tigers have a team batting average of just .231 this season, which ranks 28th among MLB teams.
- Detroit is among the lowest scoring teams in baseball, ranking 28th with just 406 total runs (3.9 per game) this season.
- The Tigers have an on-base percentage of .299 this season, which ranks 28th in the league.
- The Tigers rank 18th in strikeouts per game (8.9) among MLB offenses.
- Detroit strikes out 8.4 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 21st in MLB.
- Detroit has pitched to a 4.53 ERA this season, which ranks 22nd in baseball.
- Tigers pitchers have a 1.253 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
Marlins Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Marlins are sending Johnny Cueto (0-1) to make his third start of the season.
- His most recent appearance was on Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, when the righty tossed six innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing two hits.
Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Tigers will send Brieske to the mound for his first start this season.
- The 25-year-old righty has pitched in relief five times already this season, but will make his first start.
Marlins Schedule
Tigers Schedule
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Isaac Paredes Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Astros - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:33 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Isaac Paredes, with a slugging percentage of .406 in his past 10 games -- including two home runs -- will be in action for the Tampa Bay Rays against the Houston Astros, with Hunter Brown on the hill, July 29 at 7:15 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his previous game (0-for-3) against the Astros.
Isaac Paredes Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +525)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +155)
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Isaac Paredes At The Plate
- Paredes is hitting .253 with 15 doubles, 18 home runs and 35 walks.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB, his batting average ranks 85th, his on-base percentage ranks 30th, and he is 31st in the league in slugging.
- Paredes has gotten at least one hit in 54.4% of his games this season (49 of 90), with at least two hits 20 times (22.2%).
- He has gone deep in 17.8% of his games this season, and 5.2% of his plate appearances.
- Paredes has driven in a run in 35 games this year (38.9%), including nine games with more than one RBI (10.0%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in six contests.
- He has scored in 34 games this season (37.8%), including 11 multi-run games (12.2%).
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Isaac Paredes Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Astros pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB.
- The Astros' 3.81 team ERA ranks third across all league pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to allow 122 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 16th in baseball).
- Brown makes the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, the righty went six innings, allowing two earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- This season, the 24-year-old ranks 46th in ERA (4.27), 48th in WHIP (1.320), and 12th in K/9 (10.4) among pitchers who qualify.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 29
The Detroit Tigers (46-58) will aim to stop a four-game losing streak when visiting the Miami Marlins (56-48) at 4:10 PM ET on Saturday.
The Marlins will give the nod to Johnny Cueto (0-1) versus the Tigers and Beau Brieske.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Cueto - MIA (0-1, 4.50 ERA) vs Brieske - DET (0-0, 4.76 ERA)
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Marlins Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Johnny Cueto
- Cueto will get the start for the Marlins, his third of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, throwing six innings and giving up one earned run.
- He has pitched in three games this season with an ERA of 4.50, a 3 strikeout to walk ratio and a WHIP of .900.
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Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Beau Brieske
- Brieske gets the call to start for the Tigers, his first of the season.
- The 25-year-old righty has appeared out of the bullpen five times this season.
- In five appearances this season, he has a 4.76 ERA and 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings while opponents are batting .261 against him.
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Jose Siri Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Astros - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:34 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Saturday, Jose Siri (batting .297 in his past 10 games) and the Tampa Bay Rays face the Houston Astros, whose starting pitcher will be Hunter Brown. First pitch is at 7:15 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his previous game (1-for-4) against the Astros.
Jose Siri Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -133)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +225)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
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Jose Siri At The Plate
- Siri is hitting .229 with eight doubles, a triple, 20 home runs and 15 walks.
- In 62.1% of his games this season (41 of 66), Siri has picked up at least one hit, and in 10 of those games (15.2%) he recorded at least two.
- He has hit a home run in 19 games this year (28.8%), homering in 8.1% of his plate appearances.
- Siri has driven in a run in 28 games this year (42.4%), including 11 games with more than one RBI (16.7%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 48.5% of his games this season (32 of 66), he has scored, and in seven of those games (10.6%) he has scored more than once.
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Jose Siri Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Astros has a collective 9.3 K/9, the sixth-best in MLB.
- The Astros have a 3.81 team ERA that ranks third among all league pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to surrender 122 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 16th in baseball).
- The Astros are sending Brown (6-7) to make his 20th start of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts through 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last appearance on Sunday, the righty threw six innings against the Oakland Athletics, giving up two earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 24-year-old's 4.27 ERA ranks 46th, 1.320 WHIP ranks 48th, and 10.4 K/9 ranks 12th.
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Saturday, July 29
As we approach Saturday's MLB slate, let's take a look at the probable starters for each contest. One of the day's most anticipated matchups pits the Yankees (Clarke Schmidt) against the Orioles (Tyler Wells).
Keep reading to find the pitching matchups for every game on the schedule for July 29.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Angels at Blue Jays Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Reid Detmers (2-7) to the mound as they play the Blue Jays, who will counter with Alek Manoah (2-8) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Angels at Blue Jays
- TOR Odds to Win: -125
- LAA Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9.5 runs
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- Game Time: 3:07 PM ET
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Tigers at Marlins Probable Pitchers
The Detroit Tigers will send Beau Brieske (0-0) to the bump as they face the Marlins, who will look to Johnny Cueto (0-1) for the matchup between the teams Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Tigers at Marlins
- MIA Odds to Win: -155
- DET Odds to Win: +130
- Total: 8 runs
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- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
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Phillies at Pirates Probable Pitchers
The Philadelphia Phillies will send Aaron Nola (9-6) to the bump as they play the Pirates, who will hand the ball to Quinn Priester (1-1) when the teams meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Phillies at Pirates
- PHI Odds to Win: -185
- PIT Odds to Win: +150
- Total: 9 runs
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- Game Time: 7:05 PM ET
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Twins at Royals Probable Pitchers
The Minnesota Twins will send Bailey Ober (6-4) to the mound as they take on the Royals, who will give the start to Jordan Lyles (1-12) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Twins at Royals
- MIN Odds to Win: -190
- KC Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 9.5 runs
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- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
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Guardians at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The Cleveland Guardians will send Logan Allen (4-3) to the hill as they take on the White Sox, who will give the start to Touki Toussaint (1-3) when the teams meet on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Guardians at White Sox
- CHW Odds to Win: -
- CLE Odds to Win: -
- Total: 9.5 runs
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- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
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Nationals at Mets Probable Pitchers
The Washington Nationals will send Patrick Corbin (6-11) to the mound as they play the Mets, who will counter with Carlos Carrasco (3-4) when the teams play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Nationals at Mets
- NYM Odds to Win: -175
- WSH Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 9.5 runs
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- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
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Red Sox at Giants Probable Pitchers
The Boston Red Sox will send James Paxton (6-2) to the mound as they face the Giants, who will counter with Ryan Walker (3-0) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Red Sox at Giants
- BOS Odds to Win: -115
- SF Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 8 runs
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- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
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Cubs at Cardinals Probable Pitchers
The Chicago Cubs will send Jameson Taillon (4-6) to the hill as they play the Cardinals, who will look to Adam Wainwright (3-4) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Cubs at Cardinals
- STL Odds to Win: -115
- CHC Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 10 runs
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- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
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Rays at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Tampa Bay Rays will send Taj Bradley (5-6) to the mound as they take on the Astros, who will give the start to Hunter Brown (6-7) when the teams play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rays at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -140
- TB Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 8.5 runs
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- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
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Yankees at Orioles Probable Pitchers
The New York Yankees will send Schmidt (6-6) to the mound as they play the Orioles, who will counter with Wells (7-5) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Yankees at Orioles
- BAL Odds to Win: -125
- NYY Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9 runs
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Brewers at Braves Probable Pitchers
The Milwaukee Brewers will send Julio Teheran (2-4) to the hill as they play the Braves, who will hand the ball to Bryce Elder (7-2) when the clubs play Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Brewers at Braves
- ATL Odds to Win: -200
- MIL Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 10 runs
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- Game Time: 7:20 PM ET
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Mariners at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The Seattle Mariners will send Bryan Woo (1-3) to the bump as they play the Diamondbacks, who will give the start to Brandon Pfaadt (0-4) when the teams play on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Mariners at Diamondbacks
- SEA Odds to Win: -125
- ARI Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Athletics at Rockies Probable Pitchers
The Oakland Athletics will send Paul Blackburn (1-2) to the hill as they face the Rockies, who will counter with Chris Flexen (0-0) when the teams meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Athletics at Rockies
- COL Odds to Win: -115
- OAK Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 12 runs
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- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
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Rangers at Padres Probable Pitchers
The Texas Rangers will send Martin Perez (8-3) to the hill as they take on the Padres, who will hand the ball to Yu Darvish (7-7) for the matchup between the teams Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rangers at Padres
- SD Odds to Win: -160
- TEX Odds to Win: +135
- Total: 9 runs
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- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
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Reds at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Luke Weaver (2-2) to the hill as they play the Dodgers, who will look to Emmet Sheehan (3-1) for the game between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Dodgers
- LAD Odds to Win: -200
- CIN Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 10.5 runs
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Josh Lowe Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Astros - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:29 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Tampa Bay Rays and Josh Lowe (.333 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, including one homer), take on starter Hunter Brown and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, Saturday at 7:15 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his previous game (0-for-4) against the Astros.
Josh Lowe Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -182)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +145)
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Josh Lowe At The Plate
- Lowe is batting .268 with 18 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs and 19 walks.
- Lowe has picked up a hit in 62.7% of his 83 games this season, with multiple hits in 26.5% of those games.
- He has hit a home run in 15.7% of his games this season, and 4.2% of his trips to the dish.
- Lowe has had at least one RBI in 41.0% of his games this season (34 of 83), with more than one RBI 11 times (13.3%). He has also accounted for three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- He has scored at least once 35 times this year (42.2%), including seven games with multiple runs (8.4%).
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Josh Lowe Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Astros has a collective 9.3 K/9, the sixth-best in the league.
- The Astros' 3.81 team ERA ranks third across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to allow 122 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 16th in baseball).
- Brown makes the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season. He is 6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty's last appearance came on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- The 24-year-old ranks 46th in ERA (4.27), 48th in WHIP (1.320), and 12th in K/9 (10.4) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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Germany vs. Colombia: Women’s World Cup Group H Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 30
In the second round of Group H matches at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Germany (coming off a 6-0 win over Morocco) plays Colombia (off a 2-0 win against South Korea) at 5:30 AM ET on Sunday, July 30.
Germany is -431 to win this group-stage game, Colombia is +1067, and the draw is +504. This match has an over/under of 2.5 goals. The under is currently +104, and the over is -138.
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Germany vs. Colombia Game Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 5:30 AM ET
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Venue: Sydney Football Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Germany Moneyline: -431
- Colombia Moneyline: +1067
Germany vs. Colombia World Cup Betting Insights
- These two teams score a combined eight goals per game, 5.5 more than this match's total.
- These two teams allow a combined zero goals per game, 2.5 fewer than this match's over/under.
- Germany has been listed as a moneyline favorite only one other time so far this tournament, and won.
- Germany has played as a moneyline favorite of -431 or shorter in only one game this tournament, which they won.
- Colombia won the only game it has played as an underdog this tournament.
- Colombia has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +1067 moneyline set for this game.
Germany World Cup Stats
Colombia World Cup Stats
- In one Women's World Cup match for Colombia, Catalina Usme has tallied one goal (10th in Women's World Cup play).
- Linda Caicedo has scored one goal for Colombia in Women's World Cup.
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Germany vs. Colombia Recent Performance
- So far this year, Germany is 3-1-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup participants, with a goal differential of +6. In 2022, it was 6-1-4 in such matches (+11 goal differential).
- Germany took on Morocco in its last match and earned a win by a final score of 6-0. The victorious Germany side took 15 shots, outshooting by 10.
- Popp scored two of her club's goals to lead the team against .
- So far this year, Colombia is 3-2-2 versus fellow 2023 Women's World Cup teams, with a goal differential of +1. In 2022, it was 5-2-3 in such matches (0 goal differential).
- Colombia claimed a 2-0 victory versus South Korea on July 24 in its last match. Colombia outshot South Korea 15 to four.
- Caicedo and Usme each registered a goal for Colombia.
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Luke Raley Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Astros - July 29
Published: Jul. 29, 2023 at 10:32 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Luke Raley -- with a slugging percentage of .259 in his past 10 games (including zero home runs) -- will be in action for the Tampa Bay Rays versus the Houston Astros, with Hunter Brown on the mound, on July 29 at 7:15 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless showing (0-for-4) against the Astros.
Luke Raley Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Game Time: 7:15 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: FOX
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -167)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +120)
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Luke Raley At The Plate
- Raley has 18 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs and 21 walks while batting .269.
- Raley has picked up a hit in 57.3% of his 82 games this year, with more than one hit in 23.2% of those games.
- Looking at the 82 games he has played this season, he's homered in 13 of them (15.9%), and in 5.2% of his trips to the plate.
- In 26 games this season (31.7%), Raley has picked up an RBI, and in 10 of those games (12.2%) he had more than one. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored in 32 games this season (39.0%), including multiple runs in 12 games.
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Luke Raley Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The Astros pitching staff ranks sixth in MLB with a collective 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Astros have a 3.81 team ERA that ranks third across all league pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to allow 122 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 16th in the league).
- Brown (6-7 with a 4.27 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Astros, his 20th of the season.
- The right-hander's most recent appearance came on Sunday against the Oakland Athletics, when he tossed six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up six hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 24-year-old's 4.27 ERA ranks 46th, 1.320 WHIP ranks 48th, and 10.4 K/9 ranks 12th.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 29
Saturday's contest between the Miami Marlins (56-48) and Detroit Tigers (46-58) matching up at LoanDepot park has a projected final score of 6-5 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Marlins, who is listed as a slight favorite by our model. The game will start at 4:10 PM ET on July 29.
The Marlins will give the ball to Johnny Cueto (0-1, 4.50 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 1 on the season, and the Tigers will counter with Beau Brieske.
Marlins vs. Tigers Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: LoanDepot park in Miami, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
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Marlins vs. Tigers Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Marlins 6, Tigers 5.
Total Prediction for Marlins vs. Tigers
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Marlins Performance Insights
- The Marlins have played as the favorite in six of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Miami and its opponents are 5-5-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Marlins' last 10 games.
- The Marlins have won 31, or 66%, of the 47 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Miami has entered 25 games this season favored by -155 or more and is 21-4 in those contests.
- The Marlins have a 60.8% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Miami is among the lowest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking 26th with just 428 total runs (4.1 per game) this season.
- The Marlins have a 4.11 team ERA that ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
Tigers Performance Insights
- The Tigers have played as the underdog in six of their past 10 games and have gone 1-5 in those contests.
- When it comes to the total, Detroit and its foes are 4-5-1 in its previous 10 contests.
- The Tigers' previous 10 contests have not had a runline posted by bookmakers.
- The Tigers have been victorious in 33, or 39.8%, of the 83 contests they have been chosen as underdogs in this season.
- This season, Detroit has come away with a win 22 times in 48 chances when named as an underdog of at least +130 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have an implied victory probability of 43.5% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- Detroit is the third-lowest scoring team in MLB play averaging 3.9 runs per game (406 total).
- Tigers pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.53 ERA this year, which ranks 22nd in MLB.
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How to Watch the Marlins vs. Tigers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 29
Luis Arraez and the Miami Marlins will see Beau Brieske starting for the Detroit Tigers on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET.
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Marlins vs. Tigers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Saturday, July 29, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
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Marlins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Marlins are third-worst in MLB play with 93 home runs.
- Miami ranks 20th in MLB, slugging .398.
- The Marlins' .264 batting average is fourth-best in the majors.
- Miami is the fifth-lowest scoring team in MLB action, averaging 4.1 runs per game (428 total).
- The Marlins rank 13th in baseball with an on-base percentage of .320.
- The Marlins strike out eight times per game to rank seventh in baseball.
- Miami's pitching staff ranks third in MLB with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Miami's 4.11 team ERA ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Marlins average MLB's 12th-ranked WHIP (1.267).
Tigers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Tigers rank 26th in Major League Baseball with just 96 home runs as a team.
- Detroit is 29th in MLB with a slugging percentage of only .365 this season.
- The Tigers have a team batting average of just .231 this season, which ranks 28th among MLB teams.
- Detroit is among the lowest scoring teams in baseball, ranking 28th with just 406 total runs (3.9 per game) this season.
- The Tigers have an on-base percentage of .299 this season, which ranks 28th in the league.
- The Tigers rank 18th in strikeouts per game (8.9) among MLB offenses.
- Detroit strikes out 8.4 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 21st in MLB.
- Detroit has pitched to a 4.53 ERA this season, which ranks 22nd in baseball.
- Tigers pitchers have a 1.253 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
Marlins Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Marlins are sending Johnny Cueto (0-1) to make his third start of the season.
- His most recent appearance was on Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, when the righty tossed six innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing two hits.
Tigers Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Tigers will send Brieske to the mound for his first start this season.
- The 25-year-old righty has pitched in relief five times already this season, but will make his first start.
Marlins Schedule
Tigers Schedule
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World War II veteran celebrating 103rd birthday credits red wine for his longevity
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - A World War II veteran and Wisconsin resident celebrated turning 103 years old this week.
Sal Perce was joined by the Lakeside Fire Department and several others to celebrate his birthday on Thursday.
Perce received WMTV’s Making a Difference Award in 2019 thanks to his volunteer work at a hospital at 101 years old.
“I like finding people I can talk to while helping them with whatever it is,” he said. “I find it refreshing. I’ll stay around an extra hour too as it doesn’t matter to me. I enjoy being there.”
Perce also served in the U.S. Army for nearly four years during World Warr II. He said people who see him volunteer are impressed by what he is doing at his age.
“There’s always something you can do,” he said. “You’re never too old.”
Perce said his three secrets to a long life are doctors, pharmacists and a glass of red wine every night.
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