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BEIJING (AP) — At a hotel in Beijing’s Olympic Park, two signs compete for attention, draped across a fence against a deep blue backdrop. “Together for a shared future,”says one, trumpeting the 2022 Winter Games’ official slogan. Directly to its left, in big white letters, another warns: “Closed loop area. Don’t cross the line.”
“You can’t go that way,” says a black-clad guard outside the China National Convention Center Hotel. “Everything’s separate.”
Visitors may find this ironic — hypocritical, even. It’s not. For Beijing, the capital of a nation where the characters for “city” and “wall” can overlap, it has become part of the DNA.
It’s the latest incarnation of something that has typified the Chinese capital for centuries, since the days emperors occupied the Forbidden City: At its core, Beijing is a compartmentalized metropolis of tiny gated, fenced and subdivided ecosystems that developed both organically and by design — but that made this town strangely appropriate as the site of a locked-down, tightly regulated, bubbled-in COVID Olympics.
Beijing, which can still feel like a smaller town in places, has lived out a modular existence for a long, long time. “The whole interior of the city is laid out in squares like a chessboard with such masterly precision that no description can do justice to it,” wrote a 13th-century visitor from Italy, a man named Marco Polo.
And today, between the outsized architecture of commerce, ideology and Olympics, sits a city still in some ways a chessboard full of odd-sized squares.
Exhibit A, spotted from the in-the-bubble bus: Many of the hotels housing visitors during the Games are compact, fortified compounds, inside fences festooned with Olympic signage and guarded by both staff and a formidable police presence to keep occupants inside the closed-loop “bubble.”
Like many urban Chinese hotels, they are intended to function as islands once the gates are shut. In such an ecosystem, you can almost forget that the rest of the city exists — the ideal sensibility for encouraging and enforcing Winter Games COVID protocols.
Everywhere you look in Beijing, you can spy evidence of such compartmentalization. It’s an eclectic, economically and politically driven patchwork that tells the story of decades of overplanning and no planning, of chaos and control — of tight, fenced-in spaces that push in around the city’s renowned open avenues and squares.
Begin with the ancient hutong — narrow, winding lanes full of courtyard residences called siheyuan whose roots date to the 1200s when informal encampments went up just east of the emperor’s Forbidden City during the Mongol-ruled Yuan Dynasty. They grew into an intricate, sometimes hierarchical system around the city.
Though hutongs still dot Beijing today, some of them well preserved, many were demolished in the 21st century’s first decade during a construction boom that preceded — and was partially caused by — the first Beijing Olympics in 2008.
The overall sensibility, though — self-contained Lego pieces that snapped into a larger whole, some meticulously controlled and others a bit renegade — runs very deep in the city.
For centuries, Beijing was governed by security concerns, fears of prying eyes and traditional Confucian notions about hierarchy. The city was surrounded by fortified gates and walls to separate itself from the countryside; inside town, things were divided into the outer and inner cities.
Inside the inner city sat the Imperial City, essentially its own community that served the dynastic court. And at the very center was the Forbidden City, sequestered even more, where the most elite interacted with the palace and the emperor himself. A closed-loop bubble, if you will, with access determined by influence rather than credentials and negative PCR tests.
“Every wall, gate, temple, palace, street and courtyard had its specially designated place,” historian Mingzheng Shi writes in “Rebuilding the Chinese Capital: Beijing in the Early 20th Century,” a 1998 essay.
Old Beijing long ago gave way to new Beijing. And after more than a century of two governments struggling to impose order onto creeping planning incoherence, it’s a very different city. Nevertheless, some key characteristics of today’s Chinese capital — built and accrued over seven decades of Communist Party rule and, more recently, assertive capitalism — echo the old.
The layout of modern Beijing — arranged since the 1980s around a series of “ring roads” that segment it and control ingress and egress — functions as an unspoken callback to the old city’s walls, to which the innermost ring corresponds. This approach continues; Seventh Ring Road, on Beijing’s far outskirts and connecting it with other cities, opened less than four years ago.
Even as Beijing became a modern metropolis, compartmentalization and control stayed front and center, always competing with chaos. Main roads are crowded with various apparatus to prevent people from crossing where they’re not supposed to; thanks to fences that look innocuous but are highly effective, jaywalking is not only illegal but operationally implausible.
In Beijing, even vast spaces that give the appearance of utter openness — parts of Olympic Park, for instance, and the iconic and politically sensitive Tiananmen Square — are equipped with features that carefully control entrance and exit. Beijingers remain accustomed to sudden rerouting based on strange fences, walls or even buildings that appear unexpectedly. Sometimes it’s the government behind this stuff, sometimes not.
And some of the organizational sensibility of the “work unit,” ubiquitous in Chinese society from the 1950s through the 1980s, remains, too — the notion of the workplace as a walled-off mini-community with its own ecosystem, sometimes complete with residences, medical clinics and distinctive rules.
Cap it off with the official Chinese position about Hong Kong, the “special administrative region” it got back from colonizer Britain in 1997 and is obligated on paper to treat differently than the rest of the country until 2047.
In China, that governing principle is called “one country, two systems” — a segmented approach to governing that echoes across the Beijing Olympics, where this month’s juxtaposition of citizens outside the bubble with those within feels decidedly like one city, two systems.
Beijing’s city walls belong to yesterday; only fragments of them remain. But for the capital of a country that built a Great Wall to keep invading outsiders on the other side, the Olympics offer a chance to dust off the chessboard-squares approach that has been part of the city since its earliest days.
Osvald Sirén, a Swedish art historian and author of “The Walls and Gates of Peking,” said this about the capital in 1924: “The life of the whole city becomes concentrated at the gates; everything that goes out of or in to it must pass these narrow openings.”
That’s an apt characterization of the Beijing of centuries past. It also describes, perfectly, a swath of the city right now — pandemic Olympic Beijing, circa February 2022, a place of narrow openings, pledging to bring people together for a shared future but making sure, at every closed-loop juncture, that the wrong people don’t cross the line.
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Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, is the AP’s former director of Asia-Pacific news and covering his seventh Olympics. He lived in Beijing as a child in 1979-80 and as a journalist from 2001-2004. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted
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Ukraine's leader invites U.S. Biden to visit Ukraine
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during phone call on Sunday invited U.S. President Joe Biden to visit Ukraine, the presidential office said.
"I'm convinced that your arrival in Kyiv in the coming days, which are crucial for stabilizing the situation, will be a powerful signal and contribute to de-escalation," the presidential office quoted Zelenskiy as saying in a statement.
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WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Police moved in to clear and arrest the remaining protesters near the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing on Sunday, ending a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions that has hurt the economy of both nations even as they held back from a crackdown on a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa.
Local and national police formed a joint command center in Ottawa, where protests have paralyzed downtown, infuriated residents who are fed up with police inaction and turned up pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The protests have reverberated across the country and beyond, with similar convoys in France, New Zealand and the Netherlands. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that truck convoys may be in the works in the United States.
Windsor police said about 12 people were peacefully arrested and seven vehicles were towed just after dawn near the Ambassador Bridge that links their city — and numerous Canadian automotive plants — with Detroit.
“Today, our national economic crisis at the Ambassador Bridge came to an end,” said Windsor’s Mayor Drew Kiklen, who expressed hope the bridge would reopen Sunday. “Border crossings will reopen when it is safe to do so and I defer to police and border agencies to make that determination.
Only a few protesters had remained after police on Saturday persuaded demonstrators to move the pickup trucks and cars they had used to block a crossing that sees 25% of all trade between the two countries.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Sunday acknowledged the seemingly peaceful resolution to the demonstration, which it said had “widespread damaging impacts” on the “lives and livelihoods of people” on both sides of the border.
“We stand ready to support our Canadian partners wherever useful in order to ensure the restoration of the normal free flow of commerce can resume,” Homeland Security Advisor Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall said in a statement.
In Ottawa, the ranks of protesters swelled to what police said were 4,000 demonstrators by Saturday, and a counter-protest of frustrated Ottawa residents attempting to block the convoy of trucks from entering the downtown emerged Sunday.
Clayton Goodwin, a 45-year-old military veteran who was among the counter-protesters, said it was time for residents to stand up against the protestors.
“I’m horrified that other veterans would be down there co-opting my flag, co-opting my service,” said Goodwin, who is the CEO of the Veterans Accountability Commission, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It’s a grift. The city was free. We’re 92% vaccinated. We’re ready to support our businesses.”
The city has seen similar expansions of the protest on past weekends, and loud music played as people milled about downtown where anti-vaccine demonstrators have been encamped since late January.
“The whole city is furious at being abandoned by the people who are supposed to protect us. They have completely abandoned the rule of law. @OttawaPolice have lost credibility. #OttawaPoliceFailed,” tweeted Artur Wilczynski, a senior government national security official at Canada’s Communications Security Establishment.
A former minister in Trudeau’s Cabinet also blasted her former federal colleagues as well as the province and city for not putting an end to the protests.
“Amazingly, this isn’t just Ottawa. It’s the nation’s capital,” Catherine McKenna tweeted. “But no one — not the city, the province or the federal government can seem to get their act together to end this illegal occupation. It’s appalling. … Just get your act together. Now.”
Trudeau has so far rejected calls to use the military, but had said that “all options are on the table” to end the protests. Trudeau has called the protesters a “fringe” of Canadian society. Both federal and provincial politicians have said they can’t order police what to do.
Ottawa police said in a statement late Saturday that a joint command center had been established with the Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They said that would beef up enforcement capabilities that had been limited by “safety concerns — arising from aggressive, illegal behavior by many demonstrators.”
Police earlier issued a statement calling the protest an unlawful occupation and saying they were waiting for reinforcements before implementing a plan to end the demonstrations.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency last week for the capital, where hundreds of trucks remained in front of the Parliament Buildings and demonstrators have set up portable toilets outside the prime minister’s office where Trudeau’s motorcade usually parks.
On Friday, a judge ordered an end to the blockade at the crossing in Windsor and Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency allowing for fines of 100,000 Canadian dollars and up to one year in jail for anyone illegally blocking roads, bridges, walkways and other critical infrastructure.
Partial closures at the bridge started on Feb. 7 and by midweek the disruption was so severe that automakers began shutting down or reducing production. The standoff came at a time when the industry is already struggling to maintain production in the face of pandemic-induced shortages of computer chips and other supply-chain disruptions.
“We are protesting the government taking away our rights,” said Windsor resident Eunice Lucas-Logan. “We want the restrictions removed. We have to wait to find out.”
The 67-year-old has been out supporting the protest for the past four days. She said she appreciated that police have been patient.
On the other side of the country, a major truck border crossing between Surrey, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington, was closed on Sunday, a day after Canadian authorities said a few vehicles had breached police barricades and a crowd entered the area by foot.
The RCMP issued a statement saying that while no one had been injured, the actions were dangerous and being investigated.
A border crossing in Alberta remained shut down as well.
While the protesters are decrying vaccine mandates for truckers and other COVID-19 restrictions, many of Canada’s public health measures, such as mask rules and vaccine passports for getting into restaurants and theaters, are already falling away as the omicron surge levels off.
Pandemic restrictions have been far stricter there than in the U.S., but Canadians have largely supported them. The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States.
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Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Ted Shaffrey in Ottawa, Ontario, contributed to this report.
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Soccer-Dawson snatches West Ham dramatic last-gasp point at Leicester
Periera's header looked like it was going to be enough for a first win in five matches in all competitions for Leicester, only for Dawson to bundle the ball into the net from a corner, with what looked like his shoulder, to break home hearts. The draw meant Leicester, who finished fifth in each of the last two seasons, climbed to 11th in the standings, while West Ham stayed fourth on 41 points, one above Manchester United in fifth having played one game more.
West Ham United defender Craig Dawson's stoppage-time equaliser ensured Leicester City's frustrating Premier League season continued as he earned his side a 2-2 draw at the King Power Stadium on Sunday.
The major talking point of the game came pre-match with Kurt Zouma named in the West Ham starting XI, despite an outcry over a video on social media this week where defender was seen abusing his pet cats, only for him to pull out in the warm up. When the match did get under way, the visitors started well, with Jarrod Bowen racing clear before firing his side into a 10th-minute lead.
Leicester responded well, and got back on level terms on the cusp of halftime through Youri Tielemans' penalty, before Ricardo Pereira completed the turnaround in the 57th minute, heading the hosts into a deserved lead. Periera's header looked like it was going to be enough for a first win in five matches in all competitions for Leicester, only for Dawson to bundle the ball into the net from a corner, with what looked like his shoulder, to break home hearts.
The draw meant Leicester, who finished fifth in each of the last two seasons, climbed to 11th in the standings, while West Ham stayed fourth on 41 points, one above Manchester United in fifth having played one game more. Issa Diop came in for Zouma, who was felling unwell in the warm-up, his manager David Moyes said.
Moyes was also pleased to see his side battle back and get the draw, especially given two of West Ham's rivals for the Champions League qualification places – Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur – dropped points this weekend. "You have to remember this (Leicester) team was winning the FA Cup and league title not so long ago," he told Sky Sports. "They have some really good players here.
"In the first half I felt annoyed after going into a good lead and gave them a leg up. It says lots for the players, we have come quickly and made massive strides in the last couple of years. I will squeeze everything out of them and I want us to challenge the top teams." Leicester started the match poorly but battled back admirably and looked to be on course for a vital three points as they look to turn their season around, but conceding a goal from a set piece was again their undoing.
Brendan Rodgers' side have conceded 14 goals from set-pieces (excluding penalties) in the Premier League this season, more than any other team. "We have had a few of them (late goals conceded) lately, it is deflating for the players," Rodgers told Sky Sports. "Second half we were outstanding and first half West Ham were better.
"Second half was like watching us of old, speed of the game and chances. That is seven points dropped in our last three games from good positions, it is disappointing."
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WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Canadians who have occupied downtown Ottawa, disrupted travel and trade with the U.S. and inspired copycat protests from New Zealand to the Netherlands sound a common note when asked about their motivation: Decisions about their health shouldn’t be made by the government.
“We stand for freedom,” said Karen Driedger, 40, who home-schools her kids and attended protests in Ottawa and Windsor. “We believe that it should be everyone’s personal decision what they inject into their bodies.”
The refrain isn’t new to a pandemic-weary world, two years after the COVID-19 virus prompted curfews and closures, face-mask mandates and debates over vaccine requirements. Still, the timing of the protests has raised some eyebrows, since they began just as many of the toughest pandemic-era restrictions were being lifted across Canada, the U.S. and Europe; experts say antipathy toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a significant underlying force.
The in-your-face protests that have fueled frustrations around the country and world have been aided by publicity and support from far-right and anti-vaccine groups. And influential Americans such as former U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk have rallied behind the protesters.
Most Canadians have been supportive of the pandemic restrictions, which health officials have stressed are necessary to protect the public from a virus that has killed at least 5.8 million people globally. The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States.
Trudeau has labeled the protesters a “fringe,” and authorities have braced for violence because some have expressed hope that the rally will become the Canadian equivalent of last January’s riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
The Canadian “freedom convoy” was announced last month by a group founded by a QAnon conspiracy theory supporter and other organizers, and includes the ex-leader of Alberta’s far-right Maverick Party.
Protesters who spoke to The Associated Press this week defended their actions and argued that they represent many more frustrated residents.
Don Stephens, a 65-year-old retired graphic designer, said he’s come into Ottawa twice to show support for protesters there. He views them as representatives of a “silent majority that had been longing to have their voice heard.”
Mat Mackenzie, a 36-year-old trucker from Ontario, said he’s been among the protesters in Ottawa for 15 days, feeling “a duty” to show his opposition. Citizens should be in charge of making decisions around masks, vaccines and other COVID mitigation efforts, not government officials, he said.
“I can tell you 90% of truckers here are likely vaccinated. We’re here for freedom of choice,” Mackenzie said. “And that’s what we’re here to fight for.”
Michael Kempa, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa, said there are two faces of the protest. It isn’t just about vaccine mandates and other COVID restrictions; organizers have said they want to oust Trudeau’s Liberal government and be part of forming a new one, he said.
“In many ways, the friendly face protesters are acting as the foot soldiers of the organizers,” Kempa said. “We are seeing a huge amount of misinformation. People who are legitimately angry are being manipulated by the protest leadership.”
Many Canadians have been outraged over the crude behavior of some demonstrators. Some urinated on the National War Memorial and danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, while others carried signs and flags with swastikas and used the statue of Canadian hero Terry Fox to display an anti-vaccine statement, sparking widespread condemnation.
The images of protests across Canada have ignited copycats elsewhere.
In Paris, police prevented a threatened blockade of the French capital on Saturday. But a few dozen vehicles were able to disrupt trafficon the famed Champs-Elysees, prompting police to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd.
“The convoys are for the restoring of our liberties,” said Pierre-Louis Garnier, a 64-year-old who attended a protest in Paris on Friday to welcome an anticipated convoy that never materialized.
In the Netherlands, dozens of trucks and other vehicles, some waving Canadian flags, have descended on The Hague, the historic Dutch parliamentary complex.
“We are living now in police state,” said Hans Evenstain, a 76-year-old protester said Sunday. “That’s not a good life anymore. We want to move freely and that’s why we are here for us and for our children and our grandchildren.”
In Belgium, federal police were urging people to avoid Brussels on Monday, when a convoy is expected to gather in the country’s capital, and the headquarters of the 27-nation European Union.
In the New Zealand capital of Wellington, authorities have turned to blasting Barry Manilow songs and the 90s dance hit “Macarena”on loop to break up a convoy of protesters encamped outside Parliament this week.
In Windsor, where protesters had blocked the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge that is a crucial conduit for the auto industry in both the U.S. and Canada, police moved to end the demonstration Sunday, arresting about a dozen protesters and beginning to tow vehicles.
Before Sunday’s crackdown, the shutdown often had the feel of a block party.
Protesters milled about, carrying Canadian flags affixed to the ends of hockey sticks while music blared and food was handed out. They put up signs bearing slogans such as “Freedom Is Essential,” “Say No To Mandatory Vaccines” and “End Mandates.”
Troy Holman, a 32-year-old Windsor resident who has been at the protest every day since its start on Monday, said he believes the government overreached with its COVID-19 restrictions, which negatively impacted his wife’s small business.
“If we weren’t doing something such as this, no one would pay attention to us,” he said Saturday. “Unfortunately, we have to be here, because this is what’s going to get the attention of the government.”
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Shaffrey reported from Ottawa and Foody reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporters Rob Gillies in Toronto, Elaine Ganley in Paris, and Thomas Adamson in The Hague contributed to this story.
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Reuters U.S. Sports Schedule at 2:18 PM EDT on Sunday
FOOTBALL-NFL-KC-BIENIEMY, Field Level Media Report: Bengals TE C.J. Uzomah (knee) to play Sunday Cincinnati Bengals tight end C.J. Uzomah will play in Super Bowl LVI despite a sprained MCL in his left knee, ESPN reported Sunday morning.
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The new leadership of the Las Vegas Raiders is ready to commit to Derek Carr as the quarterback of the future, NFL Network reported Sunday. FOOTBALL-NFL-LVR-CARR, Field Level Media Big bets on favored Rams push Super Bowl line to -4.5 Some massive bets placed on the Rams have made Los Angeles a 4.5-point favorite over the Cincinnati Bengals with at least one sportsbook.
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Cincinnati Bengals tight end C.J. Uzomah will play in Super Bowl LVI despite a sprained MCL in his left knee, ESPN reported Sunday morning. FOOTBALL-NFL-CIN-UZOMAH, Field Level Media NBA
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ACEREDO, Spain (AP) — Roofs peeking out of the water have become a common sight every summer at the Lindoso reservoir in northwestern Spain. In especially dry years, parts would appear of the old village of Aceredo, submerged three decades ago when a hydropower dam flooded the valley.
But never before has the skeleton of the village emerged in its entirety in the middle of the usually wet winter season.
With almost no rain for two months and not much expected any time soon, the ruins of Aceredo are dredging up a mix of emotions for locals as they see the rusted carcass of a car, a stone fountain with water still spouting and the old road leading to what used to be the local bar.
“The whole place used to be all vineyards, orange trees. It was all green. It was beautiful,” said 72-year-old José Luis Penín, who used to stop at the bar with pals at the end of a day’s fishing.
“Look at it now,” said Penín, who lives in the same county, pointing at the cracked, yellow bed of the reservoir. ”It’s so sad.”
While the arid zones of the Iberian Peninsula have historically experienced periods of drought, experts say climate change has exacerbated the problem. This year, amid record levels of low or no rainfall at all, farmers in both Portugal and Spain, who are growing produce for all of Europe, are worried that their crops for this season will be ruined.
In the last three months of 2021, Spain recorded just 35% of the average rainfall it had seen during the same period from 1981 to 2010. But there has been almost no rain since then.
According to the national weather agency AEMET, in this century, only in 2005 has there been a January with almost no rain. If clouds don’t unleash in the next two weeks, emergency subsidies for farmers will be needed, authorities said.
But Rubén del Campo, a spokesman for the weather service, said the below-average rainfall over the last six months is likely to continue for several more weeks, with hopes that spring will bring much-needed relief.
While only 10% of Spain has officially been declared under a “prolonged drought,” there are large areas, particularly in the south, which are facing extreme shortages that could impact the irrigation of crops.
The valley around the Guadalquivir River in Spain’s southwest was declared under prolonged drought in November. It is now the focus of a fierce environmental dispute over water rights near Doñana National Park, a World Heritage wetland site. The government of the Andalusia region wants to grant water rights to farmers on land near the park, but critics say the move will further endanger a major wildlife refuge that is already drying up.
“The past two, three years have been dry, with the tendency toward less and less rain,” said Andrés Góngora, a 46-year-old tomato farmer in southern Almería.
Góngora, who expects the water he uses from a desalinating plant to be rationed, is still better off than other farmers who specialize in wheat and grains for livestock feed.
“The cereal crops for this year have been lost,” Góngora said.
Other areas in central and northeast Spain are also feeling the burn.
The leading association of farmers and livestock breeders in Spain, COAG, warns that half of Spain’s farms are threatened by drought this year. It says if it does not rain heavily in the coming month, rain-fed crops including cereals, olives, nuts and vineyards could lose 60% to 80% of their production.
But the association is also worried about crops that depend on irrigation, with reservoirs under 40% of capacity in most of the south.
Spain’s left-wing government plans to dedicate over 570 million euros ($647 million) from the European Union’s pandemic recovery fund to make its irrigation systems more efficient, including incorporating renewable energy systems.
Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Planas said this week the government will take emergency measures if it doesn’t rain in two weeks. Those would likely be limited to economic benefits to palliate the loss of crops and revenues for farmers.
Neighboring Portugal has also seen little rain since last October. By the end of January, 45% of the country was enduring “severe” or “extreme” drought conditions, according to the national weather agency IPMA.
Rainfall from Oct. 1 through January was less than half the annual average for that four-month period, alarming farmers who are short of grass for their livestock.
Unusually, even the north of Portugal is dry and forest fires have broken out there this winter. In the south, crickets are already singing at night and mosquitoes have appeared — traditional signs of summer.
The IPMA doesn’t forecast any relief before the end of the month.
Portugal has witnessed an increase in the frequency of droughts over the past 20-30 years, according to IPMA climatologist Vanda Pires, with lower rainfall and higher temperatures.
“It’s part of the context of climate change,” Pires told The Associated Press.
And the outlook is bleak: Scientists estimate that Portugal will see a drop in average annual rainfall of 20% to 40% by the end of the century.
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Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, Spain, Barry Hatton in Lisbon and Aritz Parra in Madrid contributed to this report.
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Soccer-Ill Zouma pulls out of Leicester game as Moyes calls for forgiveness
West Ham United's Kurt Zouma pulled out of Sunday's 2-2 Premier League draw https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/dawson-snatches-west-ham-dramatic-last-gasp-point-leicester-2022-02-13 at Leicester City because of a stomach bug, manager David Moyes said as he implored fans to forgive the Frenchman who landed in trouble after abusing his pet cats. Zouma was named in the squad despite an outcry over a video on social media this week where the centre back was seen abusing his pet cats which are now in the care of animal charity the RSPCA.
West Ham United's Kurt Zouma pulled out of Sunday's 2-2 Premier League draw https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/dawson-snatches-west-ham-dramatic-last-gasp-point-leicester-2022-02-13 at Leicester City because of a stomach bug, manager David Moyes said as he implored fans to forgive the Frenchman who landed in trouble after abusing his pet cats.
Zouma was named in the squad despite an outcry over a video on social media this week where the centre back was seen abusing his pet cats which are now in the care of animal charity the RSPCA. Zouma later apologised for his actions. "He was ill before the game, wanted to play, we wanted him to play as well. He was sick during the night, he stayed away from the players and did not eat much," Moyes told Sky Sports.
"Once he got out he did not think it was possible. We told Issa Diop to be ready. It is a stomach bug, probably something he has eaten." Zouma has already lost out on his sponsorship deal with sportswear giant Adidas while Moyes' decision to pick the defender immediately after the incident led to club sponsors such as Vitality suspending https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/west-ham-sponsor-assesses-position-after-zouma-cat-abuse-video-2022-02-09 their partnership.
Moyes, a self-confessed "animal lover", defended his decision with the London club finding itself in a rare position to battle for a top four spot after years of mid-table finishes. "I hope that we have changed a bit of how West Ham is perceived, but more on the pitch. We have a good, exciting young team that we are trying to improve," Moyes said.
"West Ham have done great work down the East End of London, young supporters coming in and a lot of good things being done. We should not allow something like this to blight what has gone on. "A mistake has been made and there are managers with players who have made mistakes. You want to feel there is forgiveness and an apology has been made."
West Ham are fourth with 41 points but their top four rivals all have games in hand. They host Newcastle United next weekend.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s former president on Sunday called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.
Former President Hamid Karzai at a packed news conference sought the help of Americans, particularly the families of the thousands killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to press President Joe Biden to rescind last week’s order. He called it “unjust and unfair,” saying Afghans have also been victims of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden was brought to Afghanistan by Afghan warlords after being expelled from Sudan in 1996. Those same warlords would later ally with the U.S.-led coalition to oust the Taliban in 2001. However, it was Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who refused to hand over bin Laden to the U.S. after the devastating 9/11 attacks that killed thousands.
“The people of Afghanistan share the pain of the American people, share the pain of the families and loved ones of those who died, who lost their lives in the tragedy of September 11,” said Karzai. “We commiserate with them (but) Afghan people are as much victims as those families who lost their lives. … Withholding money or seizing money from the people of Afghanistan in their name is unjust and unfair and an atrocity against Afghan people.”
President Biden’s order signed last Fridayfreed $7 billion in Afghan assets currently held in the United States, to be divided between 9/11 victims and humanitarian aid to Afghans.
Sept. 11 victims and their families have legal claims against the Taliban and the $7 billion in the U.S. banking system. The $3.5 billion was set aside for a U.S. court to decide whether it can be used to settle claims by families of 9/11 victims. U.S. courts would also have to sign off before the release of humanitarian assistance money.
We “ask the U.S. courts to do the opposite, to return the Afghan money back to the Afghan people,” said Karzai. “This money does not belong to any government ,,, this money belongs to the people of Afghanistan.”
Meanwhile, Biden’s order calls for the $3.5 billion allocated to humanitarian aid to be put into a trust and be used to assist Afghans, bypassing their Taliban rulers.
But Karzai demanded all $7 billion be returned to Afghanistan’s central bank to further its monetary policy. He argued against giving Afghan reserves to international aid organizations to provide humanitarian aid.
“You give us our own money so that it can be spent for those foreigners who come here, to pay their salaries, to give it to (non-governmental organizations),” he said.
Afghanistan’s economy is teetering on the brink of collapse after international money stopped coming into the country with the arrival in mid-August of the Taliban. Last month, the United Nations made a $5 billion appeal for Afghanistan. The U.N. warns that 1 million children are in danger of starving and 90% of Afghans live below the poverty level of just $1.90 a day.
Karzai was Afghanistan’s first democratically elected president after the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban in 2001. He served until 2014 before Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country on Aug. 15, leaving the doors open for the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Karzai was highly regarded as embracing all of Afghanistan’s many ethnic groups but his administration, like subsequent Afghan administrations, was dogged by charges of widespread corruption.
Karzai spoke to a packed press conference inside his sprawling compound in the capital of Kabul. Dozens of Afghanistan’s Pashto- and Persian-language journalists jockeyed for space in a second-floor conference room with more than a dozen television cameras.
Karzai used the news conference to press the country’s Taliban rulers and their opponents to find a way to come together. He lobbied for the traditional Afghan grand council, or loya jirga, as a means to find consensus and establish a more representative administration.
“We, as Afghans, and the current acting Islamic government must do our best to not give America or any other country any excuse to be against us,” he said.
Anger has been growing in Afghanistan since Friday’s White House announcement. Demonstrators marched again in Kabul on Sunday demanding the money be returned to Afghanistan. However, the Taliban, who have also condemned Biden’s order, dispersed protesters as they tried to gather near the city’s Eid Gah mosque.
Meanwhile the United Nations Assistance Mission in a tweet late Sunday said four women activists who disappeared more than two weeks ago have returned home.
In late January Tamana Zaryabi Paryani, and her three sisters disappeared,allegedly seized by a group of men after they participated in a demonstration against the forced wearing of the Islamic hijab.
The Taliban denied taking them.
“The UN welcomes the encouraging reports that the four ‘disappeared’ Afghan women activists, some missing for weeks, are being enabled to return home. Their well-being and safety is of paramount concern,” the U.N. agency said.
International media, however, has reported that several British nationals and an American are still being held by the Taliban, including freelance cameraman Peter Jouvenal, a dual British and German citizen who has covered Afghanistan for more than 40 years. He has been missing since December and the Taliban have not responded to queries by the Associated Press.
His wife, an Afghan, has issued a plea for his release.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s `State of the Union,’ that an American was in Taliban custody along with “a number of U.K. nationals.” He gave no further information, saying only that Washington was “ actively working to get his release.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s president urged calm amid intensified warnings of a possible Russian invasion within days, saying he had yet to see convincing evidence of that, even as the U.S. reported Sunday that Moscow positioned more of its troops closer to Ukraine’s borders and some airlines canceled flights to the capital of Kyiv.
President Joe Biden spoke for about 50 minutes Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and renewed promises of what the West says will be tough economic sanctions against Moscow and a NATO buildup in the event of “any further Russian aggression” against Ukraine, the White House said. They agreed to pursue both deterrence and diplomacy in the crisis, it added.
The U.S. updated its estimate for how many Russian forces were now staged near Ukraine’s borders to more than 130,000, up from the 100,000 the U.S. has cited publicly in previous weeks. A U.S. official gave the estimate, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the administration’s conclusion.
Zelenskyy’s repeated statements playing down the U.S. warnings — while Moscow’s forces surround Ukraine on three sides in what the Kremlin insists are military exercises — grew this weekend to his questioning the increasingly strident statements from U.S. officials in recent days that Russia could be planning to invade as soon as midweek.
While Zelenskyy has urged against panic that he fears could undermine Ukraine’s economy, he and his civilian and military leaders also are preparing defenses, soliciting and receiving a flow of arms from the U.S. and other NATO members.
Zelenskyy wore military olive drab at a drill with tanks and helicopters near Ukraine’s border with Russian-annexed Crimea this weekend. In the nearby city of Kalanchak, some expressed disbelief that Russian President Vladimir Putin would really send the troops poised along Ukraine’s borders rolling into the country.
“I don’t believe Russia will attack us,” said resident Boris Cherepenko. “I have friends in Sakhalin, in Krasnodar,” he said, naming Russian locations. “I don’t believe it.”
The U.S. picked up intelligence that Russia is looking at Wednesday as a target date, according to a U.S. official familiar with the findings. The official, who also was not authorized to speak publicly and did so only on condition of anonymity, would not say how definitive the intelligence was.
“We’re not going to give Russia the opportunity to conduct a surprise here, to spring something on Ukraine or the world,” Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, told CNN on Sunday, about the U.S. warnings.
“We are going to make sure that we are laying out for the world what we see as transparently and plainly as we possibly can,” he said.
The U.S. largely has not made public the evidence it says is underlying its most specific warnings on possible Russian planning or timing.
The Russians have deployed missile, air, naval and special operations forces, as well as supplies to sustain an invasion. This week, Russia moved six amphibious assault ships into the Black Sea, augmenting its capability to land on the coast.
Zelenskyy’s comments this weekend indicated frustration at the warnings from Washington.
“We understand all the risks, we understand that there are risks,” he said in a live broadcast. “If you, or anyone else, has additional information regarding a 100% Russian invasion starting on the 16th, please forward that information to us.”
In an hourlong call Saturday with Putin, Biden said an invasion of Ukraine would cause “widespread human suffering” and that the West was committed to diplomacy to end the crisis but “equally prepared for other scenarios,” the White House said. It offered no suggestion that the call diminished the threat of an imminent war in Europe.
Reflecting the West’s concerns, Dutch airline KLM has canceled flights to Ukraine until further notice, the company said.
Dutch sensitivity to potential danger in Ukrainian airspace is high following the 2014 shooting down of a Malaysian jetliner flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur as it flew over a part of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed rebels. All 298 people aboard died, including 198 Dutch citizens.
The Ukrainian charter airline SkyUp said Sunday its flight from Madeira, Portugal, to Kyiv was diverted to the Moldovan capital of Chisinau after the plane’s Irish lessor said it was banning flights in Ukrainian airspace.
Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhii Nykyforov told The Associated Press that Ukraine has not closed its airspace.
But Ukraine’s air traffic safety agency Ukraerorukh issued a statement declaring the airspace over the Black Sea to be a “zone of potential danger” and recommended that planes avoid flying over the sea Feb. 14-19.
The Putin-Biden conversation, following a call between Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron earlier in the day, came at a critical moment for what has become the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. U.S. officials believe they have mere days to prevent an invasion and enormous bloodshed in Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will fly to Kyiv on Monday and Moscow on Tuesday to meet with the presidents in those capitals.
While the U.S. and its NATO allies have no plans to send troops to Ukraine to fight Russia, an invasion and resulting punishing sanctions could reverberate far beyond the former Soviet republic, affecting energy supplies, global markets and the power balance in Europe.
Preparing for a worst-case scenario, the United States was pulling most of its staff from the embassy in Kyiv and urged all American citizens to leave Ukraine immediately. Britain joined other European nations in telling its citizens to leave.
Biden has bolstered the U.S. military presence in Europe as reassurance to allies on NATO’s eastern flank. The 3,000 additional soldiers ordered to Poland come on top of 1,700 who are on their way there. The U.S. Army also is shifting 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania, which like Poland shares a border with Ukraine.
Russia is demanding that the West keep former Soviet countries out of NATO. It also wants NATO to refrain from deploying weapons near its border and to roll back alliance forces from Eastern Europe — demands flatly rejected by the West.
Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a bitter conflict since 2014, when Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly leader was driven from office by a popular uprising. Moscow responded by annexing the Crimean Peninsula and then backing a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has killed over 14,000 people.
A 2015 peace deal brokered by France and Germany helped halt large-scale battles, but regular skirmishes have continued, and efforts to reach a political settlement have stalled.
“My family has always been prepared, we have all the stuff gathered for like a couple of years now. Honestly, I’m not afraid because the war wouldn’t start like in a week,” 21-year-old Yuliia Zaets said at a pro-government rally on Saturday.
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Heintz reported from Moscow. Yuras Karmanau and Nebi Qena in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Oleksandr Stashevsky in Kalanchak, Ukraine, contributed.
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PARIS (AP) — A conservative politician vying to become France’s first female leader is hoping to boost her declining fortunes in the campaign so far with her first major rally.
Less than 60 days from the April 10 first round of France’s presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, 54, is struggling to take off in the polls — despite having had an initial boost last year when she was picked to be the French conservatives’ first female presidential candidate.
The fact that Pécresse has not held any major launch rallies like other candidates, owing to earlier concerns over soaring omicron infections, seems to have hurt her. She is stalling in popularity behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen and frontrunner President Emmanuel Macron, who has still not officially declared his candidacy. All potential candidates must do so by March 4.
On Sunday in the Zenith Arena in Paris, Pécresse, tried to reverse that stall. To chants of “Valerie” and “We will win!” the head of the Paris region and former conservative minister brandished her credentials for France’s top job to thousands of supporters.
“Even if you fail, it means you’ve tried … I’m this indomitable French woman. Nothing will stop me!” she said to cheers.
An experienced politician, Pécresse has been the French minister for higher education, for the budget and was a government spokesperson under former President Nicolas Sarkozy from 2007 to 2012.
In the often tough-talking speech, she again backed a hard stance on immigration, apparently seeking backing from both conservatives and the far right. She said the symbol of France, Marianne, “was not veiled” and has said that people who entered the country illegally should be deported.
On Sunday, she went even further in her rhetoric, defending the idea of building “walls” to seal off the borders of the 27-nation European Union.
“If we have to build walls like some states do, I would support them. I want us to fight together against immigration that leads to areas beyond France. If a country refuses to take back its illegal immigrants, with me there will be zero visas,” she said.
A supporter of the EU, Pécresse left The Republicans party in 2019 amid leadership divisions after the party had a poor showing in EU elections. She rejoined the party last year.
She also tried to cast herself as strong on families, promising a substantial increase in small pensions and pledging to slash inheritance taxes for many and hire an extra 25,000 caregivers. Pécresse said her first action as president would be to end France’s 35-hour workweek so employees can work and earn more.
If elected, Pécresse vowed again to break with the centrist policies of incumbent Macron, who is expected to seek a second term. She has also warned voters against backing far-right candidates, arguing that only the conservatives can unite the French people and ease political tensions in the country.
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BEIJING (AP) — Across two pandemic Olympics set in Asian countries, Asian American women fronting the Games have encountered a whiplashing duality — prized on the global stage for their medal-winning talent, buffeted by the escalating crisis of racist abuse at home.
The world’s most elite and international sporting event, which pits athletes and countries against each other, underscores along the way the crude reality that many Asian women face: of only being seen when they have something to offer.
“It’s like Asian American women can’t win,” says Jeff Yang, an author and cultural critic. “Asian American female athletes, like most Asian American women in many other spaces, are seen as worthy when they can deliver … and then disposed of otherwise.”
The issue is playing out at the Beijing Winter Games, the third straight Olympics set in Asia and the second held during the unrelenting global coronavirus crisis — and playing out, too, during a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Here, U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim and China’s freestyle skier Eileen Gu are the latest additions to the list of American women of Asian descent who have been “It Girls” of the Winter Games, joining icons like American figure skaters Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan.
When Kim and Gu earned their gold medals in Beijing, it was the perfect bow on professional narratives that have been covered incessantly leading up to the actual event. Their star power and talent made them two of the de facto spokeswomen for the Olympics.
Meanwhile, other Asian American women like figure skaters Karen Chen and Alysa Liu of the U.S. team and Zhu Yi of the China team have also been promoted by their national teams and scrutinized — sometimes harshly — by Olympic fans.
Commentators have mocked Yi for falling in the team event, as if she deserved the mistake after giving up her U.S. citizenship to compete for her ancestral homeland. Others are angry that she “stole” the Olympic spot from an actual China-born athlete.
Even the winners struggle to feel fully embraced in America.
Kim, who won the halfpipe at the Beijing and Pyeongchang Olympics, has revealed she was tormented online daily. She says she was consumed by fear that her parents could be killed whenever she heard news about another brutal assault on an Asian person.
There have been more than 10,000 reported anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults – between March 2020 and September 2021, according to Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that gathers data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic.
“The experience of hate is withering, and it takes a huge mental health toll,” says Cynthia Choi, the coalition’s co-founder. “When we think about the Olympics, it’s really incredibly powerful to have taken place in Asia three times in a row. That context is very significant, and to have Asian Americans and Asians representing the United States in these games is more than symbolic.”
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country have endured racist verbal, physical and sometimes deadly attacks for two years now, fueled by the pandemic.
Some perpetrators have based their hate on the fact that the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China. Adding to the mix: former President Donald Trump, who regularly talked about COVID-19 in racial terms.
Gu, the daredevil freestyle skier who placed first in the big air competition, said she’d never been as scared as when a man directed a tirade about the coronavirus’ Chinese origins against her and her immigrant grandmother at a San Francisco pharmacy.
The San Francisco native, fashion model and social media figure has also been criticized with anti-China rhetoric for switching from the U.S. team to the China team. Conservative Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Will Cain even dedicated a segment to berating Gu, saying she was “ungrateful” and is “betraying her country.”
Those racially charged denunciations have been called out on social media for being hypocritical. Phil Yu, who runs the popular Angry Asian Man blog, tweeted succinctly: “Oh sure, it’s always ‘go back to your country’ but not ‘go back to your country and win a gold medal.’”
The dichotomy of the Asian American woman’s existence is not limited to Winter Olympians, though. In October, Hmong American gymnast Sunisa Lee said she was pepper sprayed by someone shouting racist slurs while driving by in a car. At the time, she was standing outside with a group of Asian American friends in Los Angeles while filming the “Dancing with the Stars” TV show.
Lesser-profile Olympians from the Tokyo Games like golfer Danielle Kang and karateka Sukura Kokumai spoke about their experiences with anti-Asian hate last summer.
Kang said she’s fought racism all her life and urged for a broader social studies curriculum that could better capture today’s multicultural America.
“I’ve been told to go back to China. I don’t know why they think China is the only Asian country,” said the Korean American athlete. “I also have heard, ‘Do you eat dogs for dinner?’ It’s nothing new to me. However, the violence was very upsetting. But the violence also has been around. I’ve gotten into fist fights. I’ve grown up like this.”
Kokumai, who is Japanese American, was angry to discover that the same man who had harassed her in April with racist slurs also assaulted an elderly Asian American couple.
Equally painful: colleagues’ silence when the incident was reported. She said Japan’s coach called her about it before members of her U.S. team did.
“It was really hurtful that it took so long for my side of the federation to address it,” Kokumai said last summer.
In July, when Lee became the surprise breakout star of the Tokyo Olympics by winning gold in the all-around event and bronze on uneven bars, Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, said she felt conflicted about seeing Lee on a pedestal given the way Hmongs have been marginalized.
“I’m really wrestling with this idea that we’re all ‘American’ only when it comes to us being excellent and winning medals for the country,” Choimorrow said. “Asian American women are hyper-visible in ways that dehumanize us and completely invisible in the ways that humanize us.”
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is flying to Ukraine and Russia this week in an effort to help defuse escalating tensions as Western intelligence officials warn that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasingly imminent and Germany has called on its citizens to leave Ukraine as quickly as possible.
Ahead of his first visits as chancellor to Kyiv on Monday and Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, Scholz has renewed his warning to Russia, as well as his advocacy of continuing diplomacy in multiple formats.
“It is our job to ensure that we prevent a war in Europe, in that we send a clear message to Russia that any military aggression would have consequences that would be very high for Russia and its prospects, and that we are united with our allies,” Scholz told the German parliament’s upper house on Friday.
“But at the same time that also includes using all opportunities for talks and further development,” Scholz said.
Russia has concentrated more than 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s border and launched a series of military maneuvers in the region, but says it has no plans to invade the nation.
Moscow wants guarantees from the West that NATO won’t allow Ukraine and other former Soviet countries to join as members, and for the alliance to halt weapon deployments to Ukraine and roll back its forces from Eastern Europe. The U.S. and NATO flatly reject these demands.
Scholz has repeatedly said that Moscow would pay a “high price” in the event of an attack, but his government’s refusal to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine or to spell out which sanctions it would support against Russia have drawn criticism abroad and at home and raised questions about Berlin’s resolve in standing up to Russia.
Germany’s reluctant position is partly rooted in its history of aggression during the 20th century when the country’s own militarization in Europe during two world wars led many postwar German leaders to view any military response as a very last resort.
Despite this historic burden, experts say it is of utmost importance now that Scholz stresses Germany is in sync with its European and American allies, especially when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Scholz has to convey a very clear message in Moscow, and it can really only be: There is unity and oneness in the Western alliance. There is no possibility of driving a wedge into the Western alliance, and that must be understood in Moscow. I think that’s the most important message he has to convey there,” said Markus Ziener, an expert with the German Marshall Fund.
“At the same time, he has to make it clear that the costs are high,” Ziener added. “That’s basically the message that is most likely to catch on in Moscow as well. So a military invasion of Ukraine has significant consequences for Russia.”
Scholz has not explicitly said what kind of consequences or sanctions Russia would have to face if it invades Ukraine, but it is clear that the future of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline that seeks to bring Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea, bypassing Ukraine, is at stake.
U.S. President Joe Biden threatened last week that the pipeline would be blocked in the case of an invasion.
That would hurt Russia economically but also cause supply problems for Germany. Construction of the pipeline has been completed, but it is not yet operating.
“Germany doesn’t have much leverage, except for saying that it won’t approve Nord Stream 2, which is the only political leverage,” Claudia Kemfert, the head of department of energy, transport and environment at the German Institute for Economic Research, said.
“Otherwise, Germany is very susceptible to blackmail. We can’t do too much. We have committed ourselves to getting the gas supplies, unlike other European countries we have not diversified our gas supplies and we have dragged our feet on the energy transition. So we did a lot of things wrong, and now we are paying the price,” Kemfert added.
It is not surprising, then, that Scholz has stressed the need to keep some ambiguity about sanctions to press Russia to deescalate and has so far avoided mentioning Nord Stream 2 specifically.
“The hesitancy of Olaf Scholz obviously leads to the fact that one does not really know what the Germans actually want,” Ziener said. “With regard to Nord Stream 2, I think there should have been a clear statement that if it comes to a military intervention, then Nord Stream 2 is off the table.”
Asked on Friday whether Scholz will be taking any new initiative to Kyiv and Moscow or the positions that are already on the table, his spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, replied that he will stick with “the positions that we have already set out.”
Scholz can only hope that in his talks with Putin he can dissuade him from taking military action with a face-saving solution, says Ziener.
“He can actually only hope that at the end of this whole round of negotiations there will be a success, that the war is prevented. Then Scholz will be praised for his negotiating skills,” Ziener added. “If not, the question will be asked: What was actually the line of the German government?”
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Geir Moulson and Kerstin Sopke contributed reporting from Berlin.
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NEW YORK (NEWS10) – On Sunday, February 13, the statewide positivity rate stands at 2.28% for COVID-19 infections, its lowest since October 31, 2021. As COVID- 19 positive cases and hospitalizations continue to decline across all regions, Health Officials said the total number of positive cases as of Saturday is 3,583, the lowest since October 25, 2021.
Statewide, officials say there have been 50 COVID-19 deaths reported since Saturday. The total amount of deaths reported through the Health Electronic Response Data System (HERDS) since the onset of the pandemic is now 54, 125.
“I am so proud of the hard work New Yorkers have put in this winter to get us past the Omicron surge and put us on the pathway to normalcy,” Governor Hochul said. “The vaccine is still the most effective weapon we have in beating this pandemic, which is why it’s so important that we continue to encourage New Yorkers to take advantage of this critical tool. Parents and guardians, don’t delay in getting your children vaccinated and boosted if eligible.”
In addition to the January 11 omicron peak, total COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide since Saturday are at 3,883 patients, the lowest since December 12, 2021. HERDS is a New York State Department of Health data source that collects and confirmed daily deaths data as reported by hospitals, nursing homes, and adult care facilities.
HERD says the number of deaths reported by healthcare facilities stands at 67,779, in addition to a total of deaths reported to and complied by the CDC statewide. Health Officials say the 7-day average percent positive rate is at 3.19%.
As of Sunday, the state’s progress on combating COVID-19 stands:
- Total vaccine doses administered – 36,479,837
- Total vaccine doses administered over past 24 hours – 43,257
- Total vaccine doses administered over past 7 days – 295,857
- Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose – 91.4%
- Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series – 82.5%
- Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 95.0%
- Percent of New Yorkers ages 18 and older with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 85.1%
- Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 80.6%
- Percent of New Yorkers ages 12-17 with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 70.5%
- Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose – 80.7%
- Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series – 72.6%
- Percent of all New Yorkers with at least one vaccine dose (CDC) – 88.2%
- Percent of all New Yorkers with completed vaccine series (CDC) – 74.8%
Each region’s 7-day average of cases per 100K population is as follows
Each region’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:
Each New York City borough’s 7-day average percentage of positive test results reported over the last three days is as follows:
As of Saturday, February 12. 3,583 New Yorkers tested positive for COVID-19 in New York State, bringing the total to 4,864,638. A geographic breakdown is as follows:
Below is data that shows how many hospitalized individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 were admitted for COVID-19/COVID-19 complications and how many were admitted for non-COVID-19 conditions:
The Omicron variant now represents more than 95% of the viruses in circulation. For more information on variant tracking, please visit here: COVID-19 Variant Data | Department of Health (ny.gov).
As of Saturday, February 12, 50 New Yorkers died due to COVID-19, bringing the total to 54,125. A geographic breakdown is as follows, by county of residence:
All New York State mass vaccination sites are open to eligible New Yorkers aged 5 and older, with walk-in vaccination available at all sites on a first-come, first-serve basis for people aged 12 and older. Information on which sites require appointments for children in the 5-11 age group is available on our website.
People who prefer to make an appointment at a state-run mass vaccination site can do so on the Am I Eligible App or by calling 1-833-NYS-4-VAX. People may also contact their local health department, pharmacy, doctor, or hospital to schedule appointments where vaccines are available or visit vaccines.gov to find information on vaccine appointments near them.
New Yorkers looking to schedule vaccine appointments for 5-11-year-old children are encouraged to contact their child’s pediatrician, family physician, county health departments, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), rural health centers, or pharmacies that may be administering the vaccine for this age group. Parents and guardians can visit vaccines.gov, text their ZIP code to 438829, or call 1-800-232-0233 to find nearby locations.
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BERLIN (AP) — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was re-elected for a second term of five years by a special parliamentary assembly on Sunday and vowed to heal the wounds left by the coronavirus and fight the enemies of democracy.
The president was elected with a big majority by a special assembly made up of the members of parliament’s lower house and representatives of Germany’s 16 states.
Steinmeier had been endorsed by most mainstream political parties ahead of the election for the largely ceremonial head of state.
“My responsibility is for all the people who live in our country. Non-partisan, yes — but I am not neutral when it comes to the cause of democracy. Whoever fights for democracy will have me on his side. Whoever attacks it will have me as an opponent,” Steinmeier said in a speech to the special assembly after accepting his election.
In reaction to the escalating crisis on the border of Ukraine where Russia has massed well over 100,000 troops, Steinmeier warned that “we are in the midst of the danger of a military conflict, a war in Eastern Europe — Russia bears the responsibility for this.”
“Russia’s troop buildup cannot be misunderstood. It is a threat to Ukraine and it is supposed to be one,” he added. “But the people there have a right to live without fear and threat, to self-determination and sovereignty. No country in the world has the right to destroy that — and whoever tries to do so, we will answer you decisively.”
The re-elected president vowed that he would continue to work on strengthening democracy in Germany and help take away fears of the future, giving the country’s citizens the confidence to handle the challenges ahead. He also vowed to help heal wounds created by the coronavirus pandemic.
“Let us not underestimate the strength of democracy. But let us also not underestimate the challenges it faces,” Steinmeier said. “Opponents of democracy, from without and within, are sowing doubts during this pandemic about our ability to act and our institutions, about free science and free media.”
But, Steinmeier stressed, “the decisive breakthrough in the fight against the pandemic, the development of the vaccine in record time — that was achieved here, in free science, thanks to brilliant researchers and courageous entrepreneurs … in Germany, with our partners in Europe and the USA.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz congratulated Steinmeier, saying that “he has shown that he is in a position to talk directly to the people, to ensure solidarity in our society, but also to provide guidance.”
“That’s what we need right now with all the challenges we’re experiencing with regard to the pandemic, but also, of course, with regard to securing peace in Europe. He is the right president at exactly the right time,” Scholz said.
Before first becoming president in 2017, Steinmeier, 66, served two stints as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign minister and earlier was chief of staff to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
Germany’s president has little executive power but is considered an important moral authority. After a messy parliamentary election result in 2017, Steinmeier helped prod politicians to form a new coalition government rather than holding out for a new vote.
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LARISSA, Greece (AP) — Greek farmers say they are determined to shut down all the country’s major highways to protest rising energy costs.
At a gathering south of the city of Larissa in central Greece, they decided Sunday to demand a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
As all of Europe is facing rising energy costs, Greek farmers are demanding subsidies to reduce their fuel costs and an end to the electricity price adjustment cost, which reflects changes in the price of oil and natural gas imports.
Greece has among the highest taxes on fuel in the 27-nation European Union, accounting for about two-thirds of the price.
“Diesel costs about 1.60 euros (per liter), while in other European countries it is 70 cents,” Asterios Tsikritsis, president of the farmers’ union in the city of Tirnavos, north of Larissa, told The Associated Press.
Greek farmers have already been blocking a major road connecting Larissa to the city of Kozani to the northwest for about ten days. On Sunday, they spilled milk on the road as part of their protest.
“At present, it is questionable whether us and our flocks will survive,” said Argiris Bairachtaris, president of the Tirnavos animal farmers’ union.
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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Hard work definitely paid off for father-daughter duo Paul and Sarah Miracle. The pair is in Los Angeles to watch the Cincinnati Bengals play Super Bowl 56 — all thanks to generous donors.
“I don’t know, I might just lose my mind. I might just lose complete control. When they come out on the field it’s gonna be something,” said Paul.
Paul Miracle was diagnosed with ALS in 2019. He is a die-hard Bengals super fan. His daughter Sarah successfully launched GoFundMe pages for her dad this football season, which ultimately got her dad to multiple playoff games. Now Sarah has done it again, raising enough money to send she and her dad to the Super Bowl.
“Very thankful. I appreciate all of the support. People are like excited. Even now that it’s done, they’re like pumped. They’re like are you packed? They wanna know all the details. They’re just pumped. They wanna take the journey with us,” said Sarah.
The original goal to get Sarah and Paul to the Super Bowl was $30,000. However, their GoFundMe page blew up and is now sitting at nearly $38,000. Sarah says Delta Airlines is also flying the pair to and from LA in first class free of charge.
“It’s quite quite amazing to me how people have reacted for our journey with ALS. How many people have been touched by it and made aware of the disease,” said Paul.
Something else that’s amazing to Paul is his daughter’s dedication which has gotten them this far.
“I never would’ve ever been able to afford to go to this without my daughters ambition or help. There really is no words. No words…that I can explain how important that is,” said Paul.
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PARIS (AP) — He has a full campaign team that’s fanning out around France, meeting with voters. He makes speeches about his future plans for the country. The problem? French President Emmanuel Macron hasn’t officially declared that he’s a candidate for April’s presidential election yet.
Critics say he’s unfairly using his taxpayer-funded presidential pulpit to campaign for a second term while dragging out his widely expected announcement as long as possible.
Less than two months before April 10’s first round, Macron’s intention is no mystery. He said last month that he has “the desire” to run for a second term, but he wanted to wait for the COVID-19 situation to improve before making a decision. The deadline to formally declare candidacy is March 4.
Far-right presidential contender Eric Zemmour accused Macron of trying to use the pandemic to make French voters forget about what he considers France’s decline.
“Is Emmanuel Macron using the health crisis to start campaigning? The answer is yes,” Marine Le Pen, the other far-right candidate, charged. Like the U.S. and most European countries, France recently started easing most virus restrictions as the infection rate slows down.
Macron also explained he wanted to focus on the Ukraine-Russia crisis first. On the flight between Moscow and Kyiv last week, he told reporters that he will “think about” declaring his candidacy later.
“Everything comes in due time,” he said.
Yet his recent trips across French regions tend to increasingly look like campaign events.
A visit this month to northern France, during which he announced an additional 100 million euros ($113 million) to boost the economy in a former mining area, was followed by dozens of journalists from national and international media. A meeting with local officials included a key political rival from The Republicans party, Xavier Bertrand, who is actively campaigning with conservative candidate Valérie Pécresse.
So close to the election, “that visit is a candidate’s visit, with lies and untruths. The hypocrisy must stop. An electoral trip cannot be paid for by the Republic,” Bertrand said after listening to Macron’s plans for the region.
The head of The Republicans’ party, Christian Jacob, denounced “misuse of public money” and said he reported the issue to the National Commission on Elections Financing.
France has strict rules about financing a presidential campaign. The amount of money a presidential contender is allowed to spend for the first round is 16.8 million euros ($19.1 million), with an additional 5.6 million euros ($6.4 million) for those who qualify for the runoff. After the election, France reimburses candidates who won at least 5% of the votes half of their campaign costs.
In 2012, conservative former President Nicolas Sarkozy announced his bid for a second term — which he lost to Socialist Francois Hollande — just over two months before the election. The National Commission on Election Financing later ruled that some expenses he incurred months before to organize a rally in southern France were to be included in campaign counts, even though he had not formalized his candidacy at that time.
Sarkozy was last year sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing. He has appealed the ruling.
Macron’s party has already launched a “campaign of the presidential majority” that is being deployed across the country via posters and leaflets promoting a website called “With You.” The website doesn’t mention Macron’s name but invites internet users to subscribe to follow “campaign news.”
The Constitutional Council recently announced that Macron was the first to receive the 500 signatures from elected officials that are required under French law to allow someone to run in the presidential election. The rule is meant to limit the number of candidates.
Since Jan. 1, French television and radio broadcasters are also required by law to provide “fair” exposure to all candidates and would-be candidates — based on their estimated weight in the campaign. The rule includes Macron himself, yet its implementation is complex because all comments considered part of the political debate are to be counted but those attributed to the role of president are not.
The difference can sometimes be subtle. On Thursday, Macron went to the eastern town of Belfort to announce the construction of six new nuclear reactors. It is up to the president to decide France’s energy strategy.
In his speech, he also harshly criticized “those who say we don’t need nuclear (energy),” in a reference to the Greens and far-left presidential candidates’ campaign platforms.
“Can you imagine France in 30 years time with 40,000 windmills instead of 8,000 now?” he asked. “That’s what supporters of phasing out nuclear power are proposing today to the French. It’s not serious.”
Rivals also said Macron, a pro-European, is using France’s six-month presidency of the European Union as a springboard toward reelection.
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The Cincinnati Bengals are the home team Sunday in the Super Bowl — technically. The home-field advantage belongs all to the Los Angeles Rams.
The NFC champions (15-5) will dress and work out of their usual locker room after spending the night before the big game in their usual hotel. The Rams’ logo is plastered all around and inside SoFi Stadium even with the banners making it clear this is the Super Bowl.
Yes, the Bengals (13-7) are represented inside the stadium with their name and “Who Dey!” mantra opposite the Rams.
This is the second straight Super Bowl where the home team has gotten to play on its own field after Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a championship a year ago in Raymond James Stadium. Before that, the NFL went 54 years without a team playing a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Saudi Arabia views Cyprus as a “bridge” between the Middle East and the European Union, helping the 27-nation bloc “understand what’s going on” in the region, the Saudi foreign minister said Sunday.
Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, speaking after talks with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides, said that Cyprus helps “really focus the attention” on all the opportunities and challenges in the Middle East.
Cyprus has ramped up its outreach to Gulf states in recent years to act as a broker as the closest EU-member country to the region.
The Saudi top diplomat said both his country and Cyprus have a “very, very strong alignment” regarding regional stability and terrorism “whether it is (Yemen’s) Houthis or others.”
He said both countries agree in the primacy of international law.
“If we do not all agree that international law is the primary guide of state relations, we risk the instability for all,” Al Saud said. “I think it’s important that we all stand together to defend the primacy of international law or state sovereignty, a rejection of interventionism of all sorts.”
A coalition led by the Saudis entered Yemen’s civil war in 2015 to try and restore the country’s internationally recognized government, which had been ousted by the Iran-backed Houthis the year before. The conflict has turned into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with international criticism of Saudi airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians and targeted the country’s infrastructure.
The Houthis, meanwhile, have used child soldiers and indiscriminately laid landmines across the country.
Some 130,000 people, including over 13,000 civilians, have been killed in the Yemen conflict, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Project.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.
The surprise suspension was confirmed late Saturday on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest sales opportunity of the year for Mexican avocado growers.
Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the U.S. market.
The U.S. government suspended all imports of Mexican avocados “until further notice” after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threatening message, Mexico’s Agriculture Department said in a statement.
“U.S. health authorities … made the decision after one of their officials, who was carrying out inspections in Uruapan, Michoacan, received a threatening message on his official cellphone,” the department wrote.
The import ban came on the day that the Mexican avocado growers and packers association unveiled its Super Bowl ad for this year. Mexican exporters have taken out the pricey ads for almost a decade in a bid to associate guacamole as a Super Bowl tradition.
This year’s ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of gladiator fans outside what appears to be the Colosseum, soothing their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados.
The association did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ban, which hits an industry with almost $3 billion in annual exports. However, avocados for this year’s Super Bowl had already been exported in the weeks prior to the event.
Because the United States also grows avocados, U.S. inspectors work in Mexico to ensure exported avocados don’t carry diseases that could hurt U.S. crops.
It was only in 1997 that the U.S. lifted a ban on Mexican avocados that had been in place since 1914 to prevent a range of weevils, scabs and pests from entering U.S. orchards.
The inspectors work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services.
It is not the first time that the violence in Michoacan — where the Jalisco cartel is fighting turf wars against a collection of local gangs known as the United Cartels — has threatened avocados, the state’s most lucrative crop.
After a previous incident in 2019, the USDA had warned about the possible consequences of attacking or threatening U.S. inspectors.
In August 2019, a U.S. Department of Agriculture team of inspectors was “directly threatened” in Ziracuaretiro, a town just west of Uruapan. While the agency didn’t specify what happened, local authorities say a gang robbed the truck the inspectors were traveling in at gunpoint.
The USDA wrote in a letter at the time that, “For future situations that result in a security breach, or demonstrate an imminent physical threat to the well-being of APHIS personnel, we will immediately suspend program activities.”
Many avocado growers in Michoacan say drug gangs threaten them or their family members with kidnapping or death unless they pay protection money, sometimes amounting to thousands of dollars per acre.
On September 30, 2020, a Mexican employee of APHIS was killed near the northern border city of Tijuana.
Mexican prosecutors said Edgar Flores Santos was killed by drug traffickers who may have mistaken him for a policeman and a suspect was arrested. The U.S. State Department said investigations “concluded this unfortunate incident was a case of Mr. Flores being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The avocado ban was just the latest threat to Mexico’s export trade stemming from the government’s inability to rein in illegal activities.
On Thursday, the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office filed an environmental complaint against Mexico for failing to stop illegal fishing to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise.
The office said it had asked for “environment consultations” with Mexico, the first such case it has filed under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade pact. Consultations are the first step in the dispute resolution process under the trade agreement, which entered into force in 2020. If not resolved, it could eventually lead to trade sanctions.
Mexico’s government has largely abandoned attempts to enforce a fishing-free zone around an area where the last few vaquitas are believed to live in the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. Nets set illegally for another fish, the totoaba, drown vaquitas.
And on Monday, Mexican fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico were “prohibited from entering U.S. ports, will be denied port access and services,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, in response to years of Mexican boats illegally poaching red snapper in U.S. waters in the Gulf.
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GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a government plan to inject more than 150 million francs (about $163 million) into broadcast and print media every year, including support for early-morning newspaper delivery and online media to the tune of 70 million francs (nearly $76 million) a year, according to exit polls.
Some 56% of voters rejected the measure, public broadcaster SRF reported.
Opponents of the plan, which had been passed by Swiss lawmakers in June, had pulled together enough signatures in a petition to put the issue before the public, part of Switzerland’s particular form of democracy that gives voters in the country of 8.5 million a direct say in policymaking.
Foes of the plan had said the cash injection would waste taxpayer money, benefit big newspaper chains and the media moguls who run them and hurt journalistic independence by making media outlets more dependent on state handouts and thus less likely to criticize public officials. They also said it was discriminatory, since free newspapers wouldn’t benefit.
“A media subsidized by the state is a media under control. As the adage goes: ‘Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,’” wrote the opponents who pressed for the referendum. They say big print-media groups together took in more than 300 million in profits in 2020, even during the COVID-19 crisis.
Many other countries in Europe and beyond offer support to newspapers through postal fee discounts, tax breaks and other measures.
Supporters of the cash injection had countered that journalism, especially in local areas ill-served by big media groups, should be considered a public service, as are many public radio and television broadcasters in Switzerland and around Europe.
“Media groups are fighting to survive. Ad revenues for print press haven’t stopped declining or are getting swallowed up by giants like Facebook and Google, and subscriptions aren’t enough,” the Swiss Green party, which supported the measure, had argued before the vote.
Proponents said more than 70 papers have disappeared since 2003. Advertising revenue in all print publications plunged 42% between 2016-2020 in Switzerland.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey have met to strategize about the future of the country’s governing system — a move that aims to unseat the country’s longtime ruler.
In a statement following the dinner Saturday night, the party leaders said Turkey was experiencing “the deepest political and economic crisis” of its history and blamed it on the executive presidential system. They said their joint goal was to transform Turkey’s governance to a “strengthened parliamentary system.”
They did not mention President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by name, but their clear aim is to find a way to work together to unseat him.
After more than 11 years as Turkey’s prime minister, Erdogan was elected president in 2014. At the time, the position was primarily ceremonial. But in 2017, Turkish voters approved an executive presidential system, greatly expanding Erdogan’s powers at the expense of those of the prime minister and parliament. Erdogan was re-elected the following year. Critics call the system “one-man rule.”
The leaders at the dinner were Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the main opposition Republican People’s Party; Meral Aksener from the nationalist Good Party; Temel Karamollaoglu from the conservative Felicity Party; Gultekin Uysal from the Democrat Party; Democracy and Progress Party’s Ali Babacan; and Future Party’s Ahmet Davutoglu. They had previously conducted bilateral meetings but Saturday’s meeting was their first all together. They are expected to release details of their agreement on Feb. 28.
Davutoglu and Babacan were co-founders of Erdogan’s ruling party and served in top positions but broke away to form their own parties in criticism of Erdogan’s policies.
The second-largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, was not at the meeting. The government has attacked that party and many of its members, including its former leaders, have been imprisoned over alleged links to outlawed Kurdish militants. Erdogan has also accused the Republican People’s Party of siding with “terrorists,” claims the party denies.
The next parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey are scheduled for June 2023.
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HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts Saturday in Hawaii to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea afterPyongyang began the year with a series of missile tests.
Blinken said at a news conference after the meeting that North Korea was “in a phase of provocation” and the three countries condemned the recent missile launches.
“We are absolutely united in our approach, in our determination,” Blinken said after his talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong.
He said the countries were “very closely consulting” on further steps they may take in response to North Korea, but didn’t offer specifics.
The three released a joint statement calling on North Korea to engage in dialogue and cease its “unlawful activities.” They said they had no hostile intent toward North Korea and were open to meeting Pyongyang without preconditions.
Hayashi later told Japanese reporters the three ministers had “very fruitful” discussion on the North. He declined to give details on additional measures they may take.
North Korea has a long history of using provocations such as missile or nuclear tests to seek international concessions. The latest tests come as the North’s economy, already battered by decades of mismanagement and crippling U.S.-led sanctions, is hit hard by pandemic border closures.
Many see the tests as an attempt to pressure President Joe Biden’s administration into easing the sanctions. The Biden administration has shown no willingness to do so without meaningful cuts to the North’s nuclear program, but it has offered open-ended talks.
North Korea has rebuffed U.S. offers to resume diplomacy, saying it won’t return to talks unless Washington drops what it says are hostile polices. The North bristles at both the sanctions and regular military exercises the U.S. holds with South Korea.
The tests also have a technical component, allowing North Korea to hone its weapons arsenal. One of the missiles recently tested — the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile — is capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam. It was the longest-distance weapon the North has tested since 2017.
North Korea appears to be pausing its tests during the Winter Olympics in China, its most important ally and economic lifeline. But analysts believe North Korea will dramatically increase its weapons testing after the Olympics.
The recent tests have rattled Pyongyang’s neighbors in South Korea and Japan. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who helped set up the historic talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and former President Donald Trump in 2018 and 2019, said last month that the tests were a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and urged the North to cease “actions that create tensions and pressure.”
The Security Council initially imposed sanctions on North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006. It made them tougher in response to further nuclear tests and the country’s increasingly sophisticated nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
China and Russia, citing the North’s economic difficulties, have called for lifting sanctions like those banning seafood exports and prohibitions on its citizens working overseas and sending home their earnings.
Blinken arrived in Hawaii from Fiji, where he met with Acting Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and other Pacific leaders to talk about regional issues, especially the existential risk posed by climate change. It was the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state to Fiji since 1985.
He started his Pacific tour in Australia, where he met his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan. The four nations form the “Quad,” a bloc of Indo-Pacific democracies that was created to counter China’s regional influence.
Hayashi and Chung held a separate bilateral meeting Saturday for about 40 minutes before seeing Blinken. Japan’s Foreign Ministry said they reaffirmed the importance of cooperating together and with the United States to respond to North Korea and to achieve regional stability.
The ministry said they also “frankly” exchanged views on ongoing disputes between the two countries, including wartime Korean laborers and sexual abuse of Korean women forced into sexual servitude by Japan’s imperial army.
Chung proposed the two countries accelerate diplomacy to find solutions to the disagreements, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Blinken also met separately with Chung. He met Hayashi earlier this week in Australia.
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Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
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Are you looking for a way to decorate your living space that will give it character that’s as unique as it is timeless? You might want to consider a bohemian-style makeover. Also referred to simply as boho, this eclectic interior design was introduced in Paris, France in the 19th century and became popular in the U.S. in the 1960s.
Today a fresh, contemporary take on the classic boho style is on trend. From artwork to furniture to accent pieces, there are numerous home decor items available that will add a touch of Bohemian appeal to your place.
What is boho?
A person who pursues a unique or unconventional life is often referred to as bohemian. Boho home design can be described similarly, as the intriguing pieces used to create this decorative style stand out from traditional decor.
Just about any item can sport a boho style. Some of the most popular home pieces include furniture, wall art, area rugs, tapestries, bedding, curtains and accent pieces like pillows, throws and baskets.
Characteristic of boho style
Eclectic is one the first words that come to mind when describing items that fit into the boho aesthetic. They typically lack specific structure or color schemes and have artistic or creative appeal. However, they do include a few common elements:
- Mixed textures, bold hues and ornate patterns are some of the hallmarks of bohemian-inspired pieces. Boho is as worldly as it is timeless, as it’s inspired by several cultures and can be vintage or contemporary.
- Elements of nature are also popular in the boho home style. When creating a bohemian feel in a home, many decorators include plants.
- Natural materials like wood, rattan, textiles and metal are used to make boho home accessories, including shelves, rugs, furniture and accent pieces. Macrame accents in particular are popular.
- Animals, flowers, plants and people are often the subjects of colorful bohemian art.
When it comes to home decorating, boho style is versatile, too. Whether you are planning to update an entire room or simply add a few accent pieces, there are boho items available for any room.
Best boho home pieces
Lush Decor Bohemian Stripe Window Curtains
With bold colors and fun patterns, these curtains are the perfect window dressing to complete any room’s bohemian decor. They are crafted in polyester fabric that’s easy to maintain and come in several size options.
A Nice Night Floral Mandala Paisley Comforter Set
Turning a bedroom into a bohemian retreat is easy with this stylish comforter set that’s made of super soft microfiber material. In addition to a comforter, it includes two pillow cases.
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JLA Home Madison Park Moroccan Tile 4-Piece Deco Box Set
This tile set includes four pieces with interesting patterns and bright colors that will make them the focal point of your favorite boho space. Each tile is gel-coated to create a textured look.
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Lavish Home 5-Piece Bamboo Bathroom Decor Set
Constructed of natural bamboo, this accessory set provides a great way to add a bit of boho style to a bathroom. It includes a soap dish, toothbrush holder, tray, liquid soap dispenser and small trash can.
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Stratton Home Decor Round Tulum Rattan Mirror
This mirror features an attention-grabbing design with bamboo for a look that’s both artistic and natural. It has a built-in D-ring for easy installation. The cheerful design will brighten any living space.
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JONATHAN Y Bohemian Flair Vintage Medallion Area Rug
The eclectic pattern of this colorful rug makes it the perfect accent piece for creating boho home decor. In addition to the attractive design, it boasts strong material that holds up well to everyday wear. It’s available in a choice of sizes and color patterns.
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Langley Street Boho Rainbow III by Regina Moore Wrapped Canvas Painting
The vivid colors in this bohemian rainbow painting will compliment the colors of other boho decor in a room. It’s made by hand on a sturdy canvas that’s built to last.
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LNC Wood and Crystal Beaded Chandelier
Cool shapes, vintage appeal and wooden beads make this chandelier the ideal lighting piece for a boho-inspired room. Producing a soft glow is possible thanks to the dimmable light settings.
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Madison Park Hayden Accent Chair
This accent chair’s retro design and colorful upholstery give it bohemian flair. The vibrant appearance creates a nice contrast when paired with wood, rattan or macrame decor items.
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Afuly Macrame Wall Hanging Shelf
No boho room is complete without a touch of macrame. This tiered macrame shelf is stylish, easy to hang and perfect for displaying small artsy trinkets.
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Nearly Natural 4-foot Travelers Palm Artificial Tree
Plants are great for adding an element of nature to bohemian decor, but not everyone has a green thumb. This faux palm will always stay green and looks natural. It stands 4 feet in height.
Flintwood Solid Wood End Table
The wood and metal structure of this appealing end table give it a rustic appearance. It’s both functional and decorative, as it features a durable top with an open base for placing treasured items on display.
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If you received a pod coffee maker as a gift over the holidays, your mornings are better than ever. You can quickly brew one steaming-hot cup of coffee at the press of a button, and be fully caffeinated and wide-awake in minutes. You don’t even have a carafe to clean because you brew directly into your mug.
However, you might wonder if it makes a difference which coffee pod you use. The short answer is yes!
How a pod coffee maker works
Brewing coffee only involves two ingredients: water and coffee. In short, for a pod coffee maker, very hot — but not boiling — water is pumped through a pod that contains a single serving of coffee grounds. As the water passes through those grounds, it extracts flavor and coloring, filling your cup with coffee.
Key factors that affect coffee pod quality
There are two key factors that affect the quality of a coffee pod:
- Size of the coffee grind: The size of the coffee grounds plays an important role in the flavor. The larger the grind of your coffee is, the more quickly hot water can flow through the grounds. If they are too large, you get sour coffee. Conversely, if the grounds are too fine, your coffee will taste bitter. The key is finding a pod that contains coffee beans that have been ground to your preference.
- Freshness: The instant you grind coffee beans, they lose flavor. There is no way to prevent this. The best you can do is check the expiration date and use pods that have airtight packaging.
Not all coffee pods are the same
Besides grind size and packaging, coffee pods can vary in a couple of other important ways. The amount of coffee in each pod can range from 7-12 grams. More grounds means stronger coffee. Also, not all coffee pods are the same size. Make sure the pods you buy are compatible with your machine.
Best coffee pods
Nespresso Capsules OriginalLine
This espresso coffee pod pack contains five rich and flavorful blends that give you a 1.35-ounce serving of espresso. The aluminum capsules are recyclable and ensure your coffee grounds stay as fresh as possible.
Whole Foods Market Organic Breakfast Blend Coffee Capsules
If you are looking for a light roast organic breakfast blend, this offering from Whole Foods will satisfy. It is made with 100% Arabica beans and is sourced from small-scale farmers.
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HAVANA ROASTERS Espresso Supreme
This Cuban-influenced coffee delivers a rich, robust flavor with no acidic taste. It is dark roasted and compatible with K-cup machines.
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SF Bay Coffee OneCUP Breakfast Blend
For the individual looking for an eco-friendly coffee pod, this offering is manufactured using plant-based materials. It is certified fully commercially compostable. The flavor is a satisfying blend of Central American beans that produces a medium roast coffee.
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Green Mountain Dark Magic Coffee
The extrabold flavor of this dark roast coffee is perfect for a morning or afternoon pick-me-up. The coffee is made from 100% Arabica beans and it is kosher.
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Whether you’ve already bought yourself a fancy espresso machine or you’re still in the market for one, making the perfect espresso isn’t just about equipment. The beans you use, preparation and method are all just as important.
Learning how to make the perfect espresso is a journey, so be prepared to make tweaks along the way until you’ve perfected your craft.
Choose the right espresso machine
While it isn’t the only factor, you can’t make good espresso without a decent espresso machine. Unfortunately, cheap machines just won’t cut it, so expect to pay at least $300-$500, though top-of-the-line models can cost thousands of dollars. Your chosen machine should have at least nine bars of pressure. More importantly, it should deliver consistency in pressure, extraction volume and water temperature to give you consistent results every time.
Start with quality coffee beans
Use high-quality medium or dark roast whole beans. These should be specialty beans roasted in small batches rather than grocery store brands. Single-origin beans, where all the beans in a batch are grown in the same region, are good, but single estate beans, where all beans are grown on the same farm, are even better.
Grind your beans correctly
You must grind beans to a fine consistency to make espresso. Use a manual or electric burr grinder for the most consistent results. Most will have an espresso setting.
Clean your portafilter
Make sure your portafilter (the basket you put your ground beans in) is completely clean before you use it. Oils and remnants from previous uses make your espresso tasteless than perfect.
Learn about ratios
If you’re serious about making espresso, you need to learn a little about the optimum ratio of coffee to water. All experts seem to have opinions on these ratios, but a 1:2 ratio is a good place to start, and you can experiment from there. Using a 1:2 ratio, you’ll need 15 grams of ground coffee for a 30-gram espresso shot.
Weigh your coffee and water
To perfect those ratios, you’ll need a sensitive digital kitchen scale. Assuming a standard 1:2 ratio, weigh 15 grams of ground coffee into your portafilter. When you’re ready to brew, place your espresso cup on your scales beneath your espresso machine, reset the scales so that they read zero with the cup in place and pull your espresso into the waiting cup. Once the scales read 30 grams, stop the flow of water.
Evenly distribute and tamp
It’s important to evenly distribute your coffee in the portafilter and tamp it evenly. You don’t need to use a lot of pressure, just enough to compact the coffee.
Keep an eye on extraction time
An ideal extraction time is around 25 to 30 seconds. If it takes you significantly more or less time to pull a shot of espresso to the desired weight, you might need to adjust the grind size or look at your machine’s settings.
What you need to make perfect espresso
Gaggia Classic Pro Espresso Machine
Great for anyone who wants a quality espresso machine that doesn’t run into the thousands. It’s simple and doesn’t have a wide range of settings, but it makes fantastic espresso.
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With their medium roast, these single estate beans are ideal for making espresso. They aren’t cheap, but they’ll help you on your way to pouring that perfect shot.
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Bodum Bistro Burr Coffee Grinder
This quality burr coffee grinder gives even results to improve your espresso. It has a range of grind size settings that come into play when making other styles of coffee.
Sold by Amazon
LuxHaus Calibrated Pressure Tamper
If you aren’t confident about tamping, this calibrated tamper helps you deliver the exact amount of pressure every time.
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KitchenTour Coffee Scale with Timer
Anyone serious about making quality espresso needs a scale to weigh the ground beans and the brewed coffee. This one is precise enough for the low weights you’ll need.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Felix Auger-Aliassime won his first career title at the ninth attempt, upsetting top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-2 in the Rotterdam final on Sunday to deny his opponent an eighth title.
Victory at the indoor tournament came as a relief for the 21-year-old Canadian after losing his previous eight finals dating back to 2019.
“It has not been the smoothest road since my first final,” Auger-Aliassime said. “It is an amazing day for me to get my first title and especially here. I played my first ATP main draw here a couple of years ago, so it is right I won my first title here.”
The third-seeded Auger-Aliassime hit seven aces and won 93% of his first serve points, compared to just one ace for Tsitsipas.
The big-serving Greek was unusually poor on his serve with four double-faults and only 31 of 55 first serves landing in. His second serve let him down, too, and he won only 33% of points on it.
It was Auger-Aliassime’s third win in eight matches against Tsitsipas, and he did not face a break point in a dominant performance where he broke Tsitsipas three times.
“He was playing very good tennis, producing good shots and serving incredibly well throughout the match. I wasn’t able to respond,” Tsitsipas said. “I wasn’t able to respond. I wasn’t able to serve well today and my percentages were so low.”
The 23-year-old Tsitsipas dropped to 7-11 in finals.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Aliyah Boston is making double-doubles look as automatic as South Carolina’s wins.
Boston scored 18 points with 12 rebounds and No. 1 South Carolina coasted after a strong start to beat No. 17 Georgia 72-54 on Sunday for their 11th consecutive win.
Boston posted her 17th consecutive double-double and 18th overall in 24 games. Destanni Henderson added 15 points for the Gamecocks (23-1, 11-1 Southeastern Conference), who led by 30 points in the first half.
South Carolina kept its lead in double figures despite being outscored in the third and fourth periods.
“It’s just a hole that’s too big to dig yourself out of when you’re playing a team as talented as they are,” said Georgia coach Joni Taylor.
South Carolina is unbeaten since losing at Missouri in overtime to open its conference schedule on Dec. 30.
Georgia (17-7, 6-6) suffered its third consecutive loss despite Jenna Staiti’s 15 points and 10 rebounds.
South Carolina, which had to hold on late to win at Kentucky 59-50 on Thursday night, was dominant in another road game against Georgia.
Staiti went to the bench with two fouls midway through the opening period. Soon after Staiti’s exit, teammate Maiury Bates was called for her second foul.
Boston and the Gamecocks immediately seized the advantage, finishing the first period with an 18-2 run, including the final 10 points, for a 29-10 lead.
When Staiti returned early in the second period, South Carolina led 32-11.
“Before the game we said we’ve got to get points in the paint,” Boston said. “Jenna is a very good post player so it just worked out for us.”
Boston blocked two shots and had two steals.
The Gamecocks attacked with an impressive inside-outside balance. South Carolina was good on each of its four 3-pointers in the first period while also building an advantage near the basket.
“I think it starts on the defensive side of the basketball,” said South Carolina coach Dawn Staley. “… If we can hit our shots, coupled with what we do on the defensive side of the ball, we can get out to a pretty big lead.”
South Carolina stretched its lead to 30 points in the second period and led 51-25 at halftime.
Georgia scored the final six points of the third period and the first six points of the final period to pull to within 15 points at 61-46.
Que Morrison, who had 11 points, provided a highlight for Georgia in the third period when she went behind her back for a fancy layup despite being fouled by Henderson. Morrison sank the free throw for the three-point play.
BIG PICTURE
South Carolina: The Gamecocks look postseason ready. They improved to 10-0 against Top 25 teams with their 15th consecutive win over Georgia since 2013. Following the hot start on long-range jumpers, South Carolina missed its last eight 3s.
Georgia: The Lady Bulldogs couldn’t come close to their first win over a top-ranked team since beating Tennessee in the semifinals of the 2004 SEC tournament. They’re left with a three-game losing streak that includes two home losses. The sudden downturn has dropped Georgia to .500 in the SEC and in danger of taking a fall in the Top 25.
SHORT-HANDED BUT SURE-HANDED
South Carolina won easily despite playing without its top two reserves. Forwards Laeticia Amihere and Kamilla Cardoso are competing with their national teams, Canada and Brazil, respectively, in the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 Qualifying Tournament.
TURNOVER WOES
South Carolina scored 32 points off Georgia’s 19 turnovers.
“You give a team like that momentum like that, they’re going to take advantage of it,” Staiti said.
Taylor said the Lady Bulldogs must address the problem in their final four regular-season games.
“Taking care of the basketball has got to be No. 1,” said Taylor when asked her goals before the postseason.
UP NEXT
South Carolina hosts Auburn on Thursday. Amihere and Cardoso are expected to be back with the team.
Georgia hosts Missouri on Thursday when it will look for its first win since Feb. 3 against Vanderbilt.
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Over two days of auction, 204 players were sold as the 10 franchises assembled their respective squads. Here’s how the two most successful franchises in IPL history and the two newcomers fared in the exercise.
Chennai’s squad is ready for the upcoming season of IPL 👏👏
CSK fans, your thoughts on the team? 🤔#CSK #IPLMegaAuction2022 #IPLAuction #IPLMegaAuction #IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/oYdcQhh4Ey
— Wisden India (@WisdenIndia) February 13, 2022
Chennai Super Kings
Smart buy: CSK needed an opener after releasing Faf du Plessis. Picking Devon Conway for Rs 1 crore makes their batting line-up well-rounded.
Strengths: Seven all-rounders in Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali, Chris Jordan, Mitchell Santner, Shivam Dube, Dwayne Bravo and Dwaine Pretorius. Their biggest strength remains MS Dhoni’s leadership.
Weakness: If any, probably the No. 3 spot, as replacing Suresh Raina is a tough ask.
Five-time champion Mumbai Indians are coming for their sixth IPL title 💥🤛
MI fans, Happy with the #IPLAuction? 🤔#MI #IPLMegaAuction2022 #IPLAuction #IPLMegaAuction pic.twitter.com/lzF3U7HTEv
— Wisden India (@WisdenIndia) February 13, 2022
Mumbai Indians
Smart buy: Tim David for Rs 8.25 crore, as the five-time champions needed a finisher after letting Hardik Pandya go.
Strengths: Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah, and the x-factor the two players bring to the table. T20 batting is mostly about the top four and they have proven performers.
Weakness: Losing Pandya’s all-round ability could hurt them.
Serious firepower in Lucknow’s tank for the upcoming season of IPL 💥
Your thoughts on the squad? 🤔#LSG #IPLMegaAuction2022 #IPLAuction #IPLMegaAuction #IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/Eh4IzecbW5
— Wisden India (@WisdenIndia) February 13, 2022
Lucknow Super Giants
Smart buy: Quinton de Kock for Rs 6.75 crore. He is an impact batsman at the top and a fine wicketkeeper.
Strength: Their bowling line-up, with the right mix of pace and spin.
Weakness: A top-heavy batting line-up and not much international experience in their Indian middle-order pack.
Gujarat Titans are looking all-set for their entry in IPL 💥
Your thoughts on their squad? 🤔#GujaratTitans #IPLMegaAuction2022 #IPLAuction #IPLMegaAuction #IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/SAOP5oYZGe
— Wisden India (@WisdenIndia) February 13, 2022
Gujarat Titans
Smart buy: Jason Roy for Rs 2 crore was a steal. A game-changer at the top, he can decimate any bowling attack on his day.
Strengths: Three impact fast bowlers in Mohammed Shami, Lockie Ferguson and Alzarri Joseph. Also, Pandya as a finisher.
Weakness: They don’t have adequate cover for Roy at the top, as the English opener might not be available for the whole tournament.
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The knock on Penny Hardaway early in the season was that he could recruit talent to Memphis, just not win with it.
The Tigers seem to be rounding into form — finally.
Shaking off some ugly early-season losses, Memphis put itself on the NCAA Tournament bubble with a marquee win over No. 6 Houston on Saturday. The Tigers beat Tulane earlier in the week and have won five straight as all those talented young players have begun to find their way.
“We came in locked and focused all week,” Hardaway said. “I was trying to keep the guys focused on Tulane, but I could tell they were antsy to get to this game because Houston has been the standard in our league.”
Hardaway has secured some of the nation’s best recruiting classes during his four seasons in Memphis, but has yet to turn all that talent into consistent results. Memphis missed the NCAA Tournament in each of Hardaway’s first three seasons despite winning at least 20 games in each.
The Tigers entered this season with plenty of hype, ranked No. 12 in the preseason AP Top 25 and with a roster that included the nation’s top recruiting class.
Memphis won its first five games, including a victory over Virginia Tech, before a stretch of five losses in six games. Then the Tigers lost three straight last month, digging a deeper hole as injuries mounted.
Things have started to change over the past three weeks. Memphis (14-8, 8-4 American Athletic Conference) has played more cohesively and picked up a huge Quadrant 1 win, beating Houston 69-59 to end the Cougars’ 37-game home winning streak.
There’s still work to do, but the Tigers have put themselves in the NCAA Tournament conversation.
RISING FAST
Rutgers (15-9, 9-5 Big Ten). An overtime loss to Northwestern hurt the Scarlet Knights’ NCAA Tournament chances, but three straight wins over ranked opponents was massive.
North Carolina (18-7, 10-4 Atlantic Coast Conference). The Tar Heels were blown out by rival Duke but have won six of seven, including a blowout of Florida State. Avoid any big slipups and they could find themselves in the bracket in Hubert Davis’ first season as coach.
Tennessee (18-6, 9-3 Southeastern Conference). The Vols have bounced back nicely from a blowout loss to No. 5 Kentucky with seven straight SEC wins. Tennessee gets another shot at the Wildcats on Tuesday.
SMU (18-5, 9-2 American Athletic Conference). The Mustangs have rallied from a couple of shaky early-season losses to win seven of their past eight games. Knocking off No. 6 Houston was huge.
FADING HOPES
Oregon (16-7, 9-3 Pac-12). The Ducks typically get better as the season progresses under coach Dana Altman. That appeared to be the case when Oregon reeled off 10 wins in 11 games, but a lackluster 78-64 loss to California on Saturday may have put it back on the edge of the bubble.
Michigan (13-10, 7-6 Big Ten). A win over then-No. 2 Purdue was a huge boost. The Wolverines followed that up with a loss to No. 16 Ohio State. A team that was once No. 4 in the country, Michigan may need a strong finish to the season to get into the field of 68.
Iowa State (16-,9 3-9 Big 12). Once 12-0, the Cyclones are now last in the Big 12 and on a four-game losing streak after an overtime loss to Kansas State. They need to get it turned around in a hurry to have any shot at the NCAA Tournament.
Utah State (15-11, 6-7 Mountain West). The Aggies have some shaky losses on their resume and are middle of the pack in the Mountain West. There are still chances to boost their resume with road games against San Diego State and Boise State, along with a home game against Colorado State.
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BEIJING (AP) — American skier Tommy Ford thought the cascading wall of large white flakes during the first snowy Alpine race of the Beijing Olympics left the slope for Sunday’s giant slalom with a handful of “grippier” spots and “a little chatter here and there.”
His U.S. teammate, River Radamus, described the course known as “The Ice River” as “a little bit bouncy.” To Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen, the precipitation rendered the hill “quite aggressive.”
A day earlier and a half-mile away on “The Rock” course at Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center, Italy’s Elena Curtoni offered an assessment after the first women’s downhill training session that was entirely in her native language, with the exception of this English word: “Grip.”
Asked if there is a counterpart for that term in Italian, she shook her head. “Actually,” Curtoni explained, “we use ‘grip.'”
As in many sports, and plenty of other fields, Alpine skiing has a lingua franca — words and phrases that allow folks from various places to communicate in a shared language. In this instance, much of it has to do with snow and the way it can be affected by aspects of the weather.
“There’s a lot of terminology about the feel that skiing gives you when you’re on a course. If a course ‘pulls,’ it’s bringing you to the gate sooner than you would expect. If the snow is ‘reactive,’ it means it’s easier to make a turn. There’s subtleties you pick up along the way,” said Ryan Cochran-Siegle, whose silver in the men’s super-G on Tuesday is the only Alpine medal for the U.S. so far in China. “That’s when you learn them: When you’re with your friends and learning skiing. Sometimes you make up your own lingo. But there’s a common understanding.”
WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?
Let’s allow some American ski racers to explain what some of these things mean:
Grippy: “Dry, hard snow. We call it ‘grippy’ because it really grabs at your edges. So, it’s really easy to turn on. Sometimes it’s easy to overturn on. But it also can be unforgiving with mistakes. You can easily catch edges. Grippy snow is your classic Colorado snow. It doesn’t have to be manmade, but often it’s manmade.” (Breezy Johnson)
On the edge: “Pretty much all of your weight is on a single edge on your (ski). … (Or) if you make a mistake, it’s going to be game over.” (Bryce Bennett)
Chatter: “When your ski is vibrating a little. … Like rumble strips on the interstate.” (Cochran-Siegle)
Getting bounced: “When your ski hits a bump and then it kicks you off-line. It’s not like a clean turn. You’ll hit a bump and then you’ll be off-line and you’re in a different place than where you want to be.” (Bennett)
Sugary: “It’s soft snow but it’s not new. Just straight-up soft. Sometimes at the bottom of the ski slope, if it’s kind of warm, but dry, then at the bottom, where people walk around in their boots, it’s sugary snow. … There’s no purchase on sugary snow. You try to turn on it and you just trench in and it’s not very fun. … We hate sugary.” (Johnson)
Rattling: “When there’s small, micro bumps within the turns and it’s not smooth. It’s bumpy underfoot.” (Bennett)
WHY DO THESE WORDS MATTER?
They allow skiers to get a grasp of elements that can change the way they approach a race.
Often, these terms are used in course reports coaches or competitors relay to those who have yet to come down the hill.
“They do represent real things. They’re not just slang and, like, ‘Oh, I was shredding!’ They really are critical to understanding the circumstance you’re trying to convey to the other people,” said Bode Miller, whose six Olympic Alpine medals are an American record. “It’s … specific and accurate terminology, because there’s a big difference between ‘chalky’ and ‘grippy.’”
Johnson, the runner-up at three World Cup downhills this season and considered a strong Beijing medal contender until surgery kept her home, split the lingo into two basic categories: snow conditions and surface conditions.
“You have icy, grippy, soft, bally, sugary and slushy. Those are the six main snow conditions,” she said. “And then you have surface conditions. Chattery, bumpy, smooth, I guess, are probably basically your three there.”
DOES IT ALWAYS MAKE SENSE?
Not necessarily. Markus Waldner, the men’s World Cup race director, is annoyed whenever he hears skiers talk about snow being “aggressive” — meaning, as with “grippy,” that there can be a strong connection between the skis themselves and the surface underneath.
Except Waldner points out that such variations have more to do with the equipment a racer uses than with the snow itself.
“Snow is never aggressive. The crystals of the snow can be different; there are 1,000 different (types of) crystals. But the snow is never aggressive,” Waldner said. “I tried to explain it to them: ‘My friends, the snow is not aggressive. The snow can be hard, soft, wet. Big crystals. More crystals. And so on. But not aggressive.’”
A racer’s technician can alter skis to allow for better contact.
One example: If the snow is “grippier,” Miller explained, “your technician might dull your skis back a little bit — take a gummy stone to the tip and tail of your skis to make them less aggressive — because the snow is going to be more responsive than it was on previous days on the same turn.”
WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS JARGON?
In a word: Everyone. No matter the country — and there are 83 represented in Alpine competition at the 2022 Olympics.
“Oh, yeah. Their English is a lot better than my German or French or Italian. Some of the Norwegians probably have better English than we do,” Cochran-Siegle said with a smile. “We’re fortunate. We come across as a little not-as-well-educated with a lack of understanding of other languages.”
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AP Sports Writers Andrew Dampf and Pat Graham contributed to this report.
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ryan Fox secured the biggest title of his career by winning the Ras Al Khaimah Classic by five shots on Sunday.
It was the 211th-ranked New Zealander’s first victory in a 72-hole format on the European tour. His only other title was in a Super 6 tournament in 2019 that featured a six-hole knockout format following 54 holes of strokeplay.
Fox went into the final round in Abu Dhabi with a six-shot lead — on 19 under — and a load of nerves.
He bogeyed two of his first six holes to allow the field to close in, but played the final 11 holes in 4 under and wound up shooting 3-under 69 for 22 under overall.
“Sleeping on a six-shot lead, I didn’t sleep very well last night,” Fox said. “Obviously a couple of the guys came at me early. I was a bit nervous. I had that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach all day.”
“But I’m very happy with how I played. A couple of great shots coming down the stretch and it was certainly nice walking down the last with putter in hand with so many putts to win.”
Ross Fisher finished in second place after a closing 66 at Al Hamra Golf Club, the latest stop on the tour’s “Desert Swing.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Erin Jackson bolted off the line, her powerful legs attacking the ice, her destiny awaiting at the end of a frenetic dash around Beijing’s magnificent speedskating oval.
She didn’t view herself as some sort of trailblazer. She didn’t think about the slip that could’ve snatched away her spot on the U.S. Olympic team. She simply wanted to go faster than everyone else.
“I came here to win,” the 29-year-old said.
Mission accomplished.
Jackson became first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Olympics — and it was the best color of them all.
Gold.
“A lot of shock, a lot of relief and a lot of happiness,” Jackson said after her victory in the 500 meters.
It was an immensely personal moment for an inline skating champion from balmy Ocala, Florida, who traded her wheels for blades in order to chase an improbable Olympic dream.
But it meant so much more than that.
Jackson’s skin color makes her an anomaly at the speedskating oval. She joined fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win long-track medals at the Olympics.
“I just hope that it will do something for the sport,” Jackson said of her groundbreaking victory. “Hopefully, more people will see this and be like, ‘Ohhh, maybe I should try some of these winter sports.’”
Back in Florida, Jackson’s longtime inline coach, Renee Hildebrand, cheered her on at an early-morning watch party thrown by one of her roller sport sponsors, Bont.
Hildebrand, too, hopes that Jackson’s victory will bring some much-needed diversity to skating — no matter if it’s wheels or blades.
“She’s such a fantastic role model,” Hildebrand said in a telephone interview. “Maybe little girls and little boys who are not all about roller skating or ice skating will see her and say, ‘Hey, people my color are there. She looks like me.’”
The coach noted the impressive accomplishments of Davis, who won two golds and two silvers at the Olympics, and now Jackson.
“There’s not a lot of African Americans in speedskating, but the ones who are have been are really, really good,” Hildebrand said. “If others will come, they’ll be good.”
Jackson won with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games, its first individual medal since 2010, and its first victory in the women’s 500 since Bonnie Blair in 1994.
Jackson’s gold came after she slipped at the U.S. trials and shockingly finished third, putting her spot on the Olympic team in jeopardy.
But teammate Brittany Bowe, another Ocala skater who finished first at the trials, gave up her spot in the 500 to ensure Jackson would get to compete in Beijing.
“She made a really big sacrifice for me,” Jackson said. “I’ll be grateful to her forever.”
As it turned out, the Americans received a third slot in the 500 when the final allocations were made, so Bowe got to skate as well. She finished 16th.
The two close friends embraced after Jackson clinched the gold.
“She hugged me and we cried,” the winner said. “She said she’s really proud of me and I said a lot of thank-yous.”
Jackson skated in the next-to-last of 15 pairs with the time of 37.12 — set about a half-hour earlier in the fourth pairing by Japan’s Miho Takagi — in her sights.
She didn’t think at all about that slip at the U.S. trials.
“It’s not something to really focus on,” Jackson said. “That was a fluke.”
Jackson darted off the line and and essentially won the gold in the first 100 meters, before she negotiated the first turn. Her opening split was 10.33 seconds, compared to 10.41 for Takagi.
That was the margin at the end, too.
“When it comes to the 500, it’s a matter of hundredths and sometimes thousandths of a second,” said Ryan Shimabukuro, Jackson’s coach when she’s on ice. “I knew she had the speed and it was going to come down to the opener. When I saw she opened in 10.3, which is pretty much the fastest she’s ever done, I knew we had a chance for the gold.”
Jackson kept up her speed through the first turn, down the crossing straight and on through the final turn, even though every stride brought more and more pain. Both arms were swinging furiously as she came down the final straightaway of speedskating’s shortest race.
As soon as her skates crossed the line, Jackson’s head turned toward the scoreboard.
She broke into a big smile when she saw the “1” beside her name, her time a scant 0.08 faster than Takagi’s. Shimabukuro pumped his arms and slapped hands with Jackson as she glided by.
There was still one pair left to skate, but Jackson knew she could do no worse than bronze.
A few minutes later, the gold was hers.
“You’re an Olympic champion,” Shimabukuro told her.
Jackson sat on the padding along the infield, shedding a few tears with her head bowed.
She was no doubt reflecting, as well, on her remarkable journey.
Making the switch from inline to ice just months before the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, Jackson was such a fast study that she earned a spot on the U.S. team. She finished 24th in the 500, but it was clear that she had barely tapped into her potential.
During the current World Cup season, Jackson suddenly emerged as one of the world’s best sprinters. She won four of eight 500 races — the first Black woman to earn one of those titles, as well — and came to the Olympics as one of the favorites.
“When I won the first World Cup, I was like, ‘OK that’s strange. Let’s see where it goes,’” Jackson recalled. “Then I won another and I was like, ‘Well, maybe I can do this.’”
She lived up to the billing in Beijing, becoming the first American woman to win an individual speedskating medal since 2002.
“Words cannot explain how proud I am of her,” Bowe said. “I knew she had the chance to do something really special, and she just showed the world why she deserved to be here.”
Jackson grabbed an American flag and did a victory lap around the Ice Ribbon oval, the stars and stripes fluttering above her head.
“It’s been a wild ride,” she said, “but that makes it even sweeter.”
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PHOENIX (AP)Devin Booker scored 26 points and Deandre Ayton had 17 points and 10 rebounds as the Phoenix Suns won their fifth straight game, beating the Orlando Magic 132-105 Saturday night.
Chris Paul recorded his 30th double-double of the season with 10 points and 15 assists, and the Suns had nine players score in double figures. Phoenix has won 16 of 17 games and owns the NBA’s best record at 46-10.
The Magic were led by rookie guard Jalen Suggs, who scored 20 points, two shy of his career-high, and had a season-high 10 assists. Cole Anthony scored 17 points, and Chuma Okeke had 15 points off the bench.
The Suns had a season-high 40 assists and just seven turnovers.
”That’s an unreal ratio,” coach Monty Williams said. ”But the ability, the will to turn down a decent shot or a good shot for a great shot, that’s who we are. That’s our DNA. That’s who we have to be if we want to do something really, really special, which we believe we can.”
Williams said the Suns’ unselfishness is directly influenced by how Paul plays.
”It’s probably the foundation of it all,” he said. … ”One thing that connects a team is passing the ball and I think our guys understand that.”
Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said the Suns set an example for his team on how to play the game.
”You talk about what they’ve done and how they do it and the chemistry which they have and we talk about our guys being able to play in that same fashion,” he said.
Said Booker: ”It’s just the way we play.”
The Suns ended the first quarter on an 8-0 run to take a 36-26 lead and extended the lead to 21 points on the way to a 67-53 advantage at the half.
Paul, who leads the NBA in assists per game at 10.6, had 10 in the first half; Orlando had 12.
The Magic cut the lead to 69-61 early in the third quarter. The Suns responded with a 12-2 run, sparked by eight points from Booker and a 3-pointer from Paul.
TIP-INS
Suns: Phoenix had 21 assists on its 28 first-quarter field goals. . The Suns scored 40 points in the paint in the first half. . Monty Williams challenged a foul call on JaVale McGee early in the fourth quarter, but the call was upheld.
Magic: Suggs limped off the court with 7:14 in the third quarter and rode an exercise bike while talking to an Orlando trainer. He returned to the game at the start of the fourth quarter. . Wendell Carter had
14 points and 11 rebounds, his 23rd double-double of the season.
DEBUTS
Phoenix forward Torrey Craig, acquired from the Indiana Pacers on Thursday, played 23 minutes, finishing with 14 points, three rebounds and four assists. Craig played 32 games for the Suns last season before signing with Indiana in the offseason. The Suns’ other trade-deadline acquisition, guard Aaron Holiday, scored 10 points in nine minutes.
”Watching those two guys fit right into the program is pretty cool,” Williams said.
UP NEXT
Magic: Visit Denver on Monday.
Suns: Host Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday.
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MIAMI (AP)Bam Adebayo had 19 points and 14 rebounds, and the Miami Heat held off a furious rally from Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets for a 115-111 victory Saturday night.
Irving scored 20 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter to help the Nets rally from a 21-point, third-quarter deficit before dropping their 11th straight game.
Cam Thomas’ 3-pointer with 37 seconds left cut Miami’s lead to 110-109. Down 113-111, the Nets had possession and an opportunity to tie or take the lead. But Kyle Lowry stole Thomas’ pass, dribbled downcourt and found P.J. Tucker, who got fouled and converted his shots to secure Miami’s fifth consecutive win.
”I think that was what it was going to take, some random deflection,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said of Lowry’s defensive play. ”It didn’t go necessarily how we wanted it to in the fourth quarter. Particularly when we had the 20-point lead, we allowed them some life with some of our inefficient offense.”
Duncan Robinson finished with 17 points and hit 6-of-10 3-pointers, Jimmy Butler and Tyler Herro each scored 13 and Lowry had 13 points and six assists for the Eastern Conference-leading Heat.
Thomas had 22 points and Kessler Edwards finished with 13 for the Nets, who have lost their last two in the slide by single digits. Their previous five losses were by double figures.
”There were some moments where it could have gotten away,” Brooklyn coach Steve Nash said. ”We found a way to scrap and claw. They rose to the occasion and took the challenge.”
Irving shot 6 of 9 from the field, including 2 of 3 from beyond the arc, in the fourth quarter.
”It’s being myself, making some shots,” Irving said of his late scoring spree. ”There were some easy opportunities I had in those first three quarters but in that fourth I saw the lane open up a little bit more and I was just being very decisive.”
The Heat stretched a six-point lead at halftime with a 16-3 spurt to start the third period. Eight points from Adebayo and Robinson’s two 3-pointers keyed the run. Dewayne Dedmon split two free throws with 1:53 remaining in the quarter, giving Miami its largest lead at 89-68.
”We had a good start to the third quarter but then let off a little bit,” Robinson said. ”We have to be better than that. But still, to win games down the stretch, having those closing possessions and stops were big.”
Former league MVP Kevin Durant recently began workouts in hopes of returning to the Nets lineup. Durant has been sidelined since his spraining left knee in a game against New Orleans Jan. 15.
Seth Curry and Andre Drummond, acquired by the Nets with Ben Simmons in the trade for James Harden, had not been cleared to play.
TIP-INS
Nets: Thomas has scored 20 points or more in four of his last five games. He is averaging 23.2 during the stretch. … C/F LaMarcus Aldridge (left ankle sprain) missed his seventh straight.
Heat: Miami is 19-6 vs. East at home and 23-12 overall. …. The winning streak coincides with Lowry’s return. He missed nine games because of personal reasons. … F Caleb Martin (left Achilles soreness) sat out.
HOME AT LAST
The recently completed six-game road slate has positioned the Heat toward a favorable home stretch to conclude the regular season. Beginning with Saturday’s game against Brooklyn, Miami will play 17 of its final 26 at home. And the longest road trip remaining is a three-game set at Boston, Chicago and Toronto March 30-April 3.
UP NEXT
Nets: Host Sacramento on Monday.
Heat: Host Dallas on Tuesday.
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DALLAS (AP)Luka Doncic was unstoppable at the end instead of the beginning in the rematch with the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Dallas superstar couldn’t quite do enough to get one of these teams an elusive sweep in their repetitive two-game sets.
Reggie Jackson scored 24 points and the Clippers held off the Mavericks in the final minute for a 99-97 victory Saturday night for another split between the teams.
Doncic had 23 of his 45 points in the fourth quarter two nights after scoring 28 of his career-high 51 points in the first of Dallas’ 112-105 win. Doncic had 15 rebounds and eight assists.
The LA victory in the rematch meant splits in all three two-game home sets over two regular season for teams that have met in the first round of the playoffs the past two years. The Clippers won both of those series.
”I just want to win. I don’t care if he had 90,” LA coach Tyronn Lue said. ”Hats off to him for playing great, but I thought our team did a hell of a job. We know he can dominate the game with his passing and his scoring. We wanted to try to limit him to being a scorer, and he did it again, unfortunately, but we were able to weather the storm.”
Terance Mann had 21 points and nine rebounds, and Marcus Morris Sr. scored 20 as the Clippers ended a three-game losing streak.
Jackson answered two of Doncic’s four 3-pointers in the fourth with driving buckets, the second drawing a foul. Jackson missed the free throw, but Mann rebounded and passed out to Jackson for a 3 and a 97-89 lead with 1:15 to go.
Doncic, who scored the last 19 Dallas points after a 3-pointer by Reggie Bullock with 4:55 remaining, had the Mavericks within one on a layup with eight seconds to go.
After a timeout, Jackson took an inbound pass while sprinting away from Jalen Brunson and managed to run the clock down to 3.4 seconds before Dallas got the foul.
Jackson made one of two free throws, and Doncic’s step-back shot from near midcourt at the buzzer was wide right and a little short.
”Luka was great and then we had the ball to tie it or win it,” Dallas coach Jason Kidd said. ”That’s all you can ask when we didn’t play well tonight. But we found a way to put ourselves in position.”
About to turn 23 and preparing for his third All-Star game, Doncic was 15 of 33 from the field, 6 of 13 from 3 and 9 of 13 from the line.
With 96 points in the two games, Doncic had the most in a two-game span against the same opponent since Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 for Philadelphia against Seattle in December 1967, according to STATS Inc.
”Sometimes they double me, specially in the fourth quarter and somebody else makes shots,” Doncic said. ”But today they let me go one-on-one. The first three quarters, I should have been way more aggressive than I was.”
Brunson scored 22 points, and Reggie Bullock had 17 for Dallas.
Ivica Zubac had 11 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for the Clippers.
TIP-INS
Clippers: Norman Powell was out with a toe injury in his fourth game since being acquired from Portland in a trade. … Rodney Hood was available off the bench for his debut after the trade that brought him and Semi Ojeleye from Milwaukee in the four-team deal that sent Serge Ibaka to the Bucks. Ojeleye will join the team in LA.
Mavericks: Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis Bertans, acquired two days ago in the trade that sent Kristaps Porzingis to Washington, met with reporters but weren’t available to play. That means their Dallas debuts should be on the upcoming five-game road trip. … Dorian Finney-Smith had a quiet night with three points on the same day the club announced a $56 million, four-year contract extension for the undrafted sixth-year player.
GETTING CHIPPY WITH IT
Doncic and Mann rekindled the chippy play that marked both the playoff meetings, the first a six-game LA victory in the playoff bubble in 2020. Last year’s seven-game series was the first in NBA history with the road team winning the first six games before the Clippers won Game 7 at home.
After one of Doncic’s seven fourth-quarter buckets, the players jawed at each other all the way up the floor, kept talking as the Clippers set up and ended up nose-to-nose after the whistle blew.
”It’s between the lines,” Mann said. ”He’s a competitor. He’s a great player. We both want to win. It gets chippy at times, but that’s just … to try to win the game.”
Doncic said he hadn’t responded to trash talk from Mann all game, and wasn’t pleased with the double technical call after he said he finally decided to talk back.
UP NEXT
Clippers: Golden State at home Monday. The Warriors won the first two meetings.
Mavericks: At Miami on Tuesday to start a five-game trip that will finish on the West Coast.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP)Klay Thompson scored 16 of his season-high 33 points in the fourth quarter, Stephen Curry made a clutch layup with 46 seconds remaining, and the Golden State Warriors held off the Los Angeles Lakers 117-115 on Saturday night, spoiling another scoring milestone by LeBron James.
Curry finished with 24 points and eight assists, while Andrew Wiggins scored 19 points to help the Warriors end a two-game losing streak. Golden State has not lost three in a row all season.
Thompson’s big night came in front of his father, former NBA player Mychal Thompson, who works on the Lakers radio broadcast.
”It meant something special to do it for my dad,” Thompson said. ”I don’t think he’s seen me play for a few years. I know he was proud of me, and that’s always fun.”
James had 26 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists, but missed the first free throw after Curry fouled him attempting a 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left. He made the second and missed the third intentionally but couldn’t chase down the rebound in time to get a shot off.
”This one hurts,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said. ”We were up six with a few minutes to play. Just one of those nights where a lot of bad bounces didn’t go our way.”
Earlier in the night, James extended his streak of 25 points or more to 22 games and passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for most points scored in the NBA combining the regular season and postseason with 44,157. James tied Abdul-Jabbar’s mark of 44,149 in the first half, then surpassed it with a 3-pointer early in the third quarter.
Abdul-Jabbar still owns the career record for regular-season games with 38,387 points, considered the more prestigious of the two scoring milestones. James, with 36,526, is closing in on that one, too.
”We had an opportunity to win a big game tonight,” James said. ”But in all my career, any time I’ve been linked with some of the greats, I’ve always just been in awe.”
Thompson, who returned this season after missing 941 days with a pair of serious leg injuries, shot 12 of 22 and made four 3s, three in the fourth quarter.
”Just took over the game at a time when we desperately needed him,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. ”With our offense kind of struggling to find a groove he got hot and took over the game. Klay is special. It goes beyond making shots. He brings an electricity to the building that’s hard to quantify.”
It was Thompson’s most points since putting up 43 against the Knicks on Jan. 8, 2019.
The Warriors needed it on a night when Curry struggled from the perimeter. The NBA’s 3-point king was 1 of 8 beyond the arc but made up for it by going 9 for 9 on free throws.
Jonathan Kuminga added 18 points and nine rebounds for the Warriors.
Russell Westbrook returned after missing a game and broke out of his scoring slump with 19 points, seven rebounds and five assists for the Lakers.
The Warriors led by 15 on Thompson’s corner 3 and Otto Porter Jr.’s layup before the Lakers closed the gap and got within 65-62 at the half following Avery Bradley’s 3-pointer.
Curry and Kuminga combined for 33 points in the first half on 12-of-19 shooting.
BLOCK OF THE GAME
Austin Reaves chased Thompson down from behind and blocked a potential layup during the Lakers’ run to open the fourth quarter. It’s the ninth block of the season for the 6-foot-5 rookie guard.
QUOTABLE
”He just has a look on his face, a bounce in his step and you can feel it coming.” – Kerr on watching Thompson during his fourth-quarter spree
TIP-INS
Lakers: Vogel was given a technical foul in the fourth quarter. Assistant coach Phil Handy received one during a timeout following a thunderous one-hand dunk by James in the first quarter.
Warriors: Curry needs four steals to tie Chris Mullin for the franchise record for steals. Curry has 1,356. … Andre Iguodala (lower back tightness) missed his third consecutive game.
UP NEXT
Lakers: Face the Jazz in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Lakers lost the season series last year but beat Utah 101-95 in January.
Warriors: Go on the road to play the Clippers on Monday. Golden State has won three of the last four against the Clippers including twice this season.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP)Max Abmas scored 19 points as Oral Roberts narrowly beat Kansas City 91-86 on Saturday night.
Francis Lacis added 18 points, Elijah Lufile scored 17 and Issac McBride had 16 for the Golden Eagles (17-8, 11-3 Summit League). Lufile also had 15 rebounds and three blocks.
Evan Gilyard II had 29 points and six assists for the Roos (16-10, 9-5), whose four-game win streak was snapped. Marvin Nesbitt Jr. added 17 points and 13 rebounds.
Oral Roberts also defeated Kansas City 84-72 on Jan. 15.
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PULLMAN, Wash. (AP)Marreon Jackson and Jalen Graham scored 14 points apiece and Arizona State held off Washington State for a 58-55 victory on Saturday night.
Arizona State took the lead for good with 15:48 to play and led by as many as eight. Tyrell Roberts made consecutive 3-pointers to pull the Cougars to 53-52 with 2:53 left, but Jackson answered with a 3 and Graham a jumper to extend the lead to 58-52.
Michael Flowers’ 3-pointer pulled Washington State within three and the Cougars then forced a turnover with 23.2 left. But Roberts’ 3-point attempt from the top of the arc hit the front of the rim.
Yet Arizona State had another turnover on the inbounds pass on its next possession following a timeout with 4.2 left. The Cougars turned the ball over on a cross-court pass on the inbounds to end it.
Luther Muhammad added 12 points for Arizona State (8-15, 4-9 Pac-12), which shot 56% (14 of 25) in the second half and finished with 33 points from the bench compared to 14 by the Cougars.
Roberts scored 14 points with four 3-pointers for Washington State (14-9, 7-5). Mouhamed Gueye added 12 points. Flowers, who has averaged 18.8 points in the last four games, finished with six on a pair of 3-pointers.
The Cougars made 10 shots from long range but finished 18-of-59 (30.5%) shooting from the field.
Arizona State snapped a two-game skid since upsetting then-No. 3 UCLA 87-84 in triple overtime on Feb. 5.
Washington State, which lost to fourth-ranked Arizona on Thursday, has lost consecutive games since ending a five-game winning streak.
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MALIBU, Calif. (AP)Alex Barcello had a career-high 33 points to out-duel Houston Mallette and lead BYU to a 91-85 win over Pepperdine on Saturday night.
Mallette led the Waves with 31 points, also a season high.
Barcello made 10 of 12 shots, including 9 of 10 on 3-pointers. Caleb Lohner had 14 points for BYU (19-8, 7-5 West Coast Conference). Spencer Johnson added 12 points.
Jan Zidek had 20 points for the Waves (7-20, 1-11). Mike Mitchell Jr. added 13 points and seven assists. Darryl Polk Jr. had seven assists.
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP)Robby Beasley III had a season-high 24 points as Montana topped Portland State 85-76 on Saturday night.
Beasley made 6 of 8 3-pointers. Josh Bannan added 22 points and eight rebounds for Montana (17-9, 10-5 Big Sky Conference). Brandon Whitney had 14 points and six rebounds Lonnell Martin Jr. added 12 points and seven rebounds.
Michael Carter III had 13 points for the Vikings (8-15, 6-9). Damion Squire added and Khalid Thomas had 11 point apiece. Thomas also had three blocks.
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The knock on Penny Hardaway early in the season was that he could recruit talent to Memphis, just not win with it.
The Tigers seem to be rounding into form – finally.
Shaking off some ugly early-season losses, Memphis put itself on the NCAA Tournament bubble with a marquee win over No. 6 Houston on Saturday. The Tigers beat Tulane earlier in the week and have won five straight as all those talented young players have begun to find their way.
”We came in locked and focused all week,” Hardaway said. ”I was trying to keep the guys focused on Tulane, but I could tell they were antsy to get to this game because Houston has been the standard in our league.”
Hardaway has secured some of the nation’s best recruiting classes during his four seasons in Memphis, but has yet to turn all that talent into consistent results. Memphis missed the NCAA Tournament in each of Hardaway’s first three seasons despite winning at least 20 games in each.
The Tigers entered this season with plenty of hype, ranked No. 12 in the preseason AP Top 25 and with a roster that included the nation’s top recruiting class.
Memphis won its first five games, including a victory over Virginia Tech, before a stretch of five losses in six games. Then the Tigers lost three straight last month, digging a deeper hole as injuries mounted.
Things have started to change over the past three weeks. Memphis (14-8, 8-4 American Athletic Conference) has played more cohesively and picked up a huge Quadrant 1 win, beating Houston 69-59 to end the Cougars’ 37-game home winning streak.
There’s still work to do, but the Tigers have put themselves in the NCAA Tournament conversation.
RISING FAST
Rutgers (15-9, 9-5 Big Ten). An overtime loss to Northwestern hurt the Scarlet Knights’ NCAA Tournament chances, but three straight wins over ranked opponents was massive.
North Carolina (18-7, 10-4 Atlantic Coast Conference). The Tar Heels were blown out by rival Duke but have won six of seven, including a blowout of Florida State. Avoid any big slipups and they could find themselves in the bracket in Hubert Davis’ first season as coach.
Tennessee (18-6, 9-3 Southeastern Conference). The Vols have bounced back nicely from a blowout loss to No. 5 Kentucky with seven straight SEC wins. Tennessee gets another shot at the Wildcats on Tuesday.
SMU (18-5, 9-2 American Athletic Conference). The Mustangs have rallied from a couple of shaky early-season losses to win seven of their past eight games. Knocking off No. 6 Houston was huge.
FADING HOPES
Oregon (16-7, 9-3 Pac-12). The Ducks typically get better as the season progresses under coach Dana Altman. That appeared to be the case when Oregon reeled off 10 wins in 11 games, but a lackluster 78-64 loss to California on Saturday may have put it back on the edge of the bubble.
Michigan (13-10, 7-6 Big Ten). A win over then-No. 2 Purdue was a huge boost. The Wolverines followed that up with a loss to No. 16 Ohio State. A team that was once No. 4 in the country, Michigan may need a strong finish to the season to get into the field of 68.
Iowa State (16-,9 3-9 Big 12). Once 12-0, the Cyclones are now last in the Big 12 and on a four-game losing streak after an overtime loss to Kansas State. They need to get it turned around in a hurry to have any shot at the NCAA Tournament.
Utah State (15-11, 6-7 Mountain West). The Aggies have some shaky losses on their resume and are middle of the pack in the Mountain West. There are still chances to boost their resume with road games against San Diego State and Boise State, along with a home game against Colorado State.
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP)Taran Armstrong scored 18 points as California Baptist beat Texas Rio Grande Valley 80-72 on Saturday night.
Ty Rowell and Tre Armstrong added 16 points each for the Lancers.
Armstrong also had eight turnovers.
Daniel Akin had 12 points and 17 rebounds for California Baptist (14-11, 4-8 Western Athletic Conference).
Justin Johnson scored a career-high 38 points for the Vaqueros (7-18, 2-11). RayQuan Taylor added 14 points and 12 rebounds. Ricky Nelson had six rebounds.
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HONOLULU (AP)Noel Coleman had 24 points as Hawaii topped Cal State Fullerton 72-55 on Saturday night.
Bernardo Da Silva had 12 points for Hawaii (12-8, 8-3 Big West Conference). Junior Madut added 10 points and 10 rebounds. Jerome Desrosiers had eight rebounds.
Tory San Antonio had six rebounds for the Titans (14-8, 8-3).
E.J. Anosike, the Titans’ leading scorer heading into the contest at 17 points per game, scored four points on 2-of-10 shooting.
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| 2022-02-13T20:52:37
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CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP)Kyler Filewich came off the bench to tally 12 points and lead Southern Illinois to a 69-62 win over Evansville on Saturday night.
Dalton Banks had 11 points for Southern Illinois (13-13, 6-8 Missouri Valley Conference). Lance Jones added 10 points and six rebounds. Steven Verplancken Jr. also had 10 points.
Blaise Beauchamp had 19 points for the Purple Aces (6-18, 2-11). Evan Kuhlman added 18 points. Shamar Givance had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
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| 2022-02-13T20:52:44
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PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) — Jeremiah Gambrell, Jr. had 25 points as Prairie View defeated Southern 84-77 on Saturday.
Will Douglas had 17 points and six assists for Prairie View (5-15, 5-5 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Jawaun Daniels added 15 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists. Jeremiah Kendall had 11 points.
Tyrone Lyons had 24 points and 11 rebounds for the Jaguars (14-10, 8-3). Terrell Williams added 16 points. Brion Whitley had 15 points.
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| 2022-02-13T20:52:52
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)Graham Ike had 25 points and 18 rebounds as Wyoming romped past San Jose State 74-52 on Saturday night.
Hunter Maldonado added 23 points for the Cowboys (21-3, 10-1 Mountain West Conference).
Myron (MJ) Amey Jr. had 19 points for the Spartans (7-17, 0-12), who have lost 12 straight games. Majok Kuath added 13 points.
Trey Anderson, the Spartans’ second leading scorer heading into the contest at 10 points per game, failed to make a shot (0 of 7).
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| 2022-02-13T20:52:59
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP)Freshman Harrison Ingram had 16 points, a season-high nine assists and six rebounds, Spencer Jones had 15 points and eight rebounds and Stanford beat Oregon State 76-65 on Saturday night.
Jaiden Delaire scored 14 points and Maxime Raynaud added 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting for Stanford (15-10, 8-7 Pac-12).
Brandon Angel hit a 3-pointer and added a dunk about a minute later to make it 30-28 with 3:45 left in the first half and the Cardinal never again trailed.
Oregon State (3-18, 1-10 Pac-12) has lost nine in a row since beating Utah 88-76 at the end of December.
Jarod Lucas scored 17 points on 8-of-14 shooting for the Beavers. Warith Alatishe made 6 of 8 from the field and finished with 14 points and Ahmad Rand added 10.
Ingram scored in the paint to make it 37-32 just before halftime. He opened the second half with a 3-pointer and then made a layup before Jones, Raynaud and Silva each made a 3 to cap a 14-7 spurt that gave the Cardinal a 10-point lead with 14 minutes to play.
Stanford shot 59% (29 of 49) from the field and made 10 of 23 from 3-point range. The Cardinal outrebounded Oregon State 34-19 and outscored the Beavers 18-2 in second-chance points.
Oregon State plays the last of three consecutive home games on Tuesday against Colorado. Stanford returns home to play Utah on Thursday.
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:07
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PEORIA, Ill. (AP)Rienk Mast had 15 points and seven rebounds as Bradley beat Drake 68-59 on Saturday night.
Mikey Howell had 14 points for Bradley (15-11, 9-5 Missouri Valley Conference), which earned its fifth straight home victory. Terry Roberts added 11 points. V
Tucker DeVries had 20 points and seven rebounds for the Bulldogs (17-9, 8-5). Roman Penn added 11 points.
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:14
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Kylen Milton scored 17 points as Arkansas-Pine Bluff narrowly beat Alabama State 75-70 on Saturday. Dequan Morris added 16 points for the Golden Lions, while Shawn Williams chipped in 15. Morris also had three blocks.
Travonta Doolittle had 14 points for Arkansas-Pine Bluff (6-19, 4-8 Southwestern Athletic Conference).
Kenny Strawbridge had 19 points for the Hornets (7-18, 5-7). E.J. Clark added 16 points.
The Golden Lions improve to 2-0 against the Hornets for the season. Arkansas-Pine Bluff defeated Alabama State 70-68 on Jan. 5.
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:21
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP)Ajay Mitchell had a season-high 21 points as UC Santa Barbara beat Cal State Bakersfield 74-62 on Thursday night.
Cole Anderson had 18 points for UC Santa Barbara (10-9, 3-5 Big West Conference). Amadou Sow added 14 points.
Justin McCall had 20 points for the Roadrunners (6-12, 1-8), who have now lost six consecutive games. Cameron Smith added 14 points.
Justin Edler-Davis, who led the Roadrunners in scoring coming into the contest with 10.0 points per game, failed to make a shot (0 of 5). Kaleb Higgins, who was second on the Roadrunners in scoring coming into the contest with 10 points per game, shot only 13% in the game (1 of 8).
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:29
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP)Ajay Mitchell had a season-high 25 points as UC Santa Barbara narrowly beat Cal Poly 69-64 on Saturday night.
Mitchell made 11 of 12 foul shots. Amadou Sow had 16 points and eight rebounds for UC Santa Barbara (11-9, 4-5 Big West Conference). Josh Pierre-Louis added 13 points.
Trevon Taylor had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Mustangs (5-17, 2-9), who have lost five games in a row. Brantly Stevenson added 14 points. Alimamy Koroma had 10 points.
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:36
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LOS ANGELES (AP)Drew Peterson considered himself a defensive liability for most of his college career at Southern California. His confidence on offense had been shaken in the past week by two poor performances.
Peterson shook off those doubts and asserted himself at both ends of the court Saturday night, guiding the No. 21 Trojans to a memorable rivalry win.
Peterson had his first double-double of the season with a career-high 27 points and 12 rebounds, and USC defeated No. 12 UCLA 67-64.
”I go against Drew every day in practice. Last year, when I came early, I had to watch him play so I already knew Drew was a good player. But, tonight, he really good,” freshman guard Reese Dixon-Waters said.
Peterson also had five blocks and four assists as the Trojans picked up their fifth straight rivalry win despite being without leading scorer Isaiah Mobley for the second straight game because of concussion-like symptoms.
The Trojans (21-5, 10-5 Pac-12) found out earlier in the day that Mobley would be out again after breaking his nose in a loss at No. 4 Arizona last Saturday. Peterson knew he had to step up in Mobley’s absence, and he was able to finally put to rest his poor offensive showing in a loss to the Wildcats.
”I was, I think, 1 of 13 in the Arizona game, and I was passing up 3’s the other day against Pacific, but my coaches and teammates trust me to shoot. Fortunately, I was knocking them down tonight and I was feeling really confident, and that’s something I had to work through,” Peterson said.
Peterson was arguably more impressive on defense, leading the way as USC combined length and effort on the defensive end to smother UCLA (17-5, 9-4) into poor shooting. The Trojans had 10 blocks and seven steals, with Petersen even chipping in one of the latter.
”I’d almost consider myself a liability the last few years defensively, and I really made sure ’cause the coaches kept telling me you’ve got it in you and you’re athletic enough to do it, and I really made it a mission to try and play better defense this year,” Peterson said.
Dixon-Waters and Chevez Goodwin each added 10 points for USC.
The Bruins nearly forced overtime with a late push in the final 41 seconds after being down by eight points. But Tyga Campbell’s desperation 3-pointer went off the back of the rim as time expired, allowing the boisterous crowd at Galen Center to rush the court, which included the largest student section to attend a game since its opening in 2006.
”The way we’re playing, I don’t know why anyone would storm the court for beating us,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said.
Campbell was the only player in double figures for UCLA, scoring 27 points, with 13 coming from the free-throw line. Johnny Juzang scored 12 points for UCLA. Jaime Jaquez Jr. had five points on 2-of-11 shooting, with Cronin attributing the poor outing to an ankle injury.
Despite his teammates making just 13-of-51 shots from the field (25.5%), Campbell still nearly dragged the Bruins to overtime.
”The whole time I was just worried about winning and keeping us in the game and doing what coach needed us to do,” Campbell said. ”It was a tough one, all credit to USC, but we got to be on to the next one.”
BIG PICTURE
UCLA: The Bruins’ hopes of winning the Pac-12 are all but over after another loss to their crosstown rival. Coming off an appearance in the Final Four, they can still accomplish big things in the postseason, but salvaging a split with USC at home on March 5 might be the best UCLA can do in the regular season this year with the Wildcats well out in front.
USC: With Mobley out, Peterson stepped up. His shooting from behind the arc helped get the offense going to start the game. Even more impressive was his willingness to get nasty, swatting away good looks around the rim and picking up key rebounds. If Peterson continued that sort of play, the Trojans might be able to make another deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The Bruins will slip and Trojans should rise in the next Top 25, as the two schools always seem to find themselves linked. However, a better overall resume for UCLA might enough to keep them ahead of USC.
GRIDIRON GREATS
With the Super Bowl set for Sunday in Inglewood, California, plenty of Trojan football alumni were at the game. The most prominent were offensive lineman Tony Boselli, whose election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame was announced on Thursday, and Anthony Munoz. Wide receiver Drake London, a likely first-round draft pick, sat courtside next to record-setting quarterback Matt Barkley, while new signal-caller Caleb Williams watched from the student section after following new coach Lincoln Riley west from Oklahoma.
UP NEXT
UCLA: Hosts Washington State on Thursday.
USC: Hosts Washington on Thursday.
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:44
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)Tyler Robertson recorded a triple-double with 31 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists to lead Portland to an 86-76 win over Loyola Marymount on Saturday night.
The 31 points were a career high for Robertson.
Robertson made all 10 of his free throw attempts.
Kristian Sjolund had 15 points, seven rebounds and five blocks for Portland (13-12, 4-6 West Coast Conference). Moses Wood added 15 points.
Eli Scott had 23 points for the Lions (9-14, 2-9), who have now lost seven straight games. Cam Shelton added 15 points. Alex Merkviladze had 13 points.
Loyola Marymount defeated Portland 70-58 on Jan. 17.
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:51
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ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP)Hunter Schofield posted 18 points and nine rebounds as Dixie State narrowly beat Grand Canyon 61-60 on Saturday night.
Schofield converted a three-point play with 17 seconds remaining to cap the scoring. Holland Woods missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer.
Dancell Leter had 15 points for Dixie State (12-13, 5-7 Western Athletic Conference).
Woods had 11 points and six rebounds for the Antelopes (17-6, 7-4). Gabe McGlothan added 11 points. Taeshon Cherry had 10 points.
Jovan Blacksher Jr., the Antelopes’ leading scorer heading into the contest at 17 points per game, had only four points (2 of 13).
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| 2022-02-13T20:53:58
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)Second-ranked Gonzaga has been blowing out West Coast Conference opponents by an average of more than 30 points, but that wasn’t going to be the case against No. 22 Saint Mary’s.
Drew Timme scored 25 points and grabbed eight rebounds to help Gonzaga beat Saint Mary’s 74-58 on Saturday night and win its 14th straight.
”It was a grinder game,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. ”I assume the rest of our games will be like this.”
Timme said it was ”a good game for us going into March.” A candidate for player of the year, Timme made 11 of his 16 shots, and added five assists and a block in his best game in several weeks.
”I think I’m a pretty efficient player,” he said. ”I’m getting my swagger and confidence back and it felt real nice.”
Julian Strawther hit a pair of 3-pointers in the closing minutes after Saint Mary’s had cut Gonzaga’s lead to single digits. Andrew Nembhard added 16 points and Chet Holmgren had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Zags (21-2, 10-0 West Coast Conference), who have won a nation-leading 66 consecutive home games.
”Andrew was spectacular tonight,” Few said, pointing to seven assists, eight rebounds and no turnovers from his point guard.
Tommy Kuhse scored 16 points and Matthias Tass had 14 for Saint Mary’s (20-6, 8-3), which is ranked for the first time this season. But the Gaels ended up with two losses (Santa Clara on Tuesday and Gonzaga) and a win (San Diego on Thursday) for the week.
Alex Ducas added 12 points for the Gaels, who were hurt by 39% shooting.
Saint Mary’s slowdown offense threw the Zags off in the early going, and the Gaels led 12-11 nine minutes into the game. But the Zags put together a 15-4 run, with nine of the points by Timme, to take a 26-16 lead.
Gonzaga led 36-23 at halftime, behind 15 points from Timme. Saint Mary’s shot just 29% (8 of 28) in the first half.
The Zags opened the second half with an 11-3 run to take a 47-26 lead. The Gaels replied with a 10-2 run to cut Gonzaga’s lead to 53-40.
Tass got Saint Mary’s within nine, 65-56, with 4:21 left as the Zags went five minutes without a field goal. But a pair of 3-pointers by Strawther gave Gonzaga a 74-58 lead with a minute left.
”Those 3s by Julian were obviously huge,” Few said, adding that Saint Mary’s is ”tough, hard-nosed, hard to score on.”
Saint Mary’s coach Randy Bennett said it was a good game between two good teams.
”We battled with the No. 1 team in the country and I would’ve liked to see a little better offense from us, especially towards the end when they were putting the game out of reach,” Bennett said.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
With top-ranked Auburn losing to Arkansas earlier this week, the door is open for the Zags to return to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll on Monday. Saint Mary’s will likely drop out.
BIG PICTURE
Saint Mary’s: The Gaels, who are second in the WCC, have consistently been one of Gonzaga’s biggest rivals. But they have lost seven straight to the Zags … The Gaels came in ninth in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 59.1 points per game.
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs have won 31 consecutive conference games, dating to a loss at BYU in 2020. … Their home-court winning streak dates back to 2018. … Gonzaga leads the nation in scoring at 90.8 ppg, and all five starters average in double figures.
UP NEXT
Saint Mary’s: Hosts San Francisco on Thursday.
Gonzaga: At Pepperdine on Wednesday before wrapping up its home schedule against Santa Clara on Saturday.
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| 2022-02-13T20:54:06
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LOS ANGELES (AP)Miley Cyrus has only been alive for about half the Super Bowls ever played, but her setlist on the eve of the 56th spanned the whole history of the big game and then some.
Cyrus and mashed up songs from the 60s, 80s and 90s with her own at the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest on Saturday night.
The 29-year-old was the co-headliner with Green Day on the third and final night of the festival at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, where the LA Rams play the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.
The annual festival, which also featured Halsey, Machine Gun Kelly, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton and Mickey Guyton, prides itself on bringing together artists from across genres, but Cyrus did that all by herself, blending country and pop rock, dance pop and alternative rock.
She sang Nancy Sinatra’s ”Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” from 1966 – the year before the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – as an intro to her own 2007 ”See You Again.”
”I hope this show is a representation of how you never need to choose who you want to be. You can be everything and anything,” Cyrus said as she donned a cowboy hat and pulled an oversized sportscoat over the futuristic Gucci tracksuit she took the stage wearing. ”You may look ridiculous, like you’re wearing workout attire from 3033 and a cowboy hat. It’s just how I feel tonight.”
She opened the show with her 2013 hit ”We Can’t Stop,” and blended it with the Pixies’ ”Where Is My Mind” from 1988, the year Washington beat Denver in the Super Bowl in San Diego.
She pulled the same trick in her first encore, blending her ”Wrecking Ball” with the Prince-penned Sinead O’Connor hit ”Nothing Compares 2 U” from 1990, the year Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers beat John Elway’s Denver Broncos.
She thrilled the crowd with Madonna’s ”Like a Prayer” from 1989 – the last year the Bengals were in the big game – turning her backup singers into a small gospel choir.
She also mixed in music from Stevie Nicks and her godmother Dolly Parton, and closed the night with the fitting-for-Super-Bowl-weekend ”Party in the USA.” Cyrus owns her own past along with that of her musical forbears.
The members of Green Day focused on their hits of the 1990s and early 2000s. They opened with a rousing rip through 2004’s ”American Idiot.”
”Los Angeles!” lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, who turns 50 on Thursday, shouted during the song. ”Super Bowl!” he later yelled, in the only real mention the game got during the night.
They brought their own bit of 1966 with a cover of ”I Fought The Law,” whose most famous version was released that year by the Bobby Fuller Four.
The 20,000-seat Crypto.com Arena was nearly full for all three nights. Fans had to show proof of vaccination to get in. Most ditched their masks once they were inside the main hall.
The night was the end of a week of pre-Super Bowl entertainment events as the LA area hosts the game for the first time in nearly 30 years, featuring its shiny new stadium and the hometown team favorites.
Drake was playing a set across town in West Hollywood on the second night of a party known as ”Homecoming Weekend.” Justin Bieber sang and danced on the first night. And John Mayer and Shaquille O’Neal each had their own events earlier in the week.
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Washington coach Peter Laviolette can become the 10th coach in NHL history to reach the 700-win mark when the Capitals host the Ottawa Senators in a Super Bowl Sunday matinee.
It would be the second major coaching milestone this season for the 57-year-old native of Franklin, Mass., who passed John Tortorella (673) for most wins by an American-born head coach with a 5-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Oct. 13.
“For me, you don’t really look at those numbers too much,” said Laviolette, who coached the Carolina Hurricanes to the 2006 Stanley Cup.
“I think any coach, you look at the team and how’s the team’s doing, trying to find success on a nightly basis. If you can do it long enough then I guess you start to hit milestones but to me that’s not the focus of what tomorrow (afternoon) is all about.”
Washington, which is in fourth place in the Metropolitan Division and currently occupies the first wild card spot in the Eastern Conference, has lost four consecutive regulation home contests. It’s the team’s longest home regulation losing streak since 2007 (Oct. 26-Nov. 26) when the Capitals lost six straight on home ice.
“It’s a home game and we haven’t been doing so well at home,” said Laviolette. “We’ve got to straighten that out. So I’d be really happy with a win at home in front of our fans but not necessarily for (getting his 700th coaching win).
“The milestones, they happen. I’ve worked with some great players and great coaches along the way so I’ve been real fortunate.”
Ironically, Washington’s last victory on home ice came against Ottawa on Jan. 22. The Capitals rallied from a 2-0 deficit to tie it on a pair of Alex Ovechkin goals in the third period and then won it at 1:13 into overtime on a goal by Nicklas Backstrom.
Ovechkin has scored eight goals in his last four games against the Senators and 12 over the last 10 games.
Ottawa will be playing its fifth game over a seven-day span and comes in off back-to-back 2-0 losses, including one on Saturday afternoon at home against Boston. The Senators haven’t scored over the last 157 minutes and six seconds after scoring four times in the first 23 minutes of a 4-3 victory over Carolina on Tuesday.
Boston jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a Trent Frederic goal just 45 seconds into the game. Curtis Lazar made it 2-0 with a goal midway through the period and Ottawa, outshot 22-8 in the opening period, didn’t have any answers after that.
“We just weren’t ready to play,” said Senators winger Nick Paul. “We knew they were going to be coming in hot and ready (after a 6-0 home loss to Carolina on Thursday) and we just didn’t match their compete level. That’s not the identity that we want.”
“They came out really hungry and we weren’t ready,” said Ottawa coach D.J. Smith. “Obviously the first shift they score. … That starts us on the wrong foot.”
How do the Senators put an end to their scoreless drought?
“You’ve got to get pucks to the net,” said Smith. “Our (defensemen have) got to find more ways to get shots on the net. I didn’t think we broke out very good so we didn’t have the puck on our stick. Early on we had some plays that were available and we didn’t make them. When you don’t score, you squeeze it a little more. … We’re just having a tough time scoring.”
–Field Level Media
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)Thatcher Demko had a career-high 51 saves as the Vancouver Canucks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 Saturday night.
J.T. Miller had a goal and an assist, and Brock Boeser and Juno Lammikko also scored for the Canucks.
”It’s two points,” Demko said after the game. ”It doesn’t matter what the circumstances are. I try to make as many saves as I can to try and get two points.
”The result was good. That’s all that matters.”
Demko stopped William Nylander on a breakaway in the third period and then denied Ilya Mikheyev to preserve Vancouver’s one-goal lead. He topped his previous career high of 45 saves and 49 shots faced against the New York Islanders on March 10, 2020. His previous season high was 40 saves against Pittsburgh on Dec. 4.
Demko became the second goaltender this season to make at least 50 saves in a game, joining Elvis Merzlikins of Columbus who stopped 56 shots in a game on Jan. 26. Demko is the fifth goaltender in Canucks franchise history to record at least 50 saves in a game and the first since Roberto Luongo stopped 50 on March 20, 2010.
Vancouver coach Bruce Boudreau, who replaced the fired Travis Green on Dec. 5, said he’s become accustomed to Demko making the impossible look easy.
”We’ve been talking about him all year,” said Boudreau. ”He certainly is showing us what he can do. It was a valiant effort. Let’s face it, when you get 50-plus shots and only two power-play goals, your goaltender is doing something really well.”
Auston Matthews and Ondrej Kase scored power-play goals for Toronto, which has lost consecutive games in regulation for the first time since October. Petr Mrazek had 21 saves for the Maple Leafs.
Matthews said Demko was the difference in the game.
”He’s just a really good goalie,” he said. ”He’s really big and athletic. … He’s a been a big key for them as far as turning their season around and getting some more wins.”
Trailing 2-0 after one period, the Maple Leafs tied it in the second when they outshot the Canucks 24-7.
It took Toronto just 25 seconds to capitalize after Vancouver’s Bo Horvat was sent off for high-sticking. After Demko stopped Nylander’s shot, John Tavares passed the rebound to Matthews who scored his 32nd of the season and 15th in 18 games with 7:14 remaining.
The Maple Leafs tied it less than three minutes later. With Canucks defenseman Luke Schenn off for tripping, Kase deflected Jason Spezza’s shot past Demko for his ninth with 4:19 left in the period.
Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe liked the fight his team showed.
”They are a team that relies on world-class goaltending to win games,” said Keefe. ”You give them a two-goal lead and it’s an uphill climb. I love that our guys kept fighting. Goaltending was the difference.”
The Canucks regained the lead when Lammikko slid a rebound under Mrazek with 1:30 left in the second.
”We had a lot of work to do going into the third but that was a big goal for us,” said Miller. ”There’s a big difference between being tied and a one-goal lead.”
The game was barely 90 seconds old when Miller got the Canucks on the scoreboard 1:29 into the game. Mrazek stopped Horvat who was slicing in front of the net, but the Canucks captain’s stick looked to spin the goalie around. Miller put the rebound in an open net.
Mrazek argued but Toronto didn’t challenge the play.
Boeser made it 2-0 at 6:00 after Toronto’s Pierre Engvall was called for high-sticking. He put in the rebound off a shot through traffic from Oliver Ekman-Larsson. Miller also had an assist on the play, giving him eight goals and 11 assists in his last 17 games.
Miller said getting the early lead, and not being forced to play from behind, was crucial against the high-octane Leafs.
”Tonight, I thought we did a good job of starting fast and straightforward,” he said. ”We got rewarded with a couple breaks, a couple of bounces. We titled the ice nicely.”
The Maple Leafs came close in the waning seconds of the period when Tavares banged a shot off the post.
NOTES: Demko made his 35th start, fifth among NHL goalies. … Canucks D Quinn Hughes missed his third consecutive game due to COVID-19 protocols. … Toronto F Wayne Simmonds returned to the lineup after missing the loss in Calgary to be with his wife for the birth of their first child. … Vancouver D Travis Hamonic played after missing 21 games with an ankle injury. … The last time Toronto lost back-to-back games in regulation was Oct. 22 and Oct. 25.
UP NEXT
Maple Leafs: At Seattle on Monday night to finish a three-game trip.
Canucks: At San Jose on Thursday night before a three-game homestand.
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The Montreal Canadiens are still in search of their first win under new coach Martin St. Louis as they host the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday.
The Canadiens are 0-2 under St. Louis, who replaced Dominique Ducharme on Wednesday. They came close to snaring a point on Saturday against the Columbus Blue Jackets, but that was snatched away when Patrik Laine scored with seven seconds left in regulation.
“He’s come in here with a purpose and when a guy like that walks into the locker room, everybody stops what they’re doing and listens,” Tyler Toffoli said. “I think everyone’s bought in already and we’re just trying to get better.”
Montreal is 0-7-2 in its past nine games while getting outscored 47-20 during that stretch. Saturday’s 2-1 defeat marked the first time since Dec. 16 that they’ve allowed fewer than three goals.
“Winning is important, and I’m a guy who looks to win, but if I look at the way that we’re developing so far it’s very encouraging,” St. Louis said.
Long in need of goaltending help with Jake Allen injured and Carey Price still nowhere near ready to return, the Canadiens acquired veteran Andrew Hammond from the Minnesota Wild on Saturday. He’s expected to be available against the Sabres after Sam Montembeault made 40 saves on Saturday.
The Sabres arrive in Montreal looking to bounce back after letting a two-goal lead slip away on Thursday in an overtime loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Buffalo has won both games against the Canadiens so far this season, outscoring them 9-2 in those contests and outshooting them 75-57. The two clubs haven’t met since late November, however.
And despite Montreal’s season-long tailspin, the Sabres know they can’t take them lightly.
“I think their belief system is a little stronger as a result (of the coaching change),” coach Don Granato said. “They played with more energy the other night from what I watched, a little more passion. That should make for a really fast-paced, competitive game (Sunday). So they are definitely in a better place than they were five days ago based on their game the other night. We know that and have to respect that.”
The Sabres have lost three in a row and are 4-9-4 in their past 17, alternating wins and losses in the middle of that stretch.
While the wins have been hard to come by, the top line of Tage Thompson between Alex Tuch and Jeff Skinner has continued to produce of late. Thompson, who leads the team with 32 points (14 goals, 18 assists), has points in three straight and in six of his past seven games.
Tuch, meanwhile, has 14 points (six goals, eight assists) through his first 14 games with Buffalo.
Skinner is enjoying a bounce-back season and leads the team with 16 goals and has been generating opportunities even when the puck isn’t finding the net.
“The main thing I feel is just the support, the puck support,” Thompson said. “I feel like we’re always around each other. So, those like five-, 10-foot passes, those quick little touch passes, things like that. Just letting the puck do the work instead of trying to skate through the whole team. We use each other, and I think that’s when we’re most dangerous.”
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP)Adam Ruzicka had a goal and an assist, and the Calgary Flames beat the New York Islanders 5-2 on Saturday night for their sixth straight win.
Andrew Mangiapane, Elias Lindholm, Erik Gudbranson and Christopher Tanev also scored, and Johnny Gaudreau had two assists for the Flames, who have opened a seven-game homestand with three wins. Jacob Markstrom, making his 12th consecutive start, finished with 19 saves to improve to 20-10-5 on the season.
”We’re playing good hockey here at home,” Mangiapane said. ”It feels nice to win at home and get the crowd involved. It’s fun to play here right now.”
For Ruzicka, it was the rookie center’s first career multipoint game.
”To be honest, I don’t really care about the points, I care about that we won the game,” he said. ”Six in a row, that’s all that matters.”
Calgary climbed within one point of Vegas for first place in the Pacific Division. The Flames hold three games in hand on the Golden Knights.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau had a goal and an assist, and Noah Dobson also scored for the Islanders. Ilya Sorokin, getting a surprise start after Semyon Varlamov was placed into the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols during warm-ups, had 24 saves.
”Their (defense) is always active, so it makes it tough,” Islanders center Mathew Barzal said of the Flames. ”Felt like we had a lot of 2-on-3s, 3-on-4s, just never any advantage on the ice it felt like. It’s a good hockey team over there, big and fast, good0 D that move and play a nice system. … We had them 1-1 and just fell off it.”
Calgary struck first at 9:58 when defenseman Rasmus Andersson carried the puck in deep and around the net before centering a pass to Ruzicka, and he one-timed it into the top corner. He has three goals and three assist in 14 games this season.
”He’s playing better in his own zone,” Flames coach Darryl Sutter said of Ruzicka. ”I want him to handle the puck more, which he did tonight. … He played a good game for us.”
The Islanders tied it up with 2:53 left on a power play when Dobson’s point shot deflected off Blake Coleman’s stick and eluded Markstrom.
The Flames regained the lead 61 seconds later on a setup from Gaudreau, who crossed the Islanders’ blue line, curled back to buy himself some time and space and fed Tanev coming late in the slot, and he fired a 40-foot wrist shot inside the goal post.
Gaudreau extended his points streak to six games (four assists and seven points).
Calgary briefly built up a two-goal lead late in the second period when Ruzicka neatly set up Mangiapane’s redirection in front with 4 1/2 minutes remaining. It was Mangiapane’s team-leading 24th.
”I saw him get open and I put the puck on his tape,” Ruzicka said. ”He told me he didn’t know I was passing the puck so it hit him and I was fortunate it went in.”
Mangiapane added: ”I was kind of battling in front there and I saw him pick the puck up and I had just kind of had my stick on the ice and he just hit it off my stick and it went in. … He made a great pass.”
But just over a minute later, the Islanders got back to within one when Pageau got free in the slot and one-timed Zach Parise’s pass behind Markstrom.
The Flames got some insurance eight minutes into the third when Gudbranson scored his second of the season on a set-up from Milan Lucic. Calgary put the game away at 15:13 on Lindholm’s one-timer, which extended his goal streak to four and point-streak to six (4-3-7).
Notes: With six points tonight – one from each player — Calgary’s defense has combined for 23 points in the last four games. … The Islanders emergency back-up was Calgary native Colin Cooper, 27, who formerly played for Mount Royal University. He stayed in the dressing room though and did not sit on the bench. … New York forward Kyle Palmieri was a healthy scratch for a second consecutive game after returning to the team from a one-game paternity absence.
UP NEXT
Islanders: At Buffalo on Tuesday night to finish a four-game trip.
Flames: Host Columbus on Tuesday night in the fourth of a seven-game homestand.
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BEIJING (AP) — Erin Jackson has never viewed herself as some sort of trailblazer. She just likes to skate really, really fast, whether it’s on wheels or blades.
Yet the 29-year-old from balmy Ocala, Florida knew this moment was special, her chance to really make an impact on the generations that follow.
She’ll forever be known as the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics — and a gold one, at that.
“Hopefully, this has an effect,” Jackson said. “Hopefully, we’ll see more minorities, especially in the USA, getting out and trying these winter sports.”
Jackson won the 500 meters Sunday with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games and first individual medal since 2010.
But this was much more than a needed boost to a sport that has produced more medals than any other for the U.S. in the history of the Winter Games.
The 29-year-old Jackson, a former inline skater who switched to the ice shortly before the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, joined fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win long-track speedskating medals at the Olympics.
Now, she wants others to follow their path into a sport that draws scant attention in the United States.
“I just hope it will do something for the sport,” she said. “I always try to be a good example.”
The silver went to Miho Takagi of Japan, while Angelina Golikova of the Russian team took the bronze.
Jackson’s gold came after she slipped at the U.S. trials and shockingly finished third, putting her spot on the Olympic team in jeopardy.
But teammate Brittany Bowe, another Ocala skater who finished first at the trials, gave up her spot in the 500 to ensure Jackson would get to compete in Beijing.
“She made a really big sacrifice for me,” Jackson said. “I’ll be grateful to her forever.”
As it turned out, the Americans received a third slot in the 500 when the final allocations were made, so Bowe got to skate as well. She finished 16th.
The two close friends embraced after Jackson clinched the gold.
“She hugged me and we cried,” the winner said. “She said she’s really proud of me and I said a lot of thank yous.”
Jackson skated in the next-to-last of 15 pairs with Takagi’s time of 37.12 — set about a half-hour earlier in the fourth pairing — in her sights.
She didn’t think at all about that slip at the U.S. trials.
“It’s not something to really focus on,” Jackson said. “That was a fluke.”
Jackson bolted off the line and was under Takagi’s time as she veered powerfully into the first turn. She kept up her speed through the crossing straight and into the final turn, swinging both arms furiously as she came to the finish of speedskating’s shortest race.
As soon as her skates crossed the line, Jackson’s head turned toward the scoreboard.
She broke into a big smile when she saw the “1” beside her name. Her coach, Ryan Shimabukuro, pumped his arms and slapped hands with her as she glided by.
There was still one pairing left, but Jackson knew she could do no worse than bronze.
A few minutes later, the gold was hers.
“You’re an Olympic champion,” Shimabukuro told her.
Jackson sat on the padding along the infield, shedding a few tears with her head bowed.
She was no doubt reflecting, too, on her remarkable journey.
The inline and roller derby skater knew she would have to trade her wheels for blades if she wanted to go for Olympic glory.
Making the switch just months before the Pyeongchang Games, she was such a fast study that she earned a spot on the U.S. team. She finished 24th in the 500, but it was clear that she had barely tapped into her potential.
During the current World Cup season, Jackson suddenly emerged as one of the world’s best sprinters. She won four of eight 500 races — the first Black woman to earn one of those titles, as well — and came to the Olympics as one of the favorites.
“When I won the first World Cup, I was like, ‘OK that’s strange. Let’s see where it goes,'” Jackson recalled. “Then I won another and I was like, ‘Well, maybe I can do this.’”
She lived up to the billing in Beijing, becoming the first American woman to win an individual Olympic medal since 2002.
“Words cannot explain how proud I am of her,” Bowe said. “I knew she had the chance to do something really special, and she just showed the world why she deserved to be here.”
Jackson grabbed an American flag and did a victory lap around the Ice Ribbon oval, the stars and stripes fluttering above her head.
“It’s been a wild ride,” she said, “but that makes it even sweeter.”
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BEIJING (AP) — The Winter Olympics finally look like, well, the Winter Olympics.
Real snow fell in Beijing on Sunday for the first time since the Olympics began, giving the city the appearance and feel of a real Winter Games. There was fresh snow in the mountains as well, where all events have been contested on artificial snow.
While the snow was mostly a welcome sight, up in the mountains it affected visibility and made it tougher for ski racers to make it down the hill, especially in the first run of the two-leg giant slalom.
Marco Odermatt of Switzerland handled the snow and poor visibility better than anyone else and won his first Olympic gold medal.
“I really risked everything in the second run because I wanted not just the medal, I wanted the gold medal,” Odermatt said. ”It’s difficult because you can lose everything but today it paid off.”
While a light snow fell Saturday, it came down a lot harder on Sunday, the first time it snowed during an Alpine race during the Beijing Olympics. The heavy snow forced the second run to be postponed by 1 hour, 15 minutes. During the delay, workers cleared snow from the course with snow blowers and shovels.
“It was a hard day, with the conditions, with such a long wait between the two runs,” Odermatt said. “It was more than five hours for me, it was such a long time to re-think everything and it was hard to stay focused. I tried to sleep some minutes in between.
“I actually never dreamt about it but now it still feels like a dream.”
Many other skiers had a rough day on the course known as The Ice River at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center.
“It’s a shame what the weather is like. I was hoping for the sun, like on all the other days. Couldn’t see anything,” said Luca de Aliprandini of Italy, who was sixth after the first run but skied off course and didn’t finish the second run. “When I was going down, the flakes were big.”
American skier Tommy Ford came in 12th.
“It’s great conditions on the course, but you can’t see it,” Ford said.
“It was difficult for everyone,” said Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway, who was eighth overall.
A second women’s downhill training run scheduled for Sunday was canceled.
CROSS-COUNTRY RELAY
The snow affected the men’s cross-country relay ski race so much that workers used leaf blowers to clear it out of the tracks. The snow made the ski tracks slow, especially on the first two classic ski legs.
Just like in the women’s race, the Russian team opened a lead on the first leg and then held on for the gold medal. Sergey Ustiugov maintained more than a minute lead on the last lap over the two-man chasing group of Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway and Maurice Manificat of France.
Ustiugov grabbed a flag on his way to the finish line and won the 10-kilometer relay 1 hour, 54 minutes, 50.7 seconds. By comparison, the winning time in the four-man relay at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics was more than 20 minutes quicker.
GU’S RACE ON HOLD
Freestyle skier Eileen Gu has to wait a day to try to win a second gold medal at the Beijing Games after gusty wind and snow postponed the qualifying round for women’s slopestyle.
Qualifying was pushed back to Monday and the final to Tuesday. The switch avoids putting the gold-medal round directly against the Super Bowl, which is also being televised by NBC.
The men’s slopestyle qualification also was switched from Monday to Tuesday, with its final now set for Wednesday.
The 18-old-year Gu was at the top of the hill stretching and getting ready for some warmup runs in the blustery conditions when qualifying was postponed. The snow was blowing sideways and the flags on the bottom of the course were whipping in all directions. Visibility also was low, which makes landing jumps off the massive kickers along the course dangerous.
Gu was born and raised in the United States but chose to compete for China, her mother’s home country. Her victory in big air last Tuesday was hugely popular in China.
RUSSIAN DOPING
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva continued to practice in the hours before the Court of Arbitration for Sport was to decide whether she will be allowed to compete this week. An expedited hearing was scheduled for Sunday, with a ruling expected sometime Monday.
A decision by CAS is expected roughly 24 hours before the 15-year-old Valieva is due on the ice at Capital Indoor Stadium for the short program on Tuesday. The overwhelming favorite, she drew the 26th starting spot Sunday among the 30 in the event.
Valieva has yet to miss a scheduled practice since a drug test taken in December was flagged last Monday for traces of a banned heart medication. That was the same day the reigning European champion helped the Russian skaters win team gold with a dynamic free skate in which she became the first woman to land a quad in Olympic competition.
On several occasions since then, the stress appeared to have gotten to Valieva, including a moment during Saturday’s practice session when she fell during a triple axel and eventually skated to the boards and tearfully hugged her embattled coach, Eteri Tutberidze.
JACKSON’S HISTORIC GOLD
Erin Jackson won gold in the 500 meters to become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics. With a time of 37.04 seconds, she gave the Americans their first speedskating medal at the Beijing Games. The 29-year-old Jackson joins fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win Olympic speedskating gold medals.
ROEISELAND’S TRIPLE GOLD
Marte Olsbu Roeiseland held her focus in the blowing snow and shot cleanly in the last standing stop to win the women’s biathlon 10-kilometer pursuit race. It was her third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics and fourth medal overall.
The Norwegian started the race with a lead because of her win in the sprint race and hit 19 of her 20 targets. She won in 34 minutes, 46.9 seconds.
In the men’s race, Quentin Fillon Maillet of France hit all 20 of his targets despite howling wind and skied to his second Olympic gold, and fourth medal overall, in the 12.5-kilometer pursuit.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the Super Bowl:
The Cincinnati Bengals are the home team Sunday in the Super Bowl — technically. The home-field advantage belongs all to the Los Angeles Rams.
The NFC champions (15-5) will dress and work out of their usual locker room after spending the night before the big game in their usual hotel. The Rams’ logo is plastered all around and inside SoFi Stadium even with the banners making it clear this is the Super Bowl.
Yes, the Bengals (13-7) are represented inside the stadium with their name and “Who Dey!” mantra opposite the Rams.
This is the second straight Super Bowl where the home team has gotten to play on its own field after Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a championship a year ago in Raymond James Stadium. Before that, the NFL went 54 years without a team playing a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Hard work definitely paid off for father-daughter duo Paul and Sarah Miracle. The pair is in Los Angeles to watch the Cincinnati Bengals play Super Bowl 56 — all thanks to generous donors.
“I don’t know, I might just lose my mind. I might just lose complete control. When they come out on the field it’s gonna be something,” said Paul.
Paul Miracle was diagnosed with ALS in 2019. He is a die-hard Bengals super fan. His daughter Sarah successfully launched GoFundMe pages for her dad this football season, which ultimately got her dad to multiple playoff games. Now Sarah has done it again, raising enough money to send she and her dad to the Super Bowl.
“Very thankful. I appreciate all of the support. People are like excited. Even now that it’s done, they’re like pumped. They’re like are you packed? They wanna know all the details. They’re just pumped. They wanna take the journey with us,” said Sarah.
The original goal to get Sarah and Paul to the Super Bowl was $30,000. However, their GoFundMe page blew up and is now sitting at nearly $38,000. Sarah says Delta Airlines is also flying the pair to and from LA in first class free of charge.
“It’s quite quite amazing to me how people have reacted for our journey with ALS. How many people have been touched by it and made aware of the disease,” said Paul.
Something else that’s amazing to Paul is his daughter’s dedication which has gotten them this far.
“I never would’ve ever been able to afford to go to this without my daughters ambition or help. There really is no words. No words…that I can explain how important that is,” said Paul.
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AN ODISHA government notification in October 2021 that allowed MLAs to recommend names of 10 teachers for transfer in the current academic year has come back to haunt the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) with instances of government teachers campaigning for party candidates ahead of the rural elections scheduled between February 16 and February 24.
BJD has 114 of the total 147 MLAs in the Legislative Assembly.
The images and videos of teachers allegedly campaigning have emerged from Asanpur Panchayat in Jajpur district, Krushnaparsad block of Puri and Maithili block of Malkangiri district. Officials in the State Election Commission said most of such complaints are dealt with at the district level.
When asked about the number of complaints, Azad Hind Panigrahi, Deputy Secretary, State Election Commission told The Sunday Express, “It will be difficult to enumerate the number of complaints… The district collectors are authorised to inquire into the allegations and take necessary actions. Such complaints are common in every election, but yes the numbers are more this time.”
The BJD has denied allegations of government employees campaigning for the party’s candidates. “The allegations hold no veracity. If they have proof, they must file a complaint and let the SEC inquire. The videos and photos have been portrayed out of context to paint a false picture,” BJD spokesperson Lenin Mohanty said.
The notification that MLAs can recommend teachers for transfer was issued only for the current academic year; and this is scheduled to end immediately after the rural polls. When contacted, Alok Kumar Kar, Special Secretary School and Mass Education department said, “This was a state government decision. So we cannot comment why the notification was issued only for a year.”
In Jajpur, two teachers have been suspended and two were served a show cause notice.
Opposition parties alleged that the teachers in Jajpur participated in party meetings held by Binjharpur MLA Pramila Mallik. He, however, denied the allegations and said teachers were not participating in any meetings held by the BJD in his constituency. “No government employee was present in any party meetings held. The allegations are baseless,” he said.
Commenting on names that he recommended for transfer, Mallik said, “The names were recommended as per the rules in the notification, there were no violations.”
In Puri, two primary school teachers were seen campaigning with BJD leader Sanjay Das Burma for the panchayat polls in Krushnaparsad block of Puri. BJP leader Upasna Mohapatra who shared these images from Puri through her social media account and plans to approach the SEC said, “These teachers are diverting from their school duties to campaign for the ruling party. This is a small example of how state machinery is being misused time and again. We demand strict actions against those violating rules.”
In Malkangiri, MLA and Congress leader Bhujabal Majhi has alleged that a primary school teacher, CHC doctor, and an assistant sub-inspector of Kartanpali outpost were campaigning for the ruling party in Mathili.
Separately, the SEC had received two complaints from the BJP in the issue, an inquiry into which is still underway.
Teachers employed in government schools in the state are bound under the Orissa Government Servants’ Conduct Rules of 1959, prohibiting them from participating in any political campaigns. While such complaints of government employees, specifically teachers participating in election campaigns, has become a political slugfest, the issue has gained importance after the state government’s October notification. This notification allows MLAs to recommend names of 10 teachers from primary and secondary sections, for transfer and better posting within their constituencies. The notification was criticised by the opposition who called it a deliberate move to solicit favours from teachers who play a crucial role during the rural elections.
President of Odisha School Teachers Association, Vinod Panigrahi said, “Empowering MLAs to recommend transfers means politicising a teacher’s post. We strongly condemn the participation of any teacher in political rallies or campaigns.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.
The surprise suspension was confirmed late Saturday on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest sales opportunity of the year for Mexican avocado growers.
Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the U.S. market.
The U.S. government suspended all imports of Mexican avocados “until further notice” after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threatening message, Mexico’s Agriculture Department said in a statement.
“U.S. health authorities … made the decision after one of their officials, who was carrying out inspections in Uruapan, Michoacan, received a threatening message on his official cellphone,” the department wrote.
The import ban came on the day that the Mexican avocado growers and packers association unveiled its Super Bowl ad for this year. Mexican exporters have taken out the pricey ads for almost a decade in a bid to associate guacamole as a Super Bowl tradition.
This year’s ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of gladiator fans outside what appears to be the Colosseum, soothing their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados.
The association did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ban, which hits an industry with almost $3 billion in annual exports. However, avocados for this year’s Super Bowl had already been exported in the weeks prior to the event.
Because the United States also grows avocados, U.S. inspectors work in Mexico to ensure exported avocados don’t carry diseases that could hurt U.S. crops.
It was only in 1997 that the U.S. lifted a ban on Mexican avocados that had been in place since 1914 to prevent a range of weevils, scabs and pests from entering U.S. orchards.
The inspectors work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services.
It is not the first time that the violence in Michoacan — where the Jalisco cartel is fighting turf wars against a collection of local gangs known as the United Cartels — has threatened avocados, the state’s most lucrative crop.
After a previous incident in 2019, the USDA had warned about the possible consequences of attacking or threatening U.S. inspectors.
In August 2019, a U.S. Department of Agriculture team of inspectors was “directly threatened” in Ziracuaretiro, a town just west of Uruapan. While the agency didn’t specify what happened, local authorities say a gang robbed the truck the inspectors were traveling in at gunpoint.
The USDA wrote in a letter at the time that, “For future situations that result in a security breach, or demonstrate an imminent physical threat to the well-being of APHIS personnel, we will immediately suspend program activities.”
Many avocado growers in Michoacan say drug gangs threaten them or their family members with kidnapping or death unless they pay protection money, sometimes amounting to thousands of dollars per acre.
On September 30, 2020, a Mexican employee of APHIS was killed near the northern border city of Tijuana.
Mexican prosecutors said Edgar Flores Santos was killed by drug traffickers who may have mistaken him for a policeman and a suspect was arrested. The U.S. State Department said investigations “concluded this unfortunate incident was a case of Mr. Flores being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The avocado ban was just the latest threat to Mexico’s export trade stemming from the government’s inability to rein in illegal activities.
On Thursday, the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office filed an environmental complaint against Mexico for failing to stop illegal fishing to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise.
The office said it had asked for “environment consultations” with Mexico, the first such case it has filed under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade pact. Consultations are the first step in the dispute resolution process under the trade agreement, which entered into force in 2020. If not resolved, it could eventually lead to trade sanctions.
Mexico’s government has largely abandoned attempts to enforce a fishing-free zone around an area where the last few vaquitas are believed to live in the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. Nets set illegally for another fish, the totoaba, drown vaquitas.
And on Monday, Mexican fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico were “prohibited from entering U.S. ports, will be denied port access and services,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, in response to years of Mexican boats illegally poaching red snapper in U.S. waters in the Gulf.
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Three people were arrested for gambling and Rs 1.20 lakh was recovered from them near Tikuna Park in Dadu Majra colony on Sunday. They were identified as Sanjay of Sector 38, Arun of Sector 24 and Jaipal of Dadu Majra. A team of Crime Branch SI Neeraj Kumar arrested them.
Police said that Rs 10,000 was recovered from Sanjay, Rs 40,000 from Arun and Rs 60,000 from Tilak Raj along with 52 playing cards. Rs 10,000 was found on the ground. A case was registered at PS Maloya.
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BEIJING (AP) — It’s a big day for rematches at the Beijing Olympics: The United States faces Finland in women’s hockey, and Max Parrot takes on Mark McMorris in snowboarding.
The U.S. beat Finland 5-2 to start the tournament, and the teams will clash again in the semifinals, live on USA Network on Monday at 8 a.m. EST. Parrot beat McMorris in slopestyle — McMorris took issue with the judging — and now they compete again in big air. NBC plans to air that final live during its late-night coverage.
During prime time, NBC will have live coverage of the women’s downhill, which could be quite a comeback story for defending champ Sofia Goggia of Italy. Also, the freestyle skiing slopestyle event featuring Eileen Gu was pushed back because of the weather. The final is now set to be shown live Monday night on USA Network.
Here are some things to watch (all times Eastern):
HOCKEY
It was a slow start for Finland in the women’s hockey tournament. The 2018 bronze medalists had to open against the U.S. and Canada and lost those games by a combined 16-3. The Finns then lost to Switzerland.
Now, however, they enter the semifinals on the heels of a 7-1 rout of Japan.
Although USA Network will carry the U.S.-Finland rematch live, it will also be on that same channel at 3 p.m.
TAKE TWO
Gu is a U.S native who competes for China, where her mother is from. She’s become one of the stars of the Beijing Games, winning gold in big air already.
Qualifying for her rescheduled slopestyle event will be on NBC in the afternoon. The first run of the final is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. USA Network is showing live coverage of the final, and NBC plans to show it during its late-night slot.
SNOWBOARDING
After Parrot took the gold in slopestyle, McMorris said: “Obviously would have been nice to have a different shade of medal. But knowing that I kind of had the run of the day and one of the best rounds of my life and the whole industry knows what happened — pretty, pretty crazy.”
McMorris later apologized to Parrot, who said it was no big deal. The two both compete for Canada.
USA Network plans to show men’s big air qualifying between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. NBC is set to show the final live during late-night coverage.
NBC will also have live coverage of the women’s big air final in prime time.
ALPINE SKIING
Mikaela Shiffrin is still seeking her first medal of these Games. The downhill is by no means the American star’s strongest event, if she ends up racing in it.
Goggia is coming off a pre-Olympic crash that left her with a sprained left knee, a partially torn cruciate ligament, a fracture of the fibula bone in her leg, as well as some tendon damage. She still managed to make it to the Beijing Games and participate in training for the downhill.
“For me, Olympic Games are everything, the place that you want to be to achieve your childhood dream,” Goggia said. “There is no place I’d rather be than here. I don’t care about my condition.”
ALSO OF NOTE
NBC is planning to show the men’s team ski jumping competition on the large hill in the afternoon. … The women’s freestyle aerials will air live early in the morning on USA Network, with an encore presentation on NBC in prime time. … USA Network will have the men’s and women’s team pursuit finals in speedskating live as part of late-night coverage.
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TWO MEN were arrested for stabbing a 50-year-old man with a steel ice-breaker following a money dispute near Sector 17 light point, here on Sunday. One of the accused is the nephew of the victim, Paramjit Singh, who belongs to village Kansal. The accused were identified as Deep Singh, the nephew of the victim, and his friend, Manjot Singh. Both of the accused are residents of village Kansal. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon.
Police said that Paramjit Singh and Deep Singh’s father are real brothers. The brothers had a joint property, which was sold at a high price. There is a dispute related to Rs 7 lakh between the two brothers.
Injured Paramjit Singh reported to the police that on Saturday afternoon, he had gone to Sector 22 market. He said that all of sudden Deep Singh along with Manjot Singh met him in the market. Deep Singh started arguments over the Rs 7 lakh, and soon a verbal altercation broke out between the two parties. Paramjit reported that he left in his car which was chased by the two men, who intercepted him at Press light point Sector 17 and attacked him with a steel ice-breaker tool.
“A passerby informed the police about the incident. Paramjit was rushed to GMSH-16. The two accused were arrested and released on bail.
Paramjit maintained that he had cleared the issue of Rs 7 lakh with his brother, who still has a grudge against him,” Station House Officer (SHO) at the Sector 17 police station, Inspector Om Parkash, said. The weapon which was used in the crime was recovered. A case was registered at Sector 17 police station.
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The Super Bowl between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, will as usual be the biggest day of sports broadcasting in the United States. But this year might be the biggest of them all since this is the first time the country’s biggest sporting event is happening at the same time as the Winter Olympics, one of the biggest events in the world.
Here are some things to know about the game as well as Super Bowl-related programming on other networks:
HOW MANY SUPER BOWLS IS THIS FOR THE RAMS AND BENGALS?
The Rams are making their fifth Super Bowl trip – including their second in the past four years – and are 1-3. This is the Bengals’ third appearance but first since 1989. They lost to the San Francisco 49ers in their other trips.
WHICH NETWORK HAS THIS YEAR’S SUPER BOWL?
This marks the 20th Super Bowl broadcast for NBC, which is second among all networks. CBS leads with 21 followed by NBC, Fox (9) and ABC (7).
Of the seven previous Super Bowls held in Los Angeles, NBC has aired four, including the last one in 1993 when Dallas beat Buffalo. CBS and NBC both aired the first Super Bowl, which was at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
WHAT IS NBC’S SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAY?
(All times are Eastern:)
8 a.m.: 2022 Winter Olympics
Noon: NFL Films ”Road to the Super Bowl”
1 p.m.: Super Bowl Pregame Show
6:30 p.m.: Super Bowl kickoff
10:45 p.m. : Winter Olympics Primetime
12 a.m.: Late Local News (West coast will remain with Olympics)
12:30 a.m.: Winter Olympics Prime Plus
WHO ARE THE ANNOUNCERS FOR NBC?
Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth team up for their fourth Super Bowl. Michaels is handling the play by play for the 11th time, which ties him with the late Pat Summerall. This is Michaels’ fifth Super Bowl for NBC after his first six were with ABC. Collinsworth, who played eight seasons for the Bengals and appeared in both of their previous Super Bowl trips, will be an analyst for the fifth time. His first was with Fox for the 2005 game between Philadelphia and New England.
Rules analyst Terry McAulay, who refereed three Super Bowls, and sideline reporter Kathryn Tappen are Super Bowl TV rookies. Sideline reporter Michele Tafoya is doing her fifth Super Bowl in what is her final appearance for NBC.
HOW MANY CAMERAS WILL NBC USE FOR THE SUPER BOWL?
NBC will use 122 cameras. For the first Super Bowl at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1967, NBC had 11 cameras.
Executive producer Fred Gaudelli said that ”in terms of cameras that shoot the game, that actually shoot the field and the play and the players – we’ll probably have 40 cameras.” All those cameras will be recorded and can be used for replay.
NBC will also be debuting a brand-new graphic look, a new score bug, as well as utilizing a lot of virtual reality and augmented reality graphics.
Gaudelli and director Drew Esocoff are working their seventh Super Bowl together and fifth on NBC. Their first two were with ABC.
THE OLYMPICS HOST IS ALSO DOING THE SUPER BOWL PREGAME SHOW?
Yes. Mike Tirico is doing double duty. He left Beijing on Monday night to fly to Stamford, Connecticut, to host Olympics coverage Wednesday and Thursday before going to Los Angeles on Friday through Sunday.
Tirico will host the Super Bowl pregame and postgame presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy before going to a set outside SoFi Stadium to host Sunday night’s Olympics coverage.
WHAT ARE SOME NOTABLE FEATURES OF NBC’S PREGAME SHOW?
NBC News’ Lester Holt will sit down with President Joe Biden during the 3 p.m. hour.
Key interviews, Chris Simms with Rams coach Sean McVay; Rodney Harrison with Rams DT and three-time Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald; Maria Taylor with Rams QB Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly; Tony Dungy with Bengals coach Zac Taylor; Drew Brees with Bengals QB Joe Burrow; Jac Collinsworth with Bengals DE Sam Hubbard.
Some key features: Untold History of the Super Bowl with Peter King; Snoop Youth Football; 1939 UCLA Football Team (Tim Layden narrates an essay on the historical importance of the 1939 UCLA football team, which included Jackie Robinson, Kenny Washington, and Woody Strode).
WHAT IF I ONLY WANT TO WATCH THE HALFTIME SHOW?
The first half of a normal NFL game usually takes 90 minutes, but if there are a lot of running plays, it could be done in 1 hour, 10 minutes.
With kickoff at 6:30 p.m. EST, it would probably be a good idea to tune in around 7:40 p.m. so you don’t miss Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar.
HOW CAN I WATCH THE GAME IF I AM A CORD CUTTER?
NBC’s Peacock streaming service will have the game for OTT devices and services, smart TVs and mobile devices. It will also be available for free on the NFL website/apps as well as Yahoo Sports. DirecTV Stream, Sling TV, Hulu with Live TV, YouTube TV and fuboTV also have NBC.
WHO HAS THE SPANISH LANGUAGE BROADCAST?
Telemundo will be the first Spanish-language broadcast network to air the Super Bowl. The pregame show begins at 5 p.m. EST with Miguel Gurwitz, Ana Jurka, Karim Mendiburu and special guest Rolando Cantu, a former Arizona Cardinals offensive lineman. The game will be called by Carlos Mauricio Ramirez with Jorge Andres providing analysis.
WHAT DOES NFL NETWORK HAVE PLANNED?
NFL Network’s 8 1/2 hour ”NFL GameDay Morning” comes on at 9 a.m. EST. Among some of the pregame features of note:
9 a.m. hour: Steve Mariucci interviews Taylor.
10 a.m. hour: NFL 360 feature titled ”Ode to South Central” narrated by actor Anthony Anderson.
11 a.m. hour: Mariucci interviews McVay; Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Mary J. Blige sit down with Los Angeles radio legend Big Boy to discuss their halftime performance.
12 p.m. hour: Kurt Warner’s interview with Burrow.
1 p.m. hour: Warner’s interview with Stafford.
4 p.m. hour: Actors Mark Wahlberg and Channing Tatum join the show.
IS ESPN DOING PREGAME COVERAGE?
ESPN’s four-hour show comes on at 10 a.m. ET. It will include Burrow and Stafford’s Journey, using interviews from the two quarterbacks, their parents and those close to them.
Former LSU coach Ed Orgeron, who won a national championship with Burrow in 2019, will do an interview from the ESPN set at Disneyland.
WILL THE GAME BE ON RADIO?
Sirius XM Satellite Radio will have four channels dedicated to the game – the Westwood One national feed, a Spanish-language channel and the Rams and Bengals broadcasts.
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Several trade union leaders of the region will gather in Haryana’s Hansi on Monday to attend the condolence meeting in honour of Ramkishan Bhatla, who had died on February 2, following an illness.
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Haryana unit Vice President Satbir Singh said that Bhatla was instrumental in organising several agitations of workers and farmers in Hisar region. According to Singh, Bhatla played a key role in an agitation which was launched in 1988, seeking allotment of hundreds of acres of surplus land of former maharaja of Faridkot Harinder Singh Brar’s estate to tenants near Hansi in Hisar.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/trade-unions-to-hold-condolence-meeting-in-honour-of-bhatla-7771938/
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AT LEAST 750 police personnel, including women, have been deputed to maintain the law-and-order situation on Valentine’s Day in UT.
Special security arrangements were made for roads near Leisure Valley, Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10 which is also popular as Gheri route. Besides this, police personnel will be deployed around women’s colleges, Panjab University, working women’s hostels and markets of sectors 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 26, 32, 46, 42 and 36.
“Keeping in view Valentine’s Day, UT Police has made special arrangements to avoid any untoward incidents. 750 police personnel including 7 DSPs, 21 SHOs/inspectors and traffic staff will be deployed to keep watch on miscreants, etc. The force will be deployed at different locations. Sources said women cops will be deployed in the plain clothes at some sensitive places.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/valentines-day-tight-security-near-womens-colleges-parks-7771934/
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Delhi’s daily Covid case count continued to decline, with the city reporting 804 cases on Sunday. The positivity rate, which was 1.68% on Saturday, dipped marginally to 1.5%.
Hospitals in the city reported 12 deaths in the 24-hour period.
As the omicron variant swept across the city, cases rose quickly to touch an all-time peak of 28,867 on January 13. The positivity rate climbed to 30.6%, the highest for the third wave. Hospitalisations, however, did not exceed 25% of the almost 16,000 total bed capacity on a single day.
The reduction in cases was also as fast as the increase, and cases dropped to below 10,000 within 10 days of the surge.
With the decrease, market associations have made appeals to extend timings for markets and shops to open till 10 pm, instead of the 8 pm restriction at present.
The New Delhi Traders Association wrote to L-G Anil Baijal, who also heads the Delhi Disaster Management Association (DDMA), highlighting the problems they are facing.
President of the association Atul Bhargava said that since the timing applicable to restaurants — 8 am to 11 pm — has been extended, the same metric should also apply to shops.
In addition to the restrictions on markets and shops, night curfew also remains in force between 11 pm and 5 am in the capital. Officials said DDMA was expected to meet later this week to decide which restrictions would continue and which would be lifted.
Meanwhile, all school students will be allowed to return to school from Monday. Children in junior classes have been away from classrooms for the longest in the city.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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NEARLY A year after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued tenders to install nets in all the sewage stormwater discharge drains in the city. The nets will be installed to arrest the flow of solid waste/garbage directly into the sea.
The BMC has invited tenders to appoint contractors for providing stormwater floating pollutant traps at the various stormwater drains in the city and suburbs.
NGO Vanashakti had filed a petition with NGT seeking direction on compliance with sewage treatment norms. Vanshakti said the use of nets could reduce 80 per cent of the non-biodegradable waste from entering the sea.
“Conducting clean up drives at beaches and mangroves areas is not a long-term solution. If BMC is unable to treat the sewage before discharging it into the sea. At least they should install nets at the mouth of the drains, that would stop plastic, garbage from entering the seas. Mangroves,” said Stalin D, Director of Vanashakti.
Stalin said it has been six years since the idea was first suggested, “The next hearing is scheduled on Tuesday, where the NGT has ordered the commissioner to be present. This tender is in response to that.”
In 2018, in a reply to the NGT regarding the installation of nets across stormwater drains, the State Environment Department, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Forest Department had told the NGT that nets should be installed at the mouth of marine sewage outfalls and nullahs that flow into creeks to prevent the garbage from entering the sea/creeks.
The agencies said that it was BMC’s responsibility to ensure that solid waste was not dumped into the sea. In November last year, the NGT imposed a penalty of Rs 28.20 crore on the civic body for discharging untreated sewage in the sea and creeks.
Earlier, in the same case, the Tribunal had ordered the municipal commissioner to remain present before it. However, the BMC had approached the Supreme Court and got relief against the order, but the apex court had allowed NGT’s proceeding against the BMC on sea pollution.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Among the stars, Drake still shined the brightest.
In an all-white outfit, the multi-Grammy winner had many concertgoers jostling for position to watch him perform at the Super Bowl eve party dubbed “Homecoming Weekend” on Saturday night. He made a dramatic entrance, darting down an aisle before performing center stage under an airy tent at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California.
The crowd included many entertainers and athletes: Issa Rae, a mask-wearing Mike Tyson, Lil Wayne, Paul Pierce, Derrick Henry, Ricky Gervais, Jon Hamm, Nicole Scherzinger, Cedric the Entertainer, Karrueche Tran and Flava Flav.
While waiting for Drake, attendees mingled for a couple hours. Once he arrived, many flocked toward the stage and pulled out their phones to capture his 45-minute set.
Drake told the crowd that he was initially asked to deliver around five songs, but felt compelled to triple that amount because of where he traveled from.
“They flew me out of like three feet of snow for this, so I got to perform for you,” said Drake, who went on to perform bangers including “No Friends in the Industry” and “Girls Want Girls” from his recent album “Certified Lover Boy.”
The rap star talked about being able to perform in person and showed appreciation to everyone in attendance.
“I’m sure at one point we’re all sitting at home – maybe a little depressed, maybe a little frustrated, maybe a little confused,” he said. “I want to make a toast to how grateful I am for being in this (expletive) room with each and every one of you. I wasn’t sure how and when we would be able to do this again. But cheers to each and everyone of you. More life.”
Drake went on to perform hits including “Controlla,” “God’s Plan,” “Too Much” and “Passionfruit.” He surprised the crowd with a guest appearance by Future, who performed “Way 2 Sexy” with Drake before his uber-popular “March Madness.”
At the end, Drake paid homage to Lil Wayne – who watched from a VIP section – before closing out his set by playing “I Will Always Love You,” the Dolly Parton song that Whitney Houston made famous. He sang every word along with many in the crowd.
Proof of vaccination was required of the 1,500 guests. Only a few wore masks, including Tyson.
The “Homecoming Weekend” show helped cap a full week of entertainment events leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, the first in the Los Angeles area in nearly three decades, with the hometown Rams facing off against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Justin Bieber sang and danced on the first night of the event, presented by The h.wood Group, REVOLVE, PLACES.CO and Uncommon Entertainment.
Staffers were dressed in football uniforms, making the rounds with fancified versions of stadium food, including plant-based chicken bites, garlic fries and tiny pizzas.
Miley Cyrus and Green Day performed across town at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help introduce the candidates and their experiences to those who plan to vote in March. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidates. Much more information about Democratic primary candidates, including links to the interviews and judicial Q&As, can be found on Erik Manning’s spreadsheet.
1. Who are you and what are you running for?
My Name is Dolores Lozano, and I’m running to be your next Justice of the Peace in Precinct 2, Place 2.
Like so many Mexican-American families, I was born to working-class parents who entered the workforce straight out of high school. I’m the proud daughter of Precinct 6 Chief Deputy Lillian Lozano and 37-Year Local Union 551 Member Jose Lozano.
As the eldest of three girls, I grew up watching my parents exhaust whatever resources they had to make ends meet. And from an early age, my parents taught me the value of hard work and emphasized the importance of education.
I ended up attending a magnet elementary school in River Oaks—30 minutes west of my birth home near Reveille Park. I later attended KIPP: 3D Academy in Fifth Ward and received a full scholarship to Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart for high school. As a result, much of my early life was spent in transit between my family home and my daily student life. It was clear to me, even then, that your zip code should not determine your future.
I earned a scholarship to Baylor University in Waco, where I became a first-generation college graduate with a degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Post-graduation, I spent a few years in speech pathology working with children in underserved communities. I later expanded my career in sports and entertainment, planning and coordinating large-scale events and community initiatives. My work included special projects for events like Super Bowl LI, NCAA Final Four tournaments, NBA All-Star games, TEDxHouston, and more.
Over the years, I have empowered thousands of students to become civically engaged. At KIPP Voyage Academy for Girls, I worked closely with staff to evaluate and enhance programming for their annual Young Ladies’ Leadership Conference. I convened groups of volunteers, designed workshops and panels, secured sponsorships for meals and goodies, and captured the event for two years following my first conference in 2016.
My passion for Quality Education and Gender Equality was instrumental in launching Impact Hub Houston, a locally rooted, globally connected nonprofit organization working to make Houston a role model for how the world solves its most pressing issues.
During my tenure at BakerRipley, a nationally-recognized community development organization, I played a vital role in the response and recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting local, state, and national task forces that determined where dollars would be allocated to best serve those in need.
As a small business owner, I currently enhance the image, brand, and impact of nonprofits and businesses across the country. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, I have helped small business owners secure over $500,000 in relief funds. I consistently leverage my relationships to drive impact for others. And I have repeatedly shown understanding of the necessary give and take in relationships that allow for both parties to derive value.
Active in the Houston community, I serve as a member of the KIPP Texas Board of Directors and Garden Villas Civic Club Board. I am an Aspen Institute Ideas Scholar and have participated in fellowships with Management Leadership for Tomorrow, Latinos for Education, Colorwave, HTXelerator, and New Leaders Council.
In my spare time, I serve as a Child Advocate, Young Friend of AVDA (Aid to Victims of Domestic Violence), Houston Area Women’s Center Young Leader, and Junior League of Houston Head Active & Assistant Editor of the Houston News.
As a survivor, speech therapist, journalist, and every role in between, I have protected our most vulnerable and opened doors of opportunity with confidence and strength. I look forward to becoming the first Hispanic and first woman to be elected to the bench as the next Harris County Justice of the Peace in Precinct 2, Place 2.
2. What kind of cases does this court hear?
The current Justice of the Peace system was imagined by King Edward III in the fourteenth century as rural populations began to grow – The position became necessary “to decentralize the administration of justice so as to bring justice to every man or woman in sparsely settled communit[ies].” The goal was to settle the disputes among neighbors and to prevent friction where possible.
In short, it was “to keep the peace.”
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
● Class C Traffic Tickets
● Evictions
● Small Claims up to $20,000
● Truancy
● Bad Check Disputes
● Public Nuisances
● Writs
● Occupational Licensing
3. Why are you running for this particular bench?
I am running for Harris County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2, Place 2, because it’s time for a change. We deserve a courtroom that is Convenient, Compassionate, and Community Centered. The sitting Justice of the Peace in Precinct 2, Place 2, has been in the seat for over 35 years. In these years, our community has felt the impact of rising eviction rates, a lack of access to social services, and a continuous struggle to close the school to prison pipeline.
No student should feel silenced within the education system, because truancy intervention programs should be more intentional and focused.
No family should feel like eviction is inevitable, because the judge “just wouldn’t listen.”
No one should feel the burden of entering the courtroom without a translator, because everyone should be able to self-advocate in the language that feels most comfortable for them.
I am running to reinvest in my community and bring humanity back into the courtroom. Most notably, I am running to have working class people leave my courtroom better than when they left.
4. What are your qualifications for this job?
With an extensive background in communications and community development, a lengthy history working with multiple stakeholders – especially elected officials and media – and a deep dedication to equity for all, I am prepared to serve as the next Harris County Justice of the Peace in Precinct 2, Place 2.
I have dedicated my entire life to public service with positions across the nonprofit and education sector. My expertise explores a fusion of problem-solving and innovative techniques that impact communities and create pathways to systemic change.
During my years in sports and entertainment, I developed strategic partnerships with schools, businesses, and nonprofits. My experience in public affairs and advocacy aided my appointment to serve on the launch team of Impact Hub Houston, a locally rooted, globally connected nonprofit organization working to make Houston a role model for how the world solves its most pressing issues.
Throughout my work in education, I saw challenges and created solutions to empower youth across the city of Houston. Most recently, I became one of the first alumni to guide decision making for students of color as a member of the KIPP Texas Board of Directors. I currently oversee the major transformation of our schools focused on the review and revision of policies, procedures, and systems.
My unconventional, strength-based approach has been instrumental in promoting civic engagement in Texas. Over the years, I have been asked by leaders in my region to participate and volunteer in an array of advisory boards and committees. With that, I played a vital role in the response and recovery of the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting local, state, and national task forces that determined where dollars would be allocated to best serve those in need.
I currently devote my time to organizations that affect change in quality education, holistic housing, gender equity, and disaster recovery.
Without question, I continue striving to make my community more equitable and resilient because I can relate to the lived experience of many. Some of the most memorable highlights in my career have changed the trajectory of my family and neighbors. From becoming a first-generation graduate to serving at the Houston Area Women’s Center and helping the community through disasters like Hurricane Harvey and the present-day pandemic, my efforts to become a better leader are relentless.
I am certain that, by incorporating my strength to build partnerships and drive impact for others, I can illustrate effective and consistent leadership as the next Harris County Justice of the Peace in Precinct 2, Place 2.
5. Why should people vote for you in March?
I believe I am the most qualified and experienced candidate for this position, and I will dedicate my term to modernizing our courtroom. If elected, I will serve Harris County by assuring a convenient, compassionate, and community centered courtroom. Early voting starts on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, so show some love and Vote For Dolores Lozano. Election day is March 1, 2022.
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A Level 1 (minor) fire broke out at the sets of the reality show ‘Bigg Boss’ in Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai, at around 1 pm on Sunday. The fire was doused by 2:50 pm.
Four fire engines were rushed to the spot. No injuries have been reported in the incident.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is assessing the damage to the show’s set and the cause of the fire as cooling operation continued on Sunday evening.
The reality show is hosted by actor Salman Khan and the last episode aired on January 30.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
01-05-06-07-08-09-11-13-14-17-18
(one, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
01-05-06-07-08-09-11-13-14-17-18
(one, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen)
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One downside of living in a warm place is that you don’t get to give cool names to snowplows.
“Covid-19 vaccines for young children are coming. But it’s complicated.”
“31 states have laws that allow forced sterilizations, new report shows”.
“Concerns about vaccine risks aren’t new. But quotes from parents show that’s not the only thing going on here. Instead, lack of concern about Covid has a key role in leading parents to weigh vaccine risks more heavily than they otherwise likely would.”
How Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand came to be.
“The thing you need to understand about today’s Zillow find is that it was built in 2010 in the United States of America.”
RIP, Gary DeLaune, longtime San Antonio broadcast journalist who was the first to go on the air with news of the Kennedy assassination.
“Nothing says “edgy” like a white guy who “does his own research” spouting long debunked ideas in 2015 that were more eloquently promoted by the notoriously edgy John C Calhoun in the 1830s.”
“A group of fed-up Canadians has filed a $9.8 million class-action lawsuit against a mob of anti-vaccine truckers who have packed downtown Ottawa for a week, blasting the ear-piercing air horns of their vehicles day and night.”
“On the issue of media representation of secularism and secular Americans”.
“Former mayoral candidate Tony Buzbee is now accepting Bitcoin for his Tudor-style residence in Houston’s prestigious River Oaks neighborhood.” The asking price is $27.5 million, though depending on the value of Bitcoin on any given day, who knows how much it will actually cost. If the tank came with the place I’d consider making an offer, but alas, it does not.
“A pair of researchers has proposed that companies precompute certain data when the grid is humming with solar or wind power, and then stash it away for later use. […] This is digital, more of a timing strategy than a real battery, aimed at getting data-hungry companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix to use clean power when it’s plentiful so utilities can avoid burning fossil fuels when it’s not.”
RIP, Gerald Williams, former MLB outfielder.
RIP, Douglas Trumbull, Oscar-nominated visual effects pioneer who worked on “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, and “Blade Runner”, among others.
Some hot Republican-on-Republican action.
“After Rogan apologized for repeatedly using a racial slur, however, some in the conservative media turned on him.”
“Jimmy Carr’s Abhorrent Holocaust Joke Counterintuitively Illustrates the Value of the First Amendment”.
Crosby, Stills, and Nash once again join with Young.
“The North Carolina State Board of Elections is asserting a right to keep far-right Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), who’s currently being scrutinized over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, off the ballot ahead of the 2022 midterms if it so chooses.”
“I’m angry, disappointed, frustrated and bewildered by Whoever It Is Who Now Owns Patheos’ decision to pull the plug on what was once the Atheist Channel. It was an ill-conceived, self-destructive, damaging move for this platform, and doesn’t portend anything good. But I’m also glad it happened.”
“13 mammoth facts about mammoths”.
“One persistent problem in coverage of Trump and his enablers (erstwhile and ongoing) is a sort of tyranny of low expectations—the idea that Trump lowered the bar for conduct in public office to such a degree that commentators start to see behavior that clears it as praiseworthy, not so fundamental that it should pass without comment.”
“Do you consider using bear spray on law enforcement officers legitimate political discourse?”
Expect to see a whole lot of crypto ads during the Super Bowl today.
“The Kraken is still backtrackin’.”
“That’s right. The DOJ would have a hard time prosecuting the story that The New York Times is downplaying because it spent too much capital on the story that The New York Times pressed relentlessly. Funny how that works.”
RIP, Ian McDonald, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his co-founding roles in both King Crimson and Foreigner.
““Brotherhood of Man” is mesmerizing and cursed, a sunny slice of forced corporate frivolity that conceals remarkable darkness.”
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A 32-YEAR-OLD tempo driver, who was shot at with a firearm by two unknown men in Dharavi early on Saturday succumbed to the injuries on Sunday. Police are on the lookout for two accused in the case.
The incident took place around 10 am near a T-junction when the deceased, Amir Khan, had gone to attend nature’s call. While he was on his way, two men — assumed to be known to him — shot him five times from a firearm. Police said the accused knew that Khan went to the toilet around this time and was waiting for him. It’s not clear if one or two firearms were used to shoot him, police added.
The bullets hit Khan on his face, chest, back and hand and he fell to the ground. The two accused then managed to run away from the spot while Khan was rushed to Sion Hospital where he died during treatment on Sunday morning. Khan is survived by his wife, two children and father.
The Dharavi police have registered a case of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
A special team has been formed to find the accused. Police said that Khan has an assault case registered against him but that was some years ago.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-1-3
(two, one, three)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-1-3
(two, one, three)
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Ugh.
On a winter afternoon nine months into the pandemic, Harris County district attorney Kim Ogg held a Zoom meeting with felony judges and prosecutors to discuss the backlog of cases caused by COVID-19 shutdowns at the downtown Houston courthouse. But the backlog wasn’t the only issue to come up that day. For years, the Democratic DA had been publicly criticizing local judges who set what she deemed insufficiently high bonds for defendants accused of violent crimes. Now her office would deliver a direct warning. First assistant district attorney David Mitcham, Ogg’s top lieutenant, informed the judges that there would be a “reckoning” if they didn’t start setting higher bonds.
“My reaction was like, ‘Wow, that was bold,’ ” said Joe Vinas, the president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, who was on the call representing the criminal defense bar. “One of the judges asked if Mitcham was threatening him.”
Many in Houston’s legal community have thought back to that moment, now that fourteen Harris County prosecutors and one DA investigator have filed to run for criminal court judgeships this year—eight in Democratic primaries, seven in Republican primaries. It’s not unusual for prosecutors to run for judgeships, but the high number in this election cycle has raised eyebrows. In 2020 not a single Harris County prosecutor ran in any of the nine local criminal court races; in 2018, which featured 31 races, just one prosecutor ran. But with Ogg linking a sharp rise in homicides to the bail practices of reform-minded judges elected in recent years, perhaps it’s no surprise that so many of her prosecutors are challenging the 29 Democratic incumbents up for reelection this year.
[…]
In 2019 Harris County agreed to a sweeping set of reforms, including the elimination of cash bail for the vast majority of misdemeanor defendants. Instead, defendants would be released before trial on so-called “personal bonds,” which require no up-front payment. The landmark settlement, the first of its kind in the U.S., was endorsed by Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and every other major county-wide Democratic officeholder—with the exception of Ogg, who warned that letting defendants out on personal bonds would threaten the public by giving judges “unfettered and unreviewable discretion” to delay trials or excuse defendants from ever appearing in court.
In the wake of Harris County’s settlement, Travis County also eliminated cash bail for most misdemeanor offenses. Two recent academic studies have found that this reform has been effective. Fewer defendants are now incarcerated before trial and those released on personal bonds have proven unlikely to be rearrested. But that hasn’t stopped some politicians from arguing that more lenient bail policies are endangering public safety. And Republicans, who have not won a county-wide race in Harris County since 2014, hope to capitalize on the issue to regain some judgeships and other offices in 2022.
The concerns about bail reform have been exacerbated by local and national spikes in violent crime over the past two years. Between 2019 and 2020, murders jumped by nearly 30 percent across the country—the largest year-over-year increase in at least six decades—and homicides rose again in 2021 (although the FBI hasn’t released its final data). That trend has held true for Houston: there were an estimated 469 homicides in the city last year, an increase of 71 percent from 2019. That’s still well below the 701 killings in 1981, the city’s deadliest year, when the population was nearly one million less.
Violent crimes such as assault have also increased since 2019, both nationally and in Harris County, although nonviolent crime is down. While the national homicide rate remains below its historic peak in the early nineties, the rapid increase has received intense attention in local media, with crime stories frequently leading television news. Houston’s Fox 26 features a recurring segment called “Breaking Bond”—created in collaboration with nonprofit group Crime Stoppers of Houston—about felony defendants who are rearrested while out on bail. The series regularly features prominent local Republicans blasting Democratic judges for their bail practices.
Criminologists disagree on the reason for the rising crime, but most agree that pandemic-induced frustrations, the surge in gun sales during the coronavirus outbreak, and a general police pullback in reaction to protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd have something to do with it. There’s little evidence to connect bail reform with the surge in homicides, but one notorious case last September added fuel to the argument. After judge Greg Glass set bonds of $10,000 and $20,000 for two drug charges against thirty-year-old Deon Ledet, the Harris County man went free and allegedly killed one police officer and injured another. Prosecutors had asked Glass to hold Ledet without bond because he had twice been convicted of a felony. In March, Glass (who did not respond to an interview request) faces two primary challengers, one of them a Polk County assistant district attorney; if he prevails, he’ll face one of Ogg’s Republican prosecutors in the fall general election.
There’s a lot in here to annoy me, starting with the conflation of the reforms to misdemeanor bail reform and complaints about the amounts of bail being set by felony court judges. The simple fact of the matter is that if your system allows for any possibility of bail, sooner or later someone, whether out on ten dollars bail or ten million dollars bail, is going to commit a crime. You could have a system that’s right 99.9% of the time, but given the thousands of people that go through the courts each year, that means multiple times each year when that happens. Unless your solution is to lock everyone up from the time they’re arrested until the time their case is completed in whatever fashion, no matter what the charge or their circumstances or anything else, then you need to accept this basic fact of life.
(Such a solution would be blatantly unconstitutional, of course. So is simply charging everyone more for bail, since that makes bail only accessible to the wealthy, and punishes others for being poor. Which is what the misdemeanor bail lawsuit was all about. That does introduce some risk as noted, but we’re trying to balance it against the enormous wrong of locking up people who have not been convicted of any crime. Sometimes these things don’t have simple answers.)
Look, you can read the various judicial Q&A responses I’ve published from incumbents and candidates. I’ll have run over 40 of them by the time all is said and done. I’ve no doubt some of these assistant DAs would be fine judges. But this isn’t a good look, and I’m not at all inclined to view their time in that office as a positive because of it. And speaking as someone who has voted for Kim Ogg in each of the past two primaries, I’ll be looking very carefully at my other options in 2024.
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BUREAUCRATS ALWAYS come under pressure from political leadership to deliver in a stipulated time when it comes to flagship programmes or popular schemes that could be highlighted during elections. Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has a unique way to push officials in his ministry to pull up their sleeves. He has placed a digital panel that counts the number of days for this government to meet the targets. The digital countdown display, which is placed in his rooms in both the offices — Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) in Electronics Niketan and Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in Labour Ministry – shows the number of days left in this government’s term. Chandrasekhar tells his officials he has only limited days to meet his target and fulfill the government’s promises, so they have to perform according to his deadlines. On Sunday, the panel showed ‘717 Days Remaining’.
Between The Lines
A LINE tucked deep inside the Quad foreign ministers’ joint statement that they are “exploring a track 1.5 dialogue between our respective strategic thinkers” has sent a shot of adrenaline coursing through India’s strategic corps and think tanks. For the chosen ones, it could mean access to the top in the foreign policy establishment, open doors to funding, and of course, travel to far off Quad member capitals.
Photo Proof
UNHAPPY OVER states not inviting MPs for foundation laying and inauguration functions of works under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), the Ministry of Rural Development has come up with an idea to ensure that this does not happen. The ministry has asked the states to upload a “good quality” photograph each of the inauguration and foundation laying ceremonies, showing the MP along with the plaque, on the scheme’s portal. Besides, it has asked states to ensure that no such complaints should be received from the MPs in this respect.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-8-3
(eight, eight, three)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-8-3
(eight, eight, three)
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The Chron makes another obvious call and endorses Commissioner Adrian Garcia in Precinct 2.
Among the frequent criticisms we hear about Harris County Commissioners Court is that it’s an opaque repository for political insiders, an entity with limited authority beyond building and maintaining roads, shepherding flood control projects, and rubber-stamping budgets.
When Democrat Adrian Garcia challenged Republican incumbent Jack Morman in 2018 for Precinct 2 commissioner, he set out to break that mold. Garcia, 61, a former Houston police officer, city councilman and Harris County sheriff ran as an advocate for criminal justice reform, environmental justice, and for people without health insurance. He pledged to direct resources to long-neglected neighborhoods in his district, which spans eastern Harris County, North Houston and leafy suburbs such as Friendswood.
As commissioner, Garcia has fulfilled many of those promises and deserves a chance to defend his seat this fall against Morman, who wants it back.
While Republican county commissioners attempt to undo the county’s existing misdemeanor bail reform agreement, Garcia has been a steadfast advocate of staying the course on bail reform since signing on to a consent decree to settle the Harris County litigation in 2019. In a precinct where some county residents are 56 percent more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, Garcia secured funding for air quality monitors. Garcia partnered with the Baylor College of Medicine to bring SmartPods — a one-stop shop for health care services, including clinic spaces, pharmacies and biosafety labs — to medically under-served residents in Pasadena and Aldine. He was the driving force behind bringing a $7.6 million park to Northeast Harris County for children and adults with disabilities, an all-inclusive jewel for an area desperate for green space.
“I have been working tirelessly on all fronts to address all the things that I campaigned on and that my constituents have focused on,” Garcia told the editorial board.
I advocated for Garcia to be the Democratic challenger to Morman in 2018, and I have been happy with him in office. The Chron gripes about a couple of things, including his support of the new map for Commissioners Court, to which I say that setting a good example has gotten Democrats exactly nothing these past few years. If the Republicans in the Legislature and the US Senate want to do something about redistricting, we’re all ears. Until then, I see no point in unilaterally disarming. If I were in Precinct 2, I’d be delighted to cast my vote for Commissioner Garcia. I did not do interviews in this race, but I did interview him in 2018, and you can listen to that here.
Over in Precinct 4, it was a much tougher choice, for which the Chron landed on Lesley Briones.
The Democrats running for Harris County Precinct 4 commissioner make a far stronger field than in previous years. And there’s a reason for that: The Democratic majority on the current Commissioners Court significantly altered the precinct and gave it more blue voters, to the potential detriment of incumbent Republican Jack Cagle.
Democrats in the new Precinct 4 — which encompasses much of western Harris County and some territory inside Loop 610 — have a tough choice in a race that’s drawn several impressive candidates.
We settled on Harris County Court at Law Judge Lesley Briones, 41.
The Laredo native graduated from Yale Law School, and then practiced law at Vinson & Elkins LLP before working as general counsel and chief operating officer of the Arnold Foundation. Beginning in 2019, Briones served as a civil court judge before resigning to run for commissioner.
She’s been endorsed by several local elected officials and several groups including the Texas Gulf Coast AFL-CIO and Harris County Young Democrats, and has raised more than $339,000.
Among her ideas, Briones said she’d create a response team that residents could call for ditch maintenance, similar to programs set up for potholes. She’d prioritize constituent services and bird-dog already-funded flood bond projects to make sure they get completed.
[…]
Along with Briones, two other candidates stood out: former Texas Rep. Gina Calanni and Ben Chou. All three offered concise, detailed platforms and plans.
Calanni, 48, is a battle-tested former representative in House District 132. We endorsed her in 2018 and again in 2020. She’s an accomplished legislator, despite only serving one term: she authored or co-authored 11 bills that became law in the 2019 session. She rejected the notion that Commissioners Court ought to stick to the basics such as transportation and flooding, suggesting she’d continue the current practice of Democrats on the court of delving into divisive social issues such as abortion.
On healthcare, Calanni has an intriguing incentive plan for mothers on Medicaid, and we liked her pledge to to hold regular town halls in all the precinct’s neighborhoods.
Other priorities she mentioned, such as combating the school-to-prison pipeline, are important issues, but this is a time for anti-crime initiatives that can show more immediate results.
Ben Chou, 31, graduated from Rice and then worked for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. A former Harris County clerk employee, he touted an instrumental role in the now-banned drive-thru voting program that contributed to record turnout. Chou is sharp and knowledgable. He said he’ll guarantee fixes within 72 hours on reports of road debris and potholes and commits to attend or have a staff member at every super neighborhood meeting in the precinct.
Most impressive was his commitment to ethics. He was the only candidate to pledge not to take financial contributions from county vendors, as all four of the current commissioners do. “Disclosure, I think, is not enough. We’ve got to end the pay-to-play culture in Harris County,” he said. We agree.
I interviewed five of the seven Dems running in this race:
Lesley Briones
Ben Chou
Ann Williams
Gina Calanni
Clarence Miller
The first four listed there are the top candidates in my view, and I don’t envy anyone the decision. We’ll see who makes it to the runoff.
Finally the Chron endorsed incumbent Treasurer Dylan Osborne.
The job of county treasurer is a bit like being a sports official in one respect: they’re usually invisible unless they mess up.
The treasurer’s basic duties are to cut checks for the county, balance its checkbook and account for funds in designated accounts. The office moved about $20 billion in 2021. Incumbent Dylan Osborne has tried since 2018 to increase the 12-person office’s visibility — without any big mistakes. He participated in the November 2020 Protect the Results rally, making the shouldn’t-be-controversial argument that vote counting and transfers of power needn’t be partisan. He also led the office to partner with Unity National Bank, one of the few Black-owned financial institutions in Texas.
He wants to work with some local schools to build programs for financial literacy training, and pitch to Harris County Commissioners Court a plan to help residents combat financial struggles.
“I run an efficient, tight ship, and we’re working hard to make this office an asset to the community,” Osborne told us.
My interview with Dylan Osborne is here and with his opponent Carla Wyatt, about whom the Chron was complimentary, is here. The Treasurer’s office doesn’t get in the news much, and that was one of the things I asked him about – basically, what have you been doing all this time? He had some good answers, so give that a listen if you haven’t. I agree with the Chron’s assessment that while Wyatt would make a fine Treasurer, Osborne has done a good job and has earned the chance to do it for another term.
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Congress candidate from Mohali Balbir Singh Sidhu accused AAP’s chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann of misleading people on the issue of education. Sidhu asked Mann to verify his facts first before commenting on anything, on Sunday.
While blaming the AAP and its leadership of leading malicious and fact-less poll propaganda in Punjab, Sidhu said that the tactics of the AAP of spreading baseless propaganda against the Congress would bite the dust in the upcoming polls. During the last election, AAP had lost badly while claiming to get 100 seats in Punjab, Sidhu asserted.
“In this election, the AAP would face worse defeat than 2017 due to its hollow promises,” Sidhu said. He said that Punjab topped the country in education index. “The state, while moving ahead from 13th position in 2018-19, bagged the top position among all the states and union territories with a score of 929 out of 1,000,” Sidhu added.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-0-5
(zero, zero, five)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-0-5
(zero, zero, five)
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In poll fray for first time at the age of 79, Balbir Singh Rajewal, a farm union leader-turned politician and the CM face of Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) — the political front born out of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha — has been banking on his experience as a leader of the year-long farm agitations during his electoral campaigns.
In fray from Samrala rural constituency in Ludhiana district, Rajewal says that during the year-long agitation against the now-repealed contentious agri laws, the farm leaders had managed to do what no one thought was possible.
“Modi jehda kehende kise de aggey nahi jhukda, ohde bavjood Modi ton kanoon vi waapis karwaye tey ohne maafi vi mangi lokan ton. Saari dunia ch iss morche di charcha hai, saari dunia ch ess tarah da morcha kadey ni lageya.(It is said that PM Narendra Modi never relents or bows before anyone. We not only made him rollback the three laws but also made him apologise to the people. The entire world is talking about this agitation. Never before such an agitation has taken place anywhere in the world),” says Rajewal, while addressing a group of voters at Rohlan village.
The hoardings and stickers put up across villages in Samrala — on vehicles, walls and poles — describe Rajewal as ‘Dilli de borderan tey ladey gaye mahayuddh de mahanayak (Superhero of the mega battle that was fought on the borders of Dehi). Rajewal has been moving around from village to village to talk to voters, with a customized jeep complete with a sound system and a loud speaker mounted on top, always following him closely during his campaign.
Though nationally, Rajewal shot to the limelight after the success of the farmers’ agitation that made Modi government rollback its three laws Punjabis have know him for his five decades of work and agitations that he has led for farmers and right of labourers. Beginning with Kheti Baari Union way back in 1970s, followed by BKU (Lakhowal) and BKU (Mann), Rajewal had floated his own outfit, BKU (Rajewal), which went on to become one of the major farmer bodies that spearheaded the protests at Delhi’s borders. A native of village Rajewal Rohno of Khanna, he has been living in Samrala for decades now. Rajewal, however, is by no means a ‘small or marginalized farmer’. He is among the crorepati candidates and claims to own assets close to Rs 3.36 crore, mainly from his acres of agricultural land in Rajewal and arthiya and rice shellers business.
Sporting a green turban, a color that has been associated with the farmers’ agitation, as Rajewal moves from Chehlan to Rohlan village, a dhadi jatha (a group of traditional Punjabi ballad singers) keeps pace with the movements of his convoy and often reaches a village right before the SSM leader and starts singing in order to draw crowds for his arrival. A group of local leaders sporting ‘Sanyukt Kisan Morcha’ badges on their chests are spotted waiting for him in Rohlan, where piping hot tea and boondi laddoos are served to everyone.
At Chehlan earlier, Rajewal tells the listeners, mostly consisting farmers and their families, how he has spent his entire life fighting for farmers, while highlighting how his opponents were those who had just been spending money during their election campaigns and had not contributed anything to the farmers’ struggle.
“I have been serving people for the past 50 years. Fifty years of my life have been spent struggling and protesting for rights of farmers and labourers. I am 79 now and my companions who used to go to jail with me are also sitting here. On the other hand, there are candidates who spending a lot of money to ask for votes but have never stood up for the farmers,” Rajewal says, addressing a group of voters seated on the ground at Chehlan village.
The candidates of SSM are contesting as Independents from at least 102 seats in Punjab.
Rajewal then appeals to the locals to vote for him while giving three assurances. “Firstly, I assure you that I will fight your battles daily. I will not miss a single Vidhan Sabha session. Secondly, if I do indulge in corruption, you can confront me there and then. Thirdly, I am not going to take your votes by distributing liquor or money. Main shraab vand ke votan nahi lainiyaan, na main mull lainiya. You have to see what kind of candidate you need. Others have already started distributing liquor. But remember, if you vote for such people, they will never speak up for you in the Vidhan Sabha,” he says, asking people to press on the ‘manja’ (cot) symbol on February 20.
Samrala is headed for an interesting multi-cornered electoral battle. Four-time Congress MLA, Amrik Singh Dhillon, is now contesting as an Independent after being denied the party ticket this time. The Congress instead has given the ticket to Rupinder Singh Raja Gill, a real-estate baron and commission agent from Khanna. He is the son of former minister, Late Karam Gill. The SAD has chosen Paramjeet Singh Dhillon (40), a former Congress leader and grandson of sitting MLA Dhillon’s brother as its face from Samrala, while the AAP has gone with Jagtar Singh Diyalpura, a local poultry and mushroom farmer.
Rajewal’s campaign convoy consists 5-6 vehicles that have Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) flags perched on them.The vehicles carry in them a sound system assistant, a photographer-cum-videographer, social media manager, driver and a few others from his union who arrange village to village gatherings.
The SSM leader then goes on to tell voters that politicians these days are no more doing ‘sewa‘ but vyapar (business) and that how parties were ‘selling tickets’. Rajewal, who was earlier in talks with Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP for an alliance, has now alleged that the AAP was ‘selling tickets’.
“Our Constitution says that the government is ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’. But has our government worked for its people in the past 75 years? It is time to vote for the representative you want because politics is no more a sewa, it has become a vyapar. Tickets are being sold for crores. Everyone in Samrala knows how for some crores, the Congress denied the ticket to its sitting MLA. So when candidates are buying tickets in crores, then after winning, they will do business not your sewa,” says Rajewal, addressing voters at Rohlan village.
“Punjab and Haryana are the only two states which have regulated mandis for farmers and we won’t let corporates and Modi government snatch them from us. Main tuhade layi ladeyaan poori umar.. People in the villages know I have fought their battles,” says the CM candidate of farmers’ front, adding that the local AAP candidate never stood with the farmers in their agitation but is now asking for votes.”
Over the years, with his outfit holding influence over the agriculture related decisions taken by successive governments, Rajewal has traditionally been seen as being close to Punjab’s political bigwigs across party lines — including former CMs Parkash Singh Badal and Captain Amarinder Singh. He, however, till date, had never contested any elections or joined any party formally.
The pamphlets distributed by SSM in Samrala describe Rajewal as messiah of farmers, labourers and aam aadmi, hero of struggle against farm laws, the one who vouches for federalism, and the one who got a mandi, Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and sewage upgradation project for Samrala.
The pamphlets also highlight what is not widely known. “Balbir Singh Rajewal belongs to village Rajewal Rohno, which was also the native village of late philanthropist Bhagat Puran Singh (known as the Mother Teresa of Punjab) who opened Pingalwara, a home for sick and destitute in Amritsar. Rajewal runs a school in his memory.”
Commenting on the CM faces of other parties, he says that the people of Punjab know who fought for them at the borders of Delhi. “Lokan nu pata hai ohna di ladaai Dilli jaake kiney ladi hai..,” says Rajewal, as his customized poll song ‘ikk jung jitt layi, dujji jung jaari hai, tagdey hojo Punjabiyon apni baari hai. Na takdi, na jhaaru, na panjey de nishaan nu, iss vaari vote hai pauni kisaan nu, is vaari vote hai puani Bapu Rajewal nu…’ plays in the background.
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That’s a somewhat complicated headline for this.
A new Texas law that keeps local election officials from encouraging voters to request mail-in ballots likely violates the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled late Friday.
Following a testy three-hour hearing earlier in the day, Federal District Judge Xavier Rodriguez temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the rule against Harris County’s election administrator until the rest of a lawsuit plays out. Although the scope of Rodriguez’s preliminary injunction is limited, the judge dealt the first legal blow to new elections restrictions and voting changes Republican lawmakers enacted last year.
The injunction applies to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and local county prosecutors in Harris, Travis and Williamson counties.
The state is expected to quickly appeal the ruling. The lawsuit was brought by Harris County election administrator Isabel Longoria and Cathy Morgan, a volunteer deputy registrar who is appointed to help register voters in Travis and Williamson counties.
Feb. 18 is the last day for counties to receive applications for mail-in ballots for the March 1 primary.
Rodriguez previewed his order throughout a Friday morning hearing during which he repeatedly pressed the state’s attorneys — with increasing exasperation — to fill in what he cataloged as ambiguities in the new law. The challenged provision makes it a state jail felony for election officials to “solicit the submission” of an application to vote by mail if the voter did not request it.
Rodriguez took particular issue with the lack of a clear definition for what constitutes soliciting when talking to voters, even those 65 and older who automatically qualify to vote by mail under the state’s strict rules.
“It has a chilling effect,” Rodriguez said while questioning a state attorney Friday morning. “They don’t know when they’re going to run afoul of this vague [law].”
His comments followed testimony from Longoria and Morgan, who said they feared the civil and criminal penalties that could come from violating the broad prohibition.
Longoria said her office was now taking a “passive” approach to voter outreach in regard to voting by mail, with staffers “gingerly” weighing their words while answering voters’ questions about their options.
“When it comes to voting by mail, I have to be very careful with my words,” Longoria said from the witness stand. “I stop mid-sentence sometimes at town halls. … I’m tentative to overreach at the moment.”
Morgan testified that she was concerned the law applied even to volunteers like her, given that her role is formally certified by county election offices. She offered examples of voters she no longer felt she could help navigate the vote-by-mail process. That included an 88-year-old voter whom Morgan would typically call at the start of every year to remind her that she has to reapply for mail-in ballots.
State attorneys said that the law did not apply to volunteers like Morgan and argued the government can prohibit interactions between local election officials and voters without running afoul of the First Amendment.
[…]
And even the state’s witness — Keith Ingram, the Texas secretary of state’s director of elections — indicated the threat of prosecution loomed over election officials. While Ingram was on the stand, Rodriguez presented him with hypothetical interactions between Longoria and voters, asking if she could recommend voting by mail to someone who appeared to qualify.
“I would be very careful about that,” Ingram responded. “You wouldn’t want to recommend” voting by mail as an option “because you’d be worried about prosecution,” he said.
Throughout the hearing, Rodriguez also pressed for the reasoning behind the anti-solicitation provision, interrupting the state’s questioning of Ingram in search of an answer. Ingram said he didn’t know the purpose of the provision.
Eventually, Will Thompson of the Texas attorney general’s office told Rodriguez that the provision was meant to limit “official encouragement” of voting by mail, indicating the state preferred people vote in person even if they qualify to vote by mail.
“We’re not taking the position that the Legislature is opposed to voting by mail,” Thompson said. “That doesn’t mean the Legislature wants resources to be used toward nudging people toward voting by mail.”
See here for the background, and here for a copy of the ruling. The Statesman has a couple of key bits from the ruling:
In his order, Rodriguez rejected Paxton’s argument that the solicitation ban targets government speech, which isn’t protected by the First Amendment because the state is allowed to regulate how public employees perform official duties.
But, the judge noted, Longoria and Morgan do not work for the state. Longoria is employed by Harris County, and Morgan is a volunteer registrar.
Rodriguez also rejected Paxton’s claim that granting the injunction would interfere with the orderly operation of Texas elections. The judge said his order does not affect any voting procedures, change the vote-by-mail process or affect voting deadlines or eligibility.
“Nor does it require that election officials start soliciting applications to vote by mail — it simply prevents the imposition of criminal and civil penalties against officials for encouraging people to vote by mail if they are eligible to do so,” Rodriguez wrote.
None of that will stop the Fifth Circuit from doing what the Republicans ask them to do since that’s what they believe their job is, but at least he tried. For anyone who thinks that it’s hysterical to imagine Longoria or Morgan being prosecuted for these actions, Rob Icsezen and Dana DeBeauvoir would like to have a word with you.
Reporter Edward McKinley and plaintiffs’ attorney Sean Morales-Doyle have good Twitter threads with more details, so go check them out. The main argument was that this provision of SB1 criminalizes speech on the basis of its content and the viewpoint expressed, since Longoria could talk all day about not voting by mail but risked arrest if she said the opposite. This is a preliminary injunction, and whether it survives the Fifth Circuit or not there will be a trial on the merits later this year, and you can bank on it going all the way to SCOTUS. The Supreme Court is occasionally solicitous of the First Amendment, if it approves of the speech in question, so who knows what they might do. In the meantime, we have a small victory, for now, against SB1. There will be a lot more litigation over the rest of that law to come. The Chron has more.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
2-3-2-3
(two, three, two, three)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
2-3-2-3
(two, three, two, three)
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https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Day-game-16915158.php
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During her roadshow in Zirakpur on Sunday, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi asked people to give Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Charanjit Singh Channi another chance. Gandhi, while campaigning for party candidate Deepinder Singh Dhillon, said that the Channi had done a lot of work during his tenure.
While speaking to the media, she said they made the changes in the state government when they found the need for it.
“After the change, Channi was made the CM. He has done great work in his tenure of 111 days. We feel that no government in the country has done such good work in the same period. People must give him another chance and the development shall be carried out in the state for the next five years,” she said.
She also said that the Congress party has the experience to run the governments and knows how to bring the development. Gandhi further said that the Delhi and Gujarat models are failures and that Arvind Kejriwal is the ‘B’ team of BJP.
“Both Delhi and Gujarat models were created to misguide the people. These models are limited to posters and advertisements,” she said.
She also said that the ‘Hijab’ controversy in Karnataka was created to polarize voters and create a divide in the country.
The roadshow started from Zirakpur-Patiala road and ended at Zirakpur-Ambala highway. Hundreds of Congress workers also welcomed the Congress leader with balloons and party flags at various locations during the roadshow.
The party workers welcomed Priyanka Gandhi by presenting her a Phulkari, a traditional Punjabi attire. She was accompanied by Congress Derabassi candidate Deepinder Dhillon and Haryana senior Congress leader Deepinder Singh Hooda.
A heavy traffic jam was also witnessed on the VIP road where the roadshow was to be carried out.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-1-7-4
(three, one, seven, four)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-1-7-4
(three, one, seven, four)
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https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-16915138.php
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Why people should vote for you?
CM candidates of all other parties – Charanjit Channi, Bhagwant Mann, Sukhbir Badal – are all tried and tested by the people, but this is my first time. Main taan lokan dey kehan tey aaya haan (I have joined politics only on people’s request), otherwise my age or health does not allow. I am on a mission, else Punjab won’t be saved.
SSM was in talks with AAP for an alliance. What went wrong?
I feel pity for (Bhagwant) Mann because their campaign posters say ‘Ikk Mauka Kejriwal nu’. Mann is nowhere. He has been pitched to befool voters for some days. Ultimately Kejriwal will say he wants to lead. AAP misled people using our name. I never said that I wanted to join AAP or become CM, but they used my name and defamed me. They launched a whispering campaign to gain political mileage, by saying that I will be their CM candidate, a face all will be proud of. It was their calculated move.
You claimed that SSM has proof of AAP selling tickets.
Yes, we have evidence and we will make it public four days ahead of polls. I gave the evidence to AAP but Kejriwal told media that it just had ‘aam baatein’ (regular talks). Of course, he can’t say those proofs are against AAP because otherwise his whole campaign will be derailed. We will make those proofs public at the right time.
People of Punjab know you as a farm union leader. How will you manage politics?
For five decades, apart from being a farmer, I have also worked for the public welfare. I got around a hundred women from underprivileged families married. I was the first to launch a drive against drugs in Punjab when synthetic drugs were not in picture. My idol is philanthropist Bhagat Puran Singh and I run a school in his memory. At the Malwa College Samrala, we also run the largest library.
What was your past political affiliation?
I never joined any political party but as an organisation, we kept supporting different parties such as SAD-BJP, Congress and even AAP. We always tried to choose the lesser evil. I was said to be very close to former CMs Parkash Singh Badal and Captain Amarinder Singh because I always took people’s problems to them and since I always had logic, they listened to me. Not because I was close to them but because my demands had reason. We have solved many issues as per law.
Why should people vote for SSM candidates?
I do not think there will be any urban and rural divide in Punjab when people will vote. SSM has given tickets to industrialists, traders and Scs, all of them are qualified and want to do sewa. Other parties have given tickets to incapable people after taking money.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-2-5, WB: 7
(three, two, five; WB: seven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-2-5, WB: 7
(three, two, five; WB: seven)
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https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Day-game-16915066.php
| 2022-02-13T20:56:33
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Tough times call for tough decisions. And there can’t be tougher times than these assembly polls. This is why Akali Dal’s Patiala urban candidate Harpal Juneja decided to lob off a complete month from the calendar he is distributing among his constituents. To make room for his larger-than-life image, the printers have eliminated the month of September. Pher ki hoya, said his workers. If Baiji wins, he will get another one commissioned. September, please wait.
Manpreet and the Arjun tea stall
Finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, who is contesting from Bathinda urban, has an unusual connection with Arjun tea stall at the Tinkoni chowk. No matter how hectic his days, he makes it a point to land up at the stall every few days. And he makes sure he posts a picture whenever he is sipping his favourite cuppa with flaky mathhis. The other day he even celebrated the birthday of one of his supporters by cutting a cake at the stall. Now this is what we call tea diplomacy.
Sarbat da bhala?
If there is one term from gurbani that resonates across the length and breadth of Punjab, it is ‘sarbat da bhala (the welfare of everyone)’. Be it the Congress, AAP, BJP or the Akali Dal, each one of them is seeking votes on the plea that they are in the poll battlefield for universal good. It’s another matter that none of them has any love lost for each other. This benevolent feeling is limited to voters. So lucky, aren’t we?
Shah sups at Bharawan Da Dhaba
After a hectic day rallying voters to press the button on lotus in Punjab, Union Home minister Amit Shah took a well-earned break with a hearty meal at Amritsar’s famous ‘Bharawan Da Dhaba’ alongside union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and other senior leaders on Sunday. Who says campaigning is not fun!
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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| 2022-02-13T20:56:38
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-6-6-6, WB: 4
(eight, six, six, six; WB: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-6-6-6, WB: 4
(eight, six, six, six; WB: four)
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https://www.chron.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-16915065.php
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The first look at Jordan Peele’s Nope, his third feature film after Get Out and Us, arrived on Sunday, in advance of the 56th Super Bowl. In addition to Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun, who were already announced to be in the project, cinephiles took delight in seeing Sallie Gardner, also known as “The Horse In Motion,” as photographed by Eadweard Muybridge using a zoöpraxiscope in 1878. Many scholars call the first motion picture ever made.
And Palmer’s character claims to be a direct descendant of the man riding Sallie, using this as a selling point for the Hollywood horse ranch she runs with Kaluuya’s character. ("Since the moment pictures could move, we've had skin in the game!” she says with a smile.) We then cut to images of life on the ranch interrupted by dark clouds, bright lights, and frightened animals.
And that, really, is all we know about the plot of Nope, thus making it the best kind of trailer—one that intrigues but does not spoil.
Also in the mix, those flapping parachute-material dancers you see outside used car dealers, Stevie Wonder’s recording of “Fingertips” from the Regal Theater in Chicago in 1962, and, curiously terrifying, titles that unexpectedly scroll over a static shot, evocative of Stanley Kubrick’s trailer for The Shining. (Peele puts a little spin on this, though, which may inspire years of detailed analysis, who knows.)
Launching the trailer on social media, Peele quoted one of Kaluuya’s mysterious lines “what’s a bad miracle?” The film will be in theaters July 22.
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Other movie trailers we might see before the end of the “big game” include Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Pixar’s Toy Story spinoff Lightyear, Marvel’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (since this has already been revealed, essentially, as a post-credits tag in Spider-Man: No Way Home), Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, and Channing Tatum in The Lost City, and a new one for Top Gun: Maverick.
Jurassic World Dominion's promo already hit the internet a few days ago, but will likely make a return appearance.
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Parvinder Singh Sohana, the joint candidate of Shiromani Akali Dal and Bahujan Samaj Party from Mohali, accused Congress’ Balbir Singh Sidhu of nepotism. He alleged that Sidhu had encouraged corruption as the Health Minister, which was the reason behind his removal from the post of minister.
Sohana also alleged that Sidhu had wasted taxpayers’ money and did not develop the Mohali constituency. He added that there is massive corruption in the development works in Mohali. Accusing Sidhu of nepotism, Sohana said that the former minister had done nothing for the welfare of the people but worked only for himself and his family.
“Sidhu had grabbed ten acres of valuable land in Balongi at Gaushala. Similarly, he also grabbed Shamlat lands of different villages. He (Sidhu) made his brother Amarjit Singh Sidhu a cooperative bank chairman as well as the mayor of Mohali City. He also made his son the president of the district youth congress,” Sohana said.
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| 2022-02-13T20:56:44
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