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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Three men have been charged for illegally trafficking guns in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the charges against 24-year-old Bryan Johnson, 21-year-old Dajuan Coffee and 23-year-old Quadir Burley on Friday.
Authorities say Johnson, who at the time had no criminal record, purchased 19 different firearms across Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and Lehigh counties.
According to investigators, he transferred the weapons to Coffee and Burley, who then trafficked them to others.
Both Coffey and Burley were not legally able to purchase guns.
"The majority of these straw purchases were made at gun dealers with electronic records of sale, making it easier for law enforcement to track straw purchasers and trace crime guns thanks to our Track + Trace Initiative," Shapiro said in a statement.
All three men are being held on $1 million bail.
3 men charged with trafficking guns in Philadelphia
Authorities say one of the men bought guns for the other two, who were not legally able to purchase firearms.
GUNS
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SAN DIEGO (AP)Chet Holmgren had 23 points and 12 rebounds to lead No. 2 Gonzaga past San Diego 92-62 on Thursday night for its 11th straight victory.
Drew Timme added 13 points and eight rebounds as six Bulldogs scored in double figures. Andrew Nembhard had 14 points and seven assists.
Gonzaga (18-2, 7-0 West Coast Conference) has won its last 25 league games by double digits – and by an average of more than 24 points.
”This team is recognizing what all these different approaches were,” Bulldogs coach Mark Few said. ”That’s probably what I’m most excited about, just their ability to read and react.”
Jace Townsend scored 13 points off the bench for the Toreros.
San Diego (13-10, 6-4), which entered third in the WCC standings, hung around for the first seven minutes before fading. The Toreros looked sharp early and tied the game 12-all on a 3-pointer. But the Zags outscored them 26-12 the rest of the half to take a 38-24 lead into the break.
In the first 10 minutes of the second half, the Toreros couldn’t chip away at the deficit against the deeper Bulldogs. Every time USD made a mini-run, Gonzaga answered with a timely 3-pointer, fast break or slashing bucket in the lane to stunt USD’s momentum.
The 7-foot Holmgren buried a 3 from the top of the key with 7:05 left to give Gonzaga a 75-50 advantage.
”He broke the game open,” San Diego coach Sam Scholl said. ”He is just very, very skilled. He has a tremendous feel. He is physical. He is not afraid to bang.”
The star freshman also had four blocks, and his height gave the Toreros problems inside.
”He is always a presence around the rim on defense. He does a good job of gauging what is going on and adjusting his defense,” Few said. ”I think after that they really had problems scoring over him.”
The Bulldogs shot 57% from the field compared to 35% for USD.
”We talked about how disciplined we were going to have to be to not beat ourselves. We had too many momentary pauses,” Scholl said. ”They are just a very talented passing team. They really do a great job of finding the open guy and delivering a strike so that guy can make a play.”
Gonzaga, to no surprise, had a huge advantage in points in the paint (48-22) and rebounds (45-21).
”Gonzaga challenges you and tests your mental discipline,” Scholl said. ”When you play the best team in the country you have to be that good and that disciplined.”
BIG PICTURE
Gonzaga: Has won 28 consecutive conference games and nine straight true road games, both the longest active streaks of their kind in the nation. The Bulldogs have won 70 of their last 74 games overall.
San Diego: It was the 100th meeting between the schools. Gonzaga holds a 78-22 record, including 15 straight wins. The last victory by the Toreros over the Bulldogs was 69-66 in San Diego on Feb. 22, 2014.
UP NEXT
Gonzaga: Plays at BYU on Saturday night.
San Diego: Will host Santa Clara on Saturday afternoon.
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The video above is from a previous story.
On Thursday, McIngvale drove across the Texas border into Louisiana, pulled over at a gas station, logged onto his mobile betting account with Caesars Sportsbook and placed $4.5 million in bets on the underdog Cincinnati Bengals at +170 odds to upset the favored Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI. If the Bengals spring the upset, the bet would net $7.7 million.
"I had to make like 20 $200,000 bets to make it work," McIngvale told ESPN on Thursday night. "But I want to thank Caesars for taking it."
The Return of the Mack for the Super Bowl‼️@MattressMack just wagered $4,534,000 on the #CaesarsSportsbook app in Louisiana on the Bengals (+170) to win over the Rams.
— Caesars Sportsbook (@CaesarsSports) February 4, 2022
Potential win: $7,707,800
This marks the single biggest mobile wager of all-time 👀#BetLikeACaesar pic.twitter.com/pBJjtU9x49
Caesars Sportsbook said it was the second-largest bet the company has ever taken on the Super Bowl, eclipsing a $4.9 million money-line bet at -900 odds on the heavily favored St. Louis Rams to beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI. The Patriots won 20-17.
"The Joe Burrow magic is pulling fans in, especially in Louisiana with his college roots," Ken Fuchs, head of sports at Caesars Sportsbook, said in a release. "With this $4.5 million bet on Joe and the Bengals, Mack will make history again."
McIngvale often uses the sports betting market to mitigate his risk on furniture giveaways. For example, this past baseball season, he spread around $13 million in bets on the Houston Astros to win the World Series, while offering to refund anyone who spent more than $3,000 in furniture at his store. The Astros lost in the World Series. He said he'll be doing so again on his bet on the Bengals, refunding anyone who spends $3,000 on furniture if Cincinnati wins the Super Bowl.
McIngvale bet $3.46 million on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers +3.5 on last year's Super Bowl as part of a promotional giveaway at his store. The Buccaneers delivered with a convincing upset of the Kansas City Chiefs, but McIngvale's been on a cold streak recently. He lost $4.7 million in a week betting on football in January, highlighted by a $2.7 million money-line bet on Alabama in the national championship game, which Georgia won. The following week, McIngvale saw $2 million in futures bets he placed on the Patriots to win the Super Bowl go up in flames with a 47-17 loss to the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the playoffs.
"I've always said that a setback is just a setup for a comeback," McIngvale said.
Bengals fans are hoping he's right.
READ UP ON OTHER BETS MATTRESS MACK HAS PLACED OVER THE YEARS:
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Mattress Mack bets $150K in Las Vegas on Astros title win
Mattress Mack loses at least $11.6 million in Astros bets
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LOGAN, Utah (AP)Brandon Horvath had 19 points and 11 rebounds as Utah State beat San Jose State 78-62 on Thursday night. Justin Bean added 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Aggies.
RJ Eytle-Rock had 11 points for Utah State (14-9, 5-5 Mountain West Conference), which won its fourth straight game.
Trey Smith had 14 points for the Spartans (7-14, 0-9), who have now lost nine games in a row. Myron Amey Jr. added 11 points. Omari Moore had 10 points and six assists.
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Judge Wendy Beetlestone listened on Friday as lawyers battled over whether the school board's decision in December to abandon the universal mask policy violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Outside of the courthouse, parents and students who are opposed to the mask requirement quietly protested. Many sat quietly in the courtroom to observe.
"My son is in first grade and the masks have severely affected his face ... it caused such a rash," said parent Heather Hoy.
"I feel like it makes it more difficult to learn," said junior Nate Fisher. "I have a little claustrophobia and when it covers my mouth and nose I get anxiety."
In December the school board's 5-4 vote eliminated a mask requirement for the K-12 district and instead made masking option.
But, in late January, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to reinstate the mask requirement until February 8.
It spurred a brief walkout of some students at the Perkiomen Valley High School the next day.
Lawyers representing a group of parents and students - who are remaining anonymous - filed a lawsuit stating that the elimination of the universal masking requirement violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability, for immunocompromised students.
Both sides argued over whether the options for immunocompromised students are fair.
Superintendent Barbara Russell testified for several hours about the school's health and safety plans, including mitigation efforts, and discusses the school's zero transmission rate this year.
Both parties agree in-person learning is necessary.
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP)KJ Hunt had a career-high 32 points as Denver narrowly defeated North Dakota 81-79 in overtime on Thursday night.
Coban Porter hit jumper with 1:52 to play gave the Pioneers the lead for good and neither team scored again until Hunt made two free throws to make it 79-75 with 27 seconds remaining.
Hunt finished a layup through contact and made the and-1 free throw and, after Bentiu Panoam hit 1-of-2 free throws for North Dakota, made a layup with 14 seconds left in regulation to make it 70-all and eventually force overtime.
Jordan Johnson had 12 points for Denver (9-16, 5-7 Summit League). Touko Tainamo added seven rebounds. Porter finished with seven points on 2-of-12 shooting and six rebounds.
Paul Bruns had 22 points for the Fighting Hawks (4-20, 0-11), whose losing streak stretched to 12 games. Brady Danielson added 11 points. Matt Norman had six rebounds.
Denver also beat North Dakota 93-74 on Jan. 8.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The district attorneys for Philadelphia and Allegheny County have lost a round in their legal challenge of the $26 billion national opioid settlement, with a Pennsylvania appeals court ruling Friday that their suit against the state attorney general was premature.
The prosecutors want the right to continue with their own lawsuits against the drug industry, saying the national settlement would pay their communities only a fraction of the money needed to cover the epidemic's financial toll. They had asked the court to rule that Attorney General Josh Shapiro has no authority to bind them to the settlement.
A Commonwealth Court judge ruled Friday that because the national settlement has yet to be finalized, the prosecutors' challenge cannot be heard.
"Unless and until" the agreement is ratified and affects "the DAs' rights in a substantial and concrete manner, any opinion that this court would issue at this stage of the proceedings would be an impermissible advisory opinion," said the ruling by Judge Michael Wojcik.
Last year, drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and the three largest U.S. drug distribution companies announced the $26 billion settlement with state and local governments to resolve thousands of state and local government lawsuits. An overwhelming majority of governments have signed on. The defendants have until Feb. 25 to back out before the agreement is finalized.
In Pennsylvania, Shapiro announced last week that as of the Jan. 26 deadline to sign on, all 67 counties had decided to join the settlement. He said Pennsylvania is slated to receive about $1 billion.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who is pursuing his own, potentially more lucrative, ligation against the opioid industry, vowed to continue the legal fight.
"These attorneys general have basically committed that they will work with Big Opioids against lawsuits to get more money," Krasner said Friday. "It is a fundamental sellout of places like Allegheny County, Philadelphia County, where we have an astronomical number people dying of fatal overdoses every single year."
Shapiro, who has accused Krasner of misrepresenting the national settlement, said it would jump-start funding for treatment in communities ravaged by the epidemic.
"Misguided attempts to delay the help our communities need will fail. If anyone tries to interfere with the decision each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties made to join the settlement, including the decision by the City of Philadelphia and Allegheny County, we will not hesitate to respond," Shapiro said in a written statement.
A message was sent to the office of Allegheny County DA Stephen Zappala Jr. seeking comment.
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh DAs lose round in opioid settlement suit
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP)Graham Ike had 33 points and 10 rebounds as Wyoming won its 10th consecutive home game, beating Boise State 72-65 on Thursday night.
Hunter Maldonado had 16 points and seven assists for Wyoming (18-3, 7-1 Mountain West Conference). Jeremiah Oden added 13 points. Drake Jeffries had 5 points and 10 rebounds.
Abu Kigab had 26 points for the Broncos (17-5, 8-1), whose 14-game winning streak was snapped. Tyson Degenhart added 13 points.
The Cowboys avenged a 65-62 loss to Boise State on Jan. 25.
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CHICAGO (AP)Kevin Johnson had 18 points as Illinois-Chicago turned back Robert Morris 80-75 on Thursday night.
Damaria Franklin added 16 points and eight rebounds for the Flames (8-12, 4-7 Horizon League), who ended a four-game skid. Jalen Warren totaled 15 points and Zion Griffin scored 14.
Kahliel Spear had 23 points and 13 rebounds to pace the Colonials (5-17, 3-10). Justin Winston added 19 points. Michael Green III had 16 points.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)Chase Johnston registered 18 points as Stetson topped Lipscomb 77-71 on Thursday night.
Christiaan Jones had 14 points and eight rebounds for Stetson (10-12, 4-5 Atlantic Sun Conference). Josh Smith added 10 points and nine rebounds.
Will Pruitt scored a career-high 22 points and had six rebounds for the Bisons (10-14, 3-6). Ahsan Asadullah added 13 points, 13 rebounds and six assists. Trae Benham had 12 points.
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| 2022-02-04T22:56:24
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MIAMI (AP)Denver Jones had a season-high 23 points as Florida International defeated Southern Miss 77-67 on Thursday night.
Jones hit all seven of his shots from 3-point range for the Panthers (13-9, 3-6 Conference USA), who won for a fifth straight time at home. Eric Lovett had 14 points. Tevin Brewer added 13 points and 10 assists.
Jaron Pierre Jr. had 21 points for the Golden Eagles (6-15, 1-7), who have now lost four games in a row. Tyler Stevenson added 21 points and 10 rebounds.
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| 2022-02-04T22:56:32
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)Camron Justice scored 22 points as Western Kentucky got past Charlotte 78-59 on Thursday night. Josh Anderson added 20 points for the Hilltoppers.
Anderson also had eight rebounds and five steals.
Dayvion McKnight had 14 points for Western Kentucky (11-11, 3-6 Conference USA), which snapped its five-game losing streak. Luke Frampton added 11 points.
Jahmir Young had 17 points for the 49ers (11-9, 4-4). Austin Butler added 14 points. Robert Braswell IV had 13 points.
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| 2022-02-04T22:56:39
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Downtown Redding's Market Center lands trendy fashion boutique as first retail tenant
Downtown Redding redevelopment has taken another big step with the announcement of the first retail tenant coming to Market Center.
Apricot Lane Boutique will occupy the corner spot at Butte and Market streets next to the steam whistle.
"We've been looking forward to opening our boutique in Redding and specifically wanted to be downtown," co-owner Kassandra Warner said in a news release.
Realtor Chris Haedrich, of Haedrich & Co., said the boutique should open early this summer and will occupy 1,500 square feet.
Apricot Lane has locations across the country, including five in California. Vacaville and Folsom are among its locations in the Golden State.
With Apricot Lane taking up 1,500 square feet, about 20,500 square feet will be left in that portion of Market Center.
Based on discussions Haedrich and Market Street Development managing partners Allen Knott and Daniel Knott have had with prospective tenants, the plan would be to subdivide the remaining space into 11 suites.
Haedrich said they have been talking to restaurants, coffee shops and other boutiques.
"We are pretty close on four tenants and we hope to announce something in the next 35 to 40 days," he said.
Market Center is a mixed-use building that opened in late 2020. There are apartments on the top three floors and commercial and retail space on the bottom floor.
The four-story Market Center building is a $42 million project that triggered the Downtown Streets Circulation project, which reopened Market Street from Tehama to Yuba streets to vehicular traffic.
David Benda covers business, development and anything else that comes up for the USA TODAY Network in Redding. He also writes the weekly "Buzz on the Street" column. He’s part of a team of dedicated reporters that investigate wrongdoing, cover breaking news and tell other stories about your community. Reach him on Twitter @DavidBenda_RS or by phone at 1-530-225-8219. To support and sustain this work, please subscribe today.
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP)C.J. Keyser had 19 points as Old Dominion topped Marshall 79-64 on Thursday night.
Kalu Ezikpe added 18 points, Austin Trice had 17 points and 18 rebounds and Jaylin Hunter had nine assists for Old Dominion (9-12, 4-4 Conference USA).
Obinna Anochili-Killen had 15 points and eight rebounds for the Thundering Herd (8-14, 1-8). Mikel Beyers added 13 points and Andrew Taylor had 12 points and seven assists.
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| 2022-02-04T22:56:46
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EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP)Dakota Leffew came off the bench to score 15 points to carry Mount St. Mary’s to a 69-53 win over Merrimack on Thursday night.
Malik Jefferson had 12 points and 12 rebounds for Mount St. Mary’s (11-10, 7-2 Northeast Conference), which earned its sixth straight win. Nana Opoku added 12 points and nine rebounds, and Jalen Benjamin had six assists.
Ziggy Reid had 16 points for the Warriors (8-14, 3-6), whose losing streak reached six games. Jordan Minor added 14 rebounds.
The Mountaineers improve to 2-0 against the Warriors on the season. Mount St. Mary’s defeated Merrimack 57-50 on Jan. 17.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP)Alijah Martin scored 21 points as Florida Atlantic stretched its home win streak to eight games, getting past Louisiana Tech 83-73 on Thursday night.
Michael Forrest added 20 points and had had seven rebounds for for Florida Atlantic (13-9, 6-3 Conference USA). Bryan Greenlee had 19 points Vladislav Goldin added 10 points and three blocks.
David Green had 18 points for the Bulldogs (16-6, 7-3). Kenneth Lofton Jr. added 16 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Cobe Williams had 13 points.
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NEWARK, Del. (AP)Melik Martin had 21 points as Drexel topped Delaware 76-68 on Thursday night.
Camren Wynter had 17 points for Drexel (10-10, 5-5 Colonial Athletic Association). Xavier Bell added 15 points. Amari Williams had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Drexel totaled 45 first-half points, a season high for the team.
Andrew Carr scored a career-high 21 points and had 12 rebounds for the Blue Hens (15-8, 6-4). Jameer Nelson Jr. added 13 points, nine rebounds and six assists. Jyare Davis had 12 points.
The Dragons leveled the season series against the Blue Hens. Delaware defeated Drexel 81-77 on Jan. 11.
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Chen, US lead team figure skating
BEIJING (AP) — It was supposed to be a foregone conclusion that Russia’s powerful stable of figure skaters, including world champions in three of the four disciplines, would run away with the team gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Nathan Chen and the rest of the Americans must have taken exception.
The three-time world champ’s winning short program set the tone for Team USA on Friday, and everyone else followed suit. Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue won the rhythm dance with a season-best score, and Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier capped the first of three days of team competition with a personal-best short program.
That left the Americans with 28 points, two ahead of the Russians and seven ahead of third-place China.
“We can walk away with a medal for sure. What color? It’s hard to say,” Chen said. “But I have faith in my teammates, and I know they’re going to do the best they can do.”
In fact, the only discipline they didn’t win was pairs. Knierim and Frazier were third behind China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who set a world record with their short program, and Russians Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov.
“I’m so proud of us,” said Knierim, who helped the U.S. win team bronze four years ago in Pyeongchang. “I mean, there was a lot of push-down pressure within us. We just tried to ignore it, and we just rose to the occasion.”
There is still plenty of work to do for the Americans to climb the podium this time around.
The team event takes a break Saturday before the women’s short program Sunday, where the Russians will again be the favorites. After that, the top-five scoring nations advance to the free skates, with the medals decided Monday night.
Chen struggled to a fourth-place finish with his short program in the team event in Pyeongchang, and the dismal start to his Olympic debut four years ago carried right into the men’s event. His short program there was so strewn with mistakes that not even his brilliant free skate could land him on the podium.
Perhaps his flawless start in Beijing will send him in the other direction.
Performing to Charles Aznavour’s song “La Bohème,” Chen opened with a massive quad toe loop and landed the triple axel that often gives him problems. By the time he landed his quad salchow-triple toe loop combination, his technical mark was so far ahead of the field that first place was just about assured.
Chen received 111.71 points, a mark that would have won the men’s short program in Pyeongchang, and one that put him well clear of reigning Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno of Japan on Friday.
“Even if someone doesn’t have the best skate, we have an incredibly strong team to back us all up,” Chen said. “That’s certainly the case this time around. I’m happy I did my part and skated as good as I can.”
Oh, did he ever have someone backing him up.
After a disappointing showing of their short program at nationals, Hubbell and Donohue were perfectly in sync for the Americans on skating’s biggest stage, scoring a season-best 86.56 points for their Janet Jackson medley.
“It’s always better to give a great performance and to leave that impression with the judges,” Hubbell said, “but we also know that everything is dependent on how you perform each day and each time you step on the ice.”
World champions Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov were the last ice dance duo to skate, but their program began to go awry during their twizzles. It briefly fell apart when Katsalapov stumbled during their midline step sequence, a mistake that left them in second place with 86.06 points.
“We are very confident,” Katsalapov insisted afterward, “because we have the strongest team.”
Perhaps. But not on Friday.
Knierim and Frazier punctuated a big day for the Americans. From their opening triple twist lift to their often troublesome triple toe loop, they made everything look easy just weeks after Frazier’s positive COVID-19 test forced them to withdraw from nationals.
Meanwhile, Germany and Ukraine had their chances of advancing dashed before they even stepped on the ice.
Nolan Seegert tested positive upon his arrival in Beijing, forcing him and pairs partner Minerva Fabienne Hase to withdraw from the team event. Ukrainian skater Ivan Shmuratko also tested positive and had to withdraw.
The two nations did not have a backup for their disciplines, so they received no points in the team event.
“Nolan is so far symptom-free,” said Hase, who was released from quarantine after testing negative. “Of course it was a shock for me as well. We were careful. I struggle a bit right now. I will try to get back on track in the next days.”
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JONESBORO, Ark. (AP)Andre Jones matched his season high with 21 points and Nika Metskhvarishvili made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 16.6 seconds left as Louisiana-Monroe beat Arkansas State 60-59 on Thursday night.
Koreem Ozier had 14 points and nine rebounds for ULM (11-12, 3-8 Sun Belt Conference), which snapped its four-game losing streak. Metskhvarishvili finished with five points.
Norchad Omier had 23 points and 26 rebounds for the Red Wolves (14-6, 5-3). Keyon Wesley added 14 points and Marquis Eaton had eight assists.
The Warhawks leveled the season series against the Red Wolves. Arkansas State defeated ULM 90-83 on Jan. 8.
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Corinth CSD talks remote learning vs. snow day Friday
CORINTH, N.Y. (NEWS10)- Other school districts in the Capital Region took Thursday/Friday’s winter storm to give kids a traditional snow day, but not Corinth Central School District. They held a remote learning day Friday.
Corinth Central School District Superintendent Mark Stratton told NEWS10 the school district has been part of a pilot program from the State Education Department to hold remote learning days in lieu of traditional snow days for a couple of years.
“Our district is always focused on academic achievement, and this was a perfect way to continue instruction when students could not attend school,” Stratton said. “We also feel it is beneficial for our student’s social and emotional wellbeing to remain connected with their teachers as much as possible.”
The added benefit is that the district won’t have to take days away from any scheduled breaks. Up to five days can be taken for “extraordinary conditions” including winter weather according to the New York State Education Department.
Not all Corinth School District families are happy about the district deciding to hold virtual school days instead of snow days. “We have had some families express concerns that their children need and deserve a traditional snow day without the pressure of virtual learning. Others have pointed out that it’s more difficult for our younger learners,” Superintendent Stratton said.
“We love our community and will continue to listen to their feedback as we make a decision regarding virtual instruction for future snow days,” he added.
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP)Alex Morales had 11 points and six rebounds as Wagner won its 12th consecutive game, holding off Central Connecticut 54-52 on Thursday night.
DeLonnie Hunt had 10 points for Wagner (15-2, 9-0 Northeast Conference). Ja’Mier Fletcher added seven rebounds.
Wagner totaled 16 second-half points, a season low for the team.
Andre Snoddy had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Blue Devils (5-18, 2-8). Joe Ostrowsky added 10 points and Stephane Ayangma had 13 rebounds.
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COVID at-home test kits available to Clifton Park residents
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Town Supervisor Phil Barrett has received an additional supply of Covid-19 at-home test kits for public distribution until supplies are exhausted. Kits will be available for pick up at the Clifton Park Town Hall, supervisor’s office Monday through Friday 9 a.m. -5 p.m.
Officials said because of limited quantities, it is important that residents have identification available to confirm their address. Officials will continue to assist residents with test kits, as further supplies become available. The goal they say, is to get the kits to as many households as possible.
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BOSTON (AP)Vado Morse had 25 points as James Madison narrowly beat Northeastern 76-71 on Thursday night.
Charles Falden had 11 points for James Madison (13-7, 4-5 Colonial Athletic Association). Terrence Edwards added 10 points. Tyree Ihenacho had seven rebounds.
Nikola Djogo scored a career-high 24 points and had seven rebounds for the Huskies (6-16, 0-11), who have now lost 12 straight games. Chris Doherty added 17 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks. Jahmyl Telfort had 10 points.
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Man charged with sex abuse, unlawful surveillance in Saratoga County
CORINTH, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A Saranac Lake man has been arrested on sexual abuse charges. The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office said Joshua Duchano, 39, was arrested on February 1.
Police said Duchano is accused of having sexual contact with a person who was known to him. He is also accused of recording the events. The sexual contact allegedly happened between June 2021 and November 2021.
Charges
- Sexual abuse in the first degree (felony)
- Unlawful surveillance in the second degree (felony)
Duchano was arraigned in the Corinth Town Court and released to pre-trial services. He is scheduled to appear back in court on a later date.
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The 11th-ranked Wisconsin Badgers hope the home-court rims will be more shooter-friendly when they host Penn State in a Big Ten matchup on Saturday.
Wisconsin (17-4, 8-3 Big Ten) hit just 3 of 24 attempts from 3-point range in an 80-67 loss at No. 18 Illinois during a battle of conference leaders on Wednesday. The defeat dropped the Badgers into a third-place tie with Purdue, a half-game behind Michigan State.
“We’ve got to knock down some shots,” Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said. “A fair amount. I mean, it doesn’t have to be astronomical, but you can’t be 3-for-24.”
Penn State (9-9, 4-6) snapped a three-game skid with a wild, 90-86 double-overtime victory at home over Iowa on Monday. The Hawkeyes tied it on a tip-in at the buzzer in regulation, and the Nittany Lions’ leveled the score in the final seconds of the first OT with a 3-pointer.
Wisconsin has won 20 straight at home against Penn State.
Against Illinois, the Badgers also had no answer on the defensive end for Kofi Cockburn, who dominated inside with 37 points and 12 rebounds, making 16 of 19 shots.
“I think you just move on to the next game,” Gard said. “You can’t dwell on what didn’t go well. We have to get ready for a Penn State team that’s playing pretty well right now on Saturday.”
Wisconsin’s leading scorer, Johnny Davis, had 22 points and 15 rebounds against the Illini, but he made just 5 of 19 shots. He did get to the line, however, making 11 of 14. Davis averages 21.4 points and 8.3 rebounds.
Fifth-year senior Brad Davison, who averages 15.2 points and recently became the Badgers’ career leader in 3-pointers made, shot 3 of 12 against Illinois, missing all six long-range attempts.
Tyler Wahl averages 11.0 points and 5.8 boards. Steven Crowl, a 7-foot sophomore, averages 9.0 points and 4.3 rebounds, but he had no chance inside against Cockburn. Freshman point guard Chucky Hepburn has started since Day 1 and has been solid defensively, as he has committed just 28 turnovers while averaging 29.7 minutes per game.
Since winning seven straight, Wisconsin has lost two of its past four, including an 86-74 home defeat to Michigan State while Wahl was out with an ankle injury.
Penn State had five players score in double figures against Iowa, indicative of its balanced attack. The Nittany Lions were playing at home for the first time since Jan. 11 following three road games.
Penn State’s Seth Lundy averages 13.4 points, Jalen Pickett 13.3, Sam Sessoms 11.2 and John Harrar 10.8 (along with a team-high 9.6 rebounds).
The Nittany Lions put up 66.4 points per game and allow 66.6. Other than the Iowa game, Penn State has yielded 80 only two other times. Wisconsin averages 72.1 and gives up 67.1.
Penn State coach Micah Shrewsberry emphasized that his team held the Hawkeyes to 64 points until Keegan Murray’s sensational tip-in at the buzzer in regulation.
“We really guarded for a game where you look and you give up 86,” he said. “We guarded for stretches and made it tough on them. It’s a really good offensive team. If we can continue to do that, we give ourselves a chance. And that’s who we want to (do). That’s who we want to be each and every night. And, then, kind of opportunistic offense.”
The Badgers lead the nation in fewest turnovers per game, at 8.3.
–Field Level Media
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Empire State Weekly: Redistricting outcome & keeping people in New York
(NEWS10) – This week on Empire State Weekly, with new district lines officially being redrawn, the catalyst that drove redistricting could be a quickly developing trend, and that’s more people packing up and moving out of New York. A new poll recently found that one in three New York voters are considering living elsewhere, and analysts are finding that the state’s volatile political climate and overall cost of living are not sustainable enough to keep young voters around.
First, we hear from the Brennan Center’s Senior Counsel and Redistricting expert Michael Li on the legislative mindset behind the final result of the new district maps and how heavy-handed alleged gerrymandering played a role in the outcome. We also hear from one of the many New York lawmakers impacted by the new district lines, Senator Jim Tedisco. Both Li and Tedisco agree that there’s no shortage of gerrymandering in the newly drawn maps, which have now been signed off on by Governor Kathy Hochul.
The maps now face a court challenge from Republican State Electors, who filed suit in Stuben County State Supreme Court to declare the Congressional maps unconstitutional. The new maps drawn by Democrats could tip the balance of political power, even in many Republican-held districts.
New York’s volatile political landscape is only one of the many factors driving people to move out of the Empire State, according to a new poll by the non-partisan organization Unite NY and John Zogby Strategies. Tim Dunn, Executive Director of Unite NY, says in addition to the political environment, high taxes are the number one factor prompting people, most prominently young voters.
“I would argue that the best financial incentive for any young person, any voter, is a job,” says Dunn. “Frankly what we’ve seen is policy in this state that drives up taxes, over-regulates, and doesn’t create an attractive environment for job creation.”
Here is a list of how you can watch Empire State Weekly in your area of New York every weekend:
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LSU and Vanderbilt are both sinking in the SEC standings as they prepare to meet Saturday in Nashville, Tenn.
The No. 25 Tigers (16-6, 4-5) are on the verge of falling out of the rankings after a 76-72 home loss to Ole Miss on Tuesday, their fifth loss in six games.
The Commodores (11-10, 3-6) have lost four of five after a 77-70 defeat at No. 5 Kentucky on Wednesday night.
LSU coach Will Wade called the game against Ole Miss a “difficult, difficult loss for us.”
“We have to get off the mat,” Wade added. “We have to get back to work and continue to get better.”
The Tigers have been one of the top defensive teams in the country most of the season, but they couldn’t prevent the Rebels from racing to a 43-19 lead.
“They were too comfortable in the beginning of the game,” said Darius Days, who led LSU with 21 points and 13 rebounds. “In the first 10 minutes of the game they were hitting shots left and right.”
The Tigers chipped away and eventually got within two points on a couple of occasions late in the game, but they couldn’t catch Ole Miss.
“It just took us too long to settle in,” Wade said.
The Rebels finished with one less point than LSU allowed in a 77-68 loss to TCU last Saturday, the highest-scoring game by a Tigers opponent this season.
“Don’t count us out yet,” Days said. “We’ve got time and a lot of work to do.”
Eric Gaines and Tari Eason added 16 points each for LSU, but the recent defensive slippage is a concern.
That could be a problem against Vanderbilt’s Scotty Pippen Jr., who took over the SEC scoring lead (19.3 points per game) after scoring 33 against Kentucky.
The Commodores closed within three points midway through the second half, but the Wildcats scored the next six points and stayed in control.
“We can play with anybody when we share the ball and we defend the way we’re capable of,” coach Jerry Stackhouse said. “Then we can come in and not just win, but we can do some really good things. We didn’t have the main positive that we wanted, but there were a lot of good things to take away from this.”
One positive was that Vanderbilt held Kentucky to 27.6 percent shooting in the second half. Another was that the Commodores outrebounded Kentucky, which leads the nation with a plus-12 average rebounding margin, 37-30.
“You should win most games when you outrebound the other team,” Pippen said.
But the Commodores hurt themselves with 18 turnovers, 11 of which came in a first half that ended with the Wildcats holding a 41-31 lead.
“The turnovers were the difference in the first half,” Stackhouse said.
Liam Robbins, a 7-foot center and graduate transfer from Minnesota, made his Vanderbilt debut after missing the first 20 games of the season due to a foot injury. He came off the bench and had two rebounds and one block in just 13 minutes, but the Commodores hope he can provide a boost the rest of the way.
–Field Level Media
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New York State receiving more than $56 Million in mobile sports betting revenue
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)–Numbers released on Friday by the New York State Gaming Commission show that in just four weeks of legalizing mobile sports betting, New York State is receiving over $56 Million in revenue.
“We are actually exceeding expectations by far,” explained Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara. “Even any of the estimates were much much lower than this.”
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Johnny Avello, Director of Race and Sports Operations for DraftKings, explained part of the success.
“New York started getting at just the right time,” said Avello. “It was the first weekend of the NFL play offs that rolled over into the college football championship, then we have had other NFL playoffs games since then and now the Super Bowl so, their timing couldn’t have been better as far as opening and taking their first bet.”
According to the New York State Gaming Commission, not only will mobile sports wagering revenue be going towards education, but during this first fiscal year, 1% of the state tax imposed will be distributed to problem gambling education and treatment purposes. Another 1% of the state tax will be going towards underserved youth sports programs.
“Already, I have been told this revenue stream has $2.5 Million available for youth sports alone. That is in addition to all of the money that will be going for the education,” said Assemblymember Monica Wallace.
Wallace said next year, at least $5 Million on top of that is expected to be allocated to youth sports. The Western New York Assemblymember added that already, other states are looking at creating a similar program. Wallace said this is so important for the overall wellbeing of kids.
“There are not only immediate results in terms of health and reduced rates of obesity, increased mental health, increased academic performance—all of those wonderful things initially, but also long term consequences over their lifetime. They have much more benefits in terms of being healthier and living healthier lives,” stated Wallace.
When it comes to problem gambling education and treatment, in 2023, $6 Million will be directed to those programs.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)Arizona’s offense, after flowing so well in the first half, hit a Bruins wall in the second. Good looks were hard to come by, every pass contested, the stretch without a field exceeding five minutes.
In stepped Kerr Kriisa. The Estonian guard who missed all 12 of his shots the first go-round against UCLA, calmly sank a 3-pointer with two minutes left, allowing the Wildcats space enough to pull out a hard-fought win.
Kriisa scored 16 points and hit that big 3-pointer, Dalen Terry flirted with a triple-double and No. 7 Arizona grinded out a 76-66 win over No. 3 UCLA on Thursday night.
”Playing at UCLA was good, gave him some battle scars, so to speak,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said of Kriisa. ”Now he’s a little more grizzled, a little tougher, and that’s super important.”
Shut down by UCLA nine days earlier, the Wildcats (18-2, 8-1 Pac-12) had a good offensive flow in the first half, building a 12-point lead that stretched to 17 in the second.
The Bruins (16-3, 8-2) turned up the defensive pressure and slowed the game in the second half to chip the lead down to three. Kriisa soon answered with a 3 – Arizona’s only field goal in the final 7:04 – to make it 70-61 and the Wildcats made six straight free throws in the final 1:25 to win the rematch.
Kriisa threw the ball into the student section to celebrate the home win after being blown out in Southern California.
”Obviously, we were thinking about it,” said Terry, who finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. ”I’m glad we came out on top and we were able to do it at home.”
UCLA gave Arizona nearly everything it wanted offensively in the first half, then took most of it away in the second. The Bruins cut a 17-point deficit to three with just under four minutes left, but missed some key shots down the stretch.
Jules Barnard scored 15 points for UCLA and Johnny Juzang had 12 after missing two games in COVID-19 protocols.
”They had better energy, especially to start the game,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said. ”Defensively, we didn’t get the job done and they got comfortable. You can’t let them get comfortable offensively.”
UCLA won the first meeting 75-59 at Pauley Pavilion on Jan. 23 by slowing the pace and shutting down one of the nation’s top offenses.
Arizona got back to its free-flowing, fast-cutting ways against the Bruins early in the rematch. The Wildcats worked the hi-low for a couple of early baskets and hit consecutive 3s to cap a 12-0 run to go up 28-14 midway through the first half.
Arizona kept flowin’ and scorin,’ shooting 15 of 25 to lead 42-30 at halftime.
UCLA, after a good offensive start, struggled with Arizona’s pressure and aggressive switching. The Bruins labored to get good looks and shot 1 of 9 from behind the 3-point arc.
”We got a lot of good looks,” Cronin said. ”They just weren’t falling.”
Bennedict Mathurin had the defensive highlight of the first half, rising up to block Bernard’s dunk attempt in transition and bringing the crowd to its feet with him.
Scoring was a little more difficult for the Wildcats in the second half, yet they were able to push back the Bruins nearly every time they tried to make a run, keeping the lead near double digits.
UCLA’s pressure finally started to wear down Arizona late in the second half. The Bruins held the Wildcats without a field goal for more than five minutes and used a 7-0 run to pull within 64-61.
Arizona wouldn’t let them any closer, with Kriisa’s 3 keying a strong finish.
BIG PICTURE
UCLA couldn’t slow the Wildcats in the first half, but was able to dictate the pace better in the second. It still wasn’t enough.
Arizona was at its offensive best in the first half, then labored against UCLA’s pressure but found a way to win. Beat No. 19 Southern California on Saturday and the Wildcats could find themselves back in the top 5 in Monday’s poll.
TUBELIS’ NIGHT
UCLA had a hard time stopping Azoulas Tubelis early, particularly on hi-low plays. The Arizona big man had 10 points in the first half and four more in the opening 2 1/2 minutes of the second.
Then he sat. Going with a defensive lineup that included 7-footers Christian Koloko and Oumar Ballo, Lloyd opted to keep Tubelis on the bench over the final 10:01. He finished with 14 points and five rebounds.
”Sometimes you just get a feel for something and ride it out,” Lloyd said. ”That defensive lineup is tough.”
Ballo and Koloko combined for five of their seven blocked shots in the second half.
UP NEXT
UCLA: Plays at Arizona State on Saturday.
Arizona: Hosts No. 19 USC on Saturday.
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Gov. Hochul speaks to deploying Fort Drum soldiers
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (WWTI) — Deploying soldiers were addressed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday.
On February 4, via a videoconference, Governor Hochul spoke with deploying Soldiers from Fort Drum to thank them for their service before they depart for Europe.
During the videoconference, Governor Hochul expressed that the efforts these soldiers are doing is an act of patriotism.
“There is something so powerful knowing that you are willing to drop everything and respond to that call when the country needs you,” Gov. Hochul said. “I am so grateful and humbled to have a chance to speak with you.”
“We will pray for your safe return, and know that your families are well taken care of. You are all part of a great family at Fort Drum,” the Governor added.
Governor Hochul was scheduled to visit Fort Drum in person on February 4, but the trip was canceled due to inclement weather.
“The Governor really wanted to be here in person to show her appreciation,” 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum Commander MajorGeneral Milford H. Beagle Jr., said to the soldier. “This was important to her, and it always means a lot when they can see the Soldiers and family members and personally talk with them.”
This deployment was first announced on February 2 by Fort Drum Public Affairs. Approximately 200 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum will be deployed to Europe and stationed in Poland, Germany, and Romania in the upcoming term.
Watch Governor Hochul’s full address to Fort Drum soldiers in the player above.
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Kansas has a tendency not to go too deep into its bench. Veteran coach Bill Self prefers whittling his rotation into a sleek, efficient unit by the mid-point of conference play.
Yet here are the No. 10 Jayhawks (18-3, 7-1) sitting first in the Big 12 and still juggling different combinations as they prepare for a showdown Saturday against No. 8 Baylor (19-3, 7-2) at Lawrence, Kan.
Kansas is coming off a 70-61 victory at Iowa State in which it played without the Big 12’s top scorer, Ochai Agbaji (COVID-19 protocols), and the league’s preseason player of the year, Remy Martin (knee).
Seldom-used backup Joseph Yesufu, a Drake transfer, offered his speedy and heady veteran presence to show off his capability.
“The kid was fearless,” Self said. “There in the first half we only had one guy that could dribble against their pressure. So, getting Joe in there really helped take some pressure off.”
Dajuan Harris, who often trades minutes with Martin, still contributed mightily while directing the floor, playing what Self termed his best game after providing 14 points, eight assists and four steals. If anything, the outcome proved Kansas could manufacture offense without its go-to scorer (Agbaji) and a versatile threat (Martin).
“We knew we had to do it as a unit,” said the Jayhawks’ Christian Braun, who added 13 points. “(Self’s) most important message was, if you want to replace a guy that’s the national player of the year, you have to do it collectively. There’s not one person that can step up and score 20 more points than they normally do.”
Agbaji, who averages 20.9 points, is expected to return against Baylor, though Martin could remain out while attempting to heal his nagging injury. Firepower should not be an issue since Kansas averages 80 points per game and Baylor 78.8 in a rugged league prone at times to defensive slugfests.
Both teams rebounded from disappointing losses in last Saturday’s Big 12/SEC Challenge (against Kentucky and Alabama, respectively) and flexed their conference superiority earlier this week. Baylor is coming off an 81-77 victory over West Virginia in which the Bears played short-handed without LJ Cryer (foot) and Adam Flagler (knee).
“It’s frustrating because you’re 15-0 when you have everybody,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said of a hot start that led to the Bears sitting No. 1 in the polls for five consecutive weeks.
“Then, you get people back and you lose people. A lot of the times, you find out the day of the game, so it’s not like you get prep time. We’ll just keep grinding.”
Baylor overcame a 16-1 run that provided West Virginia a 39-31 lead at halftime. James Akinjo returned from a tailbone injury and netted 25 points, including five free throws in the final 90 seconds.
Akinjo ranks second within the Bears’ balanced attack, averaging 13.6 points. Cryer carries a team-high mark (13.9) among seven scorers averaging at least eight points per game. Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua leads a plus-7.4 rebounding advantage by averaging 7.2 boards and went 6-of-7 shooting for 14 points against West Virginia.
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PHOTOS: A snow-eye view of Glens Falls
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Mid-afternoon on Friday, the snow showed no sign of slowing, in a winter storm expected to dump about a foot of snow on the Glens Falls area, and more up into the Adirondacks. Slushy roads abound, with Glens Falls snowplows doing their best to keep up.
Towering over downtown Glens Falls, the Traveler’s Insurance building provides 10 stories of increasingly great views, whether they’re showing rain, shine, or the impact of Friday’s snow. NEWS10 was guided up to the eighth floor to get a firsthand look.
Friday’s snow stretched toward the 24-hour mark from the starting line the previous day. That’s a challenge for the Warren County Department of Public Works, according to county spokesman Don Lehman. The DPW is facing a long couple of days with not enough plow drivers. Up in North Creek, the snow count fell at around 15 inches.
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Propane delivery company owner advises homeowners to do their homework
CAPITAL REGION, (News10)-News10 continues to receive a steady stream of complaints from
frustrated Ferrellgas customers who are running out of propane.
Vicki Moore of Galway is one of those people. Like m,ost propane customers she leases her tank. That means other companies won’t fill it up citing safety and liability issues.
The mother of a 10 month old baby says she called Ferrellgas on January 25th and a representative told her a delivery would be made by February 7th. That’s 3 days from now.
Rich Coon owner of First Fuel and Propane says it’s not supply chain issue. “It’s really simple. It’s capacity. If they have 5 trucks they probably should have 10 trucks,” said Coon.
Propane is transported by train or pipeline and delivery company’s purchase based on projected need.
Coon says he typically buys a bit more to play it safe.
Ferrellgas has long grappled with bankruptcy and transpiration issues.
His advice for consumers: do your homework. “You’ve got to get a company that has extra capacity. Usually those companies are the family run operations. Not the majors. The majors, they try to take care of their stockholders and the family run operations are generally more conscious of taking care of the consumer.”
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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP)Carter Hendricksen had a career-high 27 points as North Florida snapped its 13-game road losing streak, topping Jacksonville State 88-76 on Thursday night. Jose Placer added 25 points for the Ospreys.
Jarius Hicklen had 11 points for North Florida (6-17, 2-7 Atlantic Sun Conference).
Brandon Huffman had 19 points for the Gamecocks (15-7, 8-1), whose 10-game winning streak was snapped. Darian Adams added 16 points and seven rebounds. Jalen Finch had 16 points.
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Shoveling, scraping, and plowing: Keys to conquer winter snowstorm
CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. (NEWS10) – From sleet to freezing rain, and snow, the Capital Region has seen it all. The New York State Department of Transportation has been working around the clock to clear and treat the roadways. Shoveling, scraping, and plowing, is the name of the game with Friday’s winter storm.
Bryan Viggiani, the public information officer for NYS DOT says in the Capital Region they have a total of 190 plow trucks out on the road. They have over 400 operators and supervisors tackling this winter storm.
“It’s been a real complex storm with lots of different types of precipitation all over the greater Capital Region,” said Viggiani.
Viggiani says it’s all hands on deck getting crews out on the road. They even got some extra help from crews in Long Island.
“We are prepared whether it’s putting down salt for the freezing rain and ice, or really pushing off some of the sleet. Some of the snow is really heavy but we’re able to push it off. We also have been plowing heavily in the North.”
At Mohawk Honda in Schenectady County, snow removal works like a well-oiled machine. Sales Manager John Lucas says this year it’s a little bit easier to clear the lot because of the car shortage.
“So, we have to get the cars all warm before we can brush off the ice. Then we have the sales team go out and use the styrofoam snow brushes. We do this so we don’t scratch up the cars,” said Lucas.
Two University of Albany juniors are starting their budding career with some hard work and manual labor. Dylan Wynee and Nelson Salazar created Albany Shovel, to give a helping hand to those who need help with snow removal.
“So, we set up a little company to just help out the community and make a little extra money on the side. We have always been interested in entrepreneurship, so we thought this was a cool way to get our feet wet,” said Salazar.
NYS DOT says they plan to have crews out clearing and treating the roads all Friday night and throughout the weekend if needed. They are suggesting staying home, so they can do their job.
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:12
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ATLANTA (AP)Efe Odigie had 17 points and 11 rebounds to lift Troy to a 67-63 win over Georgia State on Thursday night.
Kieffer Punter and TK Smith had 12 points for Troy (15-7, 6-3 Sun Belt Conference). Zay Williams had eight rebounds.
Justin Roberts had 17 points for the Panthers (8-10, 2-5). Corey Allen added 15 points and Eliel Nsoseme had 13 rebounds.
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Tech advocates call on Congress to increase high-skilled immigration to the US
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — With U.S. employers struggling to fill millions of job openings, advocates are calling on Congress to let more high-skilled immigrants enter the workforce.
“We have long seen the benefits of high-skilled immigration to the U.S. economy,” TechNet CEO Linda Moore said.
A recent study by TechNet, a tech industry advocacy group, found increasing high-skilled immigration results in economic growth.
“Immigrants also expand the tax base and innovation and create jobs all across the country,” Moore said.
Moore says it’s a labor force the country needs.
“America is just not graduating enough high-skilled workers to fill the shortage in the American economy,” Moore said.
However, Moore says outdated H-1B visa guidelines make it hard for companies to hire high skilled workers. She’s urging Congress to take action.
“We want to make it easier to create a comprehensive immigration reform structure in the country,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said.
Gillibrand believes allowing more high-skilled immigration has wide-ranging benefits.
“For our country, for our communities, for our families, for our culture and for the strength of our overall economy,” Gillibrand said.
But Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) says lawmakers shouldn’t make any changes until they solve the southern border crisis.
“I believe our immigration system is broken. Unfortunately, the current administration believes that we should have a policy of open borders,” Cornyn said.
Cornyn says once the border is secure, Republicans will be open to cooperating on immigration reform.
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:18
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NEW YORK (AP)Eral Penn had 22 points as Long Island Brooklyn edged past Sacred Heart 79-75 on Thursday night.
Tre Wood had 15 points and six assists for LIU (9-12, 6-5 Northeast Conference). Kyndall Davis added 14 points and seven rebounds. Isaac Kante had 13 points.
Nico Galette scored a career-high 20 points for the Pioneers (7-14, 3-5), whose losing streak stretched to four games. Aaron Clarke added 14 points and 10 assists. Tyler Thomas had 13 points.
The Sharks evened the season series against the Pioneers. Sacred Heart defeated Long Island-Brooklyn 69-65 on Dec. 29.
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Officials ramping up Super Bowl security
LOS ANGELES (NewsNation Now) — Super Bowl LVI kick-off is less than two weeks away, and security enforcement is picking up outside of SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, as stadium security is already feeling the pressure following a fan attack last weekend.
Security will be led by the local agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, with federal partners such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Federal Aviation Administration has designated the Los Angeles area a ‘No Drone Zone’ for the Super Bowl, prohibiting drones within a 30-nautical-mile radius of the stadium up to 18,000 feet in altitude from 2:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PST on February 13, 2022.
Drone operators who enter the restricted flight area without permission could face drone confiscation, civil penalties that exceed $30,000 and potential criminal prosecution, the agency said.
Meanwhile, stadium security is under intense scrutiny after a San Francisco 49ers fan was placed in a medically induced coma after being punched during a parking lot confrontation with an apparent Rams fan at the NFC Championship game, the mayor of Inglewood said Thursday.
Daniel Luna, 40, remained hospitalized after Sunday’s fight while police sought his attacker based on a blurry video and the license plate of a car, Mayor James T. Butts Jr. said at a news conference.
Because he still had his watch, wallet and cellphone on him, police don’t think robbery was the motive.
“We are aware and saddened by the incident. Our thoughts are with Mr. Luna’s friends and family during this difficult time. We are working with law enforcement officials in their investigation,” said in a statement to NewsNation.
The mayor said the video isn’t clear enough to provide a description of the suspect, but he was seen talking to some people in a car. Police want to find the car and talk to the occupants to see if they were involved, Butts said.
This incident is similar to one in 2011, where a San Francisco Giants fan was beaten and left with severe brain damage at a Dodgers game. Two men were convicted and sentenced to prison for that assault.
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:24
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LORETTO, Pa. (AP)Charles Pride set a program record with 44 points and Bryant extended its winning streak to seven games, beating St. Francis (Pa.) 89-82 on Thursday night.
Pride was 16 of 26 from the field, 11 of 11 at the line and he grabbed 12 rebounds.
Adham Eleeda had 17 points and nine rebounds for Bryant (13-8, 9-1 Northeast Conference). Greg Calixte added 10 rebounds.
Ramiir Dixon-Conover had 22 points, six rebounds and five steals for the Red Flash (7-15, 3-8). Maxwell Land added 14 points and Brad McCabe had 11 points.
The Bulldogs improve to 2-0 against the Red Flash for the season. Bryant defeated St. Francis 82-52 on Jan. 17.
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Significant icing causes damage, power outages across Ulster County
ULSTER COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Ulster County is under a state of emergency following significant icing from the winter storm. The icy conditions have led to downed wires and trees, leaving tens of thousands of residents county-wide without power.
While areas north saw a wintry mix or just snow, parts of the Hudson Valley were coated with freezing rain overnight into Friday morning. With up to half an inch of ice in some areas, tens of thousands were left without power, including large areas of Kingston. With restoration efforts ongoing, the state is bringing resources into the area.
“We’ve got over 500 here in the Hudson Valley and we’re bringing in more. We’ve activated mutual aid so as we’re able to clear other power outages, folks will be coming here to the Hudson Valley to continue restoration,” said Jackie Bray, Commissioner of the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
Downed wires and trees are scattered through the county, including one that took out someone’s generator.
“I was calling my landlord this morning, saying how happy I was that he had the foresight to install this beautiful generator for situations like this,” said Kimberly Ryan.
Ryan said she initially lost power around 6 a.m., but the generator was able to keep the power up for several hours, “Then around 10:30 maybe, I heard a loud boom and felt the shake in the roof and I think a tree hit the roof and then bounced and took out the generator.”
She said she is now looking for a place for her and her family to go, with no timetable for how long her power can be restored, or the generator can get fixed.
Meanwhile others in the area are trying to make the most of the wintry weather, “To just dig out a little bit and actually have some outdoor fun, because I think it’s stunningly gorgeous,”
Ulster County leaders are continuing to urge everyone to avoid unnecessary travel. The county has also established a non-emergency line for service calls, including downed trees and wires. Those calls can now be directed to: 845-443-8888.
Those without power can also utilize county-run warming stations, including two in Kingston and sites in New Paltz and Saugerties.
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:30
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Bill would make Black national anthem official US hymn
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — “Lift Every Voice,” also known as the Black national anthem, has taken on a new life the past few years, heard anywhere from church pews to sports stadiums and even Capitol Hill. Now, a group of Democratic lawmakers are calling for the former poem to be named the official national hymn.
The bill was introduced today by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn from South Carolina. He says the song isn’t only a symbol of Black pride and perseverance but also the resilience of American democracy.
“Consider the words: ‘Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,'” Clyburn said.
The poem would not replace the national anthem. It was written in 1900 to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The lyrics were later set to music.
Leon W. Russell, the chair of the NAACP Board of Directors, also supports the effort. He says making the Black national anthem an official part of American history recognizes the work and sacrifice black people have made to shape America as it is today.
“(The move would) ensure that our nation be ever mindful of that people’s role in the development of our democracy,” Russell said.
The bill appears to have support on both sides of the aisle. U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., says he thinks the move could unite the country.
“I think it could be a noble pursuit,” Johnson said. “Maybe something like this could help educate all of us, all Americans.”
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:36
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HOUSTON (AP)LaTerrance Reed scored a season-high 21 points as Northwestern State snapped its 11-game road losing streak, defeating Houston Baptist 97-87 on Thursday night.
Carvell Teasett added 20 points for the Demons.
Cedric Garrett had 13 points for Northwestern State (7-16, 4-5 Southland Conference). Kendal Coleman added 12 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks.
Northwestern State posted a season-high 17 3-pointers.
Darius Lee tied a career high with 30 points for the Huskies (6-13, 2-7). Zach Iyeyemi added 15 points. Sam Hofman had 14 points.
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The top of the Big Ten standings resemble a slugfest, with four teams too tightly packed to afford giving a single game away — which No. 13 Michigan State barely avoided doing earlier this week.
The Spartans hope for a more complete effort as they continue a brief eastern road trip Saturday afternoon against Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J.
On Tuesday night at Maryland, Michigan State (17-4, 8-2 Big Ten) led by 10 at halftime and by 15 after Joey Hauser drained a 3-pointer with 17:44 to play.
The Terrapins, a program in the midst of a down year, managed to climb all the way back and tie the game at 61 and again at 63. Malik Hall converted a layup in the final seconds to help the Spartans escape with a 65-63 win.
“Should have been able to close it out. We didn’t,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo told reporters. “It was because of (Maryland) playing well, and harder than hell.”
Hall, a captain, finished with a team-high 16 points off the bench. He is one of six different players to lead the Spartans in scoring in at least one game this season; Gabe Brown, Max Christie, Marcus Bingham and Hall all average between 9.6 and 12.8 points per game.
That balanced attack is one reason the Spartans are jockeying with Illinois, Wisconsin and Purdue for first place in the conference. Michigan State beat a slightly undermanned Wisconsin team on Jan. 21, with the rematch coming up Tuesday, and lost at Illinois on Jan. 25 by one point.
“We don’t want close games like this,” Hall said. “In the Big Ten, it’s really hard. Anybody, any team, could come at you any night. We just want to make sure that we’re ready for that.”
Rutgers (12-9, 6-5) is next in line to take a shot at the Spartans, and due to recent results it has become desperation time for the Scarlet Knights. They’ve recently lost three of four games to the league’s basement — Minnesota, Maryland and Northwestern — putting dreams of a return trip to the NCAA Tournament in severe doubt.
Rutgers was behind 43-25 at halftime Tuesday against Northwestern before Paul Mulcahy guided the Scarlet Knights on an improbable comeback. Mulcahy assisted Cliff Omoruyi on a last-second dunk that forced overtime, but the Wildcats survived with a 79-78 win.
With stars Ron Harper Jr. and Geo Baker having poor shooting nights, Mulcahy shouldered the load and scored a career-high 31 points along with seven assists and seven rebounds. But the effort was in vain for a team that did not live up to its reputation as a tough defensive group.
“Obviously, giving up 43 points in the first half is not Rutgers basketball,” coach Steve Pikiell said. “And we turned the basketball over a ton. That’s been one of our Achilles heels in the first half of games, turning the ball over at an alarming rate.”
The Scarlet Knights are beginning a five-game stretch against ranked teams, the five best the Big Ten has to offer: Michigan State, No. 16 Ohio State, at No. 11 Wisconsin, No. 18 Illinois and at No. 4 Purdue.
–Field Level Media
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:42
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP)Keshawn Justice and Josip Vrankic scored 13 points apiece as Santa Clara beat Loyola Marymount 79-60 on Thursday night.
Jalen Williams and Carlos Stewart each added 12 points for the Broncos. PJ Pipes chipped in 11. Williams also had six rebounds.
Joe Quintana had 14 points for the Lions (9-11, 2-6 West Coast Conference), whose losing streak reached four games. Keli Leaupepe also scored 14 points. Eli Scott had 13 points and eight rebounds.
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:49
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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP)Ryan Burkhardt and Keon Clergeot scored 17 points apiece as Southeastern Louisiana edged past McNeese State 83-78 on Thursday night. Gus Okafor added 15 points for the Lions.
Joe Kasperzyk had 11 points for Southeastern Louisiana (12-11, 7-2 Southland Conference).
Collin Warren had 19 points for the Cowboys (8-15, 3-6). Zach Scott added 17 points. Christian Shumate had 15 points.
The Lions improve to 2-0 against the Cowboys for the season. Southeastern Louisiana defeated McNeese State 83-78 on Jan. 7.
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| 2022-02-04T22:58:57
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ATHENS, Ohio (AP)Mark Sears had 20 points as Ohio beat Eastern Michigan 81-68 on Thursday.
Ben Roderick had 19 points for Ohio (18-3, 9-1 Mid-American Conference), which earned its fourth straight win. Jason Carter added 17 points and eight rebounds, and Ben Vander Plas had 15 points.
Nathan Scott had 16 points for the Eagles (8-13, 3-7). Bryce McBride added 14 points and Mo Njie had 10 points.
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| 2022-02-04T22:59:04
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MARTIN, Tenn. (AP)KJ Simon had 19 points to lead five UT Martin players in double figures as the Skyhawks romped past Southeast Missouri 84-63 on Thursday.
Mikel Henderson added 17 points for the Skyhawks (8-15, 4-7 Ohio Valley Conference). Bernie Andre pitched in with 14 points and 12 rebounds. KK Curry finished with 10 points and eight boards, while Chris Nix scored 10.
Manny Patterson had 12 points for the Redhawks (9-13, 4-5). Eric Reed Jr. added 12 points. Nana Akenten had 10 points.
Phillip Russell, whose 14 points per game entering the contest ranked second on the Redhawks, scored four points. He shot 0 of 5 from beyond the arc.
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| 2022-02-04T22:59:11
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP)Calvin Solomon had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lift Stephen F. Austin to a 78-59 win over Utah Valley on Thursday night.
Gavin Kensmil had 19 points for Stephen F. Austin (14-8, 6-4 Western Athletic Conference). Jaylin Jackson-Posey added 11 points and Nigel Hawkins had 10 points.
Fardaws Aimaq had 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Wolverines (14-7, 5-4). Connor Harding also scored 12 points.
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| 2022-02-04T22:59:18
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NEW YORK (AP)Patrick Emilien and Michael Cubbage scored 20 points apiece as St. Francis (N.Y.) got past Fairleigh Dickinson 81-64 on Thursday night.
Larry Moreno had 14 points for St. Francis (7-15, 4-7 Northeast Conference). Rob Higgins added 11 points and Cubbage also had 11 rebounds.
Brandon Rush had 17 points for the Knights (2-16, 2-6). John Square Jr. added four blocks.
The Terriers improve to 2-0 against the Knights on the season. St. Francis defeated Fairleigh Dickinson 80-78 on Jan. 21.
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| 2022-02-04T22:59:26
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)Derek St. Hilaire had 25 points as New Orleans extended its winning streak to nine games, beating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 79-70 on Thursday night.
Troy Green had 13 points and seven rebounds for New Orleans (13-8, 8-1 Southland Conference). Tyson Jackson added 11 points. Simeon Kirkland had 11 rebounds.
Trevian Tennyson had 15 points for the Islanders (16-7, 5-4). Isaac Mushila added 14 points and 15 rebounds. Jalen Jackson also scored 14 points.
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| 2022-02-04T22:59:33
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP)Nicolas Timberlake had a career-high 26 points as Towson topped Hofstra 78-68 on Thursday night.
Timberlake made 4 of 6 3-pointers. He added eight rebounds and six assists.
Charles Thompson had 16 points for Towson (17-6, 8-2 Colonial Athletic Association), which earned its fourth consecutive road victory. Juwan Gray added 11 points. Cam Holden had seven points and 10 rebounds.
Towson had a season-high 21 assists.
Aaron Estrada had 22 points and seven assists for the Pride (13-9, 5-4). Jalen Ray added 17 points.
The Tigers improve to 2-0 against the Pride this season. Towson defeated Hofstra 78-66 on Jan. 11.
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| 2022-02-04T22:59:40
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Coach Juwan Howard knows his Michigan basketball team faces a steep climb in order to secure an NCAA Tournament berth.
The Wolverines can enhance their resume, though, with a road win against a Top 10 team on Saturday afternoon when they play No. 4 Purdue at West Lafayette, Ind.
It’s the first meeting this season between the Big Ten clubs; they originally were scheduled to match up in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 11.
A COVID outbreak within Michigan’s program forced a postponement. That game will be made up on Feb. 10.
Michigan (11-8, 5-4 Big Ten) has won four of its past five games, though it narrowly escaped disaster in a home game against last-place Nebraska on Tuesday.
The Wolverines trailed by seven in the late going against the Cornhuskers, who are winless in the Big Ten, but finished the game on an 19-6 run to prevail 85-79.
“Our guys understand what we’re dealing with. They understand that this is a very competitive conference and you’ve got to go out there and compete every game,” Howard said. “There’s no easy matchups. You have well-coached teams in this league, coaches that prepared their players to know that.
“The conference is athletic, tough, physical, have bigs, have shooting. Some of our guys are learning that, especially the new guys.”
It’s no secret to the team that center Hunter Dickinson is indispensable. That was reinforced when Dickinson picked up two early fouls against the Cornhuskers and sat for nearly 15 minutes. Nebraska established a seven-point halftime lead while Dickinson watched from the bench.
He scored 20 of his 26 points and grabbed all eight of his rebounds after the break.
“I was hoping he would put me back in, being the player (I am) and the competitiveness in me, but it worked,” Dickinson said. “What he did worked out, so I’m cool with it.”
The starting backcourt of Eli Brooks (20) and DeVante’ Jones (18) combined for 38 points, but Dickinson made all the difference. Michigan was plus-18 with him on the court.
“In the second half, he was challenged, and he stepped up and became that force, became that best player, became that No. 1 option, became that All-American that is going to lead his team. And he led,” Howard said. “He put us on his back, and we followed him.”
Purdue (19-3, 8-3) has four consecutive wins since losing at Indiana on Jan. 20. The Boilermakers are coming off an 88-73 road win over Minnesota on Wednesday. Jaden Ivey led the way with 21 points and matched his career high of 10 rebounds as Purdue reached the 80-point mark for the fourth consecutive game.
“Like any other game, we’re going to try to establish our size,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said. “That’s our main thing, then trying to get him in transition, driving the basketball and opening up things for other people. I thought he had really good patience for the most part (Wednesday) on his drives, just letting things come to him and getting to the basket.”
Senior guard Eric Hunter Jr., who averages 5.0 points per game, contributed a career-high 20.
“It’s always good to get career highs, especially on the road when usually you don’t play your best on the road on the offensive side,” Hunter said.
–Field Level Media
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP)Lazar Stefanovic made five 3-pointers for his 15 points and Utah ended a school-record 10-game losing streak with an 84-59 win over Oregon State on Thursday night.
David Jenkins Jr. and Rollie Worster scored 13 points each and Branden Carlson had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Utah (9-14, 2-11 Pac-12). Both Gach added 11 points with 10 assists and Marco Anthony grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds. Utah made a season-high 15-pointers.
Jarod Lucas scored 12 points on four 3-pointers, Roman Silva also scored 12 points and Maurice Calloo added 11 for Oregon State (3-16, 1-8). Second-leading scorer Warith Alatishe was limited by knee issues to five minutes and scored two points.
Utah’s program-record losing streak began with an 88-76 loss in Corvallis, Ore., on Dec. 30 when Lucas scored 25 points and shot 53%. The streak reached 10 in a 77-73 double-overtime loss at Washington on Saturday. Thursday’s win also ended a five-game losing streak to the Beavers, who have lost six straight since beating Utah in December.
The Beavers cut a double-digit halftime deficit to eight on a couple occasions before a 17-2 run that included consecutive 3-pointers by Riley Battin extended the Utes’ lead to 23 with eight minutes remaining. Oregon State didn’t make another run.
Stefanovic made four of Utah’s nine 3-pointers in the first half in leading the Utes to a 46-33 lead. Utah shot 53%, hit half its shots from the arc and scored 16 points off nine Beavers turnovers in the half.
Utah took the lead for good at 28-20 with an 11-0 run fueled by consecutive 3-pointers by Gabe Madsen, Gach and Jenkins. Stefanovic hit a 3-pointer to start a 7-0 run for a 15-point edge with two minutes left in the half.
Oregon State is at Colorado on Saturday. Utah is host to Oregon on Saturday.
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP)Michael Flowers scored 22 points and Washington State held off Stanford for a 66-60 victory on Thursday night for its fourth straight win.
Flowers’ 3-pointer stretched the Cougars’ lead to 63-55 with 4:11 remaining. Spencer Jones made a 3 and James Keefe added a dunk to pull Stanford to 63-60 with 1:18 left. Later, an Isa Silva 3-point attempt hit the back of the rim and Harrison Ingram missed a 3 on the Cardinal’s final possession. Efe Abogidi made 3 of 4 free throws to seal it for the Cougars.
Washington State (13-7, 6-3 Pac-12) avenged a 62-57 loss at home to Stanford on Jan. 13, their last defeat before starting their current win streak. The Cardinal utilized a season-best 23-0 run in the second half for that win.
Flowers was 7 of 14 from the field and made four of the Cougars’ 10 3-pointers. Tyrell Roberts added 12 points. Washington State scored 21 points from 13 Stanford turnovers.
Spencer Jones scored 24 points, one shy of his career high, to lead Stanford (13-8, 6-5).
Washington State never trailed, opening with an 11-2 run while building 33-21 halftime advantage. Roberts scored 12 points and Flowers had 10. The Cardinal shot 29% from the floor and missed 13 of their 16 3-point attempts before the break.
The Cougars led by as many as 16 points in the second half.
Washington State plays at California on Saturday. Stanford, which has lost two of its last three games, hosts Washington on Sunday.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP)Caitlin Clark collected her fifth triple-double this season and No. 21 Iowa rolled by Wisconsin 84-50 on Thursday night.
Clark, who leads the nation in points and assists per game, finished with 27 points on 12-of-18 shooting with 11 assists and 11 rebounds. Monika Czinano added 17 points, freshman Addison O’Grady had a career-high 16 and Kate Martin 10 for the Hawkeyes (15-5, 9-2), who shot 59% in dominating the stat sheet.
Julie Pospisilova and Krustyna Ellew scored 13 points each and Brooke Schramek added 10 for the Badgers (5-16, 2-9), who shot 32%.
The Hawkeyes were without injured starters McKenna Warnock (hand), Iowa’s third-leading scorer, and Gabbie Marshall (shoulder). Marshall had started every game this season and Warnock had started in all 18 games she had played in. Their status is day-to-day.
The Badgers announced earlier Thursday that junior guard Sydney Hilliard was taking a leave of absence for personal reasons. Hilliard, who started all 18 games in which she played this season, is the Badgers’ second-leading scorer and top rebounder.
Clark had 18 points and Czinano 11 as Iowa built a 38-20 halftime lead. Wisconsin scored the game’s first four points before being outscored 15-4 the rest of the period. Iowa finished the half on a 10-0 run with six points from Clark. The lead was 33 points after three quarters.
Iowa was coming off 92-88 loss to No. 23 Ohio State on Monday that snapped a seven-game wining streak. The Badgers have lost three straight.
Iowa is at No. 6 Michigan on Sunday. Wisconsin is host to Illinois on Sunday.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP)Alyssa Ustby had 18 points and 10 rebounds and No. 24 North Carolina outscored Wake Forest 40-15 in the first half en route to a 78-59 victory on Thursday night.
North Carolina coach Courtney Banghart reached 300 career wins.
North Carolina opened the second quarter on an 8-0 run and led by at least 14 points the rest of the way. Wake Forest was just 6-of-29 shooting (20.7%) in the first half with 12 turnovers. The Demon Deacons finished with 20 turnovers and shot 32.1%.
Kennedy Todd-Williams added 14 points and Deja Kelly had 12 points for North Carolina (17-4, 7-4 ACC).
Jewel Spear scored 13 points and Niyah Becker added 11 points for Wake Forest (12-10, 2-9).
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)Aliyah Boston had 20 points, 10 rebounds and six blocks and No. 1 South Carolina beat Alabama 83-51 on Thursday night.
Coupled with Florida’s victory over Tennessee, South Carolina (21-1, 9-1 Southeastern Conference). took sole possession of the conference lead.
”Can’t get too comfortable in this league at all. At all,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. ”We’re not comfortable. We know who we play next and next and next.”
Zia Cooke made her first five shots and finished with 14 points for the Gamecocks
”It feels good to be in the top spot in our league because it says a lot about this league,” Staley said. ”If you’re the top team in this league, you can win a national championship.”
Brittany Davis led Alabama (11-10, 2-8) with 20 points.
”Tonight, South Carolina was obviously the No. 1 team in the country. Up close and in person, their size and their depth is amazing,” Alabama coach Kristy Curry said. ”Brittany really found her shot again tonight. We just needed a little more help.”
BIG PICTURE
South Carolina: Tennessee and South Carolina will meet in Columbia on Feb. 20, with the SEC regular-season championship likely on the line.
Alabama: There was expected to be a drop off after two straight winning seasons, including last year’s second-round NCAA Tournament finish. The Tide’s six newcomers just haven’t been able to make headway among a rough SEC schedule.
UP NEXT
South Carolina: At Kentucky on Feb. 10.
Alabama: At Vanderbilt on Sunday.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)In 58 previous meetings spanning more than four decades, Florida’s often-feeble women’s basketball program never did anything like this to mighty Tennessee: A complete beatdown.
Kiki Smith scored 25 points, Nina Rickards added 16 and the Gators stunned No. 7 Tennessee 84-59 on Thursday night, giving Florida its fifth victory in 59 meetings between the teams.
”I don’t know that we were ever in it,” Lady Vols coach Kellie Harper said. ”Florida came out and punched us right in the mouth and we never responded.”
It was Florida’s biggest win in the series – its second in the last 19 tries – and arguably its most surprising in program history. None of Florida’s previous four wins against Tennessee had been by more than nine points.
Zippy Broughton chipped in 10 points, six rebounds and six assists for the Gators (16-6, 6-3 Southeastern Conference), who have become one of college basketball’s biggest surprises following abuse allegations that ended with former coach Cam Newbauer’s resignation in mid-July.
Interim coach Kelly Rae Finley took over and now has the Gators on the verge of being nationally ranked for the first time since December 2016. Florida won for the sixth time in seven games, with the lone loss being a 62-50 setback to top-ranked South Carolina on Sunday in which the Gators trailed 19-3 after the first quarter.
They had no such issues against Tennessee (19-3, 8-2).
”We talked a lot about putting it on from start to finish, from the tip,” Smith said.
Florida opened up a double-digit lead midway through the first quarter and started to pull away in the third. Smith and Broughton dominated the guard matchup, breaking down Tennessee’s defense and creating open shots. They also helped forced 18 turnovers that Florida turned into 26 points.
”It was an onslaught coming right at us,” Harper said. ”These turnovers resulted in wide-open layups. … We could play them tomorrow and I don’t know if we’d beat them.”
The Gators outscored the Lady Vols 23-12 in the third and shot a blistering 65.5% in the second half. Tennessee looked gassed at times, possibly because the Lady Vols were playing on the road on short rest. Plus, they needed overtime to beat Arkansas on Monday night.
”I thought we were going to be OK coming in,” Harper said. ”I thought we might be a little tired. But I don’t know that it had anything to with the overtime.”
Alexus Dye led Tennessee with 10 points and six rebounds. Rae Burrell added nine points.
Florida outscored Tennessee 24-1 on fast breaks.
”Our advantages are in quickness and our speed,” Finley said. ”We knew that’s where our advantage was. Their advantage was their size. If we allowed them to play their offense at the 3-point line and post up our guards, it was going to be a long night. We bought into that, we understood the assignment and I thought we executed it pretty much to perfection.”
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The Lady Vols will need to win at UConn to avoid dropping out of the top 10 of the AP women’s college basketball poll.
BIG PICTURE
Tennessee: The Lady Vols need better guard play. Senior swing Burrell, standout junior Jordan Horston and graduate transfer Jordan Walker had 15 turnovers, including 11 in the first half. Sloppy play was the main reason Tennessee trailed 36-29 at the break and was down by as many as 12 in the second quarter.
Florida: The Gators have shown plenty of resiliency since Lavender Briggs, who averaged 12.5 points and 5.6 rebounds this season, decided to transfer following a shin injury. Florida has won six of seven since her departure.
UP NEXT
Tennessee: Plays at No. 10 UConn on Sunday, a nationally televised game on Fox.
Florida: Plays its fifth consecutive game against ranked teams when it travels to face No. 14 Georgia on Sunday.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)Alex Fowler totaled 23 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, Rose Pflug scored six of her 13 points in the final 3:23 and Portland knocked off No. 16 BYU 75-64 on Thursday night, snapping the Cougars’ 10-game win streak.
Fowler, the reigning West Coast Conference player of the week, sank 8 of 16 shots from the floor and all six of her free throws for the Pilots (14-4, 4-2), who are off to their best start since the 1996-97 season. Lucy Cochrane scored 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting with five boards and five assists.
Fowler and Cochrane scored 12 points apiece to help Portland take a 39-27 lead at halftime. The Pilots took a 53-44 lead into the final quarter, but Paisley Harding scored seven in an 18-8 BYU run and her 3-pointer gave the Cougars a 62-61 lead with 3:44 left to play.
Portland answered with a layup from Pflug, a 3-pointer by Keeley Frawley and two free throws by Pflug to go up 68-62 with 2:07 left. Lauren Gustin’s rebound basket pulled BYU with four points at the 1:37 mark, but the Pilots hit 7 of 8 free throws from there to wrap up the win.
Shaylee Gonzales topped BYU (18-2, 8-1) with 16 points. Harding scored 13, while Gustin and Tegan Graham each had 12 points. Gustin added eight rebounds, while Graham had six boards and four assists.
The Cougars, who dropped to second place in the WCC with the loss, came in averaging 78.9 points per game – 12th-best in the country – and their scoring margin of plus-20.6 was fourth-best.
BYU will head from Portland to Spokane, Washington, to take on Gonzaga on Saturday with first place in the conference on the line.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)Olivia Miles scored 24 points and No. 20 Notre Dame pulled away in the second quarter and cruised to a 68-55 victory over Virginia Tech on Thursday night for its fifth straight win.
Miles scored eight of Notre Dame’s 16 second-quarter points for a 34-24 lead at the break. Virginia Tech pulled to 50-43 with 7:34 remaining in the game but didn’t get closer. Miles finished 8 of 14 from the field and made three of the Irish’s eight 3-pointers.
Sonia Citron added 11 points and seven rebounds for Notre Dame (18-4, 9-2 Atlantic Coast Conference). Maya Dodson had seven rebounds to go with six points, ending a career-high stretch of nine straight games scoring in double figures.
Notre Dame is 16-2 against Virginia Tech.
Kayana Traylor scored 13 of her 16 points in the second half to lead Virginia Tech (15-6, 7-3). Elizabeth Kitley had eight points and 12 rebounds.
Notre Dame plays at Florida State on Sunday. Virginia Tech, which has lost two of its last three games, hosts Boston College on Sunday.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP)Jenna Staiti scored 16 points, Que Morrison added 15 points and No. 14 Georgia beat Vanderbilt 71-56 on Thursday night.
Georgia had its lead cut to 49-47 early in the fourth quarter before going on a 14-2 run for a double-digit lead it would not relinquish. Malury Bates scored six points during the run, and Vanderbilt went five-plus minutes without a field goal in the fourth.
Bates finished with 12 points for Georgia (17-4, 6-3 SEC), which has won five of six with a loss to No. 5 Tennessee. The Lady Bulldogs shot 50% from the field despite going 2 of 16 from 3-point range.
Georgia held Vanderbilt without a field goal over the final six minutes of the first half, as the Commodores missed seven straight shots.
Brinae Alexander scored 13 points and Kaylon Smith added 12 points for Vanderbilt (12-11, 3-6). Demi Washington and Jordyn Cambridge each had 10 points.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)Jakia Brown-Turner scored 13 points and No. 3 North Carolina State bounced back from a loss this week to beat Florida State 68-48 on Thursday night.
Raina Perez added 11 points and a season high-tying eight assists to help N.C. State (20-3, 11-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) rebound from a loss at No. 20 Notre Dame on Tuesday night.
”I was just reading the defense better today and my teammates were just knocking down shots,” Perez said. ”I think in the Notre Dame game, we didn’t really read the defense and we didn’t really play inside-out. I think this game, we pushed the ball a little bit more.”
Elissa Cunane had 11 points and six rebounds, and Kai Crutchfield added 10 points for the Wolfpack.
Cunane’s points didn’t come easy though, as Florida State (10-10, 4-6) focused early on denying entry passes to the All-American in the post. She finished with seven shot attempts, making five of them. When Cunane didn’t get the ball, N.C. State utilized its 3-point weapons and shot 47.8% from deep.
”We were going to take away Cunane first and we did that,” Florida State coach Sue Semrau said. ”They’re so hard to guard because every one of them can shoot the 3. That spreads them out and you got to pick your poison.”
O’Mariah Gordon led Florida State with 12 points. Morgan Jones had nine points, three rebounds and three blocks.
The Seminoles jumped out to an early five-point lead, but the Wolfpack ended the first quarter on a 20-3 run. Perez had six points and four assists during that stretch.
N.C. State kept Florida State at bay for the rest of the game, never allowing the Seminoles to cut the deficit to less than five points in the final three quarters. The Wolfpack took their largest lead of the game at the 3:56 mark in the fourth quarter, starting the final period with an 8-2 run to pull ahead by 22 points.
The win for N.C. State was the third game it played in the span of five days.
”Good effort on a quick turnaround,” Wolfpack coach Wes Moore said. ”When we set the tone like that, I just think it’s contagious. Everybody feels more confident and comfortable. So, hopefully we continue to do that.”
BIG PICTURE
N.C. State: N.C. State’s 3-point shooting improved massively from its loss to Notre Dame. The Wolfpack shot just 5 of 20 from behind the arc against the Irish. On Thursday, N.C. State made six 3s in the first quarter, and finished with 11 makes from deep, tied for its second-most in a game this season.
Florida State: The last time Sue Semrau’s side didn’t go to the NCAA Tournament was 2012. Florida State started the season ranked No. 16 in the AP Poll, but now have a .500 record and haven’t won two straight games since early December, leaving their postseason hopes in doubt.
”We continued to fight tonight,” Semrau said. ”I feel like we made some great strides here against – what I think is – a Final Four team.”
STAT OF THE NIGHT
N.C. State played some of its best defense against Florida State, holding the Seminoles to 33.3% shooting from the floor. The Seminoles connected on just 18 shots, the second-least amount they’ve made in a game this season. It was the fourth time this season that N.C. State held an ACC opponent to less than 50 points.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
N.C. State is likely to fall from its No. 3 spot in the next AP Poll after its defeat at Notre Dame. Still, the Wolfpack’s resume should be strong enough to stay in consideration for a high ranking. N.C. State has beaten five other Top 25 teams this season, and hasn’t lost an ACC game at home in nearly two years.
TIP-INS
N.C. State sophomore Diamond Johnson played just 14 minutes and finished with zero points on three shot attempts. . Mike Petersen, an advisor to the Atlanta Dream, attended the game. The Dream have the third overall pick in the WNBA draft.
UP NEXT
N.C. State: Hosts No. 12 Georgia Tech on Monday.
Florida State: Hosts No. 20 Notre Dame on Sunday.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP)Aleksa Gulbe scored a career-high 28 points and No. 5 Indiana closed the game on a 14-0 run to complete an 80-70 comeback victory over Minnesota on Thursday night.
Gulbe was 4 for 4 from 3-point range, Grace Berger had 19 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists, and Nicole Cardano-Hillary added 14 for the Hoosiers (15-3).
”We’re still a team that’s trying to create some momentum for ourselves,” Indiana coach Teri Moren said. ”We’re playing a lot of different pieces. We’re playing different than we’re used to.”
Gulbe surpassed her previous high of 22 points, set against Norfolk State on Nov. 16.
”We rely on her on the defensive end, but really on the offensive end too,” Berger said. ”She’s been huge for us, especially these last few games.”
Sara Scalia scored 26 points for the Gophers (10-13), including shooting 7 for 12 from 3-point range, but couldn’t hit two late 3-pointers to bring her team back as Indiana’s final run closed out the last 4:26 of the game.
Berger said she was able to take charge late in the game because of Moren’s trust in her. Berger scored 11 of her points in the second half, adding five rebounds and five assists in the fourth quarter.
”Everything about Grace gives me confidence that she can take over a game whenever Grace decides to do that,” Moren said. ”From her work ethic to how competitive she is to her skillset, this kid is a pro.”
Both teams shot around 50% from the field, with Indiana shooting 51% and 7 for 14 from beyond the arc and Minnesota 45% (11 for 21).
The Hoosiers got late contributions from their reserves with Grace Waggoner giving Indiana a 71-70 lead. The layup was just her second field goal of the season.
Minnesota took a 37-36 lead into halftime after Indiana missed six of its last seven shots.
SHOWING UP
Due to snowy weather conditions, the game was played without fans at Assembly Hall, But roughly 20 Indiana students came to cheer on the team from behind the basket, adorned in banana costumes and candy stripes.
”I’m not really sure how they got in, I didn’t think they were allowed,” Berger said. ”It was definitely a pleasant little surprise when we walked out.”
BIG PICTURE
Minnesota: The Gophers couldn’t finish their second straight Big Ten victory after beating Wisconsin to end a four game losing streak.
Indiana: The Hoosiers bounced back after losing to No. 6 Michigan on Monday. The loss was Indiana’s first in conference play since Jan. 28, 2021, when it lost 78-70 to Ohio State.
UP NEXT
Minnesota: Returns home to play Michigan State on Sunday. Michigan State beat Minnesota 74-71 on Jan. 23.
Indiana: Welcomes Purdue to Bloomington. The in-state rivals met on Jan. 16, with Indiana winning 73-68 in overtime.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP)Angel Reese had 25 points and nine rebounds, Diamond Miller added 14 points and nine rebounds and No. 17 Maryland beat Michigan State 67-62 on Thursday night for its fourth straight victory.
Maryland’s second-leading scorer Ashley Owusu was helped off the court late in the first quarter after injuring her ankle. She was on the bench in the second half with crutches.
Shyanne Sellers, getting extended minutes due to Owusu’s absence, had nine points, seven rebounds, five assists and four steals for Maryland (16-6, 8-3 Big Ten).
Maryland had its lead cut to two points twice in the final three minutes, but Reese had an answer each time. Nia Clouden sank a long 3-pointer from the top of the key to pull within 62-60, but Reese made two free throws at the other end to regain a two-possession lead. Then after two Michigan State free throws, Reese made a basket in the lane with 25.9 left.
Clouden made a career-high six 3-pointers and scored 22 points for Michigan State (12-9, 6-4). Alisia Smith had 18 points and eight rebounds and Matilda Ekh scored 10.
Clouden closed the third quarter by banking in a 3-pointer at the buzzer to pull within 54-47.
TRAVEL ISSUES
Maryland flew to Michigan on Thursday morning after flights were postponed on Wednesday due to snow in the Midwest. The Terps return home for a Sunday matchup against Nebraska.
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CONWAY, Ark. (AP)Tishara Morehouse scored 19 points, Kendall Spray added 12 points and No. 22 Florida Gulf Coast made 17 3-pointers in beating Central Arkansas 71-44 on Thursday night for coach Karl Smesko’s 600th career win.
Smesko reached the milestone in just 726 games, faster than Pat Summitt (734 games), Tara VanDerveer (767), and C. Vivian Stringer (785).
Seventeen of FGCU’s 24 field goals were from distance. The Eagles attempted 52 3-pointers. Central Arkansas was held to 27.6% shooting and turned it over 15 times.
Kerstie Phills and Andrea Cecil each scored 10 points for Florida Gulf Coast (20-1, 9-0 Atlantic Sun Conference).
Morehouse, the ASUN player of the week, had 13 points in the first half to help FGCU lead 44-25. The Eagles were 10 of 28 from 3-point range while Central Arkansas was 1 of 4 and shot 25% overall. FGCU was 4 of 4 from inside the arc in the first half.
Lucy Ibeh had 13 points and 13 rebounds for Central Arkansas (8-12, 3-6). Hannah Langhi had 12 points and nine rebounds.
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ST. MARYS, Ga. — A son and his mother are dead after what the St. Marys Police Department believe was a murder-suicide incident Thursday night.
At approximately 11 p.m., officers of the St. Marys Police Department say they responded to a call of a possible shooting at the Hidden Bay Apartments.
On arrival, officers say they were met by coworkers of one of the victims and were told that the victim had not reported for work and was not answering his cell phone, which was very unusual.
After knocking on the door and receiving no answer, police say they looked in a window and observed what they thought was the victim lying on the floor.
Police entered the building and say they found two victims that appeared to have suffered a single gunshot wound each. Police say a handgun was also recovered at the scene.
Police secured the scene for investigation and notified the coroner’s office. The bodies of both victims were taken in for an autopsy.
Police say the victims in this case are Bonnie Coker, 54, and Eric Boswell, male, 24. They are reportedly mother and son, police say.
There is no evidence that this is the work of anyone who is still at large. Police are not searching for any other suspects.
Police say they are investigating this incident as a murder-suicide.
"The St. Marys Police Department offers its heartfelt condolences to the families of both victims in their time of loss," said the agency in a statement
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Tom Brady spent time chatting with Joe Burrow in his last interview before announcing his retirement.
Consider it passing the torch.
Saying there will never be another Brady is no exaggeration. He won seven Super Bowls, owns nearly every passing record, and set an unparalleled level of excellence for more than two decades before walking away still at the top of his game at age 44.
But despite losing the quarterback widely considered the greatest of all time, the NFL has plenty of young stars ready to fill the void.
Burrow gets the first crack at winning the first post-Brady Super Bowl when he leads the Cincinnati Bengals against the Los Angeles Rams next week.
The ultra-cool, super confident, 25-year-old Burrow joined Brady on his SiriusXM podcast Monday night.
”I don’t know if I can be in the conversation with this guy yet, but I’m going to work really hard to try, and I think we’re off to a great start and I’m really excited about the opportunity we have,” Burrow said.
Brady, who led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title last season, fell two wins short of getting a shot to repeat. He was effusive in his praise of Burrow.
”I think Joe has some tools that I didn’t quite have when I was his age, so super impressed by how he’s kinda come into the league, went to Cincinnati – which has been a tough place to play over the years – and two years into his career, after a really tough injury last year, showed a lot of mental and physical toughness coming back and having an incredible season,” Brady said.
”I always love watching quarterbacks, certainly young quarterbacks, because I feel like there’s certain ways to play the game and to play the game at a high level requires a huge commitment. And I think Joe, even when I saw him at LSU, he makes that commitment. It’s a great thing for me to see as someone who has played this game for a long time. Really happy for Joe and his team.”
Burrow, the No. 1 overall pick in 2020, made a remarkable comeback from ACL surgery during his rookie season to lead the Bengals to an AFC North title and first Super Bowl appearance in 33 years.
When he finished explaining how he gained enough confidence in his knee to start improvising midway through this season, Brady reminded him: ”I had a whole career of playing in the pocket, so I was never gonna make too many plays outside the pocket. It’s a great luxury to have, and I will say it’s much safer to be in the pocket than out of the pocket.”
Burrow was sacked 51 times in the regular season and went down nine more times in a win at Tennessee in the divisional round. His ability to withstand the pressure has impressed Brady.
”I love it because there’s very few ways to display toughness from a quarterback because we don’t play at the line of scrimmage, we don’t block, we don’t tackle, we don’t hit anybody. But the way we can show our toughness is to stand in the pocket, make throws and sometimes you get … knocked out …. and you gotta get up and go on to the next play,” Brady said.
”You don’t want to ever show anyone, `Man ,he really got me good on that.’ What I love about Joe’s game is Joe does just that. He gets knocked down, he gets up and he’s ready for the next play, and the team gains a lot of confidence in that. The team needs to know the quarterback is going to be there week in and week out. You have tough injuries like ACL injuries and you just can’t. That’s the reality of that injury but there’s a lot of things you can overcome.”
Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Drew Brees, Eli Manning and Philip Rivers now have retired, paving the way for a new generation of superstar QBs to dominate the sport for the next decade.
Patrick Mahomes already has won a Super Bowl, an NFL MVP award, and he’s played in four straight AFC title games. Lamar Jackson was NFL MVP in his second season. There’s Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Kyler Murray. Dak Prescott hasn’t turned 30 yet.
With a mix of youth and veterans like Matthew Stafford, Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson still around, the NFL is in good hands at QB even without its biggest icon.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is seeking the identify of a robbery suspect.
The person in the photos arrived and left the bank where the incident occurred in a large black car with distinctive markings.
If you have any information about the suspect's identity or the vehicle, please contact JSO at 904-630-0500 or JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org.
To leave an anonymous tip, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)AP source: Jacksonville Jaguars agree to hire Doug Pederson as head coach.
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WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A mother and father are facing murder and child abuse charges after a 9-month-old suffered fatal injuries in a parked RV at the Buc-ee’s in Warner Robins.
According to a news release, police responded to Buc-ee’s on Russell Parkway for a call of a child not breathing around 10 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30.
When they got to the scene, Shelly Rooks -- the mother of the 9-month-old boy -- said her husband dropped him while bathing him inside their parked RV.
The child was taken to the Medical Center, Atrium Health Navicent and then airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
The news release says an investigation found injuries on the child consistent with abuse, and the child’s parents were charged with child cruelty in Peach County. The infant’s two siblings, a 1 and 3-year-old, were taken into protective custody.
Investigators were told Friday that the child died from severe head injuries.
Charges were upgraded for the two parents: 40-year-old Christopher Scott Palmer (of New York) and 26-year-old Shelly Rooks (of Waynesville, Georgia).
Palmer is now charged with felony murder, aggravated battery, and child cruelty. Rooks is now charged with 2nd degree murder and child cruelty.
Warner Robins Police Chief John Wagner described the couple as "nomads" and said it's been difficult for investigators to track down their past.
The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 478-302-5380.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)The Jacksonville Jaguars hired Doug Pederson as their head coach Thursday night, ending a wild and winding search that ended up where it started more than a month ago.
Pederson, who led Philadelphia to its lone Super Bowl title, was Jacksonville’s first candidate interviewed when he met with owner Shad Khan and general manager Trent Baalke on Dec. 30. He waited more than month for a callback. He got a second interview Tuesday and landed the job two days later.
”Doug Pederson four years ago won a Super Bowl as head coach of a franchise in pursuit of its first world championship,” Khan said in a statement. ”I hope Doug can replicate that magic here in Jacksonville, but what is certain is his proven leadership and experience as a winning head coach in the National Football League.
”It’s exactly what our players deserve. Nothing less.”
The 54-year-old Pederson takes over for Urban Meyer, who was fired after 13 games and countless missteps in what will go down as one of the worst coaching tenures in NFL history. He joins Baalke in a pairing that’s sure to irk a vocal segment of the fan base.
Baalke remaining in his GM role caused some candidates to hesitate about the job and several former players to openly question Khan’s search. Running back Fred Taylor, receiver Jimmy Smith, safety Donovin Darius, guard Uche Nwaneri and kicker Josh Scobee expressed concern with the direction of the franchise.
Pederson ultimately got the nod over former NFL coaches Jim Caldwell and Bill O’Brien, current/former coordinators Byron Leftwich, Nathaniel Hackett, Matt Eberflus, Todd Bowles, Kellen Moore, and Jaguars offensive coordinator/interim head coach Darrell Bevell. Dallas defensive coordinator Dan Quinn declined an interview request, presumably because he preferred not to work with Baalke.
Discussions with Leftwich broke down for similar reasons, according to a person familiar with the process. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because both sides wanted to keep details private.
Former Las Vegas interim coach Rich Bisaccia and fired Denver coach Vic Fangio also interviewed and could end up being hired as coordinators.
Pederson led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl following the 2017 season and made the playoffs three times in five seasons. The Eagles went 4-11-1 in his final year.
Pederson was 51-34-1 in Philly, including 4-2 in the postseason. Before that, he served three seasons (2013-15) as Kansas City’s offensive coordinator and made the playoffs twice.
In Jacksonville, he’ll be tasked with ending the team’s woeful ways and getting the most out of quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
The Jags have dropped 35 of their last 41 games and have a league-high 10 losing seasons in the last 11 years. Lawrence, the No. 1 overall draft pick, finished his rookie campaign with 12 touchdown passes, a league-leading 17 interceptions, five fumbles and a passer rating (71.9) that was second-worst in the NFL ahead of only Zach Wilson of the New York Jets.
Jacksonville ranked last in the league in scoring (14.9 points a game) and 27th in yards (305.4 a game). The defense was slightly better, ranking 28th in points allowed (26.9) and 20th in yards (353.1).
Pederson seemed like one of the safest picks from the start of Jacksonville’s search, especially after Meyer’s yearlong mess, but Khan and Baalke appeared to be leaning toward younger offensive candidates to pair with Lawrence.
Leftwich and Hackett were considered the favorites. Leftwich landed a second interview last week, a face-to-face sit-down in Tampa. The sides continued talking the following day, but apparently hit a snag, presumably over Baalke’s role.
The Jaguars then scheduled a second interview with Hackett, but he took the Denver job before that could happen.
Jacksonville then rebooted its search and doubled back to Pederson. He was out of coaching this season after Philadelphia fired him on Jan. 11, 2021. The Eagles ranked 26th in scoring (20.9 points a game) and 28th in passing (207.9 yards a game) in his final season.
Pederson inherits a roster that lacks talent, but he does have the No. 1 pick in April’s draft and should have around $70 million in salary cap space.
Finding harmony with Baalke will be key. Baalke’s last five NFL seasons ended with a coaching change.
His resume includes failed tenures with Urban Meyer (2021), Doug Marrone (2020), Chip Kelly (2016), Jim Tomsula (2015) and Jim Harbaugh (2014).
The 57-year-old Baalke remained in place after Khan fired Meyer in mid-December, a move that irked fans enough for them to organize a ”clown out” protest for the season finale against Indianapolis. A few hundred fans showed up dressed in colorful wigs, oversized bowties and red noses.
Khan remained committed to Baalke after the ”clown out” and again after several candidates expressed reservations about working with him.
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The Beijing Organizing Committee kicked off the 2022 Winter Olympics with the opening ceremony on Feb. 4. Athletes from around the world will compete on snow and ice in and around Beijing for the next two weeks.
But will the athletes actually compete on real snow? Headlines in the week leading up to the start of Beijing 2022 have suggested otherwise, claiming the event will rely almost entirely on artificial snow.
THE QUESTION
Are the Beijing Olympics relying almost entirely on artificial snow?
THE SOURCES
- Sport Ecology Group
- Beijing 2022 Pre-Games Sustainability Report
- Study from Department of Geography and Environmental Management at University of Waterloo in Canada
- Noah Molotch, associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder
THE ANSWER
Yes, the Beijing Olympics are relying almost entirely on artificial snow.
WHAT WE FOUND
According to a report from the Sport Ecology Group, the 2022 Beijing Olympics will make history as the first Olympics on “virtually 100% artificial snow.” Noah Molotch, associate professor of geography hydrology at the University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in snow hydrology and a doctorate in hydrology, said this will be the first Winter Olympics to rely almost entirely on artificial snow and to knowingly plan to do so from the beginning.
“Many Olympic Games will rely on natural snowfall, but then hedge with artificial snow as needed to augment the natural snow,” Molotch said. “But in these particular games, they knew going in that it's a place that gets very little natural snowfall, and that they would rely exclusively on artificial snow.”
The Olympics’ use of artificial snow for the 2022 Games is confirmed in the Beijing 2022 Pre-Games Sustainability Report. The report explains strategies the Beijing Organizing Committee is attempting to reduce water consumption in the creation of artificial snow, although the report doesn’t confirm the extent to which the Beijing Games will rely on artificial snow.
The Sport Ecology Group said artificial snow has been used in the Winter Olympics since the 1980 games in Lake Placid. Molotch said the snow in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which were located in an unusually warm climate for the Winter Olympics, was 80% artificial.
“Artificial snow tends to be a lot more dense, a lot icier, a lot harder, more like concrete once it's formed on the ground; whereas natural snow can be more like powdery snow, lighter and fluffier,” Molotch said. “Natural snow can also become icy over time, but when it initially falls from the sky, it's quite light and fluffy.”
Artificial snow is good for keeping snow conditions consistent from the top to the bottom of a hill, making it good for downhill skiing and other competitions that rely on speed, Molotch said. For aerial events like the halfpipe, he said, artificial snow can be more hazardous to crashing athletes because of its firmness.
But there is no right formula of snow to eliminate hazards for the athletes. Molotch said that even a mixture of artificial snow and natural snow can become inconsistent on the surface and therefore unsafe as athletes scrape off and melt the top layer of natural snow over the course of a competitive day.
The athletes know the characteristics of the different snow mixtures and prepare appropriately to compete on the specific conditions they’ll face, Molotch said. And they likely have plenty of opportunities to practice on artificial snow.
“Ski resorts across the world rely heavily on artificial snow early in the snow season,” Molotch said. “And depending on where you are in the world, they may rely on it throughout the entire ski season.”
The Sport Ecology Group report estimates that 95% of ski resorts globally rely on snowmaking to some extent. The resorts use their artificial snow to ensure good quality conditions, prolong the ski season, or both.
One major issue with artificial snow is that it’s incredibly water-intensive to create. That’s why the Beijing Organizing Committee dedicated an entire section of their sustainability report to mitigating its impact on the local water supply. This includes its adoption of a “smart snowmaking system” that can be monitored in real-time with digital devices. The Beijing Organizing Committee believes it can save up to 20% of water in snowmaking by using this system.
The need for artificial snow might continue into future Winter Olympics because of climate change, according to the Sport Ecology Group report. A study published in Jan. 2022 led by researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada predicted that in the event of high levels of fossil fuel emissions, only four of the past 21 Winter Olympic host cities, including Beijing, will make for reliable winter host locations by 2050 because of poor natural snow conditions. The researchers believe just one host city — Sapporo, Japan — will still be a reliable host of the Winter Olympics by the end of the century.
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CHICAGO (AP)The Chicago Bears hired Minnesota Vikings assistant Andrew Janocko as their quarterbacks coach on Thursday.
Janocko joins new coach Matt Eberflus’ staff after spending the past seven years in a variety of roles under Mike Zimmer in Minnesota, most recently as the Vikings quarterbacks coach this past season. He replaces John DeFilippo, who was also Chicago’s pass game coordinator in 2021.
The Bears also hired Tyke Tolbert as wide receivers coach and pass game coordinator and David Overstreet II as assistant defensive backs coach. Tolbert has coached 19 years in the NFL – the past four as the New York Giants wide receivers coach. Overstreet spent the past four seasons in Indianapolis, as defensive quality control coach from 2018 to 2020 and defensive backs coach in 2021, while Eberflus was the Colts defensive coordinator.
Janocko goes from working with veteran Kirk Cousins to trying to get the most out of Justin Fields. Cousins threw for 4,221 yards with 33 touchdowns and seven interceptions this season. Fields had a shaky rookie season after being drafted out of Ohio State with the No. 11 overall pick, though he also showed some potential.
Janocko was an offensive quality control coach his first two seasons in Minnesota and assistant offensive line coach in 2017. He shared offensive line coaching duties with tight ends coach Clancy Baron in 2018 following the death of Tony Sparano, then went back to assistant offensive line coach in 2019 with the hiring of Rick Dennison.
He was promoted to receivers coach in 2020, and helped Justin Jefferson deliver a Pro Bowl rookie season with 1,400 yards and seven TDs on 88 receptions.
Janocko played college ball at Pittsburgh from 2007 to 2010. New Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy was a graduate assistant there in 2010 on Dave Wannstedt’s staff.
The Bears decided to make major changes following a 6-11 season, firing general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy. They hired new GM Ryan Poles out of Kansas City’s front office and Eberflus, hoping they can turn around a franchise mired in mediocrity the past decade.
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A possibility of an Amazon union is once again on the ballot. Workers in Alabama are beginning a re-vote in a new chapter of the historic push to form Amazon's first unionized U.S. warehouse.
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CINCINNATI (AP)Joe Burrow didn’t want to be a quarterback.
When the Bengals star signal-caller started out in football as a third-grader, he reasoned that since there wasn’t much passing at that level he’d get more action and contact as a running back or receiver.
”I didn’t pick quarterback,” Burrow said Thursday. ”I got to my first pee-wee practice and the coach at the time, coach Sam Smathers – I still see him all the time when I go back home – he basically asked me if I wanted to be quarterback, and I said, `No, not really.’ But then he said ‘Well, you’re gonna be quarterback. Too bad.”’
Smathers doesn’t specifically recall forcing Burrow to be the quarterback in his Wing-T offense, but he might have. It was a no-brainer, though, especially after he found out that little Joey was the son of Jimmy Burrow, who was the then-defensive coordinator under Frank Solich at Ohio University.
”We had a couple other kids who were bigger and could play the position, but the knowledge and football IQ I noticed in him at that age was pretty amazing,” said the 56-year-old Smathers, who lives across the street from the high school football field in Athens that has been renamed Joe Burrow Stadium. ”Then I found out who his dad was. Coming from a football family like that, I can understand where he’s getting it.
”He could remember the plays, the timing came easy with him, then we found out he could throw the ball really well,” Smathers said. ”That’s basically how it started – he had a good football IQ even in third grade.”
Good call. Burrow grew up to lead Athens High School – 2 1/2 hours east of Cincinnati – to a state championship game in 2014, throwing six touchdown passes in a 56-52 loss to Toledo Central Catholic. He won the Heisman Trophy and national championship at LSU before becoming the top overall pick in the 2020 draft. In his second NFL season, he’s got the Bengals in the Super Bowl.
Unlike brothers Peyton and Eli Manning, Super Bowl winners who were groomed by their father Archie to be quarterbacks from the time they could pick up a football, the 25-year-old Burrow started out wanting to play a position that required more grit and contact. He loved defense, too, playing cornerback in high school as much as his protective coach would allow.
After going down with a horrific knee injury in his rookie season with the Bengals, Burrow regained his stride his 2021. He broke franchise records in completing better than 70% of his passes in the regular season for 4,611 yards and 34 touchdowns. He made critical plays in Cincinnati’s three nail-biting playoff wins.
”Obviously I’m glad it worked out the way that it did,” Burrow said. ”This is my career. I don’t know if I’d be an NFL wide receiver. That’s probably a pipe dream. But I can play quarterback pretty well.
”And I think my favorite part about playing quarterback, there’s great players at every position in the NFL but I think only a few really affect the game in a drastic way,” he said. ”And I think quarterback is the one position on the field that can really affect the game on every single play. I like having the ball in my hands on every play and being able to win or lose with me.”
Bengals receiver Tyler Boyd said he’s glad Burrow found his way to quarterback, but he thinks the Cincinnati star probably would have made a serviceable wide receiver.
”Being the quarterback to me is being the best player on the field because they got to worry about the most stuff,” Boyd said. ”They got to diagnose the most information, and they got to help people line up or tell them what to do when they have brains farts or not knowing what’s going on. So I applaud anybody for playing quarterback, but I do believe that Joe could pull the receiver (thing) off.”
NOTES: The Bengals practiced in the indoor bubble at the University of Cincinnati Thursday with nearly a full complement of players, according to a pool report. The only one who didn’t participate was tight end C.J. Uzomah, who has a knee injury. … Defensive end Cam Sample (groin), wide receiver Stanley Morgan (hamstring) and defensive lineman Josh Tupou (knee) all took part, according to the report. … The Bengals will arrive in Los Angeles on Tuesdayahead of the Feb. 13 Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP)John Elway is refuting Brian Flores’ claim in a lawsuit that his interview with the Denver Broncos in 2019 was a sham and only conducted to satisfy the NFL’s Rooney Rule.
”While I was not planning to respond publicly to the false and defamatory claims by Brian Flores, I could not be silent any longer with my character, integrity and professionalism being attacked,” the Denver Broncos president of football operations said in a statement released by the team Thursday.
Elway said he seriously considered Flores, one of five candidates for the job that eventually went to then-Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio.
Flores, recently fired as head coach in Miami, named the Broncos, Dolphins and Giants along with the league in a lawsuit this weekalleging unfair hiring practices in the NFL.
In other developments, civil rights leaders called for a meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Steelers owner Art Rooney II defended the league’s commitment to diversity even while acknowledging that the two-decade-old Rooney Rule hasn’t produced more minority head coaches.
Flores said in his lawsuit that Elway, then the team’s general manager, and president/CEO Joe Ellis showed up an hour late for his interview at a Providence, Rhode Island hotel, and they ”looked completely disheveled and it was obvious that they had been drinking heavily the night before.”
Elway denied Flores’ contention he was hung over and just going through the motions to satisfy the league’s requirement that teams interview minority candidates for head coaching jobs.
”For Brian to make an assumption about my appearance and state of mind early that morning was subjective, hurtful and just plain wrong,” Elway said.
If he appeared disheveled, Elway said, ”it was because we had just flown in during the middle of the night” following an interview in Denver with another head coaching candidate, Mike Munchak, ”and were going on a few hours of sleep to meet the only window provided to us.”
At the time, Flores was the Patriots linebackers coach and defensive play caller. He was hired by the Dolphins shortly after his interview with the Broncos.
Elway said he enjoyed his 3+-hour interview with Flores and was ”prepared, ready and fully engaged … as Brian shared his experience and vision for our team. It’s unfortunate and shocking to learn for the first time this week that Brian felt differently about our interview with him.”
Among developments that drove Flores to file the lawsuit was a string of text messages with Patriots coach Bill Belichick three days before his scheduled Giants interview, leading Flores to believe Brian Daboll already had been chosen as their new coach.
The Giants said in a statement Thursday that their interest in Flores was ”serious and genuine” and they were disappointed to learn he felt otherwise.
Flores’ ”allegations about the legitimacy of his candidacy for our head coach position are disturbing and simply false,” the Giants said, adding they didn’t decide on Daboll until Jan. 28, one day after Flores’ second interview and daylong visit with the Giants.
”And to base that allegation on a text exchange with Bill Belichick in which he ultimately states that he `thinks’ Brian Daboll would get the job is irresponsible,” the Giants said, noting the text exchange occurred a day before Daboll’s in-person interview.
”Giants’ ownership would never hire a head coach based only on a 20-minute Zoom interview, which is all that Mr. Daboll had at that point,” the Giants said. ”In addition, Mr. Belichick does not speak for and has no affiliation with the Giants. Mr. Belichick’s text exchange provides no insight into what actually transpired during our head coaching search.”
The most serious allegation in the lawsuit is Flores’ contention that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross told him he would pay him $100,000 for every loss during the coach’s first season because he wanted the club to ”tank” so it could get the draft’s top pick.
The Dolphins went 5-11 that year and earned the fifth pick in the 2020 NFL draft. The Bengals went 2-14 and selected quarterback Joe Burrow with the top pick. In just his second season, Burrow has led Cincinnati to its first Super Bowl in 33 years. The Bengals face the Rams on Feb. 13.
Like Elway, Ross said he was driven to defend himself publicly.
”I am a man of honor and integrity and cannot let them stand without responding,” Ross said. ”I take great personal exception to these malicious attacks, and the truth must be known.”
He called Flores’ allegations in the lawsuit and a series of television interviews ”false, malicious, and defamatory.” Ross said the Dolphins welcome the NFL’s investigation into Flores’ allegations ”and we will cooperate fully.”
”I am eager to defend my personal integrity, and the integrity and values of the entire Miami Dolphins organization, from these baseless, unfair and disparaging claims,” Ross said.
Since the NFL implemented the Rooney Rule in 2003 to boost hiring of minority coaches, 27 of 127 head coaching jobs have gone to minorities. This year, white men have filled the first four of nine head coaching jobs with a fifth, Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell, expected to be hired by the Vikings after the Super Bowl.
Rooney II, whose late father Dan Rooney was the driving force behind the Rooney Rule, released a statement Thursday defending the rule and the league’s commitment to diversity. Rooney said there’s been ”marked improvement” in the hiring of women and minorities in other key leadership roles on coaching staffs and in the front office.
Mike Tomlin of the Steelers is the only Black head coach in a league where 70% of the players are non-white, and there are no Black owners in the NFL.
”This is an outrage at best, and requires your immediate attention,” the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders said in a letter Thursday calling for a meeting with Goodell to discuss the lack of diversity in owners suites and head coaching ranks.
The letter added that civil rights leaders ”are being asked to do everything within our power, including direct action at next week’s Super Bowl, as well as appealing to local municipalities that underwrite and give special considerations to stadiums to pressure the NFL and its owners to get more serious about enforcing the ruling law.”
Packers wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, who spoke to AP while promoting Six Star Pro Nutrition, said he applauds Flores for standing up to systemic racism in the NFL.
”It’s not just an NFL thing; it’s a world thing,” Valdes-Scantling said Thursday. ”This happens in everyday society. This happens in corporate America. This happens in every aspect of life. There’s systemic racism and I think that’s something that needs to be addressed, and I applaud him for standing up for himself and standing up for a bigger cause even though it may (hurt) his coaching career. But you’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.”
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AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner and Sports Writer Will Graves contributed.
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LOS ANGELES (AP)Matthew Stafford got a call this week from a childhood friend who knows a little something about waiting a long time to win his first championship.
Clayton Kershaw is hoping to be at SoFi Stadium next Sunday when Stafford leads the Los Angeles Rams (15-5) in search of the same long-sought title that Kershaw finally won with the Dodgers in 2020.
”He’s excited for me, which I appreciated,” Stafford said with a grin Thursday. ”We didn’t get too deep into what it’s like, what to expect. His job is so much different than mine. But he’s just excited. It’s just cool to be doing it in the same city as him.”
Kershaw and Stafford grew up together in the Dallas area and went to Highland Park High School, where Kershaw was Stafford’s football center for a time. Nearly 15 years after their lives and careers diverged, Stafford and Kershaw were brought back together in Los Angeles in 2021.
And Stafford is now hoping to follow in the footsteps of Kershaw, who also raised his first championship trophy in his 30s after a long career spent working toward the goal.
Stafford leads the Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium with the chance to complete one of the most impressive first-year runs by a quarterback in recent NFL history. After a dozen years in Detroit, Stafford has been the solution to most of the Rams’ offensive problems since he landed last spring with Sean McVay, Cooper Kupp and the teammates who have ridden his steady, effective play to their second Super Bowl appearance in four seasons.
”He’s elevated everybody around him,” McVay said after last Sunday’s win over San Francisco in the NFC championship game. ”He’s made me a better coach. He’s made his teammates better. He’s such a great person. I think you guys know from getting a chance to interact with him. If you don’t root for this guy, something’s wrong with you.”
This Super Bowl berth is not only the validation of Stafford’s decision to leave Detroit, but also the validation of the decision by McVay and general manager Les Snead to perform the elaborate machinations necessary to replace Jared Goff, who hadn’t even started the wildly lucrative four-year contract extension given to him by the Rams.
Stafford has passed for 905 yards in the Rams’ first three playoff games. If he gets 315 yards in the Super Bowl, he will pass Eli Manning’s single-season playoff record from 2011.
Not bad for a 33-year-old quarterback who had never won a playoff game before last month.
Kupp has turned into the most productive receiver in football while catching throws from Stafford – just as Calvin Johnson did when he was teamed with Stafford in Detroit. Kupp and Stafford have cemented their bond with their now-famous Breakfast Club – which is really just Kupp and Stafford watching film each morning at the Rams’ training complex while eating breakfast.
Stafford has maintained a steady focus and sturdy leadership throughout the Rams’ season, including a winless November in which Stafford threw a spate of interceptions that derailed his MVP candidacy.
The quarterback has taken advantage of an opportunity that looked like it might never arrive. Before he joined the Rams, the biggest single stage of his football career was arguably Georgia’s victory over Hawaii in the 2008 Sugar Bowl to complete an 11-2 season.
Stafford was humbled this week when he was reminded that his last chance to play for a championship was back at Highland Park in 2005.
”Man, I was young,” Stafford said with a smile. ”Didn’t know a whole lot. But we ran the rock great that day. Didn’t throw a touchdown pass. We won 59-0. So we ran it good, but I don’t spend too much time thinking about that. I think (the Super Bowl) is going to be a little bit different stage, but at the same time, just go out there and have fun and enjoy the moment. I’m going to enjoy Sunday in a couple of weeks.”
Despite his playoff inexperience, Stafford is quickly figuring out how to navigate the logistics of playing into February. The handling of ticket requests has been taken over by his wife, Kelly, while Stafford strives to focus solely on football.
Even if Kershaw doesn’t end up being among the group in the stands at SoFi, Stafford will still be supported by friends and family who know how far he traveled to this stage in Southern California.
”I’ve got a bunch of high school teammates and buddies that have come to a bunch of the playoff games and will come to this one as well,” Stafford said. ”They’ve moved on in their lives from the game of football, and I’m still lucky enough to get to do it. It’s pretty special.”
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A nurse who left her hospital job for much higher wages as a traveling nurse found the lifestyle hard on her family. But permanent jobs but those don't pay much better than they did pre-pandemic.
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Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC owner David Tepper and his wife Nicole made a $10 million investment in The CommonSpark campaign through their foundations, money that will be used to help fund the construction of a new uptown Charlotte public library.
The new main library building is expected to become a marquee destination that is constantly evolving and technology-infused and welcomes residents and visitors alike.
The new library will prioritize strengthening public engagement, supporting inclusive economic opportunity, and connecting community resources as well as creating equitable spaces that encourage collaboration and innovation.
Tepper, who is the son of a school teacher, said in a release Thursday that ”we are excited about being involved in the library project, which is an investment in opportunity and access for all.”
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)Kirill Kaprizov is headed to the All-Star game with a couple of special guests: his mom and dad.
His parents, able to see the Minnesota Wild left wing play in person for the first time since he entered the NHL, have found their son in a good place.
The Russia-to-U.S. transition for the Wild’s scoring leader, made more difficult by the global pandemic, has been about as smooth as the team and Kaprizov could have envisioned.
”You learn a little bit better on your own and you kind of figure things out and the interests that you have, but of course it’s always better when they’re around,” Kaprizov said through a translator after practice earlier this week.
His mother, Natalya, and his father, Oleg, met him in New York last weekend to watch the Wild face the Rangers and the Islanders, after they were relegated to watching the first 99 games of his NHL career – including the playoffs – via satellite or streaming.
When the Wild played Wednesday in Chicago, beating the Blackhawks 5-0 to improve to 9-0-1 in their last 10 games, the plan was for his parents to recover from their jet lag in Minnesota and have some home-cooked Russian food waiting for him upon his brief return.
Now they’re off to Las Vegas for All-Star weekend, with Kaprizov scheduled to take part in the breakaway event in the skills challenge on Friday before playing for the Central Division squad in the main event on Saturday.
Halfway into his second season, the slick-skating, stick-mastering 24-year-old has 19 goals and 34 assists to lead Minnesota in both categories. Linemates Ryan Hartman and Mats Zuccarello have proven to be excellent partners.
Kaprizov is eighth in the league with 53 points, putting him on pace to speed past the franchise record (83) set by Marian Gaborik in 2007-08. He’s also on track to break the Wild’s assists record (50) held by Pierre-Marc Bouchard (2007-08).
The on-ice production has hardly been in doubt around Kaprizov, who was available to the Wild in the fifth round of the 2015 draft because of his commitment to Russia. He played six seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League before coming to Minnesota.
Ensuring a comfortable existence off the ice for Kaprizov, as a non-English speaker now living thousands of miles from home in the era of virus-limited life, was a top priority for the organization.
”It’s definitely gotten a lot easier. I think that the language is a little bit easier,” Kaprizov said. ”You get to learn and meet new people. I get to go to some cool places, and people start recognizing me, or you make friends. It’s been a great experience and over time it’s just gotten easier, for sure.”
Fortunately for Kaprizov, he found a welcoming group with the Wild, a team chemistry that has only grown stronger this season. Everybody loves Kaprizov, who acquired the nickname ”Dollar Bill Kirill.” Following the buyouts of longtime pillars Zach Parise and Ryan Suter and the appointment of defenseman Jared Spurgeon to the captaincy, the locker room has taken on more of an egalitarian atmosphere as well.
That carries over to the ice, too. As prolific and productive of a player Kaprizov can be, providing that take-over-the-game potential the roster has lacked since Gaborik’s time, the strength of the Wild lies in their depth.
The bruising second line of Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Foligno and Jordan Greenway can score just as much as it can defend. On the third line, Kevin Fiala currently has a career-high 12-game point streak going to match the franchise record set by Mikael Granlund in 2017. Rookie Matt Boldy has thrived with Fiala, with 10 points in his first 10 games. Fourth-line center Nico Sturm is seventh on the team with eight goals.
The Wild are third in the NHL in goals per game (3.83) and fifth in the league in points percentage (.720). With 28 wins in 41 games, they’re tied for the most points in team history at the midpoint, matching the 2016-17 season.
”I guess I never really thought of it and how quickly we’d be able to get there. We’ve got good character guys that like being here. We’re very well-coached and the guys they show up and play hard every night. That’s the main thing,” general manager Bill Guerin said, adding: ”I had really high expectations for this club.”
Starting with Kaprizov.
”Obviously, things are great right now and I’m happy about that and we’re winning games and we’re playing well, but I think we can get even better,” Kaprizov said. ”So I’m really excited about what we can do with this team.”
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The Republican National Committee censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and in the censure document labeled the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol "legitimate political discourse."
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona’s offense, after flowing so well in the first half, hit a Bruins wall in the second. Good looks were hard to come by, every pass contested, the stretch without a field exceeding five minutes.
In stepped Kerr Kriisa. The Estonian guard who missed all 12 of his shots the first go-round against UCLA, calmly sank a 3-pointer with two minutes left, allowing the Wildcats space enough to pull out a hard-fought win.
Kriisa scored 16 points and hit that big 3-pointer, Dalen Terry flirted with a triple-double and No. 7 Arizona grinded out a 76-66 win over No. 3 UCLA on Thursday night.
“Playing at UCLA was good, gave him some battle scars, so to speak,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said of Kriisa. “Now he’s a little more grizzled, a little tougher, and that’s super important.”
Shut down by UCLA nine days earlier, the Wildcats (18-2, 8-1 Pac-12) had a good offensive flow in the first half, building a 12-point lead that stretched to 17 in the second.
The Bruins (16-3, 8-2) turned up the defensive pressure and slowed the game in the second half to chip the lead down to three. Kriisa soon answered with a 3 — Arizona’s only field goal in the final 7:04 — to make it 70-61 and the Wildcats made six straight free throws in the final 1:25 to win the rematch.
Kriisa threw the ball into the student section to celebrate the home win after being blown out in Southern California.
“Obviously, we were thinking about it,” said Terry, who finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. “I’m glad we came out on top and we were able to do it at home.”
UCLA gave Arizona nearly everything it wanted offensively in the first half, then took most of it away in the second. The Bruins cut a 17-point deficit to three with just under four minutes left, but missed some key shots down the stretch.
Jules Barnard scored 15 points for UCLA and Johnny Juzang had 12 after missing two games in COVID-19 protocols.
“They had better energy, especially to start the game,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said. “Defensively, we didn’t get the job done and they got comfortable. You can’t let them get comfortable offensively.”
UCLA won the first meeting 75-59 at Pauley Pavilion on Jan. 23 by slowing the pace and shutting down one of the nation’s top offenses.
Arizona got back to its free-flowing, fast-cutting ways against the Bruins early in the rematch. The Wildcats worked the hi-low for a couple of early baskets and hit consecutive 3s to cap a 12-0 run to go up 28-14 midway through the first half.
Arizona kept flowin’ and scorin,’ shooting 15 of 25 to lead 42-30 at halftime.
UCLA, after a good offensive start, struggled with Arizona’s pressure and aggressive switching. The Bruins labored to get good looks and shot 1 of 9 from behind the 3-point arc.
“We got a lot of good looks,” Cronin said. “They just weren’t falling.”
Bennedict Mathurin had the defensive highlight of the first half, rising up to block Bernard’s dunk attempt in transition and bringing the crowd to its feet with him.
Scoring was a little more difficult for the Wildcats in the second half, yet they were able to push back the Bruins nearly every time they tried to make a run, keeping the lead near double digits.
UCLA’s pressure finally started to wear down Arizona late in the second half. The Bruins held the Wildcats without a field goal for more than five minutes and used a 7-0 run to pull within 64-61.
Arizona wouldn’t let them any closer, with Kriisa’s 3 keying a strong finish.
BIG PICTURE
UCLA couldn’t slow the Wildcats in the first half, but was able to dictate the pace better in the second. It still wasn’t enough.
Arizona was at its offensive best in the first half, then labored against UCLA’s pressure but found a way to win. Beat No. 19 Southern California on Saturday and the Wildcats could find themselves back in the top 5 in Monday’s poll.
TUBELIS’ NIGHT
UCLA had a hard time stopping Azoulas Tubelis early, particularly on hi-low plays. The Arizona big man had 10 points in the first half and four more in the opening 2 1/2 minutes of the second.
Then he sat. Going with a defensive lineup that included 7-footers Christian Koloko and Oumar Ballo, Lloyd opted to keep Tubelis on the bench over the final 10:01. He finished with 14 points and five rebounds.
“Sometimes you just get a feel for something and ride it out,” Lloyd said. “That defensive lineup is tough.”
Ballo and Koloko combined for five of their seven blocked shots in the second half.
UP NEXT
UCLA: Plays at Arizona State on Saturday.
Arizona: Hosts No. 19 USC on Saturday.
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NPR's Tamara Keith talks with Irish comedian Maeve Higgins about her new book Tell Everyone on this Train I Love Them, which is a series of reflections on the various imperfections of America.
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BEIJING (AP) — When Madison Chock looks outside here in the Chinese capital, the U.S. Olympic ice dancer sees glimpses of herself.
“Every time I’m on the bus, I’m just looking out and studying the city and just imagining my roots are here, my ancestors are here,” says Chock, whose father is Chinese-Hawaiian, with family ties to rural China. “And it’s a very cool sense of belonging in a way, to just be on the same soil that your ancestors grew up on and spent their lives on.”
She adds: “It’s really special, and China holds a really special place in my heart.”
At the Beijing Winter Games, opening Friday, it’s a homecoming of sorts for one of the world’s most sprawling diasporas — often sweet and sometimes complicated, but always a reflection of who they are, where they come from and the Olympic spirit itself.
The modern Chinese diaspora dates to the 16th century, says Richard T. Chu, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Its members have ranged from the drivers of the colonial economy and laborer workforces on land and sea, to the highly educated who moved away for a chance at greater prosperity, to the unwanted baby girls adopted internationally during the government’s one-child policy.
“The Chinese diaspora is really very diverse, to the extent to that they maintain their Chinese-ness,” Chu says. “There’s no one kind of Chinese identity because each country has a unique kind of history.”
The question of ethnic Chinese identity is an especially delicate one for athletes with roots in Hong Kong and Taiwan. U.S. women’s singles figure skater Karen Chen, whose parents immigrated from Taiwan, says she identifies as both Taiwanese and Chinese, and uses those labels loosely and interchangeably.
Taiwan, which split from the mainland after a 1949 civil war that propelled the current Chinese government into power, is an island of 24 million people off China’s east coast. It functions in many ways like a country with its own government and military. But China claims Taiwan as its territory, and only 14 countries recognize Taiwan as a nation. Most nations of the world, including the United States, have official ties with China instead.
Chen’s self-identification is not uncommon among the Taiwanese, as many trace their heritage back to mainland China. Some 32% of the islanders identify themselves as both Chinese and Taiwanese, according to an annual survey by National Chengchi University in Taipei.
While in Beijing, she’s pledged to speak as much Mandarin as possible and is proud to give a nod to her heritage on the ice.
“My free program is to ‘Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto,’ which is such a famous and classical piece that came from China … it’s kind of a Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet,” Karen Chen says. “It definitely relates to my background.”
The many athletes of Chinese descent here at the Beijing Games represent the many variations of the diaspora: some are one, two or many generations removed; others are biracial and multicultural.
And even similar backgrounds can diverge on the Olympic stage. For example, Nathan Chen and Eileen Gu are two superstar athletes fronting the Winter Games. While both were born and raised in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants and have fond memories of spending time in their ancestral homeland, Chen is competing for the U.S. team as a medal contender in men’s singles figure skating, and Gu is the hotshot freestyle skier competing for China.
Gu has raised eyebrows for switching to the China team after training with the U.S. team, but the San Francisco native — who speaks fluent Mandarin and makes yearly trips to China with her mom — is clear-eyed about how she defines herself.
“When I’m in China, I’m Chinese,” Gu told the Olympic Channel in 2020. “When I’m in the U.S., I’m American.’
For some, the Olympics in Beijing is the first time they’ll set foot in China, an unforgettable professional accomplishment on top of a very personal milestone.
That’s the case for U.S. women’s singles figure skater Alysa Liu, whose father Arthur Liu also longs to visit China. The elder Liu left his home country in his 20s as a political refugee because he had protested the Communist government following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
“I so much want to go to the Games and go back to China to visit my hometown,” says Arthur Liu in a phone interview from his home base in California. “I so much want to go back to the village I grew up in, to go to the high school that I went to, the college I went to. I so much want to go and have the spicy noodles on the side of the street.”
Arthur Liu eventually settled in the Bay Area, put himself through law school and nurtured one of America’s most promising athletes. Now his Chinese-American daughter is set to make her Olympic debut in the women’s singles competition. He has no qualms about her competing in the Olympics in China, and no resentment toward a home country he still loves.
Like many biracial children, Alysa Liu used to wonder why she didn’t look like her parents though she has always identified as ethnically Chinese. Arthur Liu and his then-wife, who is also Chinese, decided to have children via surrogacy and sought white egg donors because Arthur Liu saw himself as a citizen of the world and wanted biracial children.
In a culture that can be xenophobic, Arthur Liu says his daughter is warmly embraced by his home country, as Chinese fans and media consider Alysa Liu to be one of their own.
“I’m super happy the Chinese people welcome her and think highly of her,” Arthur Liu says.
The Olympics will also be the first time Josh Ho-Sang, the multiracial, multicultural Canadian ice hockey player, will visit China.
His paternal great-grandfather moved from mainland China to what is modern-day Hong Kong for business opportunities, then fell in love on vacation in Jamaica, which makes the Canadian hockey team forward one-eighth Chinese. From his mother’s side, Ho-Sang’s heritage is rooted in European, South American and Jewish cultures. For him to represent Canada as a “melting pot poster boy” is a testament to how inclusive the Olympic spirit has become.
“It really shows how far we’ve come as a society, to have these different faces representing home for everyone,” Ho-Sang says. “A hundred years ago, you would never see such diversity in each country that you see now. It’s a sign of hope and progress.”
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The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics began Friday in Beijing with all of the glitz of past Games, though the stadium was nearly empty of spectators because of COVID concerns.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Stafford got a call this week from a childhood friend who knows a little something about waiting a long time to win his first championship.
Clayton Kershaw is hoping to be at SoFi Stadium next Sunday when Stafford leads the Los Angeles Rams (15-5) in search of the same long-sought title that Kershaw finally won with the Dodgers in 2020.
“He’s excited for me, which I appreciated,” Stafford said with a grin Thursday. “We didn’t get too deep into what it’s like, what to expect. His job is so much different than mine. But he’s just excited. It’s just cool to be doing it in the same city as him.”
Kershaw and Stafford grew up together in the Dallas area and went to Highland Park High School, where Kershaw was Stafford’s football center for a time. Nearly 15 years after their lives and careers diverged, Stafford and Kershaw were brought back together in Los Angeles in 2021.
And Stafford is now hoping to follow in the footsteps of Kershaw, who also raised his first championship trophy in his 30s after a long career spent working toward the goal.
Stafford leads the Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium with the chance to complete one of the most impressive first-year runs by a quarterback in recent NFL history. After a dozen years in Detroit, Stafford has been the solution to most of the Rams’ offensive problems since he landed last spring with Sean McVay, Cooper Kupp and the teammates who have ridden his steady, effective play to their second Super Bowl appearance in four seasons.
“He’s elevated everybody around him,” McVay said after last Sunday’s win over San Francisco in the NFC championship game. “He’s made me a better coach. He’s made his teammates better. He’s such a great person. I think you guys know from getting a chance to interact with him. If you don’t root for this guy, something’s wrong with you.”
This Super Bowl berth is not only the validation of Stafford’s decision to leave Detroit, but also the validation of the decision by McVay and general manager Les Snead to perform the elaborate machinations necessary to replace Jared Goff, who hadn’t even started the wildly lucrative four-year contract extension given to him by the Rams.
Stafford has passed for 905 yards in the Rams’ first three playoff games. If he gets 315 yards in the Super Bowl, he will pass Eli Manning’s single-season playoff record from 2011.
Not bad for a 33-year-old quarterback who had never won a playoff game before last month.
Kupp has turned into the most productive receiver in football while catching throws from Stafford — just as Calvin Johnson did when he was teamed with Stafford in Detroit. Kupp and Stafford have cemented their bond with their now-famous Breakfast Club — which is really just Kupp and Stafford watching film each morning at the Rams’ training complex while eating breakfast.
Stafford has maintained a steady focus and sturdy leadership throughout the Rams’ season, including a winless November in which Stafford threw a spate of interceptions that derailed his MVP candidacy.
The quarterback has taken advantage of an opportunity that looked like it might never arrive. Before he joined the Rams, the biggest single stage of his football career was arguably Georgia’s victory over Hawaii in the 2008 Sugar Bowl to complete an 11-2 season.
Stafford was humbled this week when he was reminded that his last chance to play for a championship was back at Highland Park in 2005.
“Man, I was young,” Stafford said with a smile. “Didn’t know a whole lot. But we ran the rock great that day. Didn’t throw a touchdown pass. We won 59-0. So we ran it good, but I don’t spend too much time thinking about that. I think (the Super Bowl) is going to be a little bit different stage, but at the same time, just go out there and have fun and enjoy the moment. I’m going to enjoy Sunday in a couple of weeks.”
Despite his playoff inexperience, Stafford is quickly figuring out how to navigate the logistics of playing into February. The handling of ticket requests has been taken over by his wife, Kelly, while Stafford strives to focus solely on football.
Even if Kershaw doesn’t end up being among the group in the stands at SoFi, Stafford will still be supported by friends and family who know how far he traveled to this stage in Southern California.
“I’ve got a bunch of high school teammates and buddies that have come to a bunch of the playoff games and will come to this one as well,” Stafford said. “They’ve moved on in their lives from the game of football, and I’m still lucky enough to get to do it. It’s pretty special.”
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The U.S. has reached 900,000 deaths from COVID-19 By Rob Stein Published February 4, 2022 at 3:16 PM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:41 The U.S. has hit more than 900,000 deaths from COVID-19 — yet another once-unimaginable new toll. And the number of people dying every day is still rising. Copyright 2022 NPR
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WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Robin Herman, a gender barrier-breaking reporter for The New York Times who was the first female journalist to interview players in the locker room after an NHL game, has died. She was 70.
Her husband, Paul Horvitz, told the newspaper Herman died Tuesday at their home in the Boston suburb of Waltham, Massachusetts, from ovarian cancer.
“Robin was a Swiss Army Knife reporter. She covered fires and AIDS, gold madness in the Diamond District and Iran hostages, homelessness and hippie communal living,” the former Times editor recalled in a series of tweets Thursday as condolences and remembrances poured in on social media.
Herman was a hockey reporter covering the New York Islanders when she and another female reporter were allowed to interview players in the locker room — as their male counterparts were commonly permitted to do — following the 1975 All-Star Game in Montreal, Canada.
Herman, in a piece for the Times a few weeks later, recalled how she’d hoped her “mini sports history” moment would go quietly unnoticed. Instead, the locker room quickly devolved into a “circus scene” as “players scrambled for towels and photographers scrambled for cameras” and the two female reporters suddenly were “the news of the hour,” she wrote.
“It was an important moment, for it loudly heralded the fact that female sportswriters are a reality and that they must be dealt with,” Herman wrote.
Herman went on to other assignments at the Times, later wrote for The International Herald Tribune and worked at The Washington Post in its health section. She also wrote the 1990 book “Fusion: The Search for Endless Energy.”
Herman became assistant dean for communications at Harvard University’s School of Public Health in 1999 and retired in 2012.
“Robin helped pave the way for so many women in sports by breaking numerous gender barriers that allowed us to follow in her footsteps,” the Association for Women in Sports Media tweeted.
Born in 1951 in New York City, Herman achieved other firsts in her lifetime: Herman was also part of the first Princeton University class that admitted women.
Besides her husband, she leaves two adult children and other relatives. The Boston Globe reportsHerman will be laid to rest at a cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a gathering of remembrance will be held later.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball asked a federal mediator to intervene in stalled labor negotiations that likely will put off the start of spring training.
On the 64th day of a lockout, MLB Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem asked Thursday for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to enter the dispute.
The players’ association must agree for the conciliation service to enter talks. The union declined to comment, and its lawyers were expected to consult with players.
There was little movement in the last negotiating session on Tuesday, leaving almost no hope spring training workouts will start as scheduled on Feb. 16. Baseball’s ninth work stoppage, its first since 1995, will soon threaten opening day on March 31.
Players made a new proposal with small changes Tuesday during the first negotiating session in a week, and management has not responded.
The federal mediation service entered the 1981 talks, and mediator Kenneth Moffett helped reach a deal that ended a midseason strike after 50 days, a stoppage that resulted in 713 canceled games.
“It is done in a fishbowl,” Moffett told The Associated Press in 1994. “Every statement, every press release — anything — is for public consumption. In most negotiations, you don’t hear a peep until there’s a settlement.”
Moffett succeeded Marvin Miller as executive director of the players’ association in 1983 but was fired after 10 1/2 months. Moffett died last December at age 90.
After another strike began on Aug. 12, 1994, and led to the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years, President Bill Clinton picked former Labor Secretary W. J. Usery to mediate the dispute.
While Usery cajoled the sides into resuming talks, neither party found his presence productive in what has become a highly technical labor contract whose practices and effects outsiders have difficulty comprehending.
After Usery brought both sides to the White House and made suggestions for a settlement, the intransigent stances of both sides left Clinton “exasperated,” White House spokesman Mike McCurry said.
The 1994-95 strike ended on April 2, two days after the National Labor Relations Board obtained an injunction from U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor to restore the terms and conditions of the expired contract. A new deal was not reached until March 1997, long after Usery had departed the talks.
Gregory Goldstein was appointed as acting director of the FMCS on Dec. 22 by President Joe Biden. Javier Ramirez, the FMCS executive manager of the division of agency initiatives, was nominated by Biden to be director last June 9 but has not been confirmed by the Senate.
The FMCS assisted in talks during the 2011 NFL lockout and the 2011 NBA lockout, the 2012-13 NHL lockout, the 2015 Major League Soccer negotiations with its players and 2014 MLS negotiations with on-field officials.
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The U.S. has crossed yet another tragic landmark in the ongoing battle against COVID-19. On Friday, the country surpassed 900,000 deaths from the disease, two years after the first COVID-19 cluster was reported in Wuhan, China. Public health experts say coming close to the 1 million death mark from the virus is "inevitable."
"It's absolutely staggering," said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked the number of COVID-19 deaths during the pandemic. "It's unreal, frankly. And what makes it an even ... greater heartbreak — as if the loss of 900,000 souls weren't enough of a heartbreak — is the fact that it's probably an undercount of the number of people that we've lost."
University of Texas at Austin professor and epidemiologist Lauren Ancel Meyers said the "horrible milestone" didn't have to happen.
"It was not inevitable. There are things that we could have done and should have done ... to protect those who were most vulnerable." she said. "It's a very sad day."
Daily deaths remain high even as overall case numbers dip
The rolling seven-day average for daily COVID-19 deaths has been above 2,000 since Jan. 23, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's nearly three times higher than November when the agency was reporting a seven-day average of 700 deaths.
Vaccines are preventing most severe disease and death
As COVID vaccines have become widely available for Americans, the number of those who have received at least one dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine continues to increase.
However, the percentage of fully vaccinated Americans is still relatively low at approximately 64%. Amid the the most recent surge of the now dominant variant omicron, unvaccinated people were 97 times more likely to die compared to those who were boosted, according to data cited this week by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
Public health experts note that broader vaccination and boosting would have reduced the number of deaths. "We would have at least 300,000 fewer deaths. Probably more ... than that," if the early pace of vaccination had been sustained, said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. "But at least 300,000 Americans who have perished would still be with us. It's tragic."
According to the latest CDC data, 41% of Americans have received a booster.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Devin Booker and Chris Paul were chosen Thursday as reserves for the NBA All-Star Game, giving the NBA-leading Phoenix Suns two selections.
The Utah Jazz also got a pair with Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, but the Cleveland Cavaliers had to settle for one player in the game they will host Feb. 20.
Guard Darius Garland will represent the Cavaliers but center Jarrett Allen was not among the seven players from the Eastern Conference.
The other reserves from the Western Conference were Luka Doncic of Dallas, Karl-Anthony Towns of Minnesota and Draymond Green of Golden State.
The remainder of the players from the East were Boston’s Jayson Tatum, Brooklyn’s James Harden, Chicago’s Zach LaVine, Toronto’s Fred VanVleet, Miami’s Jimmy Butler and Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton.
Reserves were voted on by the head coaches from each conference, who could not vote for players from their own teams.
The starter pool in the Eastern Conference announced last week included Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant, Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid in the frontcourt, along with Atlanta’s Trae Young and Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan.
In the West, it’s LeBron James, Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins, NBA MVP Nikola Jokic of Denver and Memphis guard Ja Morant.
James and Durant, as the leading vote-getters in each conference, will be captains who draft rosters for the game, though their own status for playing in it is unknown. Durant remains out with a sprained left knee ligament, while James is sidelined with a less severe knee injury.
The draft is Feb. 10. James will choose first from the pool of starters as the player who received the most total votes, while Durant has the first choice among reserves.
Green is also injured. Commissioner Adam Silver makes the selections to replace players who are unable to play.
That could open the door for yet another player from the Suns, who entered play with a 41-9 record. Mikal Bridges or Deandre Ayton could be one of the players that would be considered.
As it is, the Suns will send coach Monty Williams, who will lead Team LeBron, and now Paul and Booker. It’s the 12th selection for Paul, the career leader in assists in the All-Star Game, and the third in a row for Booker.
It’s also the third straight appearance for both Mitchell and Gobert, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year.
Garland is the first Cavaliers All-Star since both James and Kevin Love were selected in 2018. He is the only player besides Jokic averaging at least 19 points and 7.0 assists on at least 46% shooting.
Allen was among the group of East hopefuls who fell short that included Charlotte teammates LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges, and Miami’s Tyler Herro.
But Harden made it for the 10th straight time and VanVleet the first, while LaVine joins DeRozan in giving Chicago two All-Star guards.
The NBA champions also have two All-Stars, with Middleton joining Antetokounmpo for the third time.
The Team Durant coach is still to be determined. It will be the coach of the team with the best winning percentage among East teams through Sunday’s games. Chicago currently tops the conference.
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NEW YORK — Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former President Donald Trump.
Avenatti, who acted as his own lawyer, stared straight ahead as the verdict was read. It was another crushing defeat for the California lawyer, who has faced legal problems after briefly rising to fame as one of Trump's leading antagonists on cable news.
"I'm very disappointed in the jury's verdict," Avenatti told reporters outside the federal courtroom in New York. "I'm looking forward to a full adjudication of all the issues on appeal."
U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman ordered Avenatti to surrender Monday to U.S. marshals in California. Avenatti has delayed serving a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for his 2020 conviction in an extortion case while waiting for the book proceeds trial and the retrial of a fraud case in a California federal court.
Sentencing was set for May 24. Prosecutors said it was likely that Daniels will speak at sentencing.
The verdict came hours after the jury foreperson sent a note to the judge saying one juror was refusing to look at evidence and was deciding the case based on her feelings and emotions.
"She does not believe she needs to prove her side using evidence and refuses to show us how she has come to her conclusion," the note said. "Not going on any evidence, all emotions and does not understand this job of a jury."
But the verdict was unanimous.
Avenatti represented himself at the trial
It capped an unusual trial in which Avenatti dumped his lawyers and decided to represent himself on the trial's second day, setting up a face-to-face showdown with Daniels, his former client, who appeared in a new role as star witness.
Avenatti said after the verdict that he did not regret representing himself.
Prosecutors portrayed Avenatti as a common thief and serial liar. He countered by seeking to cast himself as a white knight who came to the rescue of Daniels until she turned on him.
Over two days of cross-examination, he questioned her about the allegations that he'd swindled her out of book proceeds — and about ghost stories she'd told for a possible show about the supernatural world.
He is awaiting a retrial in a separate case
In addition to the sentence he has yet to begin serving for trying to extort up to $25 million from sportswear giant Nike, he is awaiting a retrial in Los Angeles on charges that he ripped off clients and others for millions of dollars. He represented himself last year for six weeks before a mistrial resulted.
Daniels had initially hired Avenatti as she was trying to escape the terms of a $130,000 hush payment deal that kept her from speaking publicly about an alleged sexual encounter that Trump says never happened.
Avenatti parlayed his representation with Daniels into a string of cable news appearances in which he mocked and baited Trump.
When Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, was raided by the FBI in connection with tax evasion and payments made to women on Trump's behalf, Avenatti contributed to the spectacle by bringing Daniels to the federal courthouse.
The relationship between the two fell apart after Daniels said she learned that Avenatti had taken a share of her $800,000 book deal for himself.
Avenatti insisted he was innocent of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
He confronted Daniels on the witness stand
After opening statements and two trial witnesses, he shed his lawyers and confronted witnesses himself, setting up his questioning of Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford.
Avenatti asked her about things she'd said for a potential program called "Spooky Babes" about living in a haunted house in New Orleans.
Among other things, Daniels had talked about an invisible assailant attacking her partner and communicating with dead people and with a doll who calls her "mommy."
Prosecutors argued Avenatti was trying to portray Daniels as crazy — what they called a "blame-the-victim" defense that failed to support his claim he was owed the money after spending millions of dollars representing Daniels.
"Whether you think it's kooky to believe in the paranormal, whether you think it's weird, she can believe whatever she wants and still be stolen from by the defendant and still deserve not to," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mathew Podolsky told the jury.
Text messages, prosecutors said, showed that Avenatti repeatedly lied to Daniels in 2018 when she pressed him on when she would get a large installment she was owed on the book deal. They said he'd already spent the money on airfare, food and payroll for his debt-ridden law firm.
Podolsky likened Avenatti to a store cashier taking $1,000 out of a register because he believed he'd worked really hard and deserved a bonus.
Avenatti argued at the conclusion of the two-week trial that the government failed to prove its case.
"I'm Italian. I like Italian food. Ladies and gentlemen, the case that the government is trying to feed you has a giant cockroach in the middle of the plate," he told the jury. "Would you eat that dish or would you send it back? I submit that you would send it back."
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A correspondent in Beijing for Dutch national broadcaster NOS was manhandled away from his camera during a live news show shortly before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Sjoerd den Daas, the NOS correspondent in China, was speaking to the camera when security officials pushed him away.
Den Daas remained calm and told the anchor in the Netherlands, “I fear we will have to come back to you later.”
The broadcaster says in a tweet that “sadly, this is increasingly the daily reality for journalists in China.” It adds that Den Daas is fine and was able to “complete his story a few minutes later.”
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The Olympic flame has now officially arrived at the Beijing Games.
An opening ceremony on a frosty night had a fiery conclusion Friday, when the flame was placed inside a giant snowflake to give China’s first Winter Olympics the symbolic opening — followed by the third major fireworks show of the night.
The snowflake was composed of placards used to introduce the athletes from the 91 different nations that will compete in China through Feb. 20. There was no cauldron to light, the traditional ending to most opening ceremonies.
Competition in some events started Wednesday and Saturday is the first full day of events at the games, with the first medals to be awarded.
It took the flame more than three months to finally make its way to the games. It was lit on Oct. 18 in Ancient Olympia, Greece, the official start of its journey to China.
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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach has spoken at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games, thanking those around the globe who he says have gone “beyond the call of duty” to make the events happen as a global pandemic continues raging.
These Olympics are the second to take place during the COVID-19 pandemic, after the Tokyo Games last summer.
Bach talked about how the Olympics highlight “ambition, courage and strength.” He likened those qualities to what China has done to grow Olympic winter sports to its residents.
Bach also addressed the athletes of the Beijing Games directly, saying: “Dear fellow Olympians, your Olympic stage is set. You have arrived here after overcoming so many challenges. … But now your moment has come, the moment you have been longing for, the moment we all have been longing for. Now your Olympic dream is coming true.”
Bach’s remarks immediately preceded the games being officially opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping, his words prompting the setting off of fireworks that lit up the sky over the Bird’s Nest.
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President Xi Jinping stood and waved as the Chinese delegation entered the Bird’s Nest to complete the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Games.
The host nation always is the last team announced in the parade, and there were loud roars and flag-waving throughout the stadium as the Chinese athletes made their way into the event.
The Chinese have about 175 athletes expected to compete in the Olympics. They are traditionally not a winter-sports power, though are expected to have opportunities in Beijing to add to the nation’s all-time total of 13 winter golds.
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Saudi Arabia has made its first appearance at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony after alpine skier Fayik Abdi qualified to compete.
Its small delegation hoisted the Middle East kingdom’s green and white flag while wearing what appeared to be cold-weather versions of the country’s traditional ankle-length national dress.
Also making its first appearance is the Caribbean island nation of Haiti. It is being represented by alpine skier Richardson Viano, who was adopted by Italian parents and raised in France.
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It has become an Olympic tradition: the shirtless athlete in the opening ceremony.
And Tonga’s Pita Taufatofua now has some company.
Meet Nathan Crumpton. Born in Kenya, resident of Utah, graduate of Princeton, skeleton athlete formerly with the U.S. and now competing for American Samoa — and he grabbed attention Friday night at the Beijing Games, by walking in shirtless and underterred by a temperature of minus 5 C (23 F).
Taufatofua wasn’t at these Olympics, ending his streak of three consecutive games — both summer and winter — representing Tonga. He is currently trying to lead relief efforts there after a tsunami caused catastropic damage.
Crumpton carried the (shirtless) flag. He also competed for American Samoa in track and field at the Tokyo Games last summer. His mother’s family background allowed him to switch his athletic allegiance to American Samoa in 2019.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin cheered on his nation’s athletes at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, making the trip to Beijing as tens of thousands of Russian troops are poised for a possible invasion of Ukraine.
Putin is one of the most prominent world leaders attending Friday’s ceremony. The United States and Japan, as well as some other nations, staged a diplomatic boycott of the games.
The Russian leader stood and waved to his nation’s athletes as they entered the stadium. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who met with Putin earlier Friday in Beijing, also clapped for the Russian team.
The athletes from Russia, a winter sports powerhouse, were introduced and are competing again at the Olympics as the “Russian Olympic Committee” — part of the sanctions levied after numerous doping scandals. Any Russian athlete who wins a gold medal at the games will hear the Olympic anthem instead of that of their home nation.
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At least two of the women who would have been flagbearers at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics were not in the parade of athletes on Friday night because of virus-related issues.
U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor had to give up her spot to speedskater Brittany Bowe. Meyers Taylor remains in isolation after a positive test.
And Friday, U.S. Virgin Islands skeleton athlete Katie Tannenbaum revealed that she, too, has tested positive for COVID-19. The Virgin Islands flag was being carried into the stadium by a volunteer.
Tannenbaum is the only athlete representing the Virgin Islands in Beijing at these games. Her coach, Alex Auer, and the nation’s Chef de Mission, Ansen Siglar, were walking to represent the team.
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At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, no detail is overlooked.
Every nation is being led into the stadium by someone carrying a glowing snowflake-shaped placard bearing that country’s name. And each of the snowflakes, when put back together, would form a larger snowflake.
The placard bearers’ costumes has an ice-and-snow pattern, and their hats have a tiger motif — because this year is the year of the tiger in China.
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The parade of athletes at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics has started.
It’s expected to take about an hour. Representatives from 91 nations are taking part, including about 80% of the U.S. delegation of athletes.
As always at an Olympics, Greece is the first nation to enter the stadium. From there, it goes alphabetically — but by the language of the host country.
That’s why Greece will be followed by, in order, Turkey, Malta, Madagascar, Malaysia, Ecuador, Eritrea, Jamaica, Belgium and then Japan.
The U.S. is 56th in the order, which would be confusing to those thinking it’ll go according to the English alphabet. The U.S. group will be between Bulgaria and American Samoa.
The team of Russian athletes will be the official midpoint of the parade. They’re here competing under the Olympic emblem and not the Russian flag, part of the sanctions handed down to that nation’s Olympic committee for doping scandals such as the one that overshadowed the 2014 Sochi Games.
Tradition also dictates who the last two teams in the parade are. Italy — the host of the next Winter Games in 2026 — will enter next-to-last, and then China will close the parade with its delegation.
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In China, Friday was “Lichun” — which translates to the beginning of spring.
And in this case, the start of the Winter Olympics.
“Beginning of Spring” is the first of the 24 solar terms of the year, and that number — 24 — carried significance in the early moments of the opening ceremony of these Beijing Games. Organizers say it reflects “the Chinese people’s understanding of time,” also noting that these were the 24th Winter Olympics.
The celebration of the lunar terms was punctuated by the first of what will be multiple pyrotechnic displays at the Bird’s Nest — including using fireworks to spell out the word “Spring.”
It’s also a Chinese belief that extreme cold breeds new life. Temperatures fell below the freezing mark as the ceremony went along; perhaps not extreme cold, but certainly a chilly start to the Beijing Games.
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The opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics is set to begin, with Chinese President Xi Jinping and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach now having entered the Bird’s Nest.
The Chinese officially refer to the place as National Stadium — it’s the ‘Bird’s Nest’ because of its design, the web of steel resembling the way branches would be turned into a nest. It becomes the first facility to ever play host to the opening of both a summer and winter games, after it also was where the 2008 Olympics began.
Track and field was contested at the Bird’s Nest then, those games being the ones where Usain Bolt’s reign as the greatest Olympic sprinter began with his world-record times in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
Athletes from 91 nations are expected to march in the ceremony, including four from the island of Taiwan — which, for the Olympics and most international sporting events, is referred to as Chinese Taipei.
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Nordic combined superstar Eric Frenzel and teammate Terence Weber have tested positive for COVID-19 twice in Beijing, landing them in an isolation hotel.
Frenzel won gold on the normal hill at the 2018 Olympics — as he did at the Sochi Games — and also earned gold in the team competition as well as a silver on the large hill, giving him six Olympic medals in his career.
Frenzel is one medal away from matching the Nordic combined record of seven set by Felix Gottwald of Austria. He is tied for the all-time lead in the sport with three golds, matching Gottwald, Finland’s Samppa Lajunen and Ulrich Wehling of Germany.
Frenzel is No. 5 in World Cup standings, and Weber is seventh. “Both still have the chance to come back!” team spokesman Florian Schwarz wrote in an email Friday night.
Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber, ranked No. 2 in the world, also tested positive for COVID-19 and seemed to indicate he was out for the Beijing Games. Riiber posted on Instagram “the (gold) is yours guys.”
The first Nordic combined event at the Beijing Games is Wednesday.
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Finland women’s hockey coach Pasi Mustonen is leaving the Beijing Winter Games to return home and attend to a family emergency.
General manager Tuula Puputti tells The Associated Press that assistant coach Juuso Toivola will assume head-coaching duties. The switch comes a day after Finland opened the tournament with a 5-2 loss to the United States.
Finland is scheduled to play Canada on Saturday.
Mustonen took over in 2014 and coached the Finns to a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Games. The nation then won its first silver medal at the 2019 world championships on home soil following a 2-1 shootout loss to the Americans.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for the opening of the Olympic Games. He’ll also hold talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as the two leaders look to project themselves as a counterweight to the U.S. and its allies.
The Russian leader’s visit comes amid growing Chinese support for Moscow in its dispute with Ukraine that threatens to break out into armed conflict.
Putin’s presence makes him the highest-profile guest at the event following the decision by the U.S., Britain and others not to send officials in protest over China’s human rights abuses and its treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.
The discussions mark the first in-person meeting between Putin and Xi since 2019.
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The U.S. leads after the opening day of the team figure skating event at the Beijing Games, with winning performances from Nathan Chen and ice dancers Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue helping them edge the heavily favored Russians.
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Fraizer did their part, too. They had a season-best score in their pairs short program, helping the Americans amass 28 points. That leaves them two clear of the Russians and seven ahead of third-place China.
The Chinese were helped by a record score in the pairs short program by Sui Wenjing and Han Cong.
The team event resumes Sunday with the women’s short program. The top five nations after that will advance to the round of free skates later Saturday and concluding Monday night.
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U.S. women’s hockey star Brianna Decker will miss the rest of the Olympics after injuring her left leg in the Americans’ tournament-opening victory against Finland.
Decker is expected to remain in Beijing rather than fly back to the U.S. immediately.
The forward was hurt when she was tripped from behind by Ronja Savolainen midway through the first period Thursday night. Decker was unable to put any weight on her left leg. She was taken off the ice on a stretcher.
Decker’s injury was the second to a key player on the first day of women’s hockey in Beijing. Canadian forward Melodie Daoust was injured after being checked hard into the boards by Switzerland’s Sarah Foster.
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The third round of training for women’s ski jumpers at the Beijing Olympics has been cancelled due to windy conditions.
Wind gusts were measured at 7 meters per second (16 mph.) To make the conditions even more brutal, it was minus 9 degrees Celsius (16 degrees Fahrenheit) on the sunny afternoon. The 40 women in the field had two jumps each, a day after having three rounds of training.
Practice for the men’s ski jumpers later in the day started on time.
Defending Olympic champion Maren Lundby of Norway and top-ranked Marita Kramer of Austria will not vie for medals on Saturday, creating a wide-open competition.
Lundby is taking the season off after gaining weight and refusing to stress her body and mind enough to jump in a sport plagued by eating disorders. Kramer tested positive for COVID-19, knocking her out of the Beijing Games.
Germany’s Katharina Althaus and Japan’s Sara Takanashi are among the contenders to win gold after finishing second and third behind Lundby at the 2018 Olympics.
High winds delayed the start of men’s downhill training earlier in the day and about 100 kilometers (60 miles) away.
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The U.S. men’s hockey team has held its first pre-Olympic practice in Beijing without two top defenseman and a veteran forward because they tested positive for the coronavirus.
Defenseman Jake Sanderson remains in Los Angeles. Defenseman Steven Kampfer and forward Andy Miele are isolating in the Olympic Village in Beijing.
USA Hockey hopes all three players will be available for the tournament, which begins Wednesday. The U.S. opens against host China on Thursday.
Players and coaches arrived just after midnight. Three goaltenders and 23 skaters were on the ice for practice with coach David Quinn and his assistants.
Canada canceled practice for a second consecutive day. No reason was given.
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Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue have delivered a season-best performance in rhythm dance at the Beijing Olympics, giving Team USA a second straight win on the opening day of figure skating.
Nathan Chen won the men’s short program with a dynamic, high-flying program that featured a pair of quads. Hubbell and Donohue followed up with a near-flawless performance to music from Janet Jackson at Capital Indoor Stadium.
In the team event, 10 points are awarded to first place in each discipline, which means the Americans have a perfect 20 so far. The Russian Olympic Committee is second with 17 after Mark Kondratiuk’s third-place finish and a shaky second-place performance by ice dance world champions Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov.
Italy is in third place with 14 points heading into the pairs discipline later Friday.
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The second men’s downhill ski training session is underway at the Beijing Olympics after a delay due to strong winds.
Overall World Cup leader Marco Odermatt of Switzerland was first to set off down the slope an hour after originally scheduled Friday.
The world’s best skiers only got the chance to see the Rock course up close for the first time on Thursday. There is a third training session scheduled Saturday before the men’s downhill opens the Alpine competition the following day.
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Three-time men’s figure skating world champion Nathan Chen has delivered a strong short program to open the team competition at the Beijing Games. That gets the Americans off to a good start in their pursuit of a third straight medal in the event.
Chen, who struggled in the team event in Pyeongchang, opened with a big quad flip and hit his difficult quad lutz-triple toe loop combination to deliver the highest score among the men Friday and give the U.S. the maximum 10 points.
Reigning Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno was second to give Japan nine points. Eighteen-year-old Mark Kondratiuk was third for the Russian Olympic Committee, which is favored to win the team event.
The short program for ice dance and pairs are later Friday, then the teams get a day off before the women’s short program on Sunday. The top five teams after that advance to free skates for the medals Sunday and Monday.
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Organizers say nine more athletes and officials tested positive for COVID-19 in cases confirmed on Thursday, raising the total to 111 since the Beijing Olympic period started on Jan. 23.
Seven cases were detected at the Beijing airport, making it 77 out of 5,255 athletes and officials who arrived through Thursday. The other two cases came from daily PCR testing that all people inside the Olympic bubbles must undergo.
Organizers say 12 more positive cases were detected among “stakeholders” — mostly workers at the Games including media. Seven of those were at the airport and five in daily tests.
The overall total of positive cases is 308 through Thursday. Almost 12,000 people have arrived in Beijing from outside China.
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Organizers have delayed the start of the second men’s downhill training session at the Beijing Olympics due to strong winds.
The session had been scheduled to start at 11 a.m. Beijing time, but organizers will only make a decision then whether it can start at the new scheduled time of noon.
The world’s best skiers only got the chance to see the Rock course up close for the first time on Thursday. There is a third training session scheduled Saturday before the men’s downhill opens the Alpine competition the following day.
Weather is yet another source of stress for competitive skiers who can do nothing to control changing conditions on the slopes.
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Chinese figure skating judge Huang Feng, who was suspended in 2018 for biased judging at the Pyeongchang Olympics, was among the three officials on the technical panel for the team event to start the Beijing Games.
Huang served a one-year suspension after he was accused of biased judging in the pairs event in Pyeongchang.
The International Skating Union, which assigns the judges and technical panel, said in a statement that Huang was cleared to work the Olympics after serving his suspension provided he continues to abide by the organization’s code of ethics. The technical panel is responsible for identifying all the elements that skaters execute during their programs.
Huang received a round of applause from the several hundred fans, all Chinese citizens, who were allowed into Capital Indoor Stadium for the start of Friday’s program. He stood and gave a brief wave before sitting back down.
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