Read back through these updates for a (hopefully) entertaining recap of the night. Winner: Aaron Judge, super-human baseball man Judge: Compared with Sano’s early swings, Judge looked like a fountain of energy and got the win fairly quickly with a bomb to center field for his 11th dinger. He was the odds-on favorite to take the crown, and he made good on those expectations. Sano: The fatigue was real early on....
Steven Zajonc was arrested on March 2 and is accused of attacking women of Asian descent, ranging in age from 19 to 57, over a two-hour period. He was charged with seven counts of assault as a hate crime, attempted assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and harassment. Zajonc was arrested at the New York Public Library (NYPL) after two security guards reported him to authorities. Roshanta Williams alerted her partner, Lieutenant Elmirel Cephas, of the similarities between one of the library’s regular patrons and the man that police were searching for....
Charles Morgan had been on his way to visit his brother and father in West Palm Beach, Florida when bad weather forced him to check into the Rodeway Inn & Suites in Dania Beach at around 9 p.m. on August 1, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. The following afternoon, Morgan, of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was found dead in a bathroom in Room 3104 at the hotel, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release....
Thursday saw playing conditions turn sour as wind played havoc with shots. Among players affected: Rory McIlroy, who struggled to a 73 by making birdies on his final two holes. MORE: Honda Classic leaderboard | Bad day for McIlroy The field begins Friday chasing Jim Herman, whose 65 was a stroke better than Brendan Steele’s opening round. If wind affects late starters, McIlroy should find things better. He is scheduled to start play at 7:45 a....
The protests began as the city’s residents opposed a government-proposed extradition bill that would allow a Hong Konger to be extradited to Taiwan, where he allegedly murdered his pregnant girlfriend. The bill, if passed by the city’s legislature, would apply to jurisdictions Hong Kong doesn’t already have an agreement with, including mainland China, Taiwan and Macao. Hong Kong residents fear that they may face trial on the Mainland in the future....
Some of the finalists were obvious choices — Iowa State’s Monte Morris and Providence’s Kris Dunn — but notably absent from the Hall’s list of finalists was N.C. State point guard Cat Barber, a junior averaging 23.1 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game. Barber ranks eighth among all college basketball players in points per game. MORE: SN ranks the top 10 point guards 2016 Bob Cousy Finalists — Kyle Collinsworth, BYU...
However, Solo left the team in August 2016 and Rapinoe first started kneeling during the national anthem in September 2016. “I’ve seen Megan Rapinoe almost bully players into kneeling because she really wants to stand up for something in her particular way, but it’s our right as Americans to do it in whatever way we’re comfortable with,” she said while on All of Us: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Show last Tuesday....
Champions in name for only a fortnight longer, it will be 12 months on Tuesday since this team picked up title No. 20 against Aston Villa at Old Trafford. A year is a long time in football. This collapse from David Moyes' side against Everton, the one team you thought he could summon a semblance of fighting spirit against, was par for the troubled course this term. United never got close to the hosts....
“As an organization, we understand and appreciate the seriousness of this matter, and will assist the NBA and law enforcement in any way we can until this comes to an acceptable resolution,” the Hornets said in a statement Friday. “We have spoken with Jeffery and his representatives and they fully understand our position.” NBA spokesman Mike Bass said that the league supports “the Charlotte Hornets’ decision to separate JefferyTaylor from the team during the investigation....
Two games later, both have new life after winning at home in Games 3 and 4. MORE: 10 devastating playoff injuries | Paul breaks finger, could miss a month The Hornets beat the Miami Heat 89-85 in Charlotte and the Trail Blazers beat the Clippers 98-84 in Portland on Monday night. Both series now are tied at two games apiece. Kemba Walker led the way for the Hornets with 34 points on 13-for-28 shooting and backup point guard Jeremy Lin added 21 points off the bench....
Despite missing their leading scorer, the Hornets beat the Cavaliers 106-97 at home Wednesday. The win ended Charlotte’s 17-game losing streak against LeBron James-led teams. MORE: Classic photos of LeBron James Jeremy Lin, who started in place of Walker, scored a team-high 24 points with eight assists and five rebounds. Lin’s career resurgence has helped the Hornets (24-25) remain in the playoff hunt. “Kemba, honestly, is irreplaceable. We all know that,” Lin said, via NBA....
Hornets owner Michael Jordan is unlikely to retain general manager Rich Cho beyond this season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and Jordan is expected to target former Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak to join current assistant GM Buzz Peterson. Chris Mannix of Yahoo Sports previously reported ahead of the trade deadline that there were rumblings around the league about Kupchak joining the Hornets with Cho in the final year of his contract, so this doesn’t come as a surprise....
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department (SDSD) released a documentary-style video including the footage to raise awareness of the dangers of opioids like fentanyl. “Fentanyl continues to be one of the greatest threats facing San Diego County and the nation,” the department wrote in the caption of the video. “This synthetic opioid is 50 times more potent than heroin. Just a few grains of fentanyl can be absorbed through the body and lead to respiratory failure and even death....
But stripping her of the seat may not be as easy as House Democrats are hoping. While legislators have left or been removed from committees in the past, there is a procedural quirk that governs these positions. “Once a member is placed on a standing committee, the party leadership can’t actually remove that member from just that committee—at least not until there is a new Congress,” American University professor Andrew Ballard told Newsweek....
Eastwood’s movie, written by Ken Kaufman and Howard Klausner, throws in an old bureaucratic nemesis (James Cromwell) to oversee our heroes; cranks up the pathos by giving Jones both a love interest (Marcia Gay Harden) and inoperable cancer, and waits until our boys are in deep space to spring some dubious last-minute surprises. These strained plot contortions aren’t really necessary: the funny, amiable heart of the movie is in the scenes of these tough old duffers scamming their way through the training program....
Griffin climbed 16 positions as the surging American claimed a one-stroke advantage atop the leaderboard on Saturday. Seeking his maiden PGA Tour title, Griffin had nine birdies and a pair of bogeys to become the man to beat heading into the final round. A stretch of three consecutive birdies from the third to fifth holes set the tone for Griffin, who dropped a shot at the ninth prior to the turn....
On Friday morning, Sidney Crosby’s face made it tough to follow both of those. By Friday afternoon, Crosby’s mysterious case of horrific glandular swelling had benched him for at least two games. By Sunday morning, a set of CDC tests confirmed the obvious — Crosby was the 13th NHL player this season diagnosed with mumps. Other cases have come and gone either unconfirmed or unpublicized. It’s worth noting that mumps is a pretty basic viral infection that, beyond swelling, causes flu-like symptoms....
The death penalty in 2021 was “defined by two competing forces: the continuing long-term erosion of capital punishment across most of the country, and extreme conduct by a dwindling number of outlier jurisdictions to continue to pursue death sentences and executions,” according to the Death Penalty Information Center’s (DPIC) year-end report. The report says few jurisdictions performed or even scheduled executions in 2021, but those that did “undertook extreme measures that demonstrated a lack of concern for due process and a cavalier inattentiveness to execution preparation....
The late French actor died in a tragic skiing accident on January 19, 2022, when he collided with another skier and suffered a traumatic head injury. Ulliel portrays Anton Mogart, also known as Midnight Man, in the Disney+ series, and his character came into contact with Oscar Isaac’s dual character Marc Spector/Steven Grant and his wife Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy). Here is how the Marvel show paid tribute to the It’s Only the End of the World star....
As of Friday, October 14, the U.S. had 25.4 days of diesel supply left in storage, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). For the past two years, amid pandemic closures and climate pledges promising to invest more in renewable, green energies, refineries in the U.S. have significantly reduced their capacity—leading to less diesel produced in the country. This tight supply of diesel—which has been exacerbated by a ban on Russian imports after the beginning of the country’s invasion of Ukraine and by U....
