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NBA scheduling quirk has Bucks making extended holiday trip to New York

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis says he didn’t even bother getting a Christmas tree for his home this year.There was no need. He and his teammates are making an extended holiday visit to New York.NBA players have become accustomed to the possibility they’ll be working away from home on Christmas. But no team’s ever had a holiday trip quite like the one the Bucks are experiencing.“Obviously I ain’t going to be able to open no presents under my tree,” Portis said earlier this week, pointing out the team is leaving Friday. “They’d be sitting at the crib under the tree for five or six days after Christmas.”The Bucks have consecutive early afternoon games with the New York Knicks on Saturday and again on Christmas Day before visiting the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this marks just the second time an NBA team has played three straight road games in the New York metro area, and the first time that it’s coincided with C...

Police seek a motive as Prague mourns the 14 people killed in the nation’s worst mass shooting

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police investigated Friday why a student went on a dayslong violent rampage culminating in a shooting at the university he attended in Prague that left 14 dead and dozens wounded.Investigators believe the gunman in the mass shooting Thursday in a philosophy department building at Charles University also killed his own father earlier in the day, and another man and a baby last week.Residents meanwhile were grappling with the nation’s worst mass shooting in the heart of the historic capital city. Political leaders, students, friends of the victims and others came together to light candles during an impromptu vigil for the victims.“A few of my friends study at the philosophy faculty at Charles University,” said Kristof Unger, a student who attended the vigil. “They have been really traumatized by the shooting there and I just wanted to make them feel a little bit better.”Robert Hanus, another of the vigil’s attendees, said everyone should com...

Alabama lineman Justin Eboigbe returns from neck injury better than ever and ready for CFP semifinal

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

Justin Eboigbe says he just wanted to come back as “a better version of myself.”It’s the goal that helped push the Alabama defensive end through all the rehab from an injury that ended his 2022 season, the weeks in a neck brace and numerous hours wearing a bone stem device.Eboigbe has come back better than ever. He returned from a neck injury that sidelined him for most of last season with easily his best year, earning individual accolades and helping to give himself and the Crimson Tide chances for a happier ending.“During the whole rehab, I just kept knowing that I was going to show a better version of myself than what I last did,” said Eboigbe, who also recently received a master’s degree in sports management. “That was my whole focus, my whole goal, my whole mind-set each day attacking rehab. And I just hoped that I could prove what I’ve been saying and telling myself.”He has been a key part of a defense that has helped propel the Tide to a Southeastern Conference champion...

Correction: Wisconsin-Abortion Referendum story

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In a Dec. 21 story about Wisconsin abortion law, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Roe v. Wade only allowed states to regulate abortion after the point of fetal viability. It allowed states to regulate abortion under certain circumstances before that point. The AP also reported that viability is typically around the 24th to 28th week of pregnancy. Although that was once the case, doctors and researchers now generally consider it to be around the 23rd or 24th week.Source

Cortland quarterback Zac Boyes and North Central RB Joe Sacco lead AP Division III All-America team

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

Quarterback Zac Boyes, who led Cortland to its first national championship, and running Joe Sacco from national runner-up North Central highlighted The Associated Press Division III All-America Team announced Friday.Boyes had 349 yards passing and 123 rushing in Cortland’s 38-37 victory against North Central in the title game last week. He was joined on the first team by teammates Cody Aikey, an offensive lineman, and Cole Burgess, a wide receiver.North Central, which won national titles in 2022 and 2019, had five players chosen first-team All-America, more than any other school. Joining Sacco, who ran for 1,661 yards, were offensive linemen Jeske Maples and Jarod Thornton, receiver DeAngelo Hardy and receiver Joey Lombardi, who was selected as an all-purpose player.Maples and Hardy are All-Americans for the second straight season, along with Mount Union receiver Wayne Ruby and defensive end Rossy Moore and Saint John’s tight end Alex Larson.North Central quarterback Luk...

Vincent Cavin hired as assistant to US coach Gregg Berhalter

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Vincent Cavin was hired Friday as an assistant to U.S. men’s head coach Gregg Berhalter.The 48-year-old Cavin had been with the Swiss soccer association as an assistant coach on the men’s national team since 2014.Cavin joins a staff that includes assistant coaches B.J. Callaghan and Mikey Varas and goalkeeper coach Fabian Otte.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

Estadounidenses que estuvieron presos en Venezuela hablan al regresar a EE.UU.: “Tratan de volverte loco”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

(CNN) — Los seis estadounidenses detenidos injustamente en Venezuela regresaron a Estados Unidos el miércoles por la noche. Eyvin Hernández, Savoi Wright, Jerrel Kenemore, Joseph Cristella, Jason Saad y Edgar José Marval Moreno aterrizaron en Kelly Field en San Antonio, Texas. Savoi Wright y Eyvin Hernandez hablaron sobre sus experiencias en Venezuela y lo que sintieron al regresar a casa.“Libres por fin, libres por fin, gracias a Dios todopoderoso, libres por fin”, dijo Wright, expresando gratitud por estar de regreso en suelo estadounidense.“Es toda una experiencia regresar a Texas y a Estados Unidos de América y verlos a todos ustedes, caras tan cálidas y tanto amor. Estoy muy agradecido, muy agradecido por el momento”, dijo Wright.Lo que sabemos de los estadounidenses que liberó el Gobierno de VenezuelaWright dijo que lo retuvieron junto con otras cuatro personas en una “celda muy pequeña” mientras estaba en Venezuela y que en ocasiones estaba preocupado por su seguridad.&...

Photos: Nikola Jokic visits horse track before game in New York

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — On Thursday, the day before the Denver Nuggets play the Brooklyn Nets, Nikola Jokic decided to get his head in the game by watching his favorite animal."The Joker" wasted no time visiting a horse racetrack while on an away game in New York. This Video of Nikola Jokić Riding His Bike to a Horse Track in Serbia is Absolutely Perfect If you know anything about the Denver Nuggets or Jokic, besides Jokic leading the team to their first National Baseball Association title, it's that the Joker loves horses.On game day eve, Jokic stopped by Yonkers Raceway to follow, debatably, his biggest passion. The raceway shared photos of Jokic and the crew on Facebook.Nikola Jokic at Yonkers Raceway (Photo credits: Mike Lizzi/Yonkers Raceway)Nikola Jokic at Yonkers Raceway (Photo credits: Mike Lizzi/Yonkers Raceway)Nikola Jokic at Yonkers Raceway (Photo credits: Mike Lizzi/Yonkers Raceway)Nikola Jokic at Yonkers Raceway (Photo credits: Mike Lizzi/Yonkers Raceway)Nikola Jokic at Yonke...

911 calls released after home explodes in West Park

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

As officials continue to investigate what caused a home in West Park to explode, 911 calls made moments after the blast happened were released. The explosion injured a family of four. A driver who passed by the home when it exploded was heard frantically talking to a dispatcher.Caller: “I was driving, my car got caught in a collision.”Dispatcher: “OK, are you hurt? Are you hurt? Do you need paramedics?”Caller: “I think I’m OK.”Dispatcher: “Alright. You physically saw it explode? Is there anyone inside the home?”Caller: “Yes, yes, yes. Someone bleeding.”Dispatcher: “There’s someone bleeding? Can they tell you if there’s anyone else inside the house?”Caller: “Yes. There was a family inside the house.”Video of the explosion showed a car driving pass the home when it exploded.The explosion happened just after 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday night at the house, located along the 5200 block of Sou...

UN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:59:02 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After many delays, the U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.The vote in the 15-member council was 13-0 with the United States and Russia abstaining. The vote followed a U.S. veto of a Russian amendment that would have restored the call for a suspension of hostilities. That vote was 10 members in favor, the U.S. against and four abstentions.The revised text was negotiated during a week and a half of high-level diplomacy by the United States, the United Arab Emirates on behalf of Arab nations and others.U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said late Thursday the United States, Israel’s closest ally, backed it. The U.S. abstention avoided a second U.S. veto of a Gaza resolution following Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attacks inside Israel.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDA...