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SF Giants’ Alex Cobb faces Ohtani, then makes a bold prediction: ‘He’s coming to San Francisco’

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

SEATTLE — Asked who he most wanted to face in his first All-Star Game, Giants starter Alex Cobb had an easy answer: Shohei Ohtani.Besides being the sport’s biggest star, Cobb and Ohtani are former Angels teammates and offseason training partners.Entering in the fourth inning Tuesday at T-Mobile Park, Cobb got his wish. Ohtani spoiled a first-pitch curveball and went on draw a rare walk from Cobb.Those, however, won’t amount to Cobb’s biggest pitches to Ohtani, set to hit free agency this winter, when he could command a contract of $500 million or more.“I’m already campaigning for him,” Cobb said after his inning of work, escaping without allowing a run.Careful to avoid tampering charges, Cobb began his answer by saying, “I don’t know how to answer that question appropriately, honestly.”But the 35-year-old veteran went on to explain — as if it needed any explanation — what the addition of Ohtani, who was voted into the All-Star Game as a hitt...

Shark attacks San Jose nurse on vacation in Galapagos Islands

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

(KRON) -- San Jose nurse Delia Yriarte was enjoying a three-week, long overdue vacation to Peru and the Galapagos Islands. But on July 4, after snorkeling with a tour group off Mosquera Island, she returned to shore and was intercepted by an unwanted visitor… a shark. Bay Area native found dead in Yosemite after 7-day search Yriarte said a nurse practitioner who was also on the tour saved her by putting a tourniquet on her leg and calling for help. After an hourlong journey to the hospital, doctors took one look at her mangled leg and confirmed it was in fact a shark bite."I was probably a meter-and-a-half to two meters from the shore," she told KRON4. "When I felt a little push, I didn't think much of it. I just thought it was weird. I kept paddling. And then I felt my leg a little numb, or that a little weird. And then I paddle again and then I felt like my leg wasn't responding."She now has more than 100 stitches in her leg and five tendon repairs. After one, five-hour surgery ...

A's protest: 'Sell the Team' chants break out at MLB All-Star Game

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

(KRON) -- An Oakland A's fan group planned a protest at the MLB All-Star Game in Seattle Tuesday night. During the fifth inning of the game, "Sell the Team" chants rang out at T-Mobile Park. The group, called Oakland 68s, passed out cards that said "Sell the Athletics" and outlined the plan for the protest. You can hear the chants in the video above. The chants were hardly audible during FOX's broadcast of the game, as the telecast cut to an interview with Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani while fans chanted. When A's All-Star outfielder Brent Rooker came up to the plate in the sixth inning, the chants started again. Rooker roped a ground-rule double to right field. It is the latest protest organized by Oakland fans after news broke in the spring that the team's ownership intended to relocate the franchise to Las Vegas. On June 13, A's fans drew national attention by packing the Oakland Coliseum for a "reverse boycott." Oakland Athletics start the process of applying to MLB fo...

Científicos aseguran que encontraron un lugar que marca un nuevo capítulo en la historia de la Tierra

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

(CNN) —  Un grupo de científicos identificó el yacimiento geológico que, según ellos, mejor refleja una nueva época propuesta denominada Antropoceno, lo que supone un gran paso hacia el cambio de la cronología oficial de la historia de la Tierra.El término Antropoceno, propuesto por primera vez en 2000 para reflejar hasta qué punto la actividad humana ha alterado el mundo, se ha convertido en una palabra de moda en los círculos académicos de distintos campos de estudio.“Cuando 8.000 millones de personas tienen un impacto en el planeta, es inevitable que haya repercusiones”, afirma Colin Waters, profesor honorario de la Facultad de Geografía, Geología y Medio Ambiente de la Universidad de Leicester y presidente del Grupo de Trabajo sobre el Antropoceno (AWG, por sus siglas en inglés).“Hemos pasado a este nuevo estado de la Tierra y eso debería definirse por una nueva época geológica”, añadió Waters.El AWG, un grupo formado actualmente por 35 geólogos, ll...

Sykes scores 26, Mystics top Storm 93-86 but Jewell Loyd ties WNBA record with 9 3-pointers

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brittney Sykes scored 26 points and the short-handed Washington Mystics beat the Seattle Storm 93-86 Tuesday night despite a record-tying nine 3-pointers from Jewell Loyd.The Mystics, who won two games in Seattle by seven and six points, led by 25 late in the third quarter and 84-67 near the midpoint of the fourth.Loyd, who left the Storm’s last game with an ankle injury on Saturday, hit four of her 3-pointers after that. The Storm got it down to a two possession game with less than three minutes to go, but Sykes made back-to-back baskets, converting the second into a three-point play, and the Mystics closed it out.Washington let the shot clock run out on its final possession but Loyd’s attempt at breaking the WNBA 3-point record for a game bounced off the rim as time expired. Kelsey Mitchell hit nine 3s for Indiana in 2019. Loyd finished with 39 points.Shatori Walker-Kimbrough had 16 points off the bench for the Mystics (11-8), helping make up for the ...

Man had restraining order against accused Broomfield restaurant shooter

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (KDVR) — A man who has a history with an accused shooter of a burrito spot in Broomfield explained what happened between the two of them in the past. Broomfield resident Pete Elliott said there are bullet holes in his home window. He said he was laying inches away when they came into his home last Saturday. “I dove off the bed, thought someone was so close in the noise, I thought there was like some of the sniper or something that got that close and just missed,” Elliott said. Elliott told FOX31 he instantly had a hunch about who the shooter could be.“I knew immediately,” he said. “I knew because of the stalking and the threats and the harassment for three years.” Sniper-like shots fired at buildings in Broomfield and Denver may be connected While he can’t definitively prove who pulled the trigger last Saturday, Elliott told FOX31 he believes it was Kenneth Fairchild, a man who he got a restraining order against almost two years ago.“We got a restrainin...

Colorado Rockies' Elias Diaz named MLB All-Star Game MVP

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Elias Diaz is the first Colorado Rockies player ever to be named MVP of an MLB All-Star Game. Diaz hit the game-winning home run for the National League in his first-ever All-Star at-bat. He crushed a pinch-hit two-run homer in the eighth inning to give the NL its first ASG win in nine seasons. The 32-year-old catcher got a bit emotional when asked about the significance of his mother's attendance after the game. Broncos safety Justin Simmons learns fire prevention firsthand The 2023 Midsummer Classic was played at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington Tuesday and ended in a final score of 3-2. Diaz was the lone Rockies player chosen for the MLB National League All-Star team. He has a batting average of .977 with nine home runs so far this season.

Renters form metro area group to fight mistreatment by landlords

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A one-bedroom apartment in the metro area is now renting for more than $1,700 a month on average. At those rates, renters have little patience for maintenance issues and other problems.With more than 225,000 rental units in the metro area, organizers of a new tenants’ rights group say it is time for renters to band together to stand up for acceptable living conditions.“Tenants have come together, created a list of their demands, a list of grievances and collected evidence and told their landlords that hey, we’re tired of this we’re fed up,” said Denver Aurora Tenants United organizer Nate Kossa. Denver one of the best cities for renters The group’s members are based in Denver and Aurora and include volunteers who have testified at the Colorado State Capitol in support of renters’ rights, including Trudy Carra-Desalero."Together we have strength, coming together as a group lets them know that we are serious we are going to hold them accountable,“ said Carra-Desale...

Truesdell Fire contained west of Evergreen

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- UPDATE (8:02 p.m.): Crews have knocked down the fire and will continue to monitor the area overnight. A small wildfire was burning west of Evergreen in the Mount Evans Wilderness.According to the Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest Service, the fire was only about a quarter of an acre, but smoke was visible.The fire was named the Trusedell Fire.The forest service said a helicopter and ground resources worked the fire.

Lord of the Supercomputers! Britain’s AI minister is a hereditary peer

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:54:19 GMT

LONDON — Nobody disputes artificial intelligence is the technology of the future — which makes Rishi Sunak’s pick for AI minister in the U.K. government a little unorthodox.Jonathan Berry, 53, is better known in Westminster as the 5th Viscount Camrose — a hereditary peer in the House of Lords whose title has been passed down the generations from father to son.There were “no castles,” Berry jokes of his upbringing, but as a child he would visit the family’s Hackwood Park estate, then owned by his great uncle Seymour Berry (the 2nd Viscount Camrose).The estate — a 17th-century mansion complete with 24 bedrooms, a Tudor-style banqueting hall, library, and riding stables — was sold off in the late 1990s. But the viscountcy, the fourth rank in the British peerage system — standing directly below an earl and above a baron — survives to this day. It was that title that allowed Berry to take his seat in the House of Lords last year, one of 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in the...