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Collier and rookies Juhasz and Miller power Lynx to 73-70 win and series sweep of Sparks

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Napheesa Collier scored eight points in a late 12-0 run and finished with 22 points as the Minnesota Lynx defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 73-70 on Thursday night.Collier scored 10 of her points in the fourth quarter as the Lynx (10-12) won despite squandering a 20-point lead, completing a season sweep of Los Angeles (7-14), which matched a franchise record with its seventh straight loss.Rookies Dorka Juhasz and Diamond Miller played key roles in the win. Juhasz scored a career-high 16 points on 7-for-10 shooting and grabbed 10 rebounds. Miller added 13 points, a career-high nine assists and eight rebounds.Los Angeles went on a 9-0 run and led 68-61 with four minutes left. Collier countered with a putback, a pair of layups and a short turnaround jumper and her teammates added four free throws as Minnesota took a 73-68 lead with 42 seconds remaining.Jordin Canada ended the Sparks’ scoring drought as Los Angeles closed within three points and, after a Minnesota...

Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational Scores

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

ThursdayAt Midland Country ClubMidland, Mich.Purse: $2.7 millionYardage: 6,277; Par: 70Second RoundP.Reto/A.Lewis65-61—126J.Ewart Shadoff/E.Talley67-60—127M.Castren/K.Tan64-63—127C.Boutier/Y.Saso65-63—128C.Borge/P.Mack65-64—129C.Knight/E.Szokol69-61—130L.Strom/L.Johansson66-64—130S.Schmelzel/L.Weaver-Wright67-63—130Y.Liu/R.Liu66-65—131C.Inglis/A.Doherty67-65—132M.Lee/J.Lee569-63—132S.Lewis/M.Fassi68-64—132A.Belac/B.Pagdanganan70-63—133H.Ryu/Y.Hong68-65—133J.Chang/K.Chung68-65—133M.Khang/A.Lee70-63—133S.Kemp/A.Sharp69-64—133Y.Noh/S.Joo68-65—133D.Weber/A.Pano68-66—134J.Granada/S.Garcia67-67—134J.Suwannapura/C.Clanton70-64—134A.Pancake/S.Grewal71-64—135H.Kang/T.Chan71-64—135J.Ly/K.Dinh71-64—135P.Roussin/P.Lindberg72-63—135S.Schubert/H.Harford69-66—135W.Meechai/P.Yoktuan70-65—135Y.Liu/M.He72-63—135M.Szeryk/L.Hartlage73-63—136P.Anannarukarn/A.Ashok70-66—136P.Chien/Y.Hou70-66—136P.Phatlum/D.Ardina71-65—136C.Kerr/K.McPherson73-64—137C.Kim/L.Duncan68-69—137D.Darquea/K.Davidson71-66—137H.Gre...

S.Y. Noh eagles all 3 par 5s to take the 1st-round lead in the Barracuda Championship

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — S.Y. Noh eagled all three par-5 holes and scored a tournament-record 23 points Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Barracuda Championship at Tahoe Mountain Club.Co-sanctioned by the European tour, the tournament uses the Modified Stableford scoring system, with Noh breaking the event round mark of 18 points. Five points are awarded for eagle and two for birdie, while a point is deducted for bogey and three for double bogey.“It’s first time ever make three eagles,” Noh said. “It’s just so much fun to play today.”The 32-year-old South Korean player also had five birdies and two bogeys on the par-71 Old Greenwood layout. He won the 2014 Zurich Classic of New Orleans for his lone PGA Tour title.“It’s just the first day, but still a lot of confidence,” Noh said.Beau Hossler was second with 17 points. He had a hole-in-one on the par-3 third and an eagle on the par-5 sixth on his final nine. “I was kind of in between clubs,” Hossler said about the ace. “I th...

Annette O’Malley, the wife of former Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley, has died at age 81

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Annette O’Malley, who helped her husband Peter O’Malley promote baseball globally during his family’s ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died. She was 81.She died Wednesday at home in Los Angeles, the Dodgers announced on Thursday after being informed by Peter O’Malley’s assistant.Peter O’Malley was president of the Dodgers from 1970 to 1998 and took over ownership of the team upon the death of his father, Walter, in 1979.Annette regularly attended spring training with her family at Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida, where she spent time with the players, their wives and children.She made many trips abroad with her husband to support the sport, including visiting Japan over 25 times. Among their destinations were Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan and Venezuela. In 1984, South Korea Baseball Commissioner General Jyong Chul-Suh invited Annette to throw the ceremonial first pitch...

Prince George’s Co. man who shot and killed popular Md. boxer sentenced to 80 years in prison

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

Legal office of lawyers, justice and law concept(Getty Images/iStockphoto/William_Potter) Legal office of lawyers, justice and law concept(Getty Images/iStockphoto/William_Potter) The man who shot and killed a popular Maryland boxer in front of his family on Christmas Eve in 2021 was sentenced to 80 years behind bars Thursday afternoon.Markell Lewis, 25, of Clinton, Maryland, admitted to police that he shot Danny Kelly Jr., in what prosecutors said was a road rage incident.The shooting happened on Saint Barnabas Road in Prince George’s County, Maryland. That’s where prosecutors said Kelly asked Lewis to slow down. He was driving with his fiancee and three children at the time.Lewis then opened fire, sh...

CIA chief: Russia’s elite are questioning Putin’s judgment

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

ASPEN, Colo. — Russia’s elite are showing increasing anxiety about President Vladimir Putin’s judgment, especially following a brief mutiny that appeared to catch the Kremlin off guard last month, CIA Director William Burns said Thursday.The U.S. spy agency is trying to seize on that and other seeming cracks in Putin’s control, which the mutiny exposed, Burns added. A CIA video that has sought to recruit Russian informants was viewed some 2.5 million times in its first week.“What it resurrected was some deeper questions … about Putin’s judgment, about his relative detachment from events and even about his indecisiveness,” Burns said in an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum.The daylong mutiny, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary Wagner Group, was aimed mainly at Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and top Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Burns said. Prigozhin had been publicly critical of such officials, and he has insisted he wasn’t targeting Putin.But that Wagn...

Orioles take sole possession of first place in AL East with 4-3 win over Rays in extra innings: ‘A great team win’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

In games against American League East rivals, the little things matter more. When those games go to extra innings, they often make the difference.Thursday’s divisional matchup between the Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays — the two best teams in the American League — naturally went into extras. Two Orioles, one veteran and one rookie, came through with sacrifices in the 10th to give Baltimore a 4-3 lead that closer Félix Bautista held in the bottom half.Second baseman Adam Frazier, an eight-year veteran, laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to advance automatic runner Aaron Hicks to third, and rookie Colton Cowser, playing in his 11th career game, drove him in with a sacrifice fly to left field. Bautista, who pitched a scoreless ninth to send the game to extras, hit the first batter of the 10th but then struck Randy Arozarena and got Brandon Lowe to ground into a game-ending double play.“A lot of guys on this team that are really, really good and know how to get ...

Man involved in fight stabbed in North Park

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A physical altercation between two men early Thursday morning resulted in a stabbing in the North Park neighborhood, law enforcement said.The incident occurred around 1:14 a.m. at 4095 30th Street, David O'Brien with the San Diego Police Department said in a news release.Authorities say a 36-year-old man approached a woman and man at the location, prompting a physical altercation between the suspect and the man. "The suspect stabbed the victim one time in the upper body, and attempted to stab him a second time in the back cutting him slightly, before fleeing the scene on foot," O'Brien said. Passenger in Polaris Slingshot killed in crash Police describe the suspect as a man around 6-feet tall and 180 pounds wearing a red baseball cap, red shirt and black pants.The victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Anyone with information related to the above incident is encouraged to call the listedCommand handling the investigation or Crime Stopp...

B.C. port union local says new tentative deal reached with employers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

VANCOUVER — A union local for B.C. port workers says that a tentative agreement has been reached between a union bargaining committee and employers.A statement on the website of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada Local 502 says that a tentative agreement has been reached with the BC Maritime Employers Association.Rick Hurtubise, president of ILWU Local 502, says in the statement that an “emergency contract caucus” will be held on Friday to vote on whether to send the tentative agreement to the full union membership for ratification.Hurtubise says Local 502 will call a meeting to present the package to its members if the vote passes.There was no mention of a new tentative agreement on either the BCMEA’s website or the union’s main website.The development is the latest in a turbulent week that saw the union voting down a federal mediator’s terms, the union issuing but quickly rescinding a new 72-hour strike notice, and Prime Minister J...

Federal judge blocks Arizona law banning transgender athletes from girls’ sports teams

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:05:27 GMT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arizona from enforcing a law banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams.The judge in Tucson granted a preliminary injunction to allow processing of a lawsuit filed on behalf of two transgender girls against the state’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature last year.The lawsuit argues the law violates federal Title IX, the law barring sex discrimination in schools receiving federal funds, and the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, who is a defendant in the case, said the decision will be appealed.“This will ultimately be decided by the United States Supreme Court, and they will rule in our favor,” Horne said in a statement. Arizona is one of several states and some school districts that have passed laws limiting access to school sports teams or other faciliti...