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Assistant coach Alyssa Nakken interviews for Giants manager position

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alyssa Nakken, who became the first woman to coach on the field in a major league game when she worked first base for San Francisco in April 2022, has interviewed for the Giants managerial vacancy.President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi confirmed Sunday night that Nakken had gone through a first-round interview last week.Her husband, Robert, announced in August on social media the coach is expecting the couple’s first child — a girl — on Feb. 9.Zaidi has said he hopes to find a new manager by the start of free agency to replace Gabe Kapler, fired with three days remaining in the season. He was 295-248 over three-plus seasons, with the Giants winning a franchise-record 107 games and edging the 106-win Dodgers for the NL West title in 2021 before missing the playoffs the last two seasons.The 33-year-old Nakken, a softball star at Sacramento State from 2009-2012, has been a coach on the Giants staff since Kapler hired her in January 2020.___AP MLB: https://ap...

Petro: “Si hay que suspender relaciones exteriores con Israel, las suspendemos”

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

(CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, escribió este domingo en X: “Si hay que suspender relaciones exteriores con Israel, las suspendemos. No apoyamos genocidios. Al presidente de Colombia no se le insulta”.Es la respuesta del mandatario a la convocatoria de la Cancillería de Israel para una “conversación de reprimenda” con la embajadora de Colombia en ese país, tras las recientes declaraciones de Petro en las que comparó el Gobierno de Israel con los nazis.Las reacciones de los líderes latinoamericanos al conflicto de Israel y HamasEl portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Israel, Lior Haiat, calificó esas declaraciones de “hostiles y antisemitas”.El funcionario dijo que en la reunión se expuso que las declaraciones del mandatario colombiano “reflejan un apoyo a las atrocidades cometidas por los terroristas del Hamas” y que, en consecuencia, Israel decidió detener las exportaciones de seguridad a Colombia.Molesto por esta decisión israelí, Petro ...

Bills running back Damien Harris suffers neck injury, leaves field in ambulance versus Giants

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills running back Damien Harris suffered a neck injury in the second quarter of Sunday night’s game against the New York Giants and was taken by ambulance to a hospital for additional testing, the team said.The Bills said Harris does have movement in his arms and legs.Bills coach Sean McDermott said on NBC’s Sunday Night Football telecast after halftime that he did not have an immediate update on Harris’ condition.Harris flashed a thumbs up sign with his left hand as he was being loaded into the ambulance. He lay still on his back on the turf for several minutes after being tackled by linebacker Bobby Okereke on a 1-yard gain up the middle to convert a third-and-1 situation.Harris’ helmet appeared to hit Okereke squarely in the left shoulder. The game was delayed for about five minutes while players from both teams gathered around him on the field.Bills trainers and medical staff rushed from the sideline to attend to Harris before a hushed so...

Tom Kim wins in Las Vegas for the 2nd time in the same PGA Tour season

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tom Kim now has something in common with Byron Nelson as the only players to have won the same PGA Tour event twice in the same season.Kim successfully defended his title Sunday in the Shriners Children’s Open when he closed with a 5-under 66 to emerge from a pack of a dozen players who had a chance in the final hour. Kim wound up winning by one shot over Adam Hadwin, who birded the final hole for a 67.Kim now has three PGA Tour titles in the last 15 months, at 21 the youngest player since Tiger Woods in 1997 to have three tour wins.“I really felt confident in myself,” Kim said. “I knew that if I did me I was going to be able to do it. I’m stoked to get this one.”He won in Las Vegas a year ago, beating Patrick Cantlay in a playoff at the TPC Summerlin, when the Shiners Children’s Open was early in the season. Now, the Las Vegas event is still part of the same season because the PGA Tour goes to a calendar season starting in 2024.Nelson won the San ...

Brady Tkachuk scores 2 again as Senators beat Lightning 5-2

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Brady Tkachuk had his second two-goal game as the Ottawa Senators beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 on Sunday night.Mathieu Joseph, Vladimir Tarasenko and Tim Stützle also scored, while Joonas Korpisalo stopped 22 shots to get his first win with the Senators.Anthony Cirelli and Tanner Jeannot each scored for the Lightning, and Matt Tomkins had 33 saves in his NHL debut.Both teams had played Saturday with the Senators beating Philadelphia 5-2, while Tampa Bay fell 6-4 to Detroit.Leading 3-2, Tkachuk was able to give the Senators some breathing room midway through the third period when he beat Darren Raddysh in a race and scored five-hole on Tomkins. Stützle added an empty-net goal, with Korpisalo picking up the secondary assist.Ottawa outshot Tampa Bay 17-3 in the first period, scoring the opening goal for the third straight game when Tarasenko got a backhanded pass from Ridly Greig and beat Tomkins from down low 7:02 into the game.The Lightning tied it in the o...

Lionel Messi remains a doubtful starter for Argentina. Neymar under fire in Brazil

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Lionel Messi’s involvement in a 1-0 win over Paraguay last week doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be fit for Argentina’s next game in World Cup qualifying against Peru. Messi played most of the second half against Paraguay last Thursday despite struggling with muscular pains in the weeks leading up to the game.But there’s no certainty he’ll play against Peru on Tuesday despite practicing with the squad.Meanwhile in Brazil, Neymar is under fire for his lackluster performance in a 1-1 draw against Venezuela last week that ended with some fans throwing popcorn at the Arena Pantanal in Cuiabá. He will have a tough challenge at Uruguay to show he is back in form.The next World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada is expanding to a 48-team format, meaning direct entry to the top six teams in South America. The seventh-place team will contest an intercontinental playoff for a berth.World Cup winner Argentina leads continental qualifying with 9 points, follo...

Cardinals can’t close again, outscored 20-0 after halftime in loss at Rams

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The second half has become a problem for the Arizona Cardinals.After surprising the NFL with their competitive play through the first three weeks of the season, the overhauled Cardinals are now struggling to stay in games after halftime, with it happening again in their 26-9 loss at the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.“Nobody’s coming to save us,” defensive end Jonathan Ledbetter said. “We know that. We got to save ourselves. We got to play football how we know how to play football.”The Cardinals (1-4) were outscored 20-0 in the third and fourth quarters. In their past three losses, at San Francisco, against Cincinnati and now at Los Angeles, they have been outscored 51-12 in the second half.This defeat was all the more frustrating because the Cardinals had played well in the first half. They ran for 103 yards to the Rams’ 5. They protected quarterback Joshua Dobbs, allowing him to distribute passes to six receivers.What they had not done was put the ball in the ...

Rally planned to protest Denver mayor's policy on homelessness

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- On Monday, Housekeys Action Network Denver will hold a rally outside the Denver City and County building, calling on Mayor Mike Johnston to keep promises they said he's broken on his homeless policies.HAND has been sharing a flyer that flat-out calls Johnston's "House 1000" initiative a scam. Denver announces micro-community location, nixes other proposed site House 1000 is the mayor's goal of getting 1,000 people who are unhoused into homes and in micro-communities by the end of the year.V Reeves with HAND said the mayor's promises of solving the issue of homelessness have lacked accountability."We want him, at this point, just to follow his own encampment policy," Reeves said. "We're not asking for more than that. We're asking for accountability to his own words when it comes to how he's going to decide when to sweep and carry out a sweep."The mayor's office provided a statement to FOX31 on this planned rally saying he remains committed to his goal of housing 10...

Photos: 3 moose roam Steamboat Springs neighborhood

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A trio of moose were seen roaming a neighborhood in Steamboat Springs Sunday afternoon.A viewer told FOX31 that she was on her way out the door to go grocery shopping, and when she opened the door the moose were there to greet her. Sick bear euthanized after napping in Steamboat Springs yard "I was about to go out to grocery shop and saw them as soon as I opened my door, they were standing right there!" Kassie Heiner told FOX31 in an email.She said there were three moose: a young male, a young female and a mother."I could tell she was protecting them," Heiner wrote. "Anytime they moved she was close by watching around her."She said she waited for about an hour until they moved across the road to leave.

Home from Israel: South Florida man who boarded chartered flight mourns friend killed in Hamas attack

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:51:00 GMT

A South Florida man from Israel said he is grateful to be back home after he received help to escape the war,Cellphone video captured Ori David Meyer as he greeted his girlfriend, moments after he landed at Miami International Airport, earlier this weekend.“It was very hard to leave the country. I’m lucky Nicole and her team helped me go out,” he said.Nicole spoke with 7News last week after she raised money and chartered a flight for Meyer and 154 others who were stranded in Israel after Hamas’ surprise attack out of Gaza.“You all the time hear bombings, you all the time hear sirens,” said Meyer.Tragically, one of Meyer’s closest friends, Rachel, was among those killed at the Tribe of Nova Music Festival.“The day before I left, I was in a funeral for my best friend Rachel,” he said. “She’s an angel, and it’s hard because we’ve been in a funeral, and we you see another funeral for another guy.”Meyer i...