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College umpire suspended for game-ending called strikes

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A college baseball umpire was suspended indefinitely by the Southland Conference on Saturday in connection with a pair of late called strikes to end a game between Mississippi Valley State and New Orleans.The sequence of disputed calls began when home plate umpire Reggie Drummer called a second strike on a breaking ball that appeared to cross the plate below batter Devon Mims’ knees — low enough that UNO catcher Jorge Tejeda caught it just above the dirt behind the plate.Mims hopped out of the batter’s box in protest and was subsequently called out on strikes on the next pitch, which broke low and away, well off the plate. “Oh my gosh! Wow! He got rung up on ball two!,” UNO radio play-by-play announcer Emmanuel Pepis exclaimed during the broadcast. “That is horrific! … Drummer just wanted to go home.”UNO won the game 7-3.The Southland Conference said in its statement — which didn’t identify Drummer by name — that after a thorough review, “t...

Espinoza lifts Earthquakes to 1-0 victory over Rapids

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cristian Espinoza scored in the 78th minute to rally the San Jose Earthquakes to a 1-0 victory over the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night.Espinoza’s goal helped San Jose (2-1-0) win for just the second time in its last eight matches against Colorado (0-2-1). The Rapids have not scored a goal through three matches this season. Colorado failed to score in its first three matches in 2015 when they became the only team to open a season with three scoreless draws.The Earthquakes outshot the Rapids 13-6 with a 4-0 advantage in shots on goal.JT Marcinkowski didn’t have to make a save in posting a clean sheet for San Jose. William Yarbrough saved three shots for Colorado.Both teams next play Saturday. San Jose travels to play St. Louis City, while Colorado returns home to host Minnesota United.——AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Oil giant Saudi Aramco has profits of $161B in 2022

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oil giant Saudi Aramco said Sunday it earned a $161 billion profit last year, attributing its earnings to higher crude oil prices.The firm, known formally as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., said in its annual report that the profit represented “its highest annual profits as a listed company.” “Given that we anticipate oil and gas will remain essential for the foreseeable future, the risks of underinvestment in our industry are real — including contributing to higher energy prices,” Saudi Aramco CEO and President Amin H. Nasser said in a statement. Nasser said Aramco would spend $37.6 billion to expand its production capacity. Aramco also declared a dividend of $19.5 billion for the fourth quarter of 2022, to be paid in the first quarter of this year. In 2021, Aramco declared profits of $110 billion, as compared to $49 billion in 2020 when the world faced the worst of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, travel disruptions and oil prices briefl...

Israeli forces kill 3 Palestinian gunmen in West Bank

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinian gunmen Sunday who opened fire on troops in the occupied West Bank, the military said, the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region.The military said one gunman turned himself in and was arrested. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials. The deaths Sunday bring to 80 the number of Palestinians killed since the start of the year, as Israel has stepped up arrest raids in the West Bank. A spasm of Palestinian attacks has killed 14 people in 2023. The fresh violence follows an Israeli military raid last week on the West Bank village of Jaba, where three Palestinian militants were killed. Hours later, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a busy Tel Aviv thoroughfare at the start of the Israeli weekend, wounding three people before being shot and killed.The current round of violence is one of the worst between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank in years. It began last spring aft...

Is It Time We End The Practice Of Daylight Savings Time?

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

Third period struggles doom San Jose Sharks in loss to Minnesota Wild

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

SAN JOSE — Marcus Johansson, Mats Zuccarello, and Matt Boldy scored in Minnesota’s three-goal third period, and the Wild beat the San Jose Sharks 5-2 on Saturday night.Jared Spurgeon and Frederick Gaudreau also scored, and Ryan Hartman and John Klingberg each had two assists to help the Wild extend their point streak to 12 games (10-0-2) — one shy of the franchise record — with their fourth straight road win.Marc-Andre Fleury made 35 saves to improve to 18-5-4 against the Sharks.The Wild remained two points behind first-place Dallas in the Central Division after the Stars won earlier Saturday night at Seattle.Logan Couture and Tomas Hertl each had a goal and an assist for San Jose, and Erik Karlsson added an assist for his 84th point of the year to set a franchise record for points by a defenseman. Brent Burns held the old record of 83 points during the 2018-19 season.James Reimer had 24 saves for San Jose, which dropped to 6-19-8 at home this season. The Sharks have lost six straig...

Ramey lifts No. 8 Arizona over No. 2 UCLA for Pac-12 title

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Courtney Ramey had missed all four of his previous 3-point attempts Saturday night when the ball wound up back in his hands at the most critical moment.Ramey shook a defender and then calmly drilled one from the top of the key with 16.7 seconds left to put Arizona in front. The eighth-ranked Wildcats hung on from there, beating No. 2 UCLA 61-59 in the Pac-12 championship game.“I kept telling myself, the next shot is going in,” Ramey said. “My job was to make a play.”The Wildcats (28-6) boosted their case for a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. UCLA (29-5) still hopes to land the No. 1 seed in the West and return to Las Vegas in two weeks for the regional.It was the second year in a row Arizona beat UCLA in the Pac-12 title game. Arizona second-year coach Tommy Lloyd can’t lose in Las Vegas. He is 9-0 in this city, 8-0 at T-Mobile Arena and 6-0 in the Pac-12 Tournament.“It was a knock down, drag out and I had a feeling it was going to be that way,” Lloyd...

Andrei Kuzmenko scores twice, Canucks beat Senators 5-2

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Andrei Kuzmenko scored twice and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Ottawa Senators 5-2 on Saturday night for their season-high fourth straight victory.J.T. Miller, Nils Aman and Sheldon Dries also scored for Vancouver, and Thatcher Demko made 18 saves.“We can definitely feel it in the room. I think there’s a buy-in that’s going on right now,” Demko said. “That’s just playing the right way. It’s contagious when everyone’s doing it and it looks good.”Claude Giroux and Nick Holden had third-period goals for Ottawa. Mads Sogaard made 25 saves in the Senators’ second straight loss.“It’s frustrating. I didn’t think we played that bad,” Giroux said. “We did a lot of good things but kind of a weird game, to be honest. You think you’re playing a pretty good and then you’re down 4-0. So definitely frustrating.”Kuzmenko opened the scoring for Vancouver with 4:45 left in the first period. He also had the final goal of the game, scoring a power-play goal int...

Crisis de opioides en EEUU: se triplican las muertes de hispanos por sobredosis de fentanilo

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

Las sobredosis de opioides que terminan en muerte son cada vez más frecuentes en Estados Unidos luego de que el año pasado, unas 100,000 personas resultaron víctimas de esta epidemia altamente invasiva.  Dos tercios han sido a causa del fentanilo, un opioide sintético que es hasta 50 veces más fuerte que la heroína y 100 veces más fuerte que la morfina, según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC).El fármaco, que se trafica de manera ilegal, se ha posicionado rápidamente como una de las principales causas de muerte entre las personas de 18 a 49 años en EEUU. “Esta droga es un veneno que nos está envenenando y matando a nuestra gente y a sus ciudadanos”, dijo el ex investigador federal Víctor Ávila. “Heroína de gasolinera”: qué es y cuáles son los efectos “Me quitaron lo mejor de mi vida”: padre hispano tras sentencia al acusado de venderle fentanilo a su hija Estados como West Virginia, K...

Matt Duchene scores shootout winner, Predators top Kings 2-1

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:10:45 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matt Duchene scored in the second round of the shootout and the Nashville Predators snapped the Los Angeles Kings’ five-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory Saturday night.Duchene, who scored his 27th shootout goal in 71 chances, put a shot between Pheonix Copley’s legs for the only score in the tiebreaker.“I was mad at myself in Vancouver for missing there. The boys count on me in that situation. You have to take advantage of it,” said Duchene, who is 4 of 6 in shootouts this season. “We deserved to win tonight. I thought we played a real stingy, smart game.” Tommy Novak scored for the Predators and Kevin Lankinen made 26 saves. Nashville has earned points in four of the five games on its road trip and are six points behind Winnipeg for the final wild card spot in the Western Conference. The Predators though have have three games in hand on the Jets.“I thought in general it was a good hockey game,” Nashville coach John Hynes said. “They ...