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White and Morgan each hit 2 HRs, Skenes has 9 Ks; LSU beats Kentucky in Game 1 of super regional

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Tommy White and Tre’ Morgan each hit two of LSU’s six home runs, Paul Skenes allowed just four hits and a walk over 7 2/3 scoreless innings and the Tigers beat Kentucky 14-0 Saturday night at the Baton Rouge Super Regional.LSU can clinch a berth in the College World Series with a win Sunday in Game 2 of the best-of-3 super regional. Game 1, which was originally scheduled for 2 p.m. local time, was delayed more than 7 hours due to inclement weather.Morgan, went 4 for 4, and White (3 for 5) each had three RBIs and scored three times. Gavin Dugas hit a home run in the fourth inning and Josh Pearson hit a lead-off homer to spark a six-run bottom of the fifth that gave LSU a 12-0 lead. Skenes (12-2), one of the top prospects in the 2023 class, struck out nine Kentucky batters — just the fourth time in 16 starts this season that the junior, who transferred to LSU after two seasons at Air Force, was limited to single-digit strikeouts. Morgan hit a solo home ru...

Earthquakes beat Philadelphia 2-1, snap Union’s 9-match unbeaten run

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Miguel Trauco scored a second-half goal and the San Jose Earthquakes cooled off Philadelphia with a 2-1 victory on Saturday night, ending the Union’s nine-match unbeaten streak.Trauco, a defender, scored what proved to be the winner in the 57th minute, using an assist from Carlos Gruezo to find the net for the second time this season.Jeremy Ebobisse staked San Jose (7-5-5) to a 1-0 lead in the 8th minute. His seventh goal of the campaign came with an assist from Cade Cowell.Damion Lowe took a pass from Kai Wagner and scored the equalizer for Philadelphia (9-5-3) in the 17th minute. It was Lowe’s first netter this season.Daniel de Sousa Brito finished with six saves for the Earthquakes in his sixth start. Andre Blake did not make a save for the Union.San Jose picked up its first win over Union coach Jim Curtin in its eighth attempt. Philadelphia entered play with a 7-0-2 record over its last nine matches. The streak matched a club record set last s...

Un accidente en el rodaje de la secuela de “Gladiator” hiere a “varios miembros del equipo”

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

(CNN) — Un accidente en el set de rodaje de la próxima película de “Gladiator” –la secuela de la ganadora del Oscar a la mejor película en 2000– causó heridas a varias personas implicadas en la producción.“Mientras se rodaba una secuencia de acrobacias en el plató de la secuela de ‘Gladiator’, se produjo un accidente en el que varios miembros del equipo sufrieron heridas que no pusieron en peligro sus vidas”, declaró un portavoz de Paramount Pictures a CNN este sábado.“Los equipos de seguridad y de servicios médicos completos in situ pudieron actuar rápidamente para que los afectados recibieran inmediatamente la atención necesaria. Todos ellos se encuentran en condición estable y continúan recibiendo tratamiento”, continúa el comunicado.Variety, que fue el primero en informar de la noticia, detalló que seis personas en total recibieron tratamiento por quemaduras tras el accidente, que tuvo lugar en el set de rodaje de la película...

Pulido powers Sporting KC to 4-1 victory over Austin

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Alan Pulido scored a goal in each half and added an assist as Sporting Kansas City rolled to a 4-1 victory over Austin FC on Saturday night.Pulido staked Sporting KC (5-8-5) to a 1-0 lead with an unassisted goal in the 19th minute.Robert Castellanos gave Sporting KC a two-goal lead just two minutes into the second half when he took passes from Pulido and Erik Thommy and scored for the first time this season.Pulido found the net for a second time 10 minutes later to push the advantage to 3-0. Tim Leibold and Robert Voloder notched assists on Pulido’s fourth goal of the campaign.Sebastián Driussi got Austin (5-8-4) on the scoreboard in the 61st minute, using an assist from Gyasi Zardes to score for a fourth time this season.Khiry Shelton netted his first goal of the season for Sporting KC, scoring unassisted in the 89th minute to complete the scoring.Kendall McIntosh had one save in his sixth straight start for Sporting KC. Brad Stuver saved two shots fo...

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says ‘counteroffensive and defensive actions’ under way against Russia

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday appeared to confirm that his country’s much-anticipated counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion has begun, but he said Ukraine would refrain from giving details about the operation.“Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine; at which stage I will not talk in detail,” Zelenskyy said at a joint press conference in Kyiv on Saturday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was on an unannounced visit to Ukraine.“I am in touch with our commanders,” the Ukrainian leader was quoted as saying. “Everyone is positive.”Zelenskyy’s comments came after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Kyiv’s long-expected counteroffensive was already failing. Reports earlier this week said the counteroffensive was under way, with Ukraine battling to retake territory occupied by Moscow’s forces.In his nightly address late Saturday, Zelenskyy thanked Ukrainian troops on the front lines...

German shepherd injured in Ukraine gets new start with Hungarian police

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — After a rocket attack in eastern Ukraine, half of Rambo’s face was mangled and bloody. Shrapnel had ravaged the right side of his head, and it was uncertain if he would survive. The 3-year-old German shepherd, who had accompanied Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the war, received emergency surgery that saved his life. Now, Rambo is training with the Budapest police department in neighboring Hungary and serving as a reminder that dogs — and people — with disabilities can do great things.Recovered from his brush with death in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv province, Rambo is learning how to interact with children, older adults and disabled people at police demonstrations and rehabilitation institutions, according to Lt. Col. Maria Stein with the Budapest Metropolitan Police.Demonstrating the tasks performed by canine units is part of the department’s crime prevention program, with a goal of teaching young people to be more tolerant an...

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam was a fast-moving disaster that is swiftly evolving into a long-term environmental catastrophe affecting drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea.The short-term dangers can be seen from outer space — tens of thousands of parcels of land flooded, and more to come. Experts say the long-term consequences will be generational. For every flooded home and farm, there are fields upon fields of newly planted grains, fruits and vegetables whose irrigation canals are drying up. Thousands of fish were left gasping on mud flats. Fledgling water birds lost their nests and their food sources. Countless trees and plants were drowned. If water is life, then the draining of the Kakhovka reservoir creates an uncertain future for the region of southern Ukraine that was an arid plain until the damming of the Dnieper River 70 years ago. The Kakhovka Dam was the last in a system of six Soviet-era dams on the river...

Shootout in northwest Pakistan, along Afghan border, kills 3 soldiers, 3 militants, army says

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants attacked a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, along the border with Afghanistan, triggering a shootout that left three soldiers and three militants dead, the army said Sunday.Four militants were also wounded, the military said in a statement.The overnight shootout early Saturday took place in the Miran Shah tribal area of North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, a militant group also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP.The Pakistani army carried out search operations to hunt down those responsible for the attack. They seized a cache of ammunition from the dead militants.The military said it was “determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism.”Although the army says it has cleared North Waziristan of militants, occasional attacks and shootouts continue, raising concerns that the Pakistani Taliban are regrouping in the area.Though a separate group, the TTP remains a cl...

European leaders hope to restore stability in Tunisia, a major source of migration

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia is hosting the leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Union on Sunday for talks aimed at smoothing the way for an international bailout and restoring stability to a country that has become a major source of migration to Europe.Tunisia’s increasingly autocratic president is balking at conditions for $1.9 billion in stalled International Monetary Fund support, which include cuts to subsidies on flour and fuel, cuts to the large public administration sector, and the privatization of loss-making public companies. President Kais Saied warns such moves would unleash social unrest, and bristles at what he calls Western diktats. But Tunisia’s economy is teetering toward collapse. The population is already restive, and disillusioned with both Saied’s leadership and the country’s decade-long experiment with democracy.That has pushed more and more Tunisians to risk dangerous boat journeys across the Mediterranean to seek a better life in Europe. Tunisi...

Julien Alfred wins 100, 200 as Texas women take title at NCAA outdoor track and field championships

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:30:31 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Julien Alfred won the 100 meters, the 200 and ran the opening leg of the 4×100 meter relay for the Texas women and the Longhorns won fifth team title in program history Saturday night at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships. Alfred won the 100 meters with a wind-aided time of 10.72 seconds to become just the sixth woman in NCAA history to win the event in back-to-back years — the first at Texas — and ran the fastest all-conditions mark in collegiate history to win the 200 in 21.73 and become the first woman since 2016 to win both the 100 and 200 and just the third in the last 25 years. Texas finished with 83 points — a program record at the outdoor championships — 32 more than second-place Florida. Arkansas finished third with 46. The Longhorns’ 4×100 meter relay team of Alfred, Ezinne Abba, Rhasidat Adeleke and Kevona Davis defended its 2022 title in 41.60, just 0.05 seconds off its NCAA record set Thursday in the semifinals. The win m...