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No. 4 Arizona rides massive second-half run to beat Alabama 87-74

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona and Alabama traded missed shots and turnovers, neither able to get much of an offensive flow in an unfamiliar arena.The Wildcats turned up the defensive pressure in the second half, sparking the offense in a run that changed the game.Oumar Ballo had 16 points and 12 rebounds, Pelle Larsson added 16 points and No. 4 Arizona used a massive second-half run to beat Alabama 87-74 on Wednesday night in the Jerry Colangelo Hall of Fame Series.“There’s ups and downs and you got to be able to weather those, you’ve got to be able to ride them out,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said. “You got to be able to change the course and I thought our guys did an incredible job in the style we play.”Two of the nation’s top three scoring teams engaged in a surprising defensive battle, trading missed shots and turnovers.With Arizona fans making the Footprint Center sound like McKale Center West, the Wildcats (9-1) had them roaring with a 19-3 run to take a 10-point lead midway th...

Lotería de Navidad: ¿cuánto gastan los españoles para intentar ganar “el Gordo”?

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

(CNN En Español) — Sus premios son menos suculentos que otras loterías, pero la ilusión y el fervor que genera entre la población no tiene igual. En España, el Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad, cuyos orígenes se remontan a 1812, es uno de los eventos más arraigados en la cultura popular española, y para muchos supone el pistoletazo de salida de las fiestas navideñas.A medida que se acerca el 22 de diciembre, fecha de su celebración, las administraciones de lotería empiezan a recibir más y más clientes que desean hacerse con uno o varios décimos (la unidad de participación más pequeña que uno puede adquirir de forma oficial). Pero no todos los locales tienen el mismo imán.En Doña Manolita, una de las administraciones más famosas de toda España que se sitúa en pleno centro de Madrid, las filas de espera pueden ser kilométricas. Hay quien incluso llega antes de que abra para asegurarse un turno en la fila, como Celia, una joven que dejó su isla natal de Ibiza para estudiar en Ma...

Joey Daccord matches franchise record with 42 saves, Kraken hold off Kings 2-1

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joey Daccord matched his own Seattle franchise record with 42 saves — 20 in the first period — and survived a furious final three minutes to help the Kraken hold off the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Wednesday night.Daccord has started the Kraken’s last seven games and is 3-1-3 with a 1.86 goals-against average and a .936 save percentage,“He’s making timely saves. He’s making all the saves that he should and he’s making some big saves too,” coach Dave Hakstol said. “It’s those kind of things that give your bench a lift and continue to lead to confidence.” The Kings pulled goalie Cam Talbot with 2:52 remaining, but could not get the tying goal. That included a power play with 2:47 remaining after Seattle’s Will Borgen was called for high-sticking Kevin Fiala.Daccord also made 42 saves against Carolina on Oct. 26. He’s the second NHL goalie this season to make at least 20 saves in the first period without allowing a goal. Ottawa’s Joonas Kor...

Daccord ties own Kraken franchise record with 42 saves in 2-1 win over Kings

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joey Daccord matched his own Seattle franchise record with 42 saves — 20 in the first period — and survived a furious final three minutes to help the Kraken hold off the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Wednesday night.The Kings pulled goalie Cam Talbot with 2:52 remaining, but could not get the tying goal. That included a power play with 2:47 remaining after Seattle’s Will Borgen was called for high-sticking Kevin Fiala.Daccord also made 42 saves against Carolina on Oct. 26. He’s the second NHL goalie this season to make at least 20 saves in the first period without allowing a goal. Ottawa’s Joonas Korpisalo stopped all 23 shots he faced in the opening 20 minutes on Oct. 28 against Pittsburgh.Brandon Tanev and Jordan Eberle scored for Seattle.Los Angeles’ Blake Lizotte had his 100th career point with his third period-goal. Talbot stopped 28 shots.CAPITALS 3, ISLANDERS 2, OTWASHINGTON (AP) — Dylan Strome scored on an overtime power play and Washington beat New York for it...

AP PHOTOS: Young Kenyan ballet dancers stage early Christmas performance for their community

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — As the sun sets on the narrow streets of Africa’s largest informal settlement, children hurry to change from daily clothes into pointe shoes and other ballet gear.Fifteen-year-old Brenda Branice is among the dancers and can’t hide her joy. It’s time for the Christmas performance in Kibera, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.Instead of a stage, there is dust-covered plastic sheeting in an open field. The holidays have come early for residents as more than 100 local ballet students perform. They have been practicing every day after school.“I am happy to be a ballerina,” Branice said. “I am also happy to entertain my friends.”Eyeshadow sparkles. A girl’s braided hair swings. Some dancers go barefoot.The mother of another ballerina, Monica Aoko, smiles as she watches the performance. Hundreds of residents, young and old, have come to the annual holiday event.“This dance has given me a Christmas mood. Now I know Chri...

Traore scores 24 points, Pierre-Louis has double-double and UC Santa Barbara beat Howard 94-81

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Yohan Traore scored 24 points, Josh Pierre-Louis had a double-double and UC Santa Barbara beat Howard 94-81 on Wednesday night. Traore added six rebounds for the Gauchos (7-3). Pierre-Louis scored 21 points and added 11 rebounds and eight assists. Cole Anderson shot 7 for 12, including 5 for 10 from beyond the arc to finish with 19 points.Marcus Dockery led the way for the Bison (4-9) with 24 points. Isiah Warfield added 20 points for Howard. In addition, Seth Towns had 13 points.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

Selmayr ain’t welcome back in Brussels, EU officials say

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

BRUSSELS — The potential return of the “Monster of the Berlaymont” is freaking out Brussels.The halls of Brussels’ institutions are abuzz with gossip (and some fear) that Martin Selmayr, once the European Commission’s top civil servant, known for his abrasive leadership style, is set to return to the mothership as his assignment in Austria hits the term limit. If an official of his seniority were to return to Brussels, it would have to be to a big job. POLITICO spoke to a dozen EU officials in Brussels, all of whom said his return to Brussels was unwelcome, unlikely and, in the words of one Commission official, even “unthinkable” under the current boss of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who runs a tight ship. Still, the officials were granted anonymity to speak freely about Selmayr, who is still seen as a powerful figure, but has been packed off at a safe distance to head the European Commission’s office in Vienna. In a sign that even he ...

Football’s UEFA and FIFA lose EU court bid to halt breakaway Super League

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

Football’s governing bodies UEFA and FIFA broke EU competition rules by attempting to block the breakaway Super League, the European Union’s top court ruled.“The FIFA and UEFA rules on prior approval of interclub football competitions, such as the Super League, are contrary to EU law,” the Court of Justice said in a statement, adding that they breached EU competition law and the freedom to provide services.The two football organizations were “abusing a dominant position” when they cracked down on the competing league as their rules weren’t “transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate,” the court said.Judges are giving their advice on EU law to a Madrid court which will rule on the final details of the Super League legal challenge backed by Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.A dozen of Europe’s leading football clubs set up the Super League in April 2021 but the project collapsed after several clubs pulled out follo...

Harvard president’s corrections do not address her clearest instances of plagiarism, including as a student in the 1990s

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

(CNN) — Harvard President Claudine Gay recently requested corrections for two of her academic papers, but she did not address even clearer examples of plagiarism from earlier in her academic history at the school, according to a CNN analysis of her writings.In response to accusations of plagiarism, the embattled Harvard president recently submitted corrections to two papers she wrote as a professional academic in 2001 and 2017. But a CNN examination of Gay’s published works documented that Gay committed other, clearer examples of plagiarism while she was studying for her PhD at Harvard in the 1990s.Those include an instance in her dissertation where she copied lines verbatim from another source without citation.In addressing the allegations of plagiarism, neither Harvard nor Gay have corrected or acknowledged these earlier instances from when she was a student. The instances were first reported by t...

A train in Slovenia hits maintenance workers on the tracks. 2 were killed and 4 others were injured

Published Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:15:20 GMT

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A passenger train on Wednesday struck a group of maintenance workers on the tracks, killing two of them and injuring four others, police said.The collision happened near the southwestern town of Postojna at around 9 a.m., the official STA news agency said.The report says the injured workers were seriously hurt. No other details were immediately available.The Associated Press