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Hunter Brown strikes out career-best 10, Astros send A’s to worst 53-game start since 1901

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Mark Kotsay will keep searching for the small bright spots as his Oakland Athletics stumble day after day, making sure they maintain their fight. He will celebrate a defensive play here, an at-bat there, a big catch or mighty throw.Hunter Brown struck out a career-high 10 over seven innings and retired 16 straight during one stretch, Corey Julks drove in three runs and the Houston Astros bounced back from being shut out the two previous games to beat the A’s 5-2 on Friday night.Oakland (10-43) now owns the worst 53-game start since 1901. The 1932 Red Sox won their 53rd game to move to 11-42, then lost the next eight and 13 of 14.“This start can test your character, for sure,” said Kotsay, Oakland’s second-year manager. “If we sit here and dwell on the negatives, there’s no chance for us to turn this thing around. Focusing on the positives through a difficult time, it’s not fake because there are positives. The more we can continue in th...

Suspenden la búsqueda de un joven que cayó de un barco en las Bahamas mientras celebraba su graduación

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

(CNN) — Las labores de búsqueda de un joven de 18 años graduado en un instituto de Luisiana que cayó por la borda de una embarcación en las Bahamas esta semana fueron suspendidas, informó el viernes la Guardia Costera estadounidense, citando al ejército del país.Cameron Robbins estaba de viaje de fin de curso tras graduarse en la University High Lab School de Baton Rouge cuando se cayó de la embarcación el miércoles por la noche, según informó a CNN una portavoz de la Universidad Estatal de Luisiana.La Real Fuerza de Defensa de las Bahamas, que había estado buscándolo, comunicó el viernes a los guardacostas estadounidenses que suspendía las labores de búsqueda activa y que no era necesaria más ayuda de los guardacostas, informó la institución estadounidense.Los guardacostas estadounidenses habían colaborado en la búsqueda desde el miércoles hasta el viernes por la noche.“Ofrecemos nuestras más sinceras condolencias a la familia y amigos de Cameron Robbins”, declaró...

Ogunbowale scores 26, Sabally has 17 points, 10 rebounds and five assists as Wings beat Storm 95-91

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale had 26 points and six assists, Satou Sabally added 17 points, 10 rebounds and five assists and the Dallas Wings beat the Seattle Storm 95-91 Friday night. Dallas is 2-0 for the first time since 2007, when the franchise was known as the Detroit Shock — two relocations ago (the organization moved to Tulsa from 2010-15). Crystal Dangerfield scored 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting and Natasha Howard had 16 points, nine rebounds, five steals and four blocks for Dallas.Kia Nurse hit a 3-pointer, Jewell Loyd made back-to-back jumpers and Nurse added another 3 in a 10-2 run that trimmed Seattle’s deficit to 93-91 with 1:08 to play. Howard was called for an offensive foul a few seconds later but the Storm missed the only shot they attempted from there. The Wings forced a shot-clock violation 29 seconds left and, after Dangerfield missed a 3-point shot on the other end, Sabally’s offensive rebound and putback made capped the scoring with 4.1 seconds left. Loyd scor...

Sale stars again on mound, Red Sox snap skid by beating Diamondbacks 7-2

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Chris Sale threw five strong innings, Kiké Hernández smacked a two-run homer and the Boston Red Sox snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-2 on Friday night.It was Sale’s fourth consecutive impressive outing, raising hope that the veteran right-hander is ready to bounce back after four injury-filled seasons. The 34-year-old gave up one run on four hits while striking out three and walking one.After a rough first few starts this season, the seven-time All-Star is now 5-2 with a 4.72 ERA.The Red Sox jumped ahead 3-0 in the second. Rookie Triston Casas and Connor Wong both hit run-scoring doubles while Raimel Tapia drove home the third run with a single through the right side.Boston went up 5-0 on Hernández’s two-run homer into the left-center seats in the fourth. The Red Sox finished with 14 hits, including three each for Alex Verdugo and Casas.It was another mediocre outing from D-backs rookie Brandon Pfaadt (0-2), who gave ...

Washington beats Louisiana 8-0 in 5 innings to open super regional

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Sydney Stewart and No. 9 hitter Rylee Holtorf hit two-run homers in a five-run fourth inning and Washington beat Louisiana 8-0 in five innings on Friday night in Game 1 of the best-of-3 Seattle Super Regional.SilentRain Espinoza hit a ground-rule double to drive in the first run of the game and Stewart and Holtorf homered to cap the rally as the Huskies (42-13), ranked sixth in the coaches poll, took a 5-0 lead. Alana Johnson delivered a two-run single in the bottom of the fifth and Holtorf singled in Johnson for the mercy-rule victory.Ruby Meylan (18-5) allowed two hits and four walks, striking out seven in the complete-game win.Sam Landry took the loss for Louisiana (50-15). She allowed three runs on three hits and two walks in 3 1/3 innings. The Huskies tagged reliever Chloe Riassetto for five runs — four earned — in 1 1/3 innings.The super regional winner advances to the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Washington can eliminate the Ra...

Thousands of exhausted South Sudanese head home, fleeing brutal conflict

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

RENK, South Sudan (AP) — Tens of thousands of exhausted people are heading home to the world’s youngest country as they flee a brutal conflict in neighboring Sudan.There’s a bottleneck of men, women and children camping near the dusty border of Sudan and South Sudan and the international community and the government are worried about a prolonged conflict. Fighting between Sudan’s military and a rival militia killed at least 863 civilians in Sudan before a seven-day ceasefire began Monday night. Many in South Sudan are concerned about what could happen if the fighting next door continues. “After escaping danger there’s more violence,” said South Sudanese Alwel Ngok, sitting on the ground outside a church. “There’s no food, no shelter, we’re totally stranded, and I’m very tired and need to leave,” she said.Ngok thought she’d be safe returning home after fleeing clashes in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, where she watched three of her relatives killed. She and her five chi...

No winning ticket sold for Friday’s $60 million Lotto Max jackpot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

There was no winning ticket sold in Friday’s Lotto Max $60 million draw.However, one of six available Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each was won by a ticket holder in Ontario.The jackpot for the next draw on May 30 will be an estimated $65 million, with eight $1 million Maxmillion prizes up for grabs.The Canadian Press

Ukraine soccer league set for a title-deciding game in a remarkable, war-hit season

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — Two soccer teams exiled from cities in war-battered eastern Ukraine play each other Sunday in the safer western part of the country with the league title at stake.The showdown between competition leader Shakhtar Donetsk and second-place Dnipro-1 at Arena Lviv can be decisive in a soccer season that is finishing on schedule in remarkable circumstances. The stadium was one of four in Ukraine, including Shakhtar’s home in Donetsk, secure enough in 2012 from Russian aggression to co-host that year’s European Championship with Poland.Shakhtar leads by five points and needs just a draw this weekend to secure the title ahead of the last scheduled round on June 4.“I think it will maybe be one of our best matches ever,” Ukrainian league chief executive Ievgen Dykyi told The Associated Press this week in a call from Kyiv. “Because the situation now is really hard and all the players understand about this.”In Dnipro on Friday, the Russian military struck a medical cli...

As Elizabeth Holmes heads to prison for fraud, questions remain about her motives

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase.The 11-year sentence represents a comeuppance for the wide-eyed woman who broke through “tech bro” culture to become one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated entrepreneurs, only to be exposed as a fraud. Along the way, Holmes became a symbol of the shameless hyperbole that often saturates startup culture.But questions still linger about her true intentions — so many that even the federal judge who presided over her trial seemed mystified. And Holmes’ defenders continue to ask whether the punishment fits the crime.At 39, she seems most likely to be remembered as Silicon Valley’s Icarus — a high-flying entrepreneur burning with reckless ambition whose odyssey culminated in convictions for fraud and conspiracy.Her motives are still somewhat mysterious, and some supporters say fed...

Texas’ GOP-held House set for impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:25:39 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ GOP-led House of Representatives was set to hold historic impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday as the scandal-plagued Republican called on supporters to protest a vote that could lead to his ouster. The House scheduled an afternoon start for debate on whether to impeach and suspend Paxton from office over allegations of bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust — just some of the accusations that have trailed Texas’ top lawyer for most of his three terms. The hearing sets up what could be a remarkably sudden downfall for one of the GOP’s most prominent legal combatants, who in 2020 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral defeat of President Donald Trump. Only two officials in Texas’ nearly 200-year history have been impeached. Paxton, 60, has called the impeachment proceedings “political theater” based on “hearsay and gossip, parroting long-disproven claims,” and an attemp...