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NCAA baseball: Stanford stays alive, forces decisive game vs. Texas A&M

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

The Stanford baseball team made a habit last season of playing at its best whenever it mattered most.The Cardinal are showing that same tendency again this year.Top-seeded Stanford won two elimination games on its home field Sunday, including a 13-5 victory over Texas A&M in the nightcap, and is now one win away from advancing to the Super Regionals of the NCAA Division I tournament for the second straight year.Stanford and Texas A&M play again in a winner-take-all game Monday at 6 p.m. Including 2022, the Cardinal are now 7-0 in Regional and Super Regional games in which they’ve faced elimination.Sunday against the Aggies, the Cardinal was up 6-5 when Alberto Rios kicked off a seven-run inning with an RBI double that scored Braden Montgomery. Malcolm Moore then hit a two-run homer with no outs before Tommy Troy had a three-run blast with one out to give Stanford a 13-5 lead.Montgomery, Nick Dugan, and Brandt Pancer combined to allow just one earned run in 8 1/3 innings of r...

San Jose councilmember to spend night in homeless shelter

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- A formerly homeless San Jose resident is challenging local officials to spend the night in a shelter. She wants them to experience it firsthand before voting to open up more.Councilmember Omar Torres says he's up for the challenge. He says he wants to serve the unhoused community in San Jose. SUV crashes into business after losing control in Oakland street race: police Torres thinks spending a night in a shelter will help him better understand how he can help those individuals long term. Torres is getting ready to pack a bag and spent a night at a local homeless shelter."We're willing to listen, we're willing to come where they're at and have these brutal discussions about why they are unhoused and what other services they need," Torres said.Torres was just elected last November. He says he has visited overnight shelters, but only during the day when they're nearly empty. Then he received an email asking him to spend the night in a shelter.He knew it wa...

Miami Heat revive en el último cuarto para superar a Denver Nuggets y empatar la serie 1-1

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

(CNN) — Los Miami Heat aguantaron los 41 puntos de Nikola Jokic y se animaron en el último cuarto para derrotar por 111-108 a los Denver Nuggets este domingo en el segundo partido de las finales de la NBA y empatar 1-1 la serie.Miami tuvo un comienzo arrollador en el segundo partido, con una ventaja de 21-10 a mitad del primer cuarto, antes de que los Nuggets respondieran con una racha de 45-14 en el segundo cuarto, dando la vuelta al marcador con 26 puntos y haciéndose con el control.El dos veces Jugador Más Valioso, Nikola Jokic, quien sólo intentó tres tiros en la primera mitad del primer partido, se mostró más activo ofensivamente este domingo, encestando 6 de 13 tiros de campo y sumando 13 puntos, el mejor del equipo, al descanso.Las estrellas de la postemporada de los Heat, Max Strus y Caleb Martin, se sacudieron una miserable salida en el primer partido, en el que el dúo tiró un triste 1 de 17 puntos desde el campo, para combinarse para 26 puntos en 9 de 16 tiros, mient...

Stanford wallops Texas A&M, 13-5, forces Monday showdown for Stanford Regional title

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Malcolm Moore hit a two-run home run and Tommy Troy belted a grand slam, both in the seventh inning, as Stanford beat Texas A&M 13-5 Sunday night to force a winner-take-all showdown for the Stanford Regional championship and a berth in the super regionals. The Aggies knocked Stanford into Sunday’s elimination rounds with an 8-5 win Saturday. The Cardinal knocked Cal State Fullerton out, 6-5 earlier Sunday, with freshman Nick Dugan working 3 ⅔ innings of relief to earn the win.Dugan came back against the Aggies and pitched 3 ⅔ and earn the save after left fielder Alberto Rios made a diving catch in left to end the game. Dugan worked 7 ⅓ innings Sunday, throwing 112 pitches and allowing just one run on seven base hits, walking a batter while striking out six.Troy had a stellar day at the plate, going 4-for-5 with a home run and three RBI against the Titans and 3-for-5 with a grand slam against the Aggies. Troy Wansing (3-4) started for Texas A&M a...

Storm has 10 Ks, Southern Miss uses big 9th inning to stay alive at Auburn Regional

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Justin Storm pitched 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief with 10 strikeouts and Southern Miss exploded for eight runs in the top of the ninth inning to beat Pennsylvania 11-2 Sunday night at the Auburn Regional. Southern Miss (44-18) has won three straight elimination games to force a decisive rematch with the Quakers on Monday for the regional title and a trip to the super regionals. Penn (34-15) had its 10 game win streak snapped.Starter Niko Mazza gave up four hits and two runs before Storm (6-2) came on with one out and the bases loaded in the fourth inning and struck Seth Werchan and Calvin Brown to get out of the jam. Storm didn’t allow a hit until Jarrett Pokrovsky hit a two-out double in the ninth and Ryan Taylor followed with a groundout to end the game. Carson Paetow hit an RBI triple and then scored on a throwing to give Southern Miss the lead for good in the sixth inning.Wyatt Henseler hit a two-out solo shot for the Quakers in the bottom of the f...

‘I am haunted by it’: Survivors of deadly train crash in India recount trauma

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

BALASORE, India (AP) — Gura Pallay was watching another train pass by the one he was sitting in when he heard sudden, loud screeching. Before he could make sense of what was happening, he was thrown out of the train. Pallay, 24, landed next to the tracks along with metal wreckage of the train he’d been riding in, and instantly lost consciousness. The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was the twisted remains of three trains on the tracks.His train had derailed after colliding with a stopped freight train. Another passenger train, the one he had seen pass by moments earlier, had hit the derailed carriages.“I saw it with my own eyes, but I still can’t describe what I saw. I am haunted by it,” he said Sunday at a hospital, where he lay on a stretcher with a broken leg and dark wounds on his face and arms.Pallay is a laborer, like most of the people onboard the two passenger trains that crashed Friday in the eastern Odisha state, killing 275 people and injuring hundreds. H...

Mexico president’s ruling party rolls to win in country’s most populous state

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s most populous state turned its back on decades of single-party rule, deciding to move forward with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ruling Morena party over the long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party.The preliminary forecast from electoral authorities Sunday night indicated a victory for Delfina Gómez in the State of Mexico that was confirmed a short time later by Alejandra del Moral’s concession speech. Official ballot counting continued through the night.The result was a new low for the PRI, which governed Mexico uninterrupted for 71 years until losing power in 2000 and had ruled the State of Mexico for even longer until its loss Sunday.A representative sampling of voting stations just hours after polls closed indicated Gómez was likely to win between 52.1% and 54.2% of the ballots, compared with 43% to 45.2% for del Moral, according to the National Electoral Institute. It said the sampling forecast had at least 95% certainty.By midnight...

Switzerland’s UBS says it could complete Credit Suisse takeover on June 12

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Switzerland’s UBS said Monday that it expects to complete its takeover of longtime rival Credit Suisse as early as next week.The two Zurich-based banks, longtime rivals, are uniting in a 3 billion-franc ($3.3 billion) deal that was arranged hastily in March by the Swiss government and regulators after Credit Suisse’s stock plunged and jittery depositors quickly pulled out their money. The merger was aimed at stemming upheaval in the global financial system after the collapse of two U.S. banks shook confidence in the sector. The takeover will leave UBS as Switzerland’s single banking titan.UBS said Monday that it expects to complete the acquisition by as early as June 12.“Completion is subject to the registration statement, which covers shares to be delivered, being declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and to satisfaction, or waiver by UBS, of other remaining closing conditions,” UBS said in a statement.The reputation of 167-year-old ...

More than 2 million people displaced, Burkina Faso’s government says, as aid falls short

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world’s fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data. Figures released last month showed more than 2 million people are internally displaced in the West African nation, the majority of them women and children, fueling a dire humanitarian crisis as the conflict pushed people from their homes, off their farms and into congested urban areas or makeshift camps.Aid groups and the government are scrambling to respond amid a lack of funds and growing needs. One in four people requires aid, and tens of thousands are facing catastrophic levels of hunger. Yet not even half of the $800 million humanitarian response budget requested last year by aid groups was funded, according to the United Nations.“The spectrum of consequences (for people) is vast but grim at e...

UN climate chief calls fossil fuel phase out key to curbing warming but may not be on talks’ agenda

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:20:51 GMT

The world needs to phase out fossil fuels if it wants to curb global warming, the United Nations climate chief said in an interview with The Associated Press. But he said the idea might not make it on to the agenda of “make-or-break” international climate negotiations this fall, run in and by an oil haven.A phase out of heat-trapping fossil fuels “is something that is at top of every discussion or most discussions that are taking place,” U.N. climate Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said. “It is an issue that has global attention. How that translates into an agenda item and a (climate talks) outcome we will see.”Stiell told AP he couldn’t quite promise it would get a spot on the agenda in climate talks, called COP28, in Dubai later this year.That agenda decision is up to the president of the negotiations, Stiell said. He is the head of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan al-Jaber. The decision by host nation United Arab Emirates to make al-Jaber the head of ...