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Trail Blazers beat Spurs 134-128 to split 2-game set in Portland

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jerami Grant and Malcolm Brogdon each scored 27 points and the Portland Trail Blazers took advantage of San Antonio rookie star Victor Wembanyama’s absence to beat the Spurs 134-128 on Friday night for a split in the two-game set.Wembanyama rested on the second night of a back-to-back after the rookie rolled an ankle earlier this month. He had 30 points Thursday night in San Antonio’s 118-105 victory.Brogdon also had seven assists. Jabari Walker scored a career-high 25 points, and rookie Scoot Henderson added 21 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds.“That was probably his best game so far,” Portland coach Chauncey Billups said about Henderson.Henderson wowed the crowd with a wrap-around assist in the second quarter to Matisse Thybulle.“Oh man, I didn’t know what that was,” Walker said about Henderson’s eye-popping pass. “He’s got some stuff.”Keldon Johnson scored 27 points for San Antonio.“I thought we played horrendously, getting down by 26,” Spurs coach Gregg...

Justin Schultz scores in OT to give Kraken 2-1 win over Flyers

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Justin Schultz scored with 2:25 left in overtime on Friday night, giving the Seattle Kraken a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.It was a season-high fourth straight win for Seattle, and its sixth straight one-goal game (4-0-2). The Kraken also tied a franchise record with points in their eighth straight game (6-0-2).Oliver Bjorkstrand, playing in his 500th NHL contest, played the puck along the right boards and found Schultz at the near post. Schultz slid it past Flyers goalie Carter Hart for his third of the season. Hart finished with 27 saves.“I just kind of waited for the opportunity,” Schultz said. “Bjorky and (Yanni Gourde) did a great job just holding onto the puck, and we found an opportunity. (I was) lucky enough to (have it) go in.”“I think we’re just sticking with it. And guys are working hard and we know it’s there just wasn’t coming for us,” Schultz added. “We believe in this group. We have almost the same group as last year so we know w...

George, Harden help Clippers close successful December with 117-106 win over Grizzlies

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul George scored 23 points, James Harden added 16 points and 13 assists, and the Los Angeles Clippers closed a successful December with a 117-106 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night.The Clippers were 11-2 in December, which is the best mark in the Western Conference for this month.Ivica Zubac added a season-high 20 rebounds along with 15 points as the Clippers had seven players score in double figures. It was Zubac’s fifth double-double in his last seven games.Jaren Jackson Jr. and Marcus Smart scored 22 apiece for the Grizzlies. Ja Morant had 19 points and 10 assists. Morant is averaging 26.8 points in five games since coming back from a 25-game suspension to begin the season.The Clippers led most of the game. A dunk by Daniel Theis 30 seconds into the fourth quarter gave them a 96-75 advantage before Memphis began to rally.Memphis scored 12 straight points to open a 22-9 run over a four-minute span. Smart’s 3-pointer with 6:03 remain...

ANÁLISIS | Las esperanzas de victoria de Ucrania se desvanecen ante el menguante apoyo occidental y la implacable maquinaria bélica de Putin

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

(CNN) — Hace un año, un resuelto presidente Volodymyr Zelensky viajó directamente desde el campo de batalla de Bakhmut a Estados Unidos para dirigirse al Congreso y reunirse con el presidente Joe Biden. Fue aclamado como un héroe: la determinación de Ucrania de resistir la agresión rusa recibió un fuerte respaldo bipartidista en Washington.Un año después, las perspectivas son mucho más sombrías. La tan esperada ofensiva ucraniana en el sur apenas ha progresado. Rusia parece haber resistido a las sanciones internacionales, por ahora, y ha convertido su economía en una máquina de guerra.La forma rusa de hacer la guerra, absorbiendo terribles pérdidas de hombres y material pero lanzando aún más a la lucha, ha debilitado la ventaja táctica y tecnológica del ejército ucraniano, como admitió su general de más alto rango en un sincero ensayo el mes pasado.El estado de ánimo en Moscú parece sombríamente determinado: los objetivos de la “operación militar especial” se alcan...

Alonzo Gaffney, Jamiya Neal make plays late as Arizona St. rallies to beat Stanford 76-73

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Kamari Lands and Adam Miller scored 13 points apiece and Alonzo Gaffney scored seven of his 12 points in the final five minutes to help Arizona State erase a double-digit deficit and beat Stanford 76-73 Friday night in the Pac-12 opener for both teams. Frankie Collins also scored 12 points for Arizona State (7-5). The Cardinal led by as many as 12 points and took a 69-59 lead when Jared Bynum made a layup with 5:04 to play. Miller answered with a jumper and, after Bynum missed the front end of a 1-and-1, Jose Perez made a layup to cut the deficit to six points about a minute later. Andrej Stojakovic missed another front end, Miller hit a 3-pointer before Gaffney made a layup, hit a 3 and then threw down a dunk to cap a 14-4 run that made it 73-73 with 1:34 left. Spencer Jones missed a layup attempt on the other end and Frankie Collins hit a contested step-back jumper with 31 seconds remaining, Jamiya Neal stole the ball from Jones and hit 1-of-2 free throws t...

Pope scores 13 as Fresno State knocks off San Diego 71-67

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Isaiah Pope had 13 points in Fresno State’s 71-67 win against San Diego on Friday night.Pope added five rebounds for the Bulldogs (7-6). Eduardo Andre scored 11 points and added five rebounds and four blocks. Xavier Dusell was 4-of-11 shooting (1 for 8 from 3-point range) to finish with 11 points.Deuce Turner led the Toreros (9-5) in scoring, finishing with 25 points. San Diego also got 22 points from Wayne McKinney III. PJ Hayes also had six points.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

Russia says it thwarted Kyiv drone attack following aerial assault against Ukraine

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

Thirty-two Ukrainian drones were detected over Russia, Moscow officials reported on Saturday, a day after an 18-hour aerial barrage across Ukraine killed at least 30 civilians.Drones were seen in the skies over Russia’s Moscow, Bryansk, Oryol, and Kursk regions, the country’s defense ministry said in a statement. It did not report any casualties and said that all of the drones had been destroyed by air defenses.Cities across western Russia have come under regular attack from drones since May, with Russian officials blaming Kyiv.Ukrainian officials never acknowledge responsibility for attacks on Russian territory or the Crimean peninsula. However, larger aerial strikes against Russia have previously followed heavy assaults on Ukrainian cities.Moscow’s forces launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones across Ukraine Friday, an onslaught described by one air force official as the biggest aerial barrage of the war.At least 144 people were wounded and an unknown number were buried under ...

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader vowed to carry on weakening his war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite a pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome.“I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to use force … but I have no reason to be frightened by that into sacrificing (Serb) national interests,” Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia’s Serb-run part, told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.He said any any attempt to use international intervention to further strengthen Bosnia’s shared, multiethnic institutions will be met by Bosnian Serb decision to abandon them completely and take the country back to the state of disunity and dysfunction it was in at the end of its brutal interethnic war in the 1990s.Because Western democracies will not be agreeable to that, he added, “in the next stage, we will be forced by their reaction to declare full independence” of the Ser...

Dear Abby: I’m feeling used, and I want to stop sharing my company discount with this person

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

DEAR ABBY: I am a retired automotive worker. My former employer allows me to share my company discount with close relatives.Related ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: I’m thinking of moving if my new neighbor continues this behavior Advice | Dear Abby: Pet owners tell these appalling stories as if they were jokes, and it upsets me Advice | Dear Abby: My boyfriend says I’m being too harsh about his ‘mistake’ Advice | Dear Abby: My friend says my party idea is tacky. Is she right? Advice | Dear Abby: How can I light a fire under the poky tradespeople in my new town? One of them has taken advantage of my discount for the last 15 years, which has saved this person literally thousands of dollars. I don’t share it to get anything in return, but I have never received even so much as a thank-you card from this relative.This person isn’t hurting financially by any means. They constant...

Everything you need to know about Trump and the 14th Amendment

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 02:58:20 GMT

If you’re confused by news over the last few weeks about Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on the 2024 ballot in several states, you’re not alone.A slew of state courts and election officials have issued rulings on complicated questions of law and constitutional history — rooted in interpretations of the 14th Amendment — that have led to a dizzying array of legal conclusions about whether Trump “engaged in” an “insurrection” when a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.The Colorado Supreme Court deemed Trump ineligible to serve as president again. Maine’s secretary of state — the state’s top election official and a Democrat — made a similar determination. But the state supreme courts in both Michigan and Minnesota have allowed Trump to remain on their primary ballots, and California’s secretary of state did as well. The scattershot decisions have turned the spotlight onto — who else — the U.S. Supreme Court, which many legal experts expect to be the final arb...