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Former big league slugger José Bautista is signing a 1-day contract to retire with the Blue Jays

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Former big league slugger José Bautista is signing a one-day contract so he can retire with the Toronto Blue Jays.The Blue Jays announced the deal on Friday. The 42-year-old Bautista is going to be added to the team’s level of excellence during a pregame ceremony on Saturday.Bautista played for eight teams during 15 seasons in the majors, appearing in his last game in 2018 with Philadelphia. He hit .247 with 344 homers and 975 RBIs in 1,798 games.Bautista was selected by Pittsburgh in the 20th round of the 2000 amateur draft and made his big league debut in 2004. He bounced around a bit before he was traded to Toronto in 2008.Bautista turned into one of the game’s most feared sluggers with the Blue Jays. The six-time All-Star swatted 288 homers during 10 years with Toronto, including a major league-leading 54 in 2010 and 43 in 2011.He is perhaps best known for his emphatic bat flip after crushing a tiebreaking three-run homer in the seventh inning of Toron...

Dallas faces Connecticut on home skid

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

Connecticut Sun (21-8, 11-3 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (15-14, 9-7 Western Conference)Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 8 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Dallas looks to end its three-game home slide with a victory over Connecticut.The Wings have gone 9-6 in home games. Dallas leads the WNBA with 41.2 points in the paint. Natasha Howard leads the Wings averaging 9.9.The Sun have gone 12-4 away from home. Connecticut ranks second in the Eastern Conference with 21.1 assists per game led by Alyssa Thomas averaging 8.2.The two teams match up for the third time this season. The Sun defeated the Wings 88-83 in their last matchup on July 26. DeWanna Bonner led the Sun with 32 points, and Arike Ogunbowale led the Wings with 25 points.TOP PERFORMERS: Satou Sabally is averaging 18 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.6 steals for the Wings. Ogunbowale is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games for Dallas.Thomas is averaging 14.9 points, 10.1 rebounds, 8.2 assists and 1.9 steals for the Sun. N...

Las Vegas hosts Washington following Sykes’ 24-point outing

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

Washington Mystics (13-15, 6-9 Eastern Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (25-3, 15-1 Western Conference)Las Vegas; Friday, 10 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK WNBA LINE: Aces -18.5; over/under is 169.5BOTTOM LINE: Washington visits the Las Vegas Aces after Brittney Sykes scored 24 points in the Mystics’ 91-72 loss to the Phoenix Mercury.The Aces have gone 13-0 in home games. Las Vegas has a 19-2 record in games decided by 10 or more points.The Mystics have gone 4-10 away from home. Washington ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference with 25.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Shakira Austin averaging 6.2.The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.TOP PERFORMERS: A’ja Wilson is scoring 20.6 points per game and averaging 9.6 rebounds for the Aces. Kelsey Plum is averaging 21.5 points and 3.1 rebounds over the last 10 games for Las Vegas.Sykes is averaging 14.7 points, 3.7 assists and 2.2 steals for the Mystics. Natasha Cloud is averaging 14.0 points ove...

Ecuador holds 6 Colombians in slaying of presidential candidate as violence weighs on nation

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador will hold six Colombian men for at least a month as the country probes their involvement in the slaying of a presidential candidate whose life’s work was fighting crime and corruption, the national prosecutor’s office said Friday. A public ceremony to mourn Fernando Villavicencio was being held Friday in the capital convention center, while a separate funeral service was being held for relatives. “People need to know that his family’s in danger and we can’t go to such a big event,” the victim’s daughter, Tamia Villavicencio, told reporters outside the cemetery.The Colombian men were arrested Wednesday in connection with Villavicencio’s killing in the capital, Quito, earlier in the day. The men, whose nationalities were announced late Thursday, will be detained for at least 30 days in the investigation, but will almost certainly be held for months or years as the case plays out. Villavicencio was not a front-runner in ...

Jugoso premio: boleto de Powerball comprado en Ashburn se lleva un millón de dólares

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

Revise sus bolsillos si ha comprado un billete de lotería en el norte de Virginia esta semana. Un boleto de Powerball vendido en Ashburn le reportará a su comprador un millón de dólares.El billete se vendió en el 7-Eleven de 42870 Truro Parish Drive, según un comunicado de prensa de la Lotería de Virginia.Ese boleto acertó cinco de los números ganadores del sorteo del jueves por la noche: 10, 15, 21, 67 y 69, y sólo falló el número Powerball (3).La persona que tenga el billete deberá firmar inmediatamente en el reverso del mismo para establecer su propiedad, aconsejaron los funcionarios de la lotería. Cuando esté listo para reclamar su premio, el ganador deberá ponerse en contacto con la Lotería de Virginia. El ganador tiene 180 días a partir de la fecha del sorteo para reclamar su premio.El 7-Eleven que vendió el billete recibirá una bonificación de 10.000 dólares de la Lotería de Virginia.Además del boleto de Ashburn, otras dos personas en EEUU también acertaron los cinco primeros...

DC en Legos: ya abrió el Discovery Center con una exhibición especial

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

El recién inaugurado LEGO Discovery Center Washington DC, en Springfield Town Center, es un sueño de parque infantil de Lego con más de 3 millones de ladrillos para que los niños puedan crear con ellos.Los visitantes encontrarán 12 zonas inmersivas, desde el Expreso de la Imaginación hasta Build Adventures, donde los niños pueden diseñar sus propias creaciones Lego.Mini World incluye algunos de los lugares más reconocibles de DC, como el Capitolio de EEUU y el Tidal Basin. “Los niños y sus familias aprenden mientras juegan, mientras crean juntos recuerdos increíbles utilizando las matemáticas, la ciencia y la tecnología”, afirma Julie Estrada, directora de relaciones públicas de Merlin Entertainment.El maestro constructor de maquetas del centro es un residente del DMV. Andrew Litterst es un antiguo profesor de ciencias medioambientales y un entusiasta de Lego. Obtuvo el trabajo tras ganar un concurso. Tan grande como Disneyland: construirán parque temático ...

What’s next in conference realignment as Pac-4 search for solutions and conferences weight options?

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

The Pac-4 schools are in limbo. The Mountain West is open for additions. The American Athletic Conference is interested in growing and on-guard for being poached. The Atlantic Coast Conference can’t reach a consensus on expansion, and the Big Ten seems to be done adding West Coast schools — but we have heard that before.While there appears to be a break in the action, here’s what could be next in major college football conference realignment.ACCThe conference thought hard about rescuing Stanford and California from the sinking Pac-12. Notre Dame, which doesn’t compete in ACC football, was leading the push to add the Northern California schools, but the 12 votes necessary to approve the expansion were not quite there.Everything in the ACC is about revenue and how it’s divvied up these days. Expansion appears to be another leverage point. A Stanford/Cal addition, and maybe SMU, wouldn’t produce a windfall, but there is some money to be made. That’s ...

Folger Shakespeare Library in DC delays reopening until 2024

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

The Folger Shakespeare Library on D.C.’s Capitol Hill estimates it will remain closed into 2024 due to ongoing renovations, after originally planning to reopen in November.In a news release Wednesday, Director Mike Whitmore said “unforeseen hurdles” and the “careful attention” required to renovate historic builds are factors that have delayed the reopening.That said, construction is wrapping up around the library’s theater. The 2023-24 Theatre season will be presented “largely as planned,” according to Whitmore, with more details to come by the end of September.As for the rest of the renovations, Whitmore said the library will share a new opening date and information about reopening celebrations before the end of this year.“We know that in pushing forward the reopening, we are setting the Folger up for success in the years ahead,” Whitmore said in the news release.The library building, which boasts “the world’s ...

Investigators holding event to raise reward in restaurant double homicide

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is holding an event to raise the reward in the hope it will help solve a double homicide that took place at a Denver restaurant almost four months ago.On April 24, Emerall Vaughn-Dahler and Ignacio Gutierrez Morales were shot and killed inside a restaurant located on the corner of 38th Avenue and Raleigh Street in the West Highlands.The Denver Police Department is still working to track down the suspect or suspects responsible for their deaths. Westminster wedding crasher wanted for stealing gifts Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is asking the community to join them on Saturday starting at 3 p.m. at Clancy's Irish Pub, located at 7000 W. 38th Ave. in Wheat Ridge, for a fundraiser. Investigators are hoping they can raise money to help increase the reward.The fundraiser will also feature Guerrilla Radio, a Rage Against the Machine tribute band, and Sabotage, a Beastie Boys tribute band. In June, the reward received a significant increase when M...

Why the UK’s economic upturn is a false dawn for the Tories

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:11:41 GMT

The good news for the U.K. government is the economy is doing slightly better than expected. The bad news is it’s surely going to take more than that to turn its fortunes around in time for the general election.After flirting with recession for the best part of 18 months since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it looks increasingly likely that will be avoided. On Friday, gross domestic product, measuring the value of goods and services in the economy, posted its strongest growth in over a year for the three months to June, rising 0.5 percent.A particularly strong rebound in the country’s struggling car industry in June gave fresh evidence of a return to some kind of normality in manufacturing, after the combined shocks of the war and the earlier disruption to supply chains from the pandemic.In theory, that should support the chances of the ruling Conservatives, giving the party time to repair a reputation for economic competence that has been badly dented in the last couple ...