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Dave Hyde: “The Big One” era continues as Jimmy Butler makes history in Heat’s win

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

Here’s the thing about history: It’s hard to see coming. Monday night’s drama began, undramatically enough, with Jimmy Butler making a pedestrian 20-foot shot with just over five minutes left in a troubled game.“Frustrating,’ Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra called Game 4 against Milwaukee to that point. “Things weren’t going our way.”No one considered Butler’s shot was the start of anything, much less the start of something unbelievable that would put the Heat up 3-1 this series.How could they? That shot merely brought the Miami merely brought within what seemed like a constant eight-point cushion for Milwaukee. It really just set up the next shot, which was a Butler drive and five-foot runner.Which was followed by his two free throws and we were getting somewhere.Then came a breakaway dunk to put the Heat in the lead, and the hinges started coming off the night as Milwaukee threw a timeout to try to stop him and Butler kept shou...

‘Big George Foreman’ biopic celebrates a legend

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

It’s a life worth celebrating, one with such spectacular turns and twists that it outdoes any Hollywood fiction.The title of his biopic, opening Friday, says it all: “Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World.”Born into poverty, shy and inarticulate, Foreman, 74, was twice heavyweight boxing champion – the second time when he was 45.  From boxing with his formidable fists and power punches, Foreman became a minister and then, thanks to the George Foreman Grill, a multi-millionaire.In this colorful a life, what stands out? What matters the most with everything he’s done?“I’ll be honest with you,” Foreman began in a Zoom interview from Atlanta’s Four Seasons Hotel, “I got a second, third, even a fourth chance in the United States of America. I’ll never outlive that one. To be able to come from nothing, and even without hope!“You know, people take for granted, you hear the word ‘hope’ and ‘faith.’ But you can actually ...

Boys basketball All-Scholastics and league All-Stars

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

BOYS BASKETBALL ALL-SCHOLASTICSDREAM TEAMMarius Canery (Lawrence)Ryder Frost (Beverly)Nick Martinez (Malden Catholic)Jose Padilla (Newton North)Zach Wolinski (North Andover)ALL-SCHOLASTICSNoah Beaudet (Norwood)Henry Bickford (Needham)David Brown (St. Mary’s)Malachi Bryant (Catholic Memorial)Josh Campbell (Archbishop Williams)Brian Cloonan (Needham)Tavajo Cope (Fenway)Matthew Gaffney (Malden Catholic)Tyrese Melo Garcia (Lynn English)Joey Hart (Central Catholic)Jaylen Hunter-Coleman (Charlestown)Warren Keel (Lynn English)Ajay Lopes (Wareham)Ryan MacLellan (Andover)Hunter Matteson (Dartmouth)Liam McBride (Hingham)Eddie McCoy (Mansfield)Jacob McLoughlin (Sharon)Cameron Monteiro (Brockton)Sean O’Leary (Franklin)Alex Penders (Foxboro)Danny Reyes (Lawrence)Luke Rinaldi (Dover-Sherborn)Jaeden Roberts (Burke)Ryan Svendsen (Arlington Catholic)Zach Taylor (North Quincy)Mike Wilkinson (Wakefield)Jayden Williams (Arlington)HONORABLE MENTIONMatt Baur (Sharon)Tyrone Countrymon (Marbleh...

Sonny Gray, Joey Gallo return to hurting Yankees in loss to Twins

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

MINNESOTA — The year is 2023, and Sonny Gray and Joey Gallo are still hurting the Yankees.The difference now is that the two are wearing Twins uniforms instead of pinstripes. Gray and Gallo flopped during their respective stints in the Bronx, but they exacted some revenge on Monday at Target Field in a 6-1 win for Minnesota.Gray continued his hot start to the season, dealing for seven innings. The right-hander limited the Yankees to three hits, and he struck out eight while walking two over 107 pitches. He also lowered his ERA to a microscopic 0.62.“Spinning it,” Aaron Boone said when asked what made Gray so difficult. “It’s what he does so well. He mixed in enough of his sinker to keep us honest. But whether it was cutter, breaking ball, slider, he was on top of it. But we gotta be able make that adjustment.“Sonny’s throwing the ball great. He’s off to a great start.”Gallo, meanwhile, hit his sixth home run in his 13th game for ...

Dear Abby: Long, unhappy marriage crumbles in bitterness

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

Dear Abby: I’d like some advice about a family situation that has been going on for the entire 34 years of my marriage. My husband is not kind to my now-grown sons. He gives me the silent treatment for weeks over small disagreements. My eldest son visited us for my 75th birthday and, after receiving my spouse’s cold shoulder, he informed me he won’t be visiting again because of my husband’s rude behavior.I’m looking for a part-time job so I can pay off some bills and move out. I asked years ago that we put the house up for sale, divide the funds and go our separate ways. He said he’d burn down the house before he would allow me to get a penny from the sale.I want to keep things calm, but I want to leave in another year with some proceeds from the sale of the house. We no longer sleep together and we talk less to avoid disagreements. I don’t even want to cook for him, but I do it to avoid his negative reactions. What can I do? — Reached...

Northern lights spotted in Mammoth Lakes: Where can you see them tonight?

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The array of nighttime colors that is the northern lights are expected to be in the skies for a second time on Monday following a dazzling array above Mammoth Lakes on Sunday.Pictures shared to YourCentralValley.com by photographer Carter Murphy show the ordinarily dark night sky lit up with purple and blue hues with streaks of light interspersed creating an utterly unique image.Northern lights light up the night sky on Sunday above Mammoth Lakes (image courtesy of Carter Murphy)The dazzling display is thanks to a severe geomagnetic storm that erupted Friday. The effects of the storm were so strong Sunday night, that the aurora was possibly "visible as far south as Alabama and northern California," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.The storm was caused by a coronal mass ejections, or CME. CMEs are explosions of plasma and magnetic material from the Sun that can reach Earth in as little as 15 to 18 hours, NOAA explains.S...

Biden to launch ’24 bid, betting record will top age worries

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set on Tuesday to formally announce his plans to run for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish the job” he began when he was sworn into office and to set aside their concerns about extending the run of America’s oldest president for another four years.Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and more than 50 years of experience in Washington will count for more than concerns over his age. He faces a smooth path to winning his party’s nomination, with no serious Democratic rivals. But he’s still set to face a hard-fought struggle to retain the presidency in a bitterly divided nation.The announcement will come on the four-year anniversary of when Biden declared for the White House in 2019, promising to heal the “soul of the nation” amid the turbulent presidency of Donald Trump — a goal that has remained elusive. While the question of seeking reelection ha...

Stock markets today: Asia mixed ahead of US earnings

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street edged higher as investors awaited U.S. earnings reports and an update on economic growth.Shanghai and Hong Kong declined while Tokyo advanced. Oil prices were little-changed.Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index gained 0.1% on Monday after Coca-Cola Co. announced better quarterly profits than expected. Some 170 of the biggest U.S. companies are due to report earnings this week.Also this week, U.S. government data are expected to show economic growth is slowing following repeated interest rate hikes to cool stubbornly high inflation.If the economy cools, tech stocks will face a “difficult environment” maintaining high prices that have helped to buoy the market, said Edward Moya of Oanda in a report. He said stocks also face “big risks” from corporate earnings and a battle in Washington over raising the government’s debt limit.The Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.6% to 3,256.82 while the Nikkei 225 i...

Hutchinson’s launch highlights Arkansas city of Bentonville

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — When Asa Hutchinson launches his bid for president this week, he’ll do so at a familiar location: the downtown square in the northwest Arkansas city where he was born, practiced law and first ran for office.But Bentonville today is vastly different from the sleepy small town of fewer than 9,000 people where he got his start handling real estate cases and writing wills. Fueled by retail giant Walmart, the nearly 57,000-person city is now the state’s fastest growing. High-end restaurants, art galleries and shops crowd the downtown, while mountain bikers are a regular presence. The sounds of construction and the sight of cranes are also a regular part of life in the city. It’s a far cry from a town that didn’t even have an FM radio station until Hutchinson launched one in the late 1970s.“To me, today, Bentonville represents the success of entrepreneurship and hard work and independent thinking,” Hutchinson told The Associated Press.Hutch...

Tokyo company aims to be 1st business to put lander on moon

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:10:27 GMT

A Japanese company is about to attempt what no other private business has done: land on the moon.Tokyo’s ispace company put its own spacecraft into orbit around the moon a month ago. On Tuesday, flight controllers will direct the craft, named Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, to descend from 60 miles (100 kilometers) high and land. The 7-foot lander is carrying a mini lunar rover for the United Arab Emirates and a toylike robot from Japan designed to roll around in the moon dust.Hakuto took a long, roundabout route to the moon following its December liftoff, beaming back photos of Earth along the way. Only three governments have successfully landed on the moon: Russia, the United States and China. An Israeli nonprofit tried to land on the moon in 2019, but its spacecraft was destroyed on impact. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all c...