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A's fans redirect money from season tickets to NV teachers group against Las Vegas ballpark funding

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

(KRON) -- The Oakland A’s continue their final homestand of the season this weekend against the Detroit Tigers at the Oakland Coliseum. Fans say this weekend is bittersweet now that A’s owner John Fisher has chosen to move the team to Las Vegas. But diehard fans are still holding out hope and taking action in hopes the move will not happen. A’s roasted for giving Miguel Cabrera $80 bottle of wine We’ve seen the "Sell" shirts and the "Doris get your kid" billboards, and the reverse boycott games that filled the Coliseum. Now those trying to keep the A’s in Oakland are trying something else"From my standpoint, I think that there's sort of only one way that we could keep the A's. And that's if the Nevada falls through," said Hal Gordon, a former A's vendor known as "Hal the hot dog guy." Gordon proposes A’s fans redirect some of the money they would spend on A’s games and send it to Schools over Stadiums. That‘s the Nevada Teachers Union group now gathering signatures to get an init...

Manaea pitches 7 scoreless innings to end skid against Dodgers as Giants beat LA 5-1

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean Manaea exorcised his Dodger Stadium demons with every pitch he threw. He scattered three hits over seven shutout innings to beat the Dodgers for the first time in his career, and Mike Yastrzemski, Thairo Estrada and Tyler Fitzgerald homered as the San Francisco Giants defeated Los Angeles 5-1 on Friday night.“I have nightmares about coming to this place and facing these guys,” Manaea said. “Obviously, they’re very good and it’s been like that for a long time. I haven’t had much success, if any, here. So to do that, dreams do come true.”Manaea (7-6) has earned the only two wins on the Giants’ road trip. The left-hander struck out two, walked none and improved to 1-5 in 10 career appearances against the Dodgers. He came in with a career 9.00 ERA against LA.“You come here five times in a row and have a combined 13 innings with 30 runs or whatever it is, it can wear down a guy,” Manaea said. “Just keep going up there, go through the embarrassment and go through a...

Ashton Jeanty rushes for 205 yards, 2 touchdowns, Boise State edges San Diego State 34-31

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ashton Jeanty rushed for a career-high 205 yards and two touchdowns and Boise State defeated San Diego State 34-31 on Friday night in a Mountain West Conference opening game.Jeanty also recovered the onside kick after San Diego State scored in the final minute.Taylen Green threw for a touchdown and ran for another as the Broncos (2-2) won its 24th-straight conference opener, 13 in the MWC.Jalen Mayden threw for 241 yards and a touchdown and ran for 85 yards and a score for the Aztecs (2-3), who have lost three-straight, the previous two against now-ranked Pac-12 teams.Jeanty’s second touchdown came with two minutes left but the Aztecs responded quickly with Mayden scoring on a 10-yard run with 42 seconds to go. That’s when Jeanty got his final touch on the kickoff.Jeanty finished his freshman year with a 178-yard game against North Texas in last season’s Frisco Bowl.San Diego State opened the game with Christon Kenan’s 71-yard kickoff return ...

Michel, Eldridge help Air Force run over San Jose State 45-20 for 8th straight win

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Emmanuel Michel ran for a career-high 148 yards and three touchdowns, John Lee Eldridge III ran for 102 and two scores and Air Force raced to a 45-20 win over San Jose State on Friday night, the Falcons’ ninth-straight victory.Air Force (4-0, 2-0 Mountain West Conference) took control in the third quarter, opening with a 15-play, 75-yard drive that ended with Eldridge’s five-yard run. After the Spartans ran three plays in 50 seconds, the Falcons started a 13-play, 71-yard drive, capped by Michel’s one-yard run at 12:50 of the fourth quarter.Both running backs went over 1,000 yards for their career.Air Force scored on five-straight drives and had five drives of at least 10 plays. The Falcons finished with 430 total yards, 402 on the ground and had a18-minute advantage in time of possession. San Jose State had not allowed that many rushing yards in 19 seasons.The Falcons wrapped it up when Eldridge went around right end, broke a tackle, hurdle...

40 Home Runs and 40 Stolen Bases

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

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Gill sisters, mother face fraud charges

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

Criminal charges against three Ontario women accused of defrauding two Inuit organizations came as welcome news to an Iqaluit man whose family was drawn into the controversy.Twin sisters Amira Gill and Nadya Gill, 25, and their mother Karima Manji, are each charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000, the RCMP said in news release issued Thursday.Police said that between October 2016 and September 2022, the women applied for and obtained Inuit beneficiary status as adopted Inuit children, through Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.NTI is the organization responsible for ensuring promises made to Inuit under the Nunavut Agreement are carried out.According to the RCMP, the women used that status to defraud the Kakivak Association and the Qikiqtani Inuit Association of funding that is only available to Inuit beneficiaries by obtaining grants and scholarships.QIA is one of three regional Inuit associations in Nunavut. Kakivak is QIA’s student financial aid department.The RCMP launched its investiga...

Pakistan’s prime minister says manipulation of coming elections by military is ‘absolutely absurd’

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Pakistan’s interim prime minister said he expects parliamentary elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win.In an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said it’s the Election Commission that is going to conduct the vote, not the military, and Khan appointed the commission’s chief at the time, so “why would he turn in any sense of the word against him?” Pakistan has been in deepening political turmoil since April 2022 when Khan was removed from office following a no-confidence vote in Parliament. He was arrested in early August on corruption charges and sentenced to three years in prison, later suspended though he still remains in jail. The country is also facing one of the worst economic crises in its history and recovering from last summer’s devastating floods that killed at leas...

Dear Abby: My husband ruins every vacation with his griping. Can I leave him home?

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

DEAR ABBY: I love to travel, yet I loathe traveling with my husband.Related ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: Why do they think I should give up my barstool for them? Advice | Dear Abby: I shouldn’t have to compete with my son’s clingy girlfriends Advice | Dear Abby: Everyone heard him call his co-worker baby, and I was humiliated Advice | Dear Abby: He never wants to see me again, but we may be thrown together Advice | Dear Abby: How can I break my wife of her rude obsession? He gets anxious and extremely mean on the days leading up to the trip and especially while en route. I do all the planning and pay for everything, and I regard his behavior as not only ungrateful and rude, but unnecessary.Is it wrong for me to not want him to come on the next big trip I plan?Also, while we travel, all he wants to do is sleep, eat and drink. I’m all about taking in the local culture and making sure to no...

Egypt, guns, money, power at center of US Senator Menendez indictment

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez on Friday accuses one of the most powerful senators shaping American foreign affairs of using his perch to enrich himself and exploit the complicated relationship between the United States and Egypt.It is a story about guns, money and power that strikes at a fraught sector of American diplomacy.Menendez denies any wrongdoing, saying prosecutors “misrepresented the normal work of a Congressional office” and attacked him and his wife. But if the allegations are proven, they will represent a damning account of how American policy toward an autocratic ally was compromised for years for venal reasons.Egypt receives about $1.3 billion per year in foreign military financing, but by law, tranches of the aid are conditioned upon Egypt’s progress on human rights concerns, as determined by the State Department. Whether Foggy Bottom clears the aid is often subject to a regular tug-of-war between lawmakers, the advocacy community and the executive br...

B.C. frog relocation project aims to better understand conservation practice

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:53:56 GMT

VANCOUVER — Almost every day this summer, University of British Columbia master’s student Megan Winand waded through wetlands with an antenna, following the beeping sounds to find Columbia spotted frogs.Winand is one of the first to study the impacts of mitigation translocation, or the movement of animals from one location to “the next available habitat that is of the same or better value than where they came from.”It is typically done as a conservation effort during construction or development projects, she explained.The practice gained attention ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, when the Sea-to-Sky Highway was upgraded andmore than 1,000 amphibians were carefully moved out of the construction zone. Among those animals was the red-legged frog, which is listed as a “species of special concern” in B.C. Frogs are important because they are an “indicator species,” said Winand.“They act as the canary in the coal mine, if you...