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Keeler: Jamal Murray, who’s your daddy? If it’s Jimmy Butler, Nuggets are in trouble when NBA Finals hit South Beach.

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

Doesn’t matter whether you guard Nikola Jokic with Rui Hachimura or an armored tank. He’s going to get his. As NBA playoff strategies go, Rui on Jokic was “Candyland” stuff.Jimmy Butler on Jamal Murray? Now that was the work of a chess master.“You just try to make it tough on (Jokic), take the other X-factors out of the game, slow Murray down to get to that pick and roll,” Heat forward Kevin Love explained after Miami stunned Denver at home to steal a game at Ball Arena and hit Game 3 in South Florida with the series tied 1-1. “They’re so devastating — maybe, probably, the most devastating 1-2 punch in the league. That’s why they’re here.”With all apologies to Rui, LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Darvin Ham, ESPN and armored tanks, having Butler guard Murray wasn’t just the tweak of the NBA Finals.It was the tweak of the playoffs.Miami coach Erik Spoelstra just slapped the button on the chess clock, leaned back in his comfy chair, hands on the back of his neck, ...

Uncommon brown trout reeled in at Stagecoach Reservoir

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

Steamboat Springs native Scott Lewer pulled in a brown trout on May 25, 2023, at Stagecoach Reservoir. With 40-plus years of fishing experience, he said reeling in a brown trout at Stagecoach is rare.(Provided by Scott Lewer via Steamboat Pilot)Scott Lewer has been fishing in Routt County for more than 40 years. The Steamboat Springs native went out fishing at Stagecoach Reservoir on May 25 and caught a fish that is not commonly reeled in around Steamboat.Lewer, a former president of Yampa Valley Fly Fishers, won a morning battle against a brown trout. It was Lewer’s first brown trout of the season, and in his experience, catching these fish in Stagecoach is pretty rare.“You don’t catch a brown but a couple times per year,” Lewer said. “You have to fish pretty consistently, and the Yampa is kind of similar.”Having already reeled in 14 fish, the brown trout was the last catch of the day for Lewer, who had only caught rainbow trout to that point.From the moment he felt the bite of his...

Search for missing Colorado River kayaker Ari Harms suspended

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

Grand County authorities have called off their search for missing kayaker Ari Harms along the swelling upper Colorado River.Harms, of Edgewater, last was seen when he entered the river in an inflatable kayak at Hot Sulphur Springs on May 28, authorities said.Related ArticlesColorado News | Ari Harms, missing Colorado River kayaker, passionate about helping others, friends say Colorado News | Man last seen entering Colorado River in kayak is missing Colorado News | Indigenous Missing Person alert issued by CBI for Lakewood woman Colorado News | Woman, 55, considered endangered is missing from southern Colorado Colorado News | Missing Boulder woman found safe in New York And “after speaking with Ari’s family” Sunday night, “we have made the difficult but necessary decision to suspend official search operations until the conditions of the Colorado River change in the upcoming weeks,&...

Eat, Meet and Greet And Give Back During Pride Month

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

In honor of Pride Month, all Yardbird locations will donate 50% of proceeds to the Human Rights Campaign from their specialty pride menu items for the entire month of June. Indulge in the Berry Prideful, made up of silver tequila, Cointreau, lime, strawberry and agave or a slice of Pride Key Lime Pie with toasted meringue, raspberry sauce and seasonal fruit.Noble 33, the international hospitality group known for its high-energy restaurant concepts Toca Madera, Casa Madera, and Sparrow Italia, will offer a specialty Pride cocktail across its U.S.-based concepts for all of June. For each cocktail sold, $2 will benefit the National LGBTQ Task Force, an organization dedicated to advocacy and equality. The organization celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.The Bandera is a rainbow concoction of el tesoro blanco, combier le bleu, peychaud bitters, passion fruit and lemon, and will be available at Casa Madera West Hollywood, Toca Madera West Hollywood, Sparrow Italia Los Angeles and Ca...

Convicted spy Robert Hanssen dies in prison

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

By Michelle Watson | CNNRobert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday.Hanssen had been in custody at Colorado’s USP Florence ADMAX since July 17, 2002.“On Monday, June 5, 2023, at approximately 6:55 am, inmate Robert Hanssen was found unresponsive at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Florence ADMAX in Florence, Colorado,” a release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. “Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures. Staff requested emergency medical services (EMS) and life-saving efforts continued.”“Mr. Hanssen was subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel,” the release said.In 2001, Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty.Investigators accused him of compromising dozens of Soviet personnel who were working for the United St...

The world exhales sigh of relief: Taylor Swift splits from Matty Healy

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

Two days after Vulture asked whether Taylor Swift was due for another backlash because she had begun dating “dirtbag” British rocker Matty Healy, the singer somehow got the word out that she and Healy have split.TMZ and other outlets broke the big news Monday morning that Swift and Healy, the provocative lead singer of the 1975, “are shaking it off when it comes to their relationship,” with a close friend saying that Swift is “single” again. Of course, it’s unclear when they broke up or why, or whether they were ever really dating — though it had generally become accepted in celebrity world that the two had become an item, just weeks after Swift broke up with longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn.For anyone who wasn’t isolated from all media for the past month — who hadn’t, say, subjected themselves to an extended stay in Aaron Rodgers’ darkness retreat — they would have been forced to follow the extraordinary news...

France’s spectacular Mont-Saint-Michel turns 1,000

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

Associated PressPARIS (AP) — France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It’s been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone.The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key Normandy tourism magnet is being celebrated until November with exhibits, dance shows and concerts. And now a presidential visit.French President Emmanuel Macron went there Monday and delivered a speech in which he called on the French to “push themselves further” in global and existential challenges like that of climate change. He drew a comparison with the abbey that has stood strong over time and embodies the “French spirit” of “resilience” and “resistance.” It was veiled rhetoric, coming one day before another protest against his contested pension reform law that has been passed.Ever since former President François Mitterrand in 1983, France’s leaders have flocked to this symbolically important site to...

Antioch man charged with murder in recent Oakland shooting

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

OAKLAND — An Antioch man has been charged with murder in connection with an April fatal shooting that police say was partially captured on a resident’s security camera, court records show.Sean Bryant, 29, was charged with killing 50-year-old Lannie Ross, as well as an enhancement alleging personal use of a firearm during the crime. Ross, who had addresses in Oakland and Berkeley, was shot and killed around 7:15 p.m. April 9 on the 3200 block of Filbert Street in West Oakland.Investigators found not only video but audio from a nearby resident’s surveillance camera, which depicted the two arguing about money shortly before Ross was shot and killed, according to police. Police say after the shooting Bryan allegedly drove away in a black SUV, possibly with the help of a woman who has not been identified.Oakland police and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Bryant on June 1 in Stockton, according to court records. During a subsequent police interview, he “provided...

More trouble for downtown SF as owner of Hilton, Parc 55 cease payments on hotel properties

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- In another apparent blow to San Francisco's struggling downtown, the investment firm that owns two of the city's major hotels announced it would cease paying the loans and surrender the properties to the bank. Payments toward the $725 million non-recourse loan ceased in June, according to a news release from Park Hotels & Resorts Inc., which operates the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Parc 55 San Francisco.The hotelier, which operates 46 properties across the country, cited now familiar reasons for surrendering the properties. Newsom calls DeSantis ‘small, pathetic man,’ implies kidnapping charges over migrant stunt "Now more than ever, we believe San Francisco's path to recovery remains clouded and elongated by major challenges -- both old and new," the press release read. "Record high vacancy; concerns over street conditions; lower return to office than peer cities; and a weaker than expected citywide convention calendar through 2027 that ...

Don't pick up seal pups, Marine Mammal Center warns

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:52:38 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Beach-goers who pose for "seal-fie" photos with harbor seal pups, or even worse, pick pups up, are two problematic trends around the San Francisco Bay Area, wildlife experts said. The Bay Area and Central Coast are hotspots for marine mammal harassment, experts with The Marine Mammal Center said Monday. As the weather warms up and more people head to the coast, TMMC is warning the public to leave wild animals wild. Harbor seal pups attract a lot of attention because of their cuteness. But this species is very sensitive to noise and admirers getting too close. As the world’s largest marine mammal hospital, TMMC analyzed data looking at why pups had to be rescued from beaches in 2022. "Illegal pickups of harbor seal pups in Marin County, and human and dog interactions with young seals and sea lions in San Francisco and San Mateo County, were the standout harassment case examples," TMMC wrote. Harbor seal pup (Image courtesy The Marine Mammal Center) One tragic ...