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There is no play, in my opinion, more exciting than the straight steal of home.Extremely risky and with a relatively high opportunity cost - you're already on third base, a hit scores the run - it stands alongside half-court buzzer-beaters and 90-yard touchdown runs among the rarest regularly-occurring plays in sports.

When he was a lowly stat guy with the Portland Trail Blazers, former NBA executive (and championship-winning high school coach) Ben Falk had an idea borne from his data analysis.He shared it with the coaching staff, and they liked it enough to make it part of the game plan.Then head coach Terry Stotts, turned to Falk and the conversation went something like this:

Stotts: Are you sure about this?

There are important decisions waiting for the Washington Wizards front office and its two stars Kristaps Porzingis and Kyle Kuzma.Both players have player options for next season and the deadline to make a decision is only two weeks away.It is still a mystery whether the Washington Wizards are going into full roster teardown mode immediately or if they are planning to keep their core together to start the season.

A lot of Washington Wizards fans may not have seen this coming but Bradley Beal's time in the nation's capital could be coming to an end.But some Wizards supporters are pushing for Beal's departure.Quite frankly, the fans in D.C. are tired of the losing seasons.They missed the postseason for a second consecutive year and only made the playoffs once in the last five years.

WEST PALM BEACH - Miami Dolphins cornerback Trill Williams was potentially primed for a breakout 2022 season, especially with how many players the Dolphins had go down with injury at the position.But Williams was among the first of Miami cornerbacks to have to miss time.A torn ACL in his left knee suffered in the fourth quarter of a preseason opener at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cost him his second NFL season.

On Friday morning, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN hinted that Chris Paul would likely be choosing between the Lakers and Clippers if the Phoenix Suns ultimately opt to cut or trade him before his contract for next season fully guarantees on June 28, as they are widely expected to.According to Jovan Buha of The Athletic, the Lakers do indeed "have strong interest in signing Chris Paul if the guard is waived or stretched by the Suns," potentially even alongside keeping fellow free agent D'Angelo Russell.

With NBA free agency just a few weeks away and the 2023 NBA Draft in just six days, rumors about what the Los Angeles Lakers will do in the former period are starting to pick up steam as all the moves made in the latter timeframe are beginning to take shape.Here are some of the latest whispers and scuttlebutt from the NBA's information brokers.

Amy Treglia shows scarring on her arms caused by xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer that is being used as a cutting agent for heroin and fentanyl.Kris Craig/The Providence Journal/USA Today Network via Reuters Public health and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. are scrambling to blunt the impact of xylazine, a deadly new threat to Americans who use street drugs.

A gull picks up a discarded protective face mask from the shoreline in the marina on August 11, 2020 in Dover, England.Leon Neal/Getty Images How many COVID tests should I keep on hand?Can I toss my masks?Should I still be afraid of long COVID?These are a few of the questions you sent us when we asked what's on your mind in this new stage of the pandemic.

In the early 19th century, more than 100 years before electric refrigeration, an entrepreneurial Bostonian named Frederic Tudor landed on an idea: He'd cut blocks of ice from his Massachusetts lake and sell it to places where temperatures were too warm for ice to form naturally.Potential financiers thought this plan was too absurd to work.

In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments.I wanted to know the degrees of freedom that flowers have in producing colors to signal to bees.He replied, rather furiously, that he was not going to engage in a discussion with me, because I worked in a neurobiological laboratory where invasive procedures on live honeybees were performed.

Neonatologist Stephen W. Patrick of Vanderbilt University Medical Center recalls one patient in particular.She was seeking care for an opioid use disorder (OUD) at the treatment facility that he runs in Nashville, Tenn.The patient came in frantic after an exchange at her first prenatal visit.The sonographer who conducted her ultrasound, she recounted, told her in a disdainful tone that she should have a home for the child lined up because drug users never leave the hospital with their babies.

Shortly after his plane took off earlier this month from Riyadh, where he had held a lengthy meeting with Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken called a different Middle East leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.Over 40 minutes, Mr. Blinken gave the Israeli leader a briefing about the significant demands the young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was making for his nation to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel.

At the very moment former President Donald Trump was pulling into an underground garage at the federal courthouse in Miami, his successor was 40 minutes into a meeting about Ukraine's nascent counteroffensive with NATO's secretary general.Outside the Oval Office windows, the soundcheck for an evening Juneteenth concert could be heard drifting over from the South Lawn.

A man with a neurological condition, which has left him slowly becoming disabled, has spoken of the elation he felt after summiting Snowdon and the hope that it raises awareness for the disease.Ben Spencer has a progressive degenerative form of Ataxia, a neurological condition that affects his speech, balance, coordination and swallowing.

Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old girl from Rothley, Leicestershire, was reported missing from the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz on the Algarve on 3 May 2007, a case still unsolved and still the subject of intense interest among the public and press.Her parents, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, posted a statement on the Find Madeleine website on 3 May 2023 marking the latest anniversary of their daughter's disappearance, reiterating their hopes of being reunited with her one day and posting a poem, The Contradiction by Clare Pollard, to express their feelings.

1686294000 The mystery began when the McCanns affluent doctors Kate and Gerry, their three-year-old daughter Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings joined a group of seven family friends and their five children on holiday at the Ocean Club in the village of Praia da Luz on the southwestern tip of Portugal on 28 April 2007.

SAN JOSE - The San Jose Sharks and representatives for defenseman Erik Karlsson are reportedly on the same page in terms of trying to move the two-time Norris Trophy winner to more of a championship-contending team.Sharks management met with Karlsson's agents from Newport Sports Management last week, according to Pierre LeBrun of TSN and The Athletic, and agreed that a trade could be in order with San Jose in an apparent rebuilding state under general manager Mike Grier.

With the Vegas Golden Knights claiming the first Stanley Cup in their franchise's budding and already enviable history earlier this week, the NHL offseason has officially begun.With the NHL's first buyout window already having opened, the NHL draft just two weeks away and whispers and rumors of landscape-altering moves already abound, it appears that a weaker than usual free agent class could lead to an exciting summer on the trade front.

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The Cook County Democratic Party met Friday for its second day of pre-slating, a traditional meet-and-greet that gives hopeful candidates the chance to make their pitches - and also often lays bare internal party rifts and past grudges.Aside from judges' seats, two key races are on 2024 ballots countywide: state's attorney and circuit court clerk.

The Toronto Raptors might be talking a big game about using their first-round pick in the 2023 NBA Draft on a player that fits in with the versatility and switching they have traditionally sought out, but the need for shooting is so desperate that the club might forgo that mindset and draft the best offensive player available.

As things originally stood, Tottenham's Champions League standing was going to be the determining factor in whether Spurs' option to buy Dejan Kulusevski kicked in.With their late-season downturn that coincided with Antonio Conte rage quitting and venting about the History of the Tottenhams, it became clear that if Kulu wanted to stay in London, then Spurs would have to figure things out with Juventus.

It is beyond a general assumption at this point - this summer is going to see a lot of changes when it comes to Juventus' roster.Whether it's sales because of much-needed cash has to come in or older players heading out on expiring contracts, Juve is in need of cost-cutting moves to happen in bulk this summer with no Champions League ball in the fall.

The Toronto Maple Leafs will have a lot of decisions to make this off-season, but debatably the biggest decision is regarding the future of their #1 centre, Auston Matthews.At Matthews end of season interview, he did state that he wants to stay with the Toronto Maple Leafs, but people have said the same and still ended up playing on a different team before.

Morning Sports Update "The average Red Sox fan would not want to sit there and watch two more months of what they've been watching."The Red Sox begin a three-game series at Fenway Park against the Yankees tonight.First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m.This Saturday, the Revolution begin the second half of the MLS regular season with a matchup against Orlando City at Gillette Stadium at 7:30 p.m.
Also on Saturday, the Free Jacks close out the regular season at home ( Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy) against the Houston SaberCats at 1:30 p.m.
Potential Red Sox moves before the trade deadline: Though a 34-35 record doesn't appear to be disastrous on the surface, the Red Sox are firmly rooted in last place in the American League East.

After a two-hour and two-minute rain delay to begin the night, the Boston Red Sox took the final game of their series with the Colorado Rockies by earning a 6-3 win at Fenway Park on Wednesday night.Boston inches back toward .500with a 34-35 record while Colorado slips to 29-41.Check out the full box score here.

Britain's Boris Johnson, pictured in 2021, resigned as prime minister last year, but his policies are still felt.He resigned his seat in the House of Commons last week after receiving a draft of a report excoriating his behavior as prime minister.Toby Melville/WPA Pool/Getty Images By some measures, democracy has been in decline around the globe for more than a decade and a half, but there are encouraging signs in places you might not expect.

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As right-wing legislators accelerate their push for violent measures like banning abortion, outlawing trans health care and shutting down racial justice curricula, they're also advocating for another type of institutional violence: reinstating the death penalty, and making that penalty more likely to be carried out in states where it's already legal.

Former President Donald Trump visits the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood after being arraigned at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse on June 13, 2023, in Miami, Florida.Stephanie Keith / Getty Images Hours after being formally arraigned for the 37 indictment counts that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged him with relating to his improper handling of sensitive government documents, former President Donald Trump, snidely and with great bravado, attacked special counsel Jack Smith, President Joe Biden, and others, accusing them of persecuting him.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Good Morning, Portland!The weather for the weekend is looking beautiful and temperate, but it is too warm, overall.

Sweden's inflation rate came in hotter than expected in May, but for once it perhaps wasn't the cost of putting a roof over your head or food on the table that was driving up the cost of living, but something entirely unexpected: Beyonce.Sweden's core inflation rate came in at an annual pace of 8.4 per cent in May, the country's statistics agency reported this week.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken makes his long-delayed visit to China beginning Sunday in the hope of slowing the downward spiral of relations between Beijing and Washington.But China's increasingly assertive, at times outright hostile, stance suggests that the visit will be as much about confrontation as detente.

On June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision held that a trademark claim concerning "a squeaky, chewable dog toy designed to look like a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey" which, as a play on words, turns the words "Jack Daniels" into "Bad Spaniels" and the descriptive phrase "Old No. 7 Brand Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey" into "The Old No. 2 On Your Tennessee Carpet" does not receive special First Amendment treatment where the accused infringer used the trademarks at issue to designate the source of its own goods and that, with respect to a Lanham Act dilution by tarnishment claim, "[t]he use of a mark does not count as noncommercial just because it parodies, or otherwise comments on, another's products."[1]

Man United are looking to sign Theo Hernandez from AC Milan.It's fair to say a left-back isn't really among Manchester United's top needs going into the summer.Luke Shaw looked superb under Erik ten Hag, while Tyrell Malacia did a steady job as his understudy.That isn't stopping the club from potentially looking to upgrade in that area, though.

M anchester United reportedly remain in negotiations over potentially granting exclusivity to the consortium led by Qatar's Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani for the sale of the club worth up to 6billion.United's share price grew by a net level of almost 10 percent on Thursday after Reuters reported that negotiations have begun with an eye to awarding Sheikh Jassim's consortium exclusivity to the takeover of the club.

Man United have eyes on Leeds United defender, Robin Koch.Manchester United Football Club are certainly in the hunt for a defender of some sort this summer.That much is obvious.Erik ten Hag's side have been linked with names aplenty in that department, with Kim Min-jae the name getting the most mentions.

Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson reveals her 10 top trends from the 2023 edition of design festival 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, including the resurgence of pine wood and sofas of the future.Feeling pinePine trees are one of the fastest-growing sources of wood on the planet, which in the past led to this timber becoming synonymous with "cheap and cheerful".

Image Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia wants to transform the country's economy and its role on the global stage.Credit...Saudi Royal Court, via Reuters Just days after the PGA-LIV Golf merger was announced, a contingent of Saudi Arabian investors and power brokers, including the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has converged on France this week looking for more deals with potentially trillions to spend.

Francis X. Suarez, the two-term mayor of Miami who formally announced his entry into the 2024 presidential race on Thursday, is presenting himself as a fresh face for the Republican Party: a 45-year-old in a field led by a septuagenarian, and a Cuban American in a party whose elected officials are overwhelmingly white.

Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign with a video released Thursday morning, marking the long-shot candidate's formal entry to the race.My dad taught me that you get to choose your battles, and I am choosing the biggest one of my life.I'm going to run for president, I'm going to run for your children and mine.

For a brief period during the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government gave most parents monthly cash up to $300 per child with no work requirements or restrictions on how the money could be spent.The experiment, through an expanded child tax credit, died last year after 12 months, when Republicans and Senator Joe Manchin III, the moderate West Virginia Democrat, refused to renew it.

The House is expected on Wednesday to take up a censure resolution against California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his role in investigations of the former president.The resolution, sponsored by GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, is expected get called up at the end of an afternoon vote series around 3:45 p.m. ET.

Long before we had the current iteration of the Knicks, one with draft picks and young assets, New York often preferred to take the approach of star hunting, even when they were well past their prime or were plagued with injuries, in hopes that it would lead to instant success.That strategy lead to multiple head-scratching contracts, losing picks, and ignoring the development of what young players they did have, and as it so often has for other franchises, it failed the Knicks and set them back multiple years.

Train drivers will strike on Avanti West Coast and ban overtime on LNER in July, spelling disruption on both of Britain's mainlines from London to Scotland.The Aslef union announced a one-day strike on Sunday 2 July on Avanti, with an ongoing overtime ban starting on LNER from 1 July.The disputes at each operator are separate to the wider national pay dispute.

As hotel and restaurant owners increasingly turn to temporary foreign workers to fill labour gaps, there are growing calls to give those workers more paths to permanent residency."If there are particular occupations where there's a real need and we've become dependent on temporary foreign workers ... we should include them in a permanent system," said Naomi Alboim, a senior policy fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University.

For more than 20 years, fans of college sports like softball, baseball, women's basketball and more than two dozen others have known just where to find N.C.A.A. championships on ESPN's spectrum of channels.The arrangement has worked well for both parties: The N.C.A.A. ensured that its top athletes would perform on a national stage, and ESPN added hundreds of hours of live programming to a college sports portfolio that is anchored by college football and men's basketball games.

The United States Golf Association acknowledged Wednesday that it had heard ferocious opposition to its proposal for professional players to use balls that travel shorter distances but it also signaled no interest in abandoning its ambitions to rein in equipment in the next several years.The association and the R&A, a governing body based in Britain, had in March proposed a rule that they estimated could trim top golfers' tee shots by an average of about 15 yards.

For years the Dodgers have had the luxury of possessing great pitching staffs around Major League Baseball.It helped win them a ton of games over the years but thus far through the 2023 season, things have gone a little haywire.The pitching has been uncharacteristically poor in both the starting rotation and the bullpen.

The Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Chicago White Sox, 8-4, on Wednesday night, losing a game they had absolutely no business dropping.The Dodgers led 4-2 in the top of the eighth inning, but a massive collapse from the bullpen turned into another tough loss.The Dodgers had some questionable decision-making in how they were using their guys, but MLB pitchers should be able to get outs.

The MLB trade deadline is rapidly approaching, and this one is sure to be interesting.There are tons of buyers, as teams look to make a late push up the standings and into the expanded postseason.However, there aren't very many sellers.The two teams most obviously set to be sellers - the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals - don't have much to offer, and after that, it's hard to know which teams will look to sell.

Bruins general manager Don Sweeney admitted in the organization's end-of-season news conference that changes likely are coming, and it would not be a surprise if Boston looked at all possible options.The situation in Winnipeg could be one to monitor.Pierre-Luc Dubois's camp informed the Jets he is not interested in signing a one-year deal, according to The Athletic's Pierre LeBrun on Wednesday.

Tyler Herro is younger and cheaper than Bradley Beal, but should the Miami Heat trade him to make the most of Jimmy Butler's window anyway?Another summer, another round of trade rumors involving Bradley Beal and Tyler Herro.Both guards have been the subject of trade chatter for the last several years but, this time, it appears a move is likely to happen.

Bradley Beal and the Washington Wizards intend to work together to find a trade that could send the three-time All-Star guard to a contender, and the Miami Heat are expected to be in the mix, sources told ESPN and The Athletic.Here's what we know so far.Beal, 29, is owed $46.7 million next season, and more than $160 million in the three years after that.

While the Miami Heat ultimately came up short in their heroic bid to land the franchise's fourth NBA title against the Denver Nuggets, they can still confidently look back at this season as a relative success all things considered.That being said, extending their championship window will require a lot of front office gymnastics to improve the roster.

Morning Sports Update "You don't have to sign in the middle of June when you can wait until right before training camp."The Red Sox defeated the Rockies 6-3 on Wednesday, with Garrett Whitlock allowing just two runs in seven innings (adding seven strikeouts).Boston will host the Yankees at Fenway Park for a three-game series starting Friday at 7:10 p.m.
Adam Schefter on DeAndre Hopkins: The Patriots have reportedly been hosting free agent wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, but a contract might not be coming anytime soon.

Experts are slamming regulators for refusing to mandate simple technology that could save lives in large truck crashes, based on a faulty cost-benefit analysis that excludes pedestrian and cyclist deaths completely while underestimating - by a factor of 10 - the number of car occupants killed after getting trapped under big rigs.

Joey Lynch, Australia Correspondent

CloseJoey Lynch is a Melbourne-based sports journalist, AYA Cancer advocate, cynical centre-half and Zack Ryder mark.Primarily working on football, he has covered the Socceroos, Matildas, A-League, W-League, Y-League, the Australian grassroots and beyond.Jun 15, 2023, 12:29 PM ET

Five minutes before the end of the first half of Argentina's 2-0 win over Australia on Thursday evening, a chant rang out across Beijing's newly renovated Workers' Stadium, a justification for why, 7,771 miles away, Inter Miami has made the biggest splash in MLS history.

After coming up short as NBA Championship favorites, the Boston Celtics are facing-what could be-a pivotal offseason.There's certainly room for improvement after the way Boston's season came to a close, losing to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals.There's been speculation that the team may look to trade some of its core, specifically Jaylen Brown, but that's not the only way they can improve.

The EU Commission is once again going after Google and this time around, it's about the company's ad business.The European officials have once again found evidence of wrongdoing in the advertisement field.Since Google is in pretty much every step of the so-called adtech supply chain, the company is using its dominant market position to favor its own intermediation services.

Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over Partygate and was part of a campaign to abuse and intimidate MPs investigating him, a long-awaited report by the privileges committee has found.In an unprecedented move, the cross-party group said he would have faced a 90-day suspension from the Commons had he not quit in rage at its findings last week.

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West Coast dockworkers have reached a tentative deal with employers, the two sides announced Wednesday, potentially ending months of port labor strife that could have threatened the nation's economic outlook.In a joint statement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Assn., which represents shipping lines and terminal operators, said the new six-year deal covers workers at all 29 West Coast ports but did not release further details.

Rickie Fowler has revealed he is one of three top US golfers looking to invest in Leeds United as part of its imminent takeover by 49ers Enterprises.The American investment group have agreed a £170m deal to buy out chairman Andrea Radrizzani's controlling stake.Fowler is being joined by US Ryder Cup team-mates Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas as fellow investors.

The UK has no alternative but to raise interest rates in an effort to bring down inflation, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned.Households are braced for a further increase in rates which already sit at a 14-year-high of 4.5% from the Bank of England next week.Mr Hunt said the Government will be unstinting in supporting the central bank in its efforts to grapple rampant inflation and attempt to bring it back towards a target of 2%.

Following up last week's Part 1 of potential Rangers first round picks at #23, there are five more names that are intriguing for the Rangers at this spot.Assuming the Rangers keep this pick, they will likely get a solid prospect with a high ceiling, most likely three years away from being a legitimate NHL option.

Kylian Mbappe has hit out at his own club Paris Saint-Germain and France for their treatment towards Lionel Messi during his two seasons in Ligue 1.
Messi joined the French champions in 2021 on a free transfer from Barcelona and despite winning the league on two occasions, the forward struggled to adapt to life at PSG.
- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) The 35-year-old was booed and jeered by PSG fans following their exits from the Champions League over the last few seasons.

After not even 18 months in office, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has lost one top official after another from his administration, a troubling and unusual exodus as the city is confronted by multiple major challenges.Last month, the mayor's chief housing officer, Jessica Katz, announced her resignation, leaving the city without the architect of its housing agenda.