#thursday-night

#thursday-night

A 14-year-old boy was fatally wounded, and four others were shot Thursday night in the Fuller Park neighborhood where officers opened fire when the gunman began shooting in their direction, Chicago police said.Shortly before 8:30 p.m., a group pulled out pulled out firearms in the 4200 block of South Wells Street and opened fire at another group.

The Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen has been a continued area of weakness for the team this season, and in particular during the month of June.As a result, the Dodgers took the field against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday night having yet to win a series this month.Included in that span was three walk-off losses during a 2-4 road trip, and the bullpen failing to protect a late lead in their 8-4 loss to the White Sox after the Dodgers rallied.

(Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)

A 5-4 Dodgers victory over the Chicago White Sox that was made possible by Chris Taylor's sixth-inning grand slam and Freddie Freeman 's 11th-inning walk-off RBI single Thursday night served as one giant cleansing breath for their beleaguered bullpen.The Dodgers entered the game with a 4.90 bullpen ERA, the second-worst mark in baseball ahead of only the Oakland Athletics, but four relievers combined to blank the White Sox on one hit and strike out nine over the final six innings before a crowd of 48,655 in Chavez Ravine on Thursday night.

Jeimer Candelario kneels on second base with double, while Miami Marlins shortstop Joey Wendle loses control of the ball during the third inning Friday.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)It was a sleepy afternoon in the Washington Nationals' clubhouse, seeing that they landed back from Houston around 4 a.m.Friday, seeing that they played ( and won) Thursday night against the Astros at Minute Maid Park.

The Nationals will host the Diamondbacks for a three-game set as Washington prepares for their second and final series against Arizona this season.The Nationals need a good series, as they've only gone 4-6 in their last 10-games.The offense has been hot lately, led by catcher Keibert Ruiz, who has three homers in his previous four games and recorded 15 RBIs last month.

Kim Huybrechts and Dimitri Van den Bergh put their differences aside to send Belgium through to the second round of the World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt.The duo won their opening match against Finland on Thursday night but cracks in their relationship showed immediately afterwards, with Huybrechts admitting he does not get along with Van den Bergh, who also said there was something personal between them.

A storm system that swept through Texas on Thursday evening killed three people and injured dozens of others, an official said, as the state braced for a weekend of brutal heat.The three deaths and more than 75 injuries happened in Perryton, a city where a mobile home park took a direct hit from a tornado, the local fire chief, Paul Dutcher, told NBC News.

Two of former President Donald J. Trump's lawyers who had been engaging directly with the Justice Department have left his team, according to a social media post by Mr. Trump and a statement from the lawyers.The lawyers, James Trusty and John Rowley, left Mr. Trump's legal team a day after he was indicted on seven federal counts related to his handling of government documents at his Florida home and resort, Mar-a-Lago.

BOSTON - Just 24 hours after his injury, the Red Sox are still waiting on the results of Chris Sale's MRI.They already have bad news, however, as Red Sox manager Alex Cora provided an update on Sale prior to the start of Boston's weekend series with the Tampa Bay Rays.That update unfortunately included the two worst words in Major League Baseball.

The Red Sox spent the majority of May looking comfortable with throwing Chris Sale back into the fire, allowing the veteran to pitch on regular rest and cutting their rotation down to five men.That now looks like it's about to change.Sale, who has looked like Boston's ace once again over the course of his five previous starts, left the Red Sox's win over the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday night at Fenway Park with what the team described as "shoulder soreness."

At the end of a long stretch of sandy beach, a weathered warehouse in the port of Kalamata held the survivors of one of the worst shipwrecks in Europe in a decade.Inside, dazed men from Syria, Egypt and Pakistan, all with numbered badges around their necks, languished on tightly packed corridors of thin mattresses.

Intense fighting raged across a wide swath of southeastern Ukraine for a second day on Friday, as Ukrainian forces attacked occupying Russian troops in multiple locations, while military analysts and U.S. officials cautioned that it was far too early to gauge the success of Kyiv's offensive.Both sides were grappling with severe flooding caused by the destruction of a major dam on the Dnipro River, but east of there, the fierce combat indicated that Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive against the Russian invasion was underway, according to analysts and Western and Russian officials.

Listening to the wail of air-raid sirens, a mother and her 9-year-old daughter raced through the Ukrainian capital's early morning darkness on Thursday to a clinic, where a bomb shelter promised escape from another Russian missile barrage.But the clinic was locked, the authorities said.After explosions roared, the woman and her daughter were found dead among green trees and broken glass, just outside the door.

In the first significant match for either team since the World Cup, the United States soccer team dominated a reeling Mexico, 3-0, in the semifinals of a regional championship tournament on Thursday night in Las Vegas.The victory, on the strength of two goals from the American star Christian Pulisic and another from forward Ricardo Pepi, sent the United States to the final of the tournament, the Concacaf Nations League.

A large mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the settlement, authorities said Friday.Brienz, in the southeastern Graubuenden region of Switzerland, was evacuated on May 12 after geology experts warned that the Alpine rock looming over the village could break loose.

Half-term holiday plans for thousands of families have been thrown into disarray after British Airways' flight cancellations due to an IT failure reached 175.Most of the affected flights were on short-haul routes to and from Heathrow Airport.British Airways said the technical issue was resolved on Thursday night, but disruption continued into Friday because of aircraft and crew being out of position.

(Luca Evans / Los Angeles Times)

If you ask coach Angelo Gasca, Venice High's Open Division first-round football game last fall against Lake Balboa Birmingham was a championship game.On paper, they were two of the best teams in the City Section, and they played on a Thursday night in November that went to double overtime, ending in a Birmingham goal-line stand and a 28-27 victory.

As the 2023 regular season continues, here are three things we'll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world throughout the day today:
1. Nevada legislature resumes discussions: The bill in Nevada's state legislature that would provide $380MM in public money to fund a stadium in Las Vegas for the A's was put on hold last week when the legislature adjourned Thursday night.

The Florida Panthers played their way back into the SCF after a thrilling 3-2 overtime win against the Vegas Golden Knights as forward Carter Verhaeghe scored the overtime winner.Game 4 will be a second game at the FLA Live Arena on Saturday night.Will the Panthers be able to continue their momentum and tie the series at 2? Or will Vegas come out with a 3-1 series lead?

The Hershey Bears are just four wins away from a championship.In further great news, you'll be able to follow along on TV as they look to take down the Coachella Valley Firebirds and secure their AHL-record 12th Calder Cup.Beginning Thursday night, NBC Sports Washington will air all of Hershey's Calder Cup Finals games against the Firebirds.

The Miami Heat were teetering on making the wrong kind of history but, in the end, they completed their unlikely run to the NBA Finals, where they'll play the No. 1 seed Denver Nuggets.On Monday, the Heat blew out the Celtics, 103-84, in Game 7 to become the first No. 8 seed in a full-length season to reach the NBA Finals (the 1999 Knicks made it in a lockout-shortened season).

Sharon Gwinn holds a picture of her husband, who had Lewy body dementia toward the end of his life.Reckless financial behavior was one of the first signs of the disease."It's what attacked his brain first," Gwinn says.Katie Blackley/WESA Sharon Gwinn had been married almost 30 years when she cleared out the savings and checking accounts that she shared with her husband, and then transferred that money into accounts that were only in her name.

If City beat Inter Milan on Saturday to win the Champions League for the first time, the aftermath could witness echoes of their first and - so far - only European triumph, 53 years ago.Haaland might need to up his game, too.According to popular legend, City's celebrations after lifting the European Cup Winners' Cup in April 1970 involved the matchwinner, England forward Francis Lee, dancing on a piano wearing only his briefs.

The Boston Red Sox optioned infielder Enmanuel Valdez to Triple-A Worcester following the loss to the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday night and reinstated outfielder Adam Duvall from the 60-day injured list prior to Friday night's game against archrival New York Yankees.Valdez appeared in 33 games for Boston in the infield, turning 14 double plays and committing six errors.

The Boston Red Sox scuffled against José Ramírez and the Guardians on Thursday night, dropping the rubber match of the three-game set, 10-3, at Progressive Field.The Red Sox dropped under .500with the loss at 31-32 - it's their first time under .500since April 28 - and the Guardians improved to 29-33.

The Red Sox are looking to clinch the three-game series against the Guardians on Thursday night and will do so without the bat of right fielder Alex Verdugo who is not in the lineup after failing to hustle to second base in the seventh inning of Boston's loss to Cleveland on Wednesday.Red Sox manager Alex Cora confirmed on NESN's pregame coverage that Verdugo would not be available for the game, including coming off the bench.

The Red Sox are getting creative.Boston has seen its pitching staff take quite the hit in recent weeks, with a litany of factors influencing the aforementioned creativity.Chris Sale is back on the injured list while ex-starting pitchers Nick Pivetta and Corey Kluber have established themselves in bullpen roles, leaving the Red Sox without a starter for Thursday's series finale against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field.

(John Minchillo / Associated Press)

The sky over Belmont Park had cleared, gone was the orange haze from Canadian wildfires that forced state officials to suspend racing and training two days before the final leg of the Triple Crown.Horse racing was to resume in a few hours as Bob Baffert hopped out of his black Escalade and pointed up.

Two of former President Donald J. Trump's lawyers who had represented him in the classified documents investigation resigned from his legal team the day after he was indicted, according to a statement they released on Friday.The lawyers, James Trusty and John Rowley, left Mr. Trump's defense team in a state of chaos and confusion as he faced the most serious legal threat of his career: a 38-count indictment filed in Miami accusing him of illegally retaining documents after he left office about some of the country's most sensitive national security secrets and of engaging in a conspiracy with an aide to obstruct the government's repeated efforts to retrieve them.

Top House Republicans intensified their attacks on President Biden and the Justice Department on Friday after the federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, suggesting falsely that Mr. Biden, not a grand jury made up of American citizens, had charged him with crimes as part of a political vendetta.

House Republicans reacted with outrage on Thursday night to the federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump, vowing to use their majority in Congress to fight the Justice Department.WITCH HUNT, was posted on the Twitter account of the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee within minutes of news of the indictment becoming public.

After 14 rounds of words like probouleutic and zwitterion and schistorrhachis, Dev Shah, an eighth grader from Florida, reached the apotheosis of his craft, correctly spelling psammophile to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.He denied the spelling community another thrilling spell-off, outlasted the dominant Texans and didn't let the schwa make him schweat.

Before a crowd of thousands in Cleveland on June 29, 1908, Marie C. Bolden, 14, defied the odds and won what is believed to be the first national spelling bee competition.She was the only Black participant.She was named the individual champion and helped lead her Cleveland classmates to the team championship, but her success at the bee, held during the National Education Association's annual convention, was met with racial prejudice.

Jovani Ramirez wakes well before dawn most work days to head from his Santa Clarita home to his 6 a.m.shift as a cook at the Beverly Hilton hotel, one of the three jobs he juggles to support his family.When he's done at 2 p.m., Ramirez travels to the nearby Century Plaza Hotel for another eight-hour stint.

The Vegas Golden Knights are two wins away from their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.The Florida Panthers are four wins away.In order for the Panthers to make this a series again, they must win Game 3 at FLA Live Arena on Thursday night.Vegas has done a good job in shutting down the Panthers offense, but can Florida find some holes in the Vegas system to take advantage of?

Hockey is a sport of superstition.When the Florida Panthers won the Eastern Conference over the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday and the Prince of Wales Trophy was presented, most hockey fans immediately started to think "Will they touch it?"That alludes to the old superstition that a hockey player never touches any trophy until they win the Stanley Cup.

A sightseeing boat was impounded by police after two children died in a tragic sea incident in Bournemouth this week.A 12-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy died after suffering critical injuries during the incident near the Pier on Wednesday.Eight others were pulled from the water but none of their conditions were life-threatening.

A sightseeing boat has been impounded by police after two children died in a tragic sea incident in Bournemouth this week.A 12-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy died after suffering critical injuries during the incident near the Pier on Wednesday.Eight others were pulled from the water but none of their conditions were life-threatening.

A sightseeing boat has been impounded by police after two children died in a tragic sea incident in Bournemouth this week.A 12-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy died after suffering critical injuries during the incident near the Pier on Wednesday.Eight others were pulled from the water but none of their conditions were life-threatening.

Boris Johnson has told the Covid-19 Inquiry that he is willing to hand over all unredacted WhatsApp messages including 2020 material from a previous phone discarded for security reasons.The former prime minister is under fire once again after it emerged on Thursday that he had only handed over Covid-related messages from May 2021 or later to Cabinet Office officials.

Travellers faced chaos on Saturday after the passport e-gate system at UK airports failed, causing lengthy delays as the bank holiday getaway kicked off.Disgruntled travellers took to social media after some spent several hours waiting at airports, including Heathrow and Gatwick, as arrivals needed to have their passports checked by hand rather than the automated machines.

More than 6 in 10 voters say Trump should be disqualified from the presidency if he's convicted of a crime.Former President Donald Trump greets supporters at a Team Trump volunteer leadership training event held at the Grimes Community Complex on June 1, 2023, in Grimes, Iowa.Scott Olson / Getty Images According to recent polling data, former President Donald Trump is currently the frontrunner for the GOP nomination for president in 2024 - but various criminal probes into his actions in recent years could impact how he fares in the general election.

Thursday night, The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative (SIGBI), the official and only charitable giving organization of The Stonewall Inn, hosted its annual Pride kick-off celebration at the historical bar in NYC with performances by queer indie-pop trio MUNA, Gold-selling recording artist Mariahlynn, drag queen , and more, presented by Jägermeister.

Time waits for none.Liverpool playing on a Thursday night once seemed like a distant memory.Back when Jurgen Klopp was commanding a bang average Liverpool to the finals against the 'Real Madrid' of Europa, Sevilla.The Reds have come a long way since then.Battling it out with clubs in Manchester and London and their subsequent riches, gradually putting together a colossus of a team, conquering Europe and then England, duking it out with star-studded Man City.

The Boston Red Sox ended their three-game losing streak by defeating the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday night with a six-run eighth inning, avoiding the sweep with their National League Central opponents.The Reds struck first in the third inning when Red Sox ace Chris Sale gave up back-to-back doubles to Curt Casali and Kevin Newman, giving Cincinnati the 1-0 lead.

People are used to waiting in lines behind velvet ropes to squeeze into the hottest bars and clubs in Miami.But when the Miami Heat are playing for an N.B.A. title, the trendiest place to be is a fishing-themed bar and grill.Nearly two hours before Game 1 of the finals began on Thursday night, most of the wood-paneled booths and bar stools at the Flanigan's in Kendall were filled with Heat fans, many of them wearing the No. 22 jersey of the team's star forward Jimmy Butler.

The Boston Red Sox avoided the sweep when they defeated the Cincinnati Reds 8-2 on Thursday night at Fenway Park.With the win, the Red Sox improved to 29-27 on the season, while the Red fell to 26-30 on the campaign.Check out the full box score here.ONE BIG TAKEAWAYThe Red Sox bats waited until the eighth inning to show up, but it paid off when Boston scored six runs to end the three-game skid coming into the series finale with the Reds.

Some 40 asylum seekers staged a protest outside the accommodation in Pimlico on Wednesday and Thursday night when they were allegedly asked to bunk "four to a room".They were still camping at the entrance on Friday morning, and small suitcases and bin bags full of possessions could be seen strewn across the street outside the property near Victoria Station.

Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale was abruptly removed in the fourth inning of Boston's final game against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday night at Fenway Park.Red Sox manager Alex Cora was accompanied by the medical trainer on his trip to the mound to converse with Sale and catcher Connor Wong.After a brief discussion, Sale left the game and Justin Garza came in in relief.

Red Sox During his 3.2 innings of work, Sale gave up one run over five hits while striking out six.With the Red Sox mired in a 3-7 slump, Boston turned to Chris Sale on Thursday night in search of a bounce-back performance against the Reds.Instead, the Sox were dealt yet another major setback.After 3.2 innings of work, Sale was taken out of the game by the Red Sox due to left shoulder soreness.

Had you been at Roland Garros around supper time Wednesday evening and heard the crowd of nearly 10,000 fans chanting Lucas Pouille's name at a near deafening level, you would have assumed you had just missed a triumphant performance.Not even close.Pouille, a 29-year-old Frenchman, on the court named for Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis star of the 1920s, lost in straight sets to Cameron Norrie, a Briton to add insult to injury, in less than two hours.

Celtics "They're sending me memes of Curt Schilling's bloody sock.It's just all these random numbers, like 70 texts."Duncan Robinson might have grown up a Celtics fan in New Hampshire, but the Miami Heat forward did his best impression of a WWE heel on Monday night at TD Garden.In the fourth quarter of the Celtics' season-ending loss to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals, Robinson converted on a layup.

While the shots have been falling since Game 5, one thing is for sure, the Boston Celtics defense looks like it did throughout the second half of last season.Backed into a corner after three rounds, the Boston Celtics have their eyes set on delivering one blow at a time to a team that was minutes away from knocking them out before they even knew what was coming.

The NFL's ownership met in Minneapolis last week to talk discuss several issues, including a handful of rule change proposals and possible procedural modifications.Three of those did get the two-thirds majority needed to be implemented, but there was no universal approval among clubs and fans alike.

The NBA Draft is less than a month away, and the NBA Finals tip off Thursday night.Naturally, I'm pondering Deni Avdija and his NBA future.Which to be honest, is not something I view with much optimism.He has his strengths and weaknesses.He'll need to either improve his skills or figure out how to adapt to them.

Manchester United will be looking to secure third position in the Premier League table when they welcome Fulham to Old Trafford on the final matchday of the 2022-23 campaign.The Red Devils booked their spot in next season's Champions League with an impressive 4-1 success over Chelsea on Thursday evening, while Fulham, who occupy 10th position in the division, will enter the match off the back of a 2-2 draw with London rivals Crystal Palace last weekend.

Jadon Sancho is about to finish his second season at the club and, despite having a few stand out moments, he's yet to hit the consistent great form he enjoyed with Borussia Dortmund.He's scored goals against the likes of City, Liverpool, Leeds and Chelsea, which understandably have gone down well with the fans, but his time at the club hasn't gone entirely to plan so far.

Brazilian winger Antony was taken off on a stretcher in the 4-1 win over Chelsea leading to Ten Hag's acknowledgement that the blow to his ankle was serious.It means he will sit out the Premier League final day at the very least, handing Sancho the chance to impress and earn his place in the FA Cup final.

One thing I do when watching San Francisco Giants games - especially when I'm then writing about them - is I try to identify a narrative as early as possible.It's amazing to me how often the story or theme of a game, in just the first inning, pops out of the ground like a gopher and makes itself known.

After taking the series opener 5-0 on Thursday night, the San Francisco Giants will look to make it two straight against the Milwaukee Brewers tonight, guaranteeing at least a split of the four-game series.The Giants are playing very well right now: they've won eight of their last 10 games, including three of four on the road.

Nathan Eovaldi and Eduardo Rodriguez have been excellent this season

The American League Cy Young Award conversation, through roughly two months of the 2023 Major League Baseball season, probably starts with three high-profile pitchers: Shane McClanahan of the Tampa Bay Rays, Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees and two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels.

After two blowout losses, the Miami Heat need to make a change.Haywood Highsmith provided a bright spot in Game 5's loss and could be the answer.On a night when Haywood Highsmith may not have expected to play at all, his most impressive moment was midway through the second quarter.Playing at the top of the Miami Heat's 2-3 zone, Highsmith cheated toward Jayson Tatum, handling the ball at the top.