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UConn’s Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd hope for healthy season together to make championship run

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn coach Geno Auriemma was traveling with his team in Hungary this summer when he walked into a mystical little shop and asked for a charm that might keep his star players Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd healthy this season.The woman behind the counter sold Auriemma a bracelet made of what the coach calls “spiritual beads,” promising they would bring good luck.“I think that was a con job, sales job, but I’m trying anything,” Auriemma said. “Because, so much has happened that you just hold your breath at the end of every practice, at the end of every workout, when you go home, that you didn’t get a phone call.”Bueckers, the national player of the year as a freshman and a pre-season All-American this year, missed all of last season and most of the previous one with two separate knee injuries. Fudd, who like Bueckers is a former high school player of the year, also had injuries that put her on the bench for significant time during her freshman and...

Hamas publica video de 3 rehenes capturadas durante el ataque del 7 de octubre

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

JERUSALÉN – El ala militar de Hamas, las Brigadas al-Qassam, publicó este lunes un video que pretende mostrar a tres mujeres rehenes capturadas durante su ataque del 7 de octubre contra Israel.En las imágenes, se ve a tres mujeres sentadas, una al lado de la otra, en sillas de plástico antes de que la mujer en el centro pronuncie un mensaje crítico contra el primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, y su gobierno.La mujer parece agitarse aún más durante el video en el que pide su liberación.Las identidades de las mujeres no fueron reveladas y no estaba claro si estaba hablando por su propia voluntad o leyendo un guión.Este artículo será actualizado. El rehén más joven que tiene Hamas es un bebé de meses Hamas libera a 2 ancianas israelíes mantenidas como rehenes en Gaza Source

Jewelry stolen from CU Buffs players during game at Rose Bowl

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — At least five University of Colorado Buffaloes football players said their jewelry was stolen out of the locker room while the team was playing at the Rose Bowl against UCLA on Saturday.Coach Deion Sanders' son, Deion Sanders Jr., runs the social media for the team. During a video posted to his YouTube, Well Off Media, Sanders Jr. spoke to some of the players who said their valuables were stolen.During the video, one of the players said someone stole his chain during the game. He had just bought the chain the day before. UCLA defense posts 7 sacks in 28-16 victory over Colorado According to Sports Illustrated, the thieves made off with at least three diamond and gold chains worth thousands of dollars.UCLA police are investigating the matter, but have not provided further details.Coach Prime didn't address the situation during a postgame press conference. However, he is scheduled for a second conference on Tuesday morning. The Buffs lost to the Bruins with a final ...

Creed back on tour after 12 years, will make a stop in Denver

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — After 12 long years, rock band Creed is returning to the stage, and they are making a stop in Denver. The band announced the "Summer of '99 Tour" with a video on X, formally known as Twitter. The band split up for the second time in 2012, and nearly a decade later, Scott Stapp, Mark Tremonti, Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall are touring once again. Iron Maiden tour plans Ball Arena stop in 2024 For a tour that has been 12 years in the making, Creed is bringing several guests with them on the road, including 3 Doors Down, Daughtry, Switchfoot, Tonic, Big Wreck and Finger Eleven. The guest appearances will vary by city.Creed will return to Colorado on Sept. 7, 2024, and perform at the Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre. According to AXS, who is selling the tickets, Creed will be accompanied by 3 Doors Down and Finger Eleven. The 40-city North American tour comes after the band decided to do a reunion show on a cruise.Stapp, Tremonti, Marshall and Phillips stopped touring...

Photos: Colorado brothers compete for best Halloween-decorated house

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Every Halloween, two local brothers battle each other for the best-decorated house. For 10 years, they've competitively decorated, although this year is looking like the wildest.The tradition isn't new — brothers Marco and Robert Toscano grew up decorating their house for Halloween. It only turned into a competition in the past decade.This year, Marco believes this is the most they've ever done. Haunted happenings at the Molly Brown House, as told by the museum director Nightmare on Front Street (Photo courtesy of Marco Toscano)Nightmare on Front Street (Photo courtesy of Marco Toscano)Nightmare on Front Street (Photo courtesy of Marco Toscano)Nightmare on Front Street (Photo courtesy of Marco Toscano)Serene Nightmare Manor (Photo courtesy of Robert Toscano)Serene Nightmare Manor (Photo courtesy of Robert Toscano)The hearse at Serene Nightmare Manor (Photo courtesy of Robert Toscano)Serene Nightmare Manor (Photo courtesy of Robert Toscano)When it comes to decorati...

Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati favorites to win Ballon d’Or awards

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

PARIS, France (AP) — Lionel Messi is the favorite to win a record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or in Paris on Monday.The Argentine great fulfilled his life’s ambition by leading his country to the World Cup title in Qatar last year to win the one major trophy that had eluded him in his storied career.Spain’s Aitana Bonmati is the favorite for the women’s award after leading her country to victory at the Women’s World Cup in August.Now with MLS team Inter Miami, Messi has already picked up his first silverware in the U.S. by inspiring the team to victory in the Leagues Cup.Despite leaving top level European soccer behind when moving from Paris Saint-Germain at the end of last season, he is still tipped to beat Manchester City forward Erling Haaland to the sport’s biggest individual prize.Haaland led City to a treble of trophies last season – the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup titles – scoring 52 goals.But it is Messi who is favored to lift the ...

Historic Flagler Playhouse theater ravaged by massive fire

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) — A fire engulfed the historic Flagler County Playhouse Theater on Sunday night, leaving firefighters with a fierce battle against intense smoke and heavy flames. The efforts of the firefighters ultimately prevailed as they managed to extinguish the blaze. Flagler County Fire Rescue teams even had to call for backup from local units.No injuries have been reported in this incident. The Flagler Playhouse has served the county with performing arts stage productions since 1978.

Biker survives high-speed crash and big rig run-in in Daytona Beach

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) – A Daytona Beach biker recently shared a video of a terrifying crash that left him thankful to be on the road to recovery. The rider, who goes by the username Street Demon PC, was traveling at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour, weaving through traffic when he collided with a truck and was subsequently run over by a big rig. He posted the footage of his ride on his social media where he said, “My accident from about four months ago. I call it an accident, but it was clearly my fault. Too much confidence for too little skill.” Despite sustaining serious injuries, including a collapsed lung, broken ribs, and two fractured spine disks, the Daytona Beach resident is determined to get back on his bike, but this time around with greater caution.

UK’s top civil servant said Boris Johnson ‘cannot lead’ as COVID pandemic raged, WhatsApps show

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

LONDON — Britain’s most senior civil servant sent a damning message to Boris Johnson’s chief of staff at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the then-prime minister “cannot lead” and accusing him of changing position “every day.”In an excruciating 2020 WhatsApp message read out at the U.K.’s official COVID inquiry on Monday, Simon Case — whom Johnson brought in as Cabinet secretary and who still serves in that post — told Dominic Cummings he was “at the end of my tether.”Case said of Johnson: “He changes strategic direction every day.” The Cabinet secretary — who is currently on medical leave from the British government — accused the then-prime minister of veering between a “fear” of the virus returning and a “let it rip” mode in which the U.K. was “pathetic” and “needs a cold shower.”Case added: “He cannot lead and we cannot support him in leading with ...

Police were sent to Maine gunman’s home weeks before massacres amid concern he ‘is going to snap and commit a mass shooting’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:18:27 GMT

Sagadahoc County, Maine (CNN) — The Maine National Guard asked local police to check on the reservist who killed 18 people after a soldier became concerned he would “snap and commit a mass shooting,” according to information shared with CNN.Officers from the Sagadahoc County and Kennebec County Sheriff’s Offices responded and tried to contact Robert Card on September 16, less than six weeks before Wednesday’s massacres in a bowling alley and a bar, documents say, according to a law enforcement source.The information obtained by CNN describes how the Sagadahoc County sergeant called for backup, tried without success to talk to the reservist and then received disturbing details from the Maine National Guard and the shooter’s family.The responding sergeant from the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office was told “when [he] answers the door at his trailer, in the past he usually does so with a handgun in hand out of view from the person outside,” according to the source famili...