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Bahl’s 2-hitter helps Oklahoma top Florida State, inch closer to third straight national title

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jordy Bahl’s dynamic pitching and boundless energy have Oklahoma on the verge of a third straight softball national championship.Bahl threw a two-hitter and struck out 10 and Oklahoma beat Florida State 5-0 on Wednesday night. The top-seeded Sooners (60-1) took a 1-0 lead in the Women’s College World Series best-of-three championship series and can wrap up their seventh national title Thursday.Bahl was constantly in motion Wednesday, urging on her teammates and helping build a vibe that carried throughout the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex. She jump-started the Sooners when she scored as a pinch runner for Oklahoma’s second run.“We needed a spark,” Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said. “We needed some kind of spark. I think when Jordy comes in to run, our team gets kind of amped.”Bahl is 4-0 at the World Series and hasn’t allowed a run in 21 2/3 innings. The sophomore helped Oklahoma push its Division I record win streak to 52 games. Oklahoma’s T...

Arizona president says realignment talk premature until Pac-12 has hard numbers on TV deal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — University of Arizona President Robby Robbins says until Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff gives the conference’s leaders hard numbers on a future media rights deal, any talk about schools leaving the league is premature.Robbins spoke to a small group of reporters Wednesday, the day before the university hosted a Future of College Athletics Summit not far from Capitol Hill.Robbins was cautious about providing a timetable for when the Pac-12 schools would be presented a new television contract, saying only he expected to Kilavkoff to deliver a deal “soon.”The Pac-12’s current deal expires after the 2023-24 school year.“We have not seen a deal,” Robbins said. “If we see a working document that gives us numbers, that’s what we don’t have. Until we have it, nobody can make an informed decision because we will not have been informed.”Robbins called the steady drum beat of speculative media reports that have the Pac-12 on the verge of falling apart “propag...

Los Denver Nuggets derrotan a los Miami Heat en el tercer partido y se ubican 2-1 en las finales

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

(CNN) — Los Denver Nuggets derrotaron 109-94 a los Miami Heat en el tercer partido de las finales de la NBA y se ubicaron 2-1 en la serie.Ambos equipos salieron intercambiando canastas. La estrella de los Nuggets, Nikola Jokic, estuvo a punto de conseguir un triple-doble en el primer cuarto, anotando 10 puntos y añadiendo siete rebotes y tres asistencias.Con el marcador empatado al inicio del segundo cuarto, Caleb Martin, de los Heat, se animó y anotó ocho puntos consecutivos, incluidos dos triples, para dar la ventaja a Miami. Sin embargo, el jugador de los Nuggets Jamal Murray continuó con su gran primera parte, anotando 20 puntos y repartiendo cuatro asistencias para dar a Denver una ventaja de 53-48 al llegar al descanso.La segunda parte fue toda de los Nuggets, que ampliaron la ventaja hasta 16 puntos en un momento dado. Christian Braun, elegido por los Nuggets en primera ronda en 2022, dio a Denver un impulso desde el banquillo, anotando 15 puntos con 7-8 en tiros.Los De...

Guzan secures 50th career clean sheet; Atlanta, LAFC play to scoreless draw

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Guzan made eight saves in the 50th clean sheet of his career to help Atlanta United play LAFC to a scoreless draw on Wednesday night.Atlanta (6-4-8) has not won an away match against a Western Conference opponent since the 2019 season against Portland. LAFC (7-1-6) has yet to lose a match at home this season. The home side had won the three previous meetings between Atlanta and Los Angeles.LAFC goalkeeper John McCarthy earned his fifth clean sheet of the season.Atlanta, which extended its unbeaten streak to five games, hosts D.C. United on Saturday. LAFC plays at the Houston Dynamo on Saturday.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Slater drives in runs in 7th and 8th, helps Giants rally to 5-4 win over Rockies

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Austin Slater had a pinch-hit RBI single in a three-run seventh inning and drove in another run in a two-run eighth as the San Francisco Giants rallied to beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 on Wednesday night after being held hitless into the sixth inning.Taylor Rogers (2-2) picked up the win with a scoreless inning of relief, and Camilo Doval got three outs for his 15th save.Nolan Jones hit a solo homer for the Rockies, who built a four-run lead through six innings and still lost their 10th straight to the Giants.“You’re never out of a game here so you just keep putting pressure on the opposing pitcher and the opposing team and we were able to strap one together,” said Mitch Haniger, who scored the winning run from third on a squeeze bunt laid down by Patrick Bailey. “It was a good comeback win.”Colorado rookie Connor Seabold didn’t allow a hit until LaMonte Wade Jr. singled cleanly to left field with one out in the sixth. The 27-year-old right-hander struck out four and w...

POLITICO Pro Morning Central Banker: Canada hikes — Schnabel coins spiral — Crypto multiplier

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

Our one-stop source for central banking & monetary policy news.View in your browser or listen to audioBy GEOFFREY SMITHwith ANJULI DAVIES, BEN MUNSTER and IZABELLA KAMINSKASNEAK PEEK— Bank of Canada’s surprise rate hike sets the stage for a Commonwealth hat trick as India’s central bank meets.— Isabel Schnabel coins the concept of a “profit-wage-price spiral” as she continues to wait for convincing evidence to pause hikes.— Crypto’s ‘Hodl’ effect is officially modeled by BIS researchers.POLICY TICKERECB 3.75% ⇡ — BOE 4.5% ⇡ — FED 5.35% ⇡— SNB 1.5% ⇡— BOJ -0.10% ⇣— RBA 4.10% ⇡— PBOC 3.65%⇣— CBR 7.5% ⇣ — SARB 8.25% ⇡Good morning, everyone. Do two surprise rate hikes make a pattern? As with the Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday, the Bank of Canada’s move (see below) gives the impression that the Anglo-Saxon world, at least, is far from done tightening. Those moves have been an unpleasant reminder that it will take more than a couple of U...

Tee Thursday: Mass Golf elevates player experience

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

I’ve only been officially in the golf world for a little over a year but evidence supports this: I’m already kind of a big deal.I mean look: I can sashay into quite a number of exclusive, private clubs and play a round. I have people who keep files on my scores and help me track my improvement. They arrange fun games for me to play during rounds with friends, and they offer me all kinds of special opportunities, like cool in-person tips and lessons from renowned pros.Yep, that’s me: Kind of a big deal.OK, that’s all true, but here’s the hook: it could be you too. Because while I may have signed on as a member of Mass Golf (https://www.massgolf.org) simply as a way to track my handicap, I found out quickly that the organization, officially Mass Golf since 2018 but out there supporting golfers for over a century, is a golden ticket to the insider golf life.Mass Golf Director of Marketing and Communications Stephen Hanjack told me most of the current 110,000 Mass Golf members (they sur...

Del Mar to add more than 100 affordable housing units over next six years

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

DEL MAR, Calif. -- Del Mar’s long-term plan for housing, including affordable housing, has been officially certified by the state. It’s a process that took two years of revisions before getting to this point.The city of Del Mar is now the 12th in San Diego County to have its housing element certified by the state. Through California’s “regional housing needs allocation” process, each city and unincorporated area in the county is required to provide a certain number of housing over an eight-year cycle. The current cycle runs from 2021 to 2029.For Del Mar that means adding 175 new housing units, including 113 for low-income residents.While the city of Del Mar approved its plans in 2021 and met the deadline, it took two years of back and forth with the state to get the all clear from the State’s Department of Housing and Community Development. San Diego restaurant added to California Michelin Guide Despite that, a spokesperson for the city of Del Mar told FOX 5:“It should be noted th...

Flashpoint in Israel: Divide between religious and secular Jews heats up under Netanyahu’s rule

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

HARISH, Israel (AP) — The sound of children and music echoed down a narrow basement hallway in Israel as they scrambled in a pool of balls, climbed on a jungle gym, munched popcorn and laughed.The atmosphere changed suddenly on that Saturday last month, as at least a dozen religious men appeared and blocked the entrance, accusing the indoor playground of desecrating the Jewish sabbath by opening for business. Angry parents confronted them, scuffles broke out and in an instant, the center in this mixed city had become a flashpoint symbol of a larger battle between secular and religious Jews in Israel.“I think it represents what’s going on in the country,” said Tzipi Brayer Sharabi, a 38-year-old mother who says she was attacked and thrown to the ground during the May 20 incident. “I want my kids to live how they choose to live. I don’t want somebody to tell them how they should eat, how they should dress, what they should do on Shabbat.”Similar incidents have long u...

EU makes fresh attempt to overcome yearslong crisis over migrants

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:50:08 GMT

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union interior ministers on Thursday made a fresh attempt to overcome one of the bloc’s most intractable political problems as they weighed new measures for sharing out responsibility for migrants entering Europe without authorization.Europe’s asylum system collapsed eight years ago after well over a million people entered — most of them fleeing conflict in Syria — and overwhelmed reception capacities in Greece and Italy, in the process sparking one of the EU’s biggest political crises.The 27 EU nations have bickered ever since over which countries should take responsibility for people arriving without authorization, and whether other members should be obliged to help them cope.Arriving for the meeting in Luxembourg, the EU’s top migration official, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said it was an “extremely important day” to resolve what has “been a marathon” issue for Europe.“Of this marathon, we have maybe 100 meters left. So, we are so close to ac...