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Warriors waive Rudy Gay, Rodney McGruder following final preseason game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors waived forwards Rudy Gay and Rodney McGruder following the team’s final preseason game against the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night, the team announced.The roster stands at 13 players, but Golden State has two weeks from Friday night to add a mandatory 14th player to the roster, according to the CBA. Golden State can still technically re-sign either Gay or McGruder as that 14th guy.Teams are obligated to carry at least 14 players, with a maximum of 15, and can carry 13 for two weeks only twice during the year. Carrying 13 for those two weeks shaves a few dollars off the total luxury tax bill, which the Warriors are projected to be paying well over $167 million.Related ArticlesGolden State Warriors | Warriors take on Spurs top pick Victor Wembanyama in first preseason loss Golden State Warriors | Photos: Good vibes all around at the Golden State Warriors’ open basketball practice at Chase Center Golden St...

Marco Jones pulverizes California as Wolves grit out EBAL victory: ‘Sometimes, you just have to win ugly’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

SAN RAMON – San Ramon Valley’s Marco Jones is listed as a linebacker on the Wolves’ roster, and as a four-star prospect on college recruiting websites.But against Cal High, the 6-foot-4 junior looked like a five-star at running-back, safety and wide receiver too in San Ramon Valley’s 14-0 victory on Friday night, scoring both of SRV’s touchdowns while blanketing the entire field on defense with his athleticism.San Ramon Valley had six days to process its heartbreaking 33-27 loss to De La Salle, a game where SRV authored a 15-point comeback in the final four minutes to put itself in a position to snap De La Salle’s 31-year section winning streak.Jones said it didn’t take long for the team to move on from the loss, and that he was just happy to get ready for the next game.“It feels good to get it out of the way,” Jones said, with quarterback Luke Baker adding, “We knew it was kind of a trap game, and tried to mentally battle through that.”While the normally high-flying offense l...

Beloved De La Salle assistant football coach dies at 61

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

CONCORD, Calif. (KRON) – In the East Bay, a community is stunned after the sudden passing of a beloved high school football coach. Steve Jacoby, De La Salle’s defensive line coach, passed away – just days after celebrating his 61st birthday.  De La Salle’s head coach Justin Alumbaugh left it up to the players to decide if they wanted to take the field Friday night after Jacoby’s tragic death. They decided that they did because they believe that’s what their former coach would have wanted. “There’s a deep sadness,” said Alumbaugh. “Steve Jacoby was a great man. He was a great coach. He had been here for almost 20 years.” Andre Iguodala retiring after 19 seasons in NBA Alumbaugh remembered his friend and colleague as authentic and caring. Off the field, Jacoby was a mentor for the Spartans’ young men.“It wasn't even really football,” said former De La Salle player Cooper Flanagan. “He would check on the kids every week… making sure I was in a good mental state and he just cared...

Hamilton and Russell trying to avoid more drama to finish F1 season strong for Mercedes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The image was striking: Lewis Hamilton walking away from his damaged car after a wreck he caused while Mercedes teammate George Russell zoomed by in the background in the Qatari desertFor Hamilton, a seven-time Formula One champion, it was the worst moment in what has been a mostly frustrating season. He is third in the drivers’ standings heading into this week’s United States Grand Prix, and has again watched rival Max Verstappen of Red Bull already drive away to the championship. Compounding the season’s issues has been some added competition from the other British driver across the Mercedes garage. Russell is a distant eighth in the driver’s standings. but has been a constant in Hamilton’s rearview mirrors of late.They narrowly avoided a crash in Japan before disaster struck in Qatar, where Hamilton’s first lap, first turn collision with Russell ended Hamilton’s race. Russell recovered to finish fourth, while Hamilton...

Trump fined $5,000 for violating gag order, as judge threatens jail for future violations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

NEW YORK — A state judge fined Donald Trump $5,000 Friday after finding that the former president’s campaign website continued to display a social media post attacking the judge’s law clerk in violation of a gag order imposed by the judge earlier this month.Justice Arthur Engoron also indicated that he would consider jailing Trump for future violations of the gag order.Engoron, who is overseeing a $250 million civil fraud trial against Trump and his business empire, issued the gag order on Oct. 3 after Trump used his Truth Social platform to attack Engoron’s principal law clerk. Trump quickly took down the post from Truth Social that day, but it remained on his campaign site until Thursday night.Engoron wrote in a two-page order that while Trump’s lawyers had called the violation of the gag order “inadvertent,” “the effect of the post on its subject is unmitigated by how or why it remained on Donald Trump’s website for 17 days.”“In the current overheated climate,...

US working for release of more American hostages from Hamas after 2 are freed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said U.S. efforts to secure the release of further hostages were ongoing after Hamas freed two Americans kidnapped in the group’s surprise attack on Israel.The two hostages, identified as Judith Tai Raanan and Natalie Shoshana Raanan, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a small village near the Israeli border with Gaza that Hamas militants attacked in the initial wave of Oct. 7 violence.After being held in Gaza for nearly two weeks, the two hostages were released and met by Israeli military personnel at the territory’s border, according to a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.“The urgent work to free every single American, to free all other hostages, continues, as does our work to secure the safe passage out of Gaza for the Americans that are trapped there,” Blinken said in a State Department briefing.Ten additional Americans remain unaccounted for, Blinken said, some of whom are held hostage alongside another 200 people ...

Former UK defense chief warns big EU countries won’t keep NATO spending pledge

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

RIGA — Ben Wallace used his first international appearance since stepping down as Britain’s defense secretary to launch an attack on “some pretty big countries in Europe,” warning they won’t stick to their defence spending promises.Speaking virtually at the Riga Conference in Latvia, a security-focused event, Wallace advised the Baltic countries to pressure their rich European partners to actually spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense. He warned that the political will to beef up such expenditures — fostered in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — could be losing momentum.“There are some pretty big countries in Europe who I don’t think will maintain 2 percent in the long run, and I think there’ll be a number of pledges that won’t be made either or matched by even 2030,” Wallace said, responding to a question about the top priorities facing NATO countries.He added: “I already see the language among some of the ...

Westminster escapes Liberty’s upset bid with 21-17 win in Ravens RISE High School Football Showdown;

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

With Carroll County taking center stage during the Ravens RISE High School Football Showdown, Liberty and Westminster received pregame speeches from Ravens receivers as Zay Flowers and Rashod Bateman spent time with the players before Friday night’s showdown.“I told them to cherish it,” Flowers, who spoke to the Lions, said. “When you grow up, these are the memories that are going to be with you forever. Some of those guys will be your friends for life.”Bateman shared similar sentiments with the Owls as the entire team quickly huddled around the 2021 first-round pick.“I told them this time goes fast,” he said. “My whole senior year was incredible. We won a lot of games and made it pretty far. You never forget that.”Players on both teams won’t forget the back-and-forth action Friday night as they brought a playoff-like intensity to one of the final games of the regular season. Ultimately, the Owls pulled away, 21-17, with la...

Pakistan’s thrice-elected, self-exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns home ahead of vote

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s thrice-elected former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was returning home Saturday on a special flight from Dubai, ending four years of self-imposed exile in London as he seeks to win the support of voters ahead of parliamentary elections due in January.Sharif is expected to address a massive homecoming rally in the eastern city of Lahore later Saturday and his return comes as Pakistan experiences deepening political turmoil and one of its worst economic crises.“Today I am going to Pakistan after four years and I am feeling very happy with the grace of Allah,” Sharif told reporters before leaving for Islamabad from Dubai. He had arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Friday from Saudi Arabia after traveling there last week from London.He said he wished the situation in the country had improved in his absence. He left Pakistan in 2019, two years after he stepped down after being convicted in a graft case.He said Pakistan’s economy and politica...

Egypt-Gaza border crossing opens, letting desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:19 GMT

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opened on Saturday to let desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians running short of food, medicine and water in the territory that is under an Israeli siege.More than 200 trucks carrying roughly 3,000 tons of aid, which had been positioned near the crossing for days, began heading into Gaza.Israel blockaded the territory and launched waves of punishing airstrikes following the Oct. 7 rampage by Hamas militants on towns in southern Israel.Many in Gaza, reduced to eating one meal a day and without enough water to drink, are waiting desperately for the aid. Hospital workers were also in urgent need of medical supplies and fuel for their generators as they treat huge numbers of people wounded in the bombings. Hundreds of foreign passport holders also waited to cross from Gaza to Egypt to escape the conflict.The opening came hours after Hamas released an American woman and her teenage daughter, the first of some 200 c...