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Premier League’s relegation battle goes down to the wire on final day

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — One way or another, the Premier League will lose two teams with rich histories when the fight for survival reaches its conclusion on Sunday.Everton, Leicester and Leeds all face a nervous final day of the season when their places in English soccer’s top division will be at stake.Everton has spent 69 years in the top-flight and is hoping for another dramatic rescue act, having narrowly avoided relegation last season.Leicester was the architect of arguably the most unlikely title triumph — winning the Premier League as a 5000-1 underdog in 2016 — but has to hope Everton drops points at home against Bournemouth to stand any chance of climbing out of the relegation zone.Leeds, meanwhile, has only been back among England’s elite for the past three years, but has a storied past, with its team of the late 1960s and 70s winning multiple trophies during that era. At the turn of the century it was a Champions League semifinalist.Two of the three will joi...

Alabama tops Auburn, advances to 4th round for 3rd straight season

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Tommy Seidl and Caden Rose each had three hits, Garrett McMillan struck out eight in a six-inning start and Alabama beat Auburn 7-4 on Thursday in the SEC Tournament.Ninth-seeded Alabama (40-18) advances to the fourth round of the tournament for the third straight season. Auburn (34-21-1), the No. 5 seed, has been eliminated. Alabama collected 14 hits — from eight different players — and went 4 for 9 with runners in scoring position. Seidl opened the scoring with a one-out homer in the first inning and he added an RBI single in a three-run fourth.Auburn got within 5-3 in the sixth inning after Bryson Ware hit a solo home run and Ike Irish scored on a wild pitch. But Alabama loaded the bases in the bottom half before scoring on a sacrifice fly and a single by Drew Williamson.The Tigers had the potential tying run at the plate in the ninth before Cooper McMurray popped up to left.___AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP...

Brazilian team Santos says 2 players racially abused during Copa match in Chile

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer club Santos said Thursday that two of its players were racially abused by fans during the team’s 2-1 loss to Audax Italiano in a Copa Sudamericana match at the Chilean team’s stadium.Santos said in a statement that defender Joaquim and striker Ângelo, who are Black, “were verbally abused” and harassed by local fans “making monkey gestures” during a group-stage match Wednesday night in the city of Rancagua.The Brazilian club said it had brought its complaints to South American soccer body CONMEBOL, which has opened a case on the issue.Another racist incident at a Copa Sudamericana match took place Tuesday night in Argentina during the game between Colombia’s Independiente Santa Fé and local team Gimnasia la Plata.Colombian striker Hugo Rodallega, who is Black, said he faced racial insults from local fans.“We are not improving as mankind, this is a disaster all over the world. It is very sad to come here and this happen,” Rodallega t...

Cincinnati fires 2 members of its baseball staff as it investigates possible NCAA violations

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati has fired two members of its baseball staff a week after the school opened an investigation into possible NCAA violations.In statement released Wednesday, the school said assistant coach Kyle Sprague and director of operations Andy Nagel were relieved of their duties May 17. The school said it began an internal review of potential NCAA infractions involving the baseball program on May 8, and the review is ongoing.“UC is cooperating with the NCAA in this matter,” the school said. Cincinnati provided no details and said it would not be “commenting further at this time.”The Bearcats’ season ended Wednesday when they lost an elimination game to East Carolina in the American Athletic Conference tournament in Clearwater, Florida. Cincinnati finished the season 24-33.___AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 Source

Man United secures Champions League return with 4-1 rout of Chelsea

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United secured a return to the Champions League with a 4-1 win over Chelsea on Thursday. Goals from Casemiro, Anthony Martial, Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford ensured a victory that means a Premier League top-four finish is now certain in Erik ten Hag’s first year at the club.United moved up to third and two points above Newcastle going into the final game of the season.United needed a point from its final two games to secure qualification to the Champions League and went ahead in the sixth minute when Casemiro headed in Christian Eriksen’s free kick. Mykhaylo Mudryk should have put Chelsea ahead before that, but the $108-million signing completely misfired with only goalkeeper David de Gea to beat.Martial doubled United’s lead in first-half stoppage time to put the home team in control going into the break.Fernandes added a third from the penalty spot in the 73rd after being brought down by Wesley Fofana.It got worse for F...

PSAC suspends food support fund for graduates

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

PSAC 901, the union representing grad student workers at Queen’s, has suspended it’s emergency food support fund after exhausting funds beyond what was budgeted for.The union says this clearly demonstrates the great level of need among members and for intervention from the university. PSAC says 457 applications were received with $31,325 being paid out to members over the course of 15 weeks.Justyna Scezwyck-El Jassem, the new President of PSAC 901, says upon offering the fund the union quickly realized they would need to find more ways to support their members.“We were hoping that it would just help a couple of people but as time started passing every week we were just getting more and more applications,” Scezwyck-El Jassem said.“Quickly we realized that we sometimes needed $3000 a week to cover the needs of our members. The need was overwhelming.”She added that as a labour union it isn’t really their job to do this for grad students, but th...

Denver weather: Severe storm chances around the metro

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay stormy for the next few days with scattered storm chances each afternoon through the weekend.Around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for the southern half of Denver, all of Glendale and parts of Englewood. The warning was to stay in effect through 4:30 p.m.Weather tonight: Scattered storms Storms will push through the Front Range on Thursday evening and will end by late Thursday night. The main risk with storms will be hail, gusty winds and lightning.Temperatures will fall into the low 50s overnight with partly cloudy skies. Weather tomorrow: Severe storm chanceThere will be another chance for scattered storms on Friday afternoon. High temperatures will hit the upper 70s.Storm chances will pop up after 1 p.m. along the Front Range. There is a marginal (green) risk for storms to turn severe, which is the lowest of the severe threats. It means hail could reach up to quarter-size in stronger storms and wind ...

Woman detained in police car hit by train wants charge dropped

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A woman accused of flashing a gun at another driver while traveling in Weld County has requested the felony menacing charge she's facing be dropped.Yareni Rios-Gonzalez was accused by the other driver on Sept. 16 last year. The request to dismiss the charge filed by Rios-Gonzalez's attorney, Chris Ponce, said the other driver claimed she was tailgating him. He called 911 and the document said he “break [sic] checked her a little bit.”The description of the truck she was driving was relayed to the Platteville Police Department. Officers located the truck and took Rios-Gonzalez into custody at County Road 36, just east of U.S. 85 in Weld County. Woman in back of police car hit by train files lawsuit She was detained in the back of a police car on railroad tracks when a train struck the car. She suffered nine broken ribs, a broken arm and a fractured sternum, among other injuries, and spent more than a week in the hospital.Rios-Gonzalez has filed a lawsuit...

Study finds 100% of tested Colorado water contains microplastics

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A new report by the Environment Colorado Research and Policy Center and Colorado Public Interest Research Group found tiny pieces of plastic in 100% of tested water across the Front Range.Students from the University of Denver and area high schools collected and analyzed water samples from 16 different sites between February and April of this year. Those sites include the South Platte River at Confluence Park, Cherry Creek, Chatfield Reservoir, City Park, Boulder Creek and more. Students found microplastics in each sample taken."It was stunning to me that someone like me without any sort of background could plainly see the issue in front of my eyes," said DU graduate student intern and lead author, Lexi Kilbane, who helped collect the samples. Main road through Cherry Creek State Park closed ‘indefinitely’ The microplastics come from items like plastic bags, bottles and clothing. The items break down over time and leave tiny particles called microplastics in the wa...

Outdoor Colorado: Double amputee bicyclist finds a new way to ride

Published Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:10:57 GMT

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (KDVR) - A bicycle is a perfect metaphor for life. Sometimes it is smooth, and sometimes it can be very rough. But it is a ride that we all must take.Nicholas Young was on a ride one day that changed his life forever. That was 2015 in Chicago. What are Colorado’s signs of summer? "I couldn’t see that the road had a big pothole because it wasn’t clear from my point of view. There was just a glassy clear surface on the road but what I didn’t know is underneath that water there was a pothole that was probably nearly a foot deep," he said.Young crashed hard. His legs never properly healed and in October 2018 he made one of the toughest decisions in his life. He decided to have his right leg amputated."I literally woke up from surgery crying from relief, but I knew this was the right decision," Young said.Two years later, Young became a double amputee. But he was not ready to give up riding his bicycle, or life and he paid attention when someone suggested he look into ...