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NCS baseball roundup: Pittsburg, Freedom, Liberty step out of EBAL shadow

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

The Bay Valley Athletic League was overshadowed this spring by the East Bay Athletic League as teams such as Granada and Amador Valley found comfort in the upper half of the rankings.Not so Tuesday.On the first day of the North Coast Section playoffs, the BVAL won four games in the Division I bracket, including upset victories by 12th-seeded Pittsburg and 13th-seeded Freedom.No. 8 seed Liberty also advanced.On the season-ending side of those results were teams from the EBAL, including fourth-seeded Granada and fifth-seeded Amador Valley.No. 9 seed Dublin and No. 6 seed Foothill also lost.For Pittsburg, which scored five runs in the final two innings on the road to stun Granada 8-4, it was the program’s first NCS playoff victory since 1996, according to its coach, Marco Cartagena.He called his team’s small-ball performance “gritty.” The Pirates got three hits from Halen Guerrero and three walks from Daniel Trujillo.“Obviously, the EBAL’s got stacke...

SF Supervisors urge a name change for Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

By Olivia Wynkoop | Bay City NewsSan Francisco supervisors approved a resolution on Tuesday urging park officials to rename Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake to a name that reflects the city’s “values of celebrating diversity.”The lake was named for former California State Assembly Speaker William Stow when it was created in 1893. Stow had been assembly speaker in 1855 and after leaving office was appointed to the San Francisco Park Commission in 1889.RELATED: With George Berkeley’s slave-owner past uncovered, will the city or university consider a name change?During his time as speaker, Stow proposed a tax on Jews and publicly embraced antisemitic rhetoric, such as wishing he had the power to eliminate Jewish people from California, according to the resolution.The resolution asks the Recreation and Park Commission to rename the lake, its boathouse and the drive circling Strawberry Hill that are named after Stow.Related ArticlesCalifornia Politics | Black Californi...

Kurtenbach: There’s only one thing to do with Klay Thompson, Draymond Green

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

If we learned one thing from this disappointing Warriors’ season, it’s that this team has only one timeline: Steph Curry’s.Despite plenty of wishful thinking, there will not be a smooth, easy transition to a new, young, winning core. No, the Warriors will go as far as Curry can take them in the years to come.And Curry should have the other two members of the team’s title core — Klay Thompson and Draymond Green — along for the ride.While Curry has sounded like he wants to be basketball’s Tom Brady — playing until heaven knows when — he has three seasons remaining on his current contract with the Warriors.That’s a long time in the ever-changing NBA, but it’s a perfect runway for the Dubs’ troika, of which the mortal two showed their age this past season.If the Warriors’ top priority this offseason should be to re-sign president of basketball operations Bob Myers, the next thing they should do is sign Green and Thompson to extensions that line up with Curry’s contract.The Warriors aren...

Four things the Athletics can carry with them after significant win over Arizona

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

OAKLAND — Athletics manager Mark Kotsay was bleary-eyed as he attempted to sort through a 9-8 win Tuesday night over the Arizona Diamondbacks in 12 innings.It almost took questions from the assembled media to remind him exactly of what had just transpired.“I’m exhausted,” Kotsay said. “As I’m sure all of you are.”By the time the game ended after four hours and nine minutes, probably less than a third of the paid attendance of 3,261 were still there and many of them were howling like wolves for the duration of extra innings.Seriously.It ended when rookie Estuery Ruiz singled off the glove of Arizona shortstop Nick Ahmed with the bases loaded, driving in the winning run in the 12th inning.With the Athletics 24 games under .500 at 10-34, no single win is going to vault them into relevance. Which doesn’t mean there wasn’t some good stuff worth reviewing in what could be one of their most memorable wins of a forgettable season.Here ar...

NCS softball playoffs: Top-notch pitching takes Antioch, Alameda to quarterfinals

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

Division IITuesday’s first roundNo. 13 Antioch 4, No. 4 Petaluma 0Senior pitcher Kaileen Sepulveda threw two-hitter and struck out five in a dominant performance to upset No. 4 Petaluma (17-7) on the road.This shutout lowered the senior’s earned run average to 2.53, and it was the 10th time this season that Sepulveda had not allowed an earned run.Shortstop Apollonia Maldonado had two hits and two RBIs for the Panthers (14-13). Antioch had lost to Freedom in the Bay Valley Athletic League playoffs the previous week.Alexia Nasty had three hits and drove in one run for Antioch, which will travel to No. 5 Livermore on Friday at 5 p.m.No. 9 Northgate 12, No. 8 Marin Catholic 3Ninth-ranked Northgate trailed 2-1 entering the fifth inning, but the visiting Broncos put up five runs in the fifth and the sixth innings to blow the game open. Makenna Choi, who will represent South Korea in the summer, batted 2 for 4 with a double, a triple and a whopping six RBIs. Katelyn Takahashi batted ...

Michelle Obama lobbied for healthy school meals. Her new nutritional drinks wouldn’t qualify

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

By Deena Shanker | BloombergPublic health advocates have long lauded Michelle Obama for her efforts to make American food healthier — especially for kids. From her perch in the White House, she led efforts to update school nutrition standards, modernize labelling on packaged foods, persuade kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, and increase their consumption of water. She even encouraged the food industry to curb the marketing of unhealthy products to children.Now a co-founder and strategic partner at Plezi Nutrition, a maker of sweetened beverages for kids ages 6 and up, Obama says she’s offering a lower-sugar alternative to steer them away from sugary drinks. The overconsumption of such beverages among children can lead to higher risks for maladies including heart disease, diabetes, tooth decay, obesity and headaches.As soon as “most kids get to school age, drinking only water and milk just isn’t a reality,” Obama said at a Wall Street Journal conference earlier this month. “We’...

Families of men shot by California cops lose faith in new accountability law as reviews drag on

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

TEHACHAPI – Three men in dark suits knocked on Pam Holland’s door one night last June. They told her that her son was dead, shot to death in a neighboring county by a sheriff’s deputy. The shooting, they said, was being investigated under a new California law that requires the state Justice Department step in when a police officer kills an unarmed person.Pam Holland hoped the investigation would be quick and fair. Her father had been a Kern County Sheriff’s reserve deputy. She grew up around cops. She thought she could trust them — but she also believed that police agencies protect their own.“I was like, wow, that’s awesome, this is great, they’re going to take it out of the hands of the local cops, who would instantly feel anger toward my son without even knowing anything,” she said.But an investigation that the Justice Department officers told Holland would take eight months is quickly approaching 12. Now, she is among several Californians whose family members were killed by the p...

50% of those killed in DMV car crashes were unbuckled

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

For most, putting on your seatbelt is simple reflex. For those who still prefer living life on the edge, some new data may convince you otherwise: half of all Americans killed by car crashes in 2021 were unbuckled.The D.C. region saw a similar trend, according to data released from the National Highway Traffic Administration Tuesday.The vast majority of people buckled up — around nine out of 10 in D.C. and Maryland and about eight out of 10 in Virginia. But when you look at those killed in local car crashes, again, 50% of the victims were unrestrained. Put another way, 10% to 20% of the driving population accounts for half of the driving deaths.The data show a national trend set in 2020 when unrestrained deaths broke the 50% mark for the first time since 2012.Getting into the specifics of the 2021 data, in D.C., five of the 10 car crash deaths came from unrestrained people. Of the 681 people who were killed in crashes in Virginia, 50% were not buckled up. Maryland saw 334 deaths, 49...

¿Qué es la “muerte cruzada” decretada por Lasso en Ecuador?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

(CNN) — Guillermo Lasso, presidente de Ecuador, decretó la “muerte cruzada”, una cláusula constitucional con la que se disuelve la Asamblea Nacional para convocar posteriormente a elecciones, a fin de renovar los Poderes Legislativo y Ejecutivo.Eso quiere decir que el presidente Lasso puede gobernar por decretos-leyes de urgencia económica mientras se realizan elecciones para presidente y legisladores en seis meses.MINUTO A MINUTO | Crisis política en Ecuador: así está el país tras el decreto de Lasso“He decidido aplicar el artículo 148 de la Constitución de la República, que me otorga la facultad de disolver la Asamblea Nacional por grave crisis política y conmoción interna, para lo cual he firmado el decreto ejecutivo No. 741. Además, he solicitado al CNE la convocatoria inmediata a elecciones legislativas y presidenciales para el resto de los respectivos periodos”, dijo Lasso en su anuncio.La “muerte cruzada”, amparada por la Constitución ecuat...

Prince Harry, Meghan involved in 'near catastrophic' car chase as photographers follow

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:59:00 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were involved in a car chase while being followed by photographers following a charity event in New York, the couple’s office said Wednesday.The pair, together with Meghan’s mother, were followed for more than two hours by a half-dozen vehicles with blacked-out windows after leaving the event.Their office said in a statement that the chase “resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD officers.” It called the incident “near catastrophic.”“While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone’s safety,” the statement from the couple said.Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, died in a car crash in 1997 while being pursued by paparazzi in Paris.