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Grading The Week: Why does it feel like Broncos’ kicking competition is only going to make us miss Brandon McManus more?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

It took Brandon McManus 114 attempts and four seasons to miss as many extra points — seven — as the combo of Brett Maher and Elliot Fry have whiffed on over their last 72 attempts. Combined.Now, we’ll grant you, the guys coming back from vacation on the Grading The Week stat crew admittedly aren’t that good at math.But when they sent us that particular number, our initial reaction was probably the same as a lot of Broncos Country: Zoinks! Or rather, doinks!Broncos kicking competition — D-plusHey, hey, we trust you, Sean Payton. I mean, what choice do we have? It’s Shanny Part II in Dove Valley, the Penners are all-in, and the Broncos needed a grown-up with gravitas to lead the room after aiming low at head coach for what feels like ages.And maybe — actually, no, this is more of a certainty — we’re so scarred from trying to poke our own eyes out after watching NFL (makes air quotes) offenses (more air quotes) drawn up by Nathaniel Hackett and “Pencil” Pat Shurmur these last few years...

San Francisco homicides: Tenderloin shooting, two arrests

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

A man was fatally shot Friday evening in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, police said.They also announced two arrests in a fatal shooting that happened last year.Friday’s homicide was reported at 6:11 p.m. at Hyde Street and Golden Gate Avenue. The victim, a man, was pronounced dead at the scene. No information was released on the suspect.The arrests announced were of suspects in a shooting June 30, 2022, on the 400 block of Rose Street, in the Lower Haight neighborhood. Carlos Discua, 20, was shot around 9:15 that night; he was taken to a hospital, where he died. Two suspects were identified. On June 28 of this year, investigators learned that one of them, a 35-year-old man, was in custody in Contra Costa County on an unrelated case. A warrant detainer was placed on him for the San Francisco homicide, police said.On Wednesday, July 19, the other suspect, a 25-year-old man, was arrested in South San Francisco.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | P...

Pogačar wins Stage 20 but Vingegaard is virtually assured of Tour de France win

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

LE MARKSTEIN, France (AP) — Tadej Pogačar pipped defending champion Jonas Vingegaard to take the Tour de France penultimate stage on Saturday but it won’t be enough to stop his great rival winning the race.Vingegaard maintained his lead of 7 minutes, 35 seconds over two-time champion Pogačar and will surely be crowned the Tour winner again after Sunday’s largely ceremonial stage ends on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.Pogačar, who won in 2020 and 2021, claimed his second stage win in the 110th edition of cycling’s most famous race but was unable to make up for Vingegaard’s huge advantage built in the Alps.Saturday’s 133.5-kilometer (83-mile) stage from Belfort to the mountain resort of Le Markstein was the last tough test for the riders and the 3,600 meters of climbing took its toll on many of them.Young Spanish rider Carlos Rodriguez, who still harbored hopes of overtaking Adam Yates to third place, crashed going around a bend at 33 km. Rodriguez got back on his bike but with blood on ...

Al menos 11 muertos y cuatro heridos tras incendio provocado en Sonora, México

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

(CNN Español) — Un incendio causado por lo que las autoridades llamaron “una especie de bomba del tipo molotov” dejó este sábado un saldo de 11 fallecidos en un bar ubicado en la localidad de San Luis Río Colorado, en el estado mexicano de Sonora, según reportó la Fiscalía General de Justicia estatal.El comunicado difundido por la Fiscalía en su cuenta de Twitter añade que, durante la madrugada de este sábado, un individuo “aparentemente con un alto grado de embriaguez” arrojó un objeto con fuego a las puertas del establecimiento tras haber sido expulsado del lugar.Las versiones de los testigos que cita la Fiscalía dicen que el hombre fue retirado del centro de vida nocturna por haber estado “faltándole el respeto a las mujeres de ese bar”.La Fiscalía señala que se trabaja en labores de identificación y captura del sospechoso.Debido al incendio, hasta el momento se reportan 11 muertos, de los cuales siete son hombres y cuatro son mujeres, ad...

Haiti’s spirited performance gives a loss to England the feel of a win at the Women’s World Cup

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

Brisbane, Australia (AP) — Despite a narrow 1-0 loss in its opening match of the Women’s World Cup, Haiti treated fans to a spirited performance against European champion England.The kind of spirit showed was nothing new for a Haiti squad that has faced a difficult journey just to make it to the tournament being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, arriving for its World Cup debut with no sponsors and no home games to prepare.The Haitians are representing a struggling nation that had been waiting nearly half a century to play on the game’s biggest stage. Its last involvement was when Haiti’s men’s team played in the 1974 World Cup in West Germany.“We’re very proud of our performance,” coach Nicholas Delépine said. “We’ve worked very hard and for us it was a huge test. We were very close to England. We were very close.”Due to violence in Haiti, the team was forced to close its training facilities and play some of its home games in the neighboring Dominican Republic.After securing ...

Hamilton ends Verstappen’s string of pole positions in Hungarian GP qualifying

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

BUDAPEST (AP) — Lewis Hamilton took his first pole position since 2021 at the Hungarian Grand Prix and ended Formula One champion Max Verstappen’s bid for a sixth straight pole on Saturday.Hamilton pumped his left fist several times after placing just .003 seconds ahead of Verstappen on his last lap to secure a record-extending 104th pole but first since Saudi Arabia in December 2021.“Get in there, let’s go boys!” So good!” Hamilton shouted on team radio before letting out a high-pitch whoop.“It’s been a crazy year and a half … I didn’t think today we’d be fighting for pole,” Hamilton said. “I just need to try and see if I can sleep tonight.”McLaren driver Lando Norris qualified third behind Verstappen at the Hungaroring, the track where Hamilton won his first race for Mercedes in 2013.Verstappen complained he felt like he was “driving on ice” because of the car’s lack of balance. But qualifying second will hardly faze the Dutchm...

Calls to collect jury duty fines are scams, Maryland court says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

The federal court for the District of Maryland is warning citizens not to fall for false jury service claims from scam callers.Officials said these callers are impersonating court administrators, U.S. Marshals and state and federal law enforcement officers who claim victims will be hauled off to jail if they don’t pay a fine for missing jury duty.“The callers insisted that their victims arrange to meet them with cash or prepaid credit cards,” the court said in a news release.Maryland’s district court added that “callers sometimes [disguise] their phone numbers so that they appear to be court or law enforcement numbers on the recipients’ caller ID. They also may transfer victims during the calls to create the illusion that they are speaking with government offices.”If you get a call claiming to be looking for a fine because of missing jury duty, officials said that call is fraudulent.“Neither this Court nor any other law enforcement age...

‘You could not find a bigger champion for Warrenton’: Community mourns death of Great Harvest owner Pablo Teodoro

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

The Warrenton community is mourning the loss of Pablo Teodoro, owner of Main Street's Great Harvest Bread Company and a well-known community advocate. (Courtersy James Jarvis, InsideNoVa)((Courtesy James Jarvis) The Warrenton community is mourning the loss of Pablo Teodoro, owner of Main Street's Great Harvest Bread Company and a well-known community advocate. (Courtersy James Jarvis, InsideNoVa)((Courtesy James Jarvis) This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today.The Warrenton community is mourning the loss of Pablo Teodoro, owner of Main Street’s Great Harvest Bread Company and a well-known communi...

More than 300,000 children’s cups recalled due to high lead levels

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

(CNN) — The US Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday recalled roughly 346,000 Cupkin Double-Walled Stainless Steel Children’s Cups because they “contain levels of lead that exceed the federal lead content ban.”The recalled 8- and 12-ounce cups, which were manufactured in China, were sold online at Amazon.com and Cupkin.com from January 2018 through March 2023 for about $20, according to CPSC.“Consumers should immediately take the cups away from children and stop using them,” the agency said.“With a few limited exceptions … all children’s products manufactured in or imported into the United States must not contain more than 100 parts per million (ppm) of total lead content in accessible parts,” the CPSC said.There is no known safe level of lead exposure in children.CPSC advised contacting Soojimus, the company that makes the cups, for a full refund, and said it and Amazon were “contacting all known purchasers directly.”No incidents or injuries have b...

Howie Carr: Boston’s local color includes regular sightings of ‘hundreds of open, uncapped needles’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:12 GMT

All you need to know about life in the City of Boston right now is summed up in a BPD report from July 15 describing the cops’ response to a stabbing in the Mass & Cass district:“It should be noted that Officers had to be cognizant of the hundreds of open, uncapped hypodermic needles when responding as well as numerous individuals that were also in the area. FA 81 (Lt. Staines) had to broadcast the health risks and dangers that Officers were facing when they were administering life saving first aid and scene security.”To repeat: “hundreds of open, uncapped hypodermic needles.”Who pays for all these needles? Got a mirror? This is now official government policy just about everywhere. Make it “safer” for the junkies to keep shooting up. Just keep giving them free needles.What could possibly go wrong?The whole affray described in this laconic BPD report is nothing out of the ordinary. And that’s the problem. But as you read it, ask yourself this. What if someone in any other part of...