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Beal leaves game with ankle injury, another blow for Suns’ trio of All-Stars

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix Suns guard Bradley Beal injured his right ankle during the first quarter of Friday night’s game against the New York Knicks and won’t return, according to the team.It’s another blow for the Suns’ All-Star trio of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Beal, which has played together for just one other game this season, and that was in Wednesday night’s loss to the Brooklyn Nets.The 30-year-old Beal took a 3-point shot in the first quarter, which he made, but he landed on the foot of New York’s Donte DiVincenzo, who was called for a Flagrant 1 because he didn’t allow Beal a space to land. Beal was on the ground for a few minutes, writhing in pain. He eventually got up to make his free throw, but then went to the locker room.The three-time All-Star was playing in just his sixth game this season. He has dealt with a sore back for much of the past two months. Durant and Booker have also missed time this season with various injurie...

Dillon Brooks scores 26, keys rally in 2nd half as Rockets defeat Grizzlies 103-96

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dillon Brooks scored 24 of his 26 points in the second half as the Houston Rockets overcame an early double-digit deficit and beat the Memphis Grizzlies 103-96 on Friday night.Brooks, who was making his return to Memphis after being traded to Houston in the offseason after six seasons with the Grizzlies, was 1 of 9 in the first half. He keyed a second-half comeback and hit a 3-pointer with 39.4 seconds left for a 99-94 lead as the Rockets won their fifth straight. He also stole an inbounds pass later, sealing the Houston win.Fred VanVleet had 16 points and eight assists for Houston, and Alperen Sengun finished with 15 points.Desmond Bane led Memphis with 28 points and a career-high 13 rebounds. Jaren Jackson Jr. finished with 22 points and four blocks as Memphis dropped to 1-10 at home.The Rockets had won the first two games in the season series, including a 117-104 defeat of Memphis on Wednesday night in Houston. This time, Memphis jumped to a 17-point lead in...

David Pastrnak scores shootout winner, Bruins beat Islanders 5-4

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — David Pastrnak scored in the third round of a shootout to give the Boston Bruins a 5-4 victory over the New York Islanders on Friday night.Pastrnak, Morgan Geekie, James van Reimsdyk and Mason Lohrei scored in regulation, with Lohrei tying it with 3:09 left on a bank shot from behind the goal line. Linus Ullmark made 34 saves to help Eastern Conference-leading Boston improve to 19-5-4.Brock Nelson, Bo Horvat, Alexander Romanov and Simon Holmstrom scored for New York and Ilya Sorokin made 29 saves. New York had won four in a row.Following a wide-open overtime session in which the teams traded chances, Charlie Coyle and Pastrnak scored in the shootout for Boston, while Holmstrom scored for the Islanders.Horvat gave the Islanders a 3-2 lead on a power play goal at 5:06 of third that extended his points streak to nine games.It appeared as if Brad Marchand tied it with 10:21 remaining, but a video review showed the Boston captain punched the puck past Sorokin while laying...

Young scores 38 points, Hawks beat Raptors 125-104 to end five-game losing streak

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Trae Young had 38 points and 11 assists, Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 20 points and the Atlanta Hawks snapped a season-long five-game losing streak with a 125-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday night.“We’re learning, we’re growing,” Young said. “We’re not satisfied with how we’ve been playing.”Clint Capela scored 10 of his season-high 18 points in the first quarter and finished with 15 rebounds. “I really think that it was important for us to set the tone early,” Capela said. “I felt that we did that.”Dejounte Murray scored 17 points as the Hawks bounced back from Wednesday’s 135-128 loss in Toronto, when the Raptors halted a four-game losing streak.Toronto’s 104 points were the fewest by an Atlanta opponent this season.“Defensively I thought we played one of our best games tonight,” Hawks coach Quin Snyder said. “Our guys were really focussed on the game plan and the things they need to do to help each other. When you play that way defensively, that’s when yo...

Watch parties on tap for Colorado School of Mines football championship game

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

GOLDEN, Colo. (KDVR) — Watch parties are planned Saturday morning for the Colorado School of Mines Division II football championship game.Bars and restaurants in downtown Golden plan to have their flatscreen televisions set to the game, which will be played in McKinley, Texas. Take a look inside Denver’s newest apartment building with a tree-filled canyon No. 1 School of Mines plays No. 2 Harding University, out of Arkansas.Over at the Golden Mill, staff said special amenities are being offered."We are gonna have a huge LCD screen out in the yard over here and hopefully watch the School of Mines win," said Danielle Quigley, with the Golden Mill.Kickoff, locally, is set for 11 a.m.

Gaskin: Environmental justice $$ needs better priorities

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

At the federal level, billions of dollars have been budgeted to fight climate change in the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and others with funding from the Departments of the Environment, Energy, and Labor among others. With billions of dollars available, why isn’t the money making it to environmental justice communities such as Grove Hall in Boston?One reason is a large portion of the state (53%) has been designated an environmental justice community or designated as EJ Group Blocks. It is easy for the funds to flow to municipalities with more resources and capacity. Towns with more resources can get even more resources and those without, go without.  The second is that the current Massachusetts definition of an Environmental Justice (EJ) Community has nothing to do with the level of environmental damage or harm that has been inflicted upon certain communities. That’s right, the definition of an environmental justice community has nothing to do environmental harm ...

Bernstein: Will third-party candidates hurt Biden or Trump?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

With former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney’s comments that she’s considering an independent bid for president against Donald Trump, experts are beginning to game out how she and other third-party candidates could affect next year’s election.A political action committee backing independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign announced that it’s planning to spend at least $10 million to get his name on that ballot in 10 states. And the quasi-party No Labels has threatened to recruit a big-name candidate, with retiring Republican Sen. Mitt Romney and retiring Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin getting plenty of buzz.Then you have independent candidate Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who also ran in 2012 and 2016.There’s still time for more to join the field, with filing deadlines a ways off. As long as President Joe Biden’s approval ratings remain below 40% and similarly unpopular Trump remains the Republican front-runner, the race will seem tempting to many.Significant third-party...

Girls indoor track preview: Departures open door for new champions

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

The graduation of two of the state’s all-time track greats should figure greatly into the 1000 and mile events this winter.Gone are Newton South’s Amelia Everett in the 1000 and Brookline’s Camille Jordan in the mile, but still on the scene is a huge middle-distance presence.The 1000 is still top-heavy with talent with Plymouth North’s Macey Shriner, Weymouth’s Gracie Richard and Carmen Luisi of Holliston. Add Delaney Dyer of Wellesley, Marshfield’s Ava LoVuolo and Audrey Adam of Needham to the mix and the 1000 should be a can’t miss event for fans.Ditto in the mile.Oliver Ames’ Katie Sobieraj had a big cross country season and that base should carry over to the winter season. Ciara Evans of Newton North, Charlotte Tuxbury of Wellesley and Holliston’s Maggie Kuchman are enormously competitive, as are Eliza Dickie of Cambridge, Woburn’s Sinead Butler, Paige McInerney of Acton Boxboro, Lilly DeDecko of Barnstable and North Qu...

Editorial: Universities selective when it comes to free speech

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

Apologists for the three college presidents who embarrassed themselves at a congressional hearing earlier this month on antisemitism are now attempting to portray them as brave defenders of free speech. That’s utter garbage.The leaders of Harvard, Penn and MIT appeared before a congressional committee and couldn’t bring themselves to acknowledge that “calling for the genocide of Jews” amounts to bullying and harassment on campus and would be a violation of their codes of student conduct. “It depends on the context,” one of them said.In the ensuing firestorm, two of the presidents apologized. The third, Penn’s Elizabeth Magill, resigned.Since then, some leftist defenders of these academics have said that, while their testimony was unfortunate, they were simply trying to acknowledge First Amendment concerns regarding the regulation of offensive speech. If so, that would be entirely out of character. These university presidents — and others across the country — have a track record of s...

Russell: Why is everyone expecting a tip these days?

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:52:50 GMT

If you’ve ordered a coffee and been asked to tip your barista at Starbucks and hesitated, you’re not alone: If you don’t tip, will your chipper barista be let down? What does everyone else do?This was the subject of a fascinating new study by the Pew Research Center, which created an interactive fictional American town, “Tipping Point,” that asks users how they’d tip in various situations and then lets you see how your answers compare to others.The survey is timely: Establishments requiring or asking for tips has increased. If I’m at a business and an employee hands me an iPad, I know I’m about to be asked to tip them on something that I’ve probably never paid a tip for before.According to Pew, 72% of U.S. adults say that tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. Some have dubbed this new era “tipflation” because it seems so excessive.High-tech electronics are not the only cause. It seems like a trickle-down effect of participation trophies, the trend that...