Speaking to reporters on Thursday, including Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic, Suns star Kevin Durant downplayed the possibility of signing a one-year, $59.5M extension prior to Monday’s deadline. Durant can only tack on one year to his current contract due to the Over-38 rule.“I’m not even thinking about it,” Durant said after Thursday’s shootaround. “I’m just going to play out my contract really, and just focus on that. Focus on the team. I haven’t even really had conversations with anybody about a contract. Trying to focus on basketball.”Durant, who became the first men’s basketball player to win four Olympic gold medals over…
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Rigathi Gachagua, who has fallen out with President Ruto, was too ill to attend proceedings, his lawyers said.The Kenyan Senate has voted to oust Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in a historic impeachment vote. The upper house has so far voted on Thursday to impeach the 59-year-old on five charges out of a total of 11 against him, following two days of hearings. The Senate only had to find him guilty of one charge to remove him from office. He is the first deputy president to be removed in this manner since impeachment was introduced in Kenya’s revised 2010 constitution. A…
History remembers the October heroes over the regular season Joes. Six months of mediocrity is expunged with one swing in the postseason. Just ask Mr. October himself, Reggie Jackson. But whether it’s Jackson, or Derek Jeter, Madison Bumgarner or Joc Pederson, players that can perform on the game’s biggest stage, undisturbed and undeterred by the big moments, shining bright like a light, and gleaming like a gem, these are the legends that people remember long after the final out has been recorded. Kiké Hernández is one of those players. Walker Buehler is also one of those players, and their teammate,…
Ghana and West Ham’s Mohammed Kudus in his recent post on social media has reacted to the possibility of Ghana not qualifying for AFCON 2025. In light of Ghana’s potential exit from the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Mohammed Kudus in his recent post on social media issued a heartfelt apology to Ghanaians for the team’s failure to meet their expectations addressing the possible failure to qualify for the tournament.Taking to his social media platform, Kudus, who captained the team in the recent matches, expressed, “With great humility and a deep sense of responsibility, I issue this statement as…
Scott Powers of The Athletic reported early on Thursday that Alec Martinez would not be in the lineup Thursday evening for the Chicago Blackhawks while dealing with a lower-body injury. The organization confirmed Martinez would be out of the lineup for this game and then some by placing him on injured reserve and recalling Isaak Phillips from their AHL affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs.Chicago specified Martinez’s injury in the announcement, saying it’s located in his right groin. His absence from the Blackhawks weakens an already scant left side of the Chicago defense. The organization signed Martinez to a one-year, $4M contract this past offseason…
Israel has claimed its forces have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an attack in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military confirmed Sinwar’s death on Thursday, but Hamas has not yet commented on the claim. According to the Israeli military statement, Sinwar was killed on Wednesday after soldiers “eliminated three fighters.” In August, Hamas appointed its Gaza leader, Sinwar, as the group’s political bureau head to succeed Ismail Haniyeh. Haniyeh was assassinated during a visit to Iran on July 31. Here are some reactions to Sinwar’s death, starting with those closest to the situation: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel…
Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined and dictatorial, he was a rarely seen veteran militant who learned Hebrew over years spent in Israeli prisons and who carefully studied his enemy. On Thursday, Israel said troops in Gaza had killed Sinwar. There was no immediate comment from Hamas of his death. The secretive figure feared on both sides of the battle lines engineered the surprise Oct. 7, 2023, attack…
There has been a burning question on the minds of football fans around the world as regards whether Lionel Messi will play at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.Lionel Messi was speaking in an interview during the last international break where he was asked if he would play at the next World Cup. According to him, he is taking each day as it comes and won’t be making a hasty decision.”Well, everything happens for a reason in life now. I am just trying to live day by day. Now I feel very good, when that period comes we’ll see. I don’t…
This year’s American League Rookie of the Year race will center around the AL East and a pair of heavyweights that scuffled for the division lead until the regular season’s final week.According to BetMGM odds accessed on Oct. 17, a pair of New York Yankees will battle it out with an outfielder from the Baltimore Orioles for the AL Rookie of the Year honor, bestowed annually by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA). So, who could finish in the top four? Let’s take a look at the candidates in order of least likely winner to most likely winner.…
When the governments of Mauritius and the United Kingdom issued a joint declaration at the beginning of this month that they had “reached an historic political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago” after a half-a-century long dispute and two years of direct negotiations, Joe Biden reportedly went “so far as to ‘applaud’ [the agreement] within minutes of the announcement!” The United States president has every reason to be pleased. After all, according to this much-lauded agreement, British rule over the Archipelago’s 60 or so small and uninhabited islands will come to an end, but there will…