Walker Buehler has been a Cy Young contender and an All-Star during his career, but the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher is now pitching for his job in the team’s rotation. That is obviously not how he envisioned going into free agency.Buehler struggled again on Tuesday against the Seattle Mariners, allowing three runs on seven hits in four innings of work. He received a no-decision when the Dodgers came back to win, but it was another discouraging performance against a bad offense, and it bumped his ERA to 6.09 on the season in 10 starts. The former All-Star acknowledged after the…
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Questions abound about what caused the superyacht to sink so quickly when a nearby sailboat was largely spared.Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily have found the bodies of five passengers and are searching for one more as questions intensify about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed. Rescue crews unloaded three body bags from rescue vessels that pulled into port at Porticello on Wednesday. Salvatore Cocina, head of the Sicily civil protection agency, said two other bodies had also been found in the wreckage. The bodies of British tech…
Police Commissioner Edward Caban on Monday hammered the final nail into the coffin of an effort to punish one of his top deputies for intervening in the arrest of a retired cop charged with menacing three young men with a gun.Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey was found by a police oversight board to have “improperly influenced an arrest” by voiding charges against an ex-cop who was once one of his subordinates. The cop, Kruythoff Forrester, had been charged in 2021 with threatening the youths after he said they tossed a basketball at a security camera outside his family’s storefront in Brooklyn.…
By Armando Aliu TAIPEI, Taiwan – Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has gained ground in the US-PRC tech competition by accelerating the “Digital Silk Road” (DSR), the technological arm of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, formerly known as “One Belt, One Road,” – 帶 – 路). Initially introduced in 2015, the DSR initiative aims to strengthen both the technological development and the geopolitical potential of the PRC’s cyberspace capacity. As Jake Sullivan, national security advisor at the White House, highlighted in 2022 remarks, computing-related technologies (such as artificial intelligence [AI], big data, advanced…
Easter Kojwang Interview with Easter KojwangCEO AND FOUNDER, EASTNAT FOODS Lives in: Nairobi, Kenya After graduating from Moi University in 2014 with a degree in hotel and hospitality management, Easter Kojwang sought a role that would truly fulfill her. However, she found that even positions within the hotel industry fell short of her expectations. Her early career included stints as a restaurant supervisor and later as a front office officer. Yet, neither job brought the satisfaction she was looking for. Disillusioned, Kojwang decided to quit in 2015. The consequences were immediate. “After I quit my job, I was running out…
Al-Nassr’s forward player, Cristiano Ronaldo has continued to write his name into the history books both on and off the field of play as he sets a new record on YouTube Cristiano Ronaldo became the first person in history to reach over 1 million YouTube subscribers in less than one hour after he announced his own YouTube channel named UR. The forward player announced the channel on his official social media accounts on Wednesday, August 21, 2024.The former Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Juventus star who has no TikTok presence yet is ranked the most-followed person on social media with…
The 30-year-old Olympian revealed earlier this week that he was stepping back from professional sport, meaning the recent Paris games were his final Olympic competition. The father-of-two recently earned his fifth Olympic medal, marking a spectacular end to his professional diving career. Speaking to Vogue about his retirement announcement, Daley said: “I felt so incredibly nervous going into this, knowing it was my last Olympics.”There was a lot of pressure and expectations. I was eager for it to be done.”But when I walked out, and saw my husband and kids and my friends and family in the audience, I was…
A March Madness and college basketball icon had a very special birthday on Wednesday. Sister Jean Schmidt of Loyola University Chicago turned 105 years old Wednesday, telling the Chicago Sun-Times “I still want to remain a happy person.” Born in 1919, Sister Jean is just 11 years younger than the oldest person alive.The chaplain for the school’s men’s basketball team went viral in 2018 when the Ramblers went on a magical run to the Final Four, beginning with a last-second three-pointer to down sixth-seed Miami in the first round. Loyola-Chicago would rattle off three more improbable wins with Sister Jean courtside…
The Portuguese footballer’s launch broke the world record for fastest YouTube channel to hit one million subscribers.Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo has launched his YouTube channel, and more than a million subscribers signed up within the first 90 minutes. The 39-year-old, five-time Ballon d’Or winner plays for the Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr and has represented Portugal in international tournaments for more than two decades. “The wait is over. My @YouTube channel is finally here! SIUUUbscribe and join me on this new journey,” Ronaldo posted on Wednesday on his social media accounts. A couple of hours after posting his first video, 1.69…
This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here.It was hours before the first pitch of last Wednesday’s game between the New York Mets and the Oakland Athletics, but the dozens of people who maintain Citi Field had already been on the go for days making sure the field was ready and the lights were working.The grounds crew replaced sod in the outfield torn up during a recent Def Leppard, Journey and Steve Miller Band concert. Maintenance staffers cleaned…