By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer Assistant Josh Eilert has been selected as the interim coach at West Virginia, punctuating a hectic week after Bob Huggins resigned following a drunken driving arrest. Eilert, who has no previous head coaching experience, emerged as athletic director Wren Baker’s choice to shepherd the team through a challenging offseason
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer Assistant Josh Eilert has been selected as the interim coach at West Virginia, punctuating a hectic week after Bob Huggins resigned following a drunken driving arrest. Eilert, who has no previous head coaching experience, emerged as athletic director Wren Baker’s choice to shepherd the team through a challenging offseason
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Right-hander Chad Kuhl was cut by the Washington Nationals when the team recalled right-hander Paolo Espino from Triple-A Rochester. The 30-year-old Kuhl went to spring training with a minor league contract and was put on the major league roster on opening day, getting a $2 million salary while in the major
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Ryan McKenna entered the game as a defensive replacement in a routine ninth-inning substitution. Then plans quickly changed — and it turned out the Baltimore Orioles would need his bat. McKenna hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to give the Orioles a
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Desde que existen los humanos ha habido mosquitos zumbando con la esperanza de comer algo. “Siempre estamos en una guerra, una guerra perpetua contra los mosquitos”, dijo el Dr. Conor McMeniman, profesor asistente de microbiología molecular e inmunología en la Escuela de Salud Pública Johns Hopkins Bloomberg y del Instituto de
Continue ReadingTEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes acquired defenseman Sean Durzi from the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday for a 2024 second-round draft. The 24-year-old played 72 games with the Kings last season, tying the team lead among defensemen with nine goals and was second with 29 assists. Durzi has 12 goals and 53 assists
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Los guatemaltecos acuden a las urnas este 25 de junio para elegir un nuevo presidente, mientras los observadores regionales advierten sobre una espiral descendente de cleptocracia y un debilitamiento del Estado de derecho en la nación más poblada de Centroamérica. La socialdemócrata Sandra Torres, la derechista Zury Ríos y
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, Ivana Kottasová and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, has agreed to leave Russia for Belarus, the Kremlin said Saturday, in a deal apparently brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that ends an armed insurrection, which marked the gravest threat to Russian President Vladimir
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press SAN JUAN COMALAPA, Guatemala (AP) — Just days away from electing a new president, many Guatemalans remain undecided, unimpressed by the leading candidates and even considering casting a protest vote to express their disapproval. Concerns about extortion and violent crime cross class lines, and rural and urban communities, perhaps explaining
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Elvis Andrus hit a game-ending RBI single in the ninth inning, helping the Chicago White Sox top the Boston Red Sox 5-4. Luis Robert Jr., Andrew Vaughn, Yasmani Grandal and Jake Burger homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of five. Lance Lynn struck out seven
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN DULIK Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Josh Naylor and David Fry had RBI singles in a two-run sixth inning, rookie Tanner Bibee struck out seven, and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2. Cleveland trailed 2-1 after five, and tied the game on Naylor’s single off Hoby Milner that scored Amed Rosario.
Continue ReadingBy MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jordan Lyles ended an 11-game losing streak and the lowly Kansas City Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 9-4 on Saturday for their second win in three days against the team with the MLB’s best record. Lyles allowed four runs and eight hits over six
Continue ReadingMICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Luis Matos hit his first career home run, a go-ahead two-run drive in the sixth inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the division-leading Arizona Diamondbacks 7-6 for their 12th win in 13 games. Joc Pederson and Blake Sabol added two hits each as San Francisco won
Continue ReadingBy IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Danny Jansen each hit two-run homers, José Berríos pitched six innings to win for the third time in four starts and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Oakland Athletics 7-3. After winning Friday to snap an eight-game losing streak, the Athletics lost for
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — A.J. Allmendinger pulled away on the second overtime restart and won his second NASCAR Xfinity race this year and 17th of his career Saturday, taking the Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway. The 41-year-old Allmendinger took the lead for good on lap 177 and
Continue ReadingBy LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ron Marinaccio retired Marcus Semien on a game-ending popup with two on in the ninth inning, Clay Holmes stranded a pair of runners in the eighth and the New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 1-0 after Aaron Judge said he isn’t close to returning from
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Max Scherzer struck out eight over six innings and Starling Marte homered to help the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-2. The Mets snapped a three-game losing streak. David Robertson earned a five-out save. It was his 11th save of the season. Nick Castellanos
Continue ReadingCNN By Nouran Salahieh, Samantha Beech and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — One week after the Titan submersible started what became a catastrophic underwater voyage to the Titanic wreckage – killing all five people aboard – US officials laid out their next steps in investigating the disaster. The US Coast Guard announced Sunday it convened
Continue ReadingCNN, WCVB By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The search for the Titan submersible that captivated the world came to an abrupt and grim end this week after fragments of the vessel were detected on the ocean floor near the Titanic. The discovery led the US Coast Guard to announce the ship likely imploded, killing
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Flying from Florida to Buenos Aires usually takes about 10 hours, but the turboprop landing in Argentina on Saturday was no normal plane. It had been en route for 20 days, and many Argentines eagerly refreshed flight tracking software to keep tabs on its progress.
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