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SF Giants’ first-round pick Reggie Crawford talks return from Tommy John, two-way plans

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — The main attraction Monday night at Oracle Park was the home debut of 21-year-old phenom Luis Matos. But it was hard not to notice the 6-foot-4, 235-pound hunk of human being hanging behind the batting cage, who also figures to play a major part in the Giants’ future.San Francisco’s top pick in 2022, Reggie Crawford, paid a visit to the ballpark he hopes to call home one day. Visiting family who live in the city, Crawford was enjoying an off day from Single-A San Jose, where he recently began attempting to chart his path as the first domestic two-way player to make the majors since Babe Ruth.“Obviously we’re at where we’re at right now and we’re gonna be making strides, but I don’t feel like this is a foreign place to me,” Crawford said, wearing a 2007 All-Star Game sweatshirt while standing on the dirt warning track of Oracle Park, coming up on a year since being drafted 30th overall and 20 months post-Tommy John surgery. “I know that t...

Ocean City brings fireworks back to the beach for the first time since 2019

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

Ocean city, Maryland aerial view of the boardwalk and beach(Getty Images/iStockphoto/abriggs21) Ocean city, Maryland aerial view of the boardwalk and beach(Getty Images/iStockphoto/abriggs21) It’s been a long wait, but Ocean City in Maryland is once again planning on holding a dazzling Fourth of July fireworks display.The plans for this year’s fireworks show includes displays at two different locations: one at the North Division Street Beach, and another at Northside Park at 125th Street.In each case, there will be musical entertainment starting at 8 p.m., and the fireworks are scheduled to go off at 9:30 p.m.The long-awaited restoration of the beach holiday tradition comes after a few challenging years for the Ma...

Piden a los médicos revisar más allá del índice de masa corporal (IMC) como medida de riesgo para la salud

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

(CNN) — Hace aproximadamente 200 años, un matemático y estadístico belga llamado Adolphe Quetelet, en un intento de caracterizar al “hombre normal”, observó que el peso corporal de los adultos en kilogramos es aproximadamente proporcional al cuadrado de su estatura en metros, una medida que pasó a denominarse índice de Quetelet.No fue hasta 1972, cuando el fisiólogo Dr. Ancel Keys lo propuso como cálculo de la grasa corporal, cuando recibió su nombre más reconocible: índice de masa corporal o IMC.Ahora está en todas partes, sobre todo como herramienta de detección de la obesidad: un IMC inferior a 18,5 es “bajo peso”, un “peso saludable” es hasta 24,9, “sobrepeso” es de 25 a 29,9 y “obesidad” es un IMC de 30 o más.Y para ser una métrica diseñada para aplicarse ampliamente a la población general, ha adquirido una importancia desmesurada para los individuos, incluso a veces se le llama “letra escarlata”.R...

Carpenter’s 3-run homer rallies Tigers for 6-4 win, Royals’ 12th loss in 13 games

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Kerry Carpenter hit a three-run homer in a five-run, seventh inning that lifted Detroit Tigers over Kansas 6-4 on Monday night and sent the Royals to their 12th loss in 13 games.Kansas City wasted a 4-0 lead and dropped to 0-15 in games started by Jordan Lyles, who allowed three runs and six hits in six-plus innings. He is 0-11, the most losses in the major leagues, and he broke the team record for winless starts at the start of a season, which had been set by Vida Blue in 1983.Zach McKinstry started the comeback with a fifth inning RBI double that went through left fielder Edward Olivares’s legs, allowing Jake Rogers to score from first.Miguel Cabrera singled and Jonathan Schoop doubled, chasing Lyles in the seventh. Rogers hit a two-run single off Taylor Clarke (1-1) that cut the deficit to 4-3, and Carpenter hit a two-out line drive down the right-field line for his sixth homer this season.Tyler Alexander (2-1) allowed one hit in two scoreless innings with four str...

Los candidatos de Juntos por el Cambio atraen más votantes que el peronismo en la provincia de Chaco, Argentina

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

(CNN Español) — Este domingo se realizaron las elecciones Primarias, Abiertas, Simultáneas y Obligatorias (PASO) en el Chaco, provincia del noreste de Argentina, en medio de la convulsión social que desató el caso de la desaparición de la joven Cecilia Strzyzowski.El escrutinio provisorio del Tribunal Electoral de Chaco (con el 96,1% de las mesas escrutadas) mostraba este lunes que los candidatos de la coalición Juntos por el Cambio pudieron atraer más votantes que los del Frente Chaqueño, al sumar en estas primarias casi seis puntos porcentuales más de votos que el oficialismo.Según un analista, las elecciones en Chaco “estuvieron marcadas por la desaparición de Cecilia Strzyzowski”En la definición, JxC será representado en las elecciones generales de octubre por la formula integrada por Leandro Zdero y Silvana Schneider, candidatos a gobernador y vice, respectivamente, mientras el oficialismo estará representado por el actual gobernador, Jorge Capitanich, que busca su reelec...

Votto homers, hits 2-run single in return to Reds’ lineup after 10-month absence

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Votto homered and hit a go-ahead, two-run single in his return to the Cincinnati Reds’ lineup after a 10-month absence that followed an operation to repair his left biceps and rotator cuff.The 39-year-old hit sixth and played first base Monday night in a series opener against Colorado in the first big league game since Aug. 16. The 2010 NL MVP hit a 104.4 mph lineout to center in the second inning, then drove a first-pitch, belt-high fastball from Austin Gomber in the fifth. The 102 mph drive landed about a dozen rows into the right-field seats and put the Reds ahead 3-1.After circling the bases on his 343rd home run, Votto emerged from the Reds dugout for a curtain call, wearing a celebratory Viking helmet and cape. He had not homered since last Aug. 6 against Milwaukee’s Jake McGee.Votto’s two-run single to center off Jake Bird, grounded at 108.7 mph, put the Reds ahead 5-4 in the sixth.Votto was greeted with a standing ovation when he walk...

6 people were injured after shooting in Milwaukee Juneteenth parade

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

MILWAUKEE (WSVN)- Six people were injured after a shooting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, just as the festivities were wrapping up the parade.Police officers said shots were fired during an argument between two teens on Monday.The incident injured four teenage girls and two teenage boys.All of them are between 14-years-old to 19-years-old.“Milwaukee what’s going on with our children, parents, guardians, and elders we need to engage and ensure that this violence that our children bring to these streets ceases no handgun and no weapon of destruction should be in the hands of our young ones, it’s important that all of us do something,” said Cheif Jeffrey Norman, Milwaukee Police Department. Some of the injuries are described as traumatic, with at least one victim getting shot in the neck.One of the injured is believed to be the shooter.

2 people transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital after shots fired at Miami Beach bakery shop

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

Miami Beach Police and Fire Rescue responded to a shooting incident that occurred in Miami Beach.The shooting happened in the bakery place located in the 7300 block of Collins Avenue.The owner of the bakery said he hasn’t seen anything like this in the 35 years since he has owned this business. ” I came to the bakery and at the same time the police came inside I think so, the police say drop the gun and she drop the gun,” said Hector Castillo a witness. Officers located two victims with apparent gunshot wounds, and both were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Unit on Monday. A person believed to be involved has been detained by the officials and was taken into custody, and a firearm was recovered.Several blocks of Collins Avenue were shut down to traffic for hours as the investigation continued.Castillo said the scene was chaotic.“I don’t know what happened exactly, when I see the gun, the guy and her across the street, I see...

Enlargement’s back on the political agenda

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna and a part-time professor at the European University Institute. Her latest book, “A Green and Global Europe,” is out with Polity.As NATO heads to Vilnius in July, where it will need to respond to Kyiv’s aspiration of entering the alliance, and the European Union gears up for accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova, the political dynamic behind enlargement is shifting.Since the 2010s, the enlargement of Euro-Atlantic institutions had almost ground to a halt, with fatigue kicking in across Europe as the bloc grappled with internal constitutional, economic and political crises. Though formally ongoing, the accession policy was practically dead. And though the geographic freezing of NATO wasn’t quite as stark, with new members joining from the Balkans, as Russian President Vladimir Putin became increasingly confrontational toward the West, many allies — notably in Western Europe — g...

How Kosovo’s prime minister became America’s ardent frenemy

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:32 GMT

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has achieved the impossible in American politics: consensus among Democrats and Republicans.Unfortunately for Kurti (and his country), the point of agreement is that Kosovo’s leader is a stubborn, and at times, reckless politician who has undermined the joint U.S.-European effort to achieve a lasting solution for peace between Kosovo and Serbia.Washington has laid the blame for the recent outbreak of violence between Kosovo authorities and the Serb-majority communities in the north of the country squarely at Kurti’s feet and has tried — so far without success — to rein him in with public criticism. The conflict, which concerns the future status of the Serbian areas in North Kosovo and Pristina’s demand that Belgrade finally recognize its sovereignty, has spun further out of control in recent days, with Serbia arresting three Kosovar border guards and Kosovo closing the main crossing to Serbian trucks.Kurti’s critics ...