Saturday ended in rough fashion for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy. Purdy walked away the 49ers’ 13-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks battered and bruised. The 49ers quarterback had his thumb bloodied after he was hit in the second half following a pass attempt. The hits didn’t stop there for Purdy. On fourth-and-6 with less than two minutes remaining ...
Jaylen Brown led the way for the Boston Celtics on the road, scoring 50 points in a 146-115 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night. Brown’s 50 points in the victory against a red-hot Clippers team that entered the game on a six-game win streak matched his career high. Brown was one of six players on the roster ...
The red-hot San Francisco 49ers offense has finally discovered its Kryptonite. It comes in the form of a Seattle Seahawks defense that stymied it in a 13-3 Week 18 victory. Mike Macdonald’s stop unit kept San Francisco’s offense off-balance all night at Levi’s Stadium. Brock Purdy and Co. racked up just 173 total yards in addition to their three points ...
During the second period between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Islanders, Leafs captain Auston Matthews scored two goals. Both his tallies have a place in Maple Leafs history as his first goal equalled Mats Sundin’s 420 goals in the Blue and White. Later in the period, Matthews fired home a one-timer to take sole possession of first ...
Amanda Serrano finished the night with a badly swollen right eye. Drenched in sweat. On a night she was expected to dominate. But she also finished the night as the reigning WBO and WBA featherweight champion. She retained her titles with a victory over Reina Tellez by unanimous decision Saturday, Jan. 3 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tellez, a 22-year-old ...
Rescuers pulled six crew members alive from the Red Sea after Houthi militants attacked and sank a second ship this week, while the fate of another 15 was unknown after the Iran-aligned group said they held some of the seafarers. The Houthis claimed responsibility for the assault that maritime officials say killed four of the 25 people aboard the Eternity ...
The words “Get out of Mexico” are still visible on one shop window as protestors violently kicked in the glass pane. In another clip, “Kill a gringo” is spray-painted on a wall in Mexico City as demonstrators carried placards demanding western foreigners “stop stealing our home.” These were some of the striking scenes at a mass protest last week against ...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen survived a no-confidence vote in the European Parliament on Thursday, brought by mainly far-right lawmakers who alleged she and her team undermined trust in the EU through unlawful actions. As expected, the motion failed to get the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. Only 175 members of parliament backed the motion, while 360 ...
The remains of a famous sycamore tree, which stood on Britain’s Roman-built Hadrian’s Wall in northern England for more than 200 years, has found a new home nearly two years after it was illegally felled. The removal of the tree from its spot known as “Sycamore Gap,” a pronounced dip in Hadrian’s Wall, in September 2023 sparked global outrage. Sycamore ...
Australian universities may lose funding if they’re not judged to be doing enough to address anti-Jewish hate crimes, according to new measures proposed by the country’s first antisemitism envoy. Jillian Segal was appointed to the role a year ago in response to a surge in reports of attacks against Jewish sites and property in Australia, following Israel’s invasion of Gaza, ...