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Martinez hits 2 home runs as NL West champion Dodgers roll past Rodriguez and Tigers, 8-3

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — J.D. Martinez homered twice off Eduardo Rodriguez and drove in five runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers rolled to an 8-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.Rodriguez (11-9), who used his no-trade rights to nix a deal to the Dodgers on Aug. 1, lasted just three-plus innings. He exited in the fourth with back spasms during Chris Taylor’s at-bat.Martinez said he wasn’t motivated by Rodriguez’s decision not to come to Los Angeles. The slugger tried to text his former Boston Red Sox teammate when the deal was still in limbo but never got a response.“You know, everybody makes their decisions, everyone’s got their choices why they did it,” Martinez said. “He texted me and apologized why he couldn’t text back. It was a family decision. I get it, man. He’s got to do what he’s got to do for him. It’s understandable. Obviously we wanted him here, but it is what it is.”Lance Lynn (12-11), acquired by the Dodgers from the Chicago White Sox days before the Rodrig...

Saint Louis City SC takes home winning streak into matchup against Los Angeles FC

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

Los Angeles FC (12-9-7, second in the Western Conference) vs. Saint Louis City SC (15-10-4, first in the Western Conference)Old North Saint Louis, St. Louis; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: Saint Louis +152, LAFC +153, Draw +273; over/under is 3.5 goalsBOTTOM LINE: Saint Louis City SC hosts Los Angeles FC looking to extend a four-game home winning streak.Saint Louis is 11-8-4 against Western Conference opponents. Saint Louis is fifth in the league with 140 shots on goal, averaging 4.8 per game. Saint Louis is also second in MLS play with 56 goals.LAFC is 11-7-6 in Western Conference games. LAFC ranks fifth in the Western Conference giving up only 34 goals.The matchup Wednesday is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. LAFC won the last game 3-0.TOP PERFORMERS: Nicholas Gioacchini has 10 goals and one assist for Saint Louis. Samuel Adeniran has scored five goals over the past 10 games.Denis Bouanga has 14 goals and five assists for LAFC. Ryan Hol...

Nick Chubb suffers another severe knee injury, likely ending the Browns star running back’s season

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nick Chubb has spent the better part of a decade as the heart and soul of the Cleveland Browns.There is no player more respected in the locker room. No player more committed on the field. All of which made the sight of the star running back being carted off in the second quarter of a 26-22 loss to Pittsburgh on Monday night — his left knee shredded, his season over — gut-wrenching.“It (freaking) hurts,” defensive end Myles Garrett said.The 27-year-old four-time Pro Bowler has been one of the constants for a franchise trying to establish itself as a perennial contender. His sixth season in the NFL ended on the second play of the second quarter when Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick came in low for a tackle at the end of a 5-yard run early in the second quarter and delivered a hit to Chubb’s legs. Chubb’s knee buckled underneath him.After the play, a teammate grabbed Chubb’s hand to try to help him to his feet, and Chubb shook his head while clutch...

Schwarber hits 483-foot homer, 4 other Phillies go deep in 7-1 win over Braves

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber didn’t sound too impressed with his latest long home run. The Phillies’ slugger was just glad to beat a tough division rival.“I would’ve took it if it had gone in the first row,” he said. “It was a good offensive day all around for all of us.”Schwarber hit a 483-foot two-run homer, and Philadelphia went deep four other times to back Zack Wheeler in a 7-1 win over the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.Schwarber’s 45th homer of the season gave the Phillies a six-run lead in the sixth inning, a drive that cleared the top of the Chop House restaurant in right field at Truist Park. It was the second-farthest ball hit at the home of the Braves and the second-longest homer by Schwarber in his career, 5 feet shy of the ball he hit off Yu Darvish in the NL Championship Series at San Diego last year.“I think it’ll be cool whenever you’re done,” Schwarber said. “Heck, for me, it’s cool to say you did it and you can take your kid to...

Ukraine lawyers insist that UN’s top court has jurisdiction to hear Kyiv’s case against Russia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine insisted Tuesday that the United Nations’ highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year.Kyiv wants judges at the International Court of Justice to order Russia to halt its attacks and pay reparations. But it appears unlikely Moscow would comply. Russia has flouted a binding interim order issued by the court in March last year to end its invasion.“Russia’s defiance is also an attack on this court’s authority. Every missile that Russia fires at our cities, it fires in defiance of this court,” the leader of Ukraine’s legal team, Anton Korynevych, told the 16-judge panel.Kyiv filed the case shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. It argues that the attack was based on false claims of acts of genocide in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine.“Russia is waging war against my country in the name of this terrible lie that Ukraine ...

London police force says it will take years to root out bad cops

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

LONDON (AP) — London’s police force says that over 1,000 officers are currently suspended or on restricted duties as the department steps up efforts to root out bad cops following a scathing report that found it was institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic.Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said it will take years for the Metropolitan Police Service to get rid of officers who have breached standards or weren’t properly vetted before they were hired, with about 60 officers facing disciplinary hearings each month.“This is going to take one, two or more years to root out those who are corrupt,” Cundy said in a statement released on Tuesday.The figures were released a year after Commissioner Mark Rowley took over leadership of the Met, pledging to reform a force that had been rocked by a series of scandals, including the arrest of a serving officer for the kidnap and murder of a young woman.In March, the police force apologized after an independent review found that t...

India expels Canadian diplomat after Canada links Indian agents to Sikh leader death

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

India struck back at Canada early Tuesday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked agents of India’s government to the shooting death of a Sikh leader near Vancouver.A statement from India’s Ministry of External Affairs says an unnamed senior Canadian diplomat has been asked to leave India within the next five days.Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said earlier on Monday that Canada was expelling India’s Pavan Kumar Rai, whom her department lists in its public registry as a diplomatic agent who heads up an Indian intelligence agency based in Ottawa.Trudeau told the House of Commons on Monday that there is credibility to the allegations that Indian government agents played a role in the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.“Over the past number of weeks, Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen,” he said.“Any involve...

What to know about the Sikh movement at the center of the tensions between India and Canada

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Tensions between Canada and India have reached new heights with dueling diplomatic expulsions and an allegation of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil. The row centers around the Sikh independence, or Khalistan, movement. India has repeatedly accused Canada of supporting the movement, which is banned in India but has support among the Sikh diaspora. On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Parliament described what he called credible allegations that India was connected to the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June. The Indian government denied any hand in Nijjar’s killing while also saying Canada was trying to shift the focus from Khalistan activists there.Here are some details about the issue:WHAT IS THE KHALISTAN MOVEMENT?The Sikh independence movement began as an armed insurgency in the late 1980s among Sikhs demanding a separate homeland. It was centered in northern Punjab state, where Sikhs are th...

In the news today: Trudeau heading to UN as tensions with India escalate

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…Trudeau heads to UN amid fresh foreign tensionPrime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to the UN General Assembly with the planet at a climate crossroads — and Canada facing an ever more fraught relationship with the world’s fastest-growing economy. The day before departing for New York, Trudeau rocked the House of Commons with “credible allegations” linking agents of India’s government to the deadly shooting this past June of a Sikh leader in Surrey, B.C. It’s a striking contextual backdrop for the week ahead at the United Nations, a place where aspirational visions of a prosperous and peaceful future often have to do battle with stark political realities. India expels Canadian diplomat after accusations in Sikh leader deathIndia struck back at Canada early Tuesday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau linked agents of India’s ...

Feist, Daniel Caesar among artists up for Polaris prize

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:45:37 GMT

TORONTO — Ten Canadian musicians and bands will compete for the Polaris Music Prize tonight.The $50,000 award for the year’s best Canadian album will be handed out during a concert event held at Toronto’s Massey Hall.Among the contenders is Calgary-raised pop singer-songwriter Leslie Feist, Toronto R&B singer Daniel Caesar and Oji-Cree alternative soul artist Aysanabee.Other nominees include Haitian-Canadian artist Gayance, Winnipeg’s Begonia and Nigerian-Canadian Debby Friday.Rounding out the list is British Columbia native Dan Mangan, Toronto rock band the Sadies, B.C. hip hop duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids and Prince Edward Island indie pop band Alvvays.The Polaris prize names the best Canadian album of the previous year — irrespective of genre or sales — as chosen by a group of journalists, broadcasters and music bloggers.Last year, the Polaris went to Congolese-Canadian Pierre Kwenders for his third album “Jose Louis and the Paradox Of Love.”This rep...