St. John’s rallies to beat Kansas State with commanding second half to honor Lou Carnesecca

After a week of mourning, St. John’s celebrated.  It celebrated Lou Carnesecca with a second-half performance he would be proud of.  Rick Pitino donned a custom-made sweatshirt, and his players performed like one of Carnesecca’s squads, turning up the pressure on defense and executing at a high level at the other end. A sold-out crowd … Read more

Stephen A. Smith is a nationally televised joke with relentless cluelessness on ESPN

Stephen A. Smith is pictured on Nov. 8. Getty Images The most transparently absurd sports presence on TV remains the lead face and voice of the transparently absurd sports network: Stephen A. Smith, hustler of multiple cultural accents to best serve the day’s perceived audience and his sustained ESPN go-to-guy employment. Blessed with both ESPN … Read more

Karl-Anthony Towns questionable for Knicks’ clash with Pistons in latest injury worry

Karl-Anthony Towns has joined Jalen Brunson as iffy for Saturday night’s home game against the Pistons. Towns, who missed one game earlier this season with a right knee issue, was added to the league’s official injury report earlier Saturday as questionable due to what the Knicks are terming patellar tendinopathy of his left knee. Brunson … Read more

‘We didn’t even know we were in a war’: Pearl Harbor survivor, 100, recalls chaos of Japanese bombing 83 years ago

Many laud Pearl Harbor survivors as heroes, but Fernandez doesn’t view himself that way. ‘I’m not a hero. I’m just nothing but an ammunition passer,’ he said Pearl Harbor Navy veteran Bob Fernandez is photographed at home Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Lodi, Calif.Photo by Godofredo A. Vásquez /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) … Read more

Apiaries abuzz over ruling against widening cross-border trade in live honeybees

Federal judge rules against awarding commercial beekeepers damages for partial ban on shipping live honeybees across Canada-U.S. border Dawn Lalonde, of Mikkola Family Farm & Apiary, inspects one of her honeybee colonies in Lively, Ont. Sept. 2024.Photo by John Lappa /John Lappa/Sudbury Star The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live … Read more

‘I belong here’: A decade of trans rights in Saskatchewan

On Dec. 8, 2014, in a landmark vote, transgender rights were added to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. Miki Mappin, a longtime advocate for trans rights in Saskatchewan, was one of the key advocates who helped get trans rights to be specifically included in the Sask. Human rights code. She is photographed holding a transgender … Read more

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