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Rockies Journal: Assessing big-money players for a team in transition

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

The Rockies are facing an extreme makeover.Regardless of whether general manager Bill Schmidt and the front office can swing any more deals before Tuesday’s trade deadline, the team will look much different in 2024.Starting outfielders Randal Grichuk and Jurickson Profar, and first baseman C.J. Cron won’t be back. Franchise icon Charlie Blackmon’s six-year, $108 million contract comes to an end after this season, too. The 37-year-old designated hitter/outfielder has been tight-lipped about his future.Veteran relievers Brent Suter and Brad Hand are likely gone, too. The Rockies have explored a contract extension with Suter, but there are no guarantees the two sides will come together. The Rockies hold a $7 million club option for Hand next season, so he’ll also be gone.The starting rotation, decimated by injuries, will have to be reconfigured. Veteran right-handers German Marquez and Antonio Senzatela, both of whom have undergone Tommy John surgery, might not ...

Colorado position preview: Buffs have depth, talent at running back

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

At every stop, Sy’veon Wilkerson has found success on the football field.He was all-conference as a sophomore, junior and senior in high school, rushing for more than 2,000 yards and 26 touchdowns in his last two seasons.Related Articles Deion Sanders, Big 12 switch have CU Buffs fans, administrators singing from same hymnal again. Loudly. “They’ve jumped on board like never before.” Big 12 has different look than 2010, but CU Buffs excited about joining revamped conference Pac-12 survival: George Kliavkoff, presidents to consider Gonzaga, SMU Kiszla: Buffs bolt back to the future before the Pac-12 crumbles into ocean. “My job just got harder … and better,” CU basketball coach Tad Boyle says. CU’s timeline in the Pac-12: From joining with high hopes, to bolting from crumbling conference back to Big 12 He was first-team All-MEAC with 848 yards and eight touchdowns at Del...

Rap legend and Vallejo’s own E-40 will receive an honorary street

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

“Magazine Street. Down Magazine. Tire marks on the pavement, row houses, covered windows, no landscaping, and speed bumps.”— E-40From rapping about Magazine Street to receiving an honorary mention on Magazine Street, the local legend of Earl Stevens just keeps growing.With a unanimous decision from Vallejo City Council members, the Vallejo-born multiplatinum rapper and entrepreneur — known to his legion of fans as E-40 — will be honored with E-40 Way, a mile of Magazine Street between Laurel Street and Old Glen Cove Road.Stevens is proud of his Vallejo upbringing, and he isn’t shy about showing his love, donating to the Vallejo Salvation Army through turkeys for Thanksgiving and food donations to the homeless. The James J. Hogan High School alum donated over $10,000 in funding to the school’s marching band, and an additional 12,000 after the school was vandalized.The hip-hop legend has been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. His first group, The Click, debuted with the...

A Virginia Beach man won the right to keep an emotional support emu. Now, he’s running for office.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

VIRGINIA BEACH — Nicholas Olenik has battled mental health challenges throughout his life.As a sometimes anxious child, it took longer for him to process emotions. Four years ago, the 41-year-old fell into a depression when his brother died from a heart attack. The dark days of the pandemic, and his father’s battle with — and later death from — cancer in 2021 only made things worse.So last year, after a buddy told him about emus and how they can be a great emotional support companion, Olenik decided to give it a try.That’s right, emus — the large flightless birds from Australia that typically stand about 5-foot-7 and weigh more than 100 pounds.Olenik purchased an emu egg locally, watched over it until the chick hatched in December, and bottle fed her as she grew. He and wife Sarah named the chick Nimbus and allowed it to roam freely throughout the house they share with their teenage daughter and Olenik’s aunt in the Kempsville area. While they all watched with delight as Nimbus cudd...

Angels manager Phil Nevin suspended 1 game for outburst at umpire

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Los Angeles Angels manager Phil Nevin was suspended for one game and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball on Saturday for a postgame outburst at an umpire following a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays a night earlier.Bench coach Ray Montgomery managed the Angels during the second game of the three-game series as Nevin served his suspension.Nevin was seen holding up a tablet computer and yelling at plate umpire Mike Estabrook as the crew left the field after the 4-1 loss Friday night. The umpires access their locker room through the tunnel at the end of the visitor’s dugout on the first base side of Rogers Centre.A Toronto police officer accompanied the umpire crew as it descended the dugout steps. Montgomery had to restrain Nevin as the umpires passed through the end of the dugout.Nevin was angry about the game-ending called third strike against pinch hitter Michael Stefanic, who entered in the ninth inning with the bases loaded after Shohei Ohtani left be...

Not-so-perfect storm knocks out power in Montgomery Co. neighborhood amid heat wave

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

What happens when your power goes out during a heat wave? A Montgomery County, Maryland, neighborhood is learning the hard way as they approach nearly a full day without power.When severe thunderstorms rolled through the D.C. region Friday night, Robert Bernstein was visiting his dad at an assisted living facility. When he arrived back at his home in Colesville, he found that his electricity had been knocked out.The power outage comes amid a three-day heat wave that has been hanging over the District and its surrounding areas. It’s a dangerous time to be without air conditioning as officials advise residents to stay indoors.“It was surely a truly inopportune time for the power to go out,” Bernstein said.On Friday night, Bernstein was unable to heat up his dinner or sleep comfortably. But his biggest concern was going into Saturday without power with the heat index expected to rise over 100 degrees.A spokesperson for PEPCO told WTOP that crews are working to restore...

El exboxeador profesional Félix Verdejo es declarado culpable de secuestrar y matar a una mujer embarazada

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

(CNN) — El exboxeador olímpico Félix Verdejo-Sánchez fue declarado culpable de secuestro con resultado de muerte y muerte intencional de un niño por nacer, según un comunicado de prensa de la Oficina del Fiscal Federal (USAO, por su siglas en inglés) del Distrito de Puerto Rico.Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz y su hijo por nacer fueron encontrados muertos en la laguna San José el 1 de mayo de 2021. Un día después, Verdejo-Sánchez –quien compitió en los Juegos Olímpicos de 2012– fue arrestado y acusado de secuestro, robo de auto y asesinato, según muestran documentos de la corte federal, según informes anteriores de CNN.“Un jurado federal condenó hoy a Félix Verdejo-Sánchez por los delitos federales derivados del asesinato de Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz el 29 de abril de 2021”, se lee en el comunicado de la USAO.En la mañana del asesinato de Rodríguez Ortiz, Verdejo-Sánchez ejecutó un plan premeditado para asesinar a Rodríguez Ortiz y su hijo por nacer, según el comunicado.Finaliza el juic...

DC man sentenced in child sexual abuse case

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

A D.C. man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for sexually abusing a child, according to a news release from the District’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.Mikeale Frazier, 24, is also subject to 10 years of supervised release after his prison term.Frazier pleaded guilty to first degree child sexual abuse in October 2022. According to the news release, he sexually abused a 14-year-old child for about six months, even continuing after a relative of the victim told him to stay away from her.The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Frazier also took a video of the abuse.Frazier was arrested in June 2021 and has been in police custody since.Source

Fairfax Co. suspect arrested for robbery of elderly woman

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

Police officers in Reston, Virginia, have arrested a suspect who they say robbed a 66-year-old woman on Monday evening.The elderly victim boarded a bus near the Hunter Woods shopping center in Reston on July 24, Fairfax County police said in a news release. Aboard the bus, she began a conversation with 38-year-old James David Freeman, who police say identifies as Jasmine Freeman and Kelly Freeman.The victim exited the bus in the 11000 block North Shore Drive and sat on a nearby bench. Freeman sat on the bench beside her, and after a physical struggle, stole her wallet and fled the scene, police said.The victim was uninjured during the robbery, according to police, and Freeman is currently being held on no bond at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center after being arrested on July 26.Below is a map of where the robbery occurred. Source

1 dead after motorcycle crashes into cyclists in Boulder County

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:21 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A crash between a motorycle and multiple cyclists in Boulder County resulted in one death, according to Colorado State Patrol.The crash happened on Lefthand Canyon Drive, though the exact area was unknown. It was first reported at 12:08 p.m.The motorcyclist crashed into two-to-three cyclists, CSP said.According to CSP, the motoryclist then attempted to drive away before crashing.CSP was investigating.