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49ers report card: Cardinals dub Shanahan an ‘offensive mad scientist’

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Here is how the 49ers (11-3) graded in Sunday’s 45-29, NFC West-clinching victory over the host Arizona Cardinals (3-11):PASS OFFENSE: ABrock Purdy strengthened his MVP candidacy by throwing four touchdown passes, avoiding a turnover and shaking off a second-quarter shoulder stinger from a helmet-to-helmet hit that leveled him. Christian McCaffrey caught two of those scoring passes, including a 5-yarder on the same drive that Purdy got hurt and later a 41-yarder that had him backpedaling  and falling down before scoring. McCaffrey finished with a team-high 72 yards (five catches). George Kittle had only two catches, but both were third-down conversions, including a one-handed, 19-yard effort to the 6-yard line, on Purdy’s second pass after his injury scare. Deebo Samuel’s own 19-yard catch capped the season-high scoring barrage. Here’s a surprising stat: Purdy did not get sacked in a game where his health and season looked in question from that second-quarter smash...

Records raise new questions about Alameda County’s response to toddler fentanyl death

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

Just two days after 23-month-old Kristofer Ferreyra died of a suspected fentanyl overdose, an Alameda County social worker recommended keeping his three young siblings in the care of his mother, despite police having just found tin foil, baggies and other drug paraphernalia in their house.In fact, for reasons that remain unclear, Kristofer’s death wasn’t even noted in a social worker’s initial assessment of the home, according to new records obtained by this news organization.Not until three weeks later, on Nov. 7 — when news of the toddler’s fatal overdose became public and Fremont police announced the arrest of his mother on suspicion of murder — did social workers file a new assessment, acknowledging the toddler’s death and recommending the other children in the home be placed in the county’s care.It’s just one of the troubling inconsistencies revealed in social workers’ records regarding Kristofer that raise questions about the county’s handling of child welfare cases — pa...

Total eclipse of the loss? How San Jose State’s season turned around after Spartans saw Ring of Fire in Albuquerque sky

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

Just over two months ago, San Jose State players and coaches were standing in the back parking lot of the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel in New Mexico looking up at the sky.Coach Brent Brennan was looking for something, anything to pump life into his Spartan team, who was 1-5 at the time with a crucial game against New Mexico later that day.After hearing that the Ring of Fire — a solar eclipse that forms a bright ring around the moon’s silhouette — would be visible from their hotel, he instructed his staff to find solar viewers for the team to watch the natural phenomenon.Since that warm Albuquerque morning in October, SJSU has rattled off six straight wins and is heading to its third bowl game in four years when it plays Coastal Carolina in the Hawaii Bowl on Dec. 23.Was it just a coincidence that the Spartans are playing their best football after seeing the Ring of Fire? Perhaps.But Brennan believes something more spiritual was at play which led to SJSU’s strong finish to the r...

Why the Warriors needed Andrew Wiggins and Klay Thompson to get uncomfortable

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

PORTLAND — Andrew Wiggins wasn’t hearing any of the noise.Blue headphones on, gaze straight ahead and over the heads of everyone below his 6-foot-7 frame, Wiggins turned the corners in Moda Center’s dark tunnels for his pre-game warm-up stoic and resolute.Wiggins grabs attention with his smile, but his temperament through the games highs and lows is so even keeled it often comes off as passive. Subtly, this time, Wiggins’ soundproof stare was telling the world that he wants to escape the doghouse.It’s been three games since coach Steve Kerr moved Wiggins out of the starting rotation and onto the bench, a role he hasn’t had since he was 12 years old in AAU. But Wiggins has been nearly detrimental to every minute he played and the bench unit was straight up outplaying his fellow starting five. A small demotion as the team fell below .500 was necessary, and Wiggins knows it.“It was definitely surprising,” Wiggins said. “But anything...

Former NBA G League player for Stockton Kings and his girlfriend arrested in killing and kidnapping of missing woman, police say

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Melissa Alonso and Jessica Flynn | CNNChance Comanche, a former player with the NBA G League’s Stockton Kings, and his girlfriend have been arrested and charged in connection with the kidnapping and killing of a missing woman whose remains were found in a desert near Las Vegas, police announced Sunday.Comanche, 27, and his girlfriend, Sakari Harnden, 19, were arrested last week and charged with kidnapping Harnden’s friend, Marayna Rodgers, but police began pursuing murder charges against the couple after Rodgers’ remains were discovered, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release Sunday.The Kings, an affiliate of the Sacramento Kings, announced Friday that Comanche has been released from the team.Sakari Harnden has been charged with murder, court records show.(Las Vegas Metro Police) Rodgers was reported missing on December 7, two days after she was last seen with friends and had arranged to meet with Harnden and Comanche, according ...

A road to paradise paved in misery: 4 college students are just the latest to die on Malibu’s broken highway

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

By Jason Kravarik | CNNMalibu  — Bridget Thompson says she should be dead.If not for a late cheer team meeting on a Tuesday night in October, the Pepperdine University senior would have been with her four best friends — three were her roommates — heading to an off-campus mixer.“I should have been there and I usually would be there,” Thompson said. “I can just picture them in the car on the way there. I know they were listening to music and I know they were singing along.”The girls parked and were walking along the Pacific Coast Highway when prosecutors say a BMW going 104 miles per hour slammed into several parked cars before hitting and killing Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir and Deslyn Williams – all Pepperdine seniors.Thompson was on her way to meet up with the girls when a friend texted to say they couldn’t be found.“I couldn’t get past where the police were,” Thompson said. “I just stood out there till 3 a.m. that night just calling any hospital.”The next morning an em...

Concord roadway reopened after vehicle collision

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

(BCN) -- A roadway in Concord has reopened after a vehicle collision closed it Sunday night, according to police.The intersection of Treat Boulevard and Navaronne Way is again fully open to motorists, the Concord Police Department said on social media on Monday midnight.According to police, a pedestrian was involved in the vehicle collision in the area. The condition of the pedestrian was not immediately available.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Stock market today: Wall Street inches higher, US Steel gets $14 billion buyout offer from Nippon

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

Wall Street pointed modestly higher early Monday and appear headed for a positive open to the final full trading week of the year.Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average each edged 0.1% higher before the bell.U.S. Steel shares jumped about 28% after Japan’s Nippon Steel said it would acquire the storied steelmaker in an all-cash deal valued at about $14.1 billion, or $14.9 billion with debt. That’s nearly double what was offered just four months ago by rival Cleveland Cliffs. On Friday, the S&P 500 finished down less than 0.1%, within 1.6% of its all-time high set early last year, closing out a seventh straight winning week for its longest such streak in six years.The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks a smaller slice of the U.S. stock market, rose 0.2% and set a record for a third straight day. The Nasdaq composite climbed 0.4%.“As the S&P approaches record levels, market participants appear undaunted,” Stephen Innes of API...

Draw lists for the knockout round playoffs in the Europa League and Conference League

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Draw made Monday for the knockout round playoffs in the Europa League and Conference League (matches to be played from Feb. 15):___Europa League:Feyenoord (Netherlands) vs. Roma (Italy)AC Milan (Italy) vs. Rennes (France)Lens (France) vs. Freiburg (Germany)Young Boys (Switzerland) vs. Sporting (Portugal)Benfica (Portugal) vs. Toulouse (France)Braga (Portugal) vs. Qarabag (Azerbaijan)Galatasaray (Turkey) vs. Sparta Prague (Czech Republic)Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) vs. Marseille (France)___Conference League:Sturm Graz (Austria) vs. Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia)Servette (Switzerland) vs. Ludogorets (Bulgaria)Union Saint-Gilloise (Belgium) vs. Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany)Real Betis (Spain) vs. Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)Olympiacos (Greece) vs. Ferencvaros (Hungary)Ajax (Netherlands) vs. Bodø/Glimt (Norway)Molde (Norway) vs. Legia Warsaw (Poland)Maccabi Haifa (Israel) vs. Gent (Belgium)___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

A massive fuel depot explosion rocks Guinea’s capital, causing casualties and damage

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:49:42 GMT

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — An explosion and inferno at Guinea’s main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry left several people dead or injured, authorities and local media reported Monday, as emergency services battled to put out the fire.The fire broke out at the Guinean Petroleum Company depot shortly after a massive explosion past midnight Sunday, Guinea’s presidency said in a statement. The area in the heart of the Kaloum administrative district is home to most government offices.It was not immediately clear what caused the fire at the depot that supplies most of the fuel in Guinea, raising fears of a major supply disruption.Officials have not confirmed any casualty figures though local media reported dozens of people were hurt, most of them hospitalized with serious injuries. At least four dead were confirmed at the Ignace Deen hospital, Conakry-based Le Courrier de Conakry news platform reported.Communications Minister Aminata Kaba said that damage was significant. The fire r...