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Wembanyama’s height no longer a mystery: 7 feet, 3 1/2 inches is official, Spurs say

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

Victor Wembanyama has grown a little. Or not, depending on perspective.The official height for the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft, the San Antonio Spurs said Wednesday, is 7 feet, 3-1/2 inches — and that was measured without shoes, per NBA guidelines.That’s a half-inch taller than Wembanyama said he was back in October, when he was in Las Vegas for a pair of exhibition games. (His official height then was 2.21 meters, he said, and he’s now nearly 2.23 meters.) Which makes sense, given that he was 18 then, has turned 19 since and it’s reasonable to think he might still have a bit of growing left.He has been listed by various sites as anywhere between 7-foot-2 and 7-foot-5, in part because of how he towers over other 7-footers when photographed standing with them. The NBA listed him at 7-foot-4 in the league’s guide for last week’s draft, but that was not based off any official measurement.The 7-3.5 figure puts Wembanyama on pace to be the NBA’s second-tallest player this...

Muere Talina Fernández, presentadora de la televisión mexicana

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

(CNN Español) — La reconocida presentadora mexicana Talina Fernández falleció este miércoles de leucemia, dijo su hijo José “Coco” Levy a varios medios locales.“Acaba de continuar mi mami su viaje. Ustedes saben que mi mami siempre tuvo un viaje de amor, era amor, nada más pensaba en lo bueno de la gente y así se fue, rodeada de todos los que la aman”, dijo Levy en las afueras del hospital de Ciudad de México, donde murió la presentadora.Muere la actriz mexicana Rebecca Jones a los 65 añosFernández, de 78 años, oriunda de la Ciudad de México y también conocida como la “dama del buen decir”, fue periodista, productora y presentadora de televisión.La Asociación Nacional de Interpretes (ANDI) lamentó su muerte. “A sus familiares y amigos les mandamos nuestras más sentidas condolencias”, escribió la organización en sus redes sociales.Uno de los momentos que marcaron la trayectoria de Fernández fue en 1994 cuando anunció la muerte del entonces candidato a la presidencia Luis Donald...

Diamond Sports, Arizona Diamondbacks postpone court hearing scheduled for Thursday

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Diamond Sports and the Arizona Diamondbacks postponed their federal bankruptcy court hearing scheduled for Thursday.Diamond Sports, which owns 19 regional sports networks under the Bally Sports banner, filed an emergency motion last week to get out of its broadcast agreement with the Diamondbacks. It was scheduled to be heard in front of Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston.In a joint statement, Diamond Sports CEO David Preschlack and Diamondbacks CEO Derrick Hall said games will continue to be broadcast on Bally Sports Arizona while both sides look to come to a resolution.On June 1, Lopez ordered Diamond Sports to pay the full value of its contracts to the Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers. Those payments are due July 1.Diamond has only made payments to the Rangers. Diamond Sports has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in Texas since March. The company said in a financial filing last fall that it had debt of $8.67 billion.The D...

Chrissy Teigen sorprende a sus seguidores con el anuncio de un nuevo bebé junto a John Legend

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

(CNN) — Chrissy Teigen y John Legend dieron la bienvenida a un bebé por gestación subrogada, apenas cinco meses después de que la actriz diera a luz a su hija Esti.Teigen hizo el anuncio sorpresa a través de una emotiva publicación en su cuenta verificada de Instagram este miércoles: “Pocos minutos antes de la medianoche del 19 de junio, pude presenciar a la mujer más hermosa, mi amiga, nuestra madre de alquiler, dar a luz en medio de un poco de caos, pero con fuerza y pura alegría y amor.”Legend también compartió un mensaje en su perfil verificado de Instagram, el cual celebró el nacimiento de su “nuevo amor.”Teigen publicó fotos del bebé y relató la historia de su nacimiento, además de hacer referencia a la alegría de su familia por la llegada de Esti mientras continúa sanando la experiencia que tuvo de perder un bebé en 2020.¿Qué es la gestación subrogada, en qué países es legal y en cuáles está prohibida?“Desde que tengo memoria, siempre he querido ...

Keller cruises through 6, the Pirates score 5 in 7th to rout the Padres 7-1

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mitch Keller allowed one run in six innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates scored five times in the seventh to rout the San Diego Padres 7-1 on Wednesday night.Keller (9-3) gave up four hits and had five strikeouts and two walks. The right-hander has surrendered one run in three of his four starts since allowing 15 across his previous three.The Pirates have won three of five after a season-worst 10-game losing streak. The five runs in the seventh all came before the first out was recorded. Josh Palacios had a pinch-hit RBI single, and Connor Joe and Henry Davis followed with two-run singles. Nick Martinez hit Jared Triolo, attempting to bunt, to load the bases ahead of Palacios. It was upheld following a challenge, leading to the ejection of Padres manager Bob Melvin for arguing with crew chief Chad Fairchild.San Diego has lost four straight and seven of nine to fall to 37-43.Carlos Santana homered in a second straight game, driving a fastball from Blake Snell (4-7) 42...

'Naive, dumb': Fired prosecutor blackmailed over naked photo

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR) -- A Larimer County prosecutor has been fired over a nude photo that made him the victim of blackmail."The only person that wins out of this whole situation is the blackmailers," the former prosecutor said in an exclusive interview with the Problem Solvers. "This is why blackmail works, is that people, victims, are afraid to come out and disclose whatever it was that was captured in the first place." Related: FBI warns of ‘deepfakes’ in sextortion schemes The former prosecutor asked the Problem Solvers not to identify him since he was the victim of a reported crime, and FOX31 has agreed.In April, the former assistant district attorney filed a report with the Larimer County Sheriff's Office as a victim of "criminal extortion" after he visited the website AdultFriendFinder.com."I thought it was another, you know, consenting adults online looking to hook up ... the person on the other side of the profile shared some nude photographs and asked me to reciproc...

Cash App scam

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

You have heard that old line about if it wasn’t for bad luck, you would have no luck at all. Well, one South Florida family knows how true that is, after a scammer left him with one piece of bad luck after another. But there was a way to turn things around, after he called Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.You often hear about so many Americans living paycheck to paycheck.Marcus is one of them.Marcus Alvarado: “They started to have to lay off people from work, so I was one of them that got laid off.”Without that weekly check, the bad luck rolled in.Marcus couldn’t make his car payment.Marcus Alvarado: “One day, I came out and my car was gone, and I kind of figured that the bank came and picked up the car.”Marcus had to have a car to search for a new job, so he decided to delay his rent payment.Marcus Alvarado: “I kind of used my rent money to – used to get my car.”But more bad breaks blocked that plan. Marcus tried to use his Ca...

The Potemkin lobby shaping the EU’s agricultural policy

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s biggest farming lobby claims to represent all the bloc’s agricultural workers, but Stela Zămoiu doesn’t believe it speaks for farmers like her.Zămoiu, 61, remembers when the land around her was full of smallholders. Today, her three hectares in eastern Romania are surrounded by large, industrial farms. When she dies, she expects her property to be swallowed up by one of her neighbors.“The village has grown old,” she says. “After the elders die, the land goes to the children, and they sell it … I don’t know if there will be land that won’t be taken by big farmers.”She could use help, she says — from the Romanian government or the EU — but doesn’t see it coming. “Politicians take into account only what they hear from big farmers,” she says. “They represent themselves. Not us.”Some 2,000 kilometers away in Brussels, Pekka Pesonen, the head of the Copa-Cogeca farming lobby, doesn’t disagree. European agriculture needs to become profitable, the...

Don’t piss off China! EU prepares to tone down its battle with Beijing 

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

For European leaders gathering in Brussels on Thursday, the question of how to handle the long-term rivalry with the economic powerhouse of China looks like one problem they’d rather put on hold. EU governments still are trying to work out how far to go in severing sensitive business ties with Beijing in order to avoid repeating the bloc’s disastrous dependency on Russia — after their reliance on Moscow for energy supplies was critically exposed by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. But despite Beijing’s economic bullying and equivocation over the Ukraine war, some of Europe’s biggest powers now want to turn down the heat on China. An Eastern European official observed that in the days leading up to Thursday’s summit, some Western European governments tried to water down even further an “already boring” draft statement — just to make sure they “wouldn’t piss off China.”For Europe’s politicians, the question of how to handle Beijing is an awkward one. They are...

French police, protesters clash after Macron calls police fatal shooting of teen ‘inexcusable’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:48:35 GMT

By OLEG CETINIC and ANGELA CHARLTON (Associated Press)NANTERRE, France (AP) — Police clashed with protesters overnight just hours after French President Emmanuel Macron called the shooting death of a 17-year-old delivery driver by police “inexcusable” and pleaded for calm while justice takes its course. It was the second night of violence in the Paris suburb of Nanterre even as the government heightened the police presence in Paris and other big cities Wednesday after the killing triggered a night of scattered violence. Fires could be seen burning at some intersections in the suburb and protesters shot fireworks at police, video from the suburb showed.The death of 17-year-old Nael during a traffic check Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre elicited nationwide concern and widespread messages of indignation and condolences. French soccer star Kylian Mbappe tweeted: “I hurt for my France.” Nael’s surname has not been released by authorities or by ...