Becoming A Contender is difficult business, filled with missteps, false starts, cul-de-sacs and distractions, and it is never more difficult than when a team that has been on power suck for most of the last decade and a half suddenly finds itself in other people’s late-season business. Hence, the Detroit Pistons in this, the beginning…
Alysa Liu skated around the ice in disbelief, her golden dress shimmering in the lights of TD Garden, and the appreciative roar from a sellout crowd reminded her why she had returned to the sport following a nearly two-year retirement. When her score was finally read, the 19-year-old from Clovis, California, had made history. Liu…
Another season is in the books, and Bachelor Nation has received a seemingly happy ending. On Monday night’s “Bachelor” finale, Grant Ellis had his final dates with Litia Garr and Juliana Pasquarosa and introduced his family to the last two women standing on Season 29. After much speculation about whether a weary-looking Grant from the “Women Tell All” even ended up with anyone, the…
On Monday, a jury in Colorado rejected a woman’s claim that she was mad when she assaulted her stepson, finding her guilty of murder in the death of her 11-year-old stepson. Over three years after the prosecution said that Letecia Stauch stabbed Gannon Stauch 18 times before striking him in the head and then…
The path taken by quarterback Stetson Bennett to the NFL has not been straightforward. He started off as a walk-on for Georgia before moving to junior college, returning to Georgia, and then helping the Bulldogs win back-to-back national titles in the College Football Playoff in the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Bennett, a contender for the…
The New York Giants reached agreement with Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson on a one-year deal worth up to $21 million, including $10.5 million guaranteed, The 10-time Pro Bowl selection had been in discussions with the Giants, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers, but is opting for New York, where he won Super Bowl XLVIII in MetLife Stadium as…
Crowds of people angry about the way President Donald Trump is running the country marched and rallied in scores of American cities Saturday in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition movement trying to regain its momentum after the shock of the Republican’s first weeks in office. So-called Hands Off! demonstrations were organized for more than…
A radar-confirmed tornado was spotted whirling through counties just south of Atlanta as strong storms barreled through the metro area Monday. Channel 2’s Chief Meteorologist Brad Nitz noted the rotation on the radar in eastern Coweta County crossing into Fayette County around 12:45 p.m. It was not immediately clear what level of damage may have…
MIAMI — Jimmy Butler III sat on the Golden State Warriors bench and watched a nearly 40-second video of his Miami Heat highlights play on the big screen above him at Kaseya Center. From his iconic hunched-over, in-exhaustion moment in the 2020 NBA Finals to some of the other hits from his five-plus seasons with the Heat, Butler watched the tribute….
The woman sentenced to life in prison for killing Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles said Thursday, Yolanda Saldívar was convicted of fatally shooting Selena, the Mexican-American singer known as the “Queen of Tejano” music whose full name was Selena Quintanilla Pérez, at a Days Inn motel…