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MLB playoffs guide: Openers Tuesday at Minnesota, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

Major League Baseball’s playoffs open Tuesday with Toronto at Minnesota, Texas at Tampa Bay, Arizona at Milwaukee and Miami at Philadelphia.Defending champion Houston gets five days off until the Division Series start, as do Atlanta, Baltimore and the Los Angeles Dodgers.There will be a lot of familiar faces in October, particularly in the National League. The speedy and strong Ronald Acuña Jr. — the one and only member of the 40-70 club — will lead the Braves as they try to win their second title in three years. Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers also look like a tough out.Over in the American League, the upstart Orioles will try to build on their 100-win season with a deep run in the playoffs. The franchise lost 110 games just two seasons ago.Houston will be trying to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees won three in a row.Here’s a look at what’s coming as October approaches:HOW DOES BASEBALL’S WILD-CARD ROUND WOR...

Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes sets the NFL record for the fastest to reach 200 TD passes

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes threw the 200th touchdown pass of his career, reaching the milestone in his 84th game to break Dan Marino’s NFL record.Mahomes, playing in his first game at MetLife Stadium, connected with Noah Gray on a 34-yard touchdown that gave the Chiefs a 17-0 lead against the New York Jets with 3:24 left in the first quarter on Sunday night.Marino threw his 200th TD pass in his 89th NFL game with Miami in 1989.Mahomes surpassed 25,000 yards passing last week in Kansas City’s win over Chicago. He accomplished that in 83 games, seven faster than Matthew Stafford’s record.Mahomes entered the game needing 23 yards rushing to break the Chiefs’ career mark for a quarterback held by Alex Smith (1,672). He had 17 on two carries at the time of his touchdown pass.___AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflSource

Aspiring pilot creates replica of Denver International Airport

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The creator of the Youtube channel MileHigh Aviation Preston Waller took a year to recreate a replica version of Denver International Airport. “I built a huge airport of DIA in my room," Waller said. How to reserve a spot in the security line at DIA Waller told FOX31 he fell in love with aviation after his first flight on United Airlines at four years old. “We were going to California and as soon as we took off I thought yup this is what I want to do," Waller said.Waller has built a handful of replica airports, but he said his favorite so far was building the Denver airport.The terminals were 3D printed and purchased through someone online. Then the rest of the details he put on himself. Waller's replica includes runways and each concourse at DIA including all the correct replica planes. Waller said he has over 300 replica planes he has collected since he was a kid.The airports and his replica planes take up the majority of the room. Colorado artist unveils scu...

Denver weather: Warm start to the workweek ahead of a big cooldown

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay warm with highs in the 80s for the start of the workweek ahead of much cooler temperatures. Weather tonight: Mostly clear, Breezy Overnight, Denver will stay mostly clear and breezy with wind gusts out of the south reaching up to 40 mph. Temperatures will stay about 10 degrees warmer than normal and only fall to the mid-50s. Weather tomorrow: Breezy, evening ShowersMonday will start off mostly sunny and breezy, with wind gusts out of the south again reaching around 40 mph. High temperatures will reach the lower 80s as clouds build in ahead of the chance for showers and thunderstorms by the afternoon and evening. Looking ahead: Sunshine, below-normal temperatures The chance for showers will stick around Monday night into the start of Tuesday. Wind gusts will stay strong, reaching over 30 mph on Monday night and close to 20 mph on Tuesday. As winds shift out of the north by Tuesday, much cooler air will move in. Temperatures on Tuesday will ...

Brickell woman says burglar stole French bulldog, valuables and cash from apartment

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

A South Florida woman is pleading for the public’s help in finding the man who, she said, broke into her apartment and took off with valuables, money and, most painful of all, her beloved pet.The 25-year-old victim spoke with 7News about this past Tuesday’s burglary inside her unit in Miami’s Brickell section.“We don’t feel safe in this house,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified or show her face on camera.The victim said she feels violated and is scared of being at home. She believes the subject has been watching her for quite some time and knew exactly when to strike.“He was here for like a good 30 minutes. He knew we were playing soccer,” she said.The woman said the burglar was captured on surveillance video breaking into her first-floor apartment through her balcony, inside The Vibes Miami Apartments along Southwest First Street.Once inside, the woman said, the perpetrator stole thousands of dollars in cash, personal bel...

Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

Keir Giles is an author and commentator. His most recent book, “Russia’s War on Everybody,” looks at the effects that Russia’s malign influence around the world has on ordinary people.Everybody knows that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on.And the ongoing turmoil over Canada’s parliament recognizing former SS trooper Yaroslav Hunka highlights one of the most important reasons why.Something that’s untrue but simple is far more persuasive than a complicated, nuanced truth — a major problem for Western democracies trying to fight disinformation and propaganda by countering it with the truth, and one reason why fact-checking and debunking are only of limited use for doing so.In the case of Hunka, the mass outrage stems from his enlistment with one of the foreign legions of the Waffen-SS, fighting Soviet forces on Germany’s eastern front. And it’s a demonstration of how when history is complicated, it can be a gift to propagandists...

Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts backs manager David Ross as team finishes 83-79: ‘He’s our guy’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

The Chicago Cubs will have plenty of time to ponder the “what ifs” of a season that fell short of their postseason goal.Adding to the sting of finishing one game out of playoff position: the Cubs received the help they had needed coming into the weekend with the Arizona Diamondbacks getting swept by the Houston Astros. The Cubs, though, didn’t take care of business by dropping two of three games to the Milwaukee Brewers, including a 4-0 loss in Sunday’s season finale.They closed the season by losing 15 of their last 22 games. Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts described the up-and-down 83-79 year as “four different seasons” from getting off to an OK start and the subsequent slump that nearly derailed the season to rallying back over .500 and the rough final three weeks in September.“It’s tough to not achieve your goal,” Ricketts said Sunday. “It’s tough when you’re just a couple of games away from making the...

Mac Jones takes blame for worst loss of Bill Belichick era: ‘I let my team down’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas — The worst game of Mac Jones’ NFL career ended with a benching late in the third quarter.Its start was even worse.On his second possession, the Cowboys stopped Jones on a fourth-down quarterback sneak. Turnover on downs.The next drive, he took a strip sack that resulted in a Dallas touchdown.After an ensuing three-and-out, Jones fired a pick-six across the field in one of the early lowlights of the NFL season.Naturally, he took the blame for the Patriots’ eventual 38-3 defeat, the most lopsided loss of the Bill Belichick era.“I’m very competitive, and I put a lot into it and I feel really bad,” Jones said post-game. “I let my team down, let the coaches down, the whole organization. Everybody. We’ve got a great fan base, and I got to put a better product out there to beat good teams.”Jones finished 12-of-21 for 150 yards, zero touchdowns and two interceptions. His 39.9 passer rating registered as the third-lowest of hi...

Roof of a church collapses in northern Mexico, and Catholic officials say 49 injured, some dead

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The roof of a church collapsed in northern Mexico during a Mass on Sunday, killing an undetermined number of people, injuring around 50 and leaving approximately 30 parishioners trapped in the rubble, authorities said.Rescuers probed beneath the fallen roof into the night, and officials brought in dogs to help search for possible survivors.The Tamaulipas state police said that about 100 people were in the church at the time of the collapse and that about 30 were thought to still be trapped. Civil officials gave no information on any casualties. But the Mexican Council of Bishops issued a statement early in the evening saying that “we join in prayer at the tragic loss of life and those injured,” though it did not say how many had died.Bishop José Armando Alvarez of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico said the roof caved in while parishioners were receiving communion at the Santa Cruz church in the Gulf coast city of Ciudad Madero, next to the port city of Tampico...

Donald Trump says he will be in courtroom for New York trial scrutinizing his business practices

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:42:08 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — With control over some of his most prized real estate holdings in jeopardy, former President Donald Trump says he will make a rare, voluntary trip to court Monday for the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that has already resulted in a judge ruling that he committed fraud in his business dealings.“I’m going to Court tomorrow morning to fight for my name and reputation,” Trump wrote Sunday night on his Truth Social platform.Trump lashed out in his post at New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is suing him, and Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the non-jury trial and made the fraud ruling last week.“THIS WHOLE CASE IS SHAM!!!” Trump wrote. “See you in Court – Monday morning.”The trial is the culmination of a yearslong investigation by James, who accused Trump and his company of habitually lying about his wealth in financial statements.Last week, Engoron resolved the lawsuit’s top claim before the trial even began, ruling that Trump routin...