Proposal to create new tier for big-money college sports is just a start, NCAA president says
A day after NCAA President Charlie Baker made an aggressive and potentially groundbreaking pitch to allow some schools to pay their athletes, his proposal was met with praise, caution and questions from around college sports.
Braves' Freeman celebrates his new baby 'twins with a twist'
NL MVP Freddie Freeman has followed his big season with the Atlanta Braves with an even more memorable offseason. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)Freddie Freeman found a way to top the double honors of winning the NL MVP and Hank Aaron Award. He describes his babies, Brandon and Maximus Turner, as his โtwins with a twist.โThe twist is they were born six weeks apart. Freeman's wife, Chelsea, gave birth to Brandon on Dec. 30. For now, however, his focus is on his two baby boys โ and perhaps a baby girl down the road.
Tiger Woods to play with 11-year-old Charlie in Father-Son
The PNC Championship announced Thursday that Woods will play with 11-year-old son Charlie in the tournament that has paired major champions with their sons since 1995, the year before the 44-year-old Woods turned pro. โI can't tell you how excited I am to be playing with Charlie in our first official tournament together,โ Woods said. The PNC Championship is Dec. 19-20 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando in central Florida. It allowed Fuzzy Zoeller to play with his daughter, Gretchen, and Arnold Palmer to play with his grandson, Sam Saunders. Until deciding to play in the PNC Championship, it was thought Woods ended the year at the Masters.
California braces for power shutoffs and warm, windy weekend
Rain showers fell Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, on the northwestern edges of fire-ravaged California but forecasters warned residents to not be fooled: a new round of hot, dry and windy weather is expected by the weekend. PG&E initially warned that approximately 21,000 customers in three counties would lose power beginning Saturday evening but expanded the potential shutoff when the forecast changed. A drier California means plants are more flammable. The threatened marijuana growing area is in the Emerald Triangle, a three-county corner of Northern California that by some estimates is the nationโs largest cannabis-producing region. Each farm has crops worth half a million dollars or more and many are within days or weeks of harvest.
Few resources, old-growth forest allowed for fire's growth
โThis is a stubborn fire,โ Angeles National Forest spokesman Andrew Mitchell said. At the time, many Southern California ground crews and a fleet of retardant- and water-dropping aircraft were assigned to multiple record-breaking blazes in the northern part of the state. Officials were investigating the death of a firefighter at another Southern California wildfire that erupted earlier this month from a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used by a couple to reveal their babyโs gender. Charles Morton, 39, died Sept. 17 while battling the El Dorado Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles. The blaze has charred over 21 square miles (55 square kilometers) of Medicine Bow National Forest.
Enormous California wildfire threatens desert homes near LA
At 165 square miles (427 square kilometers), the Bobcat Fire is one of the largest ever in Los Angeles County after burning for more than two weeks. Evacuation orders and warnings are in place for thousands of residents in foothill and desert areas, where semi-rural homes and a popular nature sanctuary have burned. Erratic winds that drove flames into the community of Juniper Hills over the weekend had died down, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Larry Smith. He had worked with the U.S. Forest Service for 14 years. โCharlie was a well-respected leader who was always there for his squad and his crew at the toughest times,โ said U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen.
Bud Light gold cans could win you tickets to five decades of Super Bowls
Bud Light launched a campaign that will get one lucky football fan five decades worth of Super Bowl tickets. If you drink beer, you may want to rush out out to the grocery store for a pack of Bud Light. You could win Super Bowl tickets for life if you find the new Bud Light Gold Super Bowl LI Can and upload a photo with #SBTIX4LIFE #SWEEPS pic.twitter.com/oZ9TAEGdQc โ Bud Light (@budlight) November 22, 2016Six people will be selected each week to win a pair of season tickets, according to Anheuser-Busch. But only one person will take the grand prize of Super Bowl tickets for the next 51 years. KPRC 2 checked the Bud Light website, and as of 7:30 a.m.on Monday, the site appears to be down.