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Nuggets Journal: “Puppy lord” Kentavious Caldwell-Pope sets NBA All-Defensive team goal, with inspiration from Reggie Jackson

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

An awards campaign has already been launched two weeks into the Nuggets’ 2023-24 season, but its true origins are as organic as a one-on-one pickup basketball game. The inspiration dates back to February 2015.Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was no longer a rookie when Reggie Jackson joined the Pistons at the trade deadline, but the second-year guard was still building his reputation. Jackson, three years older than KCP, faced him in one-on-one shortly after the trade.“I think I can play ones pretty well,” Jackson told The Denver Post. “I haven’t met too many guys that can stay in front of me.”But Caldwell-Pope could. Jackson tried three different moves and couldn’t score on him. “He cut me off three straight times,” Jackson recalled. “I was like, ‘You’ve gotta be fouling. There’s gotta be something you’re doing that’s illegal.’ I’ve got quite a few moves. I’ve got a lot of stuff in my bag, and he was on everything. Hea...

Why Rockies’ Brenton Doyle is the best defensive center fielder in team history

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

Rookie Brenton Doyle is the best defensive center fielder in Rockies history. Period.At least for one season.The statistics say so. So does the eye test.Doyle should win a National League Gold Glove when the awards are announced Sunday night. If he does not, the managers and coaches who cast votes weren’t paying attention or didn’t do their homework.“Cory (Sullivan) and I have already said he’s the best center fielder in Rox history,” said Ryan Spilborghs. “Go back to the tape. We said it within watching him for a week.”The duo knows what it’s talking about. Spilborghs and Sullivan, the Rockies’ TV analysts, both roamed the wide-open spaces of Coors Field. Spilborghs started 89 games in center, from 2005 to ’11. Sullivan started 183 games, from 2005 to ’08.Doyle’s numbers were off the charts. He led all major league players with a 24.5 Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR), more than 10 points higher than the next closest player...

Opinion: I dedicated my life to the progressive movement. The Left’s anti-Zionism left me behind

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

Every week we begin our staff meeting sharing our highs and lows. They can be personal or professional, anything from the anticipation of Taylor Swift’s new album or the heartache of having a parent in the hospital. I look forward to this chance to connect with my teammates on a personal level before we dive into the work.So when my turn came, I allowed myself to be vulnerable, to really open up about how much I have been struggling since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, and my heartbreak over innocent lives being taken on both sides.I also shared how I felt alienated as an American Jew in the progressive movement at this moment. How aside from the Jewish people, everyone else seems to have moved on from the horrific events that precipitated this war — the rape and murder of Jewish women at a music festival, the beheading of Jewish babies, and the hundreds of people still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. Instead of being given the space to grieve, we have had to use ...

Inside the Joe Biden-Mike Johnson relationship: Greetings, briefings and clashes over foreign aid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside the White House Situation Room, new House Speaker Mike Johnson made clear to Biden administration officials his demands when it came to foreign assistance: Aid to Israel for its war against Hamas would have to be separated out from support for Ukraine, defending itself from a Russian invasion now more than 20 months long.Immediately, Johnson faced pushback, according to people with knowledge of the Oct. 26 briefing. Democratic lawmakers in attendance, as well as national security adviser Jake Sullivan and White House budget director Shalanda Young — spelled out to Johnson their deep opposition to splitting up the aid, said the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss a private meeting. Even some House Republicans in the room signaled they disagreed with the new speaker’s stance. “He was listening to a degree, but he was also bringing forth many of the MAGA Republican viewpoints and not from a perspective of bringing Congress together to move us fo...

Gunfire strikes home, vehicle near elementary school in Sterling

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said an investigation is underway after a home and vehicle were struck by gunfire in Sterling, Virginia.It said deputies responded to reports of bullets striking a home in the 21000 block of Leatherleaf Circle around 1:50 a.m. Friday.As deputies examined the scene, a vehicle in the 46900 block of Community Plaza — about a third of a mile away — was also found to have been struck by a bullet, according to a news release.No injuries were reported in either shooting.Both locations are within seven-tenths of a mile from Rolling Ridge Elementary School.The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office requested that anyone who may have been in the area and witnessed the shootings to contact Det. R. Schmidt at 703-777-1021 with any information.People with information who prefer to remain anonymous are asked to contact Loudoun County Crime Solvers at 703-777-1919 or submit a tip through the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office app.A map of the area is bel...

Trump’s decades of testimony provide some clues about how he’ll fight for his real estate empire

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has testified in court as a football owner, casino builder and airline buyer. He bragged in a deposition that he saved “millions of lives” by deterring nuclear war as president. Another time, he fretted about the dangers of flung fruit.Conditioned by decades of trials and legal disputes, Trump is now poised to reprise his role as witness under extraordinary circumstances: as a former Republican president fighting to save the real estate empire that vaulted him to stardom and the White House.Trump is set to testify Monday at his New York civil fraud trial, taking the stand in a deeply personal matter that is central his image as a successful businessman and threatens to cost him control of marquee properties such as Trump Tower. His highly anticipated testimony in the trial of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit follows that of his eldest sons, Trump Organization executives Eric and Donald Trump Jr., who testified last week. His eldest daught...

Afghans fleeing Pakistan lack water, food and shelter once they cross the border, aid groups say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghans fleeing Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation are sleeping in the open, without proper shelter, food, drinking water and toilets once they cross the border to their homeland, aid agencies said Sunday.Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks as authorities pursue foreigners they say are in the country illegally, going door-to-door to check migrants’ documentation. Pakistan set Oct.31 as a deadline to leave the country or else they’d be arrested as part of a new anti-migrant crackdown.Afghans leave Pakistan from two main border crossings, Torkham and Chaman. The Taliban have set up camps on the other side for people to stay in while they wait to be moved to their place of origin in Afghanistan. Aid agencies said Torkham has no proper shelter. There is limited access to drinking water, no heating source other than open fires, no lighting, and no toilets. There is open defecation and poor hygiene. U.N. agencies and aid groups ...

Man City, Bayern, Madrid and Barcelona can advance in Champions League by extending perfect starts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — The Champions League is a showcase of the world’s best club teams and, this week, possible respite for others enduring painful seasons.Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid all can advance to the Champions League round of 16 with a fourth straight win in their groups. Each is at home against an opponent it beat on the road three weeks ago.It is a different story for their domestic rivals Manchester United, Union Berlin and Sevilla.In Manchester, the divide between City and United was clear when the defending European and English champion coasted to a 3-0 win at Old Trafford last weekend. United has stunningly lost five home games already this season, though did scratch out a 1-0 win against Copenhagen, which it plays Wednesday in Denmark. Bayern has won 16 straight group-stage games in the Champions League and has not lost one since 2017. On Saturday, Bayern humiliated Borussia Dortmund 4-0 in its own stadium, fired by Harry Kane’s third hat trick of the...

‘The kitchen is a place of healing’: DC-area chef helping people get in touch with their inner kitchen

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

Madea Allen is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (DOM), chef and a holistic living expert, affectionately known as the "organic soul chef." (Courtesy Madea Allen) Madea Allen is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (DOM), chef and a holistic living expert, affectionately known as the "organic soul chef." (Courtesy Madea Allen) This is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage.As we set our clocks back and turn our heat on, it may be time to get reacquainted with your kitchen. A D.C.-area chef wants you to have a holistic kitchen revival this month and is offering a free class to show you how.Madea Allen is a Doctor of Or...

Israel minister suspended after calling nuking Gaza an option

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:08 GMT

Israel’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities,” the government announced on Sunday.“Eliyahu’s statements are not based in reality,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on X.Israel and its military “are operating in accordance with the highest standards of international law to avoid harming innocents,” the prime minister added.A member of the ultra-nationalist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, Eliyahu earlier on Sunday claimed in a radio interview that since there were “no non-combatants in Gaza,” using an atomic weapon on the Palestinian enclave was “one of the possibilities.”Eliyahu later sought to rectify his statement, saying it was “clear to all sensible people” that his reference to nuclear weapons had been “metaphorical.”Opposition le...