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Bob Myers departing as Warriors president, GM after 4 NBA titles, 11 seasons

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Myers is departing as president and general manager of the Golden State Warriors after building a championship team that captured four titles in an eight-year span and reached five straight NBA Finals from 2015-19.One of the most successful GMs over the past decade in any sport, Myers’ contract was set to expire in late June and there has been speculation for months about his future, given the sides had yet to reach agreement on an extension or a new deal. A team spokesman confirmed the departure Wednesday.The 48-year-old Myers grew up in suburban Danville, played basketball at UCLA and learned key skills on the other side of the business when he became an agent before switching careers and emerging as a top NBA executive with a personable nature who regularly attended practices to chat with players, coach Steve Kerr and his assistants.Kerr has loved working alongside Myers in a collaborative way, something that can be unusual in professional sports between ...

Elizabeth Holmes in prison custody to begin 11-year sentence for notorious blood-testing hoax

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at the Texas prison where she will spend the next 11 years serving her sentence for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.Holmes entered the minimum-security, federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday. The arrival comes more than a year after a jury convicted Holmes on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022. She was sentenced to prison time in November.As she begins her sentence, Holmes will be leaving behind two young children — a son born in July 2021 and a 3-month old daughter.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to move to her new home — a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.The federal judge who sentenced ...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at a Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for blood testing scam

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at a Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for blood testing scam.Source

Terrible final: asesina a pareja comprometida tras disputa por arrendamiento y luego lo matan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

Una joven pareja canadiense que, según los informes, pronto se casaría, fue asesinada a tiros por su arrendador por una disputa de la renta antes de que el sospechoso se atrincherara en la casa y muriera en un tiroteo con la policía, dijeron las autoridades.Inicialmente, los oficiales fueron llamados a una casa en el distrito Stoney Creek de Hamilton, Ontario, a unas 42 millas de Toronto, alrededor de las 5:40 p.m. ET el sábado por informes de disparos, dijo el Servicio de Policía de Hamilton en un comunicado de prensa.Cuando llegaron, encontraron los cuerpos de una mujer de 27 años y un hombre de 28 años que habían recibido un disparo mortal, informó la policía.Los oficiales determinaron que los dos habían estado viviendo en la casa como inquilinos y que el propietario les había disparado en una “disputa entre propietarios e inquilinos”, dijo la policía.Para más información, visita NBCNews.com.Source

Browns’ Watson makes pitch for Hopkins to reunite with him in Cleveland

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio (AP) — Standing a few feet from a golf green, Deshaun Watson made a pitch for DeAndre Hopkins to join him in Cleveland.The Browns quarterback said Tuesday that he has spoken to Hopkins, his close friend and former Houston teammate, and encouraged the three-time All-Pro wide receiver to consider a reunion. Hopkins is a free agent after the Arizona Cardinals released him last week.“Of course we would love to have him,” Watson said at the Browns charity golf outing. “He knows that we had a lot of connections, but that’s kind of out of my range of things. So all I can do is make a call and see what happens and let AB (Browns general manager Andrew Berry) do the rest.”The Browns appear to be a longshot to land the 30-year-old Hopkins because of a lack of salary cap space. But Cleveland wasn’t expected to get Watson either until they lured him with a fully guaranteed $230 million contract.The idea of throwing again to Hopkins — they were teammates for three seasons...

Michael Jordan era “un jugador horrible” y “era horrible jugar con él”, dice Scottie Pippen

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

(CNN) — Entre 1990 y 1998, los Chicago Bulls ganaron seis campeonatos de la NBA, posiblemente la mejor racha de la historia del deporte norteamericano. De hecho, los dos únicos años en los que los Bulls no ganaron el título fue cuando Michael Jordan probó su suerte en el béisbol.La racha fue encabezada por Jordan, posiblemente el mejor jugador de baloncesto de todos los tiempos, pero ese nivel de éxito no habría sido posible sin un número 2 complementario, el Robin de su Batman, que en este caso fue Scottie Pippen.Los papeles clave desempeñados por “His Airness” y Pippen en el éxito de Chicago ocuparon un lugar destacado en “The Last Dance” de Netflix, la aclamada serie documental que detalla la etapa de Jordan en la franquicia, en particular, su último año con el equipo en la temporada 1997/98.Sin embargo, Pippen describió a Jordan como un “jugador horrible” hablando en el podcast “Gimme the Hot Sauce” de su excompañero de los B...

Inflation cutting into Coloradans' vacation plans

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Inflation hasn't just cut into home life, It's cut into summer escapes, too. Americans are looking to vacation this summer more than last year, according to an annual survey from Bankrate. The survey asks not only how many people plan on taking a vacation, but their budgets and their financial decisions regarding the vacation itself. These are the best cities for summer vacation in the US In 2022, 61% of the survey's respondents said they planned to take a summer vacation. This year, 63% plan a vacation.Affordability, though, is increasingly the reason for not planning a vacation. Among the survey's respondents who said they weren't planning a summer vacation, 58% chalked up the decision to unaffordability, up from 48% last year. Among that 58%, nearly two-thirds (62%) said it was directly because of inflation or rising prices. How much cheaper are suburbs than Denver itself? As a result, about one-third (29%) of vacationers said they're cutting vacation costs -...

How to see the International Space Station while it is visible in Denver metro skies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The International Space Station is expected to be visible nightly as it passes over skies in the metro area in early June.It's not always visible, but when it is, NASA describes its appearance as similar to a fast airplane or a very bright star moving across the sky, except it maintains one direction and doesn't have flashing lights. According to the NASA website, sighting the ISS will be possible through June 10 in the Denver metro area.When and where to lookThe website lists the best viewing times according to when the sun reflects off of the space station to contrast against the dark sky, and how long it will be visible before it crosses back below the horizon. Space station welcomes 2 Saudi visitors, including kingdom’s 1st female astronaut NASA uses degrees to refer to where the station is located vertically in the sky in relation to the viewer, with zero degrees being the horizon and 90 degrees being directly overhead. To gauge degrees on the horizon, NASA's ...

Remember these rattlesnake precautions for your kids, pets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Rattlesnake season has arrived along the Front Range. Although bites are rare, precautions to ensure children and pets are safe on the trails are important.Experts said it's critical to know the distinctive sound of the snake's warning rattle: freeze if you hear it, locate the snake and back up about five feet. Colorado Parks and Wildlife urges hikers to not use headphones when hiking."Rattlesnakes do give a warning rattle," Public Information Officer Joey Livingstone of CPW said.  "With the wider trails, there are less hiding places for the snakes to be." Dog missing for over 5 weeks found alive on remote mountain miles from home In addition to traversing on wider trails, experts said to teach your children to freeze when they hear a rattle and consider rattlesnake avoidance clinics or training for your dog. CPW said it's important to keep your dogs leashed and on the trail itself.If you are looking to avoid rattlesnakes completely, it's best to hike at ...

These 81-year-old best friends traveled the world in 80 days

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:19 GMT

(CNN) — A pair of best friends from Texas are proving that adventure doesn’t have an age limit — even when you’re 81.Ellie Hamby, a documentary photographer, and Sandy Hazelip, a physician and lecturer, toured the world in 80 days, adventuring from the beaches of Bali to the deserts of Egypt.The octogenarian grandmothers started their ambitious adventure on January 11, according to the blog the two have used to document their travels.Their first stop was a location that eludes even many seasoned travelers: Antarctica.Getting to the southernmost continent first required crossing the Drake Passage, the notoriously rough waters between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands.“For almost two days, we were a rocking and rolling and a slipping and sliding through the Drake Passage and we were holding on for dear life,” Hamby said in an interview with CNN. “It was just wild.”“But when we...