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Jamal Murray’s 40-point night evokes Bubble memories, but he’s got bigger goals: “That was just the beginning”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

The snarling, stalking postseason Jamal Murray was back Wednesday night.It wasn’t in a sterilized environment devoid of fans, like the one he seized in Orlando in 2020.This 40-point classic in Game 2 of Denver’s first-round series against Minnesota was in front of his fans and gave his loyalists a moment to cherish. In Game 1, when Murray fought jitters and adrenaline to help the Nuggets rout the T-Wolves, the point guard enjoyed an appetizer of playoff basketball. The lopsided nature of the game lessened the stakes.But Wednesday, as Anthony Edwards was authoring his own 41-point masterpiece and the Timberwolves were showing more resilience than the Nuggets gave them credit for, Murray came alive.“He left a piece of him out there tonight,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said of Murray’s epic 40-point, 39-minute tour de force.Between the jostling and the jawing, and his famously clutch Blue Arrows, it was vintage Murray.“It means a lot, man,” he said of how rewarding a night like this ...

Broncos Draft Preview: Should Denver consider adding depth at inside linebacker?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series of NFL draft previews as it relates to the Broncos. Today: Inside Linebackers Broncos’ in-house moves: Re-signed Alex Singleton (three years, $18 million)Under contract: Singleton, Josey Jewell (one year), Jonas Griffith (one year), Ray Wilborn (two years), Justin Strnad (one year)Need scale: 7. Inside linebacker is not a major need for the Broncos, especially after Singleton, who finished fifth in the league in tackles (163), re-signed during free agency. Jewell, however, is entering the final year of his deal, so that could convince the Broncos to draft an inside linebacker in the later rounds.Top Five1. Jack Campbell, Iowa: The two-year starter received the 2022 Butkus Award as the nation’s top linebacker after he totaled 128 tackles (5 ½ for loss). Campbell finished 19th in Iowa history in tackles (305), with 271 of those stops coming in the last two seasons. He has the potential to be an impactful rookie with his athleticism and abi...

Kiszla: For Nuggets to be champs, Michael Porter Jr. and Michael Malone must navigate bumpy road to full trust between young player and demanding coach

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

Starving all evening, the big dog needed to eat. As the clock in the Nuggets locker room started its slow climb toward the midnight hour, Michael Porter Jr put a cellphone to his ear and placed a take-out order for everything on Page 2 of the restaurant’s menu: Lamb chops. Brussel sprouts. A steak (well done). Macaroni and cheese.OK, everybody. Stand back and let the big dog eat. For MPJ, it was a late-night feast that was both well-deserved and hard-earned. When the Nuggets needed him most, Porter cooked.“He went on an 8-0 run by himself,” Jokic said Wednesday, saluting MPJ’s offensive outburst at the outset of the fourth quarter as “the reason we won the game.” And this was a 122-113 playoff victory against Minnesota that tested the championship mettle of Porter and the Nuggets.It’s all the small things that make a champion.What we are witnessing are unmistakable hints the road to trust between Michael Malone and Porter, which has been littered with potholes along the way, is now ...

First time regulation of crypto space breakthrough for consumer protection and the fight against money laundering

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

Today (20 April), MEPs have just voted through the outcome of two key files regulating the crypto sphere for the first time. The Transfer of Funds Regulation and Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation are the first major regulations to address the lack of transparency in the sector and provide greater security to investors, while mitigating risks of money laundering and criminality. Ernest Urtasun MEP, Greens/EFA Co-Rapporteur on the Transfer of Funds Regulation and Shadow Rapporteur on MiCA Regulation, comments: “MiCA and the Transfer of Funds Regulation mark the end of the unregulated wild west of crypto and the start of a new era of regulated oversight in the crypto space. The lack of regulation around crypto assets has resulted in massive losses for many first-time investors and provided a safe haven for hackers, fraudsters and international criminal networks for over a decade. “We have pushed for more ambitious and robust legislation that will support the fight against money laund...

Korean professor elected chairman of World Medical Association

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

Professor Jungyul Park, vice president of the Korean Medical Association, has been elected chairman of the World Medical Association. He succeeds Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, from Germany, who stood down after being in the post for four years.Professor Park, is professor of neurosurgery and director at the Center for Spine & Pain, Korea University Anam Hospital. He has been chairman of the WMA’s Finance and Planning Committee since 2019. He was elected unopposed at the WMA’s Council meeting being held this week in Nairobi, Kenya. He said that physicians around the world were only just emerging from the long tunnel of the pandemic and were now facing many other challenges both globally and locally. They would only succeed by working together, and he believed the WMA more than ever had a crucial role to play by representing almost 15 million physicians worldwide. Dr. Tohru Kakuta (Japan) was re-elected unopposed as vice chairman of Council.Rudolf Henke (Germany), a specialist in i...

California entrepreneur accused of organizing ‘fighters’ for Jan. 6 riot takes plea deal

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

A Ladera Ranch entrepreneur has admitted to teaming up with a former Orange County police chief and members of an extremist group in order to organize a group of “fighters” to travel to the U.S. Capitol, and on Wednesday pleaded guilty to his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.Russell Taylor admitted during a hearing at a federal courthouse in Washington D.C. to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding. He had previously faced numerous other federal charges, including obstruction, entering a restricted building and unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds.The plea deal requires that Taylor cooperate with law enforcement agencies, and notes that the charge he admitted to carries a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.Taylor’s attorney, Dyke Huish, indicated during Wednesday’s hearing that Taylor already has met with the government on at least four occasions, and later told a reporter that Taylor was “doing the right thing” and was there to “t...

Scott Baio selling California mansion for $3.5 million

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

Scott Baio has listed his Woodland Hills home of the last dozen years for $3.45 million.The 6,312-square-foot Mediterranean style has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a new French country-style kitchen. According to property records, the actor best known for his iconic role as Chachi in “Happy Days” purchased the house in November 2010 for $1.85 million.Actor Scott Baio has listed his 6,312-square-foot Mediterranean-style home, center, in guard-gated Westchester County Estates in Woodland Hills for $3.45 million. (Google Earth) Lush roses, citrus trees, palms, bougainvillea and grassy areas surround the house, which backs up to a pool and a spa and sits on what the listing calls “one of the largest lots” in the guard-gated Westchester County Estates neighborhood.Completed in 1987, the house opens to reveal a foyer with a curved staircase. The living room beyond has a fireplace and towering arched windows. Interior French doors connect the living and dining rooms.Features of th...

Coachella 2023: Sunday headliner Frank Ocean drops out of Weekend 2

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

Hip-hop star Frank Ocean, who headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 16, announced Wednesday that he won’t return for a planned second performance on Sunday, April 23, according to reports in Variety and several other music publications.Variety also reported that pop-punk band Blink-182, which played a surprise set Friday, April 14 and was not expected to return for the second week, will possibly replace Ocean as headliner on Sunday.Ocean’s performance on Sunday at times delivered beautiful music to a field packed with fans eager to see the elusive R&B singer-songwriter perform live for the first time since 2017. But production problems plagued the show throughout, from starting an hour later than announced to its anticlimactic finish when Ocean was forced off the stage after he played 20 minutes past the Coachella sound curfew.Related ArticlesMusic | 25 must-see acts if you’re going to Coachella Weekend 2 Music | Coach...

Report: Southern California region again ranks as most ozone-polluted in US

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

It’s a title nobody wants, but the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area was again the most ozone-polluted region in the nation — with Western states also continuing to outpace the East in terms of poor air quality.That’s according to an annual air-quality report the American Lung Association released on Wednesday, April 19.The Los Angeles-Long Beach region has been ranked the nation’s worst ozone-polluted area in 23 of the 24 years that the association has produced its “State of the Air” report — though the Southland got a bit of good news this time:The area improved slightly from last year in terms of unhealthy ozone days and particle pollution days, the report said.The American Lung Association puts out a new “State of the Air” report every year around Earth Day. This year, the ALA analyzed three years’ worth of air quality data captured by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitoring systems to formulate “report cards” for cities across the nation.“The majority of U.S. cou...

Umpires explain Max Scherzer’s ejection for sticky substance in Dodgers-Mets game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:31:24 GMT

New York Mets starting pitcher Max Scherzer was ejected in the fourth inning of Wednesday’s 5-3 victory over the Dodgers after umpires repeatedly checked the three-time Cy Young Award winner’s hand and glove for a sticky substance.Mets manager Buck Showalter said after the game that Scherzer was ejected for having rosin on his glove and Scherzer was adamant that it was nothing more than “sweat and rosin.” Scherzer says when he was asked to wash his hand, he did so with alcohol (at least once in front of an MLB official). If deemed to have violated the MLB rule on sticky substances, Scherzer faces an automatic 10-game suspension, which the eight-time All-Star told reporters after the game he would plan to appeal.This is a postgame interview between a pool reporter and home plate umpire/crew chief Dan Bellino and first base umpire Phil Cuzzi.Regarding the initial warning:BELLINO: At the conclusion of the second inning, as he walked off the field, Phil, the first base umpire, went to p...