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US figure skating star Ilia Malinin romps to second straight Skate America title

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

Ilia Malinin stood in the center of the ice at Credit Union of Texas Event Center as stuffed animals thrown from the crowd fell around him, and raised his arms to both soak in the spotlight and almost sheepishly acknowledge the adulation.The 18-year-old skating star performed a near-flawless free skate Saturday night to easily defend his crown at Skate America, the opening event of the Grand Prix season. Malinin landed four quads and never bobbled on any of his seven jump sequences, piling up a career-best 310.47 points to easily outdistance second-place Kevin Aymoz of France.Aymoz delivered a crowd-pleasing program to finish with 279.09 points and take the silver medal, and Shun Sato of Japan scored 247.50 to round out the podium — two steps down from Malinin, but what felt like two dozen flights of stairs.“I didn’t think it was a flawless long program. There’s a lot of things I can work on,” said Malinin, who has been drilling on his artistry since last season, “but wh...

Dallas steamrolls Galaxy 4-1 to earn spot in postseason

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Bernard Kamungo scored twice in the first half, Ema Twumasi scored the first goal of his career and FC Dallas earned a spot in the postseason with a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night.Dallas (11-10-13) is unbeaten at 2-0-7 in its last nine matches and snaps a streak of playing to five straight draws. Kamungo scored in the 4th minute off an assist from Nkosi Tafari to give Dallas an early lead. Twumasi, a defender, found the net for the first time, scoring unassisted in the 13th minute for a 2-0 advantage. It was his 84th appearance and 64th start for Dallas. He made just one of the starts and seven appearances with the club from 2018-2020.Raheem Edwards cut the deficit in half for the Galaxy (8-14-12) when he used assists from Tyler Boyd and Diego Fagundez in the 24th minute to score for a second time this season.Kamungo scored again in the 30th minute to put Dallas up 3-1. Jesús Ferreira and Paxton Pomykal notched assists on Kamungo̵...

Gallen loses battle of aces, Diamondbacks on the brink of elimination in NLCS

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona turned to Zac Gallen in its bid to take a lead back to Philadelphia in the NL Championship Series.The Diamondbacks’ ace labored against the Phillies for the second time in the series, putting his team on the brink of elimination. Gallen came up short in a battle of aces with Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler and the Diamondbacks lost 6-1 to the Phillies on Saturday in Game 5 of the NLCS.Wheeler shut down Arizona for the second game of the series, allowing five hits in six scoreless innings. Gallen was again no match for his fellow ace, giving up a pair of homers and four runs in six innings.Unable to win with their ace, the Diamondbacks head back to Philadelphia for Game 6 on Monday trailing 3-2 in the series.Gallen put himself in the mix for the NL Cy Young Award with a stellar regular season, finishing 17-9 with a 3.47 ERA while earning the starting nod for the NL in the All-Star Game.The right-hander was sharp in starts against Milwaukee and the Los A...

Pavelski’s OT goal gives Stars 5-4 win after allowing 3 short-handed tallies to Flyers

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Joe Pavelski scored 2:12 into overtime, and the Dallas Stars beat Philadelphia 5-4 on Saturday night, overcoming three short-handed goals for their seventh consecutive victory over the Flyers.Wyatt Johnson had a goal and an assist, and Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin and Roope Hintz also scored for Dallas. Scott Wedgewood stopped 36 shots for the win in the first start of the season for goalie Jake Oettinger’s backup. Travis Konecny scored two of the three short-handed goals for the Flyers, with the third coming from Sean Walker to tie the score with about seven minutes remaining. Joel Farabee had the only even-strength goal for the Flyers, and Noah Cates had two assists. Samuel Ersson, also making his season debut, had 21 saves.The three short-handed goals were the most in the NHL since Calgary in 2018, and the most the Stars have allowed since moving to Dallas in 1993.Benn scored to give Dallas a 4-2 lead midway through the third period, and Cam York was called for interfer...

Riddick’s last-minute tip saves North Alabama’s 31-30 win over Utah Tech

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Gregory Reddick stretched his 5-foot 11-inch frame to its limit at the back of the end zone to tip away a 2-point conversion pass from Kobe Tracy with 31-seconds left to preserve North Alabama’s 31-30 United Athletic Conference win over Utah Tech on Saturday night. The victory was the first in four UAC games for the Lions (3-5).Noah Walters found Dakota Warfield between two defenders in the middle of the field for a 28-yard touchdown with 1:37 left in the game to cap a nine-play, 74-yard drive to put North Alabama in front, 31-24, but the Trailblazers answered by driving 69 yards to get within a point after Tracy found Beau Sparks from 19 yards out. Eschewing a PAT to tie, Tracy threw to the back of the end zone only to have Riddick make a game-saving defense. Utah Tech drove 99 yards in 11 plays to open the third quarter, tying the game on Ronnie Walker Jr.’s 1-yard plunge to make it 17-17. The Lions answered with an 81-yard, 15-play drive to retak...

Without Van Dyke, Miami Hurricanes rally and stun Clemson 28-20 in double OT

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Ajay Allen got the go-ahead score on a 3-yard run in the second overtime, and shorthanded Miami ended the game on a fourth-down stop to stun Clemson 28-20 on Saturday night.Emory Williams, playing in place of injured Miami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke, completed 24 of 33 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown for the Hurricanes (5-2, 1-2 Atlantic Coast Conference). Williams engineered two scoring drives in the fourth to erase a 17-7 deficit.Cade Klubnik connected with Jake Briningstool on a pair of touchdown passes for Clemson (4-3, 2-3). The Tigers turned the ball over three times in the first half, and paid for that.Allen also got the 2-point conversion to put all the pressure on Clemson in the second OT. On the game’s final play, needing no more than a yard for the end zone, Klubnik faked a handoff and rolled left — only to have no chance of getting past Miami linebacker Corey Flagg, who made the tackle and the Hurricanes sprinted onto the field in celebrat...

Siberian husky named after rocker Bret Michaels to be adopted by … Bret Michaels

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

OMAHA, Neb. (WSVN) — A Siberian husky named after Poison frontman Bret Michaels is set to be adopted by the man himself.Michaels first heard about the dog when the canine helped a 4-week old kitten with a blood transfusion.The Nebraska Humane Society in Omaha got word from Michaels soon after that he wanted to give him a “fur-ever” home.Bret Michaels, the dog, is waiting in foster care as Michaels, his human, completes the paperwork.

Nemacolin resort a sprawling expanse of posh possibilities

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

It’s dawn and as the first shards of light cut up from the lush green mountains around me, a lion’s roar announces that it’s morning.I’m not on safari nor near a zoo. I’m at Pennsylvania’s Nemacolin, (nemacolin.com), the poshest resort you’ve probably never heard of.But like that lion’s morning roar (a rescue by the resort’s owner), Nemacolin is making itself known.Tucked into Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains – about a 90 minute drive from the Pittsburgh Airport – Nemacolin came about on something of a whim: Lumber magnate Joseph Hardy (84 Lumber Company), purchased a hunting lodge on the property for his daughter Maggie when she was 21, mostly because she loved the outdoors.But Maggie Hardy, who still oversees the resort’s operation along with her son PJ Magerko Liquorice, found her calling on those grounds and built over the years an expansive, welcoming resort.It’s moneyed roots are evident: statues rise out of water and peer down from roofto...

Scorsese goes behind the scenes of ‘Flower Moon’

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

For Martin Scorsese, one highlight of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” his epic adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling true crime tale, is that it pairs for the first time the two actors that define and bookend his career: Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.“Killers” charts the murderous rampage in 1920s Oklahoma that decimated the Osage Nation tribal members who, because of oil on their reservation, were among the richest people in America.  But the indigenous natives could not sell their stake, it could only be inherited.That saw white men, including DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart,  marry and murder Osage women to acquire their fortune. The killer conspiracy is led by the benevolent-seeming Oklahoma entrepreneur William King Hale (De Niro). What makes Burkhart so conflicted is that he genuinely loves his Osage heiress Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone).In a virtual global press conference earlier this week Scorsese, 80, noted, “It was very important for me as soon as I saw the book,” that ...

Bill Burr’s ‘Old Dads’ has lots of bark, little bite

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:21:22 GMT

Bill Burr’s comedy comes from the perspective of a middle-age dude unwilling — or unable — to keep up with the progressives.“Old Dads,” streaming on Netflix, mirrors his stand-up act. He plays a small-business owner on the verge of being canceled for “sins” like sharing a joke about Caitlyn Jenner during a work trip and telling off a snooty principal at his son’s school. His main gripe: Politically correct people don’t really care about the plight of others; they’re just trying to stay out of trouble.Burr recruited some top talent for his directorial debut (he also co-wrote the script with Ben Tishler). Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine play his hapless business partners. Bruce Dern pops up as a cranky Uber driver.Burr unleashes some memorable rants, like when he lights into a motel owner who scolds him for smoking a cigar. But he ultimately pulls his punches. Just when the film is poised to rake the far left over the coals, he ends ...