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NCAA reform: Baker’s radical plan, the cost of paying players and the impact across the Pac-12 footprint

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

LAS VEGAS — NCAA president Charlie Baker took his case for reform to the public on Wednesday. He was compelling, candid, feisty, passionate and so very real — everything his predecessor, Mark Emmert, never was or could be.The proposal creates a subdivision for the top football programs and allows athletes to be paid directly from their schools. It would radically change college sports generally and college football specifically.It’s exactly what the association needs, only years too late. It’s proactive but defensive, impressively creative but rooted in desperation.“We need to be able to anticipate where conversations are going and to try to get this big, huge, diverse (association) with 2,000 members … to a place where they’re talking about stuff that’s common and not just responding and reacting to other people’s agendas,” Baker said Wednesday during a hotly anticipated appearance at the Sports Business Journal’s In...

Four-bedroom home in Fremont sells for $3.1 million

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

861 Owhanee Court – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 800 block of Owhanee Court in Fremont was sold on Oct. 10, 2023 for $3,100,000, or $1,023 per square foot. The house, built in 1984, has an interior space of 3,030 square feet. This two-story home offers a spacious layout with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. In addition, the home includes a three-car garage, ensuring ample room for parking and storage. The property’s backyard showcases a pool.These nearby houses have also recently been sold:On Sentinel Place, Fremont, in August 2023, a 2,709-square-foot home was sold for $2,620,000, a price per square foot of $967.A 4,591-square-foot home on the 45700 block of Vinehill Terrace in Fremont sold in February 2023, for $3,575,000, a price per square foot of $779. The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.In June 2023, a 5,359-square-foot home on Napa Court in Fremont sold for $4,160,000, a price per square foot of $776. The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. 

Suspected San Francisco killer arrested on Fillmore Street

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A suspected killer was arrested in San Francisco this week in connection to a summer homicide, police said. The victim was fatally shot in the Bayview District on Quesada Avenue at 11:10 p.m. on August 4. The victim was pronounced deceased at a hospital. Homicide detectives identified a San Francisco man, 35-year-old Shilo Mitchell, as the prime suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest. Mitchel remained at-large until he was spotted by patrol officers on Fillmore Street Tuesday. "SFPD officers from Northern station were patrolling the area of the 1100 block of Fillmore Street when they recognized Mitchell from his outstanding warrant and placed him under arrest," police wrote. Mitchell was booked into a San Francisco County jail on one count of murder. He remained in custody as of Thursday afternoon with no bail, inmate records show.

SJ Mayor to announce proposed catalytic converter theft ordinance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

(BCN) -- San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and city councilmembers David Cohen and Pam Foley on Thursday morning will discuss their proposal for a new ordinance that, if passed, would allow law-enforcement to charge those in unlawful possession of unmarked catalytic converters. Ex-pilot Joseph Emerson released from jail, allowed to return home to Bay Area They said in a statement that current laws only allow authorities to charge suspects if the seized converter has an identifier attached, which they say is often removed by thieves before selling them. The announcement will be made at 10:45 a.m. in the mayor's conference room on the 18th floor of San Jose City Hall, at 200 E. Santa Clara St., Santa Clara. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Stock market today: Wall Street rises ahead of a highly anticipated jobs report

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Thursday following its first three-day losing streak since Halloween.The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher in late trading and continuing to hang near its highest level since March 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 62 points, or 0.2%, as of 3 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.2% higher.Big Tech stocks helped power the market higher, led by a 5.5% jump for Google’s parent company, Alphabet. They’re Wall Street’s most influential stocks because of their massive size, and they have been on huge tears so far this year. Cerevel Therapeutics also jumped 10.8% after AbbVie announced an $8.7 billion deal to buy the company and its pipeline of candidates for schizophrenia, Parkinson’s and other diseases. AbbVie added 0.9%.Much of Wall Street’s recent rally has been because of rising hopes that the Federal Reserve is finally done with its barrage of hikes to interest rates, which are meant to get high inflation unde...

US Soccer Federation to built training center in Fayetteville, Georgia, outside Atlanta

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation’s new training center will be built in Fayetteville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta about a 30-mile drive from downtown Atlanta.The USSF announced the specific site adjacent to Trilith Studios on Thursday after saying on Sept. 15 it intended to construct a complex in the Atlanta area. Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United owner Arthur Blank is contributing $50 million for the project. The complex will be more than 200 acres.The USSF said in 2002 that the complex in Carson, California, would serve as its national training center. While that has been used often for winter training camps, the men’s national team has located training ahead of games at sites more convenient for its matches, such as in Florida ahead of games in the Caribbean and Central America and near the venues of home games. U.S. Soccer also opened a national development center in Kansas City, Kansas, in 2018.The federation’s headquarters was in New York, then moved to Colora...

Jon Rahm on the verge of signing with LIV Golf, according to reports

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

Jon Rahm is on the verge of leaving for LIV Golf, a stunning blow to the PGA Tour as it races to try to finalize a commercial agreement with the Saudi Arabian backers of the rival league, according to multiple reports.The Wall Street Journal was the first to report Rahm, the Masters champion, was about to sign a deal that various reports have put anywhere from $300 million to $600 million.LIV Golf is staging a three-day promotions event in Abu Dhabi that starts on Friday.The Journal, along with other outlets, suggested there was still a chance Rahm might change his mind. Sports Illustrated reported he was on his way to New York to finalize the deal. Executives from the PGA Tour and Rahm’s manager did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Rahm’s manager, Jeff Koski at Sportfive, has not responded to phone calls or text messages since social media sites that track LIV Golf began reporting on the rumors few weeks ago. And then The American Express, which Rahm won...

Quién es Sandra Pettovello, futura ministra de Capital Humano de Javier Milei

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

(CNN Español) — Sandra Pettovello será la titular de un ministerio que creará Javier Milei: el superministerio de Capital Humano. La cartera, a partir de este 10 de diciembre, absorberá los anteriores ministerios de salud, educación, trabajo y desarrollo social.El gobierno entrante aún no ha tomando algunas definiciones, por ejemplo, si Capital Humano manejará también la política de hábitat y desarrollo. Pero si se tiene en cuenta el último proyecto de presupuesto que el gobierno saliente envió al Congreso para 2024, el año que termina el gasto combinado de todos esos ministerios representó en los papeles más de US$ 25.000 millones, un 65% del presupuesto de la administración nacional.En la primera vuelta de las elecciones nacionales, celebrada el 22 de octubre, Pettovello resultó electa diputada nacional por La Libertad Avanza por la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, donde ocupaba el tercer lugar en la lista de candidatos. Ella ya informó que no asumirá para dedicarse a los otros desaf...

US sanctions money lending network to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, looks to boost maritime protections

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Responding to increased attacks on ships in the southern Red Sea by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, the U.S. announced sanctions against 13 people and firms alleged to be providing tens of millions of dollars from the sale and shipment of Iranian commodities to the Houthis in Yemen.The White House also announced Thursday that it was encouraging allies to join the Combined Maritime Forces, a 39-member partnership that exists to counter malign action by non-state actors in international waters, as it looks to push back against the Houthis. The State Department and Pentagon are leading the effort to expand the maritime partnership after three commercial vessels were struck by missiles fired by Iranian-back Houthis in Yemen earlier this week.The strike marked an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war, as multiple vessels have found themselves in the crosshairs of a single Houthi assault for the first time in the conflict....

Virginia expects to wipe out pandemic unemployment backlog next summer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:57:35 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia agency that processes unemployment benefits has made progress clearing pandemic-related backlogs, but it isn’t expected to finish until next summer, a top official told lawmakers this week.Jeff Ryan, chief deputy commissioner of the Virginia Employment Commission, told lawmakers at an oversight committee meeting Wednesday that so-called first-level appeals are the largest backlog pressure point, with an estimated 45,000 cases the agency doesn’t expect to clear until July 2024.Ryan also said the agency has sped up first-time payments, though he acknowledged continued struggles to provide some core services. Ensuring all customers can log in to an online claims portal while blocking fraudsters remains a hurdle, he said.“We’re remarkably well on our way to completing the backlog,” he told members of the Commission on Unemployment Compensation. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin campaigned on a pledge to improve performance at the ag...