By Leanne Italie | Associated Press NEW YORK — Across television and streaming services, the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was already front and center Saturday, a day after her death at 87. A look at coverage and plans in her honor: ENCORES FOR “RBG” Looking back on the film […]
The Latest: Italy records more than 1,600 new virus cases
By The Associated Press ROME — The Italian health ministry reported another 1,638 new cases of coronavirus and 24 deaths. The deaths brought Italy’s official coronavirus toll to 35,692, second highest in Europe after Britain. The health ministry says the new cases were based on a record 103,223 tests. While countries such as Germany have […]
Time for the Pac-12 to get bold and get moving: Let teams play on Halloween if they can do it safely
The Pac-12 is having its Big Ten moment. The unified group of conference executives, presidents, athletic directors and coaches that had navigated the pandemic for six months has fractured, with deep frustration at multiple levels, sources told the Hotline. The aggravation boiled over after the presidents declined Friday to set a start date for the […]
Sonoma County: Pedestrian scuffles with officer on Highway 101
By Bay City News Service A man walking on U.S. Highway 101 near Santa Rosa Friday briefly caused a slowdown on the highway and then tussled with an officer, according to the California Highway Patrol. On Friday at 12:11 p.m., officers with the CHP and Santa Rosa Police Department responded to a pedestrian walking on […]
Giants place Alex Dickerson on paternity list, make three other roster moves
The San Francisco Giants will be without outfielder Alex Dickerson on Saturday against the Oakland A’s, but his absence is for a joyful occasion. Dickerson was placed on the paternity list on Saturday as he and his wife Jennifer are expecting the birth of their first child over the weekend. The Giants also made several […]
These 5 fitness and sporting goods companies have filed for bankruptcy in 2020, as the coronavirus continues to dramatically change how Americans exercise
Summary List Placement The coronavirus outbreak has wreaked havoc on nearly every sector of the retail industry — including fitness and sporting goods. A growing number of fitness companies have filed for Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 bankruptcy in recent months, after failing to recover from temporary government-mandated closures to gyms and indoor fitness facilities […]
After RBG’s Death, Here’s How The Republicans Will Try To Screw Us
In the aftermath of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, public displays of grief have been rampant: Countless Americans are mourning the loss of RBG, a cultural icon who impacted the lives of so many women and marginalized people during her 27-year tenure on the Supreme Court. But alongside that grief is another powerful […]
How Ginsburg’s death could reshape the presidential campaign
By Steve Peoples | Associated Press NEW YORK — A presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nation’s most searing divides has been jolted by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, potentially reshaping the election at a moment when some Americans were beginning to cast ballots. For months, the contest has […]
Whicker: Lakers, unlike the Clippers, don’t ask you to wait until next year
Five days later, his parting words still scrape on the eardrum. Did Paul George really say that the Clippers’ 2019-20 season wasn’t a matter of “championship or bust?” Technically, he is correct. There is no record of either George or Kawhi Leonard promising that the Clippers would be this year’s champions. Practically, it is one […]
Giants watch Wildcard standings flip in an instant: ‘We have to play better than that’
The San Francisco Giants woke up on Friday in complete control of their own destiny. Then everything that could have possibly gone wrong did go wrong. The Giants did themselves no favors in an uninspiring 6-0 loss to the Oakland A’s at the Coliseum, but one of their worst games of the season happened to […]
A Florida bar owner is banning customers from wearing masks and asking them to leave if they do
Summary List Placement A sports bar owner in West Melbourne, Florida, has a no-mask policy for his customers amid the coronavirus pandemic, said he finds it “completely unnecessary to have facemasks at all. We do not support; we do not believe in them.” Gary Kirby, the owner of Westside Sports Bar and Lounge, started banning […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Not A Radical. But She Was Still Revolutionary.
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1959 and started her legal career, women in the U.S. were essentially second-class citizens, both “protected” and contained by the paternalism enshrined in state and federal law. Ginsburg, who died on Friday at the age of 87, helped dismantle this built-in misogyny, creating […]