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Cool and unsettled Marathon Monday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

Cooler weather remains in the forecast this week, with temperatures on Monday expected in the mid 50s to low 60s. Tomorrow morning, conditions start out with some clouds, fog, and mist. However, a cold front will push into the area around noontime, with some scattered showers expected.Late afternoon the front will move north of Boston, and take the showers, fog, and mist with it. There may be some clearing around sunset time, but clouds will linger for most of the area. If you’re planning on running in or watching the marathon, conditions will be seasonably cool throughout the race. Also, expect a passing shower or two closer to the finish. Heading to Fenway? There’ll be some misty conditions from time to time, otherwise a passing shower or two mid-game with temps in the 50s.

Dave Hyde: Giannis hurt, Herro out and Miami Heat beat Milwaukee in Game 1 stunner

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

You know how they go to the facial close-up in the movies to signal a sudden change in plot? Some look of eye-widening surprise? Some painful cry for help?They went to a close-up of Milwaukee star Giannis Antetokounmpo early in Sunday’s Game 1 against the Miami Heat. He wore a mask of pain. He didn’t get back onto the court. Giannis back against the Heat was the top story of this series.Instead, Giannis’s back is now.The Heat came out hard in Sunday’s 130-117 win, had their own injury to Tyler Herro’s broken hand to deal with and played with a force like they hadn’t previously this week in two, lackluster play-in games to reach these playoffs.But let’s be serious: This was a game the Heat had to win to make it a series. No Giannis? No best-player-in-the-game over there? You had to take advantage of that and the Heat turned in their best shooting night of the season.Herro, no doubt, was a big loss for the Heat. He dove for a loose ball in the...

Winderman’s view: No Tyler Herro now, so what next for Heat after shocking win?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

Observations and other notes of interest from Sunday’s 130-117 NBA playoff victory over the Milwaukee Bucks:– The season started with the Heat touting their depth.– Then that depth proved illusory.– Victor Oladipo was benched.– Duncan Robinson was put into the deep freeze.– And Dewayne Dedmon was traded.– Yes, Kevin Love and Cody Zeller were added at the buyout deadline to bolster the power rotation.– And, yes, Love helped, a lot, Sunday.– But the perimeter rotation largely proved thin.– Now that becomes an even bigger problem, with Tyler Herro out with a broken hand.– Robinson started Sunday’s second half.– Oladipo remained in waiting.– To put into perspective what Oladipo and Robinson didn’t expect to be doing Sunday, both of them participated in an aggressive three-on-three scrimmage pregame.– Answers were going to be hard enough in this series.– Now new ones will have to be foun...

In a game Giannis and Herro are hurt, Butler gives Heat all they need in stunning 130-117 victory over Bucks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

This was not as forecast.It could not have been.Not this 130-117 Miami Heat victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday night at Fiserv Forum.The teams are now one game into their best-of-seven opening-round Eastern Conference playoff series, and already seemingly everything has changed.Bucks All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, the expected leading man in the series, was lost for the night in the first half with a back contusion that leaves his status in question.Then, before the end of the first half, the Heat likely lost starting guard Tyler Herro for the playoffs with a broken right hand.Before that attrition, the Heat, who barely survived the play-in round, needing a Friday night escape against the Chicago Bulls to survive, built an early 14-point first-quarter lead against the conference’s No. 1 seed.And even after that, the Heat, for the first time playing as a No. 8 seed, moved to a 17-point lead.Eventually, like seemingly every Heat game this season, it got harried ...

Runners heading into cooler temps, light headwind on marathon day

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

Narrowly dodging last weeks high temps, Boston Marathon runners look to be set for cool, moderate race day conditions this Patriots Day — but run the risk of hitting some afternoon rain.Starting off in the morning, there will likely be some patchy fog and light drizzle, with temperatures starting around 50° and ticking closer to 60° as the day goes on — not the hottest and not the coldest race day in recent memory.Last year’s Boston Marathon saw a high of 50° and a low of 39°.This comes after record breaking heat last Thursday — hitting a scorching 88° high — and Friday — 83° high — before the region cooled off to more reasonable, nearly-seasonable temperatures Saturday and Sunday.“There’s going to be a light easterly wind, so that’d be a headwind for the runners as they start out in the morning,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Belk. “Then that will transition to the southeast wind as we go ...

S. Carolina trooper shot while making traffic stop 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A law enforcement officer was shot early Sunday morning in the line of duty, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.The shooting happened at about 3:30 a.m. in Bamberg County, SCDPS spokesperson Heather Biance said.A South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper was shot after initiating a traffic stop on U.S. 78, according to Biance.Lance Cpl. B.A. Frazier pulled over a vehicle that was driving more than 20 miles per hour above the speed limit, Biance said.At some point during the traffic stop, the driver began shooting at Frazier before driving away from the scene, according to Biance. A second trooper heard the driver’s vehicle description on a radio call and initiated a pursuit that ended in Orangeburg County when the shooter crashed his vehicle into a house, Biance said.The trooper was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, Biance said.“Frazier was shot on the right side of his face, but we are told that his injuries are non-life th...

Holocaust survivors call for remembrance ahead of Yom HaShoah

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

Holocaust survivors and their descendants called on Boston to remember the those gravely impacted by the dark chapter and their stories at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event Sunday afternoon.“We mourn for those taken from the world during the Holocaust, those that survivors knew and those that we never knew but are a part of us and deserve to be remembered,” said Janet Stein Calm, president of American Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants of Greater Boston, before calling on survivors to light a first candle in remembrance.The event, held at Faneuil Hall and attended by a number of city representative, Jewish community leaders and Boston Holocaust survivor community, marked the upcoming Yom HaShoah — a day of remembrance for the approximately six million Jewish people killed during the Holocaust and the people’s heroism and resistance during the genocide.Yom HaShoah will be observed around the world beginning Monday evening through Tuesday...

Golden galore at Boston Common: Hundreds of golden retrievers gather in honor of Spencer, the Boston Marathon dog

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

Spencer, a beloved golden retriever that gained fame cheering on runners during the Boston Marathon over the years, is certainly wagging his tail from above this weekend.Hundreds of golden pooches showed up to the Common on Sunday sporting yellow marathon bandanas in honor of Spencer, who died from cancer on Feb. 17, and his sister Penny, who died eight days later from a tumor on her spleen and liver that caused internal bleeding.“It is just so heartwarming to know he touched what I’d say millions of lives,” said Spencer and Penny’s owner, Richard Powers, of Holliston. “I think we are accomplishing his legacy of bringing awareness to canine cancer and how it affects family members, not just the dog.”A tribute to Spencer, a massive 5.5-foot-by-5-foot portrait of the golden doggo, is hanging for public viewing until Thursday at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, close to the marathon starting line. The print, done by Pittsburgh-based artist Tom Mosser, features Spencer in the pose tha...

Pitcher Ryan Sherriff tries to honor his Holocaust-surviving grandparents

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

At sundown on Monday, Israel and Jewish communities around the world will begin observing Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.Over six million Jews (including over one and a half million children) were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered by Hitler’s Nazis. Millions of Roma, Sinti, mentally and physically disabled, homosexual, and Black people were among their other targets for extermination.Ryan Sherriff, a veteran pitcher in the Red Sox organization, doesn’t consider himself to be particularly devout, but is proudly Jewish. He pitched for Team Israel in the 2017 World Baseball Classic qualifiers, something he calls one of the best experiences of his life. (Due to injury restrictions, he was unable to rejoin them for this year’s WBC.)He’s currently pitching for Triple-A Worcester.In 2020, Sherriff became one of the only Jewish pitchers in World Series history. Born and raised in Culver City, Los Angeles, he grew up a Dodgers fan, and says it was “wild” to pitch against Sandy...

Non-profit gives away 1,000 boxes of food in response to Walmart closure

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:54 GMT

CHICAGO — A thousand Chicagoans arrived at the now former Walmart in the Chatham neighborhood Sunday for a food drive held in partnership between two local nonprofit organizations.My Block, My Hood, My City and Top Box Foods gave out 1,000 boxes filled with fresh fruits and vegetables to the South Side community as a temporary stopgap solution for an area that has now become even more of a food desert with the exit of the supermarket chain, who also closed three other Chicagoland locations as of Sunday, April 16. Chicagoans blast Walmart’s decision to close 4 stores with little notice "It hurts because now we got to go all the way to Western and 95th to go shopping," said Juanita Pittman, an Englewood resident who was at the food drive Sunday."People felt abandoned. We are already abandoned by many things," said Lena Babins, Block Club leader from My Block, My Hood, My City. "But for something big like this to leave for a reason of theft, people felt disappointed. So we are here, ...