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By the numbers: Women’s sports in 2023

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

Victoria Stavish | Baltimore Sun (TNS)Women’s sports have been making headlines throughout 2023. Viewership of women’s games, the pay of female athletes and the diversity of sports that female athletes participate in are all higher than in decades past, but gender gaps still exist and some gains may look impressive until they’re put in perspective.High school girls’ participation in some traditionally male-dominated sports is growing in Maryland.Between 2014 and 2022, overall participation in high school sports in Maryland declined among both girls and boys. More girls are participating, however, in some traditionally male-dominated sports like wrestling, golf, ice hockey and football. Though their numbers are growing, girls playing those four sports represented only 1.7% of all roster sports held by girls during the 2021-22 school year.More than four in 10 NCAA athletes are women.After making up 30% of NCAA athletes in 1982, women have seen their representation increase more than 1...

Two arrested in San Jose daycare drowning deaths

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

(KRON) -- Two people have been arrested in connection to drowning deaths at a San Jose daycare earlier this month, the San Jose Police Department announced Friday. Nina Fathizadeh and Shahin Gheblehshenas were arrested on suspicion of neglect of two children resulting in death and neglect of a child resulting in non-life threatening injuries.The incident occurred on Oct. 2 when SJPD patrol officers responded with the San Jose Fire Department to a welfare check at a residential day care located in the 1000 block of Fleetwood Drive.Officers were notified that several children had fallen into a pool. Medics were summoned and the children were transported to the hospital in critical condition. Two of the children were pronounced deceased at the hospital. The third child's status was upgraded to non-life-threatening.According to protocol for children's deaths, the SJPD Homicide Unit began a joint investigation into the incident with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.Fathi...

11 Santa Rosa thieves fooled by 'bait bike,' police say

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

(KRON) -- In response to a recent spike in bicycle thefts around Santa Rosa, police planted a "bait bike" downtown and arrested anyone who decided to steal it.Eleven alleged thieves took the bait and were arrested by the Santa Rosa Police Department Property Crimes Investigations Team."This 3-day proactive operation involved officers surveilling a bicycle left unattended as 'bait' and contacting anyone deciding to take the bicycle. SRPD PCI specifically focused on city parking lots and garages downtown," SRPD wrote. Because the bicycle was valued at $1,100, suspects who took the "bait bike" were booked into jail on felony grand theft charges. According to police, the following people were arrest and booked into jail:Shane Hulbert, a 29-year-old transient, was booked for felony grand theft and violation of probation.Emily Christopher, a 31-year-old Ukiah woman, was booked for grand theft, possession of narcotics, and possession of a bladed throwing star called a "shuriken."Edwin Sier...

18-year-old arrested for Oakley restaurant bulglary

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

OAKLEY, Calif. (KRON) -- The Oakley Police Department arrested the suspect who allegedly burglarized Uncle Wong Chinese Restaurant.Oakley police were dispatched to Uncle Wong Chinese Restaurant for an alleged burglary on Wednesday at 8:46 a.m. The restaurant was closed upon the officer’s arrival. According to police, officers noticed a broken front glass door, a ransacked cash register area, and a missing cash register. 74-year-old woman charged for Oakley murder The owner of the restaurant reported the cash register, a credit card reader, and an undisclosed amount of cash were stolen. Five hundred dollars worth of damage was done to the store, according to police. According to police, the suspect was caught on the restaurant’s security footage breaking in. Officers circulated the image within the department.The following day, an officer patrolling the west end of town noticed a man who matched the image of the suspect, even wearing the same clothes. The officer made contact with ...

Man who allegedly assaulted group of teens in Petaluma last month arrested

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

(KRON) -- A 21-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a group of teenagers after a high school football game in Petaluma last month has been arrested and charged, according to the Petaluma Police Department. Officers were dispatched shortly after midnight on Saturday, Sept. 23 in response to an assault several hours earlier on Friday, Sept. 22.At the scene, officers spoke to the teenage victims and learned they'd attended a Petaluma High School football game. They were walking down Douglas Street after the game when an unknown man confronted them and threatened to assault them, according to police.The victims, police said, didn't know the suspect and ran away when he threatened them. 9 teens lead Oakland CHP on pursuit in stolen SUV Minutes later, another teen drove up to pick up the group of teen victims. The suspect arrived in his vehicle and blocked the other vehicle. According to police, the suspect got out of his vehicle and approached the driver's door of the victim's vehicle...

Next year’s Giro d’Italia route aims to make early stages more important

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

TRENTO, Italy (AP) — Next year’s Giro d’Italia could see more “fireworks” than usual during the first two weeks after organizers unveiled a route designed to make the early stages more important. The full route of next year’s Giro was revealed in a televised ceremony on Friday after the first three stages were detailed earlier this week, including a tricky climb to Oropa on day two.Race organizer RCS Sport was keen to stress that there will be more opportunities than usual to build time gaps early on in the three-week race.“The riders who want to win it will have to be ready from the start and I expect a lot of spectacle,” Giro director Mauro Vegni said. The winners of the past two editions of the Italian Grand Tour — Primož Roglič and Jai Hindley — were among those on stage during the televised presentation at Trento’s Teatro Sociale.Roglič stormed to victory in this year’s Giro with a dominant ride on the penultimate stage, despite a mechanical problem. And the S...

Twins star Buxton has arthroscopic knee surgery, with mutual goal of returning him to CF

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins star Byron Buxton had arthroscopic surgery Friday on his troublesome right knee with the goal of alleviating the irritation related to patellar tendinitis and returning to center field next season.“That’s his focus. That’s what he wants, and that’s what we all want,” president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said Friday. “So that’ll be our mission through the offseason, to get him there.”The recovery timeline for Buxton is projected to be much shorter than after the cleanup procedure he had on the knee last year, Falvey said in a season-ending interview with reporters. “The hope here is in just a few short weeks he’s getting moving around again and starting to go through physical therapy in the offseason,” Falvey said. “We’re hopeful that this will get him on track. It obviously wasn’t the season Byron wanted from a physical standpoint. We did all we could throughout the course of the year to try to put him in the best position to be succ...

Kiwis return with new wingsail while SailGP celebrates an anniversary for female sailors

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

Peter Burling and Team New Zealand rejoin the rough-and-tumble SailGP fleet in Spain this weekend after an unexpected five-week layoff, eager to reel in their biggest rivals in the Season 4 championship chase in tech baron Larry Ellison’s global league.While the Kiwis return with a new wingsail five weeks after their old one shattered in a stunning sequence, Emirates Great Britain skipper Ben Ainslie looks for his third straight victory and three-time defending champion Tom Slingsby of Team Australia tries for his first win of the season. Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill has tapped Taylor Canfield to fill in for flight controller Hans Henken, who was seriously injured when the American catamaran crashed off its foils three weeks ago.The Spain Sail Grand Prix Cádiz on Saturday and Sunday will also mark the second anniversary of women sailing aboard the F-50 catamarans for the first time, and the environmentally conscious league said it will use 100% clean energy to fuel the supp...

Freddy Superlano se retira y suma respaldo a la favorita María Corina Machado en Venezuela

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

(CNN Español) –– El dirigente y fundador del partido opositor venezolano Voluntad Popular, Freddy Superlano, confirmó este viernes desde la sede de Vente Venezuela que declinó su candidatura a favor de María Corina Machado, fundadora de ese partido y favorita en las elecciones primarias de la opositora Plataforma Unitaria Democrática previstas para el próximo 22 de octubre.Superlano informó que le había notificado este jueves a la Comisión Nacional de Primarias el apoyo formal de Voluntad Popular a Vente Venezuela, con el fin de cumplir con lo establecido en el cronograma electoral que establecía el cierre del período de sustituciones para este 12 de octubre. De esta manera, los votos que se emitan en la tarjeta que tiene el nombre de Freddy Superlano serán contabilizados a favor de María Corina Machado.¿Quién es Freddy Superlano, el nuevo aliado de María Corina Machado?Tras un abrazo para sellar el pacto político, Machado agradeció el apoyo y aseguró que a todos, pero a ella en par...

Sean Payton and the Denver Broncos are still searching for the right chemistry

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Sean Payton is a man in search of his mojo. Payton never lost five of his first six games during his 15 seasons as the New Orleans Saints coach and the Broncos have never started out worse than the 1-5 record they brought back to Denver after their latest loss to Kansas City.Payton’s play-calling and the Broncos’ execution weren’t good enough to capitalize on a suddenly stout Denver defense that limited Patrick Mahomes to a single touchdown drive Thursday night. The result was a 16th consecutive loss to Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs (5-1), this time by a score of 19-8.Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph has taken plenty of heat with the Broncos dead last in several statistical categories so far, and Payton deserves similar scrutiny after the Broncos’ bumbling offensive performance at Arrowhead Stadium on a night the Chiefs seemed ripe for an upset.Russell Wilson threw for a meager 95 yards, the third-lowest total of his 195 caree...