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Espinoza shines as Earthquakes beat reigning MLS champs. Here’s why it was so important

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

SANTA CLARA – The San Jose Earthquakes celebrated a successful return to Levi’s Stadium on Saturday, as Cristian Gonzalez bolstered his MVP case with a brace in the team’s 2-1 win over reigning MLS champion Los Angeles Football Club.A crowd of 45,112 came for a celebration of Mexican heritage that the Quakes called the largest Cinco de Mayo party on the West Coast, followed by the team’s game against LAFC, the league’s last unbeaten team.The pre-match festivities featured luchadores, mariachi bands, dancing groups, and an appearance by Jared Borgetti, who has the second-most goals in the history of the Mexican national team.Plenty of Mexican flags were flying in the parking lots before the game, and then in the seats as the Quakes played their third-ever game at Levi’s, and first since 2015, and singer-songwriter El Fantasma provided the halftime entertainment.In moving the game from their regular home at PayPal Park, San Jose gave up the home-field advantage of playing in front of ...

Bruin’s late goal gives Austin a 2-2 draw over Portland

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Will Bruin scored in stoppage time to pull Austin into a 2-2 draw with the Portland Timbers on Saturday night. Jon Gallagher also scored for struggling Austin (2-4-4), which hasn’t won a game since March 11. The draw snapped a three-game Portland win streak in the series. Claudio Bravo and Dario Zuparic scored for Portland (3-5-3). Zuparic scored his first goal of the season in the 33rd minute. His header off a long cross from Evander bounced into the goal, evading Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver. Evander nearly scored himself in the final moments of the first half but his header was just wide.Gallagher, who leads Austin with four goals this season, scored in the 59th from the far post off a cross from Emiliano Rigoni. It was the team’s first goal at Providence Park since joining the league in 2021.Bravo’s goal in the 71st was also his first of the season. Portland has scored 15 goals in 11 matches this season. Twelve different players have scored for the T...

Canelo beats Ryder by unanimous decision in return to Mexico

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Canelo Alvarez returned home and remained the undisputed super middleweight champion Saturday night, beating John Ryder by unanimous decision before more than 50.000 fans in his first fight in Mexico since 2011.Alvarez bloodied the British challenger’s nose and knocked him down, cruising to the victory by scores of 120-107 on one card and 118-109 on the other two to improve to 59-2-2.Ryder had his four-bout winning streak stopped and is 32-6.It was Canelo´s first fight since he had surgery on his left wrist last March. Before the fight, he said the injury slowed him down in his previous four fights, including his loss to light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol a year ago. After getting a hard-fought victory over Ryder, Canelo has his eyes set on a rematch against the Russian in September.In a fight that was touted as the “King is Coming Home”, the sold-out crowd at Akron stadium in Guadalajara, just 25 miles away from Juanacatlan, the small town wher...

Abubakar, Ronan spark Rapids to 3-1 victory over Galaxy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Defender Lalas Abubakar scored early, Connor Ronan had three assists and the Colorado Rapids defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy 3-1 on Saturday night.It took just 14 minutes for Abubakar to give Colorado the lead, using an assist from Ronan to find the net for the first time this season.Kévin Cabral stretched the lead to 2-0 when he took passes from Diego Rubio and Ronan in the 65th minute and scored for the second time this season. Ronan picked up his third assist in the 81st minute on Jonathan Lewis’ first score of the campaign.The Galaxy avoided the shutout on an unassisted goal by Preston Judd — his first — in the 89th minute. Colorado (2-3-6) improves to 7-1-2 in its last 10 match-ups with the Galaxy (1-6-3). LA’s lone win was a 4-1 victory in September of last season.LA had advantages of 17-9 in shots and 7-5 in shots on target.William Yarbrough finished with six saves for the Rapids. Jonathan Klinsmann turned away two shots for the Galaxy.The Ga...

Mariners rally with 7 runs in 8th inning, top Astros 7-5

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — J.P. Crawford’s two-out, three-run double pulled Seattle even, Jose Caballero followed two batters later with a two-run double, and the Mariners scored seven times in the eighth inning for a 7-5 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. Stymied for the first seven innings by Houston starter J.P. France and two relievers, the Mariners erupted against Astros relievers Rafael Montero and Ryne Stanek, with all the damage coming with two outs.Seattle’s rally started when Eugenio Suárez walked on a 3-2 pitch with two outs. Cal Raleigh reached on a check-swing dribbler that barely got past the mound and Teoscar Hernández’s grounder deep in the hole at shortstop loaded the bases.Crawford got the count in his favor and lined a 3-1 fastball to the wall in right-center field clearing the bases. Stanek replaced Montero (0-1) and walked pinch-hitter Taylor Trammell before Caballero lined a shot into the left-center field gap. Caballero had replaced Kolten Wong ear...

Cooperativa en Virginia ayuda a trabajadoras que han sido víctimas de acoso sexual

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

A diario muchas trabajadoras de la limpieza en nuestra región son victimas de acoso sexual, por lo que una cooperativa de Virginia busca ayudarlas a cambiar sus historias de dolor por historias de éxitos.Son una decena de hispanas que crearon la cooperativa Escoba Mágica, un espacio seguro de aprendizaje y empoderamiento que está abierto para todas las mujeres del DMV sin importar su estatus migratorio. María Roa, una miembro de Escoba Mágica, recordó un incidente de acoso que le sucedió a otra mujer.“El supervisor, un hombre, siempre la perseguía, y entonces un día que ella está entrando a esa como bodega, él la empuja y la manosea toda. No la violó porque ella luchó”, dijo.Entre esos relatos de miedo, discriminación y abuso, mujeres luchadores crearon en marzo la cooperativa Escoba Mágica. “Es una propuesta de un negocio colectivo de Madre Tierra y la organización de Mujeres Latinas Inmigrantes”, dijo Dicial Molina, la fundadora de la organización Madre Tierra.“Sabemos q...

MLB Notes: Could Verdugo and Wong’s breakout change narrative of Mookie Betts trade?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

The Mookie Betts trade was controversial from the moment the deal was struck, and four years later the move remains a sore subject among Red Sox fans writ large.Already a league MVP and a World Series champion at the time of the deal, Betts could have become the face of the franchise and finished what will likely wind up being a Hall of Fame career in Boston. Red Sox fans were left wondering what could have been as Betts thrived in Los Angeles, and the fact the club went on to finish last in two out of three years only added insult to injury.The Red Sox were never going to get comparable value back in the short-term, but the way things are trending there’s a chance the trade could eventually be viewed as worthwhile.Alex Verdugo, the primary return in the Betts deal, has been a regular starter for the Red Sox ever since his arrival in 2020. His first three seasons in Boston could be best summed up as “good, not great,” but now he appears to have made the leap and is...

20 Indonesian trafficking victims freed in Myanmar

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian officials said Sunday they freed 20 of their nationals who were trafficked to Myanmar as part of a cyber scam, amid an increase in human trafficking cases in Southeast Asia.Indonesia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement that its embassy in Yangon with help from local networks had managed to release the victims from Myawaddy township and brought them to the Thai border on Saturday.The Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok will work closely with Thai authorities to repatriate the victims to Indonesia, the statement said. Myawaddy is in eastern Kayin state along the Thai border and is the site of an armed conflict between Myanmar’s military and ethnic Karen rebels.Fake recruiters had offered the Indonesians high-paying jobs in Thailand but instead trafficked them to Myawaddy, about 567 kilometers (352 miles) south of Naypyidaw, the capital, to perform cyber scams for crypto websites or apps, said Judha Nugraha, an official in Indonesia’s Foreign A...

Michigan faces pushback with gun red flag law set to pass

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Karen Kobylik knew her daughter should not have a gun. She had repeatedly called the police since her daughter turned 21, pleading with them to take her firearms because of the risk she posed to herself and others. “They said we can’t take any guns away from her because we cannot step on her Second Amendment right,” Kobylik told The Associated Press. “I was like, ‘I’m a mother telling you that this kid’s got a mental issue that is not currently being addressed.’”Kobylik’s daughter, Ruby Taverner, shot and killed her brother and boyfriend before taking her own life in the early morning of May 8 last year. Kobylik believes all three lives could have been saved had red flag laws, also known as extreme risk protection orders, existed in Michigan that would have allowed police to remove her daughter’s guns and prevented her from purchasing more. Now Michigan is poised to become the 20th state — and the first in nearly three years — to pass a red flag law. It w...

To improve kids’ mental health, some schools start later

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:40:58 GMT

DREXEL HILL, Pa. (AP) — In the hours before he’s due at Upper Darby High School, senior Khalid Doulat has time to say prayers, help his mother or prepare for track practice. It’s a welcome shift from last year for him and thousands of students at the school, which pushed its start time back by more than two hours — from a 7:30 a.m. start time to 9:45 a.m. One goal for the change: to ease strains on students that were more visible than ever coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’ll be honest, I’ve been much happier in the mornings,” Doulat said. “I’ve been more positive, and I’ve come to school smiling more rather than, you know, grudging out of bed and stuff like that at 7:30.”The idea of later school start times, pushed by many over the years as a way to help adolescents get more sleep, is getting a new look as a way to address the mental health crisis affecting teens across the U.S. For some schools, the pandemic allowed experimentation to try new schedules. Upper Dar...