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Nikola Jokic back in Serbian hometown to watch family's horses compete

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

SOMBOR, Serbia (AP) — Nikola Jokic made it back to Serbia in time to watch his beloved horses race in his hometown. Less than a week after leading the Denver Nuggets to their first NBA championship, Jokic was back in his hometown of Sombor on Sunday to enjoy his big passion of horse racing.Thousands of his supporters in the usually sleepy northern Serbian town of some 47,000 people also converged on the local horse racing track where Jokic was watching his family-owned horses compete in harness races. Many had T-shirts with Jokic's portrait, some reading “Be the Next Champion” and “Sombor, the Town of Champions.”A billboard reading “Welcome Home MVP” showed Jokic with his No. 15 Nuggets jersey, also depicting galloping horses. Watch replay: Nuggets championship parade in Denver After winning the NBA title, Jokic was concerned about whether he could return home in time for Sunday's races after the team's victory parade in Denver on Thursday. He joked that he would ask Nuggets presi...

Barbie: A set tour of Barbie’s dreamhouse world

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

It’s Barbie’s world and we’re just living in it.Soon, we’ll be seeing it on the big screen too! The new Barbie movie doesn’t hit theaters til next month.But Margot Robbie teamed up with architectural digest to take us inside Barbie’s dreamhouse tonight.The assignment is a set tour of Barbie’s world.Margot Robbie: “Welcome to Barbie’s dreamhouse, come on in.”Margot Robbie: “It’s just fun and gorgeous and it’s see-through. So we can see each other. All the Barbies in their own Barbie Dreamhouses wake up in the morning and they can wave at each other.”Greta Gerwig, Director: “This is like the perfect product of so many discussions, so many references. I can’t even tell you the meetings we’ve had about pink. We like sat with like all these different types of pink. We were like, what is the pink? And how do the pinks interact? Because I didn’t want it to be so classy that it didn&#...

Teenage Kraken who learns to protect everyone from eveil mermaids and comes from royal family of legendary sea Kraken

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

Body hair, pimples, your first crush these are all teenage problems.But throw in giant tentacles in the mix and you get the movie “Ruby Gillman, teenage Kraken”.And she exists to protect us from evil mermaids.Jane Fonda as Grandmamah: “The women in our family have the mighty power to turn into Giant Kraken. Ah, what now? Ruby, you’re a princess.”Ruby Gillman is far from basic.Lana Condorl as Ruby Gillman: “I think I’m having a panic attack.”Because she’s heir to. Lana Condorl: “The kingdom, in the ocean, which is crazy! Like the ocean’s huge, it’s a big reign. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is one of very much a coming-of-age story. Very much about a young woman stepping into her power.”Toni Collette as Agatha Gillman: “You think it was easy to start over? To risk everything?”For Ruby’s mom, Agatha, played by Toni Collette keeping her royalness was a struggle.Toni Collette as Agatha Gillman...

Aida brings ‘authentic’ Mexican seafood recipes to Fort Lauderdale

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

Mexican food isn’t hard to find. Mexican seafood, that’s something else again.A SoFlo eatery has brought authentic recipes from across the border up to Broward. This is a fish story of the finest kind.Say goodbye to nachos and burritos.At Aida, Mexican seafood in Fort Lauderdale, you’ll be diving into delicacies from the deep, with dishes you can’t get anywhere else in Broward.Mauricio Hernandez: “Aida is the best Mexican seafood restaurant in the whole Florida. You are going to find unique recipes and plates from Mexico.”There’s a reason the folks at Aida decided on a seafood-centric place.Mauricio Hernandez: “In the United States, not only in Florida, there’s no authentic Mexican cuisine they think that Tex-Mex is our cuisine and it’s not.”The mix of fresh seafood and homemade sauces is what puts this place over the top.Mauricio Hernandez: “We have very good quality in the ingredients and in the shrimp, fish, ...

1 killed and almost 2 dozen injured in overnight storms in Mississippi, officials say

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

(CNN) — At least one person was killed and nearly two dozen injured in storms that swept through Mississippi on Sunday night, and more than 50 million across the Southeast face the threat of more severe weather, including tornadoes, on Monday.A storm system spawned a reported tornado late Sunday in Mississippi, leaving injuries and structural damage around Bay Springs and Louin in Jasper County, preliminary reports from the National Weather Service indicate.South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel received 20 storm victims from the Louin area, including one who died, spokesperson Becky Collins told CNN Monday. The other patients are stable, she added, and most have been discharged from the hospital.The Jasper County community center is serving as a shelter “for all those displaced from the recent destruction of tornado activity,” the sheriff’s department said in a Facebook post.The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is assessing damage from the o...

Chicago White Sox are still aiming for ‘a significant step forward’ to make up ground in the AL Central

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

The Chicago White Sox understood June would present some major tests as they tried to climb back into contention.“We looked at the schedule going into Yankee Stadium and then playing a good Marlins team and going to Dodger Stadium and Seattle and now playing a really good Texas team that we knew this path was going to be difficult for this two-, three-to-four-week stretch leading up to the (All-Star) break, and we’ve been a tick under .500 in that stretch,” general manager Rick Hahn said before Monday’s game against the Rangers at Guaranteed Rate Field.“So it hasn’t been devastating, but it absolutely hasn’t been a significant step forward.”The Sox are still aiming to take those steps.Starting with the first game of that Yankees series on June 6, the Sox were 5-7 entering Monday’s series opener against the Rangers.They were 11 games under .500 (31-42) and in fourth place, but still just 5 1/2 games out of first in the American Le...

Justin Verlander returns to Houston to face Astros for first time

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

HOUSTON — The last time Justin Verlander was in Minute Maid Park, he was on the field celebrating with his Houston Astros teammates. It was his second World Series win with the Astros and his first since getting married and becoming a father. Verlander and model Kate Upton wed just days after the Astros won the World Series in 2017.It’s been a strange year for Verlander. He returned to his first Major League home in Detroit in May and now returns to his second in Houston with the Mets desperately trying to turn their season around. Verlander himself is trying to recapture the form he had with the club down the hall last season when he won the American League Cy Young Award.“A lot of changes in my life while I was here,” Verlander said Monday in the Minute Maid Park visitors clubhouse. “A lot of maturity as a person as a player. That 34-40 age range, I feel like, naturally, in life that’s kind of like a new chapter in a lot of people’s storie...

Column: Adbert Alzolay growing more comfortable as the Chicago Cubs’ de facto closer

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

Back in spring training when the Chicago Cubs’ bullpen picture was still fuzzy, manager David Ross said he never felt the need to label anyone as his closer.When you don’t have a closer, you can’t have a closer controversy.Still, it was assumed veteran Michael Fulmer would inherit the role based on his recent experience closing games, and that generally was how the season unfolded in April.But 2 1/2 months in, the look of the back end of the bullpen has changed dramatically. It now appears Adbert Alzolay has taken the closer’s role and run with it.Or has he?“He’s at the back end of our game, for sure,” Ross said. “Is he our closer? You could say at the moment, if it matches up best … him and (Mark) Leiter, we’ve kind of flipped through those pockets. It just seems to be as of late, Leiter’s pocket has been coming in the eighth.”It’s understandable if Ross doesn’t want to mess with success. But no one...

O’Bryant teachers pen opposition to proposed West Roxbury move ahead of first community meeting

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

Two teachers at the O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science wrote an open letter outlining broad concerns with the proposal to move the school to West Roxbury announced weeks ago.“We understand that many students, staff, and families have conflicting feelings about this proposal, but as long-time BPS teachers, we believe moving Boston’s most diverse exam school to the least T-accessible neighborhood in the city is not in the best interests of our students,” wrote history teacher Aparna Lakshmi and English teacher Robert Comeau in a letter published on Schoolyard News.The letter comes nearly two weeks after Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent Mary Skipper announced a proposal to move the O’Bryant to a West Roxbury Educational Complex and expand Madison Park Technical Vocational High School — two schools that currently share a campus.Officials noted the proposal will take several years to implement. The first remote community meeting on the O’Br...

Four kids found hidden in filthy South Boston apartment where a man died: ‘Sickening’

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:07:34 GMT

Four children living in squalid conditions while being hidden from first responders were found in an apartment filled with “alcohol, drugs, sex toys” and a dead man, according to an incident report and outraged officials.“This is sickening,” said At-Large City Councilor Michael Flaherty. “I was informed by people at the scene that there were drugs, alcohol, sex toys all around the apartment as well as a dead body on the floor.”That fire department report, obtained by the Herald and confirmed by police response, states that a BFD crew was sent to Old Colony Avenue Saturday morning for a call that a man had gone into cardiac arrest and required medical attention. That address is the Mary Ellen McCormack Housing complex run by the city.However, according to the incident report, firefighters found more than just a routine medical emergency.“The apartment was in extremely unsanitary conditions. Approximately 6 adults, who appeared to be males, were see...