CLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell and his Cleveland Cavaliers teammates didn't go their separate ways for four months before reassembling a couple weeks ago for the start of offseason workouts. Instead, from the time the Cavaliers were eliminated in the Eastern Conference finals by the New ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Austin Riley hit a three-run homer off All-Star closer Jhoan Duran in the eighth inning and the Atlanta Braves rallied past the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 on Tuesday in the opener of a best-of-three National League Wild Card Series. Duran (0-1), who allowed just two homers in ...
(AP) — The hats and flags and T-shirts carrying the No. 77 of NASCAR driver Carson Hocevar were flying unapologetically, and almost defiantly, over Kansas Speedway last weekend, days after a pit-road fracas at Bristol in which the up-and-coming Cup Series star traded a few haymakers with ...
This summer, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani described American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American pro-Israel advocacy organization, as "monsters." More than 850 members of the Jewish clergy have signed an open letter calling on him to apologize. I sympathize with the impulse behind the letter but believe it was counterproductive. Mamdani's pronouncement was what tech folks call a feature, not a bug. His refusal to retract the characterization only enhanced his political standing among his acolytes and potential followers by demonstrating his willingness to stand up to ...
It was 20 years ago that Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth" was published, and ... well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient -- for Al and his band of apocalyptics. I asked my team to use the AI chatbot ChatGPT as a referee in assessing the accuracy of the book's scary and often-quoted conclusions. It turns out ChatGPT is very diplomatic. Its overall conclusion was that "the fairest assessment is more nuanced than saying that 'An Inconvenient Truth' was simply 'wrong.'" Instead we learn that over and over, on page after page, the former vice president's "specific ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — There were times over the past year or so that Kyle Larson probably wondered whether he'd ever win a race again, let alone defend his NASCAR Cup Series title. He went 51 races without reaching victory lane, even though he always felt as though he was close. Now, ...
