Новости за 23.06.2015

(AP) — The board of regents of Washington State University must soon begin the process of replacing school President Elson S. Floyd, who died Saturday of complications from colon cancer. In the next few weeks, the regents will hold a special meeting to appoint an interim president and likely name a committee to conduct a nationwide search for a new president, WSU spokeswoman Kathy Barnard said Monday. The official university "celebration of life" for Floyd is planned for Aug. 26 after students return for fall semester... Читать дальше...

Soccer legend Maradona plans to run for FIFA president A journalist close to Diego Maradona says the retired soccer star has told him he plans to run for president of FIFA. FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced this month that he would be stepping down — four days after being elected for a fifth four-year presidential term — amid a U.S. probe into $150 million in bribes allegedly paid to top soccer officials. Maradona has been a high-profile supporter of Venezuela’s socialist government and a sharp critic of corruption in soccer. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Washington State University students in Pullman have staged an impromptu memorial for school President Elson Floyd, who died last weekend of complications of colon cancer. KHQ-TV reports (http://is.gd/B2Fk0l) students and faculty shared their favorite memories of Floyd and sang the school fight song in his honor.

U.S. women top Colombia, advance to World Cup quarterfinals [...] that Alex Morgan has a goal, she doesn’t want to look back on the opportunities she’s missed. “I don’t remember the last goal I’ve had with this team,” said the Cal alum, who had been hampered by a bone bruise in her left knee going into the tournament. [...] that’s not a good sign. Morgan scored her first goal of the Women’s World Cup and the United States advanced to the quarterfinals with a 2-0 victory over Colombia on Monday night in Edmonton, Alberta. Читать дальше...

If the U.S. women’s soccer team thought it could escape the shadow of 1999, well, not quite yet. With a not-very-pretty win over an undermanned Colombia team Monday, the Americans advance to the World Cup quarterfinals. There — on Friday in Ottawa — they will face China for the first time in a World Cup since the United States’ epic penalty-kick victory in the final at the Rose Bowl in July 1999. [...] with China as the opponent and with heightened criticism of the U.S. offensive strategy, the comparisons will be back. Читать дальше...

Carson Fulmer combined with two relievers on a four-hitter, Will Toffey’s two-run double broke a scoreless tie in the sixth inning, and defending national champion Vanderbilt opened the College World Series finals with a 5-1 victory over Virginia on Monday night. Fulmer (14-2) struck out eight, walked two and hit two batters in 72/3 innings. Virginia (42-24), the Commodores’ finals opponent for the second straight year, scored in the ninth to end the Vandy bullpen’s streak of 22 shutout innings. Читать дальше...

ARIES. (March 20 - April 19): You know that people are rarely what they seem. What you didn't know is that they can be better – which is something you discover today.ARIES. (March 20 - April 19): You know that people are rarely what they seem. What you didn't know is that they can be better – which is something you discover today.
TAURUS. (April 20 - May 20): How can you end up owing more than what was agreed upon? Blame it on the fuzzy math generated by the Mercury/Neptune square. Читать дальше...

Sports calendar, June 22-23 Baseball Chicago White Sox at Minnesota ESPN2 Basketball Pro-am: Bay Raiders vs. East Bay, Kezar Pavilion College World Series Championship series Vanderbilt vs. Virginia ESPN Soccer Women’s World Cup United States vs. Baseball Houston at L.A. Angels MLBNet San Diego at Giants CSNBA (680, 860-Sp.) Basketball WNBA: Pro-am: Oakland Believers vs. SF City, Kezar Pavilion College World Series Championship series Vanderbilt vs. Virginia ESPN Soccer Women’s World Cup... Читать дальше...

Darryl Hamilton was one of the first players Brian Sabean acquired as the Giants’ new general manager, the center fielder and leadoff hitter on a 1997 team that won the National League West to break an eight-year title drought. On Monday, his friends and teammates struggled to comprehend the news that Hamilton was shot to death near Houston on Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide. Pearland, Texas, police believe Jordan shot Hamilton numerous times before killing herself. First it was Rod Beck... Читать дальше...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday he has "very advanced" and "very aggressive" cancer of the lymph nodes, but he said he will fight for a full recovery and continue to work as the state's chief elected official. Hogan spoke candidly, choking up at times while also managing to keep a sense of humor, as family, friends and his staff filled the governor's reception room for the announcement. The Republican, who won an upset victory in November in a heavily Democratic state... Читать дальше...

Matt Duffy is a tall, lanky, Lincecum-thin infielder who was hoping to be in Triple-A by now and had an iffy future with the Giants because he was buried on the shortstop depth chart behind Brandon Crawford. The rookie third baseman neither is intimidating nor intimidated, and all he does is hit in the clutch, giving the Giants a bonanza they never imagined in the aftermath of the Pablo Sandoval era and the Casey McGehee experiment. .352 with runners in scoring position, .387 with two outs and RISP. Читать дальше...

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. returned to his family’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday after leaving a Baltimore halfway house where he lived for several months since serving 2½ years in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal items. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday he has “very advanced” cancer of the lymph nodes, but he said he will fight for a full recovery and continue to work as the state’s chief elected official. 3 Scout leader dies: A Boy Scout leader from Maryland... Читать дальше...

ESPN says it obtained a notebook that shows Pete Rose bet on Cincinnati Reds games during his last season as an active player in 1986. The career hits leader agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball in 1989 after an investigation by John Dowd, a lawyer retained by Major League Baseball, concluded that he bet on the Reds to win from 1985-87 while he was a player and manager. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” said it obtained a notebook seized by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in October 1989 from Rose... Читать дальше...

DALLAS (AP) — A Missouri group cited in an online manifesto purportedly written by the Charleston church shooting suspect was founded 30 years ago, and a civil rights organization calls it a "crudely white supremacist group" that is the "modern reincarnation" of efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to resist school desegregation in the South. Dylann Roof, the suspect in last week's slayings of a pastor and eight congregants, said in the purported manifesto that he learned about "brutal black on white... Читать дальше...

Sports calendar, June 23-24 Baseball Houston at L.A. Angels MLBNet San Diego at Giants CSNBA (680, 860-Sp.) Basketball WNBA: Pro-am: Oakland Believers vs. SF City, Kezar Pavilion College World Series Championship series Vanderbilt vs. Virginia ESPN Soccer Women’s World Cup: Baseball Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees MLBNet L.A. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs ESPN or ESPN2 San Diego at Giants Channel: 11 (680, 860-Sp.) Basketball Pro-am: Bay Pride, Kezar Pavilion College World Series Championship series Vanderbilt vs. Читать дальше...

The following excerpt is from “100 Things A’s Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die,” by Susan Slusser, the beat writer covering the Oakland A’s for The Chronicle. Like Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley, starter Dave Stewart was a scrap-heap steal for Oakland, which picked him up in 1986 after he’d been released by the Phillies. Oakland third baseman Carney Lansford credited former A’s pitcher Joaquin Andujar with helping start Stewart’s run. “Andujar popped off and told our starting pitchers that none of them would ever win 20 games... Читать дальше...

Jay Bilas said he would love to jump into the DeLorean and send it 10 years into the future, so he could look back on the 2015 NBA draft. The Warriors already have devoted about $77.5 million — about $3.5 million less than the expected luxury-tax threshold — to eight players and have promised to re-sign restricted free agent Draymond Green to a hefty raise. Since they won’t be big spenders elsewhere in free agency, that leaves the draft as a prime opportunity to add the coveted sharpshooter. The... Читать дальше...

Two people were injured when a driver in an SUV hit four cars and careened through the front of a pizzeria in Fairfield on Monday morning, officials said. Police and firefighters arriving at the scene learned that an unidentified 51-year-old Fairfield man was driving his SUV south on North Texas Street when he hit four other vehicles while attempting to make a right turn onto Pacific Avenue, police said. The SUV slammed through the facade of the New York Pizza Express and came to rest in the kitchen area... Читать дальше...

(left – USA defender, Julie Johnston) Two second half goals against a resilient Colombia was enough to send the United States through to a quarterfinal match up against China in the World Cup this coming Friday. Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd were the goalscorers. The first half was a physical affair, Colombia unafraid to attack, and

San Francisco officials failed Monday to restart internal disciplinary cases against police officers accused of exchanging racist and homophobic text messages, with a Superior Court judge setting a hearing on whether the city botched the cases by violating the statute of limitations. The officers’ argument, if accepted by the Police Commission or the courts, would allow them to keep their jobs without punishment. Some officers were placed on unpaid leave after the text messages came to light, but they have since returned to paid suspension. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that Americans stand united in rejecting the targeting of any religious or ethnic group as he marked Islam's holy month of Ramadan. Obama opened the White House to Muslim Americans for a traditional iftar dinner, which follows daily fasting from dawn to sunset.

The ability of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and other utilities to engage in back-channel talks with top California Public Utilities Commission officials unfairly skews decisions in favor of big-money interests, and the practice should be banned in rate cases, a review requested by the state agency concluded Monday. [...] back-door communications became notorious last year when e-mails showed that a PG&E executive had engaged in a secret campaign to obtain a preferred judge in a $1.3 billion... Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina’s governor declared Monday that the Confederate flag should be removed from the State House grounds as she acknowledged that its use as a symbol of hatred by the man accused of killing nine black church members has made it too divisive to display in such a public space. The white man appeared in photos waving Confederate flags and burning or desecrating U.S. flags, and purportedly wrote of fomenting racial violence. The massacre inside the Emanuel African Methodist... Читать дальше...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the moments before his death, a slain New Orleans police officer struggled with the man accused of shooting him from the back seat of a police vehicle as the man shouted, "Let me go before you kill yourself!" according to court documents released Monday. Boys is accused of shooting Holloway from the back seat of a police vehicle — after being frisked and handcuffed — and then escaping. According to the application police made Saturday requesting an arrest warrant for Boys... Читать дальше...