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SATURDAY’S EVENT
LOCAL COLLEGES
FOOTBALL
NCAA DIVISION III QUARTERFINAL
Bethel (Minn.) (12-0) at North Central College (12-0), noon.
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
HIGH SCHOOLS
BOYS BASKETBALL
Benet 56, LaSalle (Pa.) 32
PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE SHOOTOUT
Perspectives 52, Marian Catholic 48
Marian (2-4): Cardan Gordon 10 points, 4 rebounds.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
CHICAGO ELITE CLASSIC
At Credit Union 1 Arena
Bloom 54, Lane Tech 36
Bloom (6-0): Kazaria Smith 18 points, 11 rebounds.
Naperville Central 69, Phillps 33
Naperville Central (5-1): Trinity Jones 32 points, 10 rebounds, 4 steals. Erin Hackett 23 points, 4 assists, 3 steals.
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
HIGH SCHOOLS
BOYS BASKETBALL
Argo 62, Chicago Christian 53
Argo (3-3): Darron Greer Jr. 29 points.
Chicago Christian (3-3): Garrett Murphy 22 points.
Aurora Central Catholic 52, Lisle 51
ACC (5-1): Nick Czerak 18 points.
Batavia 59, Addison Trail 37
Benet 42, St. Joseph’s (Pa) 25
Deerfield 66, Quincy 31
Deerfield (6-1): Jake Pollack 23 points. Evan Nagler 19 points.
Downers Grove South 86, Streamwood 32
Glenbrook North 64, Mundelein 41
Grant 66, Richmond-Burton 48
Grant (2-2): Charles Schlicht 15 points. Jayden Smith 14 points. Damarrion Smith 12 points
Hoffman Estates 53, Hampshire 46
Hampshire (0-6): Tyler Johnson 10 points.
Jacobs 54, Corliss 46
Lake Park 43, Carmel 41 (2 OT)
Neuqua Valley 65, Lake Forest 39
North Chicago 58, Antioch 41
North Chicago (4-2, 1-0 Northern Lake County): E’Shawn Hughes 14 points.
Antioch (1-5, 0-1): Cooper Marabella 15 points.
Palatine 64, Libertyville 49
Libertyville (2-3): Bryce Wegrzyn 20 points. Nick Baker 10 points.
Plainfield East 79, Larkin 33
Plainfield North 64, East Aurora 61
Richards 75, Sandburg 68
Richards (4-2): Messiah Horton 23 points, 5 rebounds, 5 steals. Travon Gourdine 21 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists.
Sandburg (4-1): Will Johnson 15 points. Malachi Perkins 13 points.
Wauconda 72, Lakes 68
Wauconda (2-2, 1-0 Northern Lake County): Alex Ortega 30 points. Tony Salemi 15 points, 4 rebounds. Austin Carlsen 10 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals.
Lakes (3-3, 0-1): Carter Martin 14 points. Dylan McCann 12 points.
Waukegan 62, Evanston 58
Waukegan (5-1): Rico Love 20 points, 7 rebounds. Carter Newsome 20 points. Simereon Carter 14 points, 5 rebounds.
AURORA CHRISTIAN BURNEY WILKIE CLASSIC
Aurora Christian 65, Joliet Catholic 57, championship
Aurora Christian (6-0): Jacob Baumann 21 points. Preston Morel 21 points.
JCA (2-2): Donavyn Simmons 20 points. Brady Tunkel 15 points.
IMSA 50, Parkview Christian 47, third
St. Edward 54, Harvest-Westminster 51 (OT), fifth
St. Edward (4-2): Owen Searcy 20 points, 7 rebounds. J.T. Birns 13 points, 6 steals, 5 rebounds.
CHICAGO ELITE CLASSIC
At Credit Union 1 Arena
Homewood-Flossmoor 55, Bolingbrook 50
H-F (5-0): Darrius Hawkins Jr. 16 points. Marvin Douglas 15 points, 9 rebounds.
St. Laurence 57, Rich Township 55
Curie 65, Warren 60
Warren (2-1): Joel Paasch 16 points. Jaxson Davis 15 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists. Braylon Walker 12 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists.
Sidwell Friends (D.C.) 46, Marist 34
Marist (4-1): T.J. Tate 10 points.
LANARK EASTLAND SHOOTOUT
Hinckley-Big Rock 60, Warren 51
Hinckley-Big Rock (3-1): Marshall Ledbetter 20 points. Jacob Orin 19 points.
Sandwich 41, Comanche (Iowa) 39
Sandwich (1-4): Griffin Somlock 20 points.
LENA-WINSLOW STATELINE SHOOTOUT
Lena-Winslow 65, Beecher 30
Beecher (1-5): Wences Baumgartner 10 points.
Scales Mound 60, Indian Creek 40
Indian Creek (2-2): Isaac Willis 13 points.
WAUBONSIE VALLEY CROHN’S AND COLITIS AWARENESS SHOOTOUT
Kaneland 63, West Aurora 48
Kaneland (4-0): Marshawn Cocroft 26 points. Jeffrey Hassan 14 points, 14 rebounds, 4 blocks.
West Aurora (0-6): Travis Brown 17 points.
Stevenson 65, Naperville North 41
Stevenson (4-1): Donny Williams 19 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals. Rocco Pagliocca 15 points. Aidan Albrecht 12 points, 4 rebounds.
Waubonsie Valley 55, Conant 33
York 65, Highland Park 33
Highland Park (1-5): Gray Kanter 20 points.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Deerfield 48, Elk Grove 19
Deerfield (3-3): Zoe Smith 12 points. Maddie Swender 10 points.
Hampshire 42, Belvidere North 29
Hampshire (3-3): Jiselle Lopez 13 points. Peyton McCarthy 11 points.
Marian Catholic 48, Hillcrest 35
Marian Central Catholic 37, Rosary 30
Metea Valley 47, Plainfield East 36
Metea (2-5): Arabella Bucher 11 points. Payton Giannone 11 points. Haylie Wisch 11 points.
Mundelein 56, Dundee-Crown 24
Mundelein (8-0): Grace Dunigan 20 points. Casey Vyverman 16 points.
Naperville North 42, York 29
Oak Forest 43, Chicago Christian 35
Oak Forest (4-3): Maddie Martinez 13 points. Natalia Covarrubias 11 points.
Oak Lawn 65, Crete-Monee 47
Oak Lawn (4-2): Liv Perry 24 points, 10 rebounds. Kenadie Haubenreiser 11 points, 8 rebounds.
Providence 77, Joliet Catholic 47
Providence (6-1): Landrie Callahan 31 points. Kennady Kotowski 11 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists. Layken Callahan 9 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds.
Richmond-Burton 51, Sandwich 34
Sandburg 61, Grayslake North 39
Sandburg (2-4): Zoe Trunk 20 points. Olivia Trunk 14 points, 8 rebounds.
Stagg 49, Romeoville 30
Vernon Hills 48, Barrington 44
Vernon Hills (6-1): Emma Jocson 16 points.
Winnebago 46, Kaneland 40
Kaneland (4-2): Kyra Lilly 15 points.
FREMD DAVE YATES CHICAGOLAND SHOWCASE
Benet 44, St. Ignatius 32
Carmel 52, Maine South 40
Libertyville 49, Evanston 45
Libertyville (6-1): Ella Pawelczyk 17 points. Lily Fisher 11 points.
Lockport 63, Montini 43
Marist 62, Lake Zurich 37
Marist (7-0): Olivia Cosme 18 points. Lily Porter 13 points. Lucy Cosme 11 points.
Waubonsie Valley 65, Homewood-Flossmoor 49
Waubonsie (8-0): Arie Garcia-Evans 21 points.
Butler 46, Batavia 40
Batavia (2-5): Aubrey Schwab 12 points.
Downers Grove North 39, Geneva 29
Fremd 55, Neuqua Valley 30
Glenbrook South 53, Mother McAuley 48
Rolling Meadows 51, Grayslake Central 41
BOYS WRESTLING
HINSDALE SOUTH MATOZZI INVITATIONAL
Top local teams: 2. Oak Lawn 138.5, 5. St. Laurence 122.5
Local winners: 106 pounds: Liam Kissane, St. Laurence. 165: Titus Woodring, T.F. South. 215: Xavier Bitner, St. Laurence.
JOLIET CENTRAL MCLAUGHLIN INVITATIONAL
Top local teams: 1. Providence 227, 2. Marist 221.5, 5. Yorkville Christian 117.5.
Local winners: 113: Nate Ortiz, Providence. 120: Griffin Heeney, Providence. 126: Chazz Robinson, Homewood-Flossmoor. 138: Tommy Banas, Providence. 144: Axel Rodriguez, Marist. 157: Justus Heeg, Providence. 165: Ethan Sonne, Marist. 215: Jackson Allen, Yorkville Christian.
GIRLS WRESTLING
LARKIN ROYAL RUMBLE
Top teams: 1. East Aurora 211, 2. Andrew co-op 171.5, 3. Batavia 167.5.
Local winners: 100: Lily Enos, Batavia. 120: Piper Booe, Andrew co-op. 130: Lily White, Bartlett. 140: Alketa Picari, Metea Valley. 145: Lupita Garcia, East Aurora. 155: Audrey Sheldon, Batavia. 190: Jadelin Caballero, Larkin.
LOCAL COLLEGES
FOOTBALL
NCAA DIVISION III PLAYOFFS
Third Round
North Central College 35, Wisconsin La Crosse 27
NCC (12-0): Garret Wilson 16-for-26, 168 yards, TD, 14-yard TD run. Donovan McNeal 12 carries, 149 yards, 5-yard TD run. Sean Allen 6-yard TD run. Thomas Skokna 9 receptions, 103 yards, 42-yard TD reception. Rahmareon Roby 59-yard INT return TD.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Aurora University 103, Illinois Tech 77
Governors State 80, Viterbo (Wis.) 56
Harper 78, Prairie State 76
Lawrence (Wis.) 88, Lake Forest 77
Lewis 56, Lincoln (Mo.) 47
Morton 74, South Suburban 58
North Central College 68, Illinois Wesleyan 57
Olive-Harvey 88, Lake County 85 (OT)
Olivet Nazarene 85, St. Xavier 74
St. Francis 78, Holy Cross (Ind.) 65
Trinity Christian 87, Judson 81 (2 OT)
Vincennes (Ind.) 101, Elgin 66
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Aurora University 71, Illinois Tech 50
Elgin 99, Wright 38
Illinois Wesleyan 75, North Central College 66
Lawrence (Wis.) 73, Lake Forest 58
Lincoln (Mo.) 67, Lewis 65
Prairie State 56, Harper 45
St. Francis 67, Calumet (Ind.) 33
St. Xavier 79, Indiana Northwest 66
South Suburban 93, Morton 59
Southwestern Michigan 75, Joliet Junior College 56
Viterbo (Wis.) 61, Governors State 56
Compiled by Josh Krockey.
James anota triple, suma 29 y Doncic logra triple-doble en victoria de Lakers sobre 76ers
Associated Press
FILADELFIA (AP) — LeBron James encestó un triple decisivo en los últimos momentos y anotó 29 puntos, Luka Doncic logró un triple-doble y los Lakers de Los Ángeles vencieron la noche del domingo 112-108 a los 76ers de Filadelfia.
Joel Embiid, quien tuvo una noche terrible para los 76ers, encestó un tiro de 18 pies que empató el marcador a 105. James respondió inmediatamente con un triple a falta de 1:12 para el final para tomar la delantera y añadió un tiro de 20 pies en la siguiente posesión para poner el marcador 110-105.
Doncic terminó con 31 puntos, 15 rebotes y 11 asistencias.
Tyrese Maxey lideró a Filadelfia con 28 puntos. Embiid falló 17 de 21 tiros y anotó 16 puntos.
Doncic, el líder anotador de la NBA, se perdió los dos últimos partidos mientras viajaba a Eslovenia, donde su prometida dio a luz a su hija. James se ausentó el viernes por la noche contra Boston debido a una ciática, que lo mantuvo fuera de juego durante los primeros 14 partidos de esta temporada, y artritis en la articulación del pie izquierdo.
Embiid ha lidiado con varias lesiones de rodilla esta temporada, pero no estaba dispuesto a perderse este partido contra James, su compañero de medalla de oro en los Juegos de París 2024, y los Lakers. Embiid falló diez de 11 tiros en la primera mitad, pero estuvo seis de seis desde la línea de tiros libres.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Tailandia lanza ataques aéreos a lo largo de la frontera con Camboya en recrudecimiento de tensiones
BANGKOK (AP) — Tailandia lanzó el lunes ataques aéreos a lo largo de la disputada frontera con Camboya, mientras ambas partes intercambiaban acusaciones de lanzar el primer ataque.
Las tensiones han estado latentes desde que ambas naciones del sudeste asiático firmaron una tregua en octubre a instancias del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, después de que sus disputas territoriales condujeron a cinco días de combate que causaron la muerte de decenas de soldados y civiles en julio pasado.
El portavoz del ejército tailandés, mayor general Winthai Suvaree, afirmó que las tropas camboyanas dispararon primero contra distintas zonas de territorio tailandés. Informó que un soldado tailandés murió y otros cuatro resultaron heridos, además de que se inició con la evacuación de civiles de las áreas afectadas.
Tailandia utilizó aviones “para atacar objetivos militares en varias áreas para suprimir los disparos de apoyo camboyano”, manifestó.
La portavoz del Ministerio de Defensa de Camboya, Maly Socheata, expresó que el ejército tailandés atacó primero a las tropas camboyanas. Afirmó que Camboya no tomó represalias durante los ataques iniciales del lunes.
“Camboya insta a que Tailandia detenga inmediatamente todas las actividades hostiles que amenazan la paz y la estabilidad en la región”, comentó.
El alto el fuego mediado por Estados Unidos que puso fin al breve conflicto se vio amenazado el mes pasado después de que tropas tailandesas sufrieron heridas por minas terrestres. Ambas partes continúan intercambiando acusaciones sobre la responsabilidad, incluso cuando se supone que deben cooperar para eliminar las minas.
Trump afirmó a mediados de noviembre que había detenido una guerra entre estos dos países mientras las tensiones se mantenían latentes.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
AI Illiteracy
AI Illiteracy
Authored by Mark Bauerlein via The Epoch Times,
In the old days, English class meant two things: one, reading Shakespeare, Tennyson et al., and two, learning to write. The classics plus grammar and punctuation—they made English a serious subject respected for its content and skills. Of course, it’s not like that any longer.
The traditional literary canon is ever less central to the field, which now spends lots of time on “media literacy,” critical thinking, “informational texts,” and other topics unrelated to literary history. Those changes have come about from above, we should note, from experts in curriculum and assessment.
As for writing, the changes have been even more dramatic and taken place in just the past few years. Artificial intelligence (AI) has upset everything. It has swept into education so suddenly and profoundly that teachers are scrambling daily to cope with its effects. This time, it’s not the experts who are leading the way—it’s the kids. They aren’t writing anymore; AI does it for them. Some keywords, a few clicks, an adjustment or two, and “Voila!” the paper’s done. What late-teen can resist?
If they’re going to “meet students where they are,” as the ed school saying goes, teachers cannot assign any out-of-class writing tasks and expect students to do the work themselves. The lure is too strong, the process too easy. It’s safer than plagiarism, too, because AI creates a unique script for every student who requests one, not a borrowed script that can be unearthed through a Google search by the teacher using any unusual sentences that pop up in a paper as clues. Also, AI produces such authentic student prose that teachers haven’t the time or energy to scan each submission for subtle signs of AI usage.
The whole practice of English must change—it already is doing so.
No more out-of-class-writing, no extended research papers (AI does research as well as composing sentences), and no more in-class writing such as essay exams using computers. Blue books are back! One teacher told me recently that he plans to give oral exams to each student one-on-one at the end of the semester (his classes are small enough for him to do so). It’s a good idea, because in an oral exam, he can probe the student’s knowledge of specific elements in “The Great Gatsby” and other works on the syllabus, thus verifying that the student actually read the book and not just an AI summary of it.
Unfortunately, however, no amount of AI avoidance on the part of the teacher can replace what has been lost—namely, sustained, independent composition, a youth in a dorm room or the library spending two hours on his own verbalizing ideas, polishing sentences, and smoothing transitions. Those hours are a value in themselves, for writing is developed by practice, not by study. It’s an exercise, not a content. Reading a book on prose style will not make you a good stylist. A skilled wordsmith has spent years building vocabulary, acquiring a feel for sentence length and paragraph structure, and recognizing when to show and when to tell, what diction best suits this and that topic, and where irony and figurative language might be effective. It’s a plodding progress with lots of trial and error. Common errors are persistent (misplaced modifiers, oblique descriptions, too many passive verbs and prepositional phrases, etc.). An attentive coach is needed.
Nobody enjoys it, not the student who stares at the blank page in dismay or who rereads a paragraph he’s just written and knows it’s awful, and not the English teacher who feels the student’s dismay and joins the struggle to squeeze some eloquence out of that disjointed paragraph. I remember many sessions with students in office hours, the two of us going over a rough draft sentence by sentence as I directed her attention to a comma or a “which” or a verb tense and asking, “Is there anything wrong there?” and waited for her to figure it out. I had to be patient. She had to concentrate. Time slowed down. By the finish, she sighed and smiled weakly, while I looked forward to happy hour.
There’s no replacement for this humanistic boot camp, however. Most people can’t learn to write in any other way. If AI saves them from this unpleasant, plodding training, happiness will go up, but competence won’t. The impact will spread far beyond the campus, giving us an AI-dominant culture and a low-literacy society.
We might see in the coming years a curious irony: As AI does more and more of the work of communication, those times in which a more meaningful, unusual, impressive communication is needed—for instance, when a politician strives to deliver a rousing speech at a time of crisis—will make those few individuals who did get strong literary formation appear as rare assets.
Message to parents: Encourage your kids to keep a diary and write the day’s events in it every night.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or ZeroHedge.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 12/07/2025 – 22:10
Tailandia lanza ataque aéreo en zona fronteriza con Camboya mientras se recrudecen las tensiones
BANGKOK (AP) — Tailandia lanza ataque aéreo en zona fronteriza con Camboya mientras se recrudecen las tensiones.
Mapping US Income Inequality By State
Mapping US Income Inequality By State
The wealth of America’s top 1% sits around $52 trillion today, rising by $4 trillion over the year.
Overall, the top 1% of U.S. earners need to make around $800,000 or more in salary per household.
Meanwhile, about 30% of American households earned less than $50,000 last year, highlighting clear divides in wage distribution across the country.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows income inequality by state, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Spectrum of Income Inequality in America
In 2024, the U.S. Gini coefficient was 0.48, representing a high degree of inequality.
Effectively, a score of one means that a single person would earn all of the income, and 0 would represent perfect equality. Last year, the top 20% of earners pocketed 52.2% of the country’s income according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In contrast, the bottom fifth of earners received just 3.1%.
Yet, income is distributed differently across states. Last year, income inequality was the most severe in Washington, D.C. and New York, each with a 0.52 Gini index score.
State
Gini Coefficient 2024
District of Columbia
0.52
New York
0.52
Connecticut
0.50
Louisiana
0.49
California
0.49
Massachusetts
0.48
Illinois
0.48
Florida
0.48
Texas
0.48
North Carolina
0.48
Mississippi
0.48
Pennsylvania
0.47
Tennessee
0.47
Alabama
0.47
Georgia
0.47
Washington
0.47
New Mexico
0.47
Arkansas
0.47
Rhode Island
0.47
New Jersey
0.47
Kentucky
0.47
Oklahoma
0.47
Virginia
0.47
Michigan
0.47
West Virginia
0.47
South Carolina
0.47
Nevada
0.47
Missouri
0.46
Ohio
0.46
Arizona
0.46
Colorado
0.46
Wyoming
0.46
Montana
0.46
North Dakota
0.46
Maine
0.46
Maryland
0.46
Kansas
0.46
Oregon
0.46
Vermont
0.46
Hawaii
0.45
Indiana
0.45
Minnesota
0.45
Delaware
0.45
New Hampshire
0.45
Nebraska
0.45
South Dakota
0.44
Wisconsin
0.44
Alaska
0.44
Iowa
0.44
Idaho
0.43
Utah
0.42
In Washington, D.C. the top 20% of earners made 27 times more than the bottom 20% in 2023 according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which is the highest ratio of any state between the top and bottom quintiles.
New York, on the other hand, is home to more billionaires than any other state except for California, creating huge disparities in income. Since 2019, real wage growth among the Big Apple’s top 3% soared 34.5%, more than triple all other income tiers.
Falling near the U.S. average are Florida, Texas, and Massachusetts, providing a more representative picture of income inequality in the country.
In comparison, Utah ranks lowest overall, a position it has regularly held for some time. Utah has the sixth-highest employment share (65.4%) in the country, keeping average family incomes more even.
Along with this, Utah has one of the best social mobility index scores nationwide, likely influenced by narrower wage disparities.
To learn more about this topic, check out this graphic on wealth inequality by country in 2025.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 12/07/2025 – 21:35
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/mapping-us-income-inequality-state
Murray anota 34 puntos y los Nuggets vencen 115-106 a los Hornets
CHARLOTTE, Carolina del Norte, EE.UU. (AP) — Jamal Murray anotó 34 puntos, Nikola Jokic terminó con 28 unidades, 11 asistencias y nueve rebotes, y los Nuggets de Denver se mantuvieron firmes para derrotar a los Hornets de Charlotte 115-106 el domingo por la noche, extendiendo su récord de franquicia a una racha de diez victorias consecutivas como visitantes.
Tim Hardaway Jr. sumó 14 tantos desde la banca para los Nuggets (17-6), quienes están teniendo el mejor inicio de temporada en la historia de la franquicia.
Miles Bridges terminó con 24 puntos mientras que Brandon Miller añadió 16 para los Hornets, quienes jugaron sin seis jugadores debido a lesiones, incluyendo a sus dos principales bases, LaMelo Ball y Collin Sexton. El novato Liam McNeeley aportó desde la banca con un máximo de carrera de 13 puntos para los Hornets, acertando cuatro de cinco tiros desde la línea de tres puntos.
Murray, quien había anotado 52 puntos con diez triples en la victoria de la semana pasada 135-120 sobre Indiana, explotó con 23 unidades en el primer cuarto el domingo, pero los Nuggets aún estaban detrás 58-57 al medio tiempo.
Todo cambió en la segunda mitad cuando Jokic comenzó a tomar el control, usando su versatilidad para anotar y crear oportunidades para sus compañeros.
Los Nuggets construyeron una ventaja de 13 puntos en el cuarto período, pero los Hornets (7-17) se acercaron a siete después de que Miller encestara un triple desde el ala más el tiro libre adicional para reducir la ventaja a siete. Sin embargo, los Hornets no pudieron aprovechar ese impulso.
Murray terminó el juego con 14 de 25 en tiros de campo y no fue un factor importante en la segunda mitad con solo nueve puntos.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
Aldama anota 22 y Grizzlies logran amplia ventaja para victoria 119-96 sobre Trail Blazers
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — Santi Aldama anotó 22 puntos, Jaylen Wells y Kentavious Caldwell-Pope añadieron 17 cada uno y los Grizzlies de Memphis construyeron el domingo por la noche una gran ventaja en la primera mitad en una victoria de 119-96 sobre los Trail Blazers de Portland.
Jock Landale terminó con 15 puntos para ayudar a Memphis a ganar por séptima vez en nueve juegos.
Jerami Grant lideró a Portland con 21 puntos. Deni Avdija y Shaedon Sharpe tuvieron 17 puntos cada uno. Avdija añadió siete rebotes y siete asistencias, pero su racha de al menos 25 puntos, cinco rebotes y cinco asistencias terminó en cinco juegos.
Portland no contó con ninguno de sus dos principales centros. Donovan Clingan se perdió su segundo juego consecutivo debido a una contusión en la parte inferior de la pantorrilla izquierda, mientras que Robert Williams III fue descartado a última hora por una enfermedad. Eso dejó al novato de siete pies dos pulgadas Yang Hansen, la 16ª selección general el verano pasado, para comenzar su primer juego de la temporada. El jugador chino tuvo cuatro puntos y cinco rebotes.
Memphis lideró 66-46 al descanso, los 46 puntos de Portland igualaron la producción más baja de la temporada en una mitad. Catorce pérdidas de balón y un 35% de tiros en general contribuyeron a los problemas de los Trail Blazers.
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Deportes en español AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
America’s New National Security Strategy: A Surprise Departure On China Policy
America’s New National Security Strategy: A Surprise Departure On China Policy
Authored by Arnaud Bertrand via The Ron Paul Institute
In a big development, the final US National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the US’s number one priority, saying that the US will now “assert and enforce a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine.”
In terms of military presence, they write that this means “a readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere, and away from theaters whose relative import to American national security has declined in recent decades or years.”
On China, a couple of points…
The most striking aspect to me is that China is NOT anymore defined as “the” primary threat, “most consequential challenge,” “pacing threat,” or similar formulations used in previous such documents.
It’s clearly downgraded as a priority. Based on the document’s structure and emphasis, the top U.S. priorities could be characterized as:
1) Homeland security and borders (migration, cartels, etc.)
2) Western Hemisphere (Monroe Doctrine restoration)
3) Economic security (reindustrialization, supply chains)
4) China and Indo-Pacific
To be clear they don’t define China as an ally or a partner in any shape or form but primarily as:
1) an economic competitor;
2) a source of supply chain vulnerabilities (but also a trading partner); and
3) a player who regional dominance should be “ideally” denied because it “has major implications for the U.S. economy.”
Interestingly, I believe for the first time ever, they mention the possibility of being overmatched militarily by China. They write that “deterring a conflict over Taiwan, ideally by preserving military overmatch, is a priority” – but “ideally” clearly means that it’s ideal, but not necessarily a given.
The fact that they call deterring conflict over Taiwan merely “a priority” also suggests, by definition, that it’s no more a top strategic priority, or a vital interest. On Taiwan they also clearly imply that if the US’s “First Island Chain allies” don’t “step up and spend – and more importantly do – much more for collective defense,” then there might be “a balance of forces so unfavorable to us as to make defending that island impossible.”
They still maintain that “the United States does not support any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait” but, clearly, there’s a widening gap between what the US says it opposes and what it’s actually willing to do about it.
Interestingly as well, contrary to previous such document, there is zero ideological dimension in the document when it comes to China. No “democracy vs. autocracy” framing, no “rules-based international order” to defend, no values-based crusade. China is treated as a practical issue to be managed, not an ideological adversary to be defeated.
In fact the document explicitly mentions, I think for the first time ever as well, that US policy is now:
“not grounded in traditional, political ideology”
that they “seek good relations and peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change that differs widely from their traditions and histories.”
and that they seek “good relations with nations whose governing systems differ from ours.”
…Which is quite a stunning departure from the rhetoric of the past few decades. We all knew this but it’s now amply clear that the era of missionary liberal internationalism in US foreign policy is dead and buried.
The competition with China is primarily described in economic terms, explicitly so: they write the competition is about “winning the economic future” and that economics are “the ultimate stakes.”
Notably, they admit that the tariffs approach “that began in 2017” when it comes to China essentially failed because “China adapted” and has “strengthened its hold on supply chains.”
The new strategy, as described in the document, is to build an economic coalition against China that can exert more leverage than the US economy alone – a tacit admission that America just isn’t powerful enough on its own anymore.
The contradiction is however obvious: it is unclear how you build an economic coalition against China while simultaneously waging trade wars against your coalition partners, demanding they shoulder more of their own defense, and treating every allied relationship as a deal to be renegotiated in America’s favor.
At some point these “allies” will be asking a very obvious question: why sacrifice our economic interests to prop up an America that can no longer compete on its own – and that offers us less and less in return? The document can be found here.
Tyler Durden
Sun, 12/07/2025 – 21:00
Jeff Kent es elegido al Salón de la Fama del béisbol; Bonds, Clemens y Valenzuela quedan fuera
Por RONALD BLUM
ORLANDO, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — Jeff Kent fue elegido al Salón de la Fama del béisbol el domingo por el comité de la era contemporánea, el mexicano Fernando Valenzuela no alcanzó los votos necesarios y las estrellas manchadas por esteroides Barry Bonds y Roger Clemens quedaron una vez más marginados.
Kent apareció en 14 de 16 boletas, dos más de las 12 necesarias para el mínimo del 75%.
El boricua Carlos Delgado recibió nueve votos, seguido por Don Mattingly y Dale Murphy con seis cada uno.
Bonds, Clemens, Gary Sheffield y el mexicano Fernando Valenzuela recibieron menos de cinco votos cada uno.
Kent será inducido al salón en Cooperstown, Nueva York, el 26 de julio junto con cualquier otro elegido por la Asociación de Escritores de Béisbol de América, cuya votación se anunciará el 20 de enero.
Segunda base cinco veces All-Star, bateó .290 con 377 jonrones y 1.518 carreras impulsadas a lo largo de 17 temporadas con Toronto (1992), los Mets de Nueva York (1992-96), Cleveland (1996), San Francisco (1997-2002), Houston (2003-04) y los Dodgers de Los Ángeles (2005-08).
Sus 351 jonrones como segunda base son la mayor cantidad para un jugador en esa posición.
Kent recibió el 15.2% en su primera aparición en la boleta de la BBWAA en 2014 y un máximo del 46.5% en la última de sus diez veces en la boleta en 2023.
El Salón en 2022 reestructuró sus comités de veteranos por tercera vez en 12 años, estableciendo paneles para considerar la era contemporánea desde 1980 en adelante, así como la era clásica. La era contemporánea del béisbol tiene boletas separadas para jugadores y otra para managers, ejecutivos y árbitros.
Cada comité se reúne cada tres años. Los managers, ejecutivos y árbitros contemporáneos serán considerados en diciembre de 2026, los candidatos de la era clásica en diciembre de 2027 y los jugadores de la era contemporánea nuevamente en diciembre de 2028.
Bajo un cambio anunciado por el Salón en marzo pasado, los candidatos que recibieron menos de cinco votos no son elegibles para la boleta de ese comité durante el próximo ciclo de tres años. Un candidato que es eliminado, reaparece más tarde en una boleta y nuevamente recibe menos de cinco votos, sería excluido de futuras apariciones en la boleta.
Bonds y Clemens no lograron ser elegidos en 2022 en su décima y última aparición en la boleta de la BBWAA, cuando Bonds recibió 260 de 394 votos (66%) y Clemens 257 (65.2%). Sheffield recibió el 63.9% en su voto final de la BBWAA en 2024, obteniendo 246 votos y quedando a 43 de distancia.
Bonds negó haber usado conscientemente drogas para mejorar el rendimiento y Clemens sostiene que nunca usó PEDs. Sheffield dijo que no sabía que las sustancias que usó durante el entrenamiento antes de la temporada 2002 contenían esteroides.
El jardinero siete veces MVP de la Liga Nacional y 14 veces All-Star, Bonds estableció el récord de jonrones en su carrera con 762 y el récord de la temporada con 73 en 2001.
Ganador de siete premios Cy Young, Clemens tuvo un récord de 354-184 con una efectividad de 3.12 y 4,672 ponches, tercero detrás de Nolan Ryan (5,714) y Randy Johnson (4,875).
La boleta de diciembre de 2027 es la primera oportunidad para que Pete Rose aparezca en una boleta del Salón después de que el comisionado de béisbol Rob Manfred decidiera en mayo que la suspensión permanente de Rose terminó con su muerte en septiembre de 2024. El Salón prohíbe que cualquier persona en la lista de inelegibles permanentes aparezca en una boleta.
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