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Fallece Terrance Gore, veloz jardinero y campeón de 3 Series Mundiales
Por The Associated Press
Terrance Gore, un veloz jardinero que jugó para tres campeones de la Serie Mundial mientras pasaba partes de ocho temporadas en las Grandes Ligas, ha fallecido. Tenía 34 años.
Chad Funderburk, un amigo de la familia que también trabajó con Gore mediante su academia de béisbol, confirmó que el pelotero murió el viernes por la noche. Funderburk dejó a la familia de Gore la responsabilidad de proporcionar más detalles.
Aunque Gore era conocido por sus virtudes atléticas, Funderburk enfatizó que era “un ser humano mucho más amable”.
“Era un hombre generoso, generoso con muchos jóvenes… Así era Terrance”, expresó Funderburk.
Gore, originario de Georgia, fue seleccionado por Kansas City en la vigésima ronda del draft amateur de 2011. Bateó para .216, anotó 33 carreras y robó 43 bases en 52 intentos durante 112 juegos de temporada regular con los Reales, los Cachorros de Chicago, los Dodgers de Los Ángeles y los Mets de Nueva York.
“Terrance fue una parte inolvidable de nuestra organización con un talento único que lo catapultó a algunos de los momentos más importantes en la historia de los Reales”, comentó J.J. Picollo, gerente general de los Reales, en un comunicado del equipo. “Aunque su velocidad y atleticismo eran lo que la mayoría de la gente notaba de inmediato, aquellos de nosotros que tuvimos la oportunidad de conocerlo también recordamos su energía, su humildad y el impacto que tuvo en grandes momentos en el escenario más grande de este deporte”.
Gore fue utilizado principalmente como corredor emergente y reemplazo defensivo. Debutó con los Reales en 2014 y robó 23 bases antes de conseguir su primer hit, un sencillo al jardín central con los Cachorros contra Max Scherzer en la novena entrada de una derrota por 10-3 en Washington, el 8 de septiembre de 2018.
El pelotero apareció en dos juegos de postemporada durante la marcha de Kansas City hacia el campeonato en 2015. Jugó en dos duelos de temporada regular en 2020, cuando los Dodgers ganaron la Serie Mundial.
Apareció en un juego de playoffs de la Liga Nacional con Atlanta en 2021, y los Bravos ganaron el Clásico de Otoño.
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LeBron James logra 20 puntos y 10 asistencias en victoria de Lakers sin Doncic ante Warriors
LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — LeBron James anotó 20 puntos, repartió diez asistencias y capturó siete rebotes para ayudar a que los Lakers de Los Ángeles vencieran el sábado 105-99 a los Warriors de Golden State.
Los Ángeles ganó su tercer partido consecutivo a pesar de no contar con la superestrella Luka Doncic, quien sufrió una leve distensión de isquiotibiales el jueves por la noche. Tampoco jugó el pívot DeAndre Ayton, descartado a última hora debido a una lesión de rodilla.
Luke Kennard anotó diez puntos en su debut con los Lakers después de ser adquirido en un canje con Atlanta el jueves. Aportó un importante triple desde la esquina y asistió a Jarred Vanderbilt debajo del aro para una clavada como parte de una racha final de 11-0.
Rui Hachimura sumó 18 puntos, Austin Reaves añadió 16, y Marcus Smart finalizó con 15.
Moses Moody consiguió 25 puntos para liderar a los Warriors, quienes han perdido cuatro de sus últimos seis partidos. Stephen Curry se perdió su tercer encuentro consecutivo debido a una lesión de rodilla.
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Will Falling Birth Rates Mean A More Conservative World?
Will Falling Birth Rates Mean A More Conservative World?
Authored by Michael Barone via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago—the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an upward blip in birth rates during the war, “the general curve is downward. The position is not quite so dangerous as it is sometimes said to be, but can only be put right if the curve not only rises sharply but does so within ten or at most twenty years.”
“Otherwise,” he went on, forebodingly, “the population will not only fall, but, what is worse, will consist predominantly of middle-aged people. If that point is reached, the decline may never be retrievable.” Orwell did not live to see it—he died at the age of 46 in 1950—but the danger was averted. Postwar birth rates rose in Britain and parts of Europe, though not so robustly as in the United States, where the baby boom peaked in 1957 and petered out after the introduction of the birth control pill in 1962.
The peak U.S. fertility rate, or the projection of how many children the median woman would have if current birth rates continued, hovered above 3.5 and then plunged to 1.74 in the bicentennial year of 1976, just about the same as 2025’s 1.79.
Fertility rates remained low in the 1980s, then rose and occasionally reached the replacement rate of 2.1 in the high-immigration 1990s through the Great Recession of 2007. The latest rate was an uptick from the 1.6 levels of the COVID-19-affected 2020–24 period, leaving the United States with something similar to the dilemma Orwell warned Britons against.
And it’s not just the United States. Plunging birth rates are a worldwide phenomenon. Europe’s fertility rates have been well below replacement for years, with nations’ under-70 populations set to fall by 20 percent in the next decade, not only in economically stagnant Britain and France, where births are tilted toward immigrants, but also in rapidly growing, low-immigration Poland.
Birth rates have dropped below replacement rates since 2000 in most of Latin America, largely because of lower-income mothers, such as Hispanic women in the United States, having fewer children.
China, despite the repeal of its one-child policy in 2015, saw its fertility rate plunge to 0.9 in 2025. If births continued at current numbers, the lowest evidently since the 18th century, China’s population would shrink by more than half, from 1.4 billion to 625 million. Elsewhere in East Asia, the latest birth rates have fallen to 0.8 in Taiwan and Thailand, and even lower in South Korea.
Koreans have shown the determination to maintain their culture, including their alphabet and independence, in a neighborhood with many more Japanese and Chinese. They have risen from abject poverty to become world-class exporters since the 1953 armistice. But they may be at risk of disappearing: At current birth rates, every 100 South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren.
What is behind this worldwide trend? At least one thing is clear about what is happening in America—and how it’s different from previous periods. It’s that childbearing has increasingly become a partisan activity.
As the Institute for Family Studies’ Lyman Stone pointed out, American conservatives and progressives each had a fertility rate of 2.7 in 1980, well above replacement level. In the 2020s, conservatives’ fertility rate has dropped marginally to about 2.4, still above replacement level.
But the progressives’ rate has fallen to 1.8, below replacement level, and generally tracks the pattern in economically developed countries.
It’s not difficult to see why. Young women increasingly tilt left politically and also tend to marry less often, hold jobs outside the home, say they don’t want children, and travel more frequently. These behaviors correlate with childlessness or with delaying childbearing, which often results in fewer births than desired.
The gap reflects “systematic differences in family formation between conservatives and liberals,” analyst Zachary Donnini wrote. Before the Great Recession, this was masked by high birth rates among black women who were heavily Democratic. But black (and Hispanic) birth rates fell sharply after 2007.
At the same time, the gap in political and cultural attitudes between young men and women has grown wider, on campus (where young men are increasingly outnumbered) and off, and both marriage and premarital sex rates have declined.
Extrapolate those trends outward, and you see something like the picture revealed in the Census Bureau’s recently released 2026 estimates of states’ populations. They showed two-thirds of the national population increase occurring in safe red 2024 states, 21 percent in the seven seriously contested purple states, and only 11 percent in the safe blue states.
Similarly, since children tend to share their parents’ political views, Wall Street Journal contributor Louise Perry wrote, we can “expect the partisan fertility gap to usher in a United States that is more conservative. In fact, the whole of the developed world is on track to become more conservative.” That’s a trend that Orwell, a proud socialist, might well have found even more dangerous than it’s sometimes said to be.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/07/2026 – 23:20
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-falling-birth-rates-mean-more-conservative-world
Nikola Jokić’s triple-double sends Chicago Bulls to 136-120 loss to Denver Nuggets for 4th straight defeat
Nikola Jokić had 22 points, 17 assists and 14 rebounds for his second triple-double in as many games, Jamal Murray had 28 points and 11 assists and the Denver Nuggets ended a three-game skid with a 136-120 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night at the United Center.
It was Jokić’s 19th triple-double of the season. Tim Hardaway Jr. added 23 points for the Nuggets, who capped a three-game trip with a win after losing in Detroit and New York.
Matas Buzelis scored 21 points and Collin Sexton added 17 for the Bulls, who have lost four straight and seven of eight.
The Bulls led 104-97 after closing the third period with a 16-2 run, but the Nuggets started the final quarter on a 20-2 spurt to take the lead for good. Jokić and Julian Strawther capped the run with consecutive 3-pointers.
The Bulls went the first six minutes of the fourth before making their first field goal and finished the quarter 5-for-17 from the floor.
Jokić had nine points, 11 rebounds and seven assists in 17 first-half minutes, but the Bulls led 65-59 at the intermission.
Up next
Bulls: at the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night.
Nuggets: vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/chicago-bulls-denver-nuggets-nikola-jokic/
Nikola Jokic supera a Oscar Robertson con 2do mayor número de triples-dobles; Nuggets ganan a Bulls
CHICAGO (AP) — Nikola Jokic totalizó 22 puntos, 17 asistencias y 14 rebotes para superar a Oscar Robertson en la segunda posición de la lista de más triples-dobles en la historia de la NBA, y los Nuggets de Denver doblegaron el sábado 136-120 a los Bulls de Chicago.
Fue el 182º triple-doble de Jokic en temporada regular, el 19º de esta campaña y su segundo en igual número de partidos. Unicamente está detrás de Russell Westbrook, quien tiene 207.
Jamal Murray anotó 28 puntos y 11 asistencias por Denver, que cortó una seguidilla de tres derrotas. Tim Hardaway Jr. añadió 23 puntos a la causa de los Nuggets, quienes cerraron una gira de tres partidos con una victoria después de perder en Detroit y Nueva York.
Matas Buzelis anotó 21 puntos y Collin Sexton añadió 17 para los Bulls, quienes han perdido cuatro duelos consecutivos.
Los Bulls contaban con una ventaja de 104-97 después de cerrar el tercer período con una racha de 16-2, pero Denver comenzó el último cuarto con una ráfaga de 20-2 para tomar la delantera de manera definitiva. Jokic y Julian Strawther culminaron la racha con triples consecutivos.
Chicago pasó los primeros seis minutos del último cuarto sin anotar su primer tiro de campo y terminó el período con cinco encestes en 17 disparos.
Jokic contabilizó nueve puntos, 11 rebotes y siete asistencias en 17 minutos de la primera mitad, pero los Bulls se fueron al descanso con una ventaja de 65-59.
No. 5 Illinois loses to No. 10 Michigan State 85-82 in OT thriller, ending the Illini’s winning streak at 12
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Jeremy Fears scored 26 points, including a tiebreaking three-point play with 1:47 left in overtime, and had 15 assists to help No. 10 Michigan State hold on for an 85-82 win over No. 5 Illinois on Saturday night.
With a chance to send the game to a second overtime, Illinois center Zvonimir Ivišić missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer.
The Spartans (20-4, 10-3 Big Ten) knocked the Fighting Illini (20-4, 11-2) out of first place in the Big Ten and ended their 12-game winning streak.
Illinois’ David Mirković scored 18 points, Andrej Stojaković had 17 points and Tomislav Ivišić fouled out with 2:22 left in overtime after scoring 12 points.
Illini freshman Keaton Wagler, who averaged 27-plus points the previous four games, missed 14 of 16 shots and scored 16.
Fears started and played more than 40 minutes after coach Tom Izzo debated whether to discipline the standout point guard with restricted playing time after his sportsmanship was called into question in two straight games.
Late in the first half, Fears was scrutinized again. Illini coach Brad Underwood asked officials to review whether Fears intentionally tripped Mirković after stopping in front of him. Underwood lost the appeal.
Michigan State’s Kur Teng made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 8.5 seconds left in regulation and Jake Davis tied the game at 71 with two free throws with one second to play after getting fouled on a put-back attempt on the ensuing possession.
Illinois led 39-35 at halftime after six ties and nine lead changes and was ahead by nine points early in the second half.
Michigan State’s Jaxon Kohler had 11 points and 16 rebounds while Jordan Scott and Teng scored 10 apiece.
Up next
Illinois: vs. Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Michigan State: at Wisconsin on Friday.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/big-ten-illinois-michigan-state/
Duke’s Jon Scheyer says staff members were ‘punched in the face’ during court-storming after loss to UNC
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Duke coach Jon Scheyer said he had staff members “that got punched in the face” as North Carolina fans stormed the court to celebrate a late winning shot in the famed rivalry Saturday night, prompting UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham to publicly apologize.
The 14th-ranked Tar Heels stunned the fourth-ranked Blue Devils 71-68 on Seth Trimble’s 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left, a shot that originally appeared to come as time expired and had jubilant fans rush the court in a chaotic celebration. Officials reviewed the play and determined time was left, so fans had to be cleared for Duke to get one final play before storming the court again when the clock officially hit zero.
“For me it’s hard to talk about the game when I was most concerned just for the safety of our players after the game,” Scheyer said in his opening statement. “I don’t want to make it about that, because Carolina, they played a great game to win. And that’s a heartbreaking loss for our team.
“I got staff members that got punched in the face. My family, pushing people away, trying to not get trampled. That’s not what this game is about.”
Afterward, Cunningham said he apologized to Scheyer before he came in for this postgame news conference and referenced someone being injured. He didn’t have details on who was injured or how, and Duke program spokesman Kyle Serba didn’t immediately return a text message for comment.
“When they rushed the court, a number of people got knocked over,” Cunningham said. “But then we had to clear the court again. So when we normally have something like just rushing the court and the game is over, we do have a line by the benches to get people off safely.
“Obviously, if somebody got injured, that’s just really, really disappointing. We’ll do the best we can to make sure that doesn’t happen, but again, my apologies to Duke for that.”
Cunningham said the school would look at video replays to determine exactly what happened.
The safety of players and team staffers during court stormings has been a long-running topic of concern in college athletics. That included roughly two years ago after Duke’s loss at Wake Forest, when Blue Devils player Kyle Filipowski was shaken up after a Demon Deacons fan collided with him, while Jared McCain’s exit to the tunnel was briefly blocked by a Wake Forest fan. Filipowski had his right leg wrapped in plastic to fasten an ice bag to his kneecap afterward.
In the immediate aftermath of that 2024 incident, Scheyer asked: “When are we going to ban court-storming?”
Asked Saturday night if he still feels court-storming should be banned, Scheyer said: “I think court-storming is fine. I don’t have any issue with court-storming.
“Just shouldn’t have people getting punched in the face. Shouldn’t put our players in position where they’re face-to-face with people who can do anything at that time. It just takes one reaction. Even today, I had to push people away just to try to protect our players.
“They won, they should celebrate,” Scheyer added. “They want to court-storm, court-storm. But just let’s get our guys off safely, that’s it. That’s where I’m at with that.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/07/duke-north-carolina-court-storming-fans/
Bridges brilla con Hornets, que vencen a Hawks 126-119 e hilvanan su 9na victoria
ATLANTA (AP) — Miles Bridges anotó 26 puntos, Kon Knueppel sumó 23 y los Hornets de Charlotte vencieron el sábado 126-119 a los Hawks de Atlanta para hilvanar su novena victoria.
LaMelo Ball añadió 19 puntos y nueve asistencias por Charlotte, que mejoró a un registro de 12-3 en sus últimos 15 partidos. Brandon Miller anotó 16 puntos y Moussa Diabate terminó con 11 unidades y 15 rebotes.
La racha de victorias de los Hornets es la más larga en activo dentro de la NBA y la mejor para la franquicia desde que también ganó nueve seguidos durante la temporada 1998-99.
Jalen Johnson totalizó 31 puntos, nueve rebotes y ocho asistencias para Atlanta, que había ganado seis de ocho compromisos. Zaccharie Risacher anotó 18 puntos y Onyeka Okongwu añadió 16.
Los Hawks y los Hornets juegan nuevamente el miércoles por la noche en Charlotte.
Atlanta estaba abajo por 120-115 con 1:42 minutos por jugar, pero Dyson Daniels hizo una volcada tras un rebote y Johnson encestó dos tiros libres para reducir la ventaja de Charlotte a un tanto con 26,3 segundos restantes.
Ball, Miller y Bridges convirtieron dos tiros libres cada uno para ayudar a que los Hornets finiquitaran el encuentro.
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Trump Imposes Secondary Tariffs, Reaching 25%, On Countries Still Importing From Iran
Trump Imposes Secondary Tariffs, Reaching 25%, On Countries Still Importing From Iran
US and Iranian delegations conducted eight-hours of indirect negotiations mediated by the Omani government in Muscat on Friday, but it was merely minutes after the close of the talks that the US Department of State announced yet more sanctions on Iran.
The punitive measures target 15 entities, two individuals and 14 vessels, charging them of being part of “the illicit trade in Iranian petroleum, petroleum products, and petrochemical products” – or the so-called shadow fleet.
The Friday US statement signaled support for antigovernment protests which dominated headlines for much of the last month, but which have died down since.
“Time and time again, the Iranian government has prioritized its destabilizing behavior over the safety and security of its own citizens, as demonstrated by the regime’s mass murder of peaceful protestors,” the State Dept. explained.
But Tehran has pointed out not all of them were peaceful, given that dozens or even hundreds of police and security personnel were killed and wounded, in some cases by armed rioters who also torched buildings.
The Iranian response to these new actions was for Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to make clear Tehran’s position that ‘fair’ dialogue as equals must be free of threats or pressure.
In a post on X, he said Iran “enters diplomacy with open eyes and a steady memory of the past year” – which means that “great distrust” now defines US-Iran relations and it needs to be overcome if any agreement can be forged.
But despite this plea, President Trump took more action in the form of slapping tariffs on any country still doing business with Iran:
The executive order, which takes effect on Saturday, directs the administration to impose new tariffs on countries that still do business with Iran.
It states that tariffs “may be imposed on goods imported into the United States that are products of any country that directly or indirectly purchases, imports, or otherwise acquires any goods or services from Iran.”
The order also sets out a mechanism for determining and applying those duties, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tasked with setting the rate.
These tariffs could reach as high as 25%, echoing a threat first floated by Trump in mid-January. This would significantly impact the single biggest buyer of Russian oil, China.
The additional tariff would also be felt by Russia, Germany, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates – the latter three of these being Washington allies.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 02/07/2026 – 22:45
Orioles de Baltimore vencen a Keegan Akin en arbitraje salarial, 1er triunfo del año para clubes
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, EE.UU. (AP) — Los Orioles de Baltimore ganaron su caso de arbitraje salarial contra el lanzador Keegan Akin el sábado, para convertirse en el primer club en imponerse en estos fallos este año, después de cinco decisiones a favor de los jugadores.
Akin devengará 2.975.000 dólares en lugar de los 3.375.000 que había solicitado, tras el fallo de John Stout, Jeanne Charles y Samantha Tower, quienes escucharon los argumentos el viernes.
El zurdo de 30 años tuvo un récord de 5-4 con una efectividad de 3.41 y ocho salvamentos en 64 apariciones de relevo la temporada pasada. Recetó 59 ponches y otorgó 33 bases por bolas en 63 entradas y un tercio.
Percibió un salario de 1.475.000 dólares.
Akin tiene un récord de 16-22 con una efectividad de 4.48 y 11 salvamentos en seis temporadas en las Grandes Ligas, todas con los Orioles. Puede convertirse en agente libre después de la Serie Mundial de este año.
Los jugadores lideran 5-1 en los fallos, de los que restan incluso siete.
Tarik Skubal, dos veces ganador del Premio Cy Young, salió triunfador en su caso el jueves, cuando se le otorgaron 32 millones, un récord en arbitraje, en lugar de la oferta de 19 millones planteada por los Tigres de Detroit.
En otras decisiones, el receptor dominicano Yainer Díaz recibió 4,5 millones en lugar de la propuesta de 3 millones de los Astros de Houston; el derecho Kyle Bradish obtuvo 3,55 millones en lugar de la oferta de 2.875.000 dólares hecha por los Orioles; al derecho Graham Ashcraft se le otorgaron 1,75 millones en lugar de la oferta de 1,25 millones planteada por los Rojos de Cincinnati, y el derecho Edwin Uceta percibirá 1.525.000 dólares en lugar de la propuesta de 1,2 millones de los Rays de Tampa Bay.
Dos casos de lanzadores zurdos han sido argumentados, pero los fallos permanecerán retenidos hasta la próxima semana: Eric Lauer de Toronto (5,75 millones vs. 4,4 millones) y Dylan Lee de Atlanta (2,2 millones vs. 2 millones).
Cinco jugadores están programados para audiencias la próxima semana: el zurdo de Kansas City Kris Bubic (6,15 millones vs. 5,15 millones), el receptor venezolano de Milwaukee Willson Contreras (9,9 millones vs. 8,55 millones), el zurdo de Los Angeles Angels Reid Detmers (2.925.000 dólares vs. 2.625.000), el derecho de Miami Calvin Faucher (2,05 millones vs. 1,8 millones) y el receptor de los Rojos Tyler Stephenson (6,8 millones vs 6,55 millones).
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