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Sailors rejoice after snowy winter raises Great Salt Lake — for now

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

ON THE GREAT SALT LAKE (AP) — A brisk wind caught a Kevlar-fiber sail, sending it snapping as Bob Derby and Randy Atkin pulled lines to turn Red Stripe, their 25-foot boat, through the briny waters of the imperiled Great Salt Lake. Little could be heard beyond the low hum of trucks wheeling past a copper smelter on the lake’s shoreline — a respite from the bustle of Salt Lake City and its booming suburbs that push farther into Utah’s deserts and farmland each year.“Everything that happened today drifts off behind you and there’s nothing like it,’” said Derby, a 61-year-old veteran sailor battling cancer. “There’s no better therapy than being on the lake.”It’s a feeling old friends Derby and Atkin weren’t sure they’d experience again. The Red Stripe’s return comes after it and hundreds of other sailboats were hoisted out of the shrinking Great Salt Lake as water levels plummeted in recent years, leaving docks along the lake’s parched southern...

Messiah Bright’s goal carries the Orlando Pride to a victory over OL Reign in NWSL action

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

Messiah Bright scored to lead the Orlando Pride to a 1-0 win over the visiting OL Reign on Friday night in the National Women’s Soccer League. Bright sprinted into the box, beat her defender, and headed in a cross from Julie Doyle in the 16th minute. Bright leads all rookies with four goals in the NWSL this season. The Reign, who entered the match with the second-most goals in the league, to five shots — their fewest this season. Orlando (6-8-1) finished with 16 shots, beating Reign for just the second time in 15 games.For the second week, OL Reign was without eight players who are preparing for the World Cup with their national teams. Orlando was missing two.Goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce made six saves for the Reign (7-5-3).RACING LOUISVILLE 2, CURRENT 1Paige Monaghan scored just at the start of the second half, leading Racing Louisville to the home win over Kansas City.Michelle Cooper scored in the seventh minute to give the Current an early lead.Elli Pikkujamsa tied the g...

Family of golfer killed in crash hosts tournament to help surviving teammates

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

WESTMINSTER, Colo (KDVR) -- This weekend, hundreds of golfers will tee off at Hyland Hills Golf Course in Westminster for the second Jackson Zinn Memorial Golf Tournament. It’s been more than a year since a tragic crash in Texas claimed the lives of six college athletes and a coach from the University of the Southwest in New Mexico, including Jackson Zinn, 22, from Colorado.  On March 15, 2022, Zinn, his seven teammates and his coach were on their way back from a golf tournament when police said a truck driver hit them head-on. Only two survived the crash, Dayton Price and Hayden Underhill, both members of the university’s golf team. The Zinn family started this tournament last year in their son’s name as a way to honor him and give back to his teammates and the community he loved. Zinn’s mother, Jen Zinn, said her son grew up on the golf course. “Ever since Jackson could walk he carried a golf club,” Jen Zinn said. “I’d give him $10 for a cheeseburger ...

Colorado Avalanche open season on the road, 1st time in 6 years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Colorado Avalanche just finished hosting their development camp this week which means it's getting closer to the start of the 2023-24 season. While the Avalanche training camp schedule has yet to be released, the full regular season schedule was unveiled last week. Avalanche say goodbye to defenseman Erik Johnson Colorado starts off on the road with a West Coast stint opening the season against the Los Angeles Kings on Oct. 11. The team returns to Denver for the home opener at Ball Arena against the Chicago Blackhawks on Oct. 19.It's the first time since 2017-18 the Avalanche will open the season on the road. The Avalanche's longest homestands are in December and March with an extended road trip around the All-Star Break on Feb. 2-3. Colorado Avalanche 2023-24 schedule from NHL.comThe Avalanche will look a bit different this season after losing a few free agents and signing a couple of new ones. The team traded away Alex Newhook to the Montreal Canadiens and ...

Denver weather: Another stormy day then dry, warm days return

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — There is a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms moving west to east across the Front Range and in Denver weather this Friday evening.Friday is a Pinpoint Weather Alert Day for thunderstorms that will move across the Front Range. A few storms could produce lightning, heavy rain, wind and hail. Beethoven and Brews, Crosscurrents, plus 7 things to do in Denver this weekend There will be similar storms on Saturday afternoon before we finally get to enjoy a dry stretch in the forecast from Pinpoint Weather, Colorado’s Most Accurate Forecast.Rain outlook for the week ahead of July 7 from Pinpoint Weather.Weather tonight: Storms depart and cool overnightShowers and thunderstorms should head east by early evening Friday. There is a chance that a few lingering showers could last past 9 to 11 p.m. along the Front Range. But, overall the storm threat should end quickly in metro Denver. Forecast lows across Colorado by Saturday morning, July 8.Some storms ...

EU, Latin America at odds on Ukraine and Mercosur trade ahead of big summit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

European and Latin American countries are miles apart on Ukraine and a Mercosur trade deal — just 10 days ahead of a major summit meeting in Brussels meant to showcase their deepening relations.A draft joint declaration, seen by POLITICO, shows that the two blocs don’t see eye to eye on whether to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, ahead of the July 17-18 gathering that will bring together leaders from the 27-nation EU and the 33 countries of the Community of the Latin American & the Caribbean States (CELAC).A counterproposal from CELAC countries, sent to diplomats earlier this week, removed all reference to the war in Ukraine. In addition, the CELAC countries have demanded reparations over colonial occupation, as reported by Euractiv and confirmed by a European diplomat who had seen the text.“We condemn in the strongest possible terms Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, which manifestly violates the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine and threa...

Fashion’s sustainability reckoning

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

COPENHAGEN — On the surface, it was everything you would expect from a high-end fashion industry knees-up.Green juice for breakfast, impeccably dressed conference-goers, Moët & Chandon flowing before dinner.But the topic at the heart of this year’s Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen was less glamorous: How can a sector that has thrived on novelty and extravagance survive global efforts to slash carbon emissions and eliminate waste?From bringing more transparency to supply chains to developing more sustainable manufacturing methods, panels revolved around how the fashion industry can fall in line with upcoming EU and U.S. regulations — sharp-ish.That’s with good reason. The bloc’s textiles industry faces an onslaught of regulation that could force a reckoning over its environmental and human rights abuses.The EU’s textile and clothing sector had a turnover of €147 billion — and trillions globally — in 2021, according to industry body Euratex. All of ...

Schoen: Christie’s attacks on Trump provide edge for Dems

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

Trump-acolyte turned Trump-rival Chris Christie is off to an intriguing start in his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. Since launching his dark horse candidacy in early June, Christie has taken swipes at Trump and DeSantis and garnered a modest bump in the polls.Although a longshot for the nomination, Christie has been stronger than most pundits predicted. Due to his consistent schedule of television interviews and soundbites of him attacking Trump, he is receiving more national media attention than most other Trump challengers.Arguably more important than the momentum and early success of Christie’s campaign is the blueprint he is laying out for other candidates. The Christie playbook has included calling out Trump’s election lies, highlighting his repeated electoral losses, pointing to the evidence in Trump’s indictments rather than blaming the Department of Justice, questioning why so many of his former staffers say he should not be president again, and framing him as...

Ambrose: Equal opportunities rise from fair treatment

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipled means of discriminating against qualified applicants wanting entry as students. Some instead granted admission in accordance with skin color, which happened in this case to be black.Legally, it has done away with equality under the law. As a practical matter, it reduces the role of merit facilitating accomplishments. Emotionally, it has been experienced as a lifetime downfall for highly qualified applicants who arrive in all kinds of skin colors.There’s an ideal behind it all, of course, namely to help lift Black Americans out of the racial discrimination that has constantly encircled them, leaving so very, very many so very, very poor and left out and cursed, surrounded by crime. But affirmative action, which got started under President John F. Kennedy, has been pursued through what itself is an unjustified, discriminatory techniqu...

Five for Fighting returns with playlist for our times

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:56:04 GMT

There are two unwritten laws in modern pop: Don’t get too political., and don’t write songs about currently pressing events. Five for Fighting’s mastermind John Ondrasik broke both those rules with his two latest singles: “Blood on Our Hands,” about the Afghanistan withdrawal and “Can One Man Save the World?” about Ukraine.“I took no pleasure in writing those songs, for the first time in my life,” he said this week. “And I’d like to say I worked hard on the song about President Zelenskyy, but the fact is that I put no thought at all into it. I wrote it in such a hurry because I didn’t think he would survive the coming week. There’s a line at the end about him being dead or alive, and I wanted the song to exist beyond him.” The song will be featured when Five for Fighting play the Leader Bank Pavilion on Sunday, opening the Barenaked Ladies’ “Last Summer on Earth” tour.Las summer Ondrasik traveled to Kyiv and performed the song with the Ukranian Orchestra; that session was captured o...