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Italian Open to award women equal prize money by 2025

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

ROME (AP) — The Italian Open plans to award women the same amount of prize money as men starting in 2025.When Iga Swiatek won last year’s tournament on the red clay of the Foro Italico, she earned less than half of what Novak Djokovic took home for his title.Swiatek received a check for 332,260 euros ($364,000) while Djokovic was paid 836,355 euros ($916,000).Billie Jean King has often said that she was moved to form the women’s pro circuit after earning $600 for her 1970 Italian Open title — while Ilie Nastase took home $3,500 for winning the men’s tournament the same year.“For the first time in history we have started the process that over three years will lead to equal prize money between the women’s and the men’s tournaments,” Italian tennis federation president Angelo Binaghi said Tuesday at the presentation for this season’s event, which will be held May 10-21.“We’re talking about 8 million euros (nearly $9 million) for each event,” Binaghi added. “We can make this big l...

Inter, Juventus Cup semi ends in scuffle after 1-1 draw

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

TURIN, Italy (AP) — The Italian Cup semifinal between Inter Milan and Juventus ended with a mass scuffle and three red cards following a 1-1 draw in the first leg on Tuesday.After Romelu Lukaku converted a penalty in stoppage time to equalize for Inter, the Belgium striker picked up his second yellow card for apparently taunting the crowd.Juan Cuadrado, who had put Juventus ahead in the 83rd, and Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic were also shown red cards as they clashed after the final whistle, with players from both teams then getting involved as they tried to separate the two.“It’s nothing, just a bit of chaos at the end of a balanced game,” Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “We knew it would be difficult. Although they were coming off a difficult period, they are still Inter and proved it tonight.”Lukaku, Cuadrado and Handanovic should all miss the second leg on April 26.Last-place Serie A club Cremonese hosts Fiorentina in the other semifinal on Wednesday.The resu...

Teenagers lead Brighton to 2-0 win and 6th place in EPL

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) — Teenage strikers scored Brighton’s goals in a 2-0 Premier League win over Bournemouth that boosted the team’s European aspirations on Tuesday.Ireland international Evan Ferguson, 18, stylishly flicked home Kaoru Mitoma’s low cross in the 28th minute to set Brighton on course for a win that moved the team up to sixth place and four points off the Champions League spots.Substitute Julio Enciso, a 19-year-old Paraguayan, secured victory for the Seagulls in stoppage time with his first goal for the club as he cut inside a defender and slotted home a finish from close range.Hamed Traore squandered a first-half opportunity to equalize for Bournemouth, which slipped into the relegation zone on goal difference.The win for Roberto De Zerbi’s Brighton was tempered slightly by influential midfielder Moises Caicedo limping off 10 minutes from time with an apparent ankle injury. The team has not lost on the road since Oct. 22 and has only one defeat in 202...

Leeds beats Forest 2-1 to climb out of EPL’s relegation zone

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

LEEDS, England (AP) — Luis Sinisterra’s strike completed Leeds’ rally for a 2-1 home win in its Premier League relegation battle against Nottingham Forest on Tuesday.The Colombia winger, making just his second start since early February due to a muscle injury, curled home the winner in first-half stoppage time to lift his team out of the bottom three.Forest took a 12th-minute lead through Orel Mangala, only for Jack Harrison to equalize in the 20th before Sinisterra scored to extend the visitors’ winless league run to eight matches.Leeds bounced back from Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Arsenal and has taken 10 points from Javi Gracia’s six league games in charge. The team climbed five places to 13th in a heavily congested bottom half of the standings.Forest served warning of its early threat when Emmanuel Dennis struck the post in the eighth minute after Felipe flicked on Morgan Gibbs-White’s corner.Mangala’s first goal for the club then gave Forest the lead.Leeds was hit on the break...

Padres’ Machado ejected after being called out on violation

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego Padres slugger Manny Machado was ejected by plate umpire Ron Kulpa after being called out on strikes on a pitch clock violation to end the first inning of Tuesday’s game against Arizona. Machado was adjusting his batting gloves and appeared to be calling time as the clock wound down to 8 seconds, by which time a batter must be facing the pitcher under new rules adopted for this season to speed the pace of play. Kulpa didn’t grant time, apparently because the clock had already hit 8 seconds, and called him out. Machado stood at the plate arguing with Kulpa as manager Bob Melvin came out. Machado said something to Kulpa and was ejected.Machado, who was the designated hitter, was eventually escorted toward the dugout by another umpire.It was the 10th ejection of Machado’s career.Machado committed the first pitch clock violation during spring training and shrugged it off after getting two hits that day.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB an...

Which Colorado cities have the longest and shortest summers?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Freezing temperatures can seem like a year-round thing to any Coloradan, but in many places across the state there are a few months out of the year when you can safely stow your sweaters in favor of a pair of shorts.This year, the summer season is officially from June 21, the summer solstice, to Sept. 23. When could Denver see its final snow of the season? In this way, regardless of where you spend your time, we all have the same amount of time to enjoy summer. However, if you define "summer" as the warmest time of the year, it can be longer — or shorter — depending on where you are.FOX31 looked at metro areas and mountain cities across the state to see where you can find the longest and shortest summer season in Colorado.What city has the longest warm season?You have to look to the state's Western Slope to find the city with the longest time between its last spring freeze and its first fall freeze according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...

Family receives year of free groceries as father battles cancer 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

As a Taunton father battles cancer, his family won’t have to worry about putting food on the table thanks to the Joe Andruzzi Foundation and its partners. The family was surprised on Tuesday in Mansfield with a year’s worth of free groceries from Stop & Shop and a year’s supply of bottled water from Poland Spring. “We won’t want a cancer patient to have to choose between putting food on their table or paying an electric bill,” Andruzzi Foundation CEO Jen Andruzzi told 7NEWS.Mark, 38, has been unable to work as he fights cancer for a second time. His wife, Jessica, has also needed to stay at home full time to care for their children, who live with special needs. After Tuesday’s generous gesture, the family was overwhelmed with gratitude. “It was a huge surprise and it was an amazing thing to be chosen for,” Jessica Rivers said. “It really was.”“It makes me feel great,” Jessica continued. “It just fills my heart to be able to see this happening and knowing...

Stoughton students get to see MassDOT snow plow they helped name through state contest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

A local kindergarten class recently got to see a state Department of Transportation snowplow they helped name a matter of months after they were among the winners of a naming contest for new MassDOT plows. Mrs. Jacqueline Faria’s kindergarten class at Wilkins Elementary School in Stoughton was selected out of more than 900 submissions as one of twelve winning classes that suggested a name. On Tuesday, they got to see their name, “Snow Drop,” on the truck.“They’re very excited,” Wilkins Elementary School Teacher Jacqueline Faria said. “They think that they’ll see Snow Drop in Stoughton, but we’ll definitely be keeping a look out on the news for Snow Drop.”The newly named snow plow is set to hit the streets whenever the state needs its help. In addition to seeing their name on the plow, Faria’s class will also receive a $100 gift card from MassDOT for school supplies. That, Faria said, will give the school a boost. “We always want to provide our students with all ...

A look at Juan Merchan, the Manhattan jurist overseeing Trump’s business records case: ‘A very serious judge’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

Tim Balk | New York Daily NewsEx-president Donald Trump’s hush money case is being overseen by a veteran Manhattan Supreme Court jurist who also heard the Trump Organization tax fraud trial that in January ended in a jail term for Trump confidant and aide Allen Weisselberg.Justice Juan Merchan, a 60-year-old former prosecutor who was born in Colombia and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, carries a reputation as a thorough and even-handed judge, and has spent more than a decade on the bench in New York.He attended Baruch College and Hofstra University School of Law and worked as an assistant attorney in the Manhattan district attorney’s office in the 1990s. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a family court judge. He has served as an acting justice of the state Supreme Court since 2009.Brendan Tracy, a criminal defense lawyer who has appeared before Merchan as a prosecutor, said the judge is well-suited for a high-wattage case like the one against Trump.“He truly strikes me as probably ...

Robot brainstorm: Seaport incubator home to 74 companies in growing field

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:48:57 GMT

Robotics across Massachusetts is expanding, MassRobotics told city officials on a tour of their Seaport facility Tuesday — developing for defense, hospitals, manufacturing and occasionally the Macarena.“Can you dance, Pepper?” MassRobotics Business Development Vice President Micaelah Morrill said to a shiny white, semi-humanoid form at the entrance of a classroom full of children operating rolling bots.“We reprogrammed it,” she explained of Pepper. “She’s very useful. A lot of the applications for robots are in hospitals — she’s typically a concierge robot in hospitals. We reprogrammed it to like do the Macarena and fist bumps.”The 50,000 square feet MassRobotics facility, toured by Mayor Michelle Wu and others Tuesday afternoon, is full of a range of robots moving in their own ways — from flying around, to lifting and placing objects, to building things.The nonprofit hosts 74 companies in the field and worked with ov...