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Dutch giant Ajax parts company with coach Steijn after woeful start to the season

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Ajax parted company with coach Maurice Steijn on Monday with the biggest team in the Netherlands languishing in next-to-last place in the Dutch league after just one win from its opening seven games.Steijn only joined from Sparta Rotterdam in the offseason, signing a three-year deal.The mutual decision for Steijn to leave was taken after a 4-3 loss at Utrecht that left Ajax, a four-time European champion, one point off last place.“We have worked intensely and professionally together over the last few months,” Ajax chief executive Jan van Halst said. “But the sporting successes and the development of the team were lacking. That is why we decided to sit down together again today.“This time, Maurice also expressed his concerns on whether he was the right man in the right place. Together we decided that it would be best to part ways.”Ajax’s last win in any competition came on Aug. 24.Hedwiges Maduro, a former Ajax player, will take temporary charge of the team sta...

Denver Broncos safety Kareem Jackson suspended 4 games

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Denver Broncos will be without one of their starting safeties after a hit to the head/neck area of a Green Bay Packers player.It was during the fourth quarter of Sunday afternoon's game at Empower Field when Kareem Jackson hit Luke Musgrave, who officials said was a defenseless receiver. P.J. Locke saves Denver from another second-half meltdown as Broncos beat Packers 19-17 Jackson was ejected from the game after the hit. On Monday, the NFL announced a four-game suspension."On the play in question, you delivered a forceful blow to the head/neck area of a defenseless receiver, when you had the time and space to avoid such contact," NFL Vice President of Football Operations Jon Runyan wrote in a letter to Jackson. Runyan's letter went even further to call out Jackson's hit."You could have made contact with your opponent within the rules, yet you chose not to," he said. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get Broncos, Nuggets, Rockies and more sports news This was th...

Former NSA worker from Colorado pleads guilty to trying to sell US secrets to Russia

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

DENVER (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado pleaded guilty Monday to trying to sell classified information to Russia. Federal prosecutors agreed to not ask for more than about 22 years in prison for Jareh Sebastian Dalke when he is sentenced in April, but the judge will ultimately decide the punishment. Savor the evening sunsets, daylight saving time is ending Dalke, a 31-year-old Army veteran from Colorado Springs, had faced a possible life sentence for giving the information to an undercover FBI agent who prosecutors say Dalke believed was a Russian agent.Dalke pleaded guilty during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore. He only spoke in answer to questions from Moore about whether he understood the terms of the deal. He acknowledged that he has been taking medications for mental illness while being held in custody for about a year. Dalke was arrested on Sept. 28, 2022, after authorities say he arrived at Denver’s downtown train station wi...

The AFC East-leading Dolphins still haven’t proved themselves against tough competition

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — After Buffalo beat Miami nearly a month ago, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said it was a valuable learning experience that his young team could use against tough competition later in the season.McDaniel repeated those words after Sunday’s road loss to the defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles.“I kind of knew that going into the game that it was going to be that type of atmosphere,” McDaniel said, “and I think that’s very important for our team, being on the younger side, to experience. Those are critical. You have to feel what it’s like to play such a good team on the road.”Miami will need to find a way to win such games at some point this season if it wants to be a title contender.The AFC East-leading Dolphins have played two teams with winning records this season — the Eagles and the Bills — and have lost both games by double digits.They scored 20 and 17 points against Buffalo and Philadelphia, respectively, which is well below thei...

Hamas frees 2 Israeli women as US advises delaying ground war to allow talks on captives

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas released two elderly Israeli women held hostage in Gaza on Monday, as the United States expressed increasing concern that the escalating Israel-Hamas war will spark a wider conflict in the region, including attacks on American troops.The death toll in Gaza rose rapidly as Israel ramped up airstrikes, flattening residential buildings in what it says was preparation for an eventual ground assault. The United States advised Israel to delay an expected ground invasion to allow time to negotiate the release of more hostages taken by Hamas during its brutal incursion two weeks ago.A third small aid convoy from Egypt entered Gaza, where the population of 2.3 million has been running out of food, water and medicine under Israel’s two-week seal. With Israel still barring entry of fuel, the U.N. said its distribution of aid would grind to a halt within days when it can no longer fuel its trucks. Gaza hospitals flooded by a constant stream of wounded are struggling to...

Legendary gymnast Mary Lou Retton recovering at home after being hospitalized with pneumonia, daughter says

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

(CNN) — Olympic gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton is out of the hospital following a weekslong serious health scare, according to her daughter.The 55-year-old legend, who captured American hearts in 1984 when she was the first US gymnast to win the Olympic gymanastics all-around competition, is recovering at home, her daughter McKenna Kelley said Monday in an Instagram post.Twelve days ago, Retton’s family announced she had a rare form of pneumonia that made her unable to breathe on her own and left her fighting for her life. Kelley started an online fundraiser on behalf of Retton’s four daughters to help support the medical costs, noting that Retton is uninsured.Retton made “remarkable” progress in the hospital, according to her family, which didn’t specify Monday when she was released. Retton, who in 2018 was on the ABC hit show “Dancing with the Stars,” still has a long recovery road, Kelley said.Pneumonia is a respiratory infection that can cau...

Mary Lou Retton in ‘recovery mode’ at home after hospital stay for pneumonia, daughter says

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

By The Associated PressAmerican gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton has returned home following a lengthy hospital stay because of pneumonia, her daughter said Monday.Shaley Kelley Schrepfer, the oldest of Retton’s four daughters, posted an update on Retton’s condition on Instagram nearly two weeks after the family disclosed that the former Olympic all-around champion was in intensive care.The 55-year-old Retton is now in “recovery mode,” according to Schrepfer.“We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us,” Schrepfer wrote. “But baby steps.”The family disclosed earlier this month that Retton — who became the first American female gymnast to win the Olympic all-around title at the 1984 Los Angeles Games — was “fighting for her life” and unable to breathe on her own.Donations have poured into a fundraiser the family set up to help offset Retton’s medical expenses after the family said she didn’t have...

Patriots QB Mac Jones opens up on playing for Bill Belichick

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick joined elite company with his 300th regular season win in Sunday’s comeback over the Bills.Belichick, Don Shula and George Halas are the only coaches to hold that honor.Patriots QB Mac Jones said Monday afternoon on WEEI’s “Jones & Mego with Arcand” program that he congratulated Belichick for the accomplishment.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Why Patriots first-round flier ate into DeVante Parker’s snaps in win over Bills New England Patriots | Bill Belichick gives more context to key Patriots personnel switch in win over Bills New England Patriots | Callahan: Patriots scored a throwback win in home upset of Bills New England Patriots | Demario Douglas sparks Patriots’ offensive rejuvenation in win over Bills New England Patriots | Patriots made key personnel changes in comeback win over Bills “Yeah, I think that’s really cool that that happened and I k...

ETFO’s education workers vote in favour of new four-year deal

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) education workers have voted 80 per cent in favour of a new four-year contract with the Council of Trustees’ Associations and the Ontario government.The deal with ETFO’s 3,500 education workers is valid from September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2026.In a release, ETFO President Karen Brown said members showed “their support for a four-year central agreement that addresses many of their key bargaining goals, including salary increases, maintaining funding for current benefit levels, paid professional learning, job security, and a Supports for Students Fund that protects special education roles in our schools.”A tentative deal with ETFO’s education workers was first struck in September, leading to the vote.“While these negotiations were prolonged and difficult, ETFO stood firm refusing to accept contract strips, and will continue to do the same as we negotiate a central agreement for ETFO’s 80,000 teacher and occasi...

Loved ones of Hamas hostages still holding onto hope as some are released

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:18:39 GMT

As war between Israel and Hamas intensifies in the Middle East, hundreds of families are still waiting for word on their loved ones believed to be kidnapped by Hamas. One mother shared with CityNews the final phone call with her 23-year-old daughter amid a barrage of gunfire. “The last time she called me she said she was crying, and she said, ‘Mommy I was shot, they shot as us.'”In the chilling recording, Meirav Leshem Gonen tries to console her daughter Romi after she and her friends came under attack during the music festival massacre on October 7.Gonen told CityNews she was on the phone with her daughter for about four and half hours before losing contact.“Hearing her moving from place-to-place to hide first from the rockets and then from the gunfire of the terrorists … we heard the shooting coming closer to the car and then a lot of voices men voices in Arabic shouting at each other,” explained Gonen. “And the last words she said is R...