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Express Tribune
2 days ago
- Sport
- Express Tribune
Atkinson ruled out of WI ODIs
England paceman Gus Atkinson in action against New Zealand during the second Test in Wellington in December. Photo: AFP/File England pacer Gus Atkinson has been ruled out of the three-match home ODI series against West Indies, scheduled to run from May 29 to June 3. According to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Atkinson sustained a hamstring injury during their one-off Test against Zimbabwe, which concluded on Saturday in Nottingham. The 27-year-old, as a result, will undergo rehabilitation under the supervision of the England medical team, while no time frame was shared by the cricket board for his recovery. "England and Surrey seamer Gus Atkinson has been ruled out of the upcoming Metro Bank One-Day Internationals against the West Indies due to a right hamstring strain," the ECB said in a statement. "Atkinson sustained the injury during England's Rothesay Test victory over Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge last week. "He will now undergo a period of rehabilitation under the supervision of the England medical team." Notably, the home side decided against making any changes to their squad for the ODI series against West Indies. The aforementioned series holds significant importance for the former world champions as it will be the first assignment of newly-appointed captain Harry Brook, who succeeded Jos Buttler, stepped down from the role after England lost all three of their ICC Men's Champions Trophy 2025 group-stage matches. The ODI series will be followed by three T20Is, slated to be played on June 6, 8 and 10 respectively. England squad for West Indies ODIs: Harry Brook (Yorkshire) – Captain, Jofra Archer (Sussex), Tom Banton (Somerset), Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Brydon Carse (Durham), Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Tom Hartley (Lancashire), Will Jacks (Surrey), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Matthew Potts (Durham), Jamie Overton (Somerset), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire) and Jamie Smith (Surrey).
San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. advocates vow to fight ICE arrests at Bay Area courthouses
Immigrant-rights advocates rallied Wednesday to voice deep concerns about the recent arrests of asylum-seekers by federal officers at Bay Area courthouses. Standing outside of the San Francisco immigration courthouse on the corner of Montgomery and Sutter streets, advocates and protesters demanded that San Francisco officials denounce the arrests and provide more resources for legal protection, such as the SF Rapid Response Network hotline. Demonstrators held signs that read 'Hands off immigrants' and 'Abolish ICE,' and drivers passing by honked their horns in apparent support. Federal officials sought 'to undermine due process and to intimidate our immigrant communities into missing their court appointments and putting themselves at further risk of deportation,' said Sanika Mahajan, director of community engagement and organizing at Mission Action. 'We will stand up and fight back,' she added. Homeland Security officials have apparently ramped up enforcement at immigration courts throughout the country over the last week. Advocates say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have appeared outside of courthouses and in hallways to arrest people showing up to their scheduled hearings. Homeland Security spokespersons did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A statement from the Department of Homeland Security provided by an ICE spokesperson said the agency was 'reversing Biden's catch and release policy that allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens to be let loose on American streets.' Richard Beam, a spokesperson for ICE, said the agency did not 'have specifics' on the arrests Tuesday, but acknowledged that the agency was 'doing targeted enforcement at immigration courts.' While arrests at courthouses are rare, advocates say, ICE appears to be using the new strategy to accelerate deportations and meet President Donald Trump's goal of deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. The first arrests in San Francisco immigration court were reported Tuesday. ICE officers arrested four men outside of courtrooms after judges rejected motions from Department of Homeland Security lawyers who requested that their asylum cases be dismissed, said Milli Atkinson, director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the San Francisco Bar Association's Justice and Diversity Center. In Concord, three people were arrested Tuesday and one person was arrested last week, said Lisa Knox, co-executive director at California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice in Oakland. Luis Angel Reyes Savalza, a deputy defender with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office's immigration unit, called the immigration courthouse arrests a fear tactic. 'They're doing this to instill fear in the immigrant community,' Savalza said. Atkinson called on government officials, attorneys and concerned residents to speak up for immigrants and volunteer for organizations providing resources to immigrant communities. 'Who has the power?' Atkinson asked the protesters. 'We have the power!' they responded. Molly Burke contributed to this report.
Los Angeles Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Estancia baseball back in CIF final after another one-run victory
Everything has fallen into place at the best moment imaginable for Estancia's baseball team, which heads into this weekend's CIF Southern Section finals on a six-game roll and a second title in four seasons in sight. The Eagles, a most uncertain prospect back in February, have emerged from a roller coaster campaign that hadn't gone as desired before the playoffs began two Fridays ago steeled by missed opportunities, fused as championship teams should be, and filled with expectation. Estancia (19-13) rode Nico Viramontes' outside fastball and a growing knack for two-out heroics in Tuesday afternoon's semifinal victory over Rancho Mirage, pulling out another tense 4-3 triumph to set up Saturday's 1 p.m. Division 6 title-game showdown with Marshall (20-6-1) at Cal State Fullerton's Goodwin Field. Viramontes (9-0) surrendered two hits and one unearned run while working out of several jams over six innings and the Eagles twice responded quickly to the visitors' forays to go ahead. 'Our stats are not pretty,' head coach Nate Goellrich said. 'Our batting average is the second-worst batting average in my [14-year] history here. Our team ERA is the second-worst. But we've come together as a group. The chemistry works. We respond when we're down, and all that is is heart. And the ability to understand that they can do it and have faith in themselves, have faith in each other. That's the big thing. 'They've come together at the right time. And that's what you need in the playoffs is that. And can't ask for anything else out of the guys.' Estancia turned a two-run deficit into a 3-2 advantage behind back-to-back run-scoring doubles from Sawyer Atkinson and Viramontes, then Vaughn McCrea's two-out RBI single in the the third. The Eagles answered the Rattlers' audacious tying run in the fifth with a two-out rally in the bottom half of the inning, bringing home Sean Sweeney on Carlos Hauser's single to right field. McCrea got the save with the tying run at third on Jacob Ramirez's racing, diving catch on a dipping fly to shallow left field. 'I'm at a loss of words right now,' said Viramontes, who fell behind after an error gifted Rancho Mirage (18-13) two runs in the top of the third but twice escaped innings unscathed with runners in scoring position. 'We've always dreamed for this, and we worked really hard for it, so it's a great feeling.' This run, one marked by a first-round stand as Alhambra rallied and last week's down-to-the-last-out, extra-inning quarterfinal thriller with Pacifica Christian, followed back-to-back, one-run, late-inning losses a month ago to Coast League champion Century, the first with a piece of the league title within reach. That was, Atkinson noted, 'not the outcome we wanted.' 'It made us want to win this even more,' Viramontes said. 'That's what we're doing right now, showing that we deserve to win this.' Said Atkinson: 'I don't think any of us thought it would go this far. But here we are.' It came down to a series of battles with Rattlers talisman Kobee Finnikin, their only All-CIF honoree after reaching the semifinals last year. He went two for three, was on base four times, scored twice and stole three bases: second, third and home in succession, the last 90 feet for a sixth-inning tie with a two-out dart as Atkinson, Estancia's catcher, tossed the ball back to Viramontes. The Eagles twice duped Finnikin into taking off early, both times from second base, with Viramontes in the first inning and McCrea in the seventh delaying their motions and catching the Cal Baptist-bound shortstop on the basepath. Rancho Mirage had two on with one out the second time. 'We knew coming in their leadoff guy was a little bit undisciplined on the bases,' Goellrich said. 'We knew we could take advantage of that. And that was huge for us. Two spaghetti moves, picking him off, taking that away. That's a lot of their offense.' Rattlers head coach David Shaw had no regrets. 'We live with his energy and his reads,' he said. 'It's something we will definitely learn from, but I don't ever second-guess that kid. He's our fire.' Estancia's two-out acumen was pivotal. The Eagles put seven runners on base after the second out, five into scoring position, and, with McCrea's and Hauser's singles, brought two of them home. 'It's something coaches pounded in on us, working with two outs, finding a way on,' Atkinson said. 'That's been a thing all year. We just keep finding our way on with two outs, and that's what makes our team. That's what gets us the wins, you know?' Goellrich said he's 'pretty sure about 80% our runs in the playoffs are with two outs.' 'That just shows the heart, the character of these guys,' he said. 'We have that next-guy mentality, and they really bought into that philosophy. So an inning's never over.' The Eagles will take that approach into Saturday's final. 'Baseball is the toughest championship to win, right?' Goellrich said. 'We told our guys, even coming into the playoffs, you're here, go out and win. See what happens. And so for us to be there the second time in four years is huge. But we're not satisfied. We'll go out and give us our best shot. And, you know, the goal will be [to go] 1-0. 'Just go 1-0 that day. Doesn't matter how. Doesn't need to be pretty. A win's a win.'
Leader Live
3 days ago
- Sport
- Leader Live
Gus Atkinson out of England ODI series against West Indies with hamstring strain
Atkinson was in clear discomfort during the closing stages of the innings victory over Zimbabwe in the Trent Bridge Test, bowling only three tentative overs on the final day. After assessing the problem, England have decided not to risk the Surrey quick in Harry Brook's first assignment since taking over as white-ball captain. Atkinson, who took three wickets against Zimbabwe, is not thought to be a major doubt for the forthcoming Test series against India, beginning at Headingley on June 20, but no risks are being taken with the 27-year-old. He was the most experienced member of the pace attack in Nottingham, with the likes of Mark Wood, Jofra Archer, Brydon Carse and Chris Woakes all absent on fitness grounds, and England do not want any further setbacks ahead of a marquee series. No replacements have been called up for the ODI leg, which starts at Edgbaston on Thursday and takes in games at Cardiff and the Oval. England's fast bowling options for those games include a fit-again Carse, Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Overton, Matthew Potts and the returning Luke Wood. A statement from the England and Wales Cricket Board read: 'Gus Atkinson has been ruled out of the upcoming Metro Bank one-day internationals against the West Indies due to a right hamstring strain. 'He will now undergo a period of rehabilitation under the supervision of the England medical team. No replacement will be added to the ODI squad.'
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Legendary Sacramento Anchor Stan Atkinson Dies at 92
Veteran Sacramento reporter and anchor Stan Atkinson died on Sunday. He was 92. Atkinson reported for KCRA and KOVR as an anchor for nearly 40 years. He retired from local news in 1999. At one time local paper The Sacramento Bee called him 'the man who owns Sacramento.' At the age of 25, Atkinson embarked on a career in Sacramento at a station that had just gotten off the ground. It was 1957, and in walked a fresh-faced, youthful man with a tight crew cut. He'd been recruited from a small television station and the owner of KCRA at the time, Gene Kelly, had no idea he'd been hired. Kelly turned on his TV one night and saw the 11 o'clock newscast only to show up in the morning editorial meeting the next day asking 'who in the hell ever hired that damn kid?!' Instead of firing him, Kelly kept Atkinson, beginning a decades-long relationship between KCRA and Stan Atkinson. They had a newscast in the beginning…it was 10 minutes long. Five of it was sports. Television news was different in the 1950s. For one, it was sponsored and those sponsors' products showed up on set. The entertainment had a fried pie company. The network's 'Huntley/Brinkley news hour' had Camel cigarettes. And Stan Atkinson had Hostess. 'The floor man would roll in a table that was decorated with open or still packaged Hostess Cinnamon Dainties,' Atkinson described in a 2015 interview. 'And, it was up to me to open a package, pull one out, hold it up, take a bite, and say, Hostess Cinnamon Dainties. I'd say. Got it. Hostess Cinnamon Dainties. I'd take another bite. Get them.'"Atkinson was a principal fundraiser helping to raise money to build the $2.2 million California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the State Capitol grounds," the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said on its website.
