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CTV News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Stampeders celebrate arrival of new season with FanFest at McMahon Stadium
The Calgary Stampeders are hosting their annual Fanfest Saturday at McMahon Stadium until 2 p.m. The Calgary Stampeders don't launch the regular season until June 7, but threw open the gates to McMahon Stadium for their annual Fanfest on Saturday morning. It's taking place Saturday at McMahon Stadium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fans can meet players -- both the present roster and a few Stampeders alumni -- take a selfie with the Grey Cup and enjoy plenty of free activities, including interactive inflatables, face painting, games, giveaways and other stuff. Fanfest is on until 2 p.m. For free tickets and information, go here.
CBS News
24-04-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Michigan sees its first multi-million winner in the updated Mega Millions game
Fanfest before Pistons games; missing teen found; new measles case reported; and more top stories Fanfest before Pistons games; missing teen found; new measles case reported; and more top stories Fanfest before Pistons games; missing teen found; new measles case reported; and more top stories A Genesee County woman was the first Michigan Lottery player to become a millionaire from the recently updated Mega Millions multi-state lottery. Pamela Dietrich, 58, of Linden visited Lottery headquarters to claim her prize, which was announced by Michigan Lottery Thursday. She had matched the five white balls in the April 11 Mega Millions drawing for a $1 million prize that was tripled because of a multiplier included in the ticket. She played on the Michigan Lottery website for that drawing, and the winning numbers were 15-37-38-56-58. Pamela Dietrich of Linden won a $3 million prize in the April 11, 2025, Mega Millions drawing. Michigan Lottery "I don't consistently play Mega Millions, but I do play from time to time," Dietrich told lottery officials. "I had an itch to play for this drawing, so I logged into my Lottery account and purchased a ticket. "The next morning, I saw an email from the Lottery regarding a prize. I had a hard time believing it when I saw I had won $3 million! I called the Lottery first thing Monday morning to verify that it was real and schedule an appointment to claim my big prize. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this!" Michigan Lottery Commissioner Suzanna Shkreli said Dietrich was the first Michigan player to become a millionaire on the updated Mega Millions game. There are now bigger prizes, better odds and larger starting jackpots after the updates that took effect April 8. The cost of the ticket is now $5, it was previously $2 with a multiplier costing an extra $1. "I am excited Pamela was able to cash in!" Shkreli said. Mega Millions tickets can be purchased either online or at participating retailers. Mega Millions tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
CBS News
24-04-2025
- Automotive
- CBS News
Heartland RV announces layoffs, closure at its St. Joseph County facility
Fanfest before Pistons games; missing teen found; new measles case reported; and more top stories Fanfest before Pistons games; missing teen found; new measles case reported; and more top stories Fanfest before Pistons games; missing teen found; new measles case reported; and more top stories An RV manufacturing site in St. Joseph County, Michigan, will close in a few weeks, resulting in 121 jobs lost. Heartland Recreational Vehicles of Elkhart, Indiana, filed a WARN notice Tuesday with the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, relating the details of the layoff. Heartland is known for its selection of towable recreational vehicles and travel trailers. Heartland says it is closing its facility on Haines Boulevard in Sturgis "due to business necessity." This will result in six salaried jobs and 116 non-union hourly jobs lost, effective June 20. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN act, requires companies going through mass layoffs and / or site closures to issue advance public notice to the state's labor department, should that step meet certain requirements for the size of company or number of people involved.
CBS News
04-04-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
Garrett Crochet feels right at home with Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox made a huge commitment to Garrett Crochet this week when the team signed the lefty ace to a six-year, big money extension . But Crochet has been feeling the love from the Red Sox and Boston fans for a while now. Crochet spoke with reporters at Fenway Park on Friday ahead of the Boston's home opener, and said the warm welcomes from the franchise started right after the team traded for him in December. "They made an immediate impression on me," Crochet said Friday. "I can't wait to wear this uniform for a number of years." Red Sox fans got a chance to share their adulation for the southpaw at January's Fanfest in Boston, and Crochet can't wait to pitch in front of the Fenway Faithful as a member of the Red Sox next week. "The embrace was incredible," Crochet explained. "It was the first Fanfest I've been a part of. Coming here on the road was difficult to do, but being on the home side is going to be exciting." The 25-year-old Crochet will front the Boston rotation for a while, as his extension runs through the 2031 season. He should get a rousing ovation when he's introduced Friday, after he tossed eight shutout innings in Baltimore in his first start after signing his new deal. Crochet foresees a lot more of those dominant outings in a Red Sox uniform over the next seven years. "It's awesome. I threw [102] pitches the other day, the second-most I've ever thrown. To do that right out of the gate was really cool and I look forward to doing that in all of my starts," said Crochet. Crochet initially didn't want to negotiate an extension during the season, but that changed when the Red Sox offered him a $170 million deal. The large sum of money obviously played a factor in his decision, but Crochet was most impressed with the commitment to winning he saw from the top of the organization on down. He likely could have gotten more money had he waited and hit free agency in two years. But Crochet wants to be part of something special in Boston. "I think when you look at the organization as a whole, it's a very welcoming, well-run organization. The talent from top to bottom gives us the opportunity to compete for years to come," said Crochet. "Along with [president and CEO] Sam Kennedy, Bres (chief baseball officer Craig Breslow) and AC (manager Alex Cora), the entire top was very welcoming to me. I felt like they were that way with players throughout the minor leagues as well. It's just a very well-run organization that I look forward to being a part of." In addition to Crochet, the Red Sox also signed star rookie Kristian Campbell to an eight-year extension earlier this week.
New York Times
27-01-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Willy Adames already connecting with Giants' next generation, including Josuar De Jesus
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The line to take a picture with new Giants shortstop Willy Adames snaked around the block at San Pedro Square Market in San Jose on Saturday. He enthusiastically shook hands. He signed autographs. He turned up the charisma while encouraging fans to make snarling and fierce facial expressions for the camera. He received the loudest cheers when it was his turn to take the KNBR interview stage. And at the conclusion of his appearance, there was a surprise waiting: A huge portrait of him made out of LEGOs. Advertisement Adames will be a major building block for the Giants through the end of the decade. He looked pretty good rendered in thousands of little building blocks, too. The truly impressive part? How fast he's already fitting in. 'I'm so impressed with all the love they've been showing to me,' Adames said after attending the Giants' Fanfest caravan stop in the South Bay. 'I'm happy to be here.' Willy Adames is a big building block for the Giants. Here he is made up of a few thousand little building blocks. [image or embed] — Andrew Baggarly (@ January 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM Adames said all the right things last month at his introductory press conference in San Francisco. He acknowledged the responsibility that comes with signing a franchise record-setting contract (seven years, $182 million). But it's another thing to put those leadership skills into practice. And Adames isn't waiting until pitchers and catchers report to Scottsdale, Ariz., on Feb. 11 to begin the work of ushering in a top-to-bottom organizational culture change. Starting with the youngest prospects who are the furthest from the big leagues. When the Giants introduced their international signing class Jan. 15 at the Felipe Alou Academy in the Dominican Republic, Adames was there to celebrate with the teenagers who draped oversized jerseys over their slender shoulders, posed for pictures between the stands of party balloons, and signed their contracts. It's more than a 2 1/2-hour drive on Autopista Juan Pablo Duarte from Adames' home in Santiago to the Giants' academy outside Santo Domingo. He didn't think twice to make it. More autographs. More pictures. More charisma. 'What a great face he is for the organization,' Giants director of international scouting Joe Salermo said. 'It motivates the kids to make it to the big leagues. They see the example to follow. We had Adames, we had Camilo Doval as well, and at first, the kids were in awe. Here's two All-Stars right in front of you. The kids were taking in every part of that moment. They're great motivational stories. They brought so much positive energy to the signing day. Advertisement 'And for Adames, who didn't come up through this system, it meant a lot that he took the time to drive all the way to be with these kids. He's a great person and a great leader for this organization.' Salermo couldn't wait to introduce Adames to Josuar De Jesus (Gonzales), the switch-hitting shortstop who signed for a shade under $3 million, and was graded by some MLB scouting departments as the top teenage talent in this signing class. 'Hey, Willy,' Salermo said. 'Here's the guy who's going to take your job.' 'OK, but he has to wait seven years,' Adames replied with a laugh. 'Remember that.' Giants Shortstop 🤝 Future Giants Shortstop — dylan (@sfgsalsa) January 15, 2025 Adames was not considered the top of his international class when the Detroit Tigers signed him for $420,000 in 2012. Just two years after that, Adames found himself in the Tampa Bay Rays organization after the Tigers included him in a trade for left-hander David Price. But Adames said he remembered the excitement of his first official day as a professional player. He also remembered feeling like a sponge, ready to soak up advice from anyone with big-league service time. Now Adames is the example to follow — in subtle and obvious ways. His $182 million deal with the Giants is the fourth-largest free agent contract ever for a Dominican-born player, behind just Juan Soto, Albert Pujols and Robinson Canó. 'This is an important day for those kids,' Adames said on Saturday. 'I wish I had the opportunity to talk to a big leaguer when I signed. For me, it sends a good message to those young guys, to motivate them to work hard so they can get to the big leagues and we can play together. I just wanted to send a great message about how we do things in this organization. For me, it was important to bring that message to them. It's good for them to hear it from a young age. Advertisement 'I didn't see them play, obviously. They were just signing their contracts. But those kids are impressive, man. They are so talented and they can help us in the future. We have a lot of talented players in this organization and we added a few more.' Adames met another one of those players on Saturday. Marco Luciano was a consensus top-5 talent in his international class when he signed with the Giants for $2.6 million as a 16-year-old shortstop in 2018. Luciano was a steady presence on top-100 prospect lists before debuting as a shortstop in the big leagues in 2023, and a year ago at this time, the previous administration led by president Farhan Zaidi postured as if the position would be Luciano's to lose in the spring. But the 22-year-old's defensive play was uneven in the spring and he committed five errors — most of them at the most damaging moments in the late innings — over 60 MLB innings at the position during the season. The Giants were already resolved under Zaidi, and under his successor, Buster Posey, to move Luciano to the outfield. Still, it would be understandable for Luciano to feel some angst when the Giants made a seven-year commitment to a free-agent shortstop. That possibility wasn't lost on Adames, who made sure to connect with Luciano in between rotations to the autograph stations and photo booths on Saturday. 'I'm glad I had the chance to talk to him,' Adames said. 'Hopefully I can talk to him a little more in spring training. He's turned the page and he's focused on what he needs to do to make the team and stay on the team. My message to him will be, 'Hey, visualize how you can help the team at any position. If you're helping the team, then you're there to stay. Then from there, you're making adjustments. And if you need my help, I'll be there for you.'' Adames will have far more day-to-day influence on Luciano and the young players who will be part of the Giants' mix in major-league camp. But he plans to keep an eye on De Jesus, who dominated at the 18U World Cup in Panama last August while going 8-for-22 with four extra-base hits, five steals and more walks than strikeouts. His offensive profile, plus running ability and arm strength combined with athletic movements at shortstop have drawn comparisons to a young Francisco Lindor. As measured as the Giants need to be in their public praise of De Jesus, as unfair as it might be to put lofty expectations on a young player who would be a high school sophomore in the United States, Salermo acknowledged that the 16-year-old is 'the most exciting player, the biggest get for the Giants, since I came here in 2014.' 'After the signing day, other scouting directors were coming up to me saying, 'This was our No. 1 guy, too,'' Salermo said. The Giants were so set on signing De Jesus that they took no chances while adding some six-figure padding to his bonus. They were able to boost their $5.1 million pool by $500,000 after trading former backup catcher Blake Sabol to the Boston Red Sox and right-hander Will Kempner, their third-round pick in 2023, to the Miami Marlins. The additional funds ensured that they could afford giving a $1.1 million bonus to Djean Macares, a left-handed-hitting outfielder from Aruba whom Baseball America ranked as the 25th player in the class, and $900,000 to Yulian Barreto, a highly regarded contact-hitting shortstop from Venezuela. Advertisement De Jesus's bonus is the second largest in franchise history and the one that still stands as the record is also a reminder that nothing is guaranteed when it comes to signing international teenagers. The Giants exceeded their pool limit in 2015 while giving $6 million to Bahamian shortstop Lucius Fox, plus they paid an additional $6 million in penalties. Barely a year later, they were already acknowledging that Fox was a potential misevaluation. They traded him to the Rays along with infielder Matt Duffy in the deal that brought back left-hander Matt Moore; Fox played a total of 10 major-league games. Still, it's hard for Salermo to hold back expressing enthusiasm for the Giants' newest international hope. 'He's really tooled out on both sides of the ball,' Salermo said of De Jesus. 'He can beat you with his speed, he can beat you with his defense, or his sneaky power or his hitting skills. This guy can be the complete package. But everything is determined by how hard he's going to work and we're confident he will. I'm always a believer that your tools get you to a point in this game, but your work ethic and character get you to the big leagues.' One tiny building block at a time. (Photo of Adames: Robert Edwards/ Imagn Images)
