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CBS News
5 hours ago
- Climate
- CBS News
It's a beautiful Saturday in North Texas. Expect sunny skies ahead of possible storms early next week
Good Saturday morning! It's beautiful with sunny skies and drier air in place. Unfortunately, Dallas-Fort Worth has an Air Quality Alert. Those sensitive groups with upper respiratory issues will want to limit their time outdoors. But it's a great day to be poolside with afternoon highs in the mid to upper 80s. Riley and Maggie are enjoying their pool party! The First Weather Alert Team will be watching for a complex of storms to drop south from Oklahoma overnight into early Sunday morning. An isolated storm may produce gusty winds and small hail, mainly in the northeast areas. Any residual boundaries from the morning's convection could spark a few afternoon storms, mainly south of I-20. Once again, an isolated storm with small hail and gusty winds can't be ruled out. After a quiet Monday, the focus shifts to Tuesday evening when the next disturbance arrives. The Storm Prediction Center has highlighted areas west of I-35 for the potential of strong to severe storms. Keep the umbrellas handy next week with another unsettled pattern setting up and daily rain chances. Temperatures will remain near normal. Enjoy your Saturday!
Yahoo
13 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Trump's anti-climate orders draw lawsuit from young activists citing life, liberty
Jen Psaki talks with Riley, a young climate activist and one of 22 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Trump administration in which they are represented by Our Children's Trust. The lawsuit charges that Trump is violating their right to life and liberty with the environmental damage that will come from his executive orders.
Yahoo
a day ago
- General
- Yahoo
Why I'm not worried about Michael Harris II
There is plenty of blame to go around on this 26-29 Atlanta Braves squad. For starters, sequencing and timing. Before Matt Olson's 6th inning single in game one of Thursday's doubleheader, the team managed an 0-31 streak with runners on base. As Battery Power's own Shawn Coleman pointed out, entering play on Thursday, the 2–5 hitters in the lineup have combined for a 77 wRC+ with runners in scoring position. This figure feels even more impossible when you consider that the 6 players who have at least 10 plate appearances in the 2-5 spots in the order (Riley, Olson, Ozuna, Albies, Murphy, Baldwin) had a combined 120 wRC+ on the season entering Thursday. Advertisement Clutch, timely hitting has been mostly proven to be a non-sticky skill (meaning that just because a team or player is particularly good or bad at timely hitting in one season/month does not indicate anything about how they will perform in those situations in future seasons/months), so some of their woes with runners on base may simply be random variation and luck. The theoretical expectation should be that their overall offensive stats will more closely resemble their situational offensive stats going forward. There are other examples of bad luck in the Braves season. They've played a league-high 23 games that were decided by one run, and their 9-14 record in those games represents a bottom five winning percentage in the league in one run games. They are three games under .500 despite having a positive run differential. They also have dealt with some unfortunate injury luck, personified most clearly in Thursday's doubleheader vs. Philly where they sustained injuries to each of AJ Smith-Shawver, Stuart Fairchild, and Nick Allen. So yeah, luck and timing have been issues. If the Braves had normalized regression in one run games, their run differential, and their performance with runners on, they might be a game or two above .500. I'd also argue that poor strategic management has been an issue for this club, and perhaps you could add another win or two if Snitker had made better choices. Being 3 or 4 games above .500 would be a big improvement, but that's also still below what was expected of this team. Which brings us to the bigger issue – the underperformance of their established big league position players. Where that's concerned, there's one player that has underperformed far beyond the rest. You can probably use context clues to guess whom. Olson's 122 wRC+ and Riley's 118 wRC+ are both a bit shy of what we've come to expect from them, but both players are still on pace for ~4 WAR seasons. Ozzie Albies' 14-game hitting streak has pulled him up to an uninspiring but more palatable 87 wRC+. The most disappointing performance of all, though, belongs to none other than Michael Harris II. Advertisement To fully appreciate the magnitude of Harris's underperformance, let's recall some preseason context. Harris was projected by FanGraphs Depth Charts to lead the Braves with 5.0 WAR. Despite a down year in 2024, FanGraphs foresaw a 23 HR, 18 SB season from Money Mike with a .292/.336/.484 line and 125 wRC+. As we approach the end of May, Harris has instead produced a putrid .229/.259/.338 slash line with just 3 HR, a 60 wRC+, and 0.3 fWAR. The at-bats have often been ugly from Michael, but that's not a new thing. His 41.9% O-Swing exactly matches his career O-Swing%. His miniscule 4.4 BB% is nothing new compared to his career 4.7% BB. His SwStr% is down to 10.9%, which is lower than he's posted in any season and explains why his 18.6% K is below his career mark. He's managed to raise his Contact% in the best way, by specifically making more contact on pitches in the zone. His career-high 91.9% Z-Contact is more than 5 points higher than he's shown in any other season and is a top 25 mark in the sport. So, his pitch selection hasn't really changed from when he posted a combined 117 wRC+ over his first three seasons in the big leagues, and he's making more contact than ever when he swings at strikes. That seems like a recipe for more success a la the first three seasons of his career, which saw him produce a 117 wRC+ and 4.4 fWAR per 600 PA. So, what gives? Why the massive downturn? From what I can tell, it's a combination of two issues. Advertisement First, he's just not hitting the ball in the air with authority as often as he usually does. Michael has always run a pretty high GB% (career ___%), but one thing that's made him special is that when he does lift the ball, he smokes it. From 2022-2024, Harris was above the 80th percentile in both hard-hit% and barrel% on line drives and fly balls out of 298 players with at least 250 such batted ball events. This season (entering Thursday), out of 306 batters with at least 30 fly balls or line drives, he's in the 38th percentile in barrel% and 34th percentile in hard-hit rate. Ivan noted in his excellent piece earlier this week that Harris (along with most of the Braves) has lost (sacrificed?) some bat speed this year, but it looks like his bat speed is still in line with what we saw in a very good 2023 campaign that saw him post a 115 wRC+. His bat speed is in the 71st percentile, which should be enough to allow him to drive the ball. To use a Snit-ism, this may just be 'one of them thangs.' Like several other Braves, Harris is a streaky hitter. Austin Riley had a scalding hot stretch in the second half of April. We're getting the Ozzie Albies heater now after about 6 weeks of ineptitude. We're still waiting on Harris to catch fire, but given his history, I'm betting it will come. And when he gets going, the barrels can stack up in a hurry. The second issue is – and you might be sick of hearing this – bad luck. I've detailed above how Harris has not been himself, and even with better luck that would still hold true. But, if his offensive output actually matched his offensive inputs, he'd be close to a league-average bat instead of a bottom 10 bat in the league. Advertisement (If you are on a mobile device, this table is best viewed in landscape mode.) If we were in the last week of May and Harris had an OPS around .700-.710 (as his expected metrics suggest he should), you might think that it's been a cool start to the year but he's still been valuable enough as a baserunner and defender to be a solid contributor. Instead, because he's been one of the 20 unluckiest hitters in the sport, Harris has a sub-.600 OPS. Unfortunately, if you're looking for a more optimistic sentiment than 'well he should be a slightly below average hitter instead of terrible' or 'he's shown in the past that he can be better,' there isn't too much in his recent play to suggest that he might be putting things together. Both his GB% and O-Swing% have actually spiked in the last couple of weeks. He did look good on Thursday, however, smoking a 107 mph line drive single the other way off a tough lefty in Cristopher Sánchez and pulling a clutch game-tying line drive double down the line vs. another tough lefty in Matt Strahm. In game two, Harris crushed a ball 405 feet that was caught at the wall. That isn't an isolated incident for him — in the last 2.5 weeks, all three of Harris's barreled balls have been caught. When a player is struggling like Harris is, it's tough sledding to get such poor results when he actually does something right. So, all in all, here's where I'm at on Harris. If he doesn't improve his approach / batted ball data as the season wears on, we can likely expect him to be close to a league average hitter going forward, which would probably make him a 3-4 WAR type of player the rest of the way considering his superb defense in CF. But he likely has a hot streak or two left in him this year that will elevate both his expected and actual numbers. The Braves need more from Money Mike, and he's absolutely capable of giving it to them. Advertisement More from
Tom's Guide
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
Everything new on Apple TV Plus in June 2025
We're finally cruising into the summer season, which means that Apple TV Plus (as well as the rest of the best streaming services) will be introducing a whole selection of new movies and TV shows to celebrate the start of June. This coming month, the most high-profile titles set to hit Apple TV Plus include "Echo Valley," an edge-of-your-seat thriller starring Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney as a mother-daughter duo dealing with a bloody mess on their hands; and "Stick", a feel-good sports comedy with "Ted Lasso" vibes and Owen Wilson leading the cast as an over-the-hill ex-golfer who finds new hope in coaching a young golf prodigy. Elsewhere, you've got the second season of raucous period drama "The Buccaneers", the Taron Egerton-led crime miniseries "Smoke" and a family-friendly animated special based on a beloved children's picture book written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis. You can find more info about all the new Apple TV Plus releases coming your way in June 2025 below. In the new sports comedy series "Stick," comedy star Owen Wilson is Pryce Cahill, a washed-up professional golfer reeling from the collapse of his marriage, the loss of his job at an Indiana sporting goods store and the long-gone hopes of making it big on the golf tee. However, things seemingly turn around for the ex-athlete when he takes on the role of coach for a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi (played by Peter Dager). Along with Wilson and Dager, the ensemble of the sweet-yet-funny series includes Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Timothy Olyphant, and features guest appearances from golf superstars such as Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Max Homa and Wyndham Clark. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Watch on Apple TV Plus from June 4 "Echo Valley" stars Oscar winner Julianne Moore and Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney as a mother and daughter bound by a dark secret. Kate Garrett (Moore) works training horses on her southern Pennsylvania farm when, one night, her daughter Claire (Sweeney) arrives at her door covered in blood that is not hers. As Kate pieces together the truth of what happened, she's forced to contend with exactly how far she'll have to go to protect her child. Domhnall Gleeson, Kyle MacLachlan, and Fiona Shaw pad out the cast of the upcoming thriller film, which is directed by BAFTA winner Michael Pearce and written by Brad Ingelsby. Watch on Apple TV Plus from June 13 Ask any kiddo and they'll probably know "Not a Box," the award-winning children's book by bestselling author and illustrator Antoinette Portis. Now the youngins will get to see the book's bright-eyed bunny Riley get the TV treatment with an all-new animated preschool series. With a voice cast including Isabel Birch as Riley and Ian James Corlett as Adult, "Not a Box" sees Riley craft magical make-believe worlds and fantastic adventures with his friends using only a simple cardboard box to spark imagination and creativity. Watch on Apple TV Plus from June 13 June also ushers in the second season of 1870s-set period drama "The Buccaneers," which will be full of "sisterhood, romance, wit, steamy love affairs, extravagant gowns, spectacular landscapes and jaw-dropping plot-twists," per the streamer. The new episodes will see Nan St. George (Kristine Froseth) navigating her new marriage to Theo, Duke of Tintagel (Guy Remmers) all while still seemingly harboring feelings for Guy Thwarte (Matthew Broome). Meanwhile, sister Jinny St. George (Imogen Waterhouse) is on every newspaper front page, wanted for the kidnapping of her unborn child. Across eight episodes, the girls will be forced to grow up and fight to be heard as they wrestle with love, lust, loss and all the rest. Along with the aforementioned returning actors, "The Buccaneers" season 2 sees cast newcomers including Leighton Meester as Nell, Greg Wise as Reede Robinson, Jacob Ifan as Hector Robinson, Grace Ambrose as Paloma Ballardino and Maria Almeida as Cora Merrigan. Watch on Apple TV Plus from June 18 Created, written, and executive produced by acclaimed author Dennis Lehane, "Smoke" stars Taron Egerton as arson investigator Dave Gudsen and Jurnee Smollett as police detective Michelle Calderone, who are begrudgingly paired up to track down two serial arsonists in the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by the podcast "Firebug," "Smoke" is being billed by the streamer as "a twisted game of secrets and suspicions," with both officers trying to get as close to the truth as possible — without getting burned. The two lead actors are surrounded by a stacked cast including Rafe Spall, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Anna Chlumsky, Adina Porter, Greg Kinnear and John Leguizamo. Watch on Apple TV Plus from June 27
USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
New York Giants' Jordon Riley swaps jersey numbers with veteran Roy Robertson-Harris
New York Giants' Jordon Riley swaps jersey numbers with veteran Roy Robertson-Harris Best DT in the NFL giving Jordon Riley some tips — Zain (@ThisIsNotZain) May 28, 2025 The jersey number swaps continued this week at the New York Giants facility in East Rutherford. After a slew of trades and changes over the past few weeks, another one was announced this week. Defensive lineman Jordan Riley relinquished his No. 95 to incoming free-agent defensive end Ray Robertson-Harris. Riley will now wear No. 99. Riley was a seventh-round selection out of Oregon in the 2023 NFL draft. He has appeared in 21 games, starting five in his Giants career. Robertson-Harris, a nine-year veteran who spent last year in Seattle after four years in both Jacksonville and Chicago, was signed to a two-year, $9 million deal earlier this spring. Robertson-Harris wore No. 95 in both Jacksonville and Chicago. He wore No. 98 with Seattle last season. The jersey number swaps happen in the preseason since they are not allowed once the season begins, per an email sent out by the league last October, clarifying the process: For competitive reasons, no player may change his uniform number once the regular season begins. Players on the practice squad that have not been on the Active List for a regular season game are permitted to change jersey numbers in order to make an approved number available for a new player on the Active List. Special exceptions to this rule may be considered by the NFL Football Operations department depending on the circumstances (e.g., player traded to another team). The jersey number changes are likely to continue straight through the preseason.
