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NBA Hall of Famer hosts 23rd Thanksgiving drive for Miami community

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

NBA Hall of Famer, Alonzo Mourning hosted his 23rd annual Thanksgiving drive. Families passed through the Overtown Youth Center for boxes of Thanksgiving goodies that will help them feed their loved ones this holiday.“Sometimes we don’t have money… It’s a good thing they got this here,” said one attendee. Several organizations helped raise more than $20,000 dollars that went toward purchasing more than 400 meals this year.“With the cost of living going up, people being displaced, it’s a struggle for a lot of families now,” said Mourning. So however we can, and when I say ‘we,’ I mean the Mourning Family Foundation and Overtown Youth Center, however we can provide some relief and support and some hope and encouragement and some love, we do it.”Volunteers and organizers got up early to pack up the boxes and load them into the truck, preparing for Tuesday afternoon’s event.“It reminds you of what’s most impor...

Nicolas Cage is on everyone’s mind in new film ‘Dream Scenario’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

Nicolas Cage’s latest film finds him playing the man of many people’s dreams. He stars in the new comedy “Dream Scenario.” We spoke to the actor about playing a unique character for him and how “Nicolas Cage memes” helped him relate to it.If you dream it, he will come.Nic Cage keeps showing up in everyone’s dreams in “Dream Scenario.”Nicolas Cage: “So when I read this script, ‘Dream Scenario,’ I thought, ‘Well, I think I understand what Paul feels like, I’ll just apply those feelings towards this character.'”Nic has no idea why it’s happening, but that’s not stopping him from going viral.Oh he knows all about that. Thanks to his real life experience with the “Nicolas Cage memes,” which were popular about 14 years ago.Nicolas Cage: “I went through my own experience with the internet and meme-ification and as a result of that video, ‘Nicolas Cage loses his crap...

Former St.Thomas Aquinas High School football payer gives back to community in Miami Gardens as Thanksgiving nears

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

As Thanksgiving approaches, former St. Thomas Aquinas and now Alabama football star, Dallas Turner, made sure people in Miami Gardens had something special to eat this week.Turner’s family and Drew Rosenhaus lent a helping hand at at the Flat Tops Forever Barbershop in Miami Gardens, Tuesday.Even though he is still at school, Tuner had to make sure to help spice up Thanksgiving for the community that helped raise him.“Dallas has been a part of our life at this barbershop, he grew up at the barbershop and he’s very familiar with the neighborhood,” said Devon Tuner, Dallas’ father. “He plays for the Ravens, so it’s a real special for him to kinda come back and be able to gave back to the community as he sees, as he ascending in college and becoming an adult, it’s a part of who he is.”

Pre-Thanksgiving Warmth

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

We’ve been running warm. For 3 consecutive days, Miami has warmed into the middle 80’s (5-degrees above average for this point in November). There’s more of it on the way. In fact, the warmest and most muggy-feeling day of the week will be on Wednesday. That’s when local winds briefly turn out of the south. That’s also going to provide an excellent chance for registering a record high, with the current record, in Miami, standing at 86-degrees. Meanwhile, plan on seeing a good amount of sunshine with dry conditions. You might be thankful for some minor weather changes, beginning Thanksgiving Day. A weak front is forecast to slip across south Florida which could trigger some isolated showers. Thursday’s temperatures will tend to feel more seasonable, too. Highs will peak closer to 80-degrees with comfortable conditions holding throughout the holiday. Sometimes frontal boundaries make a clean passage and we frequently see them race away. T...

Boston’s official 2023 Christmas Tree arrives from Nova Scotia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

Boston’s official 2023 Christmas tree arrived at Boston Common from Nova Scotia Tuesday ahead of this year’s scheduled tree lighting later this month. Santa Claus was on hand to help welcome the new tree to Boston. Crews were later seen working to secure the tree in place. This year’s tree is a 40-year-old white spruce. It stands 45-feet tall and was donated by landowner Bette Gourley in the town of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia has, for decades, sent a tree to Boston as a sign of thanks for relief efforts after a massive explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia in December, 1917. The explosion happened aboard a munitions ship in Halifax Harbor and devastated part of the city. Boston quickly sent a train loaded with supplies and emergency personnel to aid with the response, as described in a statement from the office of Mayor Michelle Wu.Back for an 82nd year, this year’s Boston Common Tree Lighting is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 30. Festivities will kick off at 6 p.m...

Japan’s pitching sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto is set to become MLB’s next star

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

(CNN) — Watch out baseball fans; Japan’s next big star looks to be on the move.Pitching sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto is set to make a high-profile switch to Major League Baseball (MLB) during the offseason, after he was posted as a free agent by Japan’s Orix Buffaloes on Monday.The 25-year-old is expected to attract the attention of the league’s biggest franchises and could receive a highly-lucrative contract worth around $200m, per Reuters.A bidding war is expected to get underway on Tuesday and will run until January 4.Yamamoto has certainly impressed during the early part of his career, being awarded the Eiji Sawamura Award – given to the top starting pitcher in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) – on three occasions.He was 16-6 this last season with a 1.21 ERA; form that saw him win his third consecutive Triple Crown – in wins, ETA and strikeouts – in the NPB’s Pacific League.The right-hander, who boasts a fastball comfortably in the mid-to-...

US home sales on pace for the worst year since 1993

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

Washington, DC (CNN) — Home sales may have their worst year in 30 years. Sales slumped in October and prices continued to climb, as mortgage rates surged last month and inventory remained extraordinarily low. That kept homebuyers out of the market, according to a monthly report from the National Association of Realtors released Tuesday.Home sales remained at 13-year lows as buyers competed for the few available homes on the market and continued to push up prices. Elevated prices, together with the average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage nearing 8% in October, have created the least affordable market in several decades.The median price for existing homes — which include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops — climbed to $391,800 last month. That was up 3.4% from a year ago and marked the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year price increases. It was the highest median price on record for the month of October. P...

Former Orioles closer Zack Britton announces retirement: ‘Looking forward to the next chapter’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

No pitcher in Orioles history was better at finishing games than Zack Britton. This week, it was his career that he brought to an end.Britton announced his retirement Monday, ending a 12-year major league career that included 7 1/2 seasons with Baltimore. The 35-year-old left-hander was the Orioles’ third-round pick in the 2006 draft and made his major league debut in 2011 as a starter before becoming one of the best relievers in baseball.“Thankful to have had the opportunity to live out my childhood dream these past 12 years,” Britton posted on social media. “Looking forward to the next chapter.”Britton’s 139 saves are the second most in Orioles history, and his 92.7% save percentage is the best of the 47 Baltimore pitchers with more than 10 saves. In 2016, Britton posted an 0.54 ERA — the best in MLB history for any pitcher who threw at least 50 innings in a season — and converted all 47 of his save opportunities, finishing fourth in...

Mike Preston: The Ravens’ offense can still be effective without TE Mark Andrews. Here’s how. | COMMENTARY

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

Ravens tight end Mark Andrews is invaluable, but he isn’t irreplaceable.The Ravens have been working since their star tight end injured his ankle in the first quarter of Thursday night’s game against the Bengals on how to prepare for life without the sixth-year, three-time Pro Bowl performer.Coach John Harbaugh said Monday afternoon there is an “outside chance” that Andrews could return before the end of the season. Until then, the Ravens have to figure out who will fill his shoes.That won’t be easy.Andrews has been quarterback Lamar Jackson’s primary target since the two were rookies in 2018. He has been Jackson’s favorite receiver both in the middle of the field and inside the red zone, with his 381 catches for 4,857 yards and 40 touchdowns as proof.“We have a lot of guys that can step up and make plays — wide receivers, tight ends, running backs,” Harbaugh said. “I feel really good about the guys that are going to ...

Strike-throwing and second chances: A reintroduction to Andrew Bailey

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:20:57 GMT

As a pitcher, Andrew Bailey’s time in Boston was short and frustrating, bookended by injuries and surgeries.How he’ll fare as the Red Sox’s new pitching coach remains to be seen, but he’s thrilled and grateful to get a second chance.“I’m really excited about the opportunity to work with Boston, you know, be a Red Sock again, and come back to the organization in a different capacity,” he said over Zoom on Tuesday. “Life’s too short to turn down opportunities like this.”By his own admission, he knows how disappointing this game can be. He began his career with back-to-back All-Star seasons in Oakland, where he was named 2009 American League Rookie of the Year. They traded him to Boston, and made 49 appearances for the Red Sox between 2012-13, meaning he was part of one of the worst seasons in franchise history and one of the greatest.“I know what failure feels like in a major market and in Boston, specifically,” he said. “I know what it’s like to blow a save in Boston… We won th...