, as well as North Korea’s headlong pursuit of nuclear weapons. Experts say that has made both Lee and Kim avoid unveiling ambitious foreign policy goals.
The Lynx and Liberty won’t play in the regular season for a few more months with their four matchups coming in the span of a few weeks — the first of which is on July 30.New York led the way as the No. 1 team in the power poll again this week. Minnesota was right behind in second. The national voting panel chose Phoenix third and Atlanta fourth. The Dream moved up three places. Las Vegas, Seattle and Indiana were the next three. Washington, Golden State and Chicago followed. Los Angeles, Dallas and Connecticut rounded out the poll.
The WNBA will play its annual in-season tournament over the next few weeks. Each team will play the other teams in their conference one time during that window. The West will have six games with the addition of expansion team Golden State. The East will play five. The teams with the best record in each conference will face off in the title game. The winning team receives a $500,000 cash prize pool to divvy up as well as each player on that squad will get $5,000 in cryptocurrency from Bitcoin.earned Player of the Week honors for the second time in her career. The Dream guard, who also won the award in June 2023, averaged 26.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4 assists to help Atlanta win both its games last week on the road over Los Angeles and Seattle. Other players receiving consideration included A’ja Wilson of Las Vegas, Napheesa Collier of Minnesota and Sabrina Ionescu of New York.Indiana at Chicago, Saturday. Caitlin Clark may still be sidelined with a quad strain for this rematch between the Fever and Sky. The game will be broadcast on CBS in primetime, the first for the network in WNBA history.
The president of World Boxing has apologized after Olympic championin the governing body’s announcement to make sex testing mandatory.
Algerian boxer Khelif, who won gold at the Paris Games last summer amid
, was specifically mentioned when World Boxing released its new policy last Friday.Franco has been free on supervised release, although he had been required to make monthly control visits to the judge.
He was also arrested and granted another supervised release in November forin his vehicle. The arrest followed an argument in an apartment complex parking lot. Another man and a woman also were detained in the confrontation. Two firearms were seized, police said. Dominican judge Viamerca Ruiz said Franco needs to report to court once a month while he is being investigated for carrying the firearm that was registered under his uncle’s name. One of Franco’s lawyers said because the gun has a license, “there’s nothing illegal about it.”
A conviction for illegally possessing a firearm could prompt a three- to five-year prison sentence.No, but he was for nearly a year after Dominican authorities opened their probe.