“I yelled at him to stop, ‘What the hell are you doing? What are you spraying on the animal? Don’t do that, quit that!’” Whitehead said.
The Ravens drafted kicker Tyler Loop out of Arizona this offseason, and they also signed undrafted rookie kicker John Hoyland of Wyoming.When the team moved on from Tucker, DeCosta released a statement citing “current roster” considerations as being part of the decision. Harbaugh is now suggesting that Tucker’s uncertain availability may have played a bigger role than his performance, which slipped noticeably for much of last season.
“If it was just a black and white, simple thing, then it would be easy to understand, but I think anybody can look at the whole thing in perspective and say, ‘OK, we’ve got to have a kicker ready to go, and there’s a whole lot of moving parts of that deal,’” Harbaugh said. “It’s just the reality of it, and you’re faced with that.”Harbaugh also addressed another big issue from the past month — the loss of safety Ar’Darius Washington to a torn Achilles tendon.“It was a clean tear, if you want to call it that, so it’s one of those ones that heals ... it’s the more quick-healing version,” Harbaugh said. “Ar’Darius tells me he’ll be back in November. He’s always been a quick healer. I’m looking at November, December in my mind, so yes, we’re counting on him being back.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Sam Reinhart, Niko Mikkola and A.J. Greer returned to Florida’s lineupover the Carolina Hurricanes that sent the Panthers back to a third straight Stanley Cup Final.
The Panthers lost forward Eetu Luostarinen in the first period of this Eastern Conference final game, though coach Paul Maurice said afterward he expected him to be fine with time off coming before a Cup series against the Edmonton-Dallas winner.
Reinhart, Mikkola and Greer had missed Game 4 with injuries, a shutout loss Monday night at home that allowed the Hurricanes to avert a sweep and extend the season.MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans will vote in the country’s first judicial elections Sunday. The fiercely debated question is whether electing judges will deepen democratic decay or purge courts of rampant corruption and impunity.
The vote comes as power inhas been increasingly concentrated in the popular president’s office, and as organized crime wields significant political influence in many parts of the country. Critics worry that electing judges will weaken checks and balances on government and stack the courts in favor of the ruling party.
Judges and court staff previously earned their positions through merit and experience. Now the election has more than 7,700 candidates vying for more than 2,600 judicial positions, including on. Hundreds more positions will be elected in 2027.