内容摘要：“The Indy 500 marks the unofficial kickoff of summer and the start of hot dog season,” said Kelsey Rice, brand communications director at Chicago-based Oscar Mayer. “It’s only fitting that we bring a race of epic proportions to the Speedway and celebrate a timeless tradition: delicious meats and a little friendly competition to kick off a summer of wieners.”

“The Indy 500 marks the unofficial kickoff of summer and the start of hot dog season,” said Kelsey Rice, brand communications director at Chicago-based Oscar Mayer. “It’s only fitting that we bring a race of epic proportions to the Speedway and celebrate a timeless tradition: delicious meats and a little friendly competition to kick off a summer of wieners.”

The Red Sox finished a 10-game homestand just 5-5.Orioles: RHP Charlie Morton (0-7, 7.68 ERA) is scheduled to start for Baltimore on Monday in the opener of a three-game series against St. Louis. RHP Erick Fedde (3-3, 3.77) is scheduled for the Cardinals.

Red Sox: Open a three-game series in Milwaukee on Monday when LHP Garrett Crochet (4-3, 1.98) is set to face Brewers RHP Chad Patrick (2-4, 3.23).DENVER (AP) — Josh Kroenke didn’t need to look far to find the next head coach of the Denver Nuggets. All he had to do was take a short stroll from his office.The team’s president and governor took the interim tag off David Adelman on Thursday, rewarding the 44-year-old hoops lifer for righting the discombobulated Nuggets on short notice and leading them to a Game 7 against the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round of the playoffs.

last month and led the Nuggets to wins in their last three regular-season games to avoid the NBA’s play-in, dispatched the Clippers in seven games and took the West’s top seed to the brink before losingon Sunday in Oklahoma City.

Kroenke said he needs more time to decide on a new general manager, but he wanted to name Adelman his head coach now so the organization could gear toward a return to the NBA pinnacle to capitalize on the prime years of superstar Nikola Jokic.

last month when he fired the winningest coach in franchise history along with general manager Calvin Booth, who connected the final pieces of the team’s only championship puzzle two years ago. Ben Tenzer has been serving as interim GM.Similarly in West Africa, the notion that states could soon have the capacity to counter such threats is a distant prospect, said Beverly Ochieng, an analyst at Control Risks, a security consulting firm. Even before Western influence began to wane in the Sahel, needed military support was limited, threats remained active, and local militaries were left without the tools to confront them.

Western powers with a presence in the Sahel have graduallytheir engagement, either by choice or

by increasingly hostile governments.“Many of them do not have very strong air forces and are not able to monitor the movement of militants, especially in areas where roads are very difficult to traverse, the infrastructure is extremely poor,” Ochieng, who specializes in the Sahel and Great Power competition in Africa, said.