ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Saturday evening that the Sacramento Kings are buying free agent DeMar DeRozan in a three-year, $74 million sign-and-trade deal involving the Chicago Bulls and San Antonio Spurs. As a part of the deal, Harrison Barnes and an unprotected 2031 decide swap will go to the Spurs, whereas Chris Duarte, two second-round picks and money will go to the Bulls.

The Kings have been wanting so as to add one other star participant to a core that features De’Aaron Fox, Domantas Sabonis, Keegan Murray and Malik Monk after lacking the playoffs final season. This commerce carries important fantasy basketball and betting implications. However will it make the Kings a real contender within the Western Convention? Let’s take a better look. — Eric Moody

Fantasy worth: Can DeRozan thrive as a scorer in Sacramento?

The six-time All-Star, who turns 35 subsequent month, is coming off a powerful three-year run with the Bulls, throughout which DeRozan averaged 25.5 PPG. An enormous a part of that scoring got here from the midrange space. DeRozan has been essentially the most prolific scorer on midrange makes an attempt throughout that span, and the margin between him and the second-highest quantity scorer, Kevin Durant, is broad. Final season, he averaged 24.0 PPG, 4.3 RPG, and 5.3 APG. DeRozan additionally completed second in Clutch Participant of the Yr voting, behind Stephen Curry. Additionally, he led the league in complete minutes performed final season at age 34, making him the oldest participant to realize this feat. DeRozan has not missed greater than 11 video games in a season since 2012.

Earlier in his profession, DeRozan spent most of his time at capturing guard earlier than transitioning to small ahead over the previous 5 years. He’ll stay a high fantasy choice with the Kings, significantly in factors leagues versus class codecs. Nevertheless, he will not assist the Kings handle their want for measurement, size, and protection, which is essential since Sacramento has ranked within the backside half of the league in factors allowed per 100 possessions over that timeframe. — Moody

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Betting implications: Are the Kings official contenders in 2024-25?

In 2023, the Kings made the playoffs for the primary time because the 2005-2006 season. Nevertheless, final season, Sacramento landed within the play-in match and misplaced to the New Orleans Pelicans within the matchup for the No. 8 seed. Though the Kings have been determined for somebody apart from Fox to run the offense and create pictures in a high-level playoff setting, I can not shake the sensation that DeRozan’s addition is extra about satisfying an possession group seeking to recapture the magic from the 2022-2023 season. Let me clarify.

Sacramento has ranked within the high half of the league in factors scored per 100 possessions during the last two seasons. The Kings’ mantra is to play at a quick tempo and outscore opponents whereas taking part in mediocre protection. Whereas DeRozan does give the Kings a official third choice behind Fox and Sabonis, the truth is that protection is the larger concern right here.

The issue is DeRozan is not nice on protection, and he cannot make a lot of an affect on offense when he does not have the ball. The Kings have already got a whole lot of ball-handling with Fox and Monk, each of whom command excessive utilization charges. Moreover, the Kings run a whole lot of their offense by way of Domantas Sabonis. Their system emphasizes motion, each off the ball and with their gamers, however DeRozan is a little bit of a ball-stopper. Whereas he’s a stable playmaker when he has the ball, Fox and Monk are additionally not recognized for his or her distinctive protection.

Moreover, the Kings haven’t got a high-end rim protector, and let’s be actual, Sabonis is an offense-first large. The lack of Barnes, particularly on the defensive finish, will likely be felt by the Kings. Though Keon Ellis emerged as a superb defender late final season, with DeRozan on the town, will Ellis even be offered sufficient minutes to make an affect?

Although it is a cliché, the phrase “protection wins championships” holds true within the NBA. Whereas including a proficient participant like DeRozan may appear to be a terrific transfer on the floor, the Kings’ defensive woes will likely be powerful to beat in a stacked Western Convention. Till Sacramento addresses these points, it is onerous to take them severely as a contender for the convention title (+3300 at ESPN BET) or the NBA championship (+7500). Nevertheless, DeRozan does elevate the Kings’ common season flooring by way of win complete, provided that Sacramento now have two high clutch performers in DeRozan (+20000 to win common season MVP) and Fox. This additionally makes betting on the Kings to win the Pacific Division (+370) an intriguing wager. — Moody

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Klay Thompson to Dallas Mavericks: Thompson left his Warriors’ residence to hitch a Mavericks squad that desperately wants a constant 3-point shooter on the wing. Throughout the common season, the Mavericks performed two departed wings – Tim Hardaway Jr. and Derrick Jones Jr. – a mixed 50+ minutes per sport, and in that point they mixed for 23.0 PPG on a mixed 8.1 of 18.9 (42.9 FG%) from the sector and three.8 of 10.7 (35.5 3P%) from behind the arc. Thompson ought to have the ability to produce very near that quantity of scoring and 3-point capturing in about 60% of these minutes, as a result of higher capturing effectivity. Thompson ought to get higher pictures in Dallas, taking part in off the gravity and playmaking of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, than even what he was used to in Golden State. As an alternative of getting to function a lot off the transfer, which has gotten more difficult as he has aged and are available off main leg accidents, Thompson ought to get extra spot-up seems to be, significantly within the corners.

Previous to the offseason strikes, whereas with the Warriors, I had Thompson projected round a hundred and thirtieth in my way-too-early rankings. This transfer doubtless strikes him again into my top-100 as a stable beginning flex choice.

Buddy Hield to Golden State Warriors: The logic for this transfer appears clear. The Warriors misplaced Klay Thompson and changed him with the participant whose offensive sport most resembles his. With the Warriors final season, Thompson averaged 17.9 PPG on 6.4 of 14.7 (43.2 %) FG and three.5 of 9.0 (38.7 3P%) from downtown in 29.7 MPG. Hield has profession averages of 43.4 FG% and 30.0 3P%, on pictures similar to those he ought to get with the Warriors. Thompson began the vast majority of final season, however by the tip he was coming off the bench. Hield, too, blended beginning and coming off the bench for each the Indiana Pacers and the Philadelphia 76ers final season. He performed fewer minutes (25.7 MPG) than Thompson final season, however the season earlier than averaged 31.0 MPG for the Pacers and scored 16.8 PPG.

One space Hield has a transparent benefit over Thompson is availability. Hield has averaged about one missed sport per season in his profession, and that sturdiness helps his projected fantasy totals. Previous to the transfer, Hield projected to a borderline fantasy roster spot within the 130s of the rankings. With this transfer, he rises to only outdoors of the top-100, firmly in play for a beginning flex spot in typical fantasy hoops leagues.

Harrison Barnes to San Antonio Spurs: Barnes is a 12-year veteran with a historical past of availability {and professional} scoring, each inside and outdoors the arc. Barnes turns into the second notable veteran to hitch the very younger Spurs this offseason, and presumably he’ll be anticipated to work with Chris Paul to assist Victor Wembanyama and the creating Spurs be taught to play successful basketball. It is not clear whether or not Barnes will begin or come off the bench, however he’ll doubtless rating extra per-minute taking part in off Wembanyama on a staff with out dominant perimeter scorers than he did on a Kings squad that had been chock-full of perimeter scoring choices.

Previous to the transfer, I had Barnes ranked 141st in my way-too-early rankings. He has the potential to maneuver up into the 110 to 130 vary with this transfer, with the variability tied to his unsure position. We should always get a greater concept of what his position needs to be later within the offseason.

Caleb Martin to Philadelphia 76ers: Martin has toggled between beginning and coming off the bench for the Warmth during the last two seasons, however seems slated to be the fifth starter on the 76ers this season. He can be a job participant 3-and-D ahead on a 76ers squad that includes three high-usage scorers, so would doubtless produce numbers much like the ten.4 PPG, 5.5 RPG, 2.6 APG, 1.4 3-pointers and 1.4 mixed steals and blocks he averaged in 23 begins for the Warmth final season.

Previous to the transfer, Martin ranked 182nd in my way-too-early rankings, outdoors of draft vary for all however the deepest fantasy leagues. If he’s a full-time starter in Philadelphia, his upside might get him nearer to that top-150 and consideration for late spherical fantasy draft consideration. — Andre Snellings

Quel spectacle! Devant l’adversité, Cody Fajardo, Walter Fletcher et les Alouettes ont répondu comme de vrais champions pour demeurer invaincus cette saison. 

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C’est un touché inscrit par Fletcher, sur une course de 31 verges, qui a fait la différence avec un peu plus d’une minute à écouler au quatrième quart dans une victoire de 30 à 26 des Alouettes contre les Stampeders de Calgary, devant 20 652 spectateurs comblés, samedi soir, au stade Percival-Molson.

«Je tente d’accomplir un jeu à chaque fois que je touche au ballon, résumait simplement Fletcher, au cœur d’une ambiance festive, dans le vestiaire des Alouettes. Il faut donner le crédit à la ligne offensive et aux entraîneurs pour leur plan de match. Tous les gars dans cette équipe jouent les uns pour les autres et nous avons du plaisir.»

Avant le coup closing porté par Fletcher, on aurait cru revoir quelques bribes de la dernière séquence offensive ayant marqué la conquête de la Coupe Gray des Alouettes, en novembre dernier, alors que Tyson Philpot et Cole Spieker ont chacun capté une passe importante.

Fajardo a profité de cette ultime poussée pour conclure la rencontre avec 374 verges de positive aspects par la passe. Philpot a été sa principale cible, avec 12 réceptions et 134 verges, tandis que Fletcher a terminé sa soirée avec un complete de 160 verges de positive aspects (104 par la passe, 56 au sol).

Interception de Dionté Ruffin

Après le touché décisif de Fletcher, c’est une interception réussie par Dionte Ruffin qui a scellé l’concern du match. Si les Alouettes tiraient de l’arrière 23 à 12 à la mi-temps, il faut saluer les prouesses de l’unité défensive, qui n’a accordé que trois factors aux Stampeders en deuxième demie.

«On préfère ne pas avoir à effectuer une telle remontée et simplement croire qu’on est en mesure de le faire si ça doit arriver, mais quand tu te retrouves dans une state of affairs où tu es forcé de le faire et que tu réussis, ça ne fait qu’augmenter la confiance que tu as déjà, a commenté l’entraîneur-chef Jason Maas. Il n’y a pas un gars dans ce vestiaire qui ne croit pas qu’on peut gagner avant que le cadran soit à zéro.»

Cette victoire, une cinquième en autant de matchs cette saison, en est une sous le signe de la résilience. Le botteur David Côté s’est blessé durant la période d’échauffement, remplacé par Jose Maltos, tandis que le maraudeur Marc-Antoine Dequoy, touché à une épaule, a dû quitter la rencontre au deuxième quart sans pouvoir revenir.

Une préparation gâchée par la LCF?

Rappelons que l’unité défensive des Alouettes a été ébranlée d’une autre façon, plus tôt cette semaine, lorsque Shawn Lemon a été suspendu à nouveau par la Ligue canadienne de soccer.

Lemon, impliqué dans une histoire de paris sportifs, est le premier à blâmer, mais le fait que la LCF annonce sa suspension à environ 48 heures du match contre les Stampeders n’a pas plu à l’organisation montréalaise. Cela a inévitablement chamboulé la préparation de l’équipe. Ironie du kind, Lemon portait les couleurs des Stampeders, en 2021, au second des gestes reprochés, lui qui aurait parié des matchs de la LCF.

«Les astres n’étaient pas tout à fait alignés pour nous, mais quand même, les joueurs ont trouvé une façon de gagner, a résumé fièrement le directeur général Danny Maciocia. Cette équipe va continuer de se battre jusqu’à la fin.»

La suspension de Lemon, dont l’appel sera entendu au début du mois d’août, n’a finalement pas empêché la troupe de l’entraîneur-chef Jason Maas de s’imposer. Au complete, les Alouettes ont maintenant remporté leurs 13 derniers matchs, incluant les trois du dernier parcours éliminatoire.

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Rosie Powell is 71 and she or he hasn’t had AC in her house for almost a month.

“I’m sitting right here in the lounge now with my little transportable fan that I purchased from Walmart,” she mentioned one June afternoon. Her thermostat learn 87 levels Fahrenheit.

Powell moved to Palisades of Inwood, a senior residing advanced in North Houston, a decade in the past as a result of she determined residing in a senior residing group is less expensive and simpler than sustaining her personal property. She additionally enjoys the camaraderie of different aged folks.

However she mentioned the tradeoff has include a value: the kind of facility she lives in comes with little oversight.

Though Powell is in a senior advanced, there is a stark distinction in how the several types of senior residing services are regulated — and that leaves a few of the most weak seniors in gaps in care. “No one come over right here and see about us,” Powell mentioned.

Facilities that provide medical care, akin to nursing properties and assisted residing facilities, are required to be storm prepared. Texas Well being and Human Providers outlines strict tips for a way these sorts of services needs to be ready for emergencies.

However these laws do not lengthen to impartial residing communities, which is what Palisades of Inwood is.

Complexes categorized as impartial are sometimes not required to supply particular care to seniors although they’re marketed to folks older than 55. “It’s similar to a daily house advanced,” Houston Metropolis Council Member Amy Peck mentioned. Residents at impartial complexes could be low earnings, on treatment, and unable to stroll on their very own.

Peck worries that many aren’t as impartial as these residing in specialised care services, and with an energetic hurricane season forward, the dangers are excessive.

“Quite a lot of instances there are a bunch of senior residents residing in an house advanced with no type of accountability for what might occur in a catastrophe state of affairs or every other type of state of affairs,” Peck added.

Powell mentioned her AC went out on June 7, together with almost a dozen of her neighbors. She worries about them as a result of some have extra severe well being situations. Their landlord gave them transportable AC models, however it’s not sufficient to chill their place down throughout Houston’s triple-digit summer season warmth.

“I’m sitting right here in the lounge now with my little transportable fan that I’ve purchased from Walmart,” Powell mentioned. “I simply attempt to brace myself and attempt to have sufficient meals or water round right here to care for me… It is simply not what we have been advised it was going to be.”

Latasha Washington, supervisor of Palisades of Inwood, the advanced the place Powell lives, declined to remark.

Seniors, even these residing independently, usually stay with continual well being issues and depend on energy to maintain life saving units charged and medicines on the proper temperature, making prolonged durations of energy outages all extra harmful for them.

State Senator Molly Prepare dinner holds a Grasp’s in Public Well being. She mentioned as folks age, they’re extra vulnerable to dehydration.

“Particularly if it’s humid, that may very well be deadly to them,” Prepare dinner mentioned.

Storms in Might, particularly the derecho, caught Houstonians abruptly, leaving many with out energy or AC for days, together with senior care communities. It turned a check of who is ready for hurricane season.

“What we noticed on the market was that people have been falling between the gaps,” Prepare dinner mentioned.

Facilities that provide medical care are required by the state to have issues akin to a generator, sufficient meals and water for every resident for at the least three days, and an evacuation plan.

Chuck Lalonde is a senior vp of operations for Belmont Village Senior Residing, which has two assisted-living and reminiscence care services in Houston.

“It’s a reasonably strict listing that we observe, so we’re not reinventing the wheel each hurricane season,” Lalonde mentioned.

However these facilities may price as a lot as $7,000 a month, which few seniors can afford. Impartial residing communities are less expensive. At Houston Heights Tower, an impartial residing group in central Houston, lease for a one-bedroom house is round $750 a month.

Linda Holder is the manager director of The Housing Company, a nonprofit with eight impartial residing communities in Houston, together with Houston Heights Tower.

She mentioned though they cater to the aged, it is all within the identify: impartial residing.

“We actually can’t, we are able to’t care for folks’s medical wants,” Holder mentioned. “There’s all the time 911, we’re very excessive profile with the hearth division.”

Regardless of that, she mentioned they do inventory further meals and water and supply a cooling middle when energy goes out.

Energy at Houston Heights Tower was out for 4 days after the derecho on Might 16 and Hope Aguirre, the constructing’s property supervisor mentioned she brings residents residing within the constructing’s prime flooring all the way down to decrease ranges.

“I deliver them down and so they can both be on the hallways or in the neighborhood room right here as a result of I don’t need nobody on the highest, simply in order that they received’t get scared or something,” Aguirre mentioned.

Peck with metropolis council mentioned she is trying into drafting native insurance policies to control impartial residing communities.

“There must be some modifications to our metropolis ordinances and probably the state legislation as effectively that claims, that there has to at the least be some type of minimal customary of care at these house complexes,” she mentioned.

Un movie où le personnage principal ne rencontre pas un brin d’adversité serait plate à mourir. Qui se souviendrait des Boys si Stan avait gagné sa partie de poker contre Méo et continuait tout simplement de payer son prêt hypothécaire sur la brasserie toutes les deux semaines, comme un bon citoyen, sans risque de la perdre ?

Le samedi soir des Alouettes, contre les Stampeders de Calgary, ressemblait justement à un bon scénario de movie. De l’adversité à la tonne, mais qui n’empêche pas le personnage principal de parvenir à ses fins. Ça s’est réglé au compte de 30-26 Montréal, dans un stade Percival-Molson tonitruant.

Avec ce achieve, les Alouettes portent leur fiche à 5-0 cette saison, et ont maintenant remporté leurs 13 derniers matchs, en comptant les éliminatoires et la fin de la saison 2023. Leur dernière défaite remonte au 15 septembre.

Cette équipe ne perd plus, et le sentiment d’invincibilité fait dire des choses que l’on n’a pas l’habitude d’entendre dans cette ville par les temps qui courent.

Écoutez Jason Maas, entraîneur-chef des Alouettes, au sujet de cette fiche de 5-0. « Ce sont mes attentes. Je ne vais jamais concéder une victoire dans ce vestiaire, a dit un Maas débordant de confiance. Je ne crois pas en l’idée de séparer le calendrier en segments de six matchs. Je me concentre exclusivement sur le match à jouer.

« Si je pense qu’on va perdre, je ne devrais pas être ici. C’est une semaine à la fois, et on s’attend à gagner chaque match. Donc si tu m’avais demandé à quoi je m’attends après cinq matchs, je t’aurais répondu 5-0. »

Des fake pas et des blessés

Le match n’était pas commencé que la bonne vieille adversité se pointait le bout du nez.

Seulement dans l’échauffement, les Alouettes ont perdu deux soldats en David Côté et Louis-Philippe Bourassa, respectivement botteur de précision et spécialiste des longues remises.

Puis, pendant un deuxième quart brouillon des Montréalais, Marc-Antoine Dequoy, un des rares qui jouait avec aplomb, est à son tour tombé au fight. Le maraudeur québécois s’est blessé au haut du corps en réussissant un percutant plaqué.

Tout ça au second où l’attaque menée par Cody Fajardo commettait de rares fake pas. Les Alouettes ont amorcé ce match avec un différentiel de +8 dans la colonne des revirements ; il était donc plutôt incongru de voir le receveur Tyson Philpot perdre le ballon, puis Fajardo lancer une interception sur la séquence suivante. Deux revirements qui ont permis à Calgary d’inscrire neuf factors.

Il reste qu’à 26-12 Calgary au début du troisième quart, le Fenway Park du Nord était bien feutré.

Les héros

Heureusement que le idea des trois étoiles n’existe pas au soccer, automotive on aurait été embêté de se limiter à trois acteurs de cette remontée.

Commençons par José Maltos, botteur appelé en relève de Côté à peine une heure avant le match. Il n’a rien accompli de bien spectaculaire, mais pour un gars qui n’avait que neuf tentatives de placement derrière la cravate jusqu’ici dans la LCF, il a fait son travail. Trois en trois sur ses placements.

« Ça a pris tout notre foutu vestiaire pour gagner, donc oui, je vais peut-être avoir de la misère à dormir. Mais le contraire m’inquiéterait plus ! », a lancé Maas.

En défense, Tyrice Beverette était de toutes les actions. Son palmarès ? Neuf plaqués, et une passe rabattue en fin de match, quand les Stampeders tentaient de confirmer leur victoire.

Rarement classe-t-on un demi offensif qui n’a effectué que cinq programs parmi les héros d’un match, mais c’est ce qu’a accompli Walter Fletcher. Parmi ses cinq programs, il y a eu celle de 31 verges pour le touché de la victoire. Ça lui a donné une récolte de 56 verges au sol, en plus de 104 verges par la passe. Ce qui incite à se demander pourquoi donc il n’a pas été sollicité davantage au sol.

« C’est toujours plus facile d’analyser après, a rétorqué Maas. Pendant le match, tu essaies de profiter de différentes choses que tu vois. Aurait-on pu courir plus ? Bien sûr. Mais je ne vais pas continuellement remettre en query ce qu’on fait chaque semaine. »

Enfin, Philpot en avait lui aussi une bonne dans le corps, malgré sa perte de ballon au deuxième quart. Il a capté 12 des 13 passes dirigées vers lui pour 134 verges, mais c’est surtout son achieve de 39 verges, sur la poussée victorieuse des Alouettes, que l’on retiendra.

Philpot affrontait d’ailleurs son frère jumeau (Jalen, pas Robin), pour la toute première fois dans la LCF. Y a-t-il eu gageure entre les deux frangins pour ce premier duel ?

« Non, c’est illégal ici ! », a lancé Tyson Philpot du tac au tac. Deux morceaux de robotic pour la répartie, deux jours après la suspension de Shawn Lemon.

Enfin, la foule mérite elle aussi des fleurs. La séquence où des milliers de spectateurs ont crié tout en allumant la lampe de poche de leur téléphone, comme lorsque Scorpions interprète Wind of Change en spectacle, a marqué Cody Fajardo. « Je n’ai jamais rien vu de tel ! », de lancer le quart des Alouettes.

Il faudra simplement rappeler aux plus enthousiastes, s’ils veulent réellement encourager leur membership, de laisser tomber les « olé olé olé » quand l’équipe est en attaque comme ce fut le cas en fin de rencontre. « On aura peut-être besoin de plus de calme par moments, mais cette foule sait quand crier ! », a assuré Fajardo.

HOUSTON – Beryl is shifting throughout Texas as a tropical storm after knocking out energy to hundreds of thousands and leaving at the very least two individuals useless within the better Houston space.

Beryl turned a Class 1 hurricane after shifting via the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday evening and made landfall round 4 a.m. in Matagorda.

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Because it moved via southeast Texas, the hurricane had most sustained winds of 75 mph and gusts close to 90 mph.

The tropical storm is steadily weakening and is predicted to grow to be a post-tropical cyclone on Tuesday.

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Beryl watches and warnings

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

A Flash Flood Warning is in impact for Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson and Orange Counties.

STORM SURGE WARNING

A Storm Surge Warning is in impact for Port O’Connor to Sabine Cross, together with Matagorda Bay and Galveston Bay.

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TORNADO WARNING

A Twister Warning is in impact for Shelby, Sabine, and San Augustine Counties.

TROPICAL STORM WARNING

A Tropical Storm Warning is in impact for The Texas coast from north of Port O’Connor northward to Sabine 
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If Canada is to proceed its historic run within the Copa America, it is going to want its keeper from Montreal’s South Shore to proceed his tremendous kind.

Maxime Crepeau was the beginning keeper for LAFC in 2022 when he broke his leg in additional time of the MLS Cup remaining, three days earlier than Canada set off for the World Cup in Qatar.

Two years later, the Greenfield Park native has been stellar between the frames for Canada, having made a number of spectacular saves en path to the staff’s first day trip of the group levels at a global match.

“What Max has been in a position to accomplish, personally, needs to be one of many extra rewarding issues that an athlete can accomplish,” Crew Canada CEO Kevin Blue instructed CTV Information. “From the devastating harm to now being a characteristic a part of the nationwide staff and actually, his performances within the final whereas have been excellent and have actually, actually made a distinction in serving to us transfer ahead within the match. I am positive he feels tremendous good about it.”

Along with making the second spherical of a global match for the primary time, Canada beat a South American staff (Peru) for the primary time in 24 years and made it additional than each southern rivals: Mexico and the USA.

Canada now finds itself in uncommon waters within the second spherical because the Forty eighth-ranked pink and white squad won’t be the underdogs towards 54th-ranked Venezuela tonight at 9 p.m. in Arlington, Texas.

Venezuela, nonetheless, has not misplaced within the Copa, beating Ecuador, Jamaica and Mexico to clinch first place of their group.

Crepeau is one in all a number of lesser-known Canadian gamers who’re shining on the Copa, exhibiting that they will run with established superstars Jonathan David and Alphonso Davies.

“They’re targeted on themselves they’re targeted on persevering with to get higher day-after-day, and [coach] Jesse [Marsh] is doing an incredible job instilling these kind of values within the gamers,” stated Blue.

Along with Crepeau, defender Moise Bombito and midfielders Samuel Piette, Ismael Kone and Mathieu Choiniere all hail from La Belle Province.

“The Quebec gamers within the nationwide staff are an enormous a part of the staff,” stated Blue. “We have seen Moise Bombito actually emerged as an anchor to the backline. And, and his maturity as a participant has been very fast within the final a number of years, and it is actually exhibiting all through this match.”

St-Laurent-bred 22-year-old Kone might effectively show very important on this match notably after midfielder Tajon Buchanan’s harm. Kone is on observe to be one of many key factors of the staff heading in direction of 2026 when Canada, the US and Mexico host the World Cup.

“[He’s] wonderful by way of his contributions, and his future being very, very vivid,” stated Blue.

Canada’s Ismael Kone throughout a Copa America Group A soccer match in Kansas Metropolis, Kan., Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (Ed Zurga, The Related Press)

Blue is assured Canadian soccer followers will start to see increasingly more gamers play outstanding roles in golf equipment on a global stage.

“Because the gamers proceed to indicate what they’re able to on a lot of these world levels, they’ll get a number of consideration from the largest golf equipment within the greatest leagues,” stated Blue. “And as Canada continues to supply wonderful expertise on each the lads’s and the ladies’s sides, I believe you are going to see an growing variety of gamers have actually vital world worth in soccer.” 

As daybreak breaks over Paris, the latest parliamentary elections have left the French political panorama in a state of flux.

The sudden outcomes have forged a highlight on the challenges President Emmanuel Macron faces as he navigates an more and more fragmented political surroundings. The New Well-liked Entrance (NFP)—a coalition of left-wing events—emerged as the biggest group within the Nationwide Meeting with 182 seats. Nonetheless, they fell in need of the 289 seats required for an absolute majority, creating a fancy state of affairs for governance.

Macron’s centrist Ensemble alliance secured 163 seats whereas Marine Le Pen’s far-right Nationwide Rally (RN) captured 143 seats. The RN’s sturdy displaying within the first spherical had raised considerations a few potential far-right authorities. Nonetheless, the ultimate tally mirrored a decisive rejection of the far proper by the French citizens who most popular a politically divided however predominantly left-leaning meeting over an extremist authorities.

Worldwide reactions have additionally poured in with leaders like Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez praising the French citizens for rejecting far-right politics. This sentiment displays a broader European pattern in the direction of progressive insurance policies and a decisive stance in opposition to extremist ideologies. The parallels drawn between latest political developments in France and the UK—the place the center-left Labour Get together achieved a sweeping victory—counsel a continental shift in the direction of extra socially progressive governance.

For Macron, the trail forward is fraught with challenges. Domestically, he should deal with essential points corresponding to financial inequality, social justice, and environmental sustainability whereas managing a fragmented legislature. The balancing act of pushing ahead his legislative agenda in such a divided parliament would require skillful negotiation and strategic compromises. Internationally, Macron’s capability to keep up France’s influential position within the European Union and on the worldwide stage would require adept diplomacy and strategic partnerships, significantly as Europe grapples with its personal set of financial and geopolitical challenges.

That stated, the emergence of the NFP as the biggest parliamentary group introduces a brand new dynamic in French politics. Their affect on coverage and legislative agendas might be vital, however inner tensions throughout the various coalition may pose challenges to presenting a cohesive entrance. In the meantime, the RN, regardless of not attaining a majority, stays a potent pressure within the Nationwide Meeting, making certain that far-right views proceed to form the political discourse. The interaction between these diverse factions will undoubtedly complicate legislative proceedings and policymaking.

Furthermore, the French public’s sentiment is evolving, as evidenced by the electoral final result. The RN’s continued presence within the Nationwide Meeting ensures that the far-right’s perspective will stay part of the nationwide dialog. Marine Le Pen’s celebration has efficiently tapped right into a section of the inhabitants that feels disenfranchised by conventional politics. Addressing the considerations of those voters—significantly round immigration, nationwide identification, and safety—might be essential for any governing coalition. The problem might be to deal with these points in a manner that fosters inclusivity and unity relatively than division.

As america prepares for its 2024 presidential election, the French expertise provides precious insights. The U.S. faces its personal potential for political upheaval with incumbent President Joe Biden in search of re-election and former President Donald Trump working for a second non-consecutive time period. The dynamics at play in France—voter fatigue with conventional events, the rise of each far-right and progressive actions, and the challenges of governing and not using a clear majority—could nicely discover echoes within the American political panorama.

In each international locations, the central theme is one in every of a populace in search of change. The demand for insurance policies that deal with financial inequality, social justice, and local weather change is rising louder. In France, the NFP’s success signifies a shift in the direction of extra progressive politics, whereas within the U.S., the approaching election may see related requires change, relying on the outcomes of main elections and the broader political local weather. The political developments in France may function a precursor to related shifts in different democracies going through related pressures.

Macron’s capability to navigate the political waters over the subsequent few years might be a case research in management throughout instances of division. The necessity for coalition-building and compromise might be paramount, and the methods he employs may present a blueprint for different leaders going through related challenges. The effectiveness of his governance on this fractured panorama will possible affect his legacy and the long run trajectory of French politics.

And so, because the world watches France, the implications of its electoral outcomes will resonate past its borders. The necessity for inclusive, responsive, and efficient governance is common, and the French expertise provides each cautionary tales and potential pathways ahead. The subsequent few years in France might be carefully scrutinized for the way nicely the federal government can steadiness competing pursuits and ship on the guarantees of a extra simply and equitable society.

You will not be seeing John Cena within the ring for for much longer. The professional wrestling icon introduced his impending retirement from WWE Saturday, making a shock look on the promotion’s “Cash within the Financial institution” occasion in Toronto.

“The 2025 Royal Rumble might be my final. The 2025 elimination chamber might be my final. And I am right here tonight to announce that in Las Vegas, Wrestlemania 2025 would be the final Wrestlemania I compete in,” Cena stated to the reside viewers in a video the WWE posted to social media. “I wish to say thanks.”

“Thanks Cena!” The group chanted in response.

The Massachusetts native additionally expressed his pleasure over Netflix’s multi-billion greenback deal buying the rights to WWE Uncooked in January.

“Uncooked makes historical past subsequent yr when it strikes to Netflix. I’ve by no means been part of Uncooked on Netflix. That’s historical past, that may be a first, and I might be there,” Cena stated.

Cena shed extra mild on his retirement in a post-show press convention, assuring that he would stay part of the WWE regardless that his profession as a performer was coming to an finish — and promising “a protracted record of dates” between January and September.

“Individuals say they’re strolling away, and two years later they arrive again. I wish to set the report straight proper now, I am finished. That is it,” Cena stated within the press convention. “Should you ever needed to be part of this one final time, we will do it as large as we will and we’re combating all people and we hope you come benefit from the enjoyable.”

When requested about his emotions concerning Vince McMahon, the previous WWE CEO and founder who stepped down in January amid allegations of sexual assault, Cena declined to provide his opinion, saying as an alternative the WWE was “in good fingers” with father or mother firm TKO Group Holdings.

In an interview with Howard Stern in February, Cena stated that he was an enormous advocate of accountability, however would stay a help system for McMahon for now.

“I’ve brazenly stated, I like the man, I’ve a terrific relationship with the man, and that is that,” Cena stated to Stern.

The 47-year-old gained 16 world championships over his practically 20 years within the WWE, going toe-to-toe with the likes of Kurt Angle, Triple H and Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson.

Exterior of the ring, Cena launched a studio rap album in 2005 and has appeared in a number of motion pictures and tv reveals. As his performing profession started to flourish with starring roles in tasks equivalent to “Bumblebee,” “F9: The Quick Saga,” and “The Suicide Squad,” his appearances within the ring diminished. 

“There have been many earlier than me, there might be many after. I assume what I’ve left to do is say my thank yous earlier than that chapter closes,” Cena stated.

US actor and wrestler John Cena has introduced he’s retiring from competing in World Wrestling Leisure (WWE) occasions.

Cena made the shock announcement to followers throughout an look on the WWE Cash within the Financial institution occasion in Canada.

The 47-year-old, who made his transfer into performing 18 years in the past, stated his ultimate in-ring competitors can be in 2025 as a part of a farewell tour.

Cena is usually thought to be one of many biggest skilled wrestlers of all time and achieved world champion standing 16 occasions since becoming a member of WWE in 2001.

“Tonight I formally announce my retirement from the WWE,” he instructed followers in Toronto who reacted with shock and later chanted “thanks Cena”.

“What an unimaginable gesture of kindness,” he replied.

Sporting a t-shirt emblazoned with the phrases “The Final Time is Now” and his commerce mark “jorts” [denim shorts], he thanked WWE followers for “letting me play in the home that you just constructed for thus a few years”.

In a press convention later, he stated he supposed to stay a part of the WWE household in some capability regardless of feeling “at my finish” bodily.

Cena made his performing debut in 2006 when he starred in The Marine, happening to land roles in quite a lot of massive price range movies together with The Suicide Squad, Quick & Livid 9 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The star has carried out in WWE part-time since 2018 when his performing profession took off.

He made headlines this yr after showing bare, save for a strategically positioned envelope, throughout an Academy Awards skit.

The American can also be the all-time most requested superstar by children with charity Make-A-Want.

He holds a Guinness World File for the variety of needs granted to Make-A-Want kids who’ve essential diseases.

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On Sunday evening, pleasure: French voters had, as soon as once more, saved the far proper out of energy. On Monday morning, uncertainty: A hung parliament, shaky alliances and the specter of turbulent years forward.

President Emmanuel Macron referred to as France’s snap parliamentary election to “make clear” the political scenario. However after the shock second-round outcomes, the waters are extra muddied than they’ve been in a long time.

Whereas a surge in help for the left-wing New Fashionable Entrance (NFP) coalition foiled Marine Le Pen’s far-right Nationwide Rally (RN) get together, French politics is now extra disordered than it was earlier than the vote.

So, what did we study final evening, who could be France’s subsequent prime minister, and has Macron’s gamble “paid off?”

After main the primary spherical of voting final Sunday, the RN was nearer to the gates of energy than ever earlier than, and was on the cusp of forming France’s first far-right authorities for the reason that collaborationist Vichy regime of World Conflict II.

However after every week of political bargaining, during which greater than 200 left-wing and centrist candidates withdrew from the second spherical in a bid to keep away from splitting the vote, the NFP – a cluster of a number of events from the intense left to the extra average – emerged with essentially the most seats within the decisive second spherical.

The NFP received 182 seats within the Nationwide Meeting, making it the most important group within the 577-seat parliament. Macron’s centrist Ensemble alliance, which trailed in a distant third within the first spherical, mounted a powerful restoration to win 163 seats. And the RN and its allies, regardless of main the primary spherical, received 143 seats.

Does that imply the NFP “received” the election? Not fairly. Though the coalition has essentially the most seats, it fell nicely in need of the 289 seats required for an absolute majority, that means France now has a hung parliament. If this was a victory for something, it was the “cordon sanitaire,” the precept that mainstream events should unite to stop the intense proper from taking workplace.

It was meant to be a coronation. Crowds of supporters had crammed into election evening occasions on the RN get together HQ in Paris and at outposts all around the nation, to look at the second many felt had been a long time within the making: Affirmation that their get together, and its long-taboo model of anti-immigrant politics, had received essentially the most seats within the French parliament.

That wasn’t to be. The fervent ambiance soured as supporters noticed the RN had slumped to 3rd place. Jordan Bardella, the 28-year-old chief handpicked by Le Pen to freshen the get together’s picture and purge it of its racist and antisemitic roots, was dyspeptic. He railed in opposition to the “harmful electoral offers” made between the NFP and Ensemble which had “disadvantaged the French folks” of an RN-led authorities.

“By deciding to intentionally paralyze our establishments, Emmanuel Macron has now pushed the nation in direction of uncertainty and instability,” Bardella stated, dismissing the NFP as an “alliance of dishonor.”

Nonetheless, the RN’s success shouldn’t be underestimated. Within the 2017 elections, when Macron swept to energy, the RN received simply eight seats. In 2022, it surged to 89 seats. In Sunday’s vote, it received 125 – making it the most important particular person get together. That unity means it can seemingly stay a potent power within the subsequent parliament, whereas the solidity of the leftist coalition stays untested.

Will the left stay united?

A month in the past, the NFP didn’t exist. Now, it’s the largest bloc within the French parliament and will present France with its subsequent prime minister. It selected its identify in an try and resurrect the unique Fashionable Entrance that blocked the far proper from gaining energy in 1936. Sunday’s outcomes imply it has accomplished so once more.

However whereas it achieved its founding objective, it’s unclear whether or not this capacious – and potential fractious – coalition will maintain. The rapidly assembled bloc contains a number of events: the far-left France Unbowed get together; the Socialists; the inexperienced Ecologists; the center-left Place Publique and others.

This many-headed hydra doesn’t converse with a single voice. Every get together celebrated the outcomes at their very own marketing campaign occasions, fairly than collectively. Two of its most outstanding figures – Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the populist France Unbowed chief, and Raphael Glucksmann, the extra average chief of Place Publique – are barely on talking phrases.

Disagreements over financial and international insurance policies might spill over, because the NFP’s expansive spending plans – which embody elevating the minimal wage, capping the value of sure meals and power and scrapping Macron’s pension reforms – collide with the European Union’s restrictive fiscal guidelines and France’s have to rein in its ballooning deficit.

Macron as soon as stated his ideas are “too complicated” for journalists. Nonetheless, his choice to name a snap election – three years sooner than mandatory, and together with his get together method behind within the polls – baffled the sharpest of political analysts, caught even his closest allies off guard and left many French voters confused.

He referred to as the vote minutes after his get together was trounced by the RN in final month’s European Parliament elections. Though European outcomes want haven’t any bearing on home politics, Macron stated he couldn’t ignore the message despatched to him by voters and needed to make clear the scenario.

However Sunday’s outcomes counsel he has achieved the other. Éduoard Philippe, France’s former prime minister and an ally of Macron, stated what was “meant as a clarification has as an alternative led to nice vagueness.” Though Macron’s get together recovered from the primary spherical, it misplaced round 100 seats in comparison with the 2022 election.

Macron’s first choice is to nominate a brand new prime minister. He has already delayed this course of by declining Gabriel Attal’s resignation, asking him to remain in workplace for now.

Usually, the French president appoints a major minister from the most important bloc in parliament. However it’s unclear from which get together throughout the NFP this will probably be. Mélenchon’s get together received essentially the most seats throughout the NFP, however Macron’s allies have repeatedly refused to work with France Unbowed, saying it’s simply as excessive – and subsequently as unfit to manipulate – because the RN.

So as to attain the bulk wanted to cross legal guidelines, the NFP will seemingly must enter into alliances with Ensemble – as two coalitions enter a fair bigger coalition, straddling huge ideological floor. Discovering widespread floor will probably be a fraught job, that means gridlock is probably going. With no clear majority, a minority authorities faces the chance of no-confidence votes as quickly as this month, which might result in a number of governments changing one another.

A method out might be a “technocratic” authorities, which might contain Macron appointing ministers with no get together affiliation to handle day-to-day issues. However these can come to appear undemocratic and might additional stir up populism. Simply have a look at Italy: after the premiership of Mario Draghi, the technocrat par excellence, the nation elected its most far-right authorities since Benito Mussolini. Whereas France prevented a far-right authorities for now, the RN risk is prone to stay robust.