Prep football roundup: Wilcox beats SHP, Berkeley edges Hayward in OT
Saturday’s Bay Area high school football: Tyson Bonilla runs for a TD, passes for one to lead Wilcox. Cahlil Snead catches winner for Berkeley. No. 10 Wilcox defeated No. 24 Sacred Heart Prep 28-21. Tyson Bonilla scored on a 38-yard run late in the fourth quarter to break a tie and lead visiting Wilcox to…
Previewing the West: Which contenders give Warriors biggest problems?
Western Conference preview: Golden State Warriors try to run it back against a stacked conference Following a disappointing season finale last year, the Warriors made immediate changes to their roster and mentality. Jordan Poole, you’re out. Chris Paul, you’re in. Teenage rookies have been replaced by rookies with more college experience. Steph Curry and coach…
A migrant family’s odyssey: 7,100 miles from Venezuela seeking new life in San Jose
A long and perilous journey in search of a better life They walked, hitchhiked, took buses and boats, and even snuck onto a freight train. They traveled through nine countries in nine months, beginning in January when they fled their home in Venezuela and covering more than 7,100 miles before arriving in San Jose last…
The defending champs are in the title race despite a rash of injuries
Instant reaction to Pac-12 field developments… The Wasatch Wizard The Pac-12 will announce the conference championship game’s all-conference team and postseason award winners in early December, a few days after the conference championship game. Let’s pencil in Utah’s Kyle Whittingham as Coach of the Year right now. Yes, there is still a half-season to go.…
Social Security benefits in 2024: 5 big changes retirees should plan for
As long as inflation persists, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is raising the cost of living adjustment (COLA) for benefit checks beginning in 2024. It’s just one of several changes announced recently by Social Security. Because more than 71 million people rely on one of Social Security’s benefit programs, annual changes to the program and…
He procured guns from the US, then sent them to Mexico to fight ‘El Chapo’ loyalists in cartel civil war
A bloody power struggle between Guzmán’s sons and his longtime business partner has unleashed brutal violence across Mexico in the years since the 2016 arrest of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaqun “El Chapo” Guzmán. Authorities claim that one of the factions fighting Guzmán’s sons, known as Los Chapitos, was a prolific drug-trafficking cell with strong ties…
Pac-12 picks: Arizona keeps rolling against the spread as another ranked opponent awaits
Utah, Cal, Stanford and ASU are also home underdogs this week Arizona is tied for sixth place in the Pac-12 standings but leads the point spread by a wide margin. In fact, the Wildcats lead the nation in point differential, having covered in six of their seven games. (The exception: a one-point victory at Stanford).…
The last time US yields rose so much, it sank the economy twice
It’s the biggest increase since the run up in the early 1980s. There’s a reason investors are surprised that something hasn’t broken in the economy yet: the last time U.S. government bond yields rose so quickly, the country experienced back-to-back recessions. The 10-year Treasury yield — a key benchmark for the cost of money across…
AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved
‘Everybody’s realizing to what extent their data, their information, their creativity, has been absorbed.’ When novelist Douglas Preston first began tinkering with ChatGPT, he challenged the AI software to write an original poem based on a character from one of his books. “It came out with this terrific poem written in iambic pentameter,” Preston said.…
