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Former Italy striker Giuseppe Rossi retires after a career slowed by severe injuries

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

Former Italy striker Giuseppe Rossi announced his retirement from soccer on Saturday following a career that was slowed by severe injuries.The New Jersey-born Rossi last played for Spal in Serie B last season.“My journey is unique. A lot of ups but also some downs. Those down moments (mostly injuries) never defined me,” Rossi wrote on Instagram. “My purpose was stronger than any obstacle that was in front of me. I never stopped dreaming when things I couldn’t control got in my way. I love the game so much that I could’ve never given up. That is why I’m writing this with a heavy heart but a big smile on face — I’m proud of what I accomplished!”The 36-year-old Rossi made his senior debut with Manchester United but made his biggest impact at Villarreal and Fiorentina before knee injuries derailed his career.Rossi also scored seven goals in 30 appearances for Italy after choosing to play for his father’s country over the United States.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/Soccer and http...

Josef Newgarden continues IndyCar oval dominance with win at Iowa Speedway

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Josef Newgarden understands what comes with the success he has had on the ovals in the IndyCar Series.And he knows what everyone thinks when he shows up at Iowa Speedway.“There’s a pressure that’s on us when we show up here, and that’s the assumption,” Newgarden said. “The assumption that we’re going to be great, that we’re the No. 2 car, and we should be really good here.”Newgarden was good again at the .875-mile oval, winning for the fifth time at the track in Saturday’s opening 250-lap race of a weekend doubleheader.It was Newgarden’s third win of the season, all on ovals. Newgarden also won at Texas Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500.“When we walk in here, they just assume we’re going to be quick,” Newgarden said. “It’s not the attitude you can have. You can’t feel like anything is given.”Scott McLaughlin finished second. Pato O’Ward, who along with Newgarden won in last season’s doubleheader at Iowa, was third, and Marcus Ericsson fini...

William Byron, Martin Truex Jr. continue 1-2 NASCAR battle on front row at Pocono

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — William Byron and Martin Truex Jr. are 1-2 for most wins in the Cup Series. Truex and Byron are 1-2 in the points standings.They’ll be 1-2 again Sunday at Pocono Raceway — Byron turned a fast lap in the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports of 170.629 mph to take the top spot and Truex joined him on the front row in with a lap of 170.235 in the No. 19 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing.That puts the two NASCAR championship favorites on the front row at Pocono.“We need to be upfront,” Truex said. “They’re going to be, and they’re going to be challenging for wins, so we need to do the same and I know we can do it.”Byron has four wins and Truex picked up his third with Monday’s dominant performance at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Truex — who has yet to decide if he’ll retire or return for another season at JGR — kept the fast speeds rolling Saturday.“We’re feeling really great about where we’re at as a team right now and wha...

Man in custody after hours-long SWAT standoff in Allapattah neighborhood

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

An hours-long standoff came to a peaceful end in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood after SWAT units swarmed an apartment, leading police to apprehend a man who had barricaded himself inside.7News cameras captured City of Miami Police SWAT trucks and officers with rifles after they responded to the neighborhood, in the area of Northwest 28th Terrace and 18th Place, Saturday morning.Officers closed off the street and did not reopen it until more than 12 hours later.For much of that time, police were trying to convince a person holed up in the apartment to come out.“We have our SWAT team back here, where they were called out,” said Miami Police Capt. Freddie Cruz. “After several hours, we were able to apprehend an individual that was inside the apartment.”Investigators said this all started at around 2 a.m.“A woman called saying that she was possibly raped in an apartment back over here. Our officers got here; there’s an individual in the house t...

Hundreds take part in annual Run to Home Base in Boston to support service members

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

Hundreds of area runners laced them up for a good cause Saturday for the 14th annual Run to Home Base, which culminates at Fenway Park and raises money for veterans and active duty service members.Many wearing red, white, and blue, some in full uniform, ran to the historic ballpark to raise awareness and money for veterans struggling to return home from the battlefield. Home base was formed after a team visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2008 after the World Series champs were honored at the Red Sox.The partnership between the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital has helped 30,000 veterans and active service military members since then at no cost. Military members like Kevin Trujillo, who returned home from Afghanistan in 2014 after his 10th deployment.“I was going through a tough time,” he said. “It’s meant everything to my family. My family is everything.” Organizers say the goal for this year’s run is ...

Police investigating after car slams into CVS in Boston

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

Police are investigating a crash in Boston on Saturday that sent a vehicle careening into a CVS pharmacy and a person to the hospital.The crash occurred on Blue Hill Avenue just after 1 p.m. Firefighters say the victim was treated on the scene.The cause of the crash remains under investigation. This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Pattern change brings nice weather

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

After several weeks of being stuck in an active pattern, a dry pattern is expected to move in for the next several days. The jet stream is expected to retreat north and remain in “zonal flow” (west to east) which will allow for some calmer, drier days ahead. Sunday’s forecast is one of the nicest days of the week, with sunshine expected, lower humidity, and highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s!We remain dry through Monday, but an isolated storm or two is possible on Tuesday as a quick-moving system passes by.After Tuesday, it’s right back to the dry pattern, but the heat builds in as a strong high pressure system makes its way north and east from the Southern Plains.

Orioles rally in 9th to beat Rays, 6-5, and reclaim sole possession of AL East lead

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

The Orioles have claimed sole possession of first place in the American League East twice in the past three days.The first time, they scored three runs in the fourth inning, blew that lead, retook it with small ball and held on thanks to Félix Bautista. The second time, they scored five runs in the fourth inning, blew that lead, retook it with small ball and held on thanks to Bautista.The Orioles on Saturday defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, 6-5, in a battle for AL East supremacy behind Grayson Rodriguez’s solid start, manager Brandon Hyde’s decisions in the ninth inning and Ryan O’Hearn’s game-winning RBI single.In his second start back in the big leagues, Rodriguez allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings for the second-best outing of his young career. Hyde tapped Adam Frazier and O’Hearn to pinch-hit in the ninth, and both came through with base knocks. After Frazier’s leadoff single, veteran catcher James McCann, who hit a two-run double in the fourt...

Chris Sale talks teammates, trade deadline, top prospects

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

At this point, Chris Sale is as used to watching the Red Sox from the sidelines as any fan who’s followed the team over the last four years.Tommy John surgery, several fractures, and now, shoulder inflammation, have cost him more than two full seasons of his career. Since mid-August 2019, when he landed on the injured list for what turned out to be the rest of the season, he’s only made 22 regular-season starts totaling 107 ⅓ innings. He missed all of ’20 after undergoing Tommy John in April of that year, and didn’t return until August ’21 nearly two years to the day of his last start in ’19. A rib stress fracture pushed his ’22 season debut back to mid-July, when, in the first inning of his second start, a line drive fractured his pinky. While he recovered from that injury and subsequent surgery, he fractured his wrist. That required a second surgery and ended his season after just 5 2/3 innings.This year, the lefty made it through his firs...

Boston’s North End shooting: A history of Patrick Mendoza’s beef with alleged victim

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:44:15 GMT

North End restauranteur Patrick Mendoza stands accused of firing three shots at a man on Hanover Street last week before pedaling away from the scene. That’s his alleged crime, but the beef between the pair, simmering for years, is anything but alleged.A police report filed in the shooting case said that Mendoza, 54, and Rocco Giovanello, 60, have known each other for some 20 years.But their acquaintanceship turned ugly the afternoon of Feb. 5, 2019, when Patrick Mendoza and his brother Frankie Mendoza beat Giovanello with fists, kicks, a glass bottle and even the side mirror to the victim’s silver Ford Explorer at the side of Parmenter Street, according to the police report filed for the incident.It all started, as Giovanello told it to police about a week later, when he and Frankie Mendoza earlier that day “exchanged words” over the latter causing a traffic jam “as he entertained his girlfriend” on Salem Street.By 3:25 p.m., Giovanello said, he was driving down Parmenter toward Sa...