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“It hurts, I won’t lie,” Humphries said. “I gave every ounce of everything I had to the last two days and it wasn’t there. I’m proud of the work that we put in and what we put into it. It sucks and it’s infuriating to know that it wasn’t good enough, but at the end of the day, that’s racing. We can’t be fearful of not being the best. Both Kaysha and I had giant targets on our back coming in and I’m so proud of what we did together.”
Kamila Valieva led the Russian team to a victory in last week’s team event, and the U.S. finished second. Soon after, a positive doping test for the 15-year-old skater was disclosed. CAS allowed her to continue skating at the women’s event, but the International Olympic Committee said it would not award medals in any events in which she finished among the top three.
Bryant eventually was called up on April 17, when he could accumulate 171 days of service time, one day short of a full year. Instead of being a free agent in 2021, Bryant’s free agency was delayed, and he and agent Scott Boras filed a grievance that ultimately proved to be unsuccessful. He was dealt to the San Francisco Giants in his seventh year after the Cubs failed to sign him to a multiyear contract, and is now one of dozens of free agents waiting for the lockout to end to sign with someone.
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Matthew Erickson, 10, waits with his parents, Sue and Ben Erickson, before his annual MRI to check for brain cancer at Lurie Children’s Hospital on Feb. 4, 2022. Before each MRI, his mom experiences what she calls “scanxiety”: a looming dread that cancer might reappear. The February scan showed no signs of cancer. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
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“I’ll take it. I’ll take a lot of those games,” Hawks coach Derek King said about the loss, which looked a far cry better than the 7-4 defeat Thursday to the Columbus Blue Jackets. “Obviously our guys aren’t happy about that because they want to score goals, but that’s a really good hockey team, and we took them to the end.
The class action lawsuit, filed in the Nothern District of Illinois by the Uptown People’s Law Center and Jenner & Block LLP on behalf of detainee Gregory Shipp, names David Gomez, warden of the Northern Reception and Classification Center (NRC) and Rob Jeffreys, the director of the center, as defendants.
Robert Johnson, pictured on Feb. 18, 2022, is suing the owner of a Lisle apartment complex where he used to live, saying the owner unlawfully kicked him out after learning he’d been arrested, but not convicted, on a gun charge years earlier. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)
Another client of Irvin’s was Enrique Prado, convicted of concealing the 2013 homicidal death of 18-year-old Abigail Villalpando, court records show. Villalpando, described by relatives and co-workers as a hardworking teenager who aspired to become a cop, was beaten with a hammer, doused with gasoline and set on fire. An arson charge against Prado was later dropped.