Caitlin Clark Named Unanimous Related Press Rookie of the 12 months

Clark additionally named to AP All-WNBA First Workforce and AP All-Rookie Workforce

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark was unanimously named the 2024 Related Press WNBA Rookie of the 12 months, it was introduced immediately. This recognition follows Clark’s achievement as a four-time WNBA Rookie of the Month, three-time WNBA Jap Convention Participant of the Week and WNBA Jap Convention Participant of the Month in August. Clark joins Aliyah Boston as the one Fever gamers to earn AP Rookie of the 12 months.

Clark was additionally named to the AP All-WNBA First Workforce with Napheesa Collier, Breanna Stewart, Alyssa Thomas and A’ja Wilson. AP All-Rookie Workforce with Kamilla Cardoso, Leonie Fiebich, Rickea Jackson and Angel Reese.

Clark began all 40 common season video games for the Fever and had a groundbreaking debut yr, marked by quite a few WNBA information. Clark completed the common season main rookies in scoring (19.2 ppg), area objectives made (242), 3-point area objectives made (122) assists (8.4 apg), steals (1.3 spg) and minutes (35.4 mpg). Along with the rookie class, Clark topped your complete league in assists (337) and 3-point area objectives made. Clark compiled essentially the most factors (769), assists and 3-point area objectives made ever by a rookie in WNBA historical past. Her 769 factors weren’t solely essentially the most recorded in a single-season in franchise historical past, however essentially the most by a degree guard in a single-season in WNBA historical past. On high of factors, Clark’s 337 assists broke the beforehand held single-season help file of 316. Clark additionally tallied essentially the most double-digit scoring video games (35) by a rookie ever and essentially the most double-doubles (14) in a season in franchise historical past and by a rookie guard in WNBA historical past.

Clark grew to become the primary rookie in WNBA historical past to file a triple-double and likewise the primary participant in franchise historical past to file a triple-double. On July 17 throughout Indiana’s first matchup of the common season with the Dallas Wings, Clark recorded 19 assists – essentially the most assists in a sport in WNBA historical past. Moreover, Clark compiled essentially the most video games (12) with a minimum of 10 assists in franchise historical past. On July 20, Clark made her WNBA All-Star debut, turning into simply the third rookie in franchise historical past to start out an All-Star sport. Throughout Clark’s 26 minutes of All-Star taking part in time, she tied the second most assists recorded in an All-Star sport with a game-high 10 assists. Clark additionally obtained essentially the most All-Star Recreation votes in WNBA historical past with 700,735 votes. In August, Clark grew to become the primary participant in league historical past to earn WNBA Jap Convention Participant of the Month and Rookie of the Month honors in the identical month.

The Indiana Fever start postseason play immediately in opposition to the Connecticut Solar for Recreation 1 of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs at Mohegan Solar Enviornment. Recreation 1 ideas at 3 p.m. ET on ABC.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — — Jared Goff appeared as if he would possibly by no means throw an incompletion for some time Sunday, selecting aside the Arizona Cardinals’ protection for a pair of touchdowns within the first half.

The offensive faucet shut off in a rush after the break. Then it was time for Detroit’s protection to step up.

Goff threw two landing passes, David Montgomery ran for 106 yards and a rating and the Lions held on late to beat the Cardinals 20-13.

“That’s what makes you are feeling fairly good — I really feel like we are able to play several types of video games,” Lions coach Dan Campbell stated. “We are able to do no matter we have to with particular groups, protection and offense. We’ve simply acquired to discover a solution to win each week. They are often completely different each time.”

The Lions continued their latest dominance within the sequence, enhancing to 5-0-1 in opposition to the Cardinals since 2017. Detroit’s protection saved Kyler Murray and Arizona out of the top zone within the second half, giving up only one discipline purpose.

Aidan Hutchinson had one other sack, bringing his season whole to six 1/2 by three video games.

Goff accomplished his first 14 passes earlier than an incompletion within the third quarter. It was his longest streak with out an incompletion to start out a recreation in his nine-year profession and he completed 18 of 23 for 196 yards.

Detroit (2-1) took a 20-7 lead just before halftime on a well-executed hook-and-ladder play. Goff threw brief to Amon-Ra St. Brown, who instantly lateraled to Jahmyr Gibbs, who dashed 20 yards for the landing.

“We’ve been engaged on that one for some time,” Goff stated. “I assumed that was a great spot to name it.”

The Lions caught a break earlier within the drive when Goff appeared to throw a pick-6, however officers dominated the play had been whistled useless simply earlier than the snap for the two-minute warning.

Detroit settled for a 20-10 lead on the break after Arizona’s Matt Prater made a 42-yard discipline purpose as time expired. Goff was 12 of 12 passing for 137 yards and two touchdowns within the first half.

Prater kicked a 45-yard discipline purpose to chop Detroit’s result in 20-13 with 3:52 left, however the Lions have been in a position to run out the clock on the following drive. Goff scrambled for an 8-yard achieve for the primary down that sealed the win.

Arizona had a number of probabilities to chop into Detroit’s lead within the third quarter, however could not convert on vital performs.

The Cardinals (1-2) have been driving early within the third when Murray tried to go deep to Marvin Harrison Jr., however the move was brief and intercepted by Kerby Joseph ultimately zone. It was Murray’s first interception this season.

“We had quite a lot of alternatives to make one thing occur and win that recreation,” Murray stated. “They made extra performs than us. That’s the way it goes. However I’m excited concerning the highway forward.”

A couple of minutes after Murray’s interception, Arizona’s Dennis Gardeck picked off a move by Goff to present the Cardinals nice discipline place at Detroit’s 33-yard line. However the Lions’ protection responded with a fourth-down cease on the following drive, tackling Murray simply in need of a primary down.

“The second half, man, these stops,” Campbell stated. “Cease after cease after cease.”

Murray completed 21 of 34 for 205 yards, one landing and one interception. Harrison caught 5 passes for 64 yards.

The Lions jumped to a 7-0 lead on the primary offensive drive, methodically shifting 70 yards on 9 performs. Montgomery ran for the 1-yard landing, muscling by the road earlier than falling backward into the top zone.

Arizona responded instantly, with Murray making a pair large beneficial properties with a his legs earlier than hitting Harrison for a 10-yard landing. It was the rookie’s third landing catch over the previous two video games.

St. Brown caught a 5-yard landing from Goff early within the second quarter to place the Lions up 13-7.

“We did not make sufficient performs in all three phases, that is what it got here right down to,” Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon stated. “I did suppose we battled, we fought. Popping out of halftime, we have been resilient. If we hold enjoying like that, clear up some errors, we’ll be again on observe.”

Accidents

Lions: S Ifeatu Melifonwu (ankle) and CB Ennis Rakestraw Jr. (hamstring) have been amongst six inactives. … LB Derrick Barnes (knee) left within the first half and did not return. … TE Sam LaPorta was seen limping and got here out of the sport a number of instances. He had ice on his proper ankle.

Cardinals: Beginning RT Kelvin Beachum (hamstring) was out after not training Friday. The Cardinals began Jackson Barton at proper deal with, which is the staff’s third starter on the place in three video games. Barton (toe) left within the fourth quarter and was changed by Charlie Heck … DL Justin Jones (triceps) left early within the second half and did not return. … TE Trey McBride was evaluated for a concussion.

Up Subsequent

Lions: Host Seahawks on Monday, Sept. 30.

Cardinals: Host Commanders subsequent Sunday.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U Avenue is generally abandoned when Aceba Broadus and his three-person crew from the District of Columbia’s Division of Public Works begin establishing store earlier than 8 a.m. at one among D.C.’s perennial graffiti sizzling spots.

They faucet a hydrant to fill the 275-gallon tank of their truck and get to work — coating graffiti-covered partitions with a particular chemical after which blasting them with high-pressure water. The work progresses shortly, however Broadus holds few illusions that their efforts will final lengthy.

“Come again on Friday and it will likely be all retagged once more,” he stated on a Tuesday. “It’s positively a bit irritating.”

Throughout city, Eric B. Ricks is engaged in his personal graffiti mission, far completely different from the tags and protest slogans usually discovered on buildings and monuments throughout the nation’s capital. Utilizing a scissor raise, Ricks applies a coat of primer to the wall of Savoy Elementary College in preparation for what is going to turn into a city-sponsored mural of geometric patterns and multicolored birds.

“Graffiti is completely different for each practitioner of the craft. It’s like a hydra, this multiheaded factor that’s many issues to many individuals,” stated Ricks, a longtime graffiti artist. “Graffiti in its purest type is sort of a flower rising out of filth and muck.”

This eye-of-the-beholder dynamic between vandalism and concrete artwork type has been a actuality because the earliest days of graffiti. One particular person’s inventive expression is one other’s problematic eyesore. At any given time, there are three DPW elimination groups working, and town budgets $550,000 per 12 months for the duty.

These groups use quite a lot of strategies, relying on the kind of paint and materials of the wall — limestone is the toughest to wash. Generally, they use grey paint to easily cowl the graffiti on metallic safety doorways. Some varieties of stone get a particular chemical and the water hose. And sometimes, they should name in outdoors contractors with a sandblaster.

The district additionally has to deal with political graffiti usually left by the frequent mass protests which can be drawn to the nation’s capital.

Most not too long ago, the massive July protest towards the Israel-Gaza conflict peaked with a takeover of Columbus Circle in entrance of Union Station, the Amtrak and commuter rail station. The protesters left graffiti all through the world, together with on a reproduction of the Liberty Bell.

One protester sprayed pro-Hamas slogans on the statue of Christopher Columbus. That protest really produced a uncommon graffiti-related arrest as authorities later charged a 20-year-old Maryland girl.

However largely it’s tagging, the distinctive stylized bubble-letter signatures that may be seen on a whole bunch of buildings and all alongside the Metro practice traces.

A 21-year DPW veteran, Broadus has turn into intimately conversant in a few of the common taggers. Three completely different occasions, younger graffiti artists have been sentenced to group service on his crew; he has often tasked a tagger with masking over their very own work.

“I ask them why they do it, they usually normally say one thing like, ‘We wish to promote our title,’” Broadus stated with a shrug.

For Ricks, that incapability to know the motivation has been there because the earliest days of the trendy graffiti motion — one thing he tracks to the early Eighties in New York Metropolis. “Most individuals don’t perceive why these youngsters are doing this,” he stated. “Not all people with a twig can has the identical motivations and objectives.”

Now 49, Ricks grew to become entranced by graffiti shortly after his household moved from the African nation of Liberia to Hyattsville, Maryland, when he was 13. He speaks like an unofficial historian of the artwork type — tracing it to cave work, the depression-era “hobo code” that transients would use to speak and the painted symbols that guided enslaved folks to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

“The urge to scribble and go away a mark someplace is deep within the psyche of the human animal,” he stated.

The native scene produced some homegrown graffiti stars like Cool “Disco” Dan, who scrawled his moniker a whole bunch of occasions throughout town, and ultimately acquired mainstream media writeups and grew to become an icon of pre-gentrification Chocolate Metropolis.

The DPW crews nearly completely work in response to requests from property homeowners, however their job modified dramatically throughout George Floyd protests in summer season 2020 over police violence and historic racial iniquities. A number of days of demonstrations close to the White Home devolved a number of occasions into mass vandalism all through downtown.

Broadus remembers his crews “working 4 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven days per week” — usually working beneath police safety from protesters “who positively would have tried to do some bodily hurt to us.”

In true district style, town with greater than 20 separate police forces additionally homes a number of graffiti-removal crews. Along with the DPW, town’s Division of Common Companies removes graffiti from metropolis authorities buildings and colleges.

The Nationwide Park Service handles something on NPS land — which incorporates the Columbus Circle cleanup. And Metro has its personal crews working alongside the practice traces, whereas graffiti on federal authorities buildings is dealt with by the Common Companies Administration and the completely different federal landholding companies.

Native efforts to honor and protect D.C.’s graffiti historical past have been hit-and-miss. Longtime native artist Corey Stowers based the 14th Avenue Graffiti Museum in 2020, in an unused open-air courtyard within the sixteenth Avenue Heights neighborhood. Stowers hoped to attract vacationer buses and college discipline journeys at $15 per ticket. However the museum struggled financially and is now largely padlocked.

“There was simply no funding. I couldn’t be there on a regular basis and I couldn’t pay somebody to be there,” stated Stowers, who needs the D.C. authorities to do extra to assist the artwork type.

The town’s major official car for supporting graffiti is the Murals D.C. program, which has sponsored 165 murals across the metropolis and pays artists like Ricks between $30 and $40 per sq. foot for his or her work.

“In time, you’ll be able to turn into as exact with a twig can as a surgeon with a scalpel,” Ricks stated. “This factor is by the folks for the folks. You’ll be able to’t put it in a field.”

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Whereas tensions stay excessive between the U.S. and Iran, there’s at the very least one American that state radio in Tehran invitations on the air every week for its tens of millions of listeners. It’s simply that he’s a fictional insurance coverage fraud detective who’s been on the case since 1949.

“Yours Really, Johnny Greenback,” a radio program created by CBS that later discovered a loyal listenership in Iran for a Farsi-language model beneath Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi within the Sixties, has returned to Iranian radio.

It’s not clear why precisely the community managed by hard-liners have determined to convey again “the person with the action-packed expense account,” however his reappearance harkens again to an period when Iran and the U.S. loved extremely shut relations.

And the newly produced episodes introduce youthful generations to a personality that many older Iranians nonetheless have a decades-old fondness for, their ears perking up with present’s signature begin with three gunshots and Johnny Greenback answering a ringing cellphone with its title.

“It’s wonderful, it jogs my memory of the ‘60s and ’70s, once I listened to the episodes with my mother and father via a vacuum tube radio,” mentioned Masoud Kouchaki, 73. “We didn’t have any worries aside from guessing how Johnny Greenback would discover the assassin.”

The unique CBS radio present ran from 1949 till 1962 and centered on the instances of Johnny Greenback, an investigator from Hartford, Connecticut. The serial relied on the investigator’s bills account entries — like “$10 deposit on the automotive I rented” or “one greenback, one drink for me” — to propel the story ahead as Greenback interviewed witnesses and suspects within the transatlantic accent frequent to detective tales of the period.

“CBS steadfastly resisted shifting it to tv when tv was peeling off a lot of radio programing, a lot of radio content material, a lot of radio actors,” mentioned John F. Barber, a professor within the digital know-how and tradition program at Washington State College Vancouver and knowledgeable on “Johnny Greenback” and different radio dramas of the period.

“They took a big gamble that radio drama would proceed to draw audiences. … It does come on the finish of the golden age of radio, earlier than tv turned the first leisure supply in America.”

For Iranians, state radio first went on the air in 1940, a part of the efforts by then-ruler Reza Shah to quickly modernize the nation. His son, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, took over in 1941, and for a number of a long time radio remained the important thing media consumed in his rising nation, with the variety of stations few and all state-controlled.

Iran’s model of “Yours Really, Johnny Greenback” dropped the expense account format however stored the noir-light vibe, dramatic music and U.S. location. As a substitute, the reveals would finish with Iranian state radio inviting the general public to jot down in to clarify what clue gave away the responsible occasion, with these getting it proper having an opportunity to win a prize.

Mostafa Nasiri, a 76-year-old retired engineer, remembered successful a watch as a young person in 1966 for answering appropriately.

“It was a treasured present,” he wistfully recounted. “I obtained it from the workplace of the radio broadcaster, and I used to be publicly honored within the faculty for that. Some years later I offered it for some $70.”

After Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the nation’s state radio and tv broadcaster quickly discovered itself managed by hard-line adherents to the nation’s Shiite theocracy. Any program celebrating America discovered itself eliminated after the U.S. Embassy hostage disaster noticed relations collapse. Tehran will have fun the forty fifth anniversary of the takeover this November.

In recent times, pirated Hollywood blockbusters have discovered their manner on air in Iran’s state-controlled channels. Nonetheless, hard-liners stay suspicious of Western reveals, dismissing them as a “cultural invasion” concentrating on Iran’s folks. However many houses have unlawful satellite tv for pc dishes permitting them to observe channels overseas, whereas the web and digital non-public networks assist Iranians circumvent censorship.

That curiosity within the outdoors world doubtless would prolong to a hard-boiled American investigator as nicely.

“You’ve obtained some man he’s on the market, you already know, shopping for drinks, taking cabs, doing all this excellent stuff,” mentioned John C. Abbott, who wrote a three-volume historical past of the U.S. “Johnny Greenback” collection. “Perhaps it was an escape.”

Regardless of that, Johnny Greenback appears to have handed the take a look at, although the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcast hasn’t defined its reasoning for permitting it on air on its Radio Namayesh channel. Ayoub Aghakhani, the director of the newly produced episodes, advised state TV that he determined to make the episodes based mostly on accessible Farsi translations to “appeal to extra audiences” to radio broadcasts.

Folks have “heard about (Johnny Greenback) from both their father or grandfather,” Aghakhani reportedly mentioned. “I discovered that 20-, 30-year-old college students are aware of the opening phrase.”

Up to now, state radio has broadcast 9 episodes and plans to air 17 extra. State radio officers didn’t reply to The Related Press’ questions in regards to the present, nor did CBS in New York.

Among the many younger, there’s a collective shrug at Johnny Greenback’s rebirth as many stay centered on their cellphones.

“It’s a disgrace {that a} radio station of the Islamic Republic is broadcasting an American present,” mentioned Hamid Mohseni, a 29-year-old taxi driver. “I’ll name the radio station to ask them to cease the disagreeable program.”

However for these sufficiently old to recollect him, they’re glad he’s again on the case.

“It’s stunning to take heed to the tales that revive many recollections,” mentioned Mehri Bagheri, a 68-year-old homemaker. “Then I went to one in all my mates’ houses to take heed to the present and have an excellent time.”

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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert left the Chargers’ 20-10 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers early on Sunday after he appeared to reaggravate the high-ankle sprain that had sidelined him in apply within the days main as much as the sport. 

Herbert didn’t play your complete fourth quarter because the Chargers (2-1) misplaced for the primary time, whereas Pittsburgh (3-0) remained undefeated with quarterback Justin Fields. 

Herbert accomplished 12 of his 18 passes for 125 yards, together with a 27-yard landing to Quentin Johnson to open the sport’s scoring. That proved to be the offense’s excessive level, nonetheless; Los Angeles managed a area aim late within the first half and by no means scored once more. The bottom sport wasn’t a lift, both, with the Chargers managing solely 61 yards on 20 carries. 

Herbert limped off the sector halfway by way of the third quarter after having taken considered one of his two sacks. He appeared to have reinjured the correct ankle he injured in a Week 2 win in opposition to the Carolina Panthers, when, he stated, he had been rolled up on.

Herbert left the stadium in a strolling boot.

After the loss, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh informed reporters that going into Sunday, the staff had deliberate to take away Herbert if he confirmed any signal of a limp.