SAN DIEGO (AP) — The “Dexter” universe is increasing, with everybody’s favourite serial killer getting back from the lifeless.

At San Diego Comedian-Con, the “Dexter” crew, led by showrunner Clyde Phillips, introduced that audiences would see extra of the character in “Dexter: Resurrection,” a brand new sequel sequence from Showtime. It’ll decide up the place fellow franchise sequel “Dexter: New Blood” left off with its predominant character lifeless, prompting many followers to consider any future sequels could be inconceivable.

Michael C. Corridor, who began taking part in the titular character in 2006, will reprise his function. He made a shock look on the Comedian-Con panel, stunning followers even earlier than they heard the information of the brand new sequence. Phillips didn’t disclose too many particulars, however by some means, the “Resurrection” will revive its lead.

The announcement got here in the course of the promotion of “Dexter: Authentic Sin,” a prequel sequence that explores the character as a youthful man, performed by Patrick Gibson.

“This weekend there have been loads of surprises,” Gibson mentioned in an interview with The Related Press. “They arrange the characters in season one to have such wealthy inside life and a lot complexity that even with eight seasons, there’s a lot extra to discover.”

On the panel, the creatives behind the franchise additionally introduced that Corridor is the narrator of the “Authentic Sin” sequence, the place he’ll reveal the inside ideas of younger Dexter. The prequel sequence is about to launch in December 2024 and “Dexter: Resurrection” will begin filming in January for a summer time 2025 launch.

Followers on the packed venue Friday exploded with cheers when the panel made the shock announcement.

“Authentic Sin” additionally stars Christian Slater, who mentioned he was “obsessed” with the unique sequence and was wanting ahead to exploring extra of the story that the earlier sequence didn’t get to look at.

“To see Dexter changing into Dexter — it’s actually cool to see how Clyde Phillips has dealt with that and the writing is simply so good and so wealthy, it’s enjoyable to do,” Slater advised to The Related Press.

“Dexter” premiered in 2006 and ran for eight seasons, incomes Corridor 5 drama actor Emmy nominations. It rapidly grew to become considered one of Showtime’s most profitable sequence and gained a cult-like following.

Bathtub swimmer.

Gretchen Walsh generally makes use of the time period her critics as soon as used to poke at her, but it surely’s OK now. She’s shed the label as soon as and for all, and maybe even extra importantly, she’s satisfied herself she’s greater than only a short-course swimmer.

She’s an Olympian. She’s a world record-holder. And she or he has an opportunity to be the breakout star of the Paris Video games.

The “bathtub swimmer” insult implies {that a} swimmer can solely be good when distances are brief and there are many partitions, which implies you possibly can spend about 60 % of the race underwater. Lengthy-course swimming — in these 50-meter swimming pools you see at worldwide competitions like world championships and the Olympic Video games — is tough since you spend solely about 30 % of the race underwater. (For each short- and long-course, swimmers have to interrupt the floor 15 meters from the wall.)

Producing pace underwater by pushing off the wall and utilizing dolphin kicks could be a large benefit in short-course swimming, like in NCAA competitors. And Walsh has excelled in that setting, successful seven NCAA titles this season alone to assist the College of Virginia win its fourth consecutive workforce nationwide title. She additionally lowered 4 of her personal NCAA information on the best way.

However she nonetheless wanted to show herself within the 50-meter pool. And earlier than she may do it, she needed to consider she may do it. Her coach, Todd DeSorbo, believed she may. Her sister and fellow Olympian, Alex, believed she may. Her confidence coach knew Gretchen may and will consider she may, too.

“It’s vital to take heed to folks once they place confidence in you and so they believe in you, and to not let that simply, like, turn out to be a weight in your shoulder of stress,” Gretchen Walsh mentioned. “It took some time for me to just accept that possibly I’m able to doing stuff like this.”

Expectations have at all times been excessive for Walsh ever since she burst onto the scene as a young person in Nashville. She certified to swim at U.S. Olympic trials in 2016 at age 13, the youngest participant on the occasion. On the Tokyo trials in 2021, her sister made the Olympic workforce, however she didn’t, ending fifth within the girls’s 50-meter freestyle closing and never even qualifying for semifinals within the 100 free (an occasion during which she’d appeared to have a superb shot to make the relay). After which, in 2022, she missed the U.S. world-championship roster after a third-place end (by one hundredth of a second) within the 50 free.

So, for the previous two years, Walsh and DeSorbo went to work. The problem was half psychological, as a result of Walsh wanted to consider she may succeed within the completely different race format, however she additionally wanted to method races a bit in a different way. There have been sensible adjustments she may make to her each day routine, too.

She acquired stronger. She tweaked her freestyle approach, so she’s longer and extra highly effective, even on the again half of a 100-meter race. Her underwaters remained terrific — she’s double-jointed and unnaturally versatile, which helps make her dolphin kicks much more efficient — so every part she was including above the floor solely elevated what she was doing beneath in NCAA competitors. However DeSorbo break up her time, with extra of a concentrate on lengthy programs within the fall earlier than flipping it to brief programs for the NCAA season. And she or he made the U.S. roster for 2023 worlds, the place she earned a bronze medal within the 50-meter butterfly and medaled as a part of two relays.

“Everybody at all times says, like, I’m only a bathtub swimmer, can’t do the long-course pool, however I believe I lastly proved to myself that I can do each,” Walsh mentioned a couple of months afterward. “I do know that I nonetheless have numerous room to develop when it comes to long-course however having (made the world championship workforce) as Spherical 1 and increase from there, I’ve already taken so many classes that I realized from that meet into my coaching.”

By the point U.S. Olympic trials rolled round in June, Walsh knew she ought to make the workforce, so long as she swam near what she was able to swimming. However that doesn’t reduce the stress or quiet the interior critics.

A world document does, although.

On the second evening of competitors in Indianapolis, Walsh broke the world document within the girls’s 100-meter butterfly, touching the wall in 55.18 seconds. And it was simply the semifinal spherical — a surprising achievement however one which precipitated some new nerves. What if she set a world document however then did not make the Olympics the following evening? What if, what if …

“I had a chat with my confidence coach, and we had been simply saying, all I’ve to do is execute,” Walsh mentioned. “Nothing extra, nothing much less. Simply execute.”

Gretchen Walsh reacts after her world-record swim at U.S. Olympic trials. It makes her a medal favourite within the 100-meter butterfly, with the ultimate set for Sunday. (Sarah Stier / Getty Pictures)

She did. She touched first in what was now the second-fastest time on the earth within the occasion ever (55.31), making her first Olympic workforce at age 21. She embraced her sister. She noticed DeSorbo tearing up. “She’s very pleased with that,” he mentioned, laughing.

Then Walsh certified as a part of the ladies’s 100-meter freestyle relay. Then she added the 50 free to her Paris program with a second-place end within the closing. The stress was gone, the doubt quieted.

“For her, it was about getting the monkey off her again,” DeSorbo mentioned. “It’s been a very long time coming.”

Alex made the workforce a couple of nerve-wracking days after Gretchen clinched a spot, qualifying within the girls’s 200-meter particular person medley and securing roommate standing along with her sister for Paris. Alex mentioned she was extra nervous for Gretchen than she was for herself — that she was extra crushed than her sister was when Gretchen missed Tokyo, that she was happier than her sister was for herself this go round, too.

“It’s a dream come true,” Alex mentioned. “It now lastly seems like every part goes her manner, and it’s so rightly deserved.”

Gretchen Walsh might be busy this weekend at Paris La Défense Area, because the Olympic swimming program will get below manner. On Saturday, she certified fourth within the prelims of the 100 fly, with the semifinals later Saturday and the ultimate set for Sunday. The ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay closing can be Saturday evening — the U.S. had the second-best time in Saturday morning’s prelims; Walsh didn’t swim in it however is predicted to swim the ultimate. Subsequent week, Walsh can even compete within the 100 free particular person occasion as a result of teammate Kate Douglass dropped it, and she or he’ll swim the 50 free, too. It’s fairly possible she’d swim the butterfly leg as a part of the ladies’s medley relay as properly.

That’s a heavy workload, but it surely feels good for a swimmer who has already shed a lot baggage simply to get right here. Gretchen Walsh is prepared for her close-up.

GO DEEPER

Crew USA has owned the Olympic swimming pool — is that about to vary in Paris?

(Prime picture of Gretchen Walsh: Sarah Stier / Getty Pictures)

Staff USA’s Gretchen Walsh broke the Olympic document within the girls’s 100m butterfly semifinals with a time of 55.38 seconds. Walsh challenged her personal world document time of 55.18.

Fellow American Torri Huske posted the second-best semifinal time of 56.0.

The 100m butterfly remaining will happen on Sunday at 2:40 p.m. ET.

Walsh attends the College of Virginia, the place she dominates on the NCAA degree. This 12 months alone, she gained seven NCAA titles to assist lead UVA to a fourth consecutive girls’s swimming nationwide championship. This previous season she additionally set America, U.S. Open and NCAA data within the 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and the 100m freestyle. 

Walsh has been swimming since she was younger, however she first garnered nationwide consideration when she certified for a nationwide junior’s competitors in 2015 at age 12. One 12 months later in 2016, she grew to become the youngest swimmer to ever compete on the U.S. Olympic Trials. 

It is also a household affair in Paris as Gretchen her sister, Alex, are each competing for Staff USA.

Be taught extra about Gretchen right here.

Making it to the Olympics on the Staff USA swim workforce is without doubt one of the most difficult achievements on this planet, so Gretchen and Alex Walsh are glad they’ve one another each step of the best way.

Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the first unionized firm retailer within the nation.

The Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists and Aerospace Employees’ Coalition of Organized Retail Workers, which represents the workers at a retail location in Maryland, introduced Friday night that it struck a three-year cope with the corporate that may enhance pay by a mean of 10% and provide different advantages to staff.

The settlement have to be accepted by roughly 85 staff on the retailer, which is positioned within the Baltimore suburb of Towson. A vote is scheduled for Aug. 6.

“By reaching a tentative settlement with Apple, we’re giving our members a voice of their futures and a robust first step towards additional positive factors,” the union’s negotiating committee mentioned in a press release. “Collectively, we are able to construct on this success in retailer after retailer.”

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The deal got here after staff on the retailer approved a strike in Might, saying talks with administration for greater than a 12 months hadn’t yielded “passable outcomes.”

The Maryland retailer is one in all solely two unionized Apple websites within the nation. Workers there voted in favor of the union in June 2022, just a few months earlier than staff at a second Apple location in Oklahoma Metropolis, Oklahoma, unionized with the Communications Employees of America. The second retailer has not secured a contract with the tech firm.

Unions have scored headline-grabbing election wins in recent times, together with at an Amazon warehouse in New York Metropolis, a Chipotle retailer in Michigan and a whole bunch of Starbucks shops throughout the nation. However lots of them haven’t secured contracts.

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PARIS — Divers Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook dinner have gained the USA’ first medal of the Paris Olympics.

Bacon and Cook dinner took house the silver within the 3-meter synchronized springboard competitors, held on the Aquatics Heart in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. That is the primary time the U.S. has medaled within the occasion since 2012.

Chinese language rivals Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen took the gold, adopted by Bacon and Cook dinner of the U.S. Scarlett Mew Jensen and Yasmin Harper of Nice Britain gained the bronze medal.

That is the primary medal for each Bacon and Cook dinner. Bacon is making her Olympic debut. In the meantime, Cook dinner competed within the 2016 Summer time Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the place she got here in thirteenth within the ladies’s 3-meter springboard.

It is the primary medal of what is anticipated to be one other file haul of medals for Staff USA at a Summer time Olympics.

PARIS – Kassidy Cook dinner and Sarah Bacon have gained the primary medal for Workforce USA on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024. The diving duo recognized popularly as “Cook dinner’N Bacon” took house silver within the girls’s synchronized 3-meter springboard closing Saturday on the Aquatics Middle.

The diving pair earned a complete of 314.64 for silver, whereas three-time world champions Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen of China scored 337.68 to take house the gold medal. Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen of Nice Britan rounded out the rostrum with 302.28 for bronze.

Cook dinner, 29, and Bacon, 27, gained their first medal collectively as synchro companions after narrowly failing to qualify for the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020, simply three years in the past.

“I really feel prefer it’s been a extremely lengthy journey coming,” mentioned Bacon when requested about lacking out on Tokyo. “I hoped to make the Olympic group in (2021 for Tokyo); that did not occur. So with the ability to make the Olympic group this time, after which additionally with the ability to do it in synchro with my greatest pal right here at this Olympic Video games, after which additionally strolling away with the silver medal means I’ve no phrases to explain any of this.”

The duo deciding to stay collectively by way of a interval of accidents, psychological struggles and extra culminated to a silver-medal end on the Olympic stage.

Cook dinner additionally turned the first-ever girls’s diver to compete in non-consecutive Video games, having final competed on the Video games on the Olympic Video games Rio 2016.

“I feel that my journey is an unusual one,” mentioned Cook dinner in response to her eight-year hiatus from the Video games. “I am the primary feminine diver to attend non-consecutive Olympic Video games. And in between these two, I have been by way of rather a lot personally. … So figuring out that my grit and my willpower ended up understanding means every thing on the earth to me.”

Bacon added onto Cook dinner’s response stating her general mentality was attributed to her household and boyfriend, Nick Jaworski, a former kicker of Mississippi State College.

“It’s been arduous mentally,” the Indianapolis native mentioned. “I keep in mind having a dialog with my boyfriend earlier than I made a decision to go for this Olympics. I simply requested him, ‘Is all of it price it? What occurs if I come again and find yourself not making the Olympic group.’ … And he appeared me within the eyes and mentioned, ‘No, you’re going to return. You’re going to dive, and we’re going to make your dream occur.’ So blissful that he talked me by way of that and pushed me to return again.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Kodai Senga’s season is over nearly as quickly because it began.

The New York Mets pitcher is anticipated to overlook the rest of the common season after straining his left calf Friday night time within the sixth inning of his 2024 debut towards Atlanta. The crew’s projected No. 1 starter this 12 months, Senga had been sidelined by a shoulder damage since early in spring coaching.

Senga damage his decrease leg when he bolted away from the mound to make manner for teammate Pete Alonso to catch a popup. Mets supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned Saturday an MRI confirmed a “high-grade pressure.”

“I feel it’s truthful to say that he’s just about executed for the common season,” Mendoza mentioned.

“It’s arduous to place a timetable right here, particularly once we’re speaking a couple of calf. These are tough,” he added. “We could possibly be taking a look at eight, 10 weeks earlier than he’s an enormous league pitcher — , 85 pitches. However yeah, it’s arduous to foretell.”

It’s devastating information for Senga and the streaking Mets, who started the day holding the highest Nationwide League wild card even after ready nearly 4 months for Senga to pitch.

Mendoza didn’t rule out a return for Senga this 12 months if the Mets make the playoffs.

“It’s an enormous blow. However on the similar time such as you say, we obtained thus far with out him,” Mendoza mentioned. “It sucks for him, for all of us. The best way I see it’s, we’ve been via lots, and if we get to see him pitch once more this 12 months which means we’re in a great place. So, hopefully that’s the case.”

Senga was sharp in his first outing, placing out 9 in 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball to earn the win in an 8-4 victory over the Braves. The 31-year-old right-hander allowed simply two hits and retired his closing 10 batters.

“Yeah, it’s arduous for him. We’re feeling it for him as a result of he’s been via lots the entire 12 months. He goes on the market and has a recreation like that, after which for him to go down that manner sucks. However you’ve simply obtained to maintain going. Nobody’s going to really feel sorry for us,” Mendoza mentioned.

After getting damage in spring coaching, Senga started a rehabilitation task on July 3 and went 0-0 with a 4.15 ERA in 4 minor league begins, three for Triple-A Syracuse and one for Class A Brooklyn.

Senga was 12-7 with a 2.98 ERA in 29 begins final season, his first within the majors after leaving Japan and signing a $75 million, five-year contract with the Mets. He was runner-up for NL Rookie of the Yr and completed seventh in Cy Younger Award voting.

“We damage for him. Clearly, he’s put plenty of arduous work in to get again thus far,” Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo mentioned following a 4-0 loss to Atlanta. “He’s a real ace when he’s wholesome and he’s on the market. … It’s actually arduous to switch aces like that.”

New York positioned Senga on the 15-day injured checklist and recalled right-hander Tylor Megill from Syracuse. Megill had already been slated to begin Saturday towards Atlanta because the substitute for rookie Christian Scott, who went on the injured checklist earlier within the week with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his proper elbow.

Scott gained’t throw for 2 weeks, however the Mets hope he’ll be capable to return this 12 months.

With the arrival of Senga, the membership had been planning to shift to a six-man rotation as a result of he’s accustomed to pitching on at the very least 5 days’ relaxation. However now, after his damage, the Mets will keep on with a five-man rotation going ahead, Mendoza mentioned, and Megill will get one other alternative to carry down a beginning spot.

New York president of baseball operations David Stearns has acquired veteran relievers Phil Maton and Ryne Stanek this month to spice up a struggling and injury-depleted bullpen, however the Mets might now be out there for a starter as effectively earlier than Tuesday’s commerce deadline.

“We nonetheless really feel good with our choices. Guys will step up,” Mendoza mentioned. “We’ve obtained 5 legit starters right here that, they put us on this place the place we’re in proper now – and Megill’s been an enormous a part of that. He’s getting a chance now, individuals are going to get alternatives, and we additionally like what now we have down in Triple-A. So guys will step up, guys will get alternatives, and we’ll be wonderful.”

In one other transfer, the Mets optioned right-hander Eric Orze to Triple-A to make room within the bullpen for Stanek, who was obtained from the Seattle Mariners in a commerce Friday night.

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AP MLB:

To win a sport, a participant must win 4 factors earlier than their opponent does. Having no factors in a sport is known as “love.” One level is “15,” successful a second level will get you to “30” and a 3rd level is “40.” Profitable a fourth level means you win the sport.

Why the scoring system got here to be is a thriller, however it’s meant to signify the quarters of a clock face (15, 30, 45 with sport at 60), however ‘forty-five’ was deemed to be too lengthy to say, so was truncated to 40. Among the many attainable explanations for the non-romantic use of “love” is that it is a mortgage phrase from l’oeuf, French for egg.

If a sport is degree at 40-40, the rating is known as “deuce.” To win a sport from deuce, a participant must win at the least two factors in a row. Profitable some extent at deuce offers a participant ‘benefit’ — in the event that they win that time, they win the sport. If the participant with benefit loses the purpose, the rating returns to deuce.

The doubles occasions observe the identical guidelines. The one exception is that if the match is degree at one set all, a tiebreak is performed instead of a 3rd set.

The tennis event is a straight knockout bracket. The winners of every semifinal play for gold and silver, and the losers play for bronze.

LINEUP NOTES
U.S. Olympic Males’s Soccer Crew vs. New Zealand
2024 Olympic Males’s Soccer Event Match No. 10
July 27, 2024
Stade de Marseille; Marseille, France
Kickoff: 1 p.m. ET on USA Community, Telemundo and Peacock
Social Media: @USYNT on X and Instagram; U.S. Soccer on Fb, the U.S. Soccer App

As we speak’s U.S. Olympic Males’s Soccer Crew Beginning XI vs. New Zealand: 1-Patrick Schulte, 2-Nathan Harriel, 3-Walker Zimmerman, 5-John Tolkin, 6-Gianluca Busio, 7-Kevin Paredes, 8-Tanner Tessmann (Capt.), 11-Paxten Aaronson, 12-Miles Robinson, 13-Duncan McGuire, 14-Djordje Mihailovic

Substitutes: 18-Gaga Slonina, 4-Maximilian Dietz, 9-Griffin Yow, 10-Taylor Sales space, 15-Benjamin Cremaschi, 16-Jack McGlynn, 17-Caleb Wiley

GAME NOTES

• Head coach Marko Mitrović deploys the identical beginning XI from the USA’s opening match vs. France on Wednesday night time.
• Beginning XI Underneath-23 cap numbers (together with this match): Tessmann (12), Mihailovic (11), Harriel (9), Tolkin (9), Busio (8), Aaronson (7), McGuire (7), Zimmerman (6), Schulte (5), Paredes (4), Robinson (4)
• Beginning XI senior U.S. Males’s Nationwide Crew cap numbers: Zimmerman (42), Robinson (29), Mihailovic (11), Busio (13), Tolkin (4), Paredes (3), Tessmann (2), Aaronson (1), McGuire (1), Schulte (1), Harriel (0)
• Sixteen of the roster’s 18 gamers made their Olympic debut towards France. Goalkeeper Gaga Slonina and midfielder Benjamin Cremaschi are the 2 gamers but to take the sphere on the Olympic stage.
• The Olympic Males’s Soccer Event is restricted to gamers underneath the age of 23, with an allowance for 3 overage gamers. All three U.S. overage gamers begin tonight: Djordje Mihailovic (25 years outdated), Miles Robinson (27) and Walker Zimmerman (31).
• Of the USA’s 11 overage gamers for the reason that rule was launched for Atlanta 1996, Zimmerman (42 caps) ranks because the fifth-most skilled participant on the senior degree, behind Jeff Agoos (101 caps earlier than Sydney 2000), Brian McBride (95; Beijing 2008), Alexi Lalas (69; Atlanta 1996) and Brad Friedel (66; Sydney 2000).
• Tessmann captains the squad tonight, his sixth time carrying the armband over this cycle’s eight video games. He’s served as captain in each match for the Olympic Males’s Soccer Crew since Nov. 18 vs. Iraq.
• All gamers within the Beginning XI have performed in Main League Soccer or developed in a MLS academy. Along with present MLS golf equipment, members of the squad additionally hung out with the next MLS or MLS Subsequent outfits: Aaronson (Philadelphia Union), Gianluca Busio (Sporting Kansas Metropolis), Nathan Harriel (Chargers SC), Djordje Mihailovic (Chicago Hearth FC, CF Montreal), Kevin Paredes (D.C. United, Bethesda SC), Miles Robinson (Atlanta United FC, FC Larger Boston Bolts), Tanner Tessmann (FC Dallas) and Walker Zimmerman (FC Dallas, LAFC).
• Defenders Miles Robinson and Walker Zimmerman have paired collectively in central protection for the senior USMNT and the U.S. Olympic Males’s Soccer Crew ten instances, compiling a 7W-2L-1D file. All USMNT matches got here in official competitors (2021 Concacaf Gold Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying) plus Wednesday’s sport vs. France, their first look collectively on the Olympic degree.
• Beginning midfielders Gianluca Busio and Tanner Tessmann play collectively in Italy for Venezia. The pair led the membership’s promotion to Serie A through the 2023-24 season and has began collectively in 5 of eight matches for the Olympic staff to this point this cycle.
• Busio and Tessmann are the second and third gamers based mostly in Italy to symbolize the U.S. Males on the Olympics after Danny Szetala (Beijing 2008, Brescia).
• Tessmann is the primary U.S. Olympic Males’s Soccer participant from Alabama, whereas Duncan McGuire (Nebraska) and Gianluca Busio (North Carolina) are the second from their respective states, becoming a member of Aage Brix (Paris 1924) and Eddie Pope (Atlanta 1996) respectively.
• That is the primary assembly between the U.S. and New Zealand on the Olympic Video games.
• The U.S. is 4W-4L-5D within the group stage for the reason that Underneath-23 rule was launched in 1992.
• Glenn Nyberg of Sweden is the referee for tonight’s match. He officiated at this summer season’s UEFA Euro 2024 and the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup Ultimate.