San Diego, CA
Watch: Padres star Jurickson Profar’s son throws perfect first pitch to dad before game
Jurickson Profar and his 7-year-old son, Khairy, shared a special moment at Petco Park on Monday.
Khairy got to throw out the ceremonial first pitch to Jurickson ahead of the Padres’ 3-0 win over the Detroit Tigers in San Diego. And the younger Profar dazzled with a perfect strike to dad.
How’s that for a father-son experience?
The moment came during what’s been a special season for the Padres outfielder. Profar, 31, is enjoying the best year of his career in 2024, hitting .280/.382/.459 with 21 homers and 81 RBIs.
Profar played in his first All-Star Game in July, less than a year after being released by the Colorado Rockies. And before receiving the All-Star nod, Profar spoke about how much the honor would mean to Khairy.
“I don’t care about the individual stuff. I really don’t. But for my son? It would just mean everything,” Profar said, via MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell.
“One of my dreams since he was born was to be at an All-Star Game,” Profar added. “He loves baseball so much. He’s always watching the Home Run Derby while I’m like, ‘Nah, I don’t want to watch baseball during the All-Star break.’ But he wants to watch it. He’s always talking about baseball. So, that’s why it would mean a lot.”
San Diego, CA
No. 12 Oregon volleyball sweeps San Diego in 6th straight win
Oregon volleyball swept host San Diego to wrap up its weekend at the USD Invitational.
Mimi Colyer and Noemie Glover each each 12 kills to lead the No. 12 Ducks in a 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-23) win Saturday night.
Cristin Cline had 32 assists and 15 digs, Daley McClellan had 14 digs and Michelle Ohwobete had 10 digs and nine kills for Oregon (6-1).
The Ducks built a 5-2 lead in the first, but San Diego scored 10 of the next 15 to go ahead. Oregon scored three straight to go ahead 19-17 and never trailed again, though USD got within one multiple times before a kill by Ohwobete closed the frame.
UO built a 14-7 lead in the second and never looked back en route to a 2-0 advantage.
The Ducks led 11-6 in the third, then San Diego gained a 15-14 edge. UO scored five of the next six to regain control and USD, led by Kennedy Osunsanmi (14 kills) and Nemo Beach (14 digs, 12 kills) fended off three match points before an attack error sealed the sweep.
San Diego, CA
5,370 pets adopted during NBC 7 and Telemundo 20's Clear the Shelters campaign
The numbers are in for NBC 7 and Telemundo 20’s monthlong Clear the Shelters campaign that wrapped up this week.
During the pet adoption and donation campaign, which ran from Aug. 10 to Sept. 10, 5,370 animals were adopted from 19 participating shelters in the San Diego area.
San Diegans especially showed out on Sept. 7 for our annual Clear the Shelters event at the San Diego Humane Society’s campus on Gaines Street. More than 250 furry friends found their forever homes during the one-day-only event, which also offered waived adoption fees and free pet-related items for pet adopters. Team members from both stations came to support.
The heat didn’t stop San Diegans from showing out to NBC 7 and Telemundo 20’s annual Clear the Shelters event. NBC 7 and T20’s Ana Cristina Sánchez has the story.
Although this year’s campaign ended, it’s never too late to help clear the shelters.
“San Diego Humane Society had a very successful Clear the Shelters day,” Jasmin Belisario with San Diego Humane Society told NBC 7. “That being said, we still have more than 600 animals available for adoption.”
For a full list of available pets at the San Diego Humane Society, click here.
Clear the Shelters is a nationwide initiative that celebrated a decade this year. The campaign’s 10th anniversary comes after the campaign surpassed 1 million all-time adoptions in 2023.
Clear the Shelters is NBCUniversal Local’s pet adoption and donation initiative that has helped more than 1 million pets find homes.
San Diego, CA
ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with new Disney deal after 2-week blackout
DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S.
The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN’s slate of college football games on DirecTV. It also will ensure that ABC’s telecast of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night will be available in more major markets where viewers subscribe to DirecTV’s pay service.
ABC had been unavailable since Sept. 1 on DirecTV in several markets where the station is owned by Disney. Those were located in the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
DirecTV’s 11 million subscribers abruptly lost access to ESPN, the ABC-owned stations and other Disney-owned channels such as FX and National Geographic during the Labor Day weekend in a dispute over carriage fees and programming flexibility.
Some viewers were watching the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament when ESPN suddenly went dark and others were getting ready to watch a college football showdown between LSU and Southern California.
The impasse also kept the NFL’s opening game of Monday Night Football off of DirecTV’s service.
Financial details of Disney’s new deal with DirecTV weren’t disclosed as part of Saturday’s announcement. DirecTV’s payments to Disney will be based on “market-based” pricing, according to the announcement about the deal.
The agreement also will give DirecTV the ability to offer Disney’s video streaming services a la carte as well as in its own bundled packages. DirecTV won the right to include ESPN’s forthcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service at an additional cost to its subscribers once it becomes available.
The deal came a few days after the rising tensions led DirecTV to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith.
This is the second consecutive year Disney’s wrangling over the rights to its programming has resulted in its networks gong dark on a pay-TV service. Last year, Disney pulled its channels from Spectrum — the second largest cable-TV provider in the U.S. — for 12 days before settling the dispute just before ESPN was set to show that season’s Monday Night Football opener.
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